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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

11 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: "There Is No War on Terrorism"
    "The U.S. intentionally confuses al Qaeda with other groups around the world fighting for their independence or liberation, but it's [just] a convenient way to whip up support and get people very afraid," says author and journalist and Reese Erlich.
  • Western Sahara Talks Drag on Amid Deadly Clashes
    Disappointed with the outcome of the most recent informal talks with Morocco, the pro-independence leaders of Western Sahara are calling for the U.N. to take action against what they describe as Rabat's "unprovoked military aggression" against their people.
  • Burma's Junta Switches from Fatigues to Plain Clot ...
    On May 30, 2003, the Depayin Massacre in Burma (Myanmar) left at least 70 people dead. A failed attempt to assassinate opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the attack was carried out by the pro-junta political militia, the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA).
  • ZAMBIA: Debate Over Windfall Tax
    The Zambian government has been accused of embracing poverty as the debate over a windfall tax on the mining industry heats up.
  • Water Out of Thin Air for South African School
    It takes a moment to understand what the six-metre high net has been set up to capture: water. The Tshiavha Primary School's water supply is pulled out of the fog that rises over this mountainous part of South Africa's Limpopo Province.

Scoop - NZ

  • Bank of America Practices Force Homeowners to Face ...
    According to the lawsuit, it is standard practice for Bank of America to ignore agreements made with homeowners in order to force them into foreclosure. In addition, Bank of America intentionally provides homeowners with misleading and inconsistent information about their loans, illegally ignores re ...
  • Potential health risks of backscatter X-ray airpor ...
    Some University of California San Francisco faculty wrote an open letter on the potential serious health risks of the whole body back scatter X-ray airport security scanners. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • '400,000 will leave in next 15 years' - Business - ...
    New Zealand will lose another 400,000 people to Australia over the next 15 years, based on current projections of the income gap between the two countries, the 2025 taskforce says. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • EARTHQUAKE - Rethinking how we look at our STUFF!
    The recent natural disaster in Canterbury has changed the way many people look at their possessions. Will this effect the retail market? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Goff: Middle Earth, Dystopian England, and Despair
    Hard times are temptations; and World War I was a hard time. Tolkien was simultaneously a devout Catholic and a veteran of the trenches of World War I, which he described as "an animal horror." Tolkien was certainly caught up in the general trauma of the event, but also specifically as a ...

Independent - London

  • Fight against African kleptocrats to go global aft ...
    Anti-corruption campaigners have called on Western governments to follow France's lead in allowing an investigation into the assets of three African leaders accused of looting their countries to fund lavish purchases in the rich world.
  • Iraqi Christians living in fear as 11 bombs explod ...
    Christians in Iraq came under attack again yesterday when 11 roadside bombs exploded in three areas of Baghdad killing five people. The bombings are part of an al-Qa'ida campaign against Iraq's ancient Christian community, many of whom have already fled abroad.
  • Suu Kyi 'will not accept conditions on release'
    Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not accept any conditions Burma's military junta may try to attach to her release from house arrest, her lawyer has insisted.
  • France declares war on African kleptocrats and the ...
    Anti-corruption campaigners have called on Western governments to follow France's lead in allowing an investigation into the assets of three African leaders accused of looting their countries to fund lavish purchases in the rich world.
  • Chile's freed miners accept trip to Holy Land
    The Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days have accepted Israel's offer of an all-expenses-paid trip to the Holy Land for Christmas – but only if they can take their 70 friends and relatives with them. Israel is inviting the 33 miners – whose dramatic rescue from a collapsed shaft half a mil ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Report: Failed Al Qaeda Plot Involving Sewing Bomb ...
    Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq attempted to unleash terror in the skies by deploying a pair of kamikaze canines on a U.S.-bound airplane, a French newspaper reports.
  • American Women Without Kids Up 80 Percent From 30 ...
    The number of American women without children has risen to an all-time high of 1 in 5, a jump since the 1970s when 1 in 10 women ended their childbearing years without having a baby, according to the Pew Research Center.
  • Corruption Endemic Within Western Climate Establis ...
    The Science and Public Policy Institute ( SPPI ) continues raising serious concerns for policy makers and the public as to whether the “adjustments” that government-funded employees continue making to raw surface and ocean temperature data sets can be trusted.
  • Flier Patience Wears Thin at Checkpoints
    As the Transportation Security Administration scrambles to address vulnerabilities in procedures for screening cargo, it is facing growing criticism from travel industry groups over the escalating security measures for passengers.
  • No charges to be filed in destruction of CIA tapes
    There will be no criminal charges over the destruction of CIA tapes showing interrogation of terrorism detainees, according to a new report.

Innovation Canada

  • Studying sturgeon
    It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
  • Talking Fish
    When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Salvador Prison Fire Leaves 16 Gang Inmates Dead, ...
    A fire tore through a prison north of El Salvador's capital Wednesday, killing at least 16 young inmates and injuring 22. Ten of the injured are listed in serious condition with burns, said Mauricio Ventura, director of the Rosales Hospital in the capital, San Salvador. The small prison in the cit ...
  • Amazon: Archaeological Wonder or Alien Crop Circle ...
    Rio Branco, Brazil - It's not every day a traveler casually looks out an airplane window and discovers the ruins of an unknown ancient civilization. "I said, 'Wow, what am I seeing?'" said Alceu Ranzi, a geographer and palaeontologist with the Federal University in the Brazilian state of Acre. "T ...
  • Get Ready for Health Monitoring LED Implants
    With this new technology, expect to see some shiny LED tattoos in the future. Ever wondered what it would be like to watch TV on.. your arm? A team of researchers at the University of Illinois is conducting research and development of new microscopic LED arrays that can be implanted under human s ...
  • UK student fees protest: 'This is just the beginni ...
    Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of London today in a demonstration that spiralled out of control when a fringe group of protesters hurled missiles at police and occupied the building housing Conservative party headquarters. Tonight both ministers and protesters acknowledged that ...
  • "Wartorn 1861-2010" New Documentary Chronicles Pos ...
    A new documentary, Wartorn 1861-2010, airing on HBO, chronicles the lingering effects of war on military veterans throughout American history, from the Civil War through today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We speak with the filmmakers, Jon Alpert and Matt O'Neill, and with the parents of two ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Did Google almost start a war?
    Well, they certainly went to great lengths to explain an error in Google Maps which saw a Nicaraguan military unit on the wrong side of Nicaragua's border with defenseless Costa Rica. Yesterday we became aware of a dispute that referenced the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua as depicted on ...
  • Dear protesting veterans,
    Your cause is legitimate and just. Canadians support you. But a little friendly advice: stick to the issue and facts, and replace your leaflet writer .
  • The dream of high speed rail
    Canada does not have a high speed rail system. Anywhere. Europe, however, is developing an extensive high speed rail network. Even the British, who shared the Chunnel project with the French, decided that the only way the Chunnel actually made sense was to build a high speed rail connection from Lo ...
  • WWSHD?
    What would Stephen Harper do...when Israel turns its next border skirmish into a war ? Consider this, this , and this:� "[T]he anti-Israel mob"? Considering the catch-all definition of "new anti-Semitism", that includes nearly anyone who might utter voice the tiniest of reservations Israel's acti ...
  • Where's Dickens when you need him most?
    And you thought the crop of British upper-class schoolboys were going to be allowed to take the first prize in the Wackford Squeers clone contest. No, it looks like that prize is going to go to those freedom loving crazy kids south of the 49th. It's not a crime to owe money, and debtors' prisons w ...

Media Matters for America

  • According to Beck, Fox should fire Beck for " ...
    Glenn Beck has claimed that News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch "would fire me" if he was "making up lies" about George Soros. But in the second part of Beck's multi-day special attacking Soros, he rehashed falsehoods from the first day and introduced additional false accusations. Beck claims Fox "w ...
  • Lou Dobbs joins Fox Birther Network
    Lou Dobbs is reportedly joining Fox Business Network to host his own show. With Dobbs' hiring, Fox is adding yet another birther to its lineup. Dobbs is the latest birther to join Fox Dobbs repeatedly advanced false conspiracy theories about Obama's birth certificate. �As� Media Matters �extensive ...
  • Fox scapegoats unions for California budget prob ...
    Fox figures have repeatedly blamed unions, and specifically union pensions, for California's ongoing budget problems. In fact, experts have attributed California's budget shortfalls to the state tax system, budget process, and economic downturn. Fox focuses on unions in attributing blame for C ...
  • Election scorecard: Evaluating pundits' el ...
    Pundits made a lot of predictions in the days leading up to the midterm elections, some of them right, some of them wrong, and some of them outright laughable.� Media Matters �shows you how your political "experts" actually fared: Bill Bennett Date Show Prediction Correct Incor ...
  • Fox's Gallagher reports false claim that U.S. cour ...
    Fox News' Trace Gallagher uncritically reported the false claim that "the courts are increasingly consulting and using Sharia law," which he attributed to the sponsor of a ballot measure banning the use of international and Sharia law in Oklahoma.�In fact, the sponsor himself�has failed to identify ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • "Who Are You Calling a Currency Manipulator?"
    SEOUL-- I've come here for the G-20 summit, where the aim is to find a modus vivendi between the major exporting and consuming economies, but all the talk is about currency wars. In particular, Fed Chairman Bernanke's injection of hundreds of billions into the US economy ("quantitative easing" or " ...
  • Netanyahu's "Drop Dead" To US Gives Obama an Oppor ...
    You have to hand it to Bibi Netanyahu. It took only a week following the Congressional election to come to Washington and tell the United States to "drop dead." To his way of thinking he was just telling that to President Obama but that is not how it works here. By a href="http://www.washingtonpost ...
  • Your Tax Dollars at Work: Redistribution in Washin ...
    We all know that redistribution of income is supposed to be a dirty word, but we saw a big display of it yesterday in our nation's capital. Investment banker Peter Peterson, who personally pocketed tens of millions of dollars from the fund managers tax break , announced a huge $6 million ad campaign ...
  • What Obama could learn from social movements that ...
    In the wake of the election, progressive movements and their members are debating what went wrong. Some say the media amplified the bizarre statements of the Tea Party. Still others argue that Obama didn't offer sufficient leadership or remind us what he had actually achieved during his first 18 ...
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TruthOut

  • Dean Baker | Deficit Commission Co-Chairs Ignore E ...
    Senator Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles appeared to have largely ignored economic reality in developing the proposals they presented to the public today. The country is suffering from 9.6 percent unemployment with more than 25 million people unemployed, underemployed or who have given up looking fo ...
  • Behind Drone Issue in Yemen, a Struggle to Control ...
    Washington - The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there. That failure has given the CIA a new argument for wresting control of the drone war in Yem ...
  • Riding the Rails, Looking for Work
    Now that an entire week or so has passed, it's possible to make a cool, complete and objective assessment of the meaning of the 2010 vote. Thus, ladies and gentlemen, it becomes clear what this election was all about: jobs. read more
  • White House Fiscal Commission Proposes Contentious ...
    Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, today released their draft proposal for reducing the country's budget deficit. The report includes recommendations to raise the retirement and Social Security eligibility age and in ...
  • Robert Scheer | The Life and Times of Bush the Clu ...
    It takes a Harvard MBA to raze an economy. Perhaps that is too narrow a judgment given that a law degree from that institution or from Yale University seems to serve as well. But the Harvard MBA is the degree that George W. Bush and his last treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, had in common, and thei ...

Planetsave

  • 3 Green Search Engines
    I recently found out about a few green search engines that I thought were worth a share here on Planetsave. 1) Ecosia is basically a normal search engine “backed by Yahoo, Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature.” The unique feature of this otherwise normal search engine is that it “gives at least 8 ...
  • Sana’a 1st City to be Out of Water?
    Water availability is going to one of the biggest issues of the coming centuries, in my humble opinion. Due to global weirding, unsustainable agriculture practices, and a growing population. Reportedly, Yemen’s capital city, Sana’a, will be one of the first cities to run out of water. Here are a few ...
  • Rwanda Wins Green Globe Award
    Rwanda was recently awarded a Green Globe Award for world-leading environmental conservation work. In particular, the country was honored for “its restoration of the Rugezi-Bulera-Ruhondo wetland, an area that used to be severely damaged due to drainage, clearing, livestock, and overharvesting.” I l ...
  • 50th Birthday Present for ANWR: Make it a National ...
    Many good things (or even great things) are under threat with the upcoming transition in Congress. One such thing is likely to be the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). But Alaska conservationists aren’t just sitting back and waiting to see what will get thrown at them. “Instead, they are init ...
  • 3 Big Lies from Big Food
    Most of the meat Americans consume is from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, which are horrific for animals and terrible for our health and our communities. CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, edited by Daniel Imhoff and published by Watershed Media and the Foundation for Deep Ec ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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Axis of Logic

  • United States - Chairmen of Obama deficit panel pr ...
    11 November 2010 The chairmen of the bipartisan commission appointed by President Obama to rein in US deficit spending on Wednesday released a proposal that would include new taxes on consumption and employee health care benefits and cuts to the federal old-age insurance programs, Social Securit ...
  • Lessons of the European strike wave - Workers &amp ...
    11 November 2010 The betrayal of the strikes in France against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension cuts underscores the need for a political balance sheet of the struggles waged against social cuts adopted by European governments amid the global economic crisis. The outbreak in October of a p ...
  • There's A Huge Anti-Austerity Protest In London Ri ...
    Right now, people are on the streets of London protesting increases in tuition fees. The protests have likely expanded to include individuals beyond students, but all against the coalition government's austerity policies. Protesters have invaded the Conservative Party's headquarters, destroyin ...
  • German people in unprecedented rebellion against g ...
    Axis of Logic correspondent and guest writer, John Spritzler (Boston, MA) sent this report by Jane Burgermeister to us with his introductory comments: The German people stopped a train--guarded by 17,000 police troops!-- from delivering nuclear reactor radioactive waste that would have endan ...
  • Chilean Miners : What was the TV Show hiding ? - C ...
    Deeply moved, nearly a billion of us looked on. A whole nation—managers and workers, rich and poor—united in a common effort to save 33 Chilean miners, with their President leading from the front. Emotion, suspense, ratings, huge advertising revenues. But what did this TV extravaganza conceal ? ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Crist considers going out on a high note "One of Charlie Crist's last official acts as governor of Florida may be to pardon Jim Morrison, the long-dead frontman for the rock band The Doors. ... Morrison, a Central Florida native, was convicted for exposing himself on stage during a concert in Miami ...
  • Yet they talk about repeal...
    It seems like you can't turn on a television set anymore without seeing Mitch McConnell or John Boehner or one of the presumptive republican presidential wannabes yammering about repealing the Affordable Care Act that was passed last spring after over a year of hard-fought battles in the House and t ...
  • Prospecting for right wing hypocrisy in the Yukon
    Anne Applebaum played the Yukon Cornelius of Hypocrisy in her Washington Post column yesterday, prospecting for double standards and ingratitude among the "rugged individualists" of Sarah Palin's Alaskan frontier who, as Applebaum notes, "enjoy a higher level of per capita federal spending than anyo ...
  • Reason and the Constitution Prevail: Mayfield Appr ...
    Here's your proof that public pressure can overcome even fear-based bigotry and racism. Mayfield Kentucky: I am proud of you. Courier-Journal: The Mayfield Board of Zoning Adjustments on Tuesday unanimously approved a Somali man's request for a permit to operate a mosque in the Western Kentucky city ...
  • Where We Go From Here: Part Seven
    Asset: 6. �Strong majorities of Americans who may have voted for those crazies out of frustration, but who don't trust them to govern effectively. And the hubristic fuckers in Congress aren't even pretending to try to earn that trust. Steve Benen: Let's make this plain: Republicans aren't trying to ...

Care 2

  • 100 Top Useful Resources For Single Moms
    As a single income family, sometimes just providing the basics can be challenging. If that happens to you, you should know that there are many different agencies who want to help you feed, clothe, shelter, and provide other essentials for your family. Thi Submitted by James L. to Green Lifestyle �| ...
  • How Many Orangutans Died for Your Hershey Bar?
    Earlier this year, Greenpeace spoofed Kit Kat's "Gimme a Break" commercials with their own variation � a bored office worker tears into a Kit Kat wrapper, but instead of breaking off a bar of crispy chocolate, he crunches into a bloody orangutan finger. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • Mountain Ranges Can Act As Conservation Safe Haven ...
    While there have been some pretty dire reports about the extinction of plants and animals due to global warming, there has also been some interesting and encouraging research about how species may be able survive in certain places. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Help protect America's National Monuments, Conserv ...
    Tell the BLM that our National Conservation Lands need a strong conservation vision for the 21st century Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 2010: A Fatal Year for Pacific Sea Otters
    Monterey Bay Aquarium, located between San Francisco and Los Angeles, has long been at the forefront of sea otter research and conservation along the California coast. Through rehabilitation and release, sea otters get a second chance at survival in the Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • If Hillary Does This, I’m Moving
    As you may know, Obama is on his 10-day jaunt to Asia, culminating in the G20 Summit in South Korea. His trip included a stop in Indonesia, the country in which he spent some of his childhood. There is much I could write about this trip, though I will leave that to others. [...]
  • Hump Day Open Thread
    FireDogLake’s coverage of the Debt Commission cracks me up … Reverend Amy told me that today is the anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps … John Boehner, unlike Nancy Pelosi, will fly commercial … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
  • George Bush’s Deception Points
    Republished from Huffington Post with the express permission of Joe Wilson. Decision Points Having read that people began lining up in front of bookstores before former President Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, was due to be released, I hurried off to purchase mine early on November 9, arriving ...
  • Bad Luck Detective – Accidents Happen
    Bronwyn’s Note: Please welcome our new contributor, introduced to us by Linda Anselmi. Accidents Happen is the first in a series of post on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties.  I became a detective a few years la ...
  • Aviation Security Nonsense
    More than 9 years since the 9-11 attacks exposed enormous gaps in our aviation security system, significant risks remain unaddressed. The Transportation Security Administration has helped provide a more professional, secure staff at the passenger screening checkpoints, but the vision of security th ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Famous Faces Carved Out of Phone Books
    Recycling phone books to make stunning sculptures is the way in which Environmentally friendly artist Alex Queral likes to make his contribution to 'green' art. Brilliant read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Silky Sifakas: The Endangered Lemurs of Madagascar
    The incredible beautiful silky sifakas are vanishing from the forests of Madagascar. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Life Without Toilet Paper: No Impact Man Colin Bea ...
    Can a family survive without modern amenities including electricity, TV and toilet paper? "No Impact Man" Colin Beavan survived a whole year. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Asexual Reproduction More Common than We Though ...
    A recent discovery has forced biologists to drastically rethink the way we consider evolution, animal reproduction and particularly snakes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Amazing Sex Life of Orchids
    Wickedly naughty orchids have sex lives some of us can only dream of! 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

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Metals To Nibiru! Gold & silver $1400 / $29 parabo ...
    Linkdump O Quick Hitz! Way too many links going on-have fun! Sorry for lack of pics, you gotta clix em to see :-|   "Where is My Mind" came on TheCurrent as I posted this, really appropriate for the ZeroHedge Durden posts. Total Waveform Synchronicity and it ain't even 11/11 yet.... Onwards. ...
  • 1972 CIA memo declares Nixonian resistance to decl ...
    This is it, the droids you're looking for. This memo was published by Wayne Madsen and includes a reference to Alfred McCoy, whose book "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" was the first serious work to break loose the geopolitical underpinnings of state-sanctioned narcotics trafficking. [ Ful ...
  • British Lord James of Blackheath sez "Foundation X ...
    For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the ...
  • Randy Quaid gangstalked by "Star Whackers" - he na ...
    It's no surprise California is in tough straits – Hollywood ain't a great place, and they can even trap corruption whistleblowing attorneys like Richard Fine in jail easily over there (Fine got tangled in LA's enormous immunized bribery system). But Randy Quaid , of all people, has suddenly turned ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • A FILM OFFERS INSIGHT INTO THE AMERICAN CHARACTER
    “Stone” takes a hybrid Norman Rockwell-Grant Wood portrait of an aging mid western couple, adds two Quentin Tarantino characters who excel in manipulating and offers a disturbing cinematic slice of real America: repression, religion, lust, violence and escape into seedy mysticism. Young Jack Mabry ( ...
  • Justice Department Probe of CIA Torture Evidence: ...
    Here's why the Justice Department's halt to its probe of CIA obstruction of justice involving torture looks like another whitewash. The DOJ compromised its probe from the beginning in 2008 by assigning it to Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham, whom courts have twice implicated in suppressi ...
  • “Quantitative Easing”: What Does It Mean?
    The capitalist economists and the mass media called it a second round of “quantitative easing” or QE II, and most workers when hearing such a term would simply throw up their hands and turn to the next news item. That is, if the workers heard about it at all. They would figure they could never [...]
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    CENSORED: 2001-2008 HURRICANE KATRINA TRAGEDY; THE “REAL” REASON FOR IRAQ INVASION; WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; IMMIGRATION ISSUE; ECONOMIC PROBLEMS; FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC CRISIS; ABU GHRAIB PRISON MISTREATMENT; AND MUCH MORE REPORTED IN 2010 GEORGE W. BUSH: “I COULD HAVE DONE THINGS BETTER” U ...
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    CENSORED: 2001-2008 HURRICANE KATRINA TRAGEDY; THE “REAL” REASON FOR IRAQ INVASION; WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; IMMIGRATION ISSUE; ECONOMIC PROBLEMS; FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC CRISIS; ABU GHRAIB PRISON MISTREATMENT; AND MUCH MORE REPORTED IN 2010 GEORGE W. BUSH: “I COULD HAVE DONE THINGS BETTER” U ...

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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

  • American Midterm Candidates Pandered For Pro-Israe ...
    y Linda Milazzo At a time when Israel faces near universal condemnation for the May 30th killings of eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish American aboard the Gaza bound Mavi Marmara, and worldwide rebuke for ...
  • Election Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results
    lection Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results with Laura Flanders of GritTV, The Nation’s Richard Kim & John Nichols, and Journalist David Goodman The midterm elections saw two key Senate victories for the ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elec ...
    EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elections, the Tea Party, and the Future of the Democratic Party For the past 20 years, renowned filmmaker, author and activist Michael Moore has been one of the most ...
  • Living in an Era of Change
    by: C.J. Atkins | politicalaffairs.net The 29th CPUSA Convention was a big success and will hopefully go a long way toward improving the party’s contributions to the democratic movement.  The strategic policy of ...
  • Progressive Democrats survive train wreck!
    Don’t mourn. Organize! —Joe Hill The Democratic Party may have taken a huge hit on Tuesday, but progressives fared well, with the exception of Russ Feingold. The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) lost two of its less ...

Marler Blog

  • CDC - Now 33 in in Arizona, California, Colorado, ...
    The number of ill are keeping just ahead of the lawsuits we are filing. The numbers have increased in Arizona, California and Colorado. The CDC reports that thirty-three persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from five states. The number of ill persons ident ...
  • Brokenhearted and Disappointed in Shanghai
    I am sitting in the magnificent Shanghai Airport about to leave on a flight to the US East Coast in a few hours – yes, it is Thursday here. This is my fourth trip to China in as many years as one of the lead sponsor’s to what has proven to be one of the best food safety conferences on the planet. ...
  • Second E. coli O157:H7 lawsuit filed against Bravo ...
    From our Complaint filed in Arizona moments ago - On or about October 17 or 18, 2010, Shannon Miller consumed a sample of Bravo Farms’ Dutch Style Gouda Cheese at the Costco Warehouse located at 1703 West Bethany Home Road in Phoenix, Arizona. The sample was contaminated by E. coli O157:H7 bacteria, ...
  • "A Lawsuit a Day, keeps E. coli Away" Suit filed ...
    An E. coli lawsuit was filed today against Baugher’s Orchard and Farm, the Westminster, Maryland farm that recalled its unpasteurized apple cider products after they were identified by Maryland public health authorities as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak among at least 7 state residents. ...
  • Video - Food Safety Attorney, Bill Marler, Explain ...
    With E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks linked to Bravo Raw Milk Gouda Cheese and Baugher's Apple Cider , I thought it might be helpful to explain an E. coli O157:H7 infections and its complication, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome or HUS :

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.10.10
    Sing it! VW details the all-electric Golf Blue-e-motion Coming not so soon. After winning Automotive X-Prize, Edison2 hints at next-gen projects Winning comes first. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.09.10
    Nissan Leaf slapped with $51,000 price tag in Switzerland Location, location, location. Wrightspeed lands $5 million in Series A funding for Digital DriveSystem Spend an extra $1,000 up front ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.08.10
    Four auto companies named greenest in America, but none are domestics Instead, Toyota wins for "Worldwide Leadership in Hybrid Technology." Shocker. Li-Ion Motors Inizio: a $139K electric supercar that so ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.05.10
    Honda CEO: Looks "like there will be a market for electric vehicles" after all No kidding? David Vespremi: Will the Nissan Leaf's familiarity breed contempt? Why the Leaf is a lot like a TV ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.04.10
    SEMA 2010: Chevrolet shows off Z-Spec treatment for Volt, Cruze, Spark All official, all theoretical. Stratasys prints out Urbee plug-in hybrid concept with cool 3D tech Unusual doesn't begi ...

Rafe's Radar

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!

  • Obama in the Company of Killers
    If a volcano kills civilians in Indonesia, it’s news. When the government does the killing, sadly, it’s just business as usual, especially if an American president tacitly endorses the killing, as President Barack Obama just did with his visit to Indonesia. As the people around Mount Merapi dig ou ...
  • Juan Gonzalez: NYC Schools chancellor Joel Klein w ...
    You could tell the Joel Klein era was ending long before Mayor Bloomberg made it official on Tuesday. It became clear one cold January night in the cavernous auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School, during an extraordinary all-night meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy. Read More at t ...
  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy
    As the 2010 elections come to a close, the biggest winner of all remains undeclared: the broadcasters. The biggest loser: democracy. These were the most expensive midterm elections in U.S. history, costing close to $4 billion, $3 billion of which went to advertising. What if ad time were free? We h ...
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA at 7pm ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 29 at 7pm EST.
  • 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Virus Dumping
    Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • What Role Did Comcast Play In Keith Olbermann&#821 ...
    What Role Did Comcast Play in Keith Olbermann’s Suspension?–UPDATED Crooks and Liars- By karoli November 05, 2010 12:14 PM There is a double standard at work with regard to Keith Olbermann’s suspension, not only between other personalities appearing on MSNBC as commentators, but also at the very top ...
  • Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investiga ...
    There are a variety of explanations for the frustratingly backwards outcome of yesterday’s election. Clearly Americans were dissatisfied with the objective reality that the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats actually made things better by cutting the deficit by an historic $122 bil ...
  • It’s a normal day
    Business as usual election results, it’s a normal day, world war three blues, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • The Prison Boom Comes Home to Roost
    By James Carroll Will the fiscal collapse that has laid bare gross inequalities in the US economic system lead to meaningful reforms toward a more just society? One answer is suggested by the bursting of what might be called the “other housing bubble,’’ for these two years have also brought to cris ...
  • Securitization Trustees in the Crosshairs in Mortg ...
    The biggest mortgage securitization trustees are Bank of New York, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, and US Bank. The interesting thing about the American Banker article is that the rustees appear to be in a great deal of denial as to how much hot water they are in. No where does the story mention their b ...
  • World Bank President: My Words Were Manipulated, I ...
    World Bank president Robert Zoellick has clarified recent comments about gold. No, the head of the World Bank isn’t advocating a return to the gold standard. Reuters: “I don’t believe you can return to a fixed exchange rate system and that is the gold standard,” he later told the Foreign Correspond ...
  • The Purchasing Power Decline of the U.S. Dollar si ...
  • Precious Metals Market Report - 11.11.10
    I’ll be driving from San Francisco to Tennessee to join Franklin Sanders at his farm for our Solari Report this Thursday evening. I have had a great time in Silicon Valley and am looking forward to seeing the green hills of home. We have a lot to talk about, including the continued rise in precious ...

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

  • Why China will again rise to the top. Their most i ...
    Summary:  There is a simple difference between West and East today, the opposite of that seen during the past few centuries.  Good leadership.  They have it; we do not.  This explains much of what we see in the news. ââ… moral power is to physical as 3 parts of 4.ââ — Attributed to Napoleon in ...
  • About the mystery missile launch (America the fear ...
    Summary:  There is a major threat to America, one that our military cannot defend against: our cowardice.   We have become America the fearful, which clouds our thinking and emboldens our enemies. Today’s mystery missile madness provides yet another in a long line of examples. But there are eas ...
  • The Enigma of American Power
    Summary:  We’ve just held elections with the most serious issues MIA.  Without discussion of our foreign wars or massive spending on military and intelligence (more than the rest of the world combined; many times that of all potential enemies combined).  Without discussion of our decaying infrast ...
  • The end of the world. That is, the end of the wor ...
    Summary:  A status report about the end of the post-WWII world.  The great recession has accellerated the process, revealing its weaknesses and showing the people of the rapidly growing emerging nations that they have outgrown it.  The US is almost its lone defender, a futile effort wasting time and ...
  • A look at US employment (the big picture)
    Summary:  a look at the US labor force.  The numbers tossed around in the news media give little perspective on the scale of the problem.  This downturn acts as a massive engine concentrating America’s income and wealth in even fewer hands. The extension of the Bush tax cuts, which benefit mostl ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Physicists protest colleague’s terrorism detention
    Nature – Adlène Hicheur, a high-energy physicist who has worked on the world’s largest particle collider, has been held in a French prison under suspicion of terrorism for more than a year. Now, his colleagues are publicly protesting what they describe as his Kafkaesque detention. In a letter to th ...
  • Georgia and Russia collide over ’spy ring’
    The Guardian – Georgia and Russia were today heading towards a new crisis after Tbilisi announced it had dismantled a Moscow-run spy ring, arresting four Russians and nine Georgians.The Russian government rejected the charges, denouncing them as a “provocation” timed to disrupt the Russian-Nato summ ...
  • Cholera deaths in hard-hit Haiti city add to toll
    Reuters – A three-week-old cholera epidemic that has killed more than 640 people in Haiti is spreading quickly in the northwest coastal city of Gonaives, authorities said on Wednesday. Pierrelus Saint-Justin, the mayor of Gonaives, said he personally buried 31 people on Tuesday and had another 15 bo ...
  • Another coal seam gas chemical scare in Australia
    The Australian-QLD Premier Anna Bligh has defended environmental safeguards for gas projects after a carcinogen was found in three coal seam gas wells in the state. Routine tests at Arrow Energy’s Moranbah gas project, west of Mackay, have detected traces of benzene in three of 60 fluid samples take ...
  • US mid-terms: Politicians spent $4.2bn on ads – mo ...
    Daily Mail – Politicians spent a staggering $4.2billion on campaign TV ads in the run-up to last weekâs mid-term elections, it was claimed today.The 1.48 million television spots were the most for any election in U.S. history â including the 2008 presidential campaign.And some of the cities where ca ...

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: THE TOTAL COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    There's good news and bad news... Good news is thanks to the massive wealth of information the internet provides, we can now have a glimpse into the near future, so those of us with perception, can adequately prepare for the bad news and the bad news is...there is absolutely no avoiding this unprece ...
  • Video: Obama Will Attack Iran In 2012 – Ehud Barak
    Airing Date Nov.06, 2010 in Halifax Canada, Ehud Barak: "iran is a major, major threat to any conceivable world order" Ehud Barak Reacts to Lindsey Graham Comment Of Obama Having To Attack Iran By 2012
  • Video: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura – Wall ...
    Jesse Ventura goes inside the secret billionaire's boy's club to find out what caused the financial meltdown and how the group allegedly continues to manipulate and control the stock market and oil, gold and silver prices. From Wall Street to Washington, the governor barges in on the rich and powerf ...
  • Alert: Indian Army Ready For War Against China And ...
    India is preparing for a possible `two-front war’ with China and Pakistan, Indian newspaper saying Wednesday. The newspaper said the Indian Army is now revising its five-year-old doctrine to effectively meet the challenges of war with China and Pakistan, deal with asymmetric and fourth-generation wa ...
  • Killing India’s Hidden Cold Start Strategy
    India knows that it can never win a conventional warfare with Pakistan because of the Nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). However it still harbors notions of winning a sort of a mini war. India may think it has a Cold Start Strategy, but it may end as a hot nuclear war. Indian Defense planne ...

Andy Worthington

  • Are Control Orders About To Be Scrapped?
    Well, well. I’m not holding my breath, but the Observer’s announcement on Sunday that âThe scrapping of control orders for terror suspects moved a step closer last night when ⦠senior Whitehall security sources broke ranks to reveal that MI5 was ‘not wedded’ to keeping the contentious regimeâ is pr ...
  • On Bush’s Waterboarding Claims, UK Media Los ...
    The mainstream media likes to claim that it has high journalistic standards, but when the opportunity for a sensational headline turns up, those principles are often abandoned. A recent example of this was the hysterical response to the supposed swine flu epidemic last year, and a new example — cent ...
  • On Antiwar Radio, Andy Worthington Discusses Bush& ...
    Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking once more to my long-time compadre Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio, for a planned 20-minute interview that turned into an extended 38-minute workout. Available here, the interview covers George W. Bush’s reemergence as an unrepentant war criminal at the helm of ...
  • Court Orders Rethink on Tortured Guantánamo Prison ...
    In the struggle in the US courts to establish who can be detained at Guantánamo, and on what basis, following the Supreme Court’s ruling, in June 2008, that the Guantánamo prisoners have constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights, there are three main players: the District Court judges, who, i ...
  • Video: Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed Discuss US Det ...
    On September 18, I was delighted to be asked to attend “Eid Without Aafia,” and to conduct a live interview with former Guantánamo prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed. The event, in east London, was organized by the Justice for Aafia Coalition to raise awareness about the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiq ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So far, ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems . You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez . You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. You ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is – Sq ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked up se ...
  • Veni, Vidi, Voting
    Hey all! Gimlet Eyes just got back from the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, DC (did you see me? I was right in the middle! With a sign!) and now I’m fired up and ready to go. First things first. The rally was incredible. No, it wasn’t partisan. In fact, it really wasn’t political: Stewart ...
  • Warren FTW
    I have been geeking out over yesterday’s big primaries, and the ensuing act of Republican cannibalism that really, really belongs in one of Linda McMahon’s WWE Smackdowns. (I mean seriously: who doesn’t want to see Sarah Palin kick Karl Rove in the crotch, followed up by Rush Limbaugh taking a bite ...

SPL Center

  • Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Accused of Exploiting ...
    If the allegations in two lawsuits filed Tuesday in Georgiaâs DeKalb County are true, staunchly anti-gay megachurch leader Bishop Eddie L. Long told two teenage boys that, according to Holy Scripture, it was cool for them to have sex with him. Maurice Robinson, 20, and Anthony Flagg, 21, have accu ...
  • Lying About Auschwitz: The Barnes Review on the Na ...
    You probably thought you knew a thing or two about Auschwitz: It was a nightmarish Nazi extermination camp in Poland where more than 1 million people were murdered, most of them gassed to death with Zyklon-B and then cremated. Dr. Josef Mengele performed horrible medical experiments on live humans t ...
  • Antigovernment Texan Allegedly Shoots Deputies
    A reclusive West Odessa, Texas, man with ties to an antigovernment group allegedly shot and wounded two Ector County sheriffâs deputies and a private citizen on Friday during a 22-hour long standoff at his home. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the shooter, Victor Dewayne Wh ...
  • 9.12 Project Paranoia: Obama Wants to See You… Nak ...
    Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beckâs 9.12 Project has absorbed much of its founderâs famous paranoia. Based on Beckâs fevered lectures and paid endorsements, legions of 9.12âers have eagerly bought up overpriced gold coins , non-hybrid seeds, and lots of ammo for use in 9.12 Project practice shoots. But not ...
  • Lie about ‘Illegal Alien Voters’ Goes Viral on the ...
    Nativists were primed to believe something dastardly was afoot with the approaching 2010 elections. ALIPACâs William Gheen warned that undocumented immigrants were planning to commit massive voter fraud with the help of the Democratic Party machine. An Arizona group called Ban Amnesty Now put out an ...

change: org.

  • Woman Fired Over Same-Sex Wedding Announcement
    When a person gets married, they often want to share it with the world — or at least their city. So Laine Tadlock's decision to run a wedding announcement in her local paper, the State Journal-Register, seems like nothing out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, Michael Jones reports on Gay Rights that t ...
  • Realtor Says 1,000 Abandoned, Starved Pigs Is "Ver ...
    Realtor Rebecca Glesner of Long and Foster Real Estate has a listing for a 218-acre farm in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. She knew there had been some dead animals up there and said she wasn't concerned about the effect on the property's selling price. "I think this is very normal in a lot of farming ...
  • Texas Moves to Adopt Arizona-Style Immigration Law ...
    Texas State Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) could not wait till the ink was dry. The Republican leader of the Texas legislature filed not one, but six different anti-immigrant bills in the first hour of the filing period for the 2011 session. The message is clear and abundant: Texas is about to embar ...
  • Waiter, There's Poison in My Poultry
    Americans love them some chicken. Today's average diner eats about 60 pounds of poultry every year , up from 20 pounds in the 1940s. Whether they're baked, fried, or rotisserie-d, consumers can't quit the tasty birds. Despite chickens' ubiquity in America's food supply, most consumers remain blissfu ...
  • What's Worse Than Homelessness? Gay Foster Parents ...
    "Kenny" is a 15-year-old who was removed from his biological family seven years ago due to unsuitable living conditions. He's been a ward of the state of Illinois ever since, bouncing around the foster care system. He's been through numerous foster families and group homes. His most recent group hom ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Administration Claims Unchecked Authority to ...
    WASHINGTON - The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally determined to pose a threat. Government lawyers made that claim in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Libertie ...
  • Hundreds of Survivors of Bhopal Disaster Protest O ...
    A group of 400 survivors of the Bhopal disaster have been protesting Obama's visit to India. The 1984 Bhopal industrial gas disaster left an estimated 15,000 people dead. The company, Union Carbide, is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. Dow has faced calls to clean up the contaminated site, increase ...
  • Behind Drone Issue in Yemen, a Struggle to Control ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there. That failure has given the CIA a new argument for wresting control of the ...
  • Deficit Panel Targets Social Security and Taxes
    by Jeff Mason and Donna Smith WASHINGTON - The co-chairmen of a presidential commission to cut the budget deficit on Wednesday proposed reducing benefits and raising the U.S. pension retirement age among an array of tax and spending changes. Taking aim at some of Washington's most politically explos ...
  • US Researchers Fight to Reclaim Climate Science Me ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent Hundreds of scientists have signed up to two new campaigns that seek to regain control of the message about climate science. The two separate efforts come barely a week after midterm elections produced a new Congress that tilts strongly towards cli ...

Lifehacker

  • Hone Your Writing Skills and Get Your Work Publish ...
    Authonomy is a writing-focused social network conceived by publishing house HarperCollins. Community members upload their work, review and rate the work of others, and polish their writing for potential publication. More�� ...
  • Office 2011 for Mac Update Patches Security, Preve ...
    If you made the leap to Office for Mac 2011 , make room today for a 110 MB update. The security fix is a remote code exploit, so it's certainly worth grabbing for that alone. On the actual app side, fixes have been issued for macros and equati ...
  • Labelert Alerts You of Priority Gmail Messages on ...
    Android only: Gmail on the web offers a very helpful Priority Inbox , but on Android, you can't get the same kind of only-the-important-stuff filtering. Install Labelert, though, and you can give Priority/Important emails their own LED, ringto ...
  • Tell Us About Your Quietly Awesome Apps Through Tw ...
    Every two weeks, two Lifehacker editors round up the most useful iOS and Android apps for a specific category. Realizing we don't necessarily know everything about everything, we turn to your tweets, dear readers, for input and advice. More ...
  • Export Google Waves as ZIP Archives Before the Shu ...
    You may or may not continue using Wave as an open-source "box," , but if you want to archive any important conversations you've had in it, you can now export a Wave into HTML or ZIP files, attachments included. More�� ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • No turning back on tuition fees - PM
    Prime minister condemns students who tried to ransack Conservative HQ and criticises policing of riot David Cameron vowed today that he would not turn back on trebling tuition fees and condemned the students who tried to ransack Conservative headquarters yesterday, saying the full force of the law s ...
  • Obama issues North Korea warning
    US president urges North Korea to engage over nuclear weapons, saying US support for South Korea is unwavering Barack Obama has urged North Korea to engage with the international community over its nuclear programme or risk making the lives of its people even harsher. "North Korea's continued pursui ...
  • Oil fire blamed for A380 problems
    European Aviation Safety Authority orders airlines to re-examine Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines Europe's air safety regulator said today that an oil fire may have caused an engine turbine failure on a Qantas superjumbo last week, and issued an emergency order requiring airlines to re-examine that typ ...
  • Mystery contrail 'was a plane'
    Defence department satisfied mystery was a plane contrail distorted by camera angle and environmental factors The Pentagon and Nasa experts have concluded that an airliner was likely to have caused a contrail off southern California, which resembled a missile plume illuminated by the sun. The pheno ...
  • Aung San Suu Kyi loses court battle
    Appeal against house arrest rejected but supporters remain optimistic she will be released this weekend Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi suffered her latest courtroom loss today, but supporters and close aides remained optimistic that she will soon be granted freedom from house arrest. The ...

McClatchey

  • Temporary extension of Bush-era tax cuts gaining m ...
    WASHINGTON — The Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire on Dec. 31 are expected to be extended temporarily by the lameduck Congress, with a two-year extension the most promising compromise.
  • Mexico drug gang's offer to disband: Is it for rea ...
    MEXICO CITY — One of Mexico's major narcotics gangs reportedly offered Wednesday to disband if the government would intensify security in the state of Michoacan, the cradle of its drug empire, and keep rival drug gangs out.
  • Veteran in distress released from VA, dies in cab
    BILOXI, Miss. — Air Force veteran David Charles Miller, 61, died in the back seat of a taxi cab no more than 30 minutes after being released from the emergency room at the Veteran Affairs Hospital.
  • With Social Security proposal, deficit panel touch ...
    WASHINGTON — The leaders of a special panel that's exploring ways to reduce the federal deficit released a dead-on-arrival proposal on Wednesday to reduce Social Security benefits to future retirees and repeal a number of popular tax breaks.
  • McCain, Lieberman urge Obama to drop 2011 Afghan d ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — A delegation of four U.S. senators, asserting that the U.S. counterinsurgency is making headway in Afghanistan, heightened pressure Wednesday on President Barack Obama to abandon his pledge that the United States would begin withdrawing troops in July 2011, a deadline that seems ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Nature protection - the new road starts here
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: Was it an end, or a beginning? As delegates streamed away from the convention centre here in Nagoya - and stream they did, many of them having delayed flights to make sure no stone they could turn was left unturned - the talk was of a ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • DADT STUDY LEAK: Repeal Will Not Undermine Militar ...
    Last month, NBC’s Richard Engel reported that the Pentagon’s Working Group study of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell had found that a majority of American troops would either not object to serving alongside openly gay troops or would raise any concerns directly with their gay peers, suggesting that repeal woul ...
  • Outgoing New York City Schools Chancellor Left His ...
    Our guest blogger is Robin Chait, Associate Director for Teacher Quality at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. As Chancellor Joel Klein leaves New York City Public Schools to become an executive vice president with News Corp., the media company founded by Rupert Murdoch, many are debating ...
  • Democrats Sharpen Message Against Health Repeal In ...
    As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell prepares to double down on the GOP’s commitment to repeal health care reform — going so far as to file an amicus brief in the ongoing multi-state lawsuit challenging the law — Democrats are sharpening their strategy to defend it. Yesterday, during an address ...
  • GOP Abandoning Defense Bill Out Of Fear That Don&# ...
    Last night, Roll Call’s Jessica Brady reported that Republicans are abandoning the ongoing pre-conference meetings about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) out of fear that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will insert a provision repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell even if the Senate doesn’t includ ...
  • Three Good Ideas And Three Not So Good Ideas From ...
    Our guest blogger is Michael Linden, Associate Director for Tax and Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Earlier today, the co-chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission released their draft proposal (a.k.a. chairmenâs mark) to reduce the deficit. This is not the final ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What's Wrong Here?
    Ah, I could talk more about how vile and shitty it is that a war criminal like Condoleeza Rice is coming to Canada and people are actually going to spend money to hear her talk. (Jesus Christ, I just can't resist pointing out that those people must be almost as stupid as she is! What do they expect ...
  • "Diary of a Madman": bush II's memoirs & stephen h ...
    Nothing really. I just wonder if upon hearing about bush II's publicity tour for his bound collection of used pieces of toilet paper, whether harper sighs longingly for the day when he can casually admit to complicity in torture too.
  • 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 .
  • Peter Kormos on the G-20
    I haven't watched this whole thing. I just thought that I'd post it here to spread it around.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Supreme Court hears argument on employer liability ...
    Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Staub v. Proctor Hospital .� I don't know why I could not find an article about it in this morning's newspaper. U.S. Army Reserve First Sergeant Vincent Staub worked as an angiography technician for the Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois, f ...
  • NWC Opposes Corporate Lobby Attempt to Weaken Whis ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center issued a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opposing recommendations by the “Corporate Lobby,” which threaten the integrity of the whistleblower provisions found in the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposals by the Corporate Lobby are not "use ...
  • NWC comments to OSHA on regs for NTSSA, FRSA, STAA ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three sets of regulations for whistleblower cases. DOL had issued the interim regulations on August 31, 2010. One set of regulations, 29 CFR Part 1982 , covers whistleblower cases from both the ...
  • Boeing's brief claims SOX can never protect disclo ...
    Lawyers for Matt Neumann and Nick Tides are currently finishing their last brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an appeal that will decide if corporate fraud whistleblowers can ever be protected from retaliation when they make disclosures to the media. For the National Whistle ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Journalism Professor To Lead UK's Copyright Review ...
    We recently pointed out that the UK is about to undergo yet another "big review" of copyright laws. Of course, they already did that just four years ago -- and then proceeded to ignore many of the key findings in that "Gowers Report." It was named that, of course, because the team that put it toge ...
  • Should Illegally Recorded Video Be Admissible In X ...
    Pickle Monger points us to the latest bit of info to come out of the upcoming trial of a guy accused of violating the DMCA by modding Xboxes. Apparently, the defense is arguing that videos taken by an investigator for the ESA should not be used , because they violated California privacy laws (thoug ...
  • UK High Court Announces Judicial Review Of The Dig ...
    Well, well, well. Even as the current UK leadership seeks to review UK copyright law , it appears that the most recent change, the infamous Digital Economy Act, will undergo a judicial review by the UK High Court . As you may recall , the Digital Economy Bill was "proposed by the unelected, debate ...
  • FCC Apparently Not Satisfied With FTC's Google WiF ...
    So the FTC concluded its investigation of Google's Street View WiFi data collection screwup with no actual penalties. Since then, there's been a lot of pressure from Congressional reps who have a long history of complaining about Google to get the government to reopen the investigation. So, it sho ...
  • EU Commissioner Warns Copyright Middlemen To Get W ...
    TorrentFreak points us to a recent speech given by Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda , in which she gives a warning to "copyright middlemen," that they need to adapt to the changing times: Borders are now crossed more easily than ever before in history. It is ...

VacTruth

  • Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
    Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
  • Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
    In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...
  • Letter Alerts Obama to Dangers of HPV Vaccines
    In an extraordinary move to prevent further HPV vaccine casualties, Marian Greene the Chairwomen and Co-Founder of the campaign and action group Truth about Gardasil (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/), has written an open letter to President Obama. Her letter urges the President to take time to resea ...
  • 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, ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...
  • The Power of Principle
    So I got into a little twitter spat a few weeks ago.  One of the people I follow made the following statement: Some bloggers feel it’s better to be principled than in power. Naturally, I objected. The conversation turned into one of those us v. them tropes.  Us, in the case of this twitterer, bein ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Another busy weekend.  Saw Budrus on Friday.  It was excellent.  It’s playing in theaters all over the place.  You should see it, not just if you are interested in Israel/Palestine.  It has some interesting things to ponder for anyone who wants to use direct action for radical change. Went to t ...
  • 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 ...

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: Gina
    It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...
  • By: Elissa
    I am finding it very difficult to grasp how few(no) people are on here discussing this with great concern and passion for changing it. This entire subject has taken me by storm.
  • By: Nestlé and the other reasons I support the boy ...
    [...] those jobs typically going to people from outside the community, [...]
  • By: Help Getting Organized | Get Organized with Or ...
    [...] Sadly, no drinking water seems to be 100% safe these days, but in the absence of certainty, I plan on sticking with free, public water. In the end, it’s in our interest to insist on clean drinking water, avoid polluting our environment with more plastic and petroleum waste, and support public ...
  • By: « Tendance gourde  « Jeune Coalition Française ...
    [...] www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water, [...]

treehugger

  • Two Prisoners Raise Endangered Frogs by Hand
    Photo via Northwest Trek Some might say James Goodall and Harry Greer have a soft spot for frogs -- and they'd likely agree with that. In fact, it could be said that the relationship between the two men and the dozens of endangered frogs they helped raise is a bit like that of a parent and child ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: Lentil and Spinach Ragout Over ...
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter After the very rich butternut squash pasta dinner that we indulged in the other night, my husband and I were craving something a little lighter and healthier. In fact I was rather surprised when he suggested I make something with lentils. I reached for The Meat Lover's Mea ...
  • Why Bikes for Girls is a Lifechanging Concept in A ...
    Image credit: World Bicycle Relief When April dared to suggest 6 reasons why the world needs more girls on bikes , she was accused of sexism. Yet from female cyclists' view on podium girls through to concerns about women cyclists' personal safety , there's no doubt that gender issues should be ...
  • Mountain Ranges Can Act As Conservation Safe Haven ...
    photo: Jim Whitehead /Creative Commons While there have been some pretty dire reports about the extinction of plants and animals due to global warming , there has also been some interesting and encouraging research about how species may be able survive in certain places. This is one of those. ...
  • Today Would Have Been Carl Sagan's 76th Birthday
    Billions and Billions of Thanks for Your Life's Work! Today would have been the 76th birthday of Carl Sagan, a great popularizer of science, as well as an astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist. If you are... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

  • A new target for cancer drugs
    Suppressing cancer cells’ ability to cope with damage to their DNA could enhance dramatically the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin, according to a new pair of papers from MIT biologists. In studies of mice, the researchers found that slowing down a specific system for tolerating ...
  • Decloaking perforin, the protein assassin
    When the immune system identifies a cell that needs to be eliminated, such as a virus-infected cell or cancer cell, natural killer cells descend and puncture the offending cell, injecting toxic enzymes to spell its doom. At the centre of this immune response is a crucial protein called perforin, whi ...
  • Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk
    Following a healthy lifestyle, which means exercising, eating healthfully, keeping the waistline trim, limiting alcohol intake, and avoiding smoking, could reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by 23%, according to a study from Denmark. via Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk.
  • First Human Liver Grown in Lab
    For the first time, human cells have been used to create a lab-grown liver. It’s a milestone on the way to creating a new source of livers for transplant, Wake Forest University (WFU) researchers say. Last June, a different research team reported growing a liver from animal cells. But if the goal is ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russian banks' correspondent accounts up to 609.3 ...
    Russian banks' balances on correspondent accounts with the central bank went up to 609.3 billion rubles at the start of the business day on Thursday from 537.9 billion rubles on Wednesday, while deposit accounts fell to 293.7 billion rubles from 341.2 billion rubles.
  • Time for the US to level with Russia
    The US lame-duck Congress on Monday reassembles for its final session. The most important thing it must do is ratify the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), signed in Prague last April by Presidents Obama and Medvedev, cutting the US and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. If not now, it may be ...
  • A post-NATO era is beginning
    The US will remain residually committed to European security, partly out of sentiment, partly for precautionary reasons, and partly because it retains a lingering worry about Russia's approach to its former empire. But the set of problems that ties the US to Europe is shrinking.
  • Russia’s legal mire
    Supporters of Russia’s ruling “tandem” of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev often complain that the west is unfair in criticising its democratic record. Quietly, some suggest Russia is not yet ready for full democracy. Free elections might return liberals who would take the country back to 1990s-st ...
  • Japan’s Other Territorial Headache
    Until now, Moscow leaders had always avoided the provocative act of visiting what Russia calls the Southern Kurils for fear of antagonizing Japan. On this occasion, however, Medvedev must have calculated (correctly) that the weak Japanese government, led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, wouldn’t respond ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Abbreviated “blogger fail” edition. For some reason the scratch file I use for accumulating links throughout the week got blanked out late Thursday. Here’s what I was able to recover from memory. Our image in the Muslim world would ...
  • The Lilies - Cry when you sleep (the Shoes remix)
    Last year Tahiti Boy And The Palmtree Family topped my music of the year list, so obviously I’m a big fan. Amazingly enough, they teamed up with another artist from that list, Os Mutantes, to form The Lilies. “We Are The Lilies” is available on iTunes in France ; not sure if it can be bought outsi ...
  • The fetishization of efficiency
    In the wake of the Republican victories Tuesday there will probably be a renewed emphasis on neoliberal economics - at least as imagined by conservatives. Of course, “pure” neoliberal economics is one of those wonderful belief systems, like communism, that postulates an ideal end state. The world it ...
  • 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 .More from the WikiLeaks dump: Unvarnished details: American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recen ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Nor ...
    Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry This film is divided into four chapters. Please visit our page to see the whole film! http://www.youtube.com/puresalmon/ http://www.farmedsalmonexposed.org/ http://www.puresalmon.org/ Click here to read this article
  • Looking in a Gift Horse's Mouth: The Gates Foundat ...
    The persistence of food crises and food price volatility has spawned some false solutions. The most notable of these is the 'New Green Revolution for Africa', launched by the philanthropic foundation established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. As Philip L Bereano and Travis M English reveal, this r ...
  • FDA Cracking Down on Raw Cheese Now?
    The government going after raw milk was something a lot of people could comfortably ignore -- fringe-y kooks making a lot of noise about milk that could be dangerous. But start messing with people's $22-per-pound raw-milk Camembert ... well, now you're dealing with serious food for more mainstream ...
  • New Egg Recall Also Connected to DeCoster
    More than a quarter of a million eggs from an Ohio farm have been recalled from eight states because of Salmonella enteritidis concerns. Click here to read this article
  • Walmart Wants Iowans to Farm by its Principles
    Never mind the government regulators. When it comes to influencing the way farmers grow their crops, the real power someday may be Walmart, the nation's largest food retailer. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXIV
    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] [21] [22] [23] [24] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen ...
  • Wallpapers decorados con fotos de flores (9 imágen ...
    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 fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3 ...
  • Vistas aéreas I (10 fotos tomadas desde las altura ...
    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 fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...
  • Del crepúsculo al amanecer (10 postales con el sol ...
    HOY Y EN EXCLUSIVA PARA los cada día más suscriptores y visitantes en general del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, tenemos una nueva colección titulada ' Del crepúsculo al amanecer '. Una bonita serie donde el sol, siempre será el principal protagonista. Disfrute y comparta nuestros recursos. Saludos. N ...
  • Aviones supersónicos IV (10 imágenes de vértigo)
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores. [1] [2] [3] [4] 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 imág ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
    How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
  • Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
    A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...
  • What We’re Reading–Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook
    Author Kim O’Donnel recently released The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour, for people that love to eat meat but might also want to eat less of it. In the book’s foreword the Center’s director, Dr. Robert Lawrence, reintroduces the idea to readers that people ...
  • Meatless Monday Launches at Johns Hopkins Universi ...
    Today marked the launch of Meatless Monday on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.  Elaborate banners of cartoon cows, chickens and pigs that read, “Monday is my day off!” greeted students as they entered JHU Dining Service’s three main dining areas: Levering Food Court, Fresh Food Court and ...
  • No title
    On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) released a draft report that, given their usual alignment with agricultural interests, is surprisingly straightforward in its assessment of the inadequacy of conservation practices in place on farms in t ...

Norwegianity

  • Rekindling my love of reading
    Just posted something new to the other other blog (not my blog actually, but as a registered member I have posting privileges). Since I last posted anything, I’ve been reading. A lot. Since Sunday I’ve read about four and a half books. Light stuff. I’m warming up by re-reading Roger Zelazny’s ten-vo ...
  • The task of Kerstenado
    In case you needed reinforcement on why this is now a politics-free zone, here’s Katherine Kersten’s opening post-election graf: Last week’s historic election repudiated the grandiose, left-wing governance schemes of President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Conservatives are still toas ...
  • Wishing
    I was thinking tomorrow was more than early enough for unveiling some changes, but the new mast (Heathianity?) goes so well with this Waxy-found video, I figured I shouldn’t wait. Can you count all the copyright violations in this video? Yes, this may be a blank screen by tomorrow as I expect this o ...
  • Dropping bookmarks
    Some, not much, duplication with the RSS feeds. Crooks and Liars The Daily Beast (good riddance, only Mediaite begins to compete with this online rag for flat out whoring/snarking the establishment line) The Raw Story (too juiced, my BP always goes up after checking them out, Glenn Beck ‘fantasizes’ ...
  • All I really know
    is that this time it was right out in front of us. Electronic voting didn’t kick our ass. The Supreme Court didn’t steal this one, but they did write permission slips for overt graft. The truth is that if you have your own network, unlimited funding and a desire to win by any means necessary, [...]

Public News Service

  • Group Shines a Light on Money in Politics
    Group Shines a Light on Money in Politics Phoenix, AZ – It is now possible to see who the biggest donors are to members of Congress. A nonpartisan research group has designed a new “widget” with NASCAR like logos so that voters can track the money that is flowing to their legislators. Comments from ...
  • 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- ...
  • Study: Eating Disorders and Bare Midriffs – ...
    Study: Eating Disorders and Bare Midriffs – Cheerleaders "At Risk" Phoenix, AZ – A recent study cautions that college cheerleaders whose uniforms expose their bare midriffs face a significantly higher risk of developing eating disorders. Comments from the study's author, Dr. Toni Torres-McGehee (tor ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Help CFS Fight GE Salmon
    Check out our new video on GE salmon and support our work! Filed under: GE Animals, GE Food, Take Action
  • Newly Disclosed Government Documents Conclude GE S ...
    EXPERT FISHERIES AGENCIES PROHIBIT GROWING ENGINEERED SALMON IN OPEN-WATER NET PENS UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FDA Declined to Disclose Evidence During September Hearings on Aquabounty Salmon Adding a new twist to the controversy over genetically engineered (GE) salmon, the Center for Food Saf ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Palestine: Roadmap to Peace?
    Palestine: Roadmap to Peace? : "For decades we have heard almost everyone talk about peace in the Holy Land. What is certain is that no one needs peace more than the Palestinian people. Since before 1948, the Palestinian people have been living under the threat of wars and massacres, under occupa ...
  • A War to Remember—but How?
    A War to Remember—but How? - Capital Comment Blog (washingtonian.com) Obama already knows the sort of controversy that can flare up. Over the protest of academics, he has continued the tradition of sending a Memorial Day wreath to the Confederate Monument at Arlington Cemetery. His response to co ...
  • How Obama should remember the Confederacy as the 1 ...
    Arlington Confederate Monument Report : "The title is 'A War to Remember - but How?: How Obama should remember the Confederacy as the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches' and is by Cragg Hines. From the article: The President may need all the historical understanding he can muster as the ...
  • The Destruction of the African Male in America is ...
    Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected - NYTimes.com But a new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture is even bleaker than generally known. Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, a ...
  • Have Some in Germany Forgotten the Holocaust?
    Have Some in Germany Forgotten the Holocaust? [politicsdaily.com] LONDON -- "I'm Hitler-ed out," my 6-year-old daughter declared. We were standing in the German Historical Museum in Berlin during a recent family holiday, strolling through an exhibit titled "Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime." ...

Pensieve

  • Forbid Campaign Contributions!
    Photo by wstera2 I read an article by Noam Chomsky this morning, in which he reflects on the aftermath of the US election. In it are several interesting points, well though out and illuminating; others were less so. Firstly he apparently sees himself as an anti-capitalist, not a Democrat. I suspect ...
  • Flying Dancers of Papantla
    This week, Monterrey is celebrating Mexico’s 200 years of independence from Spain, and 100 years since the Mexican revolution. The city’s largest park, built in the grounds of the steel factory that was once her strongest company, is hosting a fair. I shot this video while I was there last Sunday. A ...
  • Terror Averted Before Key Election…Coincidence?
    Photo by Gord McKenna Since Obama’s inauguration, left-leaning intellectuals have been frustrated in his reluctance or inability to implement the more radical elements of their agenda. At fist they saw him as a savior to the left. Now they are mourning the “Death of the Liberal Class”, as they stand ...
  • 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?

Green Times

  • Share Your Books
    Books and magazines are a great source of information and they can help you to relax. If we all buy loads of new books, unless recycled paper (recycling-waste/cut-down-paper-not-trees.html) is used, a lot of trees will have to be cut down. That’s why it’s better to recycle (glossary/categories/rec ...
  • Penguin Ice Sculptures
    Like these penguin ice sculptures will disappear when they get exposed to too much heat, so will the real ones if we don’t do anything about global warming! Not only penguins, but also polar bears and whales will be endangered (wildlife/endangered-species.html) or become instinct if we don’t start ...
  • Share a Van
    Are you planning a road trip? Share a car (glossary/categories/lifestyle/car-sharing.html) or a van! That will help the environment and it will for sure create amazing memories! If you use a car to go to work, try carpooling. It can reduce the costs of fuel, tolls and car rental. Photo by: Ilse S ...
  • Eco Accomodation in the Rainforest
    Eco tourism, also known as ecological (glossary/categories/lifestyle/eco-tourism.html)tourism (glossary/categories/lifestyle/eco-tourism.html), is becomig more popular as more people understand the need to look after the environment (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html). Stay in an eco ...
  • Laughing Kookaburra
    Kookaburras are beautiful birds. Did you know: kookaburras can reach a total length of 42 centimeters! Another interesting fact about the kookaburra is that its call sounds like a loud, echoing human laugther. Kookaburras can be found in Australia (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.htm ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts
    ShareThis White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts 11 Nov 2010 President Barack Obama's top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. That ...
  • Afghanistan shuts down 150 Afghan, foreign aid gro ...
    ShareThis Afghanistan shuts down 150 Afghan, foreign aid groups 09 Nov 2010 Afghanistan has ordered around 150 aid groups, including four foreign organisations, to shut down for failing to submit reports on their projects and finances, a government official said on Tuesday. The ruling by a governmen ...
  • US to boost military aid to Israel
    ShareThis As Obusha's Cat Food Commission slaughters the middle class and the poor: US to boost military aid to Israel 11 Nov 2010 The United States has planned to expand its military aid to the Israeli government over the next two years, adding smart bombs to the new supply list. US Congress approv ...
  • Cargo plane bomb plot: ink cartridge bomb 'timed t ...
    ShareThis Cargo plane bomb plot: ink cartridge bomb 'timed to blow up over US' 10 Nov 2010 The bomb found on the cargo plane at East Midlands Airport last month was timed to detonate over the eastern seaboard of the United States, Scotland Yard have said. The device, which was removed from a UPS air ...
  • U.S. 'Notice to Mariners' Report May Explain Myste ...
    ShareThis U.S. 'Notice to Mariners' Report May Explain Mystery Missile Launch Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 11 Nov 2010 A 'Notice to Mariners ' report entry may explain the missile launch earlier this week from Southern California waters near Catalina Island. Page 55 of the current 'Notice ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • What Is, and Isn’t the Boycott, Divestment, ...
    By Emily Schaeffer The call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel is gaining momentum. At the same time, it is widely misinterpreted, unfortunately by skeptics, opponents and proponents alike. The basic premise behind BDS movements, wherever they have taken place, is that they a ...
  • Meir Kahane (of unblessed memory) Comic Strip Hero
    By Jesse Bacon Ma’an News reported last week on a comic book honoring Meir Kahane, the slain Jewish fascist leader whose politics were even too much for the Israeli Supreme Court. His party remains banned. Reading the comic strip, a few things become clear. First of all, the artistic quality is incr ...
  • A Lost Decade in Israel-Palestine: Diary Series Ki ...
    This diary opens a collaborative effort to profile the past decade in the life of Israel-Palestine. A Lost Decade in all respects. Far worse than Japan’s âLost Decade.â Unfortunately, the events that set this decade onto its lamentable trajectory happened shortly before the advent of the blogosphere ...
  • Budrus hero calls for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s ...
    By Jesse Bacon I recently had the good fortune to attend a packed Monday night NYC screening sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. One issue raised by the extremely well-informed director was how similar protests in other villages have had difficult ...
  • Terry Fletcher responds to Audrey Farber’s p ...
    In her recent post A true Democracy; if Israel would only let it, Audrey Farber paints a very rosy picture of Palestinian democracy, both present and future. Other commentators and human rights organizations paint a quite different picture, at least of the present. In this New York Review of Books ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Dog with no eyes gets around via geolocation
  • Lake Mead drought, Lake Powell too
    The ongoing drought is severely affecting water levels at Lake Powell in Utah, which in turn impacts the amount of water in Lake Mead in Arizona and Nevada. All of this is further complicated by convoluted water sharing agreements between the seven Colorado River states that mandates everyone get a ...
  • Housing is double dipping
    And this chart was before foreclosuregate Zillow – a real estate cheerleader if there ever was one – is now predicting an “unprecedented decline” worse than the Great Depression Meanwhile, the Obama Administration continues to send billions to Wall Street while doing little to help Main Street or ho ...
  • Garbage trucks to run on power generated by garbag ...
    Toronto introduces biogas garbage trucks which run on CNG or biogas. They hope to make enough biogas from the garbage to run their entire fleet of 300 garbage trucks. I find technology like this postively inspirational because it takes a problem (what to do with the garbage) and turns it into a solu ...
  • Anarchy in the UK. Student protestors storm Tory H ...
    Telegraph UK After initially being ejected from the lobby of Millbank by police and security staff, the protestors smashed their way in through windows. Using sticks and chairs they destroyed CCTV cameras and broke windows from the inside of the office block. Employees had to be evacuated as masked ...

Coteret

  • Maariv: Geert Wilders to express support for &#822 ...
    There’s more to this. Israeli adulation for the Dutch ultra-nationalist is not limited to the National Union: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows at Dore Gold’s neoconservative power-house — The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — has been a leading cheerleader. Dutch reinforceme ...
  • 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 [.. ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – November 11
    1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). 1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the governm ...
  • Deadline Live – November 10 2010
    News, commentary, clips & calls on this 10th day of November 2010 from ‘Our Narrator and Radio Gun’, Jack Blood. In the second hour Erik Rush is back to join Deadline once again. He is the author of ‘Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America’s Racial Obsession’. http://erikrush.com/
  • Ron Paul “We Should Have A New Foreign Polic ...
    November 09, 2010 MSNBC
  • West Coast mystery missile may be North Korean
    “A shot over the bow,” is what some in America’s intelligence community are whispering under the stunned media’s demands for answers. And if the United State’s Navy is telling the truth, heads will roll among some of the Pentagon’s brass for permitting a foreign enemy vessel to breach U.S. sovereign ...
  • Woodcarver’s Knife Was Found ‘Closed&# ...
    November 09, 2010 KIRO 7 News

The Air Vent

  • Hide the Incline!
    A missile was launched off our coast today, in case you are new here, I’m an aeronautical engineer.  I’ve watched rockets and planes my whole life.  Today a mysterious missile was launched off the California coast which was very disconcerting.    The pentagon is calling it everything except wha ...
  • Rain on the blackboard
    Lucia has an interesting post on condensation at the blackboard.  Now that I’m understanding Anastassia’s claims better, I’m not sure this relates at all to her work but that doesn’t stop it from being interesting. Link here if you’re interested.
  • He’s a Denier
    Coming up on a year since Climategate and Minnesotans for Global Warming has a new song commemorating the event. The denier mantra doesn’t bother me as much as some, it doesn’t describe skeptics anyway. H/T Brian H.
  • Tax the rich
    Tax the rich, is the common phrase heard from Democrats today.  They describe how much extending the Bush tax cuts will ‘cost’ the government.  The balance between letting them all expire and keeping the majority of the hapless voters cajoled is to increase tax on a minority of the population whic ...
  • Second order
    Judith Curry has a new blog post which has inspired me to write on Libertarians and climate.  She has written a couple of times with negative commentary toward libertarians and environmental causes.  While she never actually attacks the Libertarian philosophy herself, her points are widely believed. ...

Focal Point

  • Health Care Reform: The War of Attrition Begins
    Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, a occasion originally conceived for somber reflection on bitter and pointless trench warfare. It is fitting that the Republicans chose this week to announce their plans to harry health care reform to death. The GOP campaigned on grandiose promises of repealing the ... ...
  • Uncle Sam Wants YOU to Eat More Cheese
    Guess what? Eating cheese isn't just a mindblowing sensual pleasure, it's also a patriotic duty. God bless America! The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending millions of tax dollars to help companies like Domino's Pizza infuse their products with ever-increasing amounts of cheese, according to ...
  • Chris Hayes Will Not Sub for Keith Olbermann After ...
    Nation editor Chris Hayes was will not be subbing for Keith Olbermann after all. I posted earlier that he was disinvited but, that was incorrect. Hayes tweeted : "OK: I'm not filling in on Countdown tonight because I didn't feel comfortable doing it given the circumstances."� MSNBC announced that H ...
  • Keith Olbermann Suspended for Political Contributi ...
    MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after Politico reported that he made campaign contributions to progressive Democrats: Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday ...
  • [Duplicate Plz Delete] Keith Olbermann Suspended f ...
    MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after Politico reported that he made campaign contributions to progressive Democrats: Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook, Google Offer Conflicted Definitions of D ...
    Once again, Facebook and Google are posturing in the long-brewing debate over openness and data portability. The latest round was triggered on Friday after Google changed its terms of service, asking that Facebook offer reciprocal access to data when the social network’s users import their contacts ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at A Bit Lucky, Glu Mobile, Gameloft, and Perfe ...
  • Facebook for Blackberry Now Includes Places, but N ...
    RIM has released a new version of its Facebook for Blackberry Smartphones app which includes the location feature Places, as well as improved search and friend lists. Users can now check-in to nearby Places, tag friends, and view check-ins by friends, but not add photos to check-ins or view Deals as ...
  • Facebook Performance Ads Case Studies: Virgin Amer ...
    The following is an excerpt of content available in the Facebook Marketing Bible, our comprehensive guide to marketing and advertising your brand, business or content on Facebook. As Facebook reaches past its 550 millionth user, and grows its primarily ad-driven revenue to well past the $1.1 billion ...
  • Microsoft Veteran Doug Purdy Emerges to Help Impro ...
    Facebook has been saying for months that it wants to make working on the platform easier for developers. Starting about a month ago, it introduced a program called Operation Developer Love to help do that, headed by a new hire and well-known figure in the development community, Doug Purdy. He’s an 1 ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Letter to UK Liberal Democrats: protecting war cri ...
    Stuart Littlewood challenges Britain's Liberal Democrats, the junior partners in the Conservative-led governing coalition, to confirm or deny Foreign Secretary William Hague's claim that they had agreed to amend UK law so that Israeli war crimes suspects can visit Britain without fear of prosecution ...
  • The parcel bomb plot: Al-Qaeda's gift to Israel
    Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that the recent Yemen-linked parcel bomb plot, responsibility for which has been claimed by the Al-Qaeda franchise in the Arabian Peninsula, serves only to aid Israeli propaganda and help mobilize Israel's stooges in the West.
  • Can the BBC be trusted to handle its own complaint ...
    Richard Lightbown describes how his complaint to the BBC about the Panorama documentary "Death on the Med" had been "fobbed off with a variety of excuses and imaginative distortions of the facts". He says the BBC can no longer be trusted to regulate itself and must be brought under the control of th ...
  • How to anger the pro-Israel lobby
    Stuart Littlewood views what seems to be a lone principled voice among Western churchmen, Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan, whose campaign for justice for the people of Gaza has earned him the wrath of Israel’s stooges in the Anglican Church.
  • Rabbis' edict bars renting to Arabs
    Jonathan Cook reports on a wave of anti-Arab racism sweeping through the Upper Galilee and led by rabbis, which aims at ostracizing and ethnically cleansing Israel's own Arab citizens.

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

  • The Not So Gradual Degradation Of A Nation
    Paying To Be Raped Every single day millions of us are being subjected to the shameful processes of being searched, screened and viewed naked, patted, groped, fondled, poked and stroked by badge-wearing strangers- police under a different name. Every single day. Millions of us, Americans. Being viol ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #35
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Sullivan Michael Sullivan discusses his book, the American Adventurism Abroad, on how the United States, over the past 60 years, encompassing both the Cold War and the “war on terror,” came to succeed the earlier European imperial powers as arbiter of the interna ...
  • Chris Floyd’s ‘The Good Corporal’
    ‘To the Exposers of Power & the Troublers of Dreams’ Yesterday one of our readers e-mailed me a link to a recent work by Chris Floyd dedicated to truth tellers who are commonly labeled as whistleblowers, but aptly referred by him as the Exposers of Power and the Troublers of Dreams. About three year ...
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s 2012 Platform
    ‘They Made Me Do It!’ The Obama Campaign team has finalized its core message and marketing platform for the 2012 presidential elections. After several months of intense debate and ‘market research,’ the Obama Presidency ‘marketing executives’ have put together yet another simple and short ‘market ca ...

Afro Spear

  • “Tanzania, yet again, goes to the dogs!&#822 ...
    Though Tanzania has always wrongly been regarded as a strong and peaceful country in the region, this does no longer hold water thanks to what transpired in the just ended elections. Recent sham and rigged general elections opened everything bare as it told the whole hidden story behind this former ...
  • 2 African American Republicans Elected To Congress
    Allan West (left) from Florida and Tim Scott from South Carolina, are the first black Republicans to be elected to the U.S. Congress in over a decade. Both apparently represent the more conservative wing of the party and had received support from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.  Read NYTimes article ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • When Voting and Racism Collide
    Meet John Barr; Ypsilanti Township, Mich racist. I met John this past Tuesday (Nov 2) when I went to my polling location to vote. Backstory: Over the last few months, I had been debating how I would vote for Mich governor. I was or torn between voting for a republican whom I felt was competent [...]
  • KKK costume wins first prize at Halloween Party: Y ...
    From CBC news: The Royal Canadian Legion ordered its Campbellford, Ontario chapter to close while police are investigating a complaint that a person in Ku Klux Klan robes led a man in blackface with a rope around his neck and won first prize at its Halloween party. Edward Pigeau, president of the le ...

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

  • Monthly Undermining Task, November 2010: The Onlin ...
    Where do you go for information? I guess, because you are reading this as a web page, then your primary resource for information that you need in a hurry (and aren’t we all in a hurry nowadays?) is the Internet. As far as corporations go, online presence has now eclipsed printed and television media ...
  • George Monbiot on the Fake Biodiversity Agreement
    There is something stirring, and I don’t think it’s just in the air – I think George Monbiot is turning his back on industrial civilization, and about time too. We could do with someone like him in the ranks of the “heretic unbelievers”. Here is his take on the Agreement That Never Was: Everyone agr ...
  • Chevron Spoof Posters: Just The Start
    On the coattails of their Chevron spoof (see here for the full story) the Yes Men have opened up the original graphics from their web sites for public subvertising. Angry and frustrated that oil companies like Chevron think they can ignore their environmental and human rights abuses while cleaning u ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Overcoming the Challenges of Using Ushahidi in Low ...
    With the increased adoption of Ushahidi around the world, we are finding that one problem (which we anticipated in the very beginning of the initiative) is that of low bandwidth regions. In the early days of testing the platform in Kenya, we found that the map would take ages to load, and so the dev ...
  • A Six-Step Process for Managing Web Projects
    After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
  • A Six-Step Process for Managing and Developing Web ...
    After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
  • Citytracking Presents Data on Cities for Maps, Vis ...
    Citytracking, one of this year's Knight News Challenge winners, will present digital data about cities that journalists and the public can easily grasp and use, and provide tools to let them distribute their own conclusions. We will build a series of tools to map and visualize data that is truly Int ...
  • Blimee Brings Local News, Engagement and Instant O ...
    New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...

Cutting Edge News

  • BDS Movement by Any Other Name is Economic Jihad
    The Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel is yet another form of jihad in our midst. This effort is an economic jihad, its purpose being to destroy bilateral peace efforts between Arabs and Jews at the grass roots level. BDS agitators want Arab and Israeli academics to st ...
  • Looting the Seas - The Black Market in Bluefin
    Along the Mediterranean coast of France, in the city of Montpellier, prosecutors are quietly putting on trial an ancient French tradition—the fishing and trading of the majestic Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi delicacy sold in restaurants from New York to Tokyo. The still-secret proceedings a ...
  • BDS and Economic Jihad - 38 Nobel Laureates Call f ...
    A group of 38 Nobel laureates signed a letter opposing the push by the art, research and academic boycott movement Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS).� Their statement , organized by Nobel Laureates, Roger Kornberg, Stanford University, and Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin, was signed ...
  • The Edge of Space - Scientists Reveal Secrets of E ...
    Our sun sporadically expels trillions of tons of million-degree hydrogen gas in explosions called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Such clouds are enormous in size (spanning millions of miles) and are made up of magnetized plasma gases, so hot that hydrogen atoms are ionized. CMEs are rapidly accelera ...
  • Turkey on the Edge - The Choice Turkey Must Make A ...
    While all eyes are fixed on the faltering Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Israel is involved in another diplomatic standoff whose consequences may be just as dire for the future of the Middle East. The impasse in question is between Turkey and Israel -- erstwhile allies whose deteriorating relatio ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • After The Campaign Cash, The Backlash
    By Brooke Jarvis The 2010 midterm elections, the first since Citizens United opened the floodgates to corporate campaign cash, were the most expensive in history. So what happens next?
  • Zombie-Marxism Part II: What Marx Got Right
    By Alex Knight This is part of an essay critiquing the philosophy of Karl Marx for its relevance to 21st century anti-capitalism. The main thrust of the essay is to encourage living common-sense radicalism, as opposed to the automatic reproduction of zombie ideas which have lost connection to curre ...
  • Expect Next Phase Of Market Crash And A Large One ...
    By Alexander Ac Interview With Nicole Stoneleigh Foss
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: The Leading Edge
    By Tom Whipple Last week an organization in California, The Post Carbon Institute, released a new book, The Post Carbon Reader, which draws a much broader picture of the serious issues facing mankind. The basic proposition of the book is that the world has reached the limits of growth in terms of ...
  • Becoming An Empathic Civilization
    A Video

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

  • Sorry For The Light Posting.
    Dear Readers Sorry for the light posting the last two days, had to take a medical test Tuesday morning which required some heavy duty preparation. Thank God, the Doctor Says everything is OK. I will be back to a normal schedule today. Thanks Jeff Please email me at yidwithlid@ ...
  • Media Matters Makes World Record for Lameness-Cali ...
    George Soros should ask for his money back, the million dollars he gave Media Matters to go after Fox News is a waste. Glenn began a series of shows exposing the financier and Democratic Party sugar daddy Soros and what was the best the progressive spin shop come up with? Something that will rank a ...
  • 21 Years Ago We Defeated Tyranny: Today Obama Want ...
    The Berlin Wall was the physical representation of the "Cold War." The structure across the city of Berlin was not built to protect Communist Germany from the forces of freedom, it was constructed to keep the East Germans from fleeing communism. During the 750th anniversary of the founding ...
  • 72 Years Ago Today--> Kristallnacht "The Night of ...
    Kristallnacht also known as Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9th-10th 1938. Kristallnacht was the day Hitler's final solution "came out of the closet" It is viewed by many historians as the beginning of the final solution, leading towards the genocide o ...
  • Palestinian's Still Working To Sabotage "Peace Ta ...
    By Barry Rubin Here are two developments that are important indicators about the Israel-Palestinian situation. First, the current Palestinian Authority (PA) strategy is to stall and avoid negotiations because making a deal with Israel requires giving concessions to get to a compromis ...

The Real Agenda

  • Alan Greenspan: There is Fraud in Banking System a ...
    Little or no enforcement in system allows for fraud among involved parties and that is a cause for instability. However, no bankers have been held accountable for the massive derivatives, housing, stock and bond markets ponzi schemes. The question is, where was Alan 10, 15 or 20 years ago, when th ...
  • UK to Retain Welfare Checks
    In total control, Cameron wants to obligate workers to do mandatory four-week work placements as street cleaners and garbage collectors.
  • Police State Seoul 2010
    In Seoul, criminals are behind bars, unfortunately, not for as long as the world would want them to be.
  • China may be biggest economy within two years
    By Jeremy Warner Here’s a finding that will have any red-blooded American spluttering into his corn flakes. According to the Conference Board, a highly respected economic research association, China will overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy by 2012, or within two years. OK, so in dollar te ...
  • Píldora espía: Novartis presenta su Tableta con Mi ...
    El concepto de catalogar a la gente acaba de llegar a un nivel completamente nuevo. ¿Qué le parece espiar a un individuo desde adentro? Por Luis R. Miranda Novartis AG planea buscar la aprobación en menos de 18 meses meses de una tableta pionera que contiene un microchip incorporado, llevando el ...

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 ...
  • Wind farm revolts blamed for dramatic fall in plan ...
    Local revolts by British residents against wind farms are to blame for the number of planning approvals hitting record lows, an industry report has warned. More than 230 campaign groups across the country are putting plans to generate more than a quarter of Britain�s electricity in jeopardy, it was ...
  • Massive protest greets wind turbine developers
    FERGUS � A massive protest greeted officials from wpd Canada in Fergus Tuesday evening, and flowed into the renewable energy developer�s open house on the proposed Springwood Wind Project (formerly known as Belwood Wind Farm), a four turbine wind energy system planned for agricultural land in the no ...
  • A new slant on wind farms
    Jerusalem, N.Y. â John Grabski, representing the Jerusalem Preservation Association, brought a seldom explored topic to the subject of wind farms at the Oct. 20 Jerusalem Town Council meeting – economic devaluation. Public discussions on wind farms usually include noise, flicker, dead birds and disc ...
  • The great wind debate
    The Tribune reported a number of questions and concerns relating to county Proposals 1 & 2 in the Q&A article, �Wind district questions answered� in the Oct. 9 edition. Since then, the paper�s received requests from both opponents and proponents to address additional issues of the wind energy debate ...

Not My Tribe

  • I guess they couldn’t pass the physical&#823 ...
    Gratuitous plug for Endless War by the Country Music Awards just a couple of minutes ago. Something about “Wounded Warrior” being always in their hearts. Yeah, right. It’s one thing for burnt out AlterKokkers like Ted Nugent and Merle Haggard getting up on stage and telling people that if they were ...
  • Pentagon says “we don’t know how we la ...
    It’s all over the net now, an “unexplained, possibly accidental” launch of a missile off California. I read “accidental missile launch”, googled that term and got time after time after time that missiles have been fired without any advance planning. Most of the types that can’t be just launched by o ...
  • As long as they have their Priorities straight
    “Justice” Department drops charges against CIA Torture Freaks for destroying evidence, as in the Videos they took of their coward comrades exercising power over helpless people. Cop Porn in other words. I bet George W and Cheney have copies though, for the above mentioned reason. Meanwhile the REAL ...
  • Is this perhaps a call to arms?
    We have a far greater right to resist either the Minutemen or the actually Deputized Racists like Sheriff Arpaio or the Border Patrol, with force of deadly arms if necessary, simply because they have already demonstrated their willingness to assault, either through arrest and then beating us (while ...
  • 49 million shares of Microsoft sold
    for a total of over a billion, by one seller, the CEO Steve Ballmer. This at a time when certain content-specific software such as Adobe Acrobat and Macromedia Flash were acquired by Microsoft, the largest Internet Service Provider in America, Comcast, own a subsidiary of both NBC and Microsoft, and ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
  • Jim Garrison's (Kevin Costner's) Closing Argument ...
    We face the same situation today except the battle here is to have the public understand the truth about 911 after the assassination of the Twin Towers in 2001. When the truth about 911 wins over the cover-up we will see a large measure of justice served and an end to the War on Terror. Related I ...
  • 7/7: The world is not black or white.
    Yesterday it was widely reported in the media that a severely injured survivor of 7/7 had told the inquest into the bombings how he witnessed Mohammed Sidique Khan blow himself up from just a few feet away. Not surprisingly, debunkers have seized upon this as proof that there was no conspiracy. One ...
  • To the Directors of the NIST 911 "Investigation": ...
    Misprision of treason is an offence found in many common law jurisdictions around the world, having been inherited from English law. It is committed by someone who knows a treason is being or is about to be committed but does not report it to a proper authority. It is therefore unusual in that it is ...
  • Debunking Young Debunka
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog pointed out today that Kevin Barrett's son has a blog called Debunking Dad . As I've pointed out before, I disagree with Barret on many issues , but on this one I'm gonna go with pops. Pat singles out the post " Free-Fall Fallacy ," where Barret's son (AKA Y ...

Fooducate

  • Taco Bell’s Sodium Spin
    This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. PR people really know how to spin. Take a look at the video and press release by Taco Bell: “Taco Bell has been quietly testing a reduced-sodium version of its menu at 150 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth are ...
  • ADA Launches Kids Eat Right – Shop. Cook. Eat.
    We’re in Boston for the 2010 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE),  organized by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The ADA has just announced a new initiative to get kids eating healthfully – Kids Eat Right. The idea is to get registered dietitians involved in their local communiti ...
  • Pictures from an Exhibition
    We’re at the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo, in Boston this year. The event is the years biggest meetup of dietitians, members of the ADA. More than 10,000 dietitians are expected to attend this year (that’s about 15% of the total dietitian population in the US!). Aside from the many ...
  • Challenges in Nutrition [from Tufts Friedman Sympo ...
    We’re in Boston this weekend for 2 important nutrition events. Today we participated in Tufts University’s Friedman Symposium, and starting tomorrow we will be at FNCE, the American Dietetic Association’s annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. At the Friedman Symposium, we participated in t ...
  • Check Out the New Fooducate iPhone App !
    We’ve recently launched an iPhone app, simply called Fooducate. The app lets shoppers make better, healthier  choices at the supermarket. It empowers you with all the tips and tricks we’ve been writing about on this blog. Here’s a slide show with a brief overview: With the Fooducate iPhone app, ...

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

  • Botswana government renews insults to Bushmen
    Government minister says Bushmen are 'living in the dark ages'. © Survival Botswanaâs minister of environment, wildlife and tourism is the most recent government official to make disparaging remarks about the Kalahari Bushmen . In an interview with the BBC , Kitso Mokaila said, âI don’t beli ...
  • Survival protestors target World Travel Market
    Survival's petition has so far gathered more than 15,000 signatures. © Survival Visitors to the World Travel Market will today be greeted by protestors from Survival, calling for a boycott of Botswana tourism. Survival launched its boycott in September over the Botswana government’s continued ...
  • Obama: Stop funding Indonesian torture of Papuans
    Indonesia has admitted that the torturers in a recent video were its soldiers. © Survival Survival is asking President Obama, who is due to visit Indonesia next week, to suspend US military assistance to Jakarta until its forces stop killing and torturing the people of West Papua . Obama’s vis ...
  • Botswana diamonds boycott launched with protest at ...
    Survival is calling for a boycott of Botswana diamonds until the Bushmen are allowed water. © Survival Survival launched its call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds today, over the government�s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen. The tribal peoples� rights organization held a protest outside D ...
  • Yanomami report dozens dead in epidemic
    Yanomami mother and child. © Steve Cox/Survival Yanomami Indians in the Venezuelan Amazon say that dozens of their people have died in an epidemic of disease, which may be malaria. âThere are still many, many sick people,â Yanomami health worker Andres Blanco told the Associated Press (AP) ...

Greg Palast

  • The Family JewelsA Veteran’s Story
    by Greg Palast In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread." My father ran to his mother's bedro ...
  • Rove's Vote Trickster: Caging Explained
    On Tuesday, Tim Griffin, former chief of research of the Republican National Committee, is on the ballot for Congress to represent Little Rock, Arkansas. He's favored to win. But Griffin is just as happy to win by stealing votes. Here's a clip from the Elections Files, the Palast team's investiga ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The economic trap the 1st world is in
    For years I’ve been saying the plan was to Japanify. Japanify is another way of saying “extend and pretend”.  You pretend the banks and the rich aren’t broke.  In the Japan scenario, you slowly pay down or write off the bank losses at a pace which doesn’t wipe out the shareholders or bondholders o ...
  • Death and Rebirth of a Republic
    (From Formerly T-Bear) First it is “Change election funding” but to do so Law needs be legislated; but the legislature is broken. Then it is “Elect more better™ legislators” but the political process is corrupted; the political parties are broken. Then it is control the government but that is run an ...
  • The Life Cycle of a Republic
    (From Formerly T-Bear) First it is “Change election funding” but to do so Law needs be legislated; but the legislature is broken. Then it is “Elect more better™ legislators” but the political process is corrupted; the political parties are broken. Then it is control the government but that is run an ...
  • Jobs make break even point
    151,000 jobs were gained last month.  150K is the break-even point given population gain to maintain employment.  This is neither a good nor a bad figure.
  • Obama did NOT save the US From a Depression
    Stop saying Obama saved the economy, he did no such thing. The US is in a depression (not a great depression, but a depression). All Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson and Bush did was push the day of reckoning back a bit in order to save the rich, at the cost of trillions of dollars which [...]

Age of Autism

  • Listen In to a Conversation Between Pediatricians ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Ginger Taylor gave us permission to reprint her post on the AAP, autism and her notes from a conversation she overheard at the DAN! conference between pediatricians. Please mark her blog Adventures in Autism in your favorites....
  • Drink Pink! Join Kim Stagliano for a Book Launch P ...
    All treat, no tricks! The good folks at NAA have graciously allowed me to borrow an hour in their jam packed National Autism Association Conference schedule for a book launch party for All I Can Handle I'm No Mother Teresa....
  • SafeMinds Video on the Autism Vaccines Drumbeat
    It's Election Day and we want a fresh start with our legislators. We at SafeMinds are also making a fresh start with our approach to the story of autism and vaccines. Welcome to the Inauguration of our Whole Story campaign!...
  • Whisper to a Scream
    By Cathy Jameson A few weekends ago my husband and I were sitting near his shed while the kids played in the backyard. He’d been on a business trip the week prior, so we were catching up on news, bills...
  • Happy Third Birthday to Age of Autism!
    Editor's note: This post ran on November 10, 2007 Welcome to The Age of Autism, the nation's first daily Web newspaper for the environmental-biomedical community – those who believe autism is an environmentally induced illness, that it is treatable, and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Georgia and Russia collide over ’spy ring&#8 ...
    The Guardian – Georgia and Russia were today heading towards a new crisis after Tbilisi announced it had dismantled a Moscow-run spy ring, arresting four Russians and nine Georgians.The Russian government rejected the charges, denouncing them as a “provocation” timed to disrupt the Russian-Nato summ ...
  • Cholera deaths in hard-hit Haiti city add to toll
    Reuters – A three-week-old cholera epidemic that has killed more than 640 people in Haiti is spreading quickly in the northwest coastal city of Gonaives, authorities said on Wednesday. Pierrelus Saint-Justin, the mayor of Gonaives, said he personally buried 31 people on Tuesday and had another 15 bo ...
  • Another coal seam gas chemical scare in Australia
    The Australian-QLD Premier Anna Bligh has defended environmental safeguards for gas projects after a carcinogen was found in three coal seam gas wells in the state. Routine tests at Arrow Energy’s Moranbah gas project, west of Mackay, have detected traces of benzene in three of 60 fluid samples take ...
  • US mid-terms: Politicians spent $4.2bn on ads &#82 ...
    Daily Mail – Politicians spent a staggering $4.2billion on campaign TV ads in the run-up to last weekâs mid-term elections, it was claimed today.The 1.48 million television spots were the most for any election in U.S. history â including the 2008 presidential campaign.And some of the cities where ca ...
  • IEA predicts oil prices will more than double by 2 ...
    Deutsche Welle – The International Energy Agency has warned that governments need to do more to increase efficiency and boost green technologies to meet a forecasted 36 percent jump in energy demand between 2008 and 2035. The agency, the energy arm of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • CalPERS putting $500 million into green companies
    The country’s largest public pension fund is, like so many other investment bodies, going green. The California Public Employees Retirement System said Wednesday that it will pour $500 million into environmentally friendly companies. The portfolio will focus on “top performers...
  • Electric, diesel or hybrid car? Cost and CO2 calcu ...
    As the Environmental Protection Agency struggles with how to accurately label passenger vehicles for fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, a new online cost and CO2 emissions calculator launched today to help fill the void. "Electrics, hybrids, plug-ins, all these alternative...
  • Lawsuit seeks state protection for the Pacific fis ...
    An environmental group has filed a lawsuit accusing California wildlife authorities of failing to protect the remaining populations of Pacific fishers in Northwestern California and the southern Sierra Nevada range. Filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, the suit seeks...
  • Toxic lead pollution in L.A.: Two battery recycler ...
    Southern California air pollution officials have moved to curb toxic emissions from two lead acid battery recycling plants in Los Angeles County. The regulations are designed to meet the 2008 federal limits on airborne lead pollution, the first new lead...
  • Gulf oil spill: Panel faults oil companies for 'cu ...
    Investigators said Tuesday that they had uncovered "a suite of bad decisions" that included "one bad call after another" leading up to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and created the worst offshore oil spill in...

water.org

  • 4 Standout gifts that give back (O)
    One for Me, One for You: 4 Standout Gifts That Give Back (O, The Oprah Magazine) – If Matt Damon has a water bottle to sell us, we’re buying. The flasks in question are from Water.org (the nonprofit Damon cofounded with social entrepreneur Gary White). They come in BPA-free plastic ($19) and stainle ...
  • Water.org gets ‘Glamour’ous shout out (ONE)
    ONEâs causes get a âGlamourâous shout out (ONE) – At ONE, we never ask for your money â we just ask for your voice as part of our advocacy work around poverty alleviation. But, we have to admit, itâs pretty cool when outside sources encourage donations to some of the effective programs we care deepl ...
  • Arts for a Better World for Water.org (Miami Premi ...
    Better World Exhibit Benefits Global Charities during Art Basel (Miami Premier Guide) – Joining Miamiâs December art scene with élan, ARTS FOR A BETTER WORLD (âAFABWâ) is a bold endeavor to unite a large-scale commercial exhibition with the non-profit community. From December 1 to 5, 2010, more tha ...
  • Water.org – Gym Video (Miami Ad School)
    Water.org – Gym (Miami Ad School) – Some people don’t need to work out to get thirsty. See video at Cinema 5D.
  • Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation (MFF)
    Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation Accelerate Microfinance for Clean Water (Microfinance Focus) – Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation have launched a $3.6 million partnership to bring clean drinking water and sanitation services to people in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next four years. This ...

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

  • My meeting with Henry Waxman
    My name's Brian Van Slyke, and I'm a young Jewish American, I said. Okay, nice to meet you, he said as he stuck out his hand for me to shake. I took his hand and shook , and the words just spilled out: ..Well, there was no going back now. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • Sisyphus in the South Hebron hills
    "How good of you idiots to clear the field for me! You know I'm the one who is going to use it. You know your Palestinian friends all belong to the Hamas, which means you, too, are serving the Hamas. But please do go on working." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • PA: Shin Bet officers met with top Hamas officials ...
    According to the Palestinian sources, the Shin Bet officers visited the four in their homes late at night, were permitted to enter and then explained that they did not intend to arrest the four, but to talk "over a cup of coffee." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • Here's how Israel can help delegitimize itself
    One of the most severe claims against Israel is that its legal system does not punish criminal soldiers. Whitewashing crimes and granting automatic and sweeping support to every soldier will result in a "zero tolerance" approach by the international commu Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Hecklers disrupt Netanyahu's speech at U.S. Jewish ...
    "This is not Tikkun Olam. Oppressing people in refugee camps is not Tikkun Olam. And it is a hypocrisy that I cannot abide." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Notes from an FBU picket line
    fire.JPG Joe Thorne reports back from the front lines of the London firefighters strike against mass sackings and shift pattern changes. The FBU has held two eight hour strikes in ...
  • Striking firefighter hospitalised by station manag ...
    One firefighter has been airlifted to hospital and three others injured after a station manager drove his car through a picket line. Tam Ozdemir of Red Watch, Croydon was rushed to hospital with suspected neck and pelvic injuries.
  • Three new traslations in English of leaflets from ...
    Here are three documents we translated in English and that seem to us to be important. We would like to apologize for the mistakes in translations, which sometimes sound as “Frenglish”, but it’s the concern for internationalism that prevails. ...
  • Private Prison Industry Behind Arizona’s New Immig ...
    prison.jpg We now know that Arizona's controversial immigration bill 1070 was written almost word for word with the help of the Corrections Corporation of America- the largest private prison company in ...
  • Obama administration takes strong stance against p ...
    smokin.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. Once again, President Obama’s administration is standing in the way of pro-working class, civil rights legislation. In res ...

Free Range International

  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
  • 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 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
    She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's our ...
  • Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
    He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.
  • Lyndsay Greene, Author -- encore (Oct 19, 2010)
    Peter talks about planning and preparation for the retirement years with the author of "You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?"
  • Governor General David Johnston (Oct 9, 2010)
    Peter talks about the role of the GG -- plus technology and hockey -- in Johnston's first interview as the Queen's representative in Canada
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat and ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.

Scotts Contracting

  • Survey: Gov’t Agencies Focused on Energy Eff ...
    On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Survey: Gov’t Agencies Focused on Energy Efficiency Nov 10, 2010 PC World Leaders at many U.S. government agencies are looking to improve their energy efficiency as a way … Continue reading →
  • IT Leaders- More Efficient Gear Could Save $5B in ...
    On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: IT Leaders Say More Efficient Gear Could Save $5B in Energy Costs Nov 9, 2010 Reuters The Climate Savers Computing Initiative will expand its push for more energy … Continue reading →
  • Biden and Chu-Launch Home Energy Score Pilot Progr ...
    On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Vice President Biden Launches Home Energy Scoring Program November 09, 2010 Vice President Biden joined U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu today to announce the launch … Continue reading →
  • Good Energy Policy Makes For Good Economic Policy
    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Good Energy Policy Makes For Good Economic Policy No Matter Who Is In The Majority Nov 4, 2010 Huffington Post While news outlets around the country continue to … Continue reading →
  • Dot Earth: Cities as Hubs of Energy and Climate Ac ...
    On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Nov 6, 2010 New York Times ANDREW C. REVKIN 9:49 p.m. | Updated A pair of energy and development specialists from the mayorsâ offices in New York City … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • What If We Really Wanted to Reform Education?
    New Zealand’s (conservative) National government has spent the last year trying to implement “National Standards” here. Which is New Zealand’s answer to No Child Left Behind. Last week 240 schools released a statement refusing to administer the standardized tests. It has since come out that an unnam ...
  • Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
    I am a little surprised by all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the Democrats’ loss of the House on November 2 nd . It’s not like everyone didn’t know it was going to happen. Not only has Obama been an abysmal president, but his administration has lost a substantial portion of his support b ...
  • The Prison Industrial Complex – Part II
    As I stressed in my November 3 rd blog, it’s no longer politics and fear of violent crime that are driving America’s phenomenal incarceration rate – now the highest in the world. Statistics show that violent and property crime has been declining steadily since 1990 and that nearly half (one million) ...
  • The 5/11 Truthers
    “Terrorist or Fall Guy” by Chris Trotter (in New Zealand we write the day before the month – today is 5/11/10 – Guy Fawkes Day) An excellent account of one of the earliest recorded (1605) “false flag” operations. http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2010/11/terrorist-or-fall-guy.html Share and Enjoy ...
  • The Prison Industrial Complex
    I first became concerned about America’s growing prison industrial complex as a private practice psychiatrist in California and Washington between 1978 and 2002. What I witnessed, in essence was closure of most US mental hospitals in the late seventies and early eighties, with the ultimate transfer ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Forgotten War, the 1956 Israeli Invasion of Eg ...
    Also known as the Suez Crisis or the Tripartite Aggression. This was a lovely little war, brilliant in its simplicity. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal early in 1956, so Britain, France, and Israel came up with a wonderful plan. Israel would invade Egypt, drive the Egyptian army out of the Sina ...
  • Palestinian Dreams
    I’ve been doing some posting in a  discussion group, and like watching the main stream media news, I have been astonished at what I see. For one thing, it really is true, there are people that literally believe that every word uttered on Fox News is the truth. I have a hard time understanding that, ...
  • Gloria Ramirez and the Riverside Miasma, a Medical ...
    At 8:15pm on February 19, 1994, one Gloria Ramirez arrived at the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. She was extremely confused, and suffering from problems with her breathing and heartbeat. All pretty normal ER fare so far. The ER st ...
  • Where are we, and what are we doing in this handba ...
    I’ve lately been tripping on just how much the world has changed in the past ten years, or more specifically, how the USA has changed. The “War on Terror” has been going on for nearly ten years now, and it’s reached new heights of transcendental absurdity. Absurd on many levels. Absurd in that the t ...
  • 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 [...]

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 Stroke of a Pen
    Bob Dinneen wants Congress to extend ethanol tax credits with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."
  • The Palm Oil Conundrum
    Join the forum discussion on this post People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing field (i.e., they don’t require big subsidies or mandates in order to compete). ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part III
    Join the forum discussion on this post This is the concluding installment of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy). Part I discussed the overall goals of the Navy’s biofuel efforts, and in Part II we covered why coal-to-liquids (CTL) is presently off-l ...
  • 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.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Death by Detox? Chelation Products Are Dangerous, ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned eight companies that sell “chelation” products to stop making unsubstantiated claims about their products. The companies claim that their over-the-counter products or devices can cure a multitude of medical probl ...
  • Get Fit Now! Jump Into the 5 Hottest Fitness Trend ...
    Join Rodale.com tomorrow, Nov. 11, for our first Twitter party! RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Fitness fads come and go, with many of those Thighmasters and Nordictracks ultimately turning into permanent dust bunny collectors in your attic or garage. But the emerging fitness trends the American C ...
  • Don't Let Arthritis Wreck Your Sleep
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâEveryone occasionally has problems sleeping. But if you have arthritis, your insomnia may be more than a sometime event. In fact, new data shows youâre nearly three times more likely to have problems sleeping than someone without the condition. THE DETAILS: To investigate ...
  • Heritage Turkey Guide: Cook the Tastiest Bird Ever ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There are many compelling reasons to purchase and cook up a heritage breed turkey this Thanksgiving, but the one that just about everyone can agree on is taste. "This is what turkey's supposed to taste like," explains food writer and Rodale.com contributor Marian Bur ...
  • Salmonella Contamination Triggers Egg Recall...Aga ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA--Salmonella-tainted eggs from an industrial farming operation have set off another large-scale egg recall, less than three months after filthy conditions at two Iowa factory fa read more

big think

  • What Darwin Can Teach Us About Leadership
    "What are the fundamental roots of our behavior as human beings," asks Harvard Business School professor Paul Lawrence . This is a huge question to be sure, but Lawrence has a new theory that seeks to answer just that. Called Renewed Darwinian Theory, it draws from largely forgotten theories from th ...
  • Neuroeconomics: In Oxytocin We Trust
    The concept of trust is in many ways the connective tissue of society—governing everything from our personal relationships to our common use of currency. Most, if not all, of the decisions we make every day rely on one form or another of trust. But what if our capacity for faith is simply the result ...
  • The Physics Behind Ball Design
    Each sport is governed by different sets of rules, and those that use balls each have different specifications for their equipment. The baseball, basketball, golf ball and football are all essentially by-products of physics. Sports is big business, and hundreds of millions of dollars may hang in the ...
  • "Holiday Romances" for Female Sex Tourists
    Earlier this week we talked about whether or not a brothel for women would be profitable . In that post, I argued that it is men’s willingness to engage in sex with strangers—and love of variety in sexual partners—that fuels the world sex trade, while women’s preference for fewer sexual partners and ...
  • Out of the Ashes: Art Stolen by Nazis Rediscovered
    It’s a sad fact of human history that the leadership regime most obsessed with art belonged to that of the Nazis. From Adolf Hitler the frustrated painter to obsessive collectors such as Herman Goering and Joseph Goebbels (who knew enough to step aside when Hitler lusted after an object), the Nazi . ...

Information Liberation

  • Flight Attendants Outraged Over Intrusive Patdowns
    Despite a claim by the Transport Security Administration that its employees are not sexually assaulting passengers, a flight attendants union with 2,000 members has voiced its outrage over *invasive pat-downs* recently implemented by the TSA. *We*...
  • Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Cha ...
    The TSA chose Meg McLain for special screening. They wanted her to go through the new porno-scanners. When she opted out, TSA agents raised an enormous ruckus. When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA...
  • TSA Gives Rapists And Illegals The Green Light Whi ...
    While the TSA hires rapists to grope and fondle little girls, women, and the physically disabled in the name of security, it gives the green light to illegal aliens to fly planes and work at US airports, emphasizing once again that invasive *pat d...
  • TSA: No Fondling, Groping Or Squeezing Is Taking P ...
    Despite multiple reports of TSA agents groping, molesting and sexually assaulting passengers in a nationwide epidemic of abuse, a TSA.gov website claims that there are no instances of groping or even squeezing occurring at all, and that TSA agents...
  • Independence Criminalized: The Great Wall of Burea ...
    e Great Wall of Bureaucracy Comes to America If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
    It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nationa ...
    The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
    Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
    G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Prompt Global Strike and Nuclear Arms Control
    “Prompt global strike” refers to the possibility of destroying a target anywhere on Earth within minutes or hours using bombers, cruise missiles or ballistic missiles armed with conventional warheads. The prompt global strike mission and its various implications were examined in a new report (pdf) f ...
  • SALT and the Classic Era of Arms Control
    The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that led to the signing of the SALT I Treaty in 1972 were documented in exhaustive detail in the latest volume of the official State Department publication Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS). The new FRUS volume (pd ...
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices, and More from CRS
    “More and more prosecutions” under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may be expected, said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer last month. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is intended to prevent and punish bribery of foreign officials by U.S. firms.  “The executive branch appears to have in ...
  • A New Policy on Controlled Unclassified Info
    The White House today issued an executive order to establish a uniform policy for handling “controlled unclassified information” (CUI), which is information that is restricted from disclosure because it involves personal privacy, proprietary data, law enforcement investigations, or for certain other ...
  • Army Weapon Systems Handbook 2011
    The U.S. Army has published its 2011 Weapon Systems handbook, a catalog of current weapon programs that are in various phases of the acquisition process.  A copy was obtained by Secrecy News. Many of the programs are mature and familiar; others are less so.  In each case, the program’s purpose and ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Alcohol effects, giant testicles, pennycress diese ...
    An alcoholic FAQ – Aspirin and other drugs prevent the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (found in the stomach and liver) from breaking down alcohol, thus slowing the liver’s ability to metabolise alcohol and so it accumulates in your blood faster and has longer-lasting effects, which means you get drunk ...
  • Pandemic flu watch results
    Regular Sciencebase readers may recall that my family and I were recruited and took part in the participation in the 2009/2010 Flu Watch Project. During the whole period of the study we had just one cold or flu-like illness in the family, which was rather unusual for us. Personally, I almost reached ...
  • Airbus A380 engine failure
    A380 engine failure – Qantas flight 32 en route to Sydney, Australia, forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failure. Qantas has grounded all of its Airbus A380 “superjumobo” fleet as a result. There are 20 other A380s around the globe that have the same Rolls Royce engines as Qantas fl ...
  • It’s a bug’s life
    I briefly review Daniel Marlos’ latest book, Curious World of Bugs, in Six Sexy Science Books. But, I wanted to know more about the book and so offered Marlos a few questions on which he might wax lyrical. What makes bugs such a fascinating subject? Bugs make such a fascinating subject because they ...
  • Shrinking synchrotrons, stink bugs, odour vie
    Shrinking synchrotrons – Details of a tabletop synchrotron device has been revealed by an international team of scientists in the journal Nature Physics. The new device could revolutionise X-ray work and preclude the need for large-scale synchrotrons in many structural studies without compromising r ...

RFF Library

  • Alternative Powertrain Strategies and Fleet Turnov ...
    University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute / Bruce Belzowski and Walter McManus http://tinyurl.com/28aggaf [Abstract] The changes taking place in the global automotive industry related to alternative powertrains and fuels are affecting each country or region differently. Each country o ...
  • 2010 World Gasification Database
    Department of Energy http://tinyurl.com/23uxphx [From database website] The 2010 Worldwide Gasification Database [currently in Excel and Access files, with a forthcoming searchable web form] describes the current world gasification industry and identifies near-term planned capacity additions. The da ...
  • Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Advis ...
    United Nations http://tinyurl.com/23fqtoz [From Executive Summary] As concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to grow to ever more worrying levels, and adaptation becomes more and more challenging, action on climate change is urgent. Climate finance is key to that action, but w ...
  • The Power of Renewables: Opportunities and Challen ...
    National Academies Press / Committee on U.S.-China Cooperation on Electricity from Renewable Resources, National Research Council, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering http://download.nap.edu/cart/deliver.cgi?record_id=12987 [free PDF with registration] [Description] The Unite ...
  • Driving Forces of Global Wildfires Over the Past M ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v107 n45 p19167–19170 (November 9, 2010) / O. Pechony and D. T. Shindell http://www.pnas.org/content/107/45/19167.full.pdf+html [Abstract] Recent bursts in the incidence of large wildfires worldwide have raised concerns about the influence climate chan ...

Scientific American - News

  • Out to Launch?: "Mystery Missile" off California C ...
    When the crew of a KCBS television news helicopter caught sight of a growing, glowing streak in the evening sky off the southern California coast November 8, experts and amateurs alike began to wonder just what this "mystery missile" was. [More]
  • The Heat Was On: Atmospheric CO 2 Triggered a Glo ...
    Atmospheric CO 2 was the primary driver of a 400,000-year global warming event, known as the middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO), according to a new study. The finding, which could help climatologists better understand the precise relationship between CO 2 concentration and climate change today, ...
  • U.S. Jaguar Habitat Designation Delayed
    Jaguars , which once roamed much of the southern U.S. but are now endangered--if not extinct--here, were slated to get a new so-called critical habitat to encourage their repatriation. [More]
  • Architects Vie to Design the City of the Future--O ...
    BOSTON--The moon has long loomed large as the next logical site for human expansion, a frontier land still lightly explored but visible to all throughout human history. With the recent discovery of a significant volume of water on the lunar surface, the idea of the moon as a livable habitat has beco ...
  • California Cuts Carbon in Bid to Spur Clean Techno ...
    SAN FRANCISCO--Voters have turned back an effort to suspend California's efforts to tackle climate change, a wide-reaching program ranging from a cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gas emissions to energy efficiency standards for televisions. [More]

RAWA News

  • Any hope I had in the ballot box bringing change i ...
    The Guardian: One year ago Hamid Karzai was declared re-elected as president of Afghanistan, ending an election that had no legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Afghans. The presidential election last year was a fraud, with ballot stuffing, vote buying and massive corruption reported by the world’s me ...
  • New files reveal brutal role of British in Afghani ...
    Socialist Worker: The Ministry of Defence has released detailed reports of British troops’ actions in Afghanistan—and they reveal a lot about the crisis of the occupation. The reports were released in response to a Freedom of Information request made by the Guardian newspaper after Wikileaks reveale ...
  • The forgotten victims
    The Canadian Press: Essa Mohammad was tending to his family’s flock of sheep in Kandahar’s Arghandab district this summer when a sudden bang and flash of light knocked him unconscious. When the 12-year-old boy woke up several days later, he was missing his right leg, left arm and right eye — the tol ...
  • Army doctors see sharp rise in severe injuries fro ...
    The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence has nearly tripled the number of rehabilitation beds available for severely wounded soldiers from Afghanistan to accommodate a sharp rise in the number of soldiers who have lost one or more limbs in the conflict. The military's Headley Court rehabilitation centr ...
  • Australia’s helping hand to warlord condemne ...
    The Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA’S decision to train militiamen loyal to an Afghan warlord is senseless and harmful to the long term future of Afghanistan, experts say. The Herald revealed last week that six men loyal to Matiullah Khan, a tribal strongman who dominates parts of Oruzgan province, ...

frogblog

  • Alcohol Bill is a weak drink
    Sue Kedgley just delivered the Green Party’s first reading speech about the Alcohol Reform Bill (ARB). The final bill glosses over a lot of the essential recommendations from the Law Commission’s report. It fails to address the main causes of alcohol related harm: price, saturation ...
  • Just when you thought girls could do anything
    The front page of today’s Dominion Post carries the story of a Newlands college pupil who was told she âlooked like a slutâ for wearing her school skirt short by her school dean. The verbal apology that was given notwithstanding, this incident is very disturbing. As a former girl wh ...
  • No Minister, it’s not getting better for wom ...
    On Tuesday I asked the Minister of Women’s Affairs whether she was happy with the progress towards her goals of getting more women into leadership positions and closing the gender pay gap. She had to dance around a bit because no one could be happy with the evidence as presented in ...
  • General debate, November 11, 2010
    A friendly reminder to our regular commenters to log in before commenting. It gets a bit tiresome having to clear lots of good comments in the moderation queue, and surely you like them to appear when you post them rather than when I get around to clearing them.
  • ‘Rethinking’ – solutions to mass imprisonmen ...
    Last night I spent Parliament’s dinner break at the launch of a new website, an initiative of the Robson Hanan Trust led by Kim Workman. To quote from the introduction on the site: âRethinking Crime and Punishmentâ is a strategic initiative to increase public debate about the use o ...

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

  • Missile Control Hysteria
    I suspect that 67 votes just aren't there to approve the New START strategic arms treaty no matter when it comes up for a vote, so in a way the arguments pro and con don't matter very much. Still, the sheer level of shriekiness and hysteria that conservative opponents are mounting is remarkable even ...
  • Troops OK With Gay Troops
    This is unsurprising, but still welcome news: A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to two people familiar with a draft of the report, which is ...
  • Is the Deficit Commission Serious?
    I've been trying to figure out whether I have anything to say about the "chairman's mark" of the deficit commission report that was released today. In a sense, I don't. This is not a piece of legislation, after all. Or a proposed piece of legislation. Or even a report from the deficit commission its ...
  • Is In-Flight WiFi in Danger?
    I think Bruce Schneier might be overreacting here: Okay, now the terrorists have really affected me personally: they're forcing us to turn off airplane Wi-Fi. No, it's not that the Yemeni package bombs had a Wi-Fi triggering mechanism — they seem to have had a cell phone triggering mechanism, dubio ...
  • DADT on the Chopping Block?
    Adam Serwer reads the Wall Street Journal today and finds a story saying that Senate Democrats are planning to jettison repeal of DADT�from this year's Pentagon funding bill: Look, if Democrats can't repeal a policy more than two thirds of the American people, including a majority of conservatives ...

Insanity Report

  • #FreeKeith…Cause Suspended Rich Guys Need Our Supp ...
    So Keith Olberman survived the world’s shortest suspension and will be back hosting Countdown on Tuesday.  With all apologies to MSNBC’s attempt at “see we  aren’t like Fox News” this whole incident has proven to me once more that Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same problem.  Let’s take the ...
  • How The Fuck Does Bill Maher Get Away With This Sh ...
    I’ll be honest.  When the whole Juan Williams/NPR Fiasco went down, I didn’t call Juan a bigot.  I didn’t cry for him being fired because, well, he had no business being on NPR to begin with.  But I wasn’t going to call the man a bigot solely because he had the backbone to admit a [...]
  • IC 208: Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Bush People
    Topics for the show: Woman in West Virginia utters words you never thought would be in a Police Report The NFL and bad coaching Mike Shanahan makes a good excuse for why parents should beat their kids Weezy’s free The McRib is back San Fran bans the Happy Meal The Midterm Elections Kanye West vs [.. ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: San Francisco Bans Happy Me ...
    I know, it’s the day after the election and you’re probably expecting me to have a “FacePalm of the Week” for all the idiots (yes idiots), proud they didn’t vote.  Well, I’m here to surprise you.  No those people don’t get a facepalm.  No those people get something else from me:  A Kriss ‘Fuck You’. ...
  • In Terms of Noise…MSNBC = Fox News
    So at the Rally yesterday, during one of the segments Jon Stewart played a montage of ridiculous over the top rhetoric from both sides (Left & Right) of the mainstream media.  No one around me in the rally at the time seemed to have any problem.  Most actuallylaughed.  But apparently some Liberals d ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate change shifts organisms in space and time
    Duke University's Bill Morris finds the hills are alive with moving plants, and warns that climate change impacts could mean species that have worked together in the past will move out of sync.
  • Prehistoric CO2 double-up gives warming data
    Measurements from a global warming episode 40 million years ago show that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere increased sea surface temperatures between 2 and 5ºC, Dutch and British scientists find.
  • Extracting urine in the name of climate research
    50,000-year old animal toilets are in fact sensitive measures of prehistoric climate, says Brian Chase, from the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, France.
  • Arctic warming full ahead
    With both the Northeast and Northwest Passages opening to shipping this year, as the Arctic climate continues to change rapidly, ships actually using them could make matters worse.
  • “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.

e!Science News

  • Mutations in single gene predict poor outcomes in ...
    Decoding the DNA of a woman who died of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has led researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to a gene that they found to be commonly altered in many patients who died quickly of the disease. read more
  • Tetris flashback reduction effect 'not common to a ...
    The computer game Tetris may have a special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images not shared by other types of computer game, Oxford University scientists have discovered in a series of experiments. read more
  • Circuit regulating anti-diabetic actions of seroto ...
    New findings by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center suggest that serotonin – a brain chemical known to help regulate emotion, mood and sleep – might also have anti-diabetic properties. read more
  • JDRF clinical panel recommends next steps for arti ...
    Diabetes experts at a meeting convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) took the next step in advancing efforts toward the development of an artificial pancreas: putting forth clinical recommendations to ensure the safe and effective testing ...
  • Win some, lose some: U-M expert provides reapporti ...
    Before the U.S. Census Bureau releases its official state-level population counts to Congress on Dec. 31, a University of Michigan demographer offers projections of likely state winners and losers. read more

unEarthed

  • Dispersants Made Gulf Oil Much More Contaminating
    And here's yet another clue to the question of what happened to all that oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown well. A Canadian toxicologist reports that dispersants did break up the oil and make it less visible—b ...
  • Deformed Bird Beaks and Rebounded Toads
    Amargosa toad What the heck are we doing to our animals? I read a startling piece on birds afflicted with “long-billed syndrome” – abnormally long beaks which inhibits preening and eating in some dire cases. Many of these bir ...
  • Greed? Not Why BP's Oil Well Blew in Gulf of Mexic ...
    Headlines around the world today blared out this conclusion by President Obama's commission investigating the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:�it wasn't caused by greed. So, we are to believe that BP, Halliburton and others ...
  • Climate Change Crazy Talker May Win House Environm ...
    Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill) Elections matter. �And here's one we reason we know that. �Rep. Henry Waxman today is the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. �He's the Waxman of "Waxman-Markey," the House bill that at ...
  • Clean Air Act's Benefits Cannot Be Ignored
    Clean air just isn't as popular as it should be. Though reducing air pollution saves lives and money, some lawmakers seem hell-bent on denying these benefits to the American public. They seem to believe that nothing should hinde ...

Brave New Climate

  • CO2 rising – the science of global warming
    Below are two climate change book reviews by me; I hope you find them as interesting as I did. I’ve provided an Amazon link to one and a Book Depository link to another — because I’m not out to promote any particular online bookstore (although I tend to find the latter cheapest, and as to [...]
  • Electricity costs exhibits
    I note that there has been some interesting discussion here on costs of electricity, especial the comparative value of fossil fuels versus nuclear (and renewables). This is a point I will revisit from a number of perspectives over the next few months, because I agree with commenters like Arthur Dent ...
  • Two nuclear-solar dialogues in Melbourne next week
    Back in September, I visited UNSW in Sydney and debated Mark Diesendorf on nuclear and solar power. It was a useful night, with quite a few Sydney-based BNC readers attending. I was pleased with the outcome — I just hope the audio becomes available at some point. Now this “Brain Food” event comes to ...
  • Of brains, biceps and baloney
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s recent book Storms of my Grandchildren makes accessible the evidence behind the judgement of m ...
  • 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 [...]

Indigenist Opinion

  • Palestine: Roadmap to Peace?
    Palestine: Roadmap to Peace? : "For decades we have heard almost everyone talk about peace in the Holy Land. What is certain is that no one needs peace more than the Palestinian people. Since before 1948, the Palestinian people have been living under the threat of wars and massacres, under occupa ...
  • A War to Remember—but How?
    A War to Remember—but How? - Capital Comment Blog (washingtonian.com) Obama already knows the sort of controversy that can flare up. Over the protest of academics, he has continued the tradition of sending a Memorial Day wreath to the Confederate Monument at Arlington Cemetery. His response to co ...
  • How Obama should remember the Confederacy as the 1 ...
    Arlington Confederate Monument Report : "The title is 'A War to Remember - but How?: How Obama should remember the Confederacy as the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches' and is by Cragg Hines. From the article: The President may need all the historical understanding he can muster as the ...
  • The Destruction of the African Male in America is ...
    Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected - NYTimes.com But a new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture is even bleaker than generally known. Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, a ...
  • Have Some in Germany Forgotten the Holocaust?
    Have Some in Germany Forgotten the Holocaust? [politicsdaily.com] LONDON -- "I'm Hitler-ed out," my 6-year-old daughter declared. We were standing in the German Historical Museum in Berlin during a recent family holiday, strolling through an exhibit titled "Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime." ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • The Teabaggers Will Be Let Down In 3, 2, 1…
    Imagine. People so stupid that they thought the corporate controlled frauds they voted for would do anything but hand out more corporate welfare goodies….. Amazing.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Dear America, Your Taxes Are Going Up 20%, Food an ...
    We are now creating short videos to break issues down in an easily understood manner. The goal is to have a video that family and friends can watch which explains our crisis and hopefully inspires passive people into action. In this first video, David DeGraw discusses the Federal Reserve's latest ...
  • Midterm Election Further Demonstrates Need for Rev ...
    Yes, I sound extreme, but these are extreme times. Most Americans have only a vague understanding of the collapse that we have been set up for. I’m not going to sit quietly as our future is ripped out from under us. I see the path we are on and I intend to change it!
  • ‘Road Through 2012′ Book Release Moved ...
    I've had two very powerful interests threaten to sue me over the release of my new book. To make matters even worse, a third interest is going to lengths to make my life as difficult as possible...
  • 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 ...

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  • Nov 10: Clash with Obama over East Jerusalem const ...
    The Daily Media Roundup: Jerusalem is testing Obama after the midterms; Kadima strongman is out of the Knesset – for now The Headlines: Fool me Twice, Obama? > Obama to Netanyahu: Construction in East Jerusalem hurts the peace process. Netanyahu: oh, no it doesn’t. US: it does to! As usual, for thi ...
  • Does Israel’s cultural life offer hope for i ...
    Over at the Project Democracy blog, which I am writing for ACRI’s democracy initiative, I responded to a post Mati Shemeolof wrote last week for +972 Magazine. Shemeolof describes his fellow bloggers’ gloom regarding the future of Israel’s democracy by putting forward the theory that the situation ...
  • Israeli Police: violent, trigger-happy and politic ...
    By Eyal Clyne | Translation: Dana Shunra This week, a policeman shot and killed a suspect. The deceased was suspected of harassment, of resisting arrest and of simply being too obsessive. There are those who also say he was suspected of an attempted vehicular assault, and he discovered that these we ...
  • Watch: Jewish protest against Netanyahu at New Orl ...
    In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the best video of the Jewish Voices for Peace protest during PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the Jewish General Assembly in New Orleans. This act got considerable media coverage in Israel. My favorite part is when the bearded guy hysterically tears up one o ...
  • Nov 9: US displeased with plans for settlement con ...
    The Headlines: East Jerusalem Becomes More Palestinian AND More Jewish > The US is furious (Yedioth) or enraged (Ma’ariv) or disappointed (Ha’aretz, Yisrael Hayom) with the intent to construct 1,300 housing units in East Jerusalem settlements. Ma’ariv is shocked [Heb] that Palestinians in that part ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • National Press on the Newest Robo Signer Controver ...
    Excellent piece of advocacy from The Forrest Law Firm, a new heavyweight in the Fraudclosure Fight. View Article Here Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Foreclosure Complaints Must Be Verified- Without Q ...
    Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.110 (a) Forms of Pleadings. Forms of action and technical forms for seeking relief and of pleas, pleadings, or motions are abolished. (b) Claims for Relief. ….. When filing an action for foreclosure of a mortgage on residential real property the complaint shall be ...
  • FASCINATING READ- DEPOSITION OF FORECLOSURE MILL A ...
    The superstars at Ice Legal have done it again with a fascinating deposition of the managing attorney of a foreclosure mill.  Forget about a Grisham novel, forget about the Wall Street Journal, if you really want to know what’s going on behind the scenes at the foreclosure mills.  If you really wa ...
  • Wall Street Journal- Local Judge Orders Examinatio ...
    I’ve been screaming and now the world is catching on.  Examine the fees alleged for Service of Process in all foreclosure cases.  In the case I’m arguing today, how does the firm justify charging $475.00 for serving two summons?  I would only expect the fee to be around $250 max.  But then who r ...
  • Where Did Florida Find $9.6 Million to Fund The Fr ...
    As we all know, these are desperate economic times.  The state is laying off teachers, cops, firefighters, budgets across the state are slashed.  Yet right in the middle of all of this cuttin’ and firin’, viola’ like Santa on Christmas morning up pops $9.6 million dollars to fund the absurd Fraudc ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizens’ Vimy Ridge
    Today is Pat Stogran’s last day. To officials at Veteran Affairs Canada the ombudsman was a thorn in the side that just wouldn’t quit agitating. To veterans themselves, and their supporters, he was a true, bona fide hero, taking on a system that seemed insensitive and incapable of adapting to the ne ...
  • Duet For Child Soldiers
    This is a little embarrassing, but bear with me. Romeo Dallaire was kind enough to come to London on Sunday evening November 7th to speak at a fundraiser for our NGO – Canadian Aid For Southern Sudan. We’ve been employing former child soldiers in south Sudan to assist us with the building of school ...
  • The Lobby and the House
    Here’s something of a private tour of the opposition lobby in Parliament and a tour of the chamber of the House of Commons itself.  You’ll see Conservative Michael Chong in it briefly, whose bill I’m seconding to improve the decorum in Question Period. And you’ll get a close-up of the Speaker’s cha ...
  • Hitting A Wall
    True economic conservatives have been all tied up in knots over the decision to deny BHP’s bid for Potash Corp. Free markets are a staple of conservative policy and it was believed that the federal government would refuse to stand in the way of the purchase. The fact it didn’t happen has prompted a ...
  • On Politics As Entertainment
    Like many of you, I take a tour though media stories before heading off to work in the morning. One of my favourite reads has always been the Globe and Mail’s entertainment writer John Doyle. I don’t watch TV much, but his comments are frequently cheeky, insightful and just a plain good read. But in ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
  • 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 ...

2020 Science

  • Nanotechnology prominent in percieved 21st century ...
    This image from the first US National Science and Engineering Festival attracted my attention this morning: It’s a wordle constructed from responses to the question “What will be the greatest discoveries and advancements science and engineering will bring us in the 21st century?” What grabbed my att ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the Singu ...
    You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity University wa ...
  • Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provide a ...
    This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceedings of ...

Reader Supported News

  • Nearly 59 Million Lack Health Insurance: CDC
    The report begins: "Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday." Americans without healthcare coverage line up in Wise County, Virgina, for a ...
  • $65 Million Spent on Election Ads Targeting Nancy ...
    The report begins: "The GOP, its candidates and related groups spent a whopping $65 million on ads against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the 2010 election cycle - the most money spent targeting a congressional leader in 14 years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid at the White ...
  • Obama's Speech to the Muslim World Calls for a New ...
    "In Jakarta, the president admits relations have frayed and praises Indonesia for its tolerance to all communities." President Obama and the First Lady in Jakarta with President Yudhoyono, 11/09/10. (photo: Pete Souza/White House) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Expanding the Definition of Conscientious Objectio ...
    "'For many of us, it is a religious freedom issue,' said Rita N. Brock, one of the main organizers of the commission. 'The only religious conscience protected now is for pacifists. But the majority of people are not pacifists. I'm not a pacifist. We have a relative view of when violence is appropria ...
  • Nearly 59 Million Lack Health Insurance: CDC
    The report begins: "Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday." Americans without healthcare coverage line up in Wise County, Virgina, for a ...

War Resisters League

  • IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
    Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
  • Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
    Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
  • International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
    Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...
  • March for Justice on October 2!
    What: One Nation Working Together Who: A broad-based national coalition of labor, racial and economic justice groups, community organizations, and antiwar organizations. Where: Washington D.C. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial When: Saturday, October 2 Dear fellow War Resisters, As the U.S. expen ...
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G20 gov'ts urged to support private sector in renewable technologies
Xinhua
- Nov 11, 2010
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But the renewable technologies face cost and competitiveness challenges, said the participants at a round-table session of the G20 Business Summit, ...
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Minn. farms get federal money for energy upgrades
BusinessWeek
- Nov 10, 2010
- 11 hours ago
... the US Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America Program, which seeks to reduce energy costs and develop new sources of renewable energy. ...
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Lee, Merkel pledge cooperation in renewable energy, science technology
Yonhap News
- Nov 11, 2010
- 1 hour ago
11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Thursday to step up cooperation in the renewable energy and ...
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Crosswind Renewable Energy Corp. and ECO World USA Enter Into Exclusive Sales ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Nov 10, 2010
- 14 hours ago
This Partnership adds to Crosswind Renewable Energy Corp's portfolio for the growing LED global markets with exclusive distribution rights for the Bahamas, ...
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Research shows similarities between marine and terrestrial predators
Sify
- Nov 11, 2010
- 1 hour ago
But through what's been called the "ecology of fear" they also affect the behavior of the prey, with ripple impacts on other aspects of the ecosystem and an ...
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Azerbaijani Ecology Ministry monitors Oguz and Ismayilli regions' forests
Trend News Agency
- Nov 11, 2010
- 2 hours ago
The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry is monitoring the Azerbaijani Oguz and Ismayilli regions' forests to prevent illegal felling of trees, ...
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Protest of wind farm leads to arrests in Maine
BusinessWeek
- Nov 08, 2010
- Nov 08, 2010
Jonathan Carter from the Maine Forest Ecology Network told The Associated Press he witnessed four arrests, including an 82-year-old man who's a member of ...
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Ecologists get fisheye view of sexual signals
Planet Earth
- Nov 10, 2010
- Nov 10, 2010
The research will help ecologists get a better understanding of why carotenoid-based signals evolved in the first place and provide insights into why males ...
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Calif farmers plan $11.7M water sale to SoCal
San Jose Mercury News
- Nov 10, 2010
- 11 hours ago
Two farmers in central California's parched western valley are proposing to sell much of the irrigation water they get from the state to urban developers in ...
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Nalco Co-Sponsors United Nations Conference Focusing on Critical Water Issues
MarketWatch (press release)
- Nov 10, 2010
- 5 hours ago
15-17 for the CEO Water Mandate's sixth working conference. The event will focus on three areas: Water Policy Engagement, Water and Human Rights and Water ...
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LRM Industries and Water Safety Products Launch ValuStair(TM)
PR Newswire (press release)
- Nov 11, 2010
- 31 minutes ago
Water Safety Products, Inc. and LRM partnered in the development of this innovative new green building product, which will be marketed exclusively by Water ...
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Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant restarting after radioactive water leak is ...
ABC News
- Nov 09, 2010
- Nov 09, 2010
The plant was shut down Sunday after a leak of radioactive water was spotted during routine surveillance. Technicians found the leak was coming from a ...
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