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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, November 11, 2010

11 November - RSS SnapShot Pt 2

RSS Feed Results from Opit's LinkFest! at  My Opera

Blacklisted News

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 'Bibi can take US into war with Iran'
    Summary: Michael Scheuer A former CIA member says the Israeli premier can take US into war with Iran but Washington is not prepared for such a confrontation. source: Press TV read more
  • Let's Attack Iran!
    Summary: The United States is today an edgy, unhappy country, sliding toward poverty, increasingly dictatorial, inchoately angry, hostile to blacks, the French, Mexicans, Moslems and, creepingly, the Chinese. (Jews, perhaps to their surprise, don’t make the enemies list.) Americans don’t do cosm ...
  • CAN THE UNITED STATES SAVE ITSELF IN THE MIDDLE EA ...
    Summary: Last month, the New America Foundation and the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) sponsored a conference in Washington, entitled “Cutting the Fuse, Moving Beyond the War on Terror”. The conference was sparked by the publication of a new book by CPOST’s di ...
  • Iran offers dates for multilateral talks in Turkey
    Summary: Meeting would be first encounter in over a year, during which time Iran's relations with west have remained frozen source: The Guardian, UK read more
  • Turkey against Nato missile shield targeting Iran
    Summary: “Nato is a defence organisation. A defence system is being developed against anyone in the world who has ballistic missiles and does not belong to Nato,” Gul said. “Mentioning one country, Iran… is wrong and will not happen. A particular country will not be targeted…We will definitely n ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Daily Debate: Loren Eiseley on Extraterrestria ...
    “Life may exist in yonder dark, but it will not wear the shape of man” Loren Eiseley -American evolutionary biologist and author of The Immense Journey. What do you think?
  • The Daily Debate: "The universe does not exist 'ou ...
    "No phenomenon is a physical phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers....
  • Sci/Space/Tech Enthusiasts: Earn $5 Today for Join ...
    Earn a $5 sign-up bonus and a chance to win an iPad! Join an influential group of Business Decision Makers/Influencers, IT Professionals, Tech Enthusiasts and Gamers shaping the future of technology. Earn cash for every survey you take, drive the...
  • Massive Mystery Objects Millions of Years Old Disc ...
    NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way that spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. The...
  • Microquasar Discovered Hidden Within Massive Galax ...
    NGC 7793 is one of the brightest galaxies within the Sculptor Group, a group of galaxies in the constellation of the same name. A black hole in outer spiral about the size of our sun in the outer spiral of...

Natural News

  • Kelp noodles for weight loss? These noodles have j ...
    (NaturalNews) I love to eat noodles, but I don't like all the carbs that go along with them. They're starchy, loaded with calories, and they really pack on the body fat if you eat too many. That's why I got really excited about what I'm about to share with you here: Kelp noodles are made from seawee ...
  • Thousands of Indonesian children and babies are ch ...
    (NaturalNews) Aldi Rizal was just 11 months old when he smoked his first cigarette, and by the time he turned two years old, the Indonesian baby boy was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day. And there are thousands of other chain-smoking babies and children across the South Asian country just like ...
  • State considers banning sweets at school parties
    (NaturalNews) Birthday celebrations for schoolchildren that involve cupcakes, brownies, and other sweet treats could soon be a thing of the past in Pennsylvania. If the state's board of education has its way, public schools will be limited to holing only one classroom birthday party a month, with ea ...
  • Health Ranger talks about food, disease and diabet ...
    (NaturalNews) The Raw for 30 team has just released its fourth video, an interview with the Health Ranger (yours truly) about diabetes and nutrition . In this video, I talk about why type-2 diabetes is not a "invasive" disease but rather a reversible metabolic condition that can be healed quickly us ...
  • Common painkiller drugs lead to male infertility
    (NaturalNews) Phthalates, bisphenol-A (BPA), and other environmental toxins are now widely known to disrupt proper hormone function in humans, but a new study has revealed that common painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen are far worse. According to scientists from Denmark, Finland, and France, pre ...

Threat Level

  • V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State ...
    An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students. The nearly fo ...
  • Friend of Accused WikiLeaks Source Detained at Bor ...
    Federal agents briefly detained and questioned an MIT researcher and friend of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning as he reentered the country from a vacation in Mexico last week. David Maurice House, 23, was met by U.S. customs agents as he deplaned at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport last Wednesday, ...
  • Citing iPhone Ruling, Xbox Defendant Says Mod Chip ...
    Legal jockeying in the upcoming criminal trial of a Southern California man accused of modding Xbox 360 consoles heated up Tuesday when defense attorneys urged a judge to allow a fair-use defense, arguing that installing a mod chip in a game machine is no different than jailbreaking an iPhone. Matt ...
  • Computer Virus Leads to $20 Million Scam Targeting ...
    A noted classical pianist, composer and Latin music producer found himself drawn into an elaborate years-long extortion scheme that cost him between $6 and $20 million after he brought his laptop into a computer repairman to help rid it of a virus. The alleged fraudsters, a computer repairman and h ...
  • ‘Y2K Pimp’ Gets 12 Years for Recruiting Minor on M ...
    A self-described pimp who recruited a 16-year-old girl on MySpace then rented her out as a prostitute through escort websites was sentenced Monday to 12½ years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Marvin Chavelle Epps, 24, came to law enforcement’s attention in 2008 when a federal vice task for ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Wages War on 59 Million Uninsured
    Emboldened by their midterm victories, the GOP and its amen corner have stepped up their war against the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the multistate lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. In Texas , Repub ...
  • Bush: No WMDs in Iraq Sickening - and Funny
    Pushing his new memoir in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer which aired Monday, George W. Bush addressed one of the defining episodes of his presidency. Finding no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Bush claimed, left him feeling "sickened." But in 2004, as you may recall, President Bush found ...
  • Republicans Throw Stones at Glass Debt Ceiling
    "Reagan proved," Vice President Dick Cheney famously said in 2002, "deficits don't matter." Not, that is, when a Republican is sitting in the White House. After all, Republicans were silent as the national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under George W. Bush. As it turns out, t ...
  • George W. Bush, Unrepentant War Criminal
    The only thing worse than a war criminal is an unrepentant one. Sadly, that's the self-portrait George W. Bush will present this week with the release of his new memoir, Decision Points . As his new book apparently makes quite clear, Bush has no regrets about his regime of detainee torture that br ...
  • Cowardly Republicans Now Hiding Behind Deficit Com ...
    This week, Republicans swept to power by promising to cut, in the words of Indiana's Mike Pence, " runaway federal spending ." But when it comes to putting taxpayers' money where their mouths are, Pence, incoming Speaker John Boehner, future Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Michele Bachmann and much of ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Weak Left Led to Democratic Defeat
    The American Left's lack of messaging to average Americans set the stage for the Republican comeback, says Lawrence Davidson. November 6, 2010
  • Can Dems Reenergize the Youth Vote?
    The youth vote, which helped elect President Obama, was demoralized by Democratic spinelessness, observes William John Cox. November 6, 2010
  • Zenyatta Races for History
    The six-year-old mare Zenyatta puts her historic 19-race winning streak on the line in the Breeder's Cup, notes Lisa Pease. November 6, 2010
  • Taking America Back to the Gilded Age
    Republicans wax nostalgic about the economics of the early 20th Century, but William Loren Katz recalls that harsh reality. November 5, 2010
  • America, Losing Hearts and Minds
    The long US war in Afghanistan is devolving into a death-squad campaign against ill-definded Bad Guys, warns Jada Thacker. November 5, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • STP Nuclear Plant (Units 1 & 2) up for renewal
    NRC ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT The 22 year old South Texas Project (STP) Units 1 and 2 are up for renewal and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced today that an application for a 20-year renewal of the operating licenses i ...
  • Delay’s trials and tribulations move forward
    A jury for Tom DeLay‘s money laundering trial was selected quickly last week, but only after the prosecution challenged whether the defense was striking African American jurors without good cause. The defense cut five African Americans from the jury because, in several instances, he said the would-b ...
  • P2080110 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Perry’s deputy budget chief named new PUC executiv ...
    The Public Utility Commission (PUC) has named one of Gov. Rick Perryâs chief energy advisers to take over as executive director of the agency that oversees the much of the electric industry in the state as well as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Brian Lloyd, spent 10 years at PUC before ...
  • The Story of Electronics online film release comin ...
    A new online film, the “Story of Electronics”, will be released on Tues, November 9. This is the newest in the series of the excellent, user-friendly Story of Stuff web-films about excessive consumerism and waste. The Story of Electronics  tells the story of how electronics are really “designed for ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • North of England emerges as UFO hotspot
    An increaese in the number of UFO sightings in North of England have dubbed the area a UFO hotspot. Ex-MoD UFO expert Nick Pope stated "at the moment ...
  • Can you really be scared to death?
    Everyone experiences a good scare now and again but is it really possible to be scared to death ? The answer is yes it can, however such an outcome is...
  • US military baffled by mystery missile
    A mysterious missile off the coast of California has US military officials scratching their heads. The missile was described as "pretty big" and is he...
  • LHC generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
    The Large Hadron Collider has succeeded in creating a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing lead ions together. During the experiment scientists created tempera...
  • The Bionic Man: 'we have the technology'
    From eye implants to prosthetic limbs we are coming ever closer to a real life bionic man. Scientists are devising more and more sophisticated artific...

Grassroots

  • Indigenous Youth Find Opportunity at Home
    pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Launches in New Orlea ...
    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...

Climate

  • Oil Industry Sues EPA for Violating Clean Air Act
    Source:� The Hill The American Petroleum Institute and nine other groups are arguing that EPA�s approval of E15 � 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol � violates the Clean Air Act.
  • EPA completes greenhouse gas reporting rule for oi ...
    Source:� The Hill EPA has completed final rules that require oil and natural-gas companies to measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions. The rules do not require reductions but will provide key data.
  • China's Energy Explosion: 75% Growth by 2035
    Source:� NYT Green Chinese soaring energy demand will be the single biggest force in spurring higher carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change, according to the International Energy Agency.
  • EU advises China on cap and trade
    Source:� Carbon Positive The European Union is advising Beijing on a trial of emissions trading in China to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  • GE Ploughs $2bn into China's Clean Tech Push
    Source:� BusinessGreen General Electric will invest more than $2bn in China through 2012 and make major investments in grid technology and rail infrastructure� ��

GreenBiz

  • Ameresco, JCI Help Schools with Sweeping Energy-Sa ...
    Energy efficiency companies are stepping their work to make schools greener with Johnson Controls Inc. and Ameresco� Inc. providing the latest examples of far-reaching projects that will help schools conserve energy and cut utility costs.
  • EPA Offers States GHG Guidance for Regulating Big ...
    The guidance is designed to help states identify cost-effective ways of reducing and minimizing emissions at new or upgraded carbon-intensive facilities seeking air permits, such as power plants, cement kilns and refineries.The day before, the egency finalized greenhouse gas reporting requirement ...
  • How Water Reuse Makes Good Sense
    The world is on a path to widespread water scarcity, with global business unfortunately leading the way. But there are ways to reverse the trend, and economic and environmental benefits for companies that take the plunge.
  • A Look Inside Facebook's Green Announcements
    From faster, more energy efficient coding to greening their data centers, as well as bourgeoning green projects on campus, Facebook is finally pulling back the veil on how it's reducing its environmental impacts.
  • Colgate's Wisp: Two Steps Backward
    Colgate touts its single-use, non-recyclable Wisp mini-toothbrushes just a few webpages away from from talking about its respect for the planet.

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Thoughts on the Political Landscape
    The great debate among idealist and pragmatic progressives has been roiling for two years now. And the idealists are about to get grumpier than ever, because the election results have created a new arithmetic that will also bring a new logic tree. It's a familiar fork in the road. It's the same o ...
  • Family Values
    This is the party of family values : Embattled Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) surprised many when he started gearing up for a 2012 re-election bid , amidst his sex-and-lobbying scandal . But according to a newly released PPP poll (D) , Nevada's junior senator remains popular among Republicans and is wel ...
  • Bad Day
    I had fun today. I woke for the third straight day with the feeling that I'd been sleeping with my teeth clenched all night. But, today, I found the source of the pain. My left six-year molar had caved-in in an area hard to reach by toothbrush. This then led to a gum infection. This was not th ...
  • Wankers of the Day
    Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. Oh and Senator Durbin , any proposal that would lower the taxes on the richest Americans, real or "fictional" (highest income rate to 23% from 35% now, and the corporate tax rate to 26% from 35%) while cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, raising the el ...
  • The Country Has Gone Crazy
    The weird thing is that the twelve percenters won the election resoundingly. Voters last week sent Washington a strong message about fixing the federal budget, according to exclusive numbers from a new poll obtained by TPM: Raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the military budget before you touch t ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Why I Love the Eleventh Step
    By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The Eleventh Step: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for k ...
  • Not All Holiday Dishes are “Feel-Good” Foods
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many of the fall and winter holidays are associated with feast-like meals and generous sweets. While joyous for many, the next few months can also be stressful for people who struggle with compulsive over-eating. The emotions tied to the holidays can make this even ha ...
  • Free Mental Health Web Conferences for the Public
    A GoodTherapy.org Announcement GoodTherapy.org is excited to announce a new resource for members of the public interested in learning more about psychology and transforming the obstacles in their lives to achieve optimum health and happiness. We have recently launched our new Public Web Conference s ...
  • Preventing Suicide by Providing Information, Resou ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline To combat suicide nationwide, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently awarded a $22.4 million grant to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), which provides “state-of-the-art suicide prevention expertise to states, ...
  • Addressing the Psychological Impact of Chronic, No ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Chronic medical conditions come with a wide range of adjustments, ranging  from the physical and practical to the social and emotional. Certainly those that are life-threatening bring a great amount of psychological consequence. But those that are not life-threatening ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Local Bluegrass and Contra Dancing Lessons (tonigh ...
    Local Bluegrass and Contra Dancing Lessons (tonight) to Bring Awareness to ... Buffalo Rising By Rebecca Garofano & Ryan Weberling: Mountaintop removal is a method of coal mining used in Appalachia since the 1970s. As an extension of conventional ... Raleigh activist wins $50000 for fight against m ...
  • Virtual Mine: environment education at its best - ...
    The Metaverse Journal Virtual Mine: environment education at its best The Metaverse Journal ... game, and educational curriculum for teachers, students, and anyone who'd like to learn more about mountain top removal , coal fired power production, ...
  • Bankrolling of Mountaintop Removal Mining Continue ...
    kypost.com Bankrolling of Mountaintop Removal Mining Continues Triple Pundit Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) has been growing emerging trend within the coal mining industry. ... PNC Bank Will No Longer Fund Mountain Top Removal Think Progress PNC to stop financing mountaintop coal mining Philadelp ...
  • Bank to stop financingmountaintop coal mining - is ...
    Bank to stop financingmountaintop coal mining istockAnalyst.com (press release) Bank of America and Wells Fargo also have said they would limit their relationships with mining companies that use mountaintop removal .
  • Film at Work month - Weekly Volcano (blog)
    Film at Work month Weekly Volcano (blog) The mountaintop-removal mining documentary "Deep Down" screens at 6 pm Thursday, Nov. 18 inside the Washington State ...

Memeorandum

  • Sources: Pentagon group finds there is minimal ris ...
    Washington Post : Sources: Pentagon group finds there is minimal risk to lifting gay ban during war   —  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 t ...
  • Michele Bachmann drops out of leadership race (Jak ...
    Jake Sherman / The Politico : Michele Bachmann drops out of leadership race   —  Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann dropped out of the race for House Republican Conference chair on Wednesday night, ending a quixotic bid for leadership that many saw as the first real test of the tea party against the ...
  • The Reign of Right-Wing Primetime (James Hibberd/H ...
    James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter : The Reign of Right-Wing Primetime … I'll name a hit TV show, and you guess if it's more popular among Republicans or Democrats.  —  First, NCIS — investigating military crimes on CBS.  Safe bet conservatives love it, right?  —  How about ABC's Desperate Housewi ...
  • Mea Culpa: I Put Keith Olbermann on National TV (P ...
    Pat Sajak / Ricochet.com : Mea Culpa: I Put Keith Olbermann on National TV   —  This YouTube video reminded me that I was the person who introduced Keith Olbermann to America.  —  Keith was a sportscaster at the local CBS affiliate in Los Angeles at the same time I was doing a talk show for that n ...
  • Write-in counting begins (Alaska_Politics/Anchorag ...
    Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News : Write-in counting begins   —  Counting ballots in Juneau today.  —  There have been questions from the ballot observers about the criteria Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai is using to rule on the Miller campaign challenges of Murkowski ballots.  ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Molucca Sea
    Thursday, November 11, 2010 03:34:02 UTC Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:34:02 AM at epicenter Depth : 14.10 km (8.76 mi)
  • M 5.0, Samoa Islands region
    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 17:36:08 UTC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 05:36:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.3, Samoa Islands region
    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 13:05:07 UTC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 01:05:07 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.2, Java, Indonesia
    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:38:59 UTC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 07:38:59 PM at epicenter Depth : 69.70 km (43.31 mi)
  • M 5.1, Kepulauan Mentawai region, Indonesia
    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 11:16:50 UTC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 06:16:50 PM at epicenter Depth : 45.10 km (28.02 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Embracing urban evolution
    China risks building a generation of rigid cities, unfit for the demands of a changing society, writes Adrian Hornsby. But there is an alternative approach – as an exercise this summer demonstrated. The design of cities takes place in a curious middle ground between invention and evolution. They are ...
  • China’s transformation paradox
    In order to finance the shift to a low-carbon economy, China first requires a period of high-carbon growth, argues Pan Jiahua. China ’s shift to a low-carbon economy will require funding and technology. This can be acquired only through growth – and not a return to traditional agricultural society. ...
  • Low-carbon logic
    Beyond international efforts to cut carbon emissions, China has its own reasons for shifting to a green economy. It’s not a question of if, but how fast, writes Pan Jiahua. Low-carbon development in China is not just about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to combat climate change. It is also an ess ...
  • A structural problem
    Like many global cities, Hong Kong could radically cut its carbon emissions by making its buildings greener – but a regulatory black hole is hampering progress, writes Ina Pozon .In densely stacked Hong Kong, where seven million residents live on top of each other within a space of approximately 1 ...
  • A lot to lose
    Hong Kong’s economic success story could be swiftly undone if the government fails to respond to growing flood risks, argue Faith Chan, Adrian MacDonald and Gordon Mitchell. In July, a torrential rainstorm linked to Typhoon Chanthu slammed into Hong Kong. More than 150 millimetres of hammering rain ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State ...
    An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students. The nearly fo ...
  • Friend of Accused WikiLeaks Source Detained at Bor ...
    Federal agents briefly detained and questioned an MIT researcher and friend of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning as he reentered the country from a vacation in Mexico last week. David Maurice House, 23, was met by U.S. customs agents as he deplaned at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport last Wednesday, ...
  • Citing iPhone Ruling, Xbox Defendant Says Mod Chip ...
    Legal jockeying in the upcoming criminal trial of a Southern California man accused of modding Xbox 360 consoles heated up Tuesday when defense attorneys urged a judge to allow a fair-use defense, arguing that installing a mod chip in a game machine is no different than jailbreaking an iPhone. Matt ...
  • Computer Virus Leads to $20 Million Scam Targeting ...
    A noted classical pianist, composer and Latin music producer found himself drawn into an elaborate years-long extortion scheme that cost him between $6 and $20 million after he brought his laptop into a computer repairman to help rid it of a virus. The alleged fraudsters, a computer repairman and h ...
  • ‘Y2K Pimp’ Gets 12 Years for Recruiting Minor on M ...
    A self-described pimp who recruited a 16-year-old girl on MySpace then rented her out as a prostitute through escort websites was sentenced Monday to 12½ years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Marvin Chavelle Epps, 24, came to law enforcement’s attention in 2008 when a federal vice task for ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

IntelNews

  • Colombian agency spied on Spanish politician
    An official report prepared for the Colombian government reveals that an illegal unit set up within the Colombian intelligence services spied on a member of the Spanish parliament. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #450
    Nuke bomb material found in Georgia black market. CIA Director warns against leaks. US issues new unclassified information policy. Continue reading →
  • Scandinavians launch probes into US spying activit ...
    Norway, Sweden and Denmark have launched official investigations into media reports that accuse US embassies in Scandinavian countries of operating illegal intelligence gathering networks. Continue reading →
  • Bulgarian spy services intercept PM assassination ...
    A conspiracy to assassinate the Prime Minister of Bulgaria has been intercepted in its planning stage by the countryâs intelligence services, according to information published yesterday in the Bulgarian press. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #449
    Damning report on CIA attack on missionary plane. Israeli legislators call on US to release Jewish spy. Analysis: Britain's MI6 operates a bit differently than CIA. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • 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 suppressing ...
  • Inside Karl Rove's Diary: Return to Permanent Poli ...
    Precis: Rove (aka Turdblossom, Bush's pet name for him) has returned to center stage with renewed desire to playmake the GOP's return to power. He has plenty to say about the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, the Big Dog, the GOP's "Big Lie" practice, and his plans to destroy the Obama presidency and the Demo ...
  • Dear America, Your Taxes Are Going Up 20%, Food an ...
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  • New Lawyer, New Round: 3rd Circuit Court Panel Re- ...
    By Dave Lindorff The three-decades-long murder case of Philadelphia journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has sat in solitary in a cramped cell on Pennsylvania’s death row for 28 years fighting his conviction and a concerted campaign by the national police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, to execute ...
  • Behind Drone Issue in Yemen, a Struggle to Control ...
    By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2010 (IPS) - 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 ...

Grist - News

  • EPA issues guidelines for cutting greenhouse-gas e ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. EPA issued guidelines on Wednesday to help industries comply with greenhouse-gas emission cuts beginning next year, as the nation takes steps to stem global warming. The move follows a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that carbon emissions are pollutants ...
  • Christie finds the Right’s kingmakers demand ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. In most of the democratic world, it's possible to be a conservative leader who doesn't completely dismiss climate science. In fact, it's common. The dismissive position of the American Right's elite is unique. This was embarrassingly clear at the recent International Securit ...
  • Home Energy Score could be a much-needed MPG for h ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Miles-per-gallon ratings provide a quick way to evaluate a vehicle's performance. Walk Score provides a quick way to evaluate a neighborhood's performance. Neither standard is perfect, but both are useful for helping people get their heads around the concepts of fuel efficie ...
  • The post-election outlook for regional cap-and-tra ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. When the national climate bill crashed this summer in a flaming streak of senatorial ineptitude, climate hawks could take a little comfort in the progress that continued on the state level. Ten northeastern states have been running an active cap-and-trade program for power pl ...
  • Big exciting news about building codes. No, really
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Since nothing much happened this week, I thought I'd write about something really exciting: building codes! Building officials from around the U.S. voted to beef up the energy efficiency standard in the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code by a tidy 30 percent for new ...

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Washington Independent

  • Liberal spending groups begin sprouting green shoo ...
    It looks like the left-wing independent spending infrastructure, long moribund, is starting to show its first signs of new life. According to The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, Media Matters founder David Brock is in the planning stages of forming a new group designed to counter the successful netw ...
  • Will a GOP-led House mean the end of ‘sanctu ...
    With a GOP-controlled House on the horizon, I’ve been looking at a few policy proposals made by conservatives and pro-enforcement groups to see which ideas stand a chance of being passed by a Democratic-majority Senate and signed into law by President Obama. (See my post on E-Verify here.) One propo ...
  • Some Gulf oil spill victims continue to wait for c ...
    I continue to receive emails from Gulf Coast residents who are battling with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility for compensation for their oil spill losses. Lonnie Craft, the vice president of a boat manufacturing company in Pensacola, Fla, has been waiting since Aug. 23, more than two months after fili ...
  • Thune supports earmark moratorium, contrary to Red ...
    Red State’s Erick Erickson pronounced Sen. John Thune’s (R-S.D.) potential 2012 presidential bid dead today when sources informed him that Thune was opposing Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal for an earmark moratorium among GOP senators. Erickson wrote: Thune is whipping votes for Mitch McConnell ...
  • Immigration courts rejecting a higher number of ca ...
    As Immigration and Customs Enforcement slates more people for deportation, a new analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse shows that more cases are being rejected by immigration courts that determine individuals should not be subject to deportation. Immigration ...

Digg Green

  • New Research: Steaks & Lamb Chops Calm Down S ...
    Research shows that far from bringing out the 'caveman instinct' in modern men, seeing meat apparently lowers aggressive tendencies...
  • 10 Facts on Greenhouse Gases
    Almanac of American Politics co-author Chuck McCutcheon offers 10 facts from his new book, "What are Global Warming and Climate Change? Answers for Young Readers."
  • Size doesn’t always matter | Gene Expression ...
    Human Evolution | Neandertals famously had larger cranial capacities than modern humans, and, have gone through multiple phases of de- and re-humanization. A few weeks ago there was a revision of the idea that Neandertals in France ~30,000 years ago adopted some aspects of modern human culture ...
  • Epic: CERN's Large Hadron Collider Generates ...
    ERN's enormous Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, has successfully created a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing together lead ions instead of protons on 7 November, creating temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun. The LHC is hous ...
  • 8 Scientific Breakthroughs Straight from the ...
    "Star Wars"-style holograms? Fabric that mimics Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Some of the most implausible sci-fi concepts are becoming a reality.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Video – Mysterious Missile Launch over South ...
    Okay, what is it?  Missile? Contrail? Chemtrail?  Why wouldn’t the military explain it away immediately?  There are folks from wired.com saying it’s only a contrail.  But the military folks take twenty four hours to say it wasn’t their missile? Many odd things going on with this one…
  • Unlicensed barbering arrests: Did Florida deputies ...
    The police state at work.  It would seem that a far more efficient use of police would be to start raiding the banks and bankers that have engaged in far more serious fraud… As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business ho ...
  • The moral illegitimacy of governments
    By John Kaminski rebelnews.org We don’t have leaders, statesmen, or philosopher kings anymore. We have bagmen for the Jewish financial mob that rules the known world with its money tricks, with not a patriot in sight when the orders come down from the big boys, the top Rockefellers, Rothschilds and ...
  • Israel’s pillars of Samson: not quite Armageddon b ...
    By Alan Sabrosky 11 August 2010 Alan Sabrosky considers the relationship between the subservience of successive US presidents, including Barack Obama, to Israel and Israel’s ongoing access to US nuclear codes and systems, and its ability to override safeguards in the US to obtain command and control ...
  • The Empty People – those who love money abov ...
    by Tom Dennen The Empty People. Joe Sixpack’s death came during his enlightenment this week during a bank holiday on a Main Stream Medium (MSM), talking heads show hosted by one Dylan Ratigan, whom I have mentioned before in his run up to the question, âIs it Time for a Revolution in America?â Well, ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
    Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
  • Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
    Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...
  • Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedian ...
    Jokes on us. Those blokes from across the pond sure do give their all for a joke! View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partier ...
  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (sc ...
  • Here Comes Trouble (cartoon)
    Recent news of the habitable planet that circles a star called Gliese 581, and the ensuing article in the Huffington Post, by James Napoli inspired this little cartoon. The news is also reminiscent of one of my favorite children’s books Wump World, by Bill Peet. Look out Wumps! Here we come! New ...

Inhabitat

  • Flowing German Office Features State Of The Art Sy ...
    Read the rest of Flowing German Office Features State Of The Art Systemshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: capillary mat, curved glas ...
  • World’s Greenest Whisky Distillery Unveiled in Sco ...
    Scotland has a long history of whisky production and now the industry is brewing up a green future as drinks giant Diageo recently unveiled their £40 million environmentally friendly Roseisle Distillery in Elgin. As the first distillery to be built in Scotland in 30 years, this innovative project de ...
  • Copper Dome House is a “Puzzling” Garden Home
    Read the rest of Copper Dome House is a “Puzzling” Garden Homehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", australi ...
  • Gold Nanoparticles Could Transform Trees Into Stre ...
    Street lights are an important part of our urban infrastructure — they light our way home and make the roads safe at night. But what if we could create natural street lights that don’t need electricity to power them? A group of scientists in Taiwan recently discovered that placing gold nanoparticles ...
  • Water Cleansing Traffic Circle in Normal, Illinois
    The central Illinois town of Normal (yes, that is the actual name of the town) has a new roundabout that doubles as a living plaza where stormwater recycling, public space, and transportation work in unison. The Circle, designed by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, cleanses water collected from su ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Legs Apart Under Laptop: Your Sperm Will Thank You
    If guys can find a way to operate laptop computers with their legs apart, they might limit their risk of infertility, a new study finds. Keeping the legs splayed while using a laptop generated substantially less damaging heat in the scrotum than keeping legs together, scientists report online Nov. ...
  • China Releases Images of Proposed Lunar Landing Si ...
    The first images from China’s Chang’e-2 lunar probe were released Nov. 8. The photos show a lunar lava plain called Sinus Iridium (Bay of Rainbows), a proposed destination for China’s first lunar rover in 2013. China also has plans to bring lunar rocks back to Earth in 2017. Chang’e-2 launched Oct. ...
  • Enough Oxygen for Life Found Millions of Years Too ...
    Earth’s atmosphere contained enough oxygen for complex life to develop nearly 1.2 billion years ago — 400 million years earlier than scientists previously believed. The findings, reported in the Nov. 11 Nature, could lead scientists to reconsider the prerequisites for animal life, on Earth and othe ...
  • New Sharp Image of Violent Galactic Collision
    Two galaxies collide head-on in this new image from the European Southern Observatory. The resulting maelstrom of stars is called the Atoms-for-Peace galaxy (more formally NGC 7252 or Arp 226) after a speech about nuclear power President Eisenhower gave in December 1953. But this tumultuous galacti ...
  • All Life on Earth Could Have Come From Alien Zombi ...
    Life on Earth could have grown from the broken remains of alien viruses that, although dead, still contained enough information to give rise to new life. Scientists have speculated that life could have come to Earth from space — a notion called panspermia — since the 1870s, when Lord Kelvin suggest ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Bush's Selective Rejection of Torture
    When Matt Lauer asked George W. Bush about waterboarding, he glibly said that lawyers had told him that it was legal, it had saved lives, and that was the end of it. When Lauer asked Bush about Abu Ghraib, Bush told him something different: LAUER: It was the spring of 2004 when you first learned tha ...
  • Why Americans Should Care Deeply About Cholera in ...
    Dr. Jon K. Andrus, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization, gave a press briefing yesterday on the cholera epidemic in Haiti. It is among the scariest things I have read so far about the cholera outbreak. So far, there have been nearly 600 reported deaths and over 8,000 people have b ...
  • A Rock and a Hard Place: Turkey’s Position on Iran
    Turkey currently finds itself in the unenviable position of mediating between the demands of its most powerful NATO ally, the United States, and its neighbor Iran in two different issues critical to its foreign relations. The first issue Turkey will have to address in the coming month is the propose ...
  • Reducing Overseas Bases Is Not Isolationist
    I get a good deal of flak when I suggest, in my progressive policy pitch , that we need to consider pulling US forces out of Europe and Asia and moving to a resource-based strategy. This isn't isolationism. I'm not against our military working hand-in-hand with our allies and friends. I just don't t ...
  • Breaking: Far-Right Opposes START—A Fact That Chan ...
    The predictable pessimism over New START is growing. The far right is stirring, leading to dour predictions from some in the mainstream media and some progressives. And now today we have the breaking news that the New York Times op-ed page gave black-helicopter seeing John Bolton and torture-enabler ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Elite Fail.
    Why some House Democrats are gravely concerned about retaining Nancy Pelosi as minority leader truly baffles me. If it were some specific disagreement on what policy direction Democrats should (futilely) pursue in the 112th Congress, I'd understand. But no, they believe that the American people sen ...
  • Rah Rah Rubio!
    Mock Sen. Jim Demint all you want -- seriously -- but he's right that Marco Rubio is THE freshman Republican to watch in the next Congress. Young, charismatic, from an important electoral state and providing much-needed diversity and more ability to appeal to Hispanic voters, Rubio combines the expe ...
  • The Little Picture: New Smoking Labels.
    (FDA and Flickr/ republicanconference ) Today, the FDA proposed putting graphic images of the effects of smoking on cigarette packs as a deterrent. Above, a comic rendering of what these could look like.
  • Why Doesn't America Spend More on Child Care?
    The above chart, from the Economic Policy Institute, shows how poorly America rates compared to other developed countries when it comes to public spending on child care for children under 3. Only New Zealand does worse, and the Scandinavian countries, where people already have generous maternity a ...
  • The Deficit Commission.
    I don't think anyone really expected the deficit commission to get anything done : Three separate commissions stocked with budget experts from both parties plan to issue reports over the next four weeks, culminating with the president's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on Dec. 1. Des ...

Buzzflash

  • What Did Voters Actually Say?
    Body If it were possible to wrest some amusement from a jumble of lies and distortions, Republican talking points provide a rich source of laughable moments. Nothing in recent memory comes close to the fast-stepping mastery of answer-avoidance and the dismissive wave of a hand that re ...
  • Olbermann Responds, Says He 'Knew Nothing' of 'Inc ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT Released on November 8 by Keith Olbermann to Viewers of Countdown: I want to sincerely thank you for the honor of your extraordinary and ground-rattling support. Your efforts have been integral to the remedying of these recent events, and the results should remind us of the po ...
  • In a Democracy, It's Who Shows Up to Vote That Cou ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN In a democracy, it's not just the preferences of the voters that count in an election; it's who shows up to vote. Reading and watching the news over the past three days, I repeatedly came across polling that showed the majority of registered voters supported ...
  • Senator Bernie Sanders Denounces Proposed Cuts on ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is a statement from Senator Bernie Sanders: "The Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan is extremely disappointing and something that should be vigorously opposed by the American people.  The huge increase in the national debt in recent years was caused by two ...
  • There Simply Aren't Enough Jobs to Employ Four out ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN It's deja vu all over again from earlier this year, with the Republicans once again seeking to cut off extended federal unemployment benefits. Without Congressional action, millions of Americans without jobs will have no financial support come ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Friends of the Earth U.S. Stands in Solidarity wit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2010 Friends of The Earth Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following statement in response to allegations about an environmental activist from the Philippines that endanger her safety: “Friends of the Earth U.S. is outraged by recent allegations ...
  • UN Human Rights Council Issues Recommendations To ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2010 ACLU The U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) today issued a set of recommendations for the United States to bring its human rights policies and practices in line with international standards. The recommendations are the result of the first-ever participation by ...
  • Obama Administration Denies Endangered Species Act ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Obama administration today denied Endangered Species Act protection to 251 plants and animals that government scientists have said need those protections to avoid extinction. Instead, th ...
  • 58 Firms Sign Historic International Code of Con ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2010 Human Rights First Fifty-eight private security companies today signed an historic International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers, an agreement to uphold human rights respecting principles and to establish an inclusive oversight mechanism to ve ...
  • Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Speak Out ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2010 United for a Fair Economy To challenge the myth that the estate tax is bad for business, three small business owners and entrepreneurs are speaking out in support of a strong, permanent federal tax on large estates.  They are urging Congress to restore a str ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Death to the Death Penalty
    by Leonard Pitts Jr. A few days ago, Anthony Graves called his mother and asked what she was cooking for dinner. She asked why he wanted to know. He said, "Because I'm coming home." Maybe it sounds like an unremarkable exchange. But Anthony Graves had spent 18 years behind bars, 12on Death Row, for ...
  • Pacifica Sacks the KPFA Morning Show
    by Aaron Glantz Here's a tip. If your non-profit radio network is facing a financial crisis, it's best not to kill your most successful program. But that's exactly what management at Pacifica Radio did today, axing both hosts of the popular KPFA Morning Show , Aimee Allison and Brian Edwards Tieker ...
  • Democrats Could Fare Even Worse Next Time If They ...
    by Mark Weisbrot By now, it is clear to most analysts of the United States' midterm election that the economy played a huge role in the Democrats' losses. It is also pretty clear that the vote was a protest vote by people reacting to economic troubles, rather than an attitudinal change in the el ...
  • After a Strong Counterattack, Big Coal Makes a Com ...
    by Jeff Goodell The coal industry - perhaps the least entrepreneurial, most politically-connected business in America - likes to present itself as a hapless collection of hard-working guys just trying to keep the lights on. In the run-up to last week's election, the industry skillfully played up ...
  • Waterboarding Is No Basis for Truth
    by Richard Norton-Taylor George W Bush has resorted to the most obvious and, he apparently believes, convincing, defence of torture - namely, that it has saved lives. And what is better than claiming it has saved the lives of the citizens of your interlocutor? Waterboarding, the technique of simulat ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Gates: US Troops In Afghanistan Until At Least 201 ...
    By Steve Hynd SecDef Bob Gates is now saying that Obama's 2011 "beginning of withdrawal" date was mostly spin aimed at the Taliban, to lull them into a false sense of security. MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 8, 2010 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today that he hopes the Taliban think July ...
  • USS Make Shit Up goes to Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us 'Cause if we find we're in a bind we're totally screwed but nevermind We'll pull something out of our behinds, ...
  • When We Wonder About Afghan Corruption
    By Steve Hynd Let's try to remember that creating a situation where pots of cash are washing about with no accountability, no oversight and no record-keeping is always going to create a culture of corruption. The US government has spent about $55bn on rebuilding in Afghanistan since 2001 but cannot ...
  • Gorby on Afghanistan: Victory is Impossible
    By Steve Hynd The man who withdrew his nation's troops from Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev, is pessimistic about America's adventure there, telling the BBC that a US victory "is impossible there". He added that the mess is, to a great extent, America's own fault. "We had hoped America would abide by ...
  • Taliban Talks: After The Hype, The Pullback
    By Steve Hynd Last week, the media was full of stenography of the official narrative that the awesomely Saintly General Petareus and his surge(tm) were forcing the Taliban to the negotiating table and the insurgency was in its last throes, with success just around the corner etc. etc. That was until ...

Water Wars

  • Will NE Florida run out of water?
    During the Tampa Bay water wars of the 1990s, one Pinellas County commissioner famously announced, "Keep the Suwannee River cold, because we're coming for it."
  • What's happenin'
    • The Montana Tech Peace Seekers Club will show “Blue Gold: World Water Wars,” at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Butte Public Library. The film won the best environmental film award at the Vancouver Int
  • Water supply woes
    During the Tampa Bay water wars of the 1990s, one Pinellas County commissioner famously announced, "Keep the Suwannee River cold, because we're coming for it."
  • Southwest Montana Snapshots
    Documentary on water wars shown Tuesday at library
  • First Friday Films presents 'Blue Gold'
    Today, Nov. 5, "First Friday Films" at the American Memorial Park will present Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a film about the conflicts arising from the world's dwindling freshwater supply. Screening will be held at the Visitors Center at 6:30pm.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan 'alive and ...
    The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is "alive and well," and a true assessment of the progress made to neutralize the latter's threat can only be made in the summer of 2011, the commander of NATO forces in the southern part of the country has said.
  • Afghan Taliban reconciliation plan fizzles out ov ...
    The ambitious Taliban reconciliation plan launched by the Afghan government has turned dormant after the Taliban and some other resistance groups in Afghanistan reportedly not only rejected the Peace Council but also distanced themselves from President Hamid Karzai.
  • U.S. Tweaks Message on Troops in Afghanistan
    Joint Chiefs of Staff , all cited 2014 this week as the key date for handing over the defense of Afghanistan to the Afghans themselves. Implicit in their message, delivered at a security and diplomati...
  • Merkel to work with Obama on Afghanistan, economy
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday to work with US President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and the world economy, despite her earlier criticism of Washington's economic policy. Merkel said s...
  • Soldier, 18, killed in Afghan blast added to memor ...
    The name of one of the youngest UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan will be added to the war memorial in his home village later for Armistice Day. Rifleman Will Aldridge, 18, from Bredenbury, Herefords...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Deficit Commission: Cancel Marine Corps Version of ...
    The co-chairmen of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform issued today a series of draft proposals to cut government spending. In the defense arena, they took a bold stand on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, particularly...
  • Morning Smoke: As SEC Embraces Whistleblowers, Que ...
    SEC Did Nothing to Stop Stanford Ponzi Scheme for Years by Scott Cohn [CNBC] The S.E.C., Whistle-Blowers and Sarbanes-Oxley by Peter Henning [DealBook] In Volcker Rule Debate, All Sides Get Say—But What Will the Regulators Hear? by Ben Hallman and...
  • Double Down for Oversight: PayPal Will Match Your ...
    Double Down for oversight and make a donation to POGO today through PayPal. From Tuesday, November 9 through Friday, November 12, PayPal will match all donations up to $5,000 made to POGO through PayPal. Give $5, it will become $10....
  • Morning Smoke: Did the FDA Risk Its Integrity in F ...
    Watchdog Says FDA Risked Integrity by Alicia Mundy [Wall Street Journal] A Lack of Transparency in S.E.C. Disclosure Rule by Andrew Ross Sorkin [DealBook] Administration announces finalists in cost-cutting contest by Emily Long [GovExec] Disclosing economists' conflicts by Felix Salmon...
  • Don’t Be Afraid of the Congressional Oversight Bog ...
    While many in DC are crying into their beers or measuring the windows of their new offices, POGO has a different take on the election. We have been hearing a lot of talk from both Democrats and Republicans characterizing "oversight"...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Instead of Pushing the Homeless Around, Standardiz ...
    The homeless are often targets of hate crimes . They are regularly told by cops to move along . They are unwelcome guests at some public places like libraries . They are sometimes even prevented from "loitering" in front of the shelter where they live. They are an underprivileged class that many peo ...
  • Living in a Shelter, Looking on the Bright Side
    I met LaQuisha and her daughter at a rotating shelter (meaning that residents are shifted between churches) near Detroit. Although living in a homeless shelter can be challenging, LaQuisha works hard to look at the bright side. She was scared at first, but that changes as she made friends with peopl ...
  • Homeless in Columbus, Ohio Only Guaranteed Shelter ...
    Temperatures are dropping and shelter doors are ... closing? While Washington D.C. officials push a plan  to turn away non-residents from area shelters, homeless people in Columbus, Ohio have been turned away from shelters with nowhere to seek refuge from temperatures in the 30s. City rules stipulat ...
  • You Have the Right to an Attorney, Except When You ...
    Apparently San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius is unfamiliar with the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the right to an attorney. With an estimated 10,000 "quality of life" violations a year in San Francisco for crimes such as camping, blocking sidewalks, and drinking in public — a number ...
  • Haiti's Homeless Told to Move Before Tropical Stor ...
    As Tropical Storm Tomas nears Haiti, more than a million people in Port-au-Prince who are still homeless from January's earthquake are being told to seek shelter . Well, if they could, they would. Some have nothing except a tarp to protect them. Civil protection official Nadia Lochard told the AP, " ...

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Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Kevin’s Complaint Against ConsumerAffairs.com
    As promised, here is the complaint that was filed Monday, November 8, 2010 in federal court in Chicago.  It seeks injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages and other relief against ConsumerAffairs.com, Inc., CEO James Hood, and reporter Mark Huffman, for an article falsely representi ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-10
    Today, Kevin makes a HUGE announcement about the radio show!  Plus, he explains how YOU can fight pet obesity and why diabetes is predicted to triple within the next 40 years! Self Help: Only Answer To Cancer Improve Your Life Mega Memory Lose A Pound A Day! Fountain of Youth Natural Cures Learn Suc ...
  • Massive Dose of Caffeine Kills British Man
    November 3rd, 2010 ABC News By: Kim Carollo A 23-year-old British man died from what the coroner said was a dangerous dose of caffeine, according to British media reports. Information from the coroner’s inquest revealed that Michael Lee Bedford ingested two spoonfuls of pure caffeine powder that he ...
  • Big Oil Spends $69.5m On Election Ads
    November 3rd, 2010 The Guardian By: Suzanne Goldenberg The next Congress is expected to throw up a whole new set of roadblocks to Barack Obama’s environmental agenda – from time-consuming investigations to budget cuts. So how much was the fossil fuel industries willing to pay to help cast out White ...
  • Freddie Mac Seeks $100 Million
    November 3rd, 2010 Bloomberg By: Lorraine Woellert Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance company operating under federal conservatorship, requested $100 million in U.S. Treasury Department aid after reporting a narrower loss for the third quarter. The company reported a loss of $4.1 billion for the thre ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shakur h ...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...

War in Context

  • From the front lines of the Palestinian popular st ...
    Palestinian popular resistance to the Israeli occupation, settlements and the wall are a regular occurrence in the West Bank. Despite this, the overwhelmingly non-violent protests, often put down harshly by occupation forces, rarely make the mainstream news. This is a video of a lecture by journalis ...
  • Afghan air war peaks with 1,000 strikes in October
    Noah Shachtman reports: The U.S. and its allies have unleashed a massive air campaign in Afghanistan, launching missiles and bombs from the sky at a rate rarely seen since the war’s earliest days. In October alone, NATO planes fired their weapons on 1,000 separate missions, U.S. Air Force statistic ...
  • U.S. to store another $400m worth of emergency mil ...
    Haaretz reports: The U.S. government is to move an additional $400 million worth of military equipment to emergency storage in Israel over the next two years. The equipment, which includes so-called smart bombs, will stand at Israel’s disposal in an emergency. The U.S. Congress approved the hike ...
  • America’s power has already been eclipsed in Asia
    As many a conservative American commentator remains obsessed with the question as to how the United States can retain its position as the world’s preeminent power, Pankaj Mishra indicates why that question is already moot: it is a position America has already lost. He points out: India has many m ...
  • Separation without separating
    Amjad Atallah and Mickey Bergman step outside the confines of a two-state solution whose parameters are supposedly already well understood, and present a new approach that could conceivably meet both Palestinian and Jewish nationalist aspirations. In their outline for a plan, the two states would b ...

Watts Up With That?

  • “Extreme global warming” in the ancien ...
    Ancient global warming: but which came first, the temperature or the CO2? From the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly coupled to changes in global temperature, according to new … Continue reading →
  • Cassini’s CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a &#8220 ...
    From Science @NASA – Study suggests changes in Saturn’s emitted power are related to varying cloud cover. Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations … Continue reading →
  • Mount Merapi SO2 plume headed for Australia
    Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano put a lot of ejecta into the air; ash, CO2, and SO2. Here’s a recent news report showing the eruption: Tracked by satellite, now the Sulfur Dioxide plume is headed for Australia. From Spaceweather.com : A … Continue reading →
  • “Climate-Ready” Rice
    From the “I love the smell of rice-a-roni in the morning” department and the Global Rice Science Partnership, we have adaptation to a warmer more CO2 laden world. It’s another “Ehrlich population bomb were all gonna starve” moment shot to … Continue reading →
  • “Gross” Data Errors in GHCN V2. for Au ...
      Guest post by Ed Thurstan of Sydney, Australia   Synopsis This study shows that the NOAA maintained GHCN V2 database contains errors in calculating a Mean temperature from a Maximum and a Minimum. 144 years of data from 36 … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ storyofstuffproject | March 17, 2010 http://storyofbottledwater.org The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a bi ...
  • Lisbon Summit: NATO To Retain Nuclear Arms, Build ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 10, 2010 In little more than a week the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will convene a two-day summit in Lisbon, Portugal with the heads of state and government (presidents and prime minist ...
  • The Story of Electronics (2010)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ storyofstuffproject The Story of Electronics, releasing Tuesday, Nov. 9, employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution’s collateral damageâ25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. Host An ...
  • Debacle of America’s Democratic Party, Demis ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof James Petras Global Research, November 6, 2010 Introduction: The November 2, 2010 electoral debacle of the Democratic Party in the US cannot be solely ascribed to the failed policies of President Obama, the Congressional leadership or their senior economi ...
  • Rick Rozoff: Global Domination of Resources
    with Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 9, 2010 In Context A-Infos Radio Project Report for October 6, 2010 see U.S. And NATO To Wage War 15-Year War In Afghanistan And Pakistan by Rick Rozoff U.S. Risks Military Clash With China ...

Your New Reality

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    Where icebergs are 'born' : From the Earth Observatory
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    David Foster Wallace : "Human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle ...
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    IraqBodyCount on the Chilcot Inquiry : "Throughout the inquiry most of the attention has remained firmly fixed, fixated even, upon the interplay between political and military actors here and in the USA, and the ramifications of the war as felt by them, while the subject that is of greatest conce ...
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    FTW : F..k The War By Darryl Mason It's been a bit quiet around here for the past few weeks or so because I've been finishing off a movie. It's a documentary/hostage thriller set during the Sydney Student Protests against the Iraq War in early 2003. The basic plot : The prime minister is givi ...

Wired - Science

  • Legs Apart Under Laptop: Your Sperm Will Thank You
    If guys can find a way to operate laptop computers with their legs apart, they might limit their risk of infertility, a new study finds. Keeping the legs splayed while using a laptop generated substantially less damaging heat in the scrotum than keeping legs together, scientists report online Nov. ...
  • China Releases Images of Proposed Lunar Landing Si ...
    The first images from China’s Chang’e-2 lunar probe were released Nov. 8. The photos show a lunar lava plain called Sinus Iridium (Bay of Rainbows), a proposed destination for China’s first lunar rover in 2013. China also has plans to bring lunar rocks back to Earth in 2017. Chang’e-2 launched Oct. ...
  • Enough Oxygen for Life Found Millions of Years Too ...
    Earth’s atmosphere contained enough oxygen for complex life to develop nearly 1.2 billion years ago — 400 million years earlier than scientists previously believed. The findings, reported in the Nov. 11 Nature, could lead scientists to reconsider the prerequisites for animal life, on Earth and othe ...
  • New Sharp Image of Violent Galactic Collision
    Two galaxies collide head-on in this new image from the European Southern Observatory. The resulting maelstrom of stars is called the Atoms-for-Peace galaxy (more formally NGC 7252 or Arp 226) after a speech about nuclear power President Eisenhower gave in December 1953. But this tumultuous galacti ...
  • All Life on Earth Could Have Come From Alien Zombi ...
    Life on Earth could have grown from the broken remains of alien viruses that, although dead, still contained enough information to give rise to new life. Scientists have speculated that life could have come to Earth from space — a notion called panspermia — since the 1870s, when Lord Kelvin suggest ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli who disrupted Netanyahu’s speech: We were ...
    Matan Cohen, Israeli who disrupted PM's speech: We were raised on human rights. Youngster who heckled Netanyahu during GA address in New Orleans says US Jews distancing themselves from community due... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Peace Now: Israel approves 1,300 new settler homes
    "Technically, it would be very easy to stop these plans, but what they are doing is promoting them," [Peace Now spokeswoman] said, saying it was highly unlikely Netanyahu was unaware the plans were... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Rabbis’ edict bars renting to Arabs
    Safed’s chief rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu: “When a non-Jew moves in, residents begin to worry about their children, about their daughters. Many Arab students have been known to date Jewish girls.” ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Israel’s Supreme Court backs Jews-only housing in ...
    Court rejects appeal by Jaffa residents, human rights groups challenging leasing land to company specializing in housing for religious Zionist community. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website ...
  • Israel denies entry to Sweden MP and ex-Israeli wh ...
    Kaplan and Feiler had planned to use their trip in Israel to lodge an official complaint with the Israel Police against the Israel Defense Forces. Their complaint accused the IDF of kidnapping, armed... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Rare Arctic Fossils Unite Student, Professor in Ex ...
    Bryant U. undergrad is among the first to analyze newly discovered conifer fossils from the Canadian Arctic. Her studies determined that the molecular components of these fossils are extremely well preserved and led to finding a link between molecular composition and 3D preservation - a rarity in pl ...
  • 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. The findings, if confirmed in larger studies, suggest t ...
  • UNC Miscarriage Expert Available to Comment on Bus ...
    Miscarriage expert Kristen M. Swanson is available for interviews about President George W. Bush's disclosure of his mother's miscarriage in his book 'Decision Points.' Swanson has 25 years of research experience focused on helping couples resolve grief and depression after pregnancy loss.
  • Butte, Montana Radiologist Fights Corporate Medici ...
    The settlement marks a not-perfect, but acceptable resolution to Cole's long-running battle to retain his medical privileges at St. James Hospital, restore his good name, and protect the right of the hospital's medical staff (and by extension, medical staffs around the state) to be self-governing an ...
  • Economists Find Factors that Help Poor People Move ...
    A new paper based on work among poor families in Thailand shows that households who used their existing assets most productively were more successful at pulling themselves out of poverty. Many of the successful households reinvested their money in their small businesses and farms, suggesting that th ...

Natural Health News

  • Cats Make Owners Happier, Healthier and Gentler
    A grand total of 33 percent of U.S. households have cats, meaning there are 16 million more pet cats than pet dogs.� One reason might be that, according to research, cats can improve your health and teach you and your children to be kinder, gentler souls. Being able to care for any pet improves mor ...
  • Gorilla Reunion: Damian Aspinall's Extraordinary G ...
    A true story that shows just how smart and loving animals really are.
  • Change Your Life and View the World with a Fresh P ...
    Billie Holiday once said, "Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle."
  • New Proof that Fruit Juice and Soda Increase Risk ...
    Drinking too much soda or fruit juice will increase your risk of developing gout, a painful form of arthritis, according to a new study. Women who drank two cans or more of non-diet soda a day, or 12 ounces or more of orange juice a day, were more than twice as likely to develop gout.� Women who dr ...
  • Did You Know that Splenda is in Your Drinking Wate ...
    The human body can�t break it down and use Splenda. And as it turns out, modern wastewater treatment methods don�t break down Splenda either. Smitha Ramakrishna, a finalists in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search, found that the sweetener can accumulate in the water supply after people excrete it. ...

Antemedius

  • All Hail The Decider-in-Chief
    Originally published at Asia Times If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it … For the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state. - Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels On the same ...
  • Election Choice: Slow or Speed Downward Spin Into ...
    (From The Paragraph .) With House minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) already picking committee assignments, it seems the Republicans are eager to take control of the House — and resume America’s rapid downward spin into plutocracy . ++ 1 The downward spin sped up in 2001, when the Bush II Republi ...
  • Time To Tell Republicans; Let's You And Him Fight
    There are times when anyone involved in politics should be more concerned with governance than crass political advantage. After all there is always the peoples work to for any Congress or other political body to be about. Still there are times when it is worthwhile to make sure that you opponents ar ...
  • Fed Up Judges Invalidating Mortgages Over Fraudule ...
    Let’s face it, people hate bankers. There are a lot of reasons to hate them these days, given that unbridled greed and a total lack of concern for anything other enriching themselves is in large part why we are in the mess we are right now. This is why you are likely to see more of what we are seein ...
  • Austerity Fatigue: "Are we Equipped To Have The De ...
    Laura Flanders of GRITtv talks with political economist Professsor Richard Wolff about economic collapse, austerity programs, and the recent and growing anger and popular uprisings and street actions in Europe that we may soon be seeing spreading to North America: "It's a bizarre idea to fix a globa ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Head-Spinning Self-Execution Story
    by Duncan Hollis This is a wild tale of self-execution (which, I'm fairly sure, is the first time anyone has used the adjective "wild" to describe the self-execution concept).  For years, the Bush Administration sought to get the U.S. Congress to amend the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to ease ...
  • The Al-Aulaqi Hearing
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Probably many readers have seen this over at Lawfare, but Ben Wittes has a very interesting account of the oral argument from a few days ago on the Al-Aulaqi targeted killing lawsuit.  A snippet: Judge Bates was deeply engaged with counsel for both sides th ...
  • David Glazier on a New Piracy Decision, U.S. v. Ha ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by David Glazier, an Associate Professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. As Opinio Juris readers likely recall, there are two ongoing federal prosecutions in Norfolk, Virginia before different judges of Somali pirates who ...
  • One Bright Spot in the Election
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At least the war criminal lost: The basic facts are undisputed: on 15 April 2004 Ilario Pantano, then a second lieutenant with the US marines, stopped and detained two Iraqi men in a car near Falluja. The Iraqis were unarmed and the car found to be empty ...
  • International Law Banned in Oklahoma State Courts
    by Roger Alford Yesterday voters in Oklahoma voted overwhelmingly (70% in favor to 30% against) to ban the use of international law and Sharia law in state courts. It appears that the referendum will be headed to the courts for review, for as my colleague Michael Helfand has noted , the ban on Sh ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Cognitive dissonance in media over climate change
    You know the game is over on global warming when even readers of alarmist magazines like Scientific American deliver the editors bad news like this in a readers' survey: **77% believe that current climate change is caused by natural processes...
  • TGIF EDITION: More new leads in Swedes case
    SIgn up to our Facebook or Twitter feeds for regular TGIF alerts..but the full digital newspaper can be accessed from the link in the middle of the following page: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1358
  • BREAKING: More new evidence in the Heidi Paakkonen ...
    There's more damning evidence tonight that the police case against David Wayne Tamihere over the Swedish tourist murders in 1989 may have been a fabrication, and that in doing so police allowed the real killer to escape, possibly with Heidi...
  • Investigate returns favour to Police, releases cen ...
    Investigate magazine has released part of its file on Heidi Paakkonen in response to a request via the news media from Police Superintendent Win van der Velde. However, Investigate editor Ian Wishart has blanked out portions of the documents, including...
  • Crewe murders book: new review
    From the Southland Times, 30 October 2010: ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS: THE INSIDE STORY by Ian Wishart, reviewed by Chris Chilton "Undeniably...when Wishart hits he hits big. Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story is a book two generations of New Zealanders...

My Care2 Picks

  • Signs of the Times
    Reworked Webpage with Best of the Web now and videos to come Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. and Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, Strikin ...
    A cache of top secret documents show a striking parallel between what the Soviets faced in Afghanistan, and what U.S. lawmakers now debate. The top-secret minutes, now declassified, make for a gripping, terrifying read. Submitted by Hans Mueller to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • One Year after Fort Hood: The Missing Story of Mus ...
    In spite of ongoing efforts by many in the Muslim religious community and Muslim-American organizations, the long and vital history of Muslim peacemaking has been lost in the avalanche of reports on Muslims where the mainstream media connects them only... Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note ...
  • Brooklyn-Jenin: Wars of the Jews
    He said that in Messianic times, the role of the goyim (gentiles) will be to serve the Jews. I imagine that if the Honorable Rabbi would have said Muslims rather than Goyim Mr. Foxman would have overlooked it. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The reunification of my parents
    The Israeli military order 1650 which was first used in April of this year only made matters worse. My mother was now regarded as an 'infiltrator'. If caught in the West Bank, she could have faced up to seven years in prison or be deported to Gaza. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! ...

Angry Indian News

  • No Right Turn: The Pacific Solution is illegal
    No Right Turn: The Pacific Solution is illegal: "In 2001, in the wake of the Tampa Affair, the racist Australian government hit on a simple solution to its refugee 'problem': they excised all their... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Waterboarding is torture, Downing Street confirms ...
    Waterboarding is torture, Downing Street confirms | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Waterboarding, which was banned by President Barack Obama, helped foil attacks on Heathrow airport, Canary Wharf and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • EXCLUSIVE: As Obama Arrives in Jakarta, Secret Doc ...
    EXCLUSIVE: As Obama Arrives in Jakarta, Secret Docs Show U.S.-backed Indonesian Special Forces Unit Targets Papuan Churches, Civilians: "President Obama arrived in Indonesia today on the second stop... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • John Shimkus points to Genesis on global warming - ...
    John Shimkus points to Genesis on global warming - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com: "Rep. John Shimkus is standing by a controversial comment that global warming isn't something to worry about... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada
    CBC: Congolese try suing Anvil Mining in CanadaCongolese citizens have moved to sue a Montreal-based mining company, alleging it played a role in a massacre in their country six years ago.According... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Cognitive dissonance in media over climate change
    You know the game is over on global warming when even readers of alarmist magazines like Scientific American deliver the editors bad news like this in a readers' survey: **77% believe that current climate change is caused by natural processes...
  • TGIF EDITION: More new leads in Swedes case
    SIgn up to our Facebook or Twitter feeds for regular TGIF alerts..but the full digital newspaper can be accessed from the link in the middle of the following page: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1358
  • BREAKING: More new evidence in the Heidi Paakkonen ...
    There's more damning evidence tonight that the police case against David Wayne Tamihere over the Swedish tourist murders in 1989 may have been a fabrication, and that in doing so police allowed the real killer to escape, possibly with Heidi...
  • Investigate returns favour to Police, releases cen ...
    Investigate magazine has released part of its file on Heidi Paakkonen in response to a request via the news media from Police Superintendent Win van der Velde. However, Investigate editor Ian Wishart has blanked out portions of the documents, including...
  • Crewe murders book: new review
    From the Southland Times, 30 October 2010: ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS: THE INSIDE STORY by Ian Wishart, reviewed by Chris Chilton "Undeniably...when Wishart hits he hits big. Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story is a book two generations of New Zealanders...

Mondoweiss

  • U.S. Justice Department prepares for the ominous e ...
    In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community o ...
  • Bil’in invaded for the fourth time in three ...
    (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahme) The following is an update to a story we posted yesterday: Today, November 10th, the village of Bi'lin was raided again. The Israeli Army entered at around 8 pm for the second time today. In the morning, at around 3.00 am, they entered the village with five jeeps and search ...
  • Why I disrupted Bibi’s speech – A resp ...
    Taylor protesting Netanyahu in New Orleans. Ben Sales, editor of New Voices, posted a lengthy critique of the protesters who disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the General Assembly. Here's my response, which I submitted as a comment to his blog: As one of the protesters who was dragged out - ...
  • Thinking of Rachel Corrie during the olive harvest ...
    It is olive gathering season and people in Arrabeh are at it again. This year the crop is good. A friend from Jerusalem had asked us for two jerry cans of fresh olive oil direct from the press. Raja Shehadeh was scheduled to have a book launch in Jerusalem and we decided to kill two [...]
  • The Mavi Marmara is set to hit the big screen in T ...
    Polat Alemdar is back! And this time he's kicking ass and taking names in none other than the Holy Land. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Alemdar is the hero of the popular Turkish television show, and now film series, Valley of the Wolves. A 2006 film took aim at the American invasion of [ ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
    PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
    On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
    GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
  • VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
    VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Mt. Everest
    Published: 04 November 2010 Nepal Before returning for third time to Afghanistan this year, have made another trip to the Himalaya.� I made this image of Mt. Everest about a week ago.� You are welcome to download a copy for personal use. Please also buy a copy of my upcoming photobook, "Inside the ...
  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell: "We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan docume ...
  • Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
    Published: 17 Oct 2010 Click here to view entire document. {loadposition user8}
  • Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
    I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
  • The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
    Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...

The Killing Train

  • Teaching: Jacques Ranciere and Sugata Mitra
    A few months ago I was blown away by Sugata Mitra's TED talk on child-driven education . Mitra's thesis is that children can teach themselves. What they need is not teachers who know how to do what they are trying to learn, but materials, problems, one another (groups), and perhaps encouragement. Mi ...
  • Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
    An interview with Pedro Cayuqueo Justin Podur and Manuel Rozental October 20, 2010 read more
  • Isabel McDonald and Lou Dobbs!
    My friend Isabel did a fantastic story for the Nation about the anti-immigration pundit Lou Dobbs who had undocumented workers caring for his horses and grounds , and she had the chance to talk to Lou Dobbs about it on MSNBC. Check it out. read more
  • Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
    I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
  • The Rwandan Election
    Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN official urges more states to join cluster muni ...
    [JURIST] UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro [official profile] on Tuesday praised the nations that have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) [text; official website] and urged more states to join the convention [statement] at the First Meeting of States Parties [official websit ...
  • Supreme Court considers railroad tax, gender discr ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Wednesday in CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on whether a state's exemption of railroad competitors, but ...
  • Czech government still discriminating against Roma ...
    [JURIST] The Czech Republic continues to discriminate against Roma [JURIST news archive] school children despite a court order, according to a complaint [text, PDF] filed Monday with the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe [official website] by the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Eu ...
  • UK court to review controversial online copyright ...
    [JURIST] The UK High Court on Wednesday granted a request to review the nation's Digital Economy Act [text and materials], which is aimed at the prevention of online copyright infringement. The claim [text, PDF] was filed by UK Internet service providers (ISPs) BT Group PLC and TalkTalk Telecom Grou ...
  • Cambodia genocide tribunal facing political interf ...
    [JURIST] The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] faces harmful opposition and political interference from the Cambodian government, the chief defense lawyer said Wednesday. Announcing his resignation, Richard Rogers said that the tribunal, ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • I Am a Blogger No Longer
    This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
  • Billy Joel Explains the Election
    What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown , caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. T ...
  • Obama Considers Staff Changes, Ever So Carefully
    Despite urgent pleas from Democrats that he shake up his White House staff, President Obama will proceed with a plan he put in place before the election, one that calls for a careful review the structure of his office before making changes.  Chief of Staff Peter Rouse is leading the review, and Obam ...
  • 2012! It's Never Too Early for Mitt-Chif
    Item: Someone has set up this website:  http://mittromneyflipflops.com/ Item: An advertisement for displaying Romney's congratulations to Michigan's governor elect, Rick Synder, shows up on people's Facebook page.  This is odd because Romney never endorsed Snyder; he endorsed Rep. Pete Hoekstra in t ...
  • On Election Night, What You Might Have Missed
    Some elections, President Obama said today, are "exhilarating." Others are "humbling."  Last night's was chalk full of news -- so much news that you might have missed some of it. ** The Three Iowa judges who ruled that same-sex marriage was legal were all roundly defeated, thanks to a blizzard of ad ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects ...
    In this blog, I focus less on purely internal Israeli politics and more on the bigger picture of Israeli democracy and relations with its Palestinian minority and the Occupation.  But Eyal Clyne has written a riveting, tremendously comprehensive report on a massive pattern of corruption and violenc ...
  • Obama’s Cluelessness on Israel in Indonesia Speech
    I’ve just been reading coverage and an excerpted video of Obama’s Indonesia speech (full text).  I’m reminded of how brilliant he is as a strategist, theorist, and speechmaker (when before have you ever heard a U.S. president with the moxie to end a speech with the words “Asalaam Aleikum?”) and how ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • IDF During Cast Lead: Use a Cell Phone, Go to Para ...
    Back in the days when U.S. politicians wanted to prove they were tough on crime there used to be a slogan: “Use a gun, go to jail.”  Now, Tzahal has improved on that with news that if you were a Gazan using a cell phone during Operation Cast Lead, you were in some cases targeted [...] Related pos ...
  • Israeli Diplomat Calls Holocaust Survivor ‘Immoral ...
    There are some practices of the Israeli government which I find merely offensive.  Then there are some that go far beyond that.  Like the denunciation by an Israeli diplomat in Germany of Holocaust survivor, Alfred Grosser, who is due to keynote the dedication of a Kristallnacht memorial in Frankf ...

Ode Magazine

  • Making sanitation sexy
    By: Group_Gordon Can sanitation be sexy? Acumen Fund , a nonprofit venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs serving the poor, not only thinks so, but thinks it should be obvious to everyone. Acumen Fund is challenging people to use their creative genius to ...
  • Peace is more arduous
    By: PeaceCorso Mid-term elections were last week in the United States, and they got me thinking about the wars that we insist upon perpetuating. George Bernard Shaw weighs in: "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous." Former P ...
  • Freedom through Kundalini yoga
    By: EllenJefferds I just finished editing a book titled Depth Over Time , by my spiritual teacher Swami Khecaranatha ("Nathaji"). He is the head of Sacred Space Yoga Sanctuary (at Rudramandir) in Berkeley, California. When Nathaji asked me to serve as the ed ...
  • The miracle of microfinance in Kenya
    By: Lisa73 We walked through the slums of Nairobi expecting to find the downtrodden - human beings without hope, children crying and begging. Instead to our surprise we found smiles and laughter and pride. Children were serenading us in their high pitched voices, " ...
  • How understanding yields peace
    By: PeaceCorso My friend Masado Nakata told me about The Understanding Campaign . Here’s what their home page says: "The Understanding Campaign wants everyone in the world to read just one word of Arabic: the word Fhm (fuh-hem'), which literally means und ...

OpEd News

  • Justice Probe of CIA Torture Evidence: Another Whi ...
    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 suppressing ...
  • America's Devolution Into Dictatorship
    the US judiciary, formerly a co-equal branch of government, has absolutely no legal authority whatsoever to stick its nose into President "Change" Obama's decision to assassinate Americans. The unaccountability of the president's decision to murder people is, the US Justice (sic) Department declared ...
  • WW2 Veterans Honored with Honor Flights to DC Monu ...
    After years of discussion, over a half century of waiting, and a great deal of controversy, World War II veterans have been honored with a memorial in Washington DC, completed in 2004. Now volunteers are transporting senior veterans by the thousands to Washington. For most, it's one of the most impo ...
  • Come and Get It! Prisoners Served Expired Food, "N ...
    The food receptacles are run through a dishwasher with NO detergent,de-greaser,sanitizer,rinse agent or other cleaning product whatsoever is used.Just 140 degree water. The wet trays are placed in position for re-use, without being dried, and with grease so thick you can write in it with your finger ...
  • Democracy By Illusion
    Media Manipulation,Big Money And Subjective Politics Will Define The New American Reality

Switchboard

  • The Curious Case of HFC-23
    A small group of carbon offset projects under the climate treaty is reaping billions of dollars in windfall profits while worsening both global warming and depletion of the ozone layer, according to an NRDC report we’re issuing today at the meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protoc ...
  • EPA subpoenas Halliburton, and why it's important
    Back in September, EPA asked nine major hydraulic fracturing companies for information on the chemicals they use in the hydraulic fracturing process, their standard operating procedures at hydraulic fracturing sites, and the locations where fracturing has been conducted. This inquiry i ...
  • Gallup: nearly 4 in 10 Americans fear walking alon ...
      As we have written here before, in order for our communities – particularly cities – to succeed as sustainable places, we need to address issues such as education and perceived safety , even though they are not traditionally regarded as “environmental.”  A new poll from Gallup conf ...
  • Forging Ahead: Obama's Visit to India Moves Clean ...
    Yesterday, at the culmination of President Barack Obama’s visit to India – during which significant advancement took place on a variety of bilateral issues such as trade, U.N. Security Council membership, counterterrorism and space-based technology, amongst others - he and Indian Prime ...
  • Offshore Wind Moving Forward in the US
    This week, Maryland moved closer to advancing their offshore wind plans. Governor Martin O'Malley's administration announced the federal government's acceptance of planning recommendations to advance this renewable technology. The western edge of the proposed project is an estimated 10 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Catfood Commission
    Still relevant! …more direct analysis. It’s like The Phantom Menace — the non-fanboy population could have predicted that the Report For Upper-Class Tax Cuts And Catfood Eating for the Poor (including the working poor) would be terrible, but it’s still kind of amazing how terrible it is.    And, ...
  • Waiting for Superman (to man up)
    It goes without saying that Ben Shapiro’s not a very talented writer, but reading about his achievements leads me to despair for the future of America, because apparently it’s possible to graduate summa cum laude from one of the best schools in the best public university system in America and still ...
  • And Many More!!
    I would like to take a moment today to wish a happy birthday to two very important institutions. Related posts:Birthday Birthday Boy Happy Belated Birthday to Us Related posts: Birthday Birthday Boy Happy Belated Birthday to Us
  • No Partying with the Tea Party
    My latest at WPR concerns the exceedingly low likelihood that a Progressive-Tea Party understanding will develop on defense spending: However, hopes for a less-hawkish Republican congressional caucus probably won’t come to fruition, for two reasons. First, budgetary concerns almost always fall victi ...
  • Electoral College Counterfactuals
    Electoral reform has been one area where the cumbersome amendment process established by Article V hasn’t been a huge barrier.   With the unusual exception of the 14th, the bulk of the substantive rights and procedural changes contained in the post-Bill of Rights amendments have dealt with electio ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
    DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
  • DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
    DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
  • DRI Researcher Authors New Book
    William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
  • The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
    The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
  • Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
    The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 2010: The NLJ 250
    The National Law Journal's annual ranking of the nation's largest law firms.
  • NLJ 250 records a new low point for legal associat ...
    The percentage of associates among NLJ 250 attorneys declined again in 2010, marking the lowest point for those lawyers in the history of annual survey of the nation's 250 largest law firms.
  • Suits over foreclosure 'robo-signing' are piling u ...
    The expected litigation frenzy against mortgage lenders that used "robo-signing" tactics — mass signing and approval of foreclosure documents without verification — has launched, with class actions in Florida and Maine and a lawsuit by Ohio's attorney general filed this month, all against GMAC Mortg ...
  • Sterling & Sterling attorneys assure gay youth: 'I ...
    The "It Gets Better" campaign kicked off in September after a rash of suicides among gay youths, and at least one major law firm has weighed in with a video testimonial.
  • New Hampshire's outgoing chief justice named law s ...
    John Broderick Jr. has been named the next dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He will assume that post in January 2011, after he retires as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court later this month.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...
  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...
  • The Right to Know!
    Do you know how to file a “Right to Know” request? Do you know why you might want to know how to do this? Since the gas drilling in Pennsylvania has taken off at full speed many people are finding the “Open Records Law” , also known as the “Right to Know Law”, a necessary [...]
  • Ya’ll Get Together Now, Ya Hear?
    Today I attended the Conservation PA event in Camp Hill, PA. I was sitting in the conference room among the other 100 or so attendees and trying to remember when I had first heard of the Marcellus Shale, or the term fracking. When I couldn’t dig up a memory of the beginning of my relationship [...]

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Creating ‘Living’ Buildings With Materials That Pu ...
    A new field, known as “ethical synthetic biology,” aims to combine chemistry, architecture, and climate science to construct buildings out of materials that extract CO2 from the atmosphere and convert the carbon into structural material . For example, scientists at the University of Greenwich are ex ...
  • Bluefin Tuna Decline Fueled By $4 Billion Black Ma ...
    A $4 billion black market trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna has decimated populations of the endangered fish, according to a new report. A seven-month investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that fishermen and traders for years violated international quotas on t ...
  • Interview: Britain’s Energy Minister Promotes a Ne ...
    Britain’s new ruling coalition knows it faces a formidable task if it is to fulfill its pledge of being “the greenest government ever.” But Greg Barker, the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Minister, says that even in the face of budget cuts and fiscal austerity, he is optimistic about what the coalit ...
  • Britain’s New Green Deal: Transforming Energy Effi ...
    Britain’s new government is proposing radically new energy policies, with a “Green Deal” that would retrofit the country’s woefully energy-inefficient housing stock. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , UK Energy and Climate Minister Greg Barker talks about why an overhaul of the approach to ...
  • Massive Turbines Eyed For Mississippi River Electr ...
    A U.S. startup is working on a plan to install hundreds of 40-kilowatt hydrokinetic turbines, each the size of a large jet engine, along the bottom of the Mississippi River , an ambitious renewable energy project developers say could someday produce more than one gigawatt of electricity — enough to ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Who's the Conspiracy Theorist Now? Gov't Scaring t ...
    Pandemics, Aliens, and Asteroids -- Oh My! It appears that the corporate-government-media has recently become the number one propagator of conspiracy theories. That is, of course, as long as the fear campaign pushes the right buttons for the agenda. The dumbed-down public will always be led by fear ...
  • Earth Passing Into the Cosmic "Energy Cloud"
    On Christmas Eve, 2009, the startling hypothesis that our Solar System, the Sun and all its planets, are moving into a potentially dangerous and destabilizing interstellar energy cloud, was resoundingly sustained. In their research paper, "A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the ...
  • Communication With 50 Nuke Missiles Dropped in ICB ...
    The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn’t reliably communicate or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles. Gulp. Backup security and communications systems, lo ...
  • Massive Solar Flare Storm Warnings for the Next Fe ...
    According to a new report, the United States is in danger of a massive space storm that could knock out power to much of the nation. It may sound like the premise for the next Michael Bay, big-budget action extravaganza -- but scientists say a storm from space could change life on Earth as we know i ...
  • No warning because tsunami alert system had been v ...
    Planes and helicopters packed with rescue workers and supplies landed yesterday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 3m tsunami, as a news report said Indonesia's tsunami warning system had been vandalised and so failed to warn the islanders. Two buoys off the Mentawai islands were va ...

Russia Today

  • Suspects detained over terror plot in western Russ ...
    A group of ultra-nationalists has been detained in western Russia on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the administrative center of Pskov.
  • Newspaper claims to expose Russia-US spy scandal “ ...
    Russian daily Kommersant has investigated the background of the summer spy scandal, which overshadowed the relationship between the US and Russia. It puts the blame on the ex-chief of undercover agents, claiming he was...
  • US army fights for recruits as AWOL rate rises
    As America celebrates Veteran's Day, the number of its troops heading to overseas wars is on the rise. But so is the number of soldiers refusing to fight. The desertion rate among US servicemen has shot up three-fold.
  • “US economy structure wrong for average American” ...
    Republican victories in the recent US mid-term elections have highlighted the growing dissatisfaction with the current government. RT spoke with Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich about the challenges the US is facing.
  • Economy and currency wars on G20 table
    G20 leaders are gathering in South Korea, and the one thing on their minds is money. Those ruling the world's major economies are confronted with preventing a recurrence of the financial nightmare of 2008.

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

  • Chang’e 2 Moon Photos
    Finally some coherent Chinese moon probe (Chang’e 2) photos are released, along with one of the Chinese bosses of course. … … Released with some fanfare (thatâs the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, there. [Editor's note: originally had Jiabao as the "head of state"; that would actually be the president, ...
  • Cliff High Interview
    Cliff High, inventor of the Internet future forecasting ‘bot Web Bot, is on the Veritas site giving his perhaps last interview. In it, he discusses the dollar, world currencies, conspiracies and other esoteric subjects. Including his Web Bot. http://www.manticoregroup.com/radio/latest.htm http://www ...
  • NASA’s EPOXI Hartley 2 Encounter
    Yesterday NASA’s recycled spacecraft EPOXI (which was the second part of the spacecraft that released the probe that collided with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005) encountered it’s second comet (Hartley 2) on a close fly-by, thus saving money by reusing expensive space-probes. Even though no collisio ...
  • Adam Gorightly on the Paracast
    Esoteric writer of all things cultural and Fortean Adam Gorightly gives a good interview on this past Sunday’s (10/31) Paracast discussing astral travel, vivid dreaming, alien abductions and psychedelic drugs. Oh yeah! Adam Gorightly Interview on the Paracast
  • “Phantastic” Halloween Solar Photos
    Yeah, I know the spelling catcher and these pictures have been viral on the ‘Net all this past weekend, but I can’t resist posting these from a relative “neighbor” of mine who lives in Buffalo, NY and photographed from the same. Enjoy! … … [...] “On Oct. 20, Friedman hooked his telescope to a hydrog ...

Tippers News

  • The backlash begins against the world landgrab
    Western corporations exploit the 3rd World (as ever.) Seen on http://www.maxkeiser.com/ Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GM Food: Facts Not Crops. Take Action!
    To the President of the European Commission J.M. Barroso: We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops .. Sign the petition! Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Green Lifesty ...
  • Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner + TAKE ...
    Interesting article in The Independent in which Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace, speaks out. Also, have you signed this Avaaz petition yet? http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_gmo/?cl=743766348&v=7138 (You'll have to copy + paste the link!) Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Environme ...
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked clothe ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Linz, A ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Where the Bourgeois Virtues Are Found
    Markets lead us to treat strangers as fully human.
  • German Finance Minister Hits U.S. Currency Manipul ...
    “The Fed’s decision, in essence, to print $600 billion and pump it into the economy through Treasury bond purchases has drawn fire from foreign leaders, notably German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who say it amounts to currency manipulation. The action seeks to lift the U.S. economy in sever ...
  • Obama Tells G-20 to Rely Less on American Consumpt ...
    “President Obama, marking the start of a summit meeting that has already tested the limits of international cooperation, implored other world leaders Wednesday to shift global economic demand away from its historic reliance on American consumption and borrowing.” (New York Times) Promoting intervent ...
  • San Francisco Moves toward Limiting Toys in Fast-F ...
    “The free toys that McDonald’s and other fast-food establishments give away with Happy Meals and kids’ meals that don’t have reduced sodium, sugar and fat will be nothing but happy memories in San Francisco, if legislation approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors stands. The proposed law, pitche ...
  • Inflating Our Way to Prosperity?
    As more and more money is pumped into the economy, not only do prices go up, but so do inflationary expectations.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Advice for journalism educators in Africa
    While I was attending the annual Online News Association conference a week ago, one of several great panels I sat in on was titled “From Earthquakes to Coups: Tools for Crisis Reporting.” I’ve been interested in crisis mapping and other crowdsourced efforts during disasters ever since I learned how ...
  • Best advice for Soundslides
    I was asking around recently, among my friends at other j-schools who teach photojournalism. Yes, they are still teaching Soundslides. The No. 1 reason is almost unanimous: It’s a great transition from making stills to making video. I think it also helps — a lot — with teaching storytelling. Right ...
  • Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
    Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
  • Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
    Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
  • Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
    I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post ( A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again ) has se ...

Facing South

  • Spill panel: Driven by 'compulsion' to finish well ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica As we noted earlier this week, members of the presidential commission investigating BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill made clear that they don't believe individual BP workers consciously decided to put corporate profit over safety when making decisions regarding the de ...
  • Polluted communities to meet with first black EPA ...
    By Robert Bullard, OpEdNews It has now been two months since former DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming made history when the Obama administration named her to become the first African American and female to head EPA Region 4 , which includes eight southern states -- Alabama, Florid ...
  • Obama administration promises swift investigation ...
    At the first gathering of the federal Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force that took place yesterday in Pensacola, Fla., the U.S. Justice Department pledged to launch swift criminal and civil investigations into the parties responsible for the Gulf oil disaster that killed 11 workers and spil ...
  • As Obama pushes nuclear industry's expansion, its ...
    Two nuclear power plants owned by New Orleans-based Entergy were forced to shut down over the weekend following serious operating problems, including a radioactive leak at one plant in Vermont. Those troubling incidents come on the heels of an electrical explosion at NRG's South Texas nuc ...
  • VOICES: Elephants make dinosaurs of the Blue Dogs ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South What's the future of the "Blue Dog" Democrat? It's a legitimate question to ask in the wake of last Tuesday's election. Here in Mississippi, two "Blue Dog" Democrats -- 1st District Congressman Travis Childers and 4th District Congressman Gene Taylor -- lost their re- ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
    Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
  • Interview with Kumi Naidoo
    The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
  • Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
    I believe that the senators dont know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle clothes patterns?
    Carol sent us an email explaining: I often see huge bins of clothes patterns at thrift stores. Most helplessly outdated or missing instructions. I have used them in the past as packing material but was wondering if there was any other uses. Seems like there has to be some use for the tissue type pap ...
  • Green Halloween: what can I reuse or recycle to ma ...
    Continuing in our Green Halloween series… So yesterday, we looked at reuse or recycling ideas for Halloween masks – and I suppressed my desire to rant about shop-bought costumes. In my ever-so humble opinion, homemade costumes are way more fun – and they often reuse and recycle stuff, rather than us ...
  • Green Halloween: How can I reuse or recycle Hallow ...
    With Halloween at the weekend, the shops are full masks and costumes at the moment. To keep this blog reasonably rant free, I shalln’t go into my feelings for a) the sudden importing of Halloween as a large scale holiday and b) the rise of shop-bought fancy dress outfits and costumes (isn’t half the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle straw coasters & placem ...
    We’ve had an email from Katy: Cleaning out my mum’s cupboards I’ve found some tatty straw tablemats and a set of coasters that must be as old as me! Can I compost them? Maybe. A cautious composter might want to leave them out – you don’t know if the straw has been treated with anything [...]
  • How can I improve my greywater system?
    We’ve had an email from Su: I do like to tax the minds of all who read these sites, not intentionally, but in a ‘why don’t I know how to do that’ sort of way. Here goes, I collect all the water from my washing machine, and use it to flush the loo. However, hauling [...]

Mondoweiss

  • U.S. Justice Department prepares for the ominous e ...
    In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community o ...
  • Bil’in invaded for the fourth time in three ...
    (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahme) The following is an update to a story we posted yesterday: Today, November 10th, the village of Bi'lin was raided again. The Israeli Army entered at around 8 pm for the second time today. In the morning, at around 3.00 am, they entered the village with five jeeps and search ...
  • Why I disrupted Bibi’s speech – A resp ...
    Taylor protesting Netanyahu in New Orleans. Ben Sales, editor of New Voices, posted a lengthy critique of the protesters who disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the General Assembly. Here's my response, which I submitted as a comment to his blog: As one of the protesters who was dragged out - ...
  • Thinking of Rachel Corrie during the olive harvest ...
    It is olive gathering season and people in Arrabeh are at it again. This year the crop is good. A friend from Jerusalem had asked us for two jerry cans of fresh olive oil direct from the press. Raja Shehadeh was scheduled to have a book launch in Jerusalem and we decided to kill two [...]
  • The Mavi Marmara is set to hit the big screen in T ...
    Polat Alemdar is back! And this time he's kicking ass and taking names in none other than the Holy Land. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Alemdar is the hero of the popular Turkish television show, and now film series, Valley of the Wolves. A 2006 film took aim at the American invasion of [ ...

Media Consortium

  • Discounted memberships: A short term gain with lon ...
  • The Newsonomics of membership " Nieman Journalism ...
    New journalism is hungry for new business models. Beyond millions in foundation start-up support, what will sustain these enterprises? One answer: membership. The notion is borrowed from NPR (née National Public Radio), which we must remind ourselves is no “experiment.” While the daily press is te ...
  • Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring | paidC ...
    One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to their e-editions, a broad category that includes digital replicas, online-only subscriptions, Kindle subscriptions, and products like Times Reader. Leading th ...
  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    t the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, w ...
  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    At the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. The new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, without ever having to leave a publisher’s gam ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • NASA's JWST telescope expected to cost $6.5 billio ...
    The successor to the Hubble, the 6.5-m space-based James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has apparently inherited its precursor’s knack for budgetary problems. A report released 10 November finds JWST to be $1.5 billion over budget, and will cost NASA at least $200 million more per year for the next tw ...
  • White House interference: bad science or poor comm ...
    It certainly doesn't look good. Federal investigators have confirmed that the White House altered a peer-reviewed report last May to expand a six-month drilling moratorium following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision sparked complaints from the peer-reviewers themse ...
  • First pictures from China's moon orbiter
    China’s moon orbiter, Chang’E 2, has sent back its first pictures. Images released today by the China National Space Administration include the Bay of Rainbows (right) Sinus Iridum, which is a candidate landing site for a lunar rover that the Chinese intend to launch in 2013. The data for the ...
  • Was Earth oxygenated early?
    Accurately reconstructing the history of the Earth’s atmosphere is a tricky process. Of particular interest to scientists are oxygen levels at various points in the planet’s history, because these have implications for the evolution of complex life. It is generally assumed that until atmospheric oxy ...
  • Badger cull fight flares up again in UK
    The UK’s top environmental scientist strongly defended government plans to cull badgers in the hope of controlling cattle disease at a meeting in London yesterday. In front of a largely hostile crowd, Bob Watson, chief scientist of the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra), i ...

new geography

  • The Two Worlds of Buenos Aires
    Central Buenos Aires is undoubtedly one of the world's great tourist destinations. Days could be spent walking among its narrow streets admiring the plentiful art noveau, art-deco, beaux-arts and other architectural styles. The triumphal Avenida 9 de Julio is one of the world's widest boulevards wit ...
  • Asia’s Go-to Cities: Moving Between Mumbai and Sin ...
    As someone who has lived in both Singapore and Mumbai, I can appreciate both in their uniqueness. Each city has its own unique place in the world, neither lesser than the other. In 2006, I left behind a slightly laid back, well run Singapore, a city trying to come to terms with its boring and over- ...
  • Geography of the Election: The Philadelphia Collar ...
    The Obama coalition of 2008 has begun to fracture with independents, women and college educated voters bolting to Republicans and the youth vote seemingly uninterested in this election. But perhaps the most critical change took place in suburbia. This was particularly evident last week in southeast ...
  • Geography of the Election: A New Era of Racial Pol ...
    Laura Jean Berger worked on the Congressional Campaign of Assemblyman Van Tran. This is her account of the results. Energy and free beer flowed through Assemblyman Van Tran's campaign headquarters, the crowd anxiously building with anticipation each time Fox News reported another House seat for t ...
  • Greetings From Recoveryland: Ten Places to Watch C ...
    Like a massive tornado, the Great Recession up-ended the topography of America. But even as vast parts of the country were laid low, some cities withstood the storm and could emerge even stronger and shinier than before. So, where exactly are these Oz-like destinations along the road to recovery? If ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • World’s Largest Pilot Union Shuns Full-Body ...
    Via: Register: The world’s largest independent airline pilot association is warning its members to avoid security screening by full-body scanners out of concern the machines emit dangerous levels of radiation. The American Pilots Association, which represents about 12,000 pilots, is recommending mem ...
  • Multiple Independent Lab Tests Confirm Oil in Gulf ...
    Via: Raw Story: The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America’s history. However, testing methodologies used by the government ...
  • Judges Dismissing Foreclosure Cases Due to Banks&# ...
    Via: Washington Post: A year ago, Long Island Judge Jeffrey Spinner concluded that a mortgage company’s paperwork in a foreclosure case was so flawed and its behavior in negotiations with the borrower so “repugnant” that he erased the family’s $292,500 debt and gave the house back for free. The judg ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Via: Economic Collapse Blog: Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening. As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against “those wh ...
  • A Survey of Unlikely Voters
    Via: Club Orlov: It seems that many of those who are clever enough to realize that voting here is a fool’s errand also want to leave this country. But how many of them are actually successfully leaving? The answer (again, based on my decidedly informal and limited survey of unlikely voters) is that ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
    In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...
  • Barack Obama And Ben Bernanke Continue To Defend Q ...
    Even as Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke publicly defend the Federal Reserve's new $600 billion quantitative easing program, top finance officials around the globe are expressing alarm and outrage.  But what did Obama and Bernanke expect?  "Quantitative easing" is little more than lega ...
  • Millions Of Unemployed Americans Now Live As Paupe ...
    Most Americans still do not understand just how bad the economic horror we are facing really is.  Today, millions of Americans are living as paupers in the land that their foreathers built even as America's infrastructure is literally being sold out from under their feet by corrupt ...
  • 100 Dollar Oil Is Coming
    The price of oil has been hovering around 80 dollars a barrel for quite some time now, but get ready, because it is going to move significantly higher.  Oil prices have already risen about 9 percent over the past month, and many believe that this could very well be the start of a ne ...

Desertification

  • Sharing Israeli expertise: Drip irrigation, Africa ...
    Read at : http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6544?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+worldwatch%2Fall+%28Worldwatch+Institute%29 Israeli know-how helping to combat hunger in Africa By DANIELLE NIERENBERG AND JANEEN MADAN 11/08/2010 Israel has been a leader in developing innovativ ...
  • We must attack the root causes of hunger by invest ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36669&Cr=hunger&Cr1= Partnerships key to feeding the worldâs hungry â Ban 4 November 2010 â Food supply systems are failing the most vulnerable, and must be fixed through united action, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in one of … Contin ...
  • Ensuring safe trade of plant material and plant pr ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/news/newsitem.php?a=1804 New initiative to improve plant health in Africa An African initiative, aimed at ensuring safe trade of plant material and plant products, has been launched in Nairobi, Kenya. The Centre for Phytosanitary Excellence (COPE) has been … Continue ...
  • Marama bean (Tylosema esculentum) : green gold of ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4196/the-green-gold-of-africa The Green Gold of Africa Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Often called ‘magic’ marama, the green gold of Africa, this plant is working its secret charm above and below ground in southern Afr ...
  • An ‘evergreen revolution’ in agriculture to scale ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2010/11/evergeen-revolution-in-agriculture.html An evergeen revolution in agriculture Posted by Roxanna Samii Thursday, November 4, 2010 By Elwyn Grainger-Jones is Director of Environment and Climate Division Commenting on The Hague Conference on Climate, Food S ...

The Paper Trail

  • Reform Reading:  A Peek Inside JPMorgan&#8217 ...
    A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • High Court Ponders If Companies Can Force Customer ...
    A bogus $11.72 charge for a “free” cell phone could ultimately determine whether American businesses will be able to prevent consumers from bringing class-action lawsuits.
  • EPA Chemical Health Hazards Program Has 55-Year Ba ...
    Eighteen months after the Environmental Protection Agency announced reforms to its controversial process for evaluating health hazards posed by dangerous chemicals, significant problems continue to hamper the program and leave the public at risk, according to a new report by a nonprofit research gro ...
  • In Volcker Rule Debate, All Sides Get Say—Bu ...
    In the Dodd-Frank law's sprawling package of financial reforms, the Volcker rule stands out as one of few measures with the potential to take a big bite out of bank profits.
  • Treesaver E-reader Debuts With ICIJ’s Lootin ...
    The Center for Public Integrity on Sunday launched a new e-reader designed to make reading long-form investigative projects easier on digital platforms. The Treesaver e-reader debuted with a global investigation by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the plunderin ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Brave Steve defends Israel’s far right
    By Alison@Creekside Live-blogging from the Ottawa Conference on Combating Antisemitism, the intrepid Kady does her level best to find out what The Plot -- a secret exhibit from the US Anti-Defamation League that is off-limits to media -- is all about. I don't know either but I'll lay you odds ...
  • Why I won’t listen to Canada Reads 2011
    By Steven W. Beattie Thirty seconds. That’s the approximate amount of time it took after the announcement of the 40 titles in contention to appear on the 2011 edition of the CBC’s "Canada Reads" program for Twitter to explode with tweets from authors, publishers, friends, and fans, all of them ...
  • The G20: Bill Blair and “preventive detentio ...
    By Alison@Creekside At the Public Safety Committee yesterday, Toronto Chief Bill Blair lobbed the following statement about "preventive detention" at the G20 into the proceedings [just before the 4 minute mark]: "I think you are all familiar with images of members of that group who were smashing ...
  • Potash and trout bring out the best in the Cons
    By Frank Moher Perhaps Alison, the regular blogger in this space, will disagree, but it seems to me the Conservatives have actually done two things right in the last two days. That's two things in a row. Significantly, both are liable to prove unpopular with their business base in the West, ...
  • Dear Kanye: Keep your junk in its trunk
    By Rachel Krueger Attention, gentlemen of the world: a picture of your dong is not a dozen roses.  It is not a fun evening out, or even a quick back rub.  It is not, in short, something the object of your admiration is going to be delighted to receive.    When rumors of ...

Worldnews

  • Myanmar's top court rejects Suu Kyi's final a ...
    YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar's top court rejected a final and largely symbolic appeal by detained Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest, her lawyer said on Thursday, two days before her scheduled release. The Myanmar's Supreme Court decision was widely expected and ...
  • British reveal timing for bomb
    One of the two package bombs intercepted late last month would have exploded over a largely unpopulated area of Canada if it had detonated, according to flight data and new information released Wednesday by British police. "Forensic examination has indicated that if the device had activated, it ...
  • Motorola fires back at Microsoft with patent ...
    LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. - Motorola is returning fire in a legal battle with Microsoft, suing the software maker for infringing on 16 of its patents. Motorola said Wednesday that Microsoft's PC and server software, Windows mobile software and Xbox products infringe on its patents. The complaints were ...
  • Spoils of Madoff's lavish life on auction blo ...
    NEW YORK - Jailed financier Bernard Madoff led a lavish lifestyle until his downfall. The disgraced financier left homes filled with luxury goods - and everyday items like underwear, slippers and T-shirts, all monogrammed to fit his ego. Thousands of belongings from the New York City penthouse ...
  • Close to home: Columbia, Lower Richland
    JUST FOR KIDS Design a grocery bag Children ages 5-11 from Lexington and Richland counties may enter an art contest, with the winning design to be printed on limited edition, reusable grocery bags. The contest, sponsored by the Keep the Midlands Beautiful student advisory board, has a Monday de ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • BCG: Bullish on clean energy
    Switchgrass--headed for your gas tank? The future of alternative energy is arriving faster than you might think.
  • Back to the Ozone Treaty
    Energy legislation shelved… little hope that the United States will join the world in establishing a new global climate change agreement… climate scientists forming their wagons in a circle… you may wonder whether there is any hope?
  • Phasing out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Will Help, But O ...
    By Jesse Jenkins, originally at the Breakthrough Institute
  • Biden: Congress should extend Treasury cash grant ...
    Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden joined a growing number of voices in calling for Congress to extend the Treasury cash grant program.� This show of support from the Obama administration is timely and reflects the recognition that some stimulus programs should last into the future.� CAP�s Richard ...
  • US Lagging in Green Jobs
    New Clean Edge� jobs report shows the Boston region is doing relatively well, but the U.S. is lagging in green jobs by Joshua Rinaldi and David Levy Joshua Rinaldi is a first year doctoral student in the McCormack School of Public Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...

Peoples Voice

  • Justice Probe of CIA Torture Evidence: Another Whi ...
    By Andrew Kreig Posted by Michael Collins Justice-Integrity Project Here's why the Justice Department's halt to its probe of CIA obstruction of justice involving torture looks like another whitewash. (left-US Attorney General Eric Holder) The DOJ compromised its probe from the beginning in 200 ...
  • Letter to the British Liberal Democrats
    Stuart Littlewood Subject: Protecting war criminals - “just about the lowest thing anyone could do” LibDem leaders know perfectly well that under 'universal jurisdiction' all states that are party to the Geneva Conventions are obliged to seek out and prosecute or extradite those suspected of grav ...
  • Public Like A Frog: "Where all are guilty, no one ...
    by Phil Rockstroh Once again, partisan Democrats are reeling in shock and humiliation, boggled by a familiar scenario -- the sheer velocity of their reversal of fortune and the Republican right's perennial ascendency. Democrats implore, why is it voters occupying less than privileged positions in t ...
  • Zionism needs the Israeli Jews to feel frightened: ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Alan Hart is an indispensable name in journalism. Unquestionably, he has been one of the most influential British journalists with an expertise in the Middle East affairs. A former BBC Panorama presenter, Hart was a close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and ...
  • THE BIG LIE REGARDING ECONOMIC RECOVERY
    Allen L Roland The current unemployment rate remains the worse since the great Depression and will worsen. The broader measure of unemployment is 17% ~ which includes discouraged workers who have not found a job in six months as well as part time workers who want full time work. The reported gain o ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA 30th anniversary conference and gala dinner N ...
    For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been giving voice to progressive ideas. In an era of shrinking progressive think tanks and growing right-wing think tanks, we’d like to celebrate our three decades of accomplishments. We hope you will be part of the celebration. On No ...
  • Still Open for Business: Potash Decision
    Now that Investment Canada has rejected BHP Billiton's hostile takeover bid and the sky has not�fallen, perhaps we can finally dispense with the tired argument that restrictions on foreign investment will leave Canada no longer "open for business." In fact, virtually every OECD country has more str ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik in Regina
    ================================== Please join us on November 18th for the Regina leg of Abousfian Abdelrazik's Western Canada speaking tour. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on a visit to Sudan in 2003. The Federal Court of Canada later concluded that this arrest likely took place at th ...
  • Partner Pre-Budget Submissions (Update Nov 8)
    Every year as part of the federal government's budget process, the budget committee asks for "pre-budget submissions." �Essentially these documents are ideas that any person or group can put forward about what they would like to see in the upcoming federal budget. �The goal is to have the ideas find ...
  • Did you know that poverty costs Nova Scotia at lea ...
    A new report released by the CCPA-NS puts numbers to the cost of poverty in Nova Scotia for the very first time. The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia , written by Angella MacEwan and Christine Saulnier, reveals that the cost of poverty in Nova Scotia is an estimated 5-7% of GDP, or $1400 to $1700 for ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Here Come The Austerity Measures – USA Style ...
    Lower the Corporate Tax to reduce spending? Only in America, folks! Deficit Advisers Back Sweeping Cuts | The Wall Street Journal The co-chairmen of a deficit commission established by the White House would seek to limit federal spending on health care, gradually raise the retirement age and lower t ...
  • Of Course It’s Our Fault
    Bush & Rush Blame the Democrats for the Recession | Crooks & Liars George Bush’s Makeover Tour is currently making the rounds of ConservaTalk, and yesterday morning he stopped by to chat with his successor as the leader of the GOP: Rush Limbaugh. One of our great C&L readers, King Crimson, sent in s ...
  • Dipping Into the Maya
    The results of the recent mid-term elections put me, if not in a funk, in a state of Catatonia. During this mind-numbing week-long lull following the elections, all sorts of nasty, spiteful, or simply selfish things came to mind: “I will leave this country and become the ex-pat I’ve been trying to ...
  • The Rich Get Richer
    Wall Street Wins Again | Truthdig The Republicans may have stormed the House, but it was Wall Street and the Fed that won the election. Regardless of party power plays and posturing, there are two constants that remain unaltered after the election. First, Wall Street will continue on with business a ...
  • WTF Has Sarah Palin Done So Far?
    Equal Times. Palin said Obama should not be meeting with Indians: “This isn’t Thanksgiving.” | wtfhassarahpalindonesofar.com More…

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
    Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...
  • The Lies of Islamophobia
    The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne�s command, including his ...
  • What's Mike Up To?
    What's Mike Up To?
  • 'I Remember'
  • 9/11 Families Call for Immediate Acknowledgement o ...
    NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civ ...

Salon

  • Olbermann's back. Whoop-de-doo
    For the record, I don't buy Keith Olbermann's alibi that he didn't realize NBC News had a rule against reporters making political donations. As his frequent invocations of legendary figures going back to Edward R. Murrow make clear, Olbermann's virtually a scholar of TV broadcasting. He knew.
  • Pray for Jim DeMint!
    South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is under attack -- from liberals! (Liberals, in this case, means "Republicans who criticize DeMint for pushing candidates too crazy to win Senate elections .") Tony Perkins' Family Research Council calls on you to come to his defense. With prayer.
  • The Bush tax cuts: Will Obama take a stand?
    This originally appeared at Robert Reich's blog
  • Glenn Beck's five-point plan for world domination
    In Tuesday's first installment of his series on George Soros' supposed quest for world domination, Glenn Beck accused the billionaire of -- among many, many other things -- following a five-point "formula" to gain control of the United States. You can watch the performance here, starting around 2 ...
  • Florida county ends school lockdown after threat
    Thousands of students in the nation's sixth-largest school district spent hours locked in their classrooms Wednesday after an unidentified woman called a radio station and said her husband might go to a campus and open fire with a gun.

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits cam ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metre (9 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • BCG: Bullish on clean energy
    Switchgrass--headed for your gas tank? The future of alternative energy is arriving faster than you might think.
  • Back to the Ozone Treaty
    Energy legislation shelved… little hope that the United States will join the world in establishing a new global climate change agreement… climate scientists forming their wagons in a circle… you may wonder whether there is any hope?
  • Phasing out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Will Help, But O ...
    By Jesse Jenkins, originally at the Breakthrough Institute
  • Biden: Congress should extend Treasury cash grant ...
    Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden joined a growing number of voices in calling for Congress to extend the Treasury cash grant program.� This show of support from the Obama administration is timely and reflects the recognition that some stimulus programs should last into the future.� CAP�s Richard ...
  • US Lagging in Green Jobs
    New Clean Edge� jobs report shows the Boston region is doing relatively well, but the U.S. is lagging in green jobs by Joshua Rinaldi and David Levy Joshua Rinaldi is a first year doctoral student in the McCormack School of Public Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston ...

EU Times

  • The Tea Party is now more powerful than President ...
    Who would have predicted this a year ago? Certainly not the complacent army of White House spin doctors who have failed to grasp, let alone acknowledge, the momentous political transformation that is sweeping America. CNN’s latest poll confirms that the Tea Party movement has more political clout th ...
  • Arizona voters to decide on affirmative action ban
    Arizona voters will decide in November whether to ban state and local governments from discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, ethnicity and sex. The state constitutional amendment doesn’t use the term “affirmative action,” but there is no disputing that is what Proposition 107 is ai ...
  • At least 42 injured in suicide bombing in North Ca ...
    A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the republic of Dagestan, injuring at least 42 people, including several police officers, according to media reports Saturday. The bomber broke through a police cordon in the capital, Makhachkala, where security officers were battling militia fighters. At lea ...
  • Britain tells US ‘we cannot fight another Af ...
    Britain has warned the United States that the military will not be able to fight another war like Afghanistan. Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, told his counterparts in the US that the Armed Forces would only be able to provide the manpower for medium-scale conflicts or for support in large conflict ...
  • Shootings kill nine in Russia’s North Caucas ...
    Unidentified assailants gunned down a school principal in her home in Russia’s troubled Dagestan province on Friday, while separate shoot-outs killed eight people across the North Caucasus. An Islamist insurgency is raging in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus region, where rebels angry about poverty ...

Stonecipher News

  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College . All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses al ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News : "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that m ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
    According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter , "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
  • Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
    This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.
  • Repression and the Ruling Class
    From my Triond collection : I recently read Louis Althusser’s article on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. He discusses the production for conditions of reproduction by breaking down the Marxist theory into several fundamental aspects. Althusser discussed the differences between the prolet ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Veterans Day, Serving Your Country and Walmart
    I am a proud Veteran.  In 1994, after four years of Army ROTC I entered the US Army Ordnance Corps as a Second Lieutenant.  Served my initial tour in Baumholder Germany-known as “The Rock”, and after a mere year was deployed with my unit to Bosnia-Herzogovina for 10 months as part of the initial fo ...
  • Very interesting op-ed by Egyptian in JPost
    From the Jerusalem Post , written by Nabil Sharaf Eldin, an Egyptian journalist: I have been haunted since early boyhood by an infatuation with Bilad al-Sham, or Greater Syria – the territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. For me, this fascination started with recognizing the voices of ...
  • Honorable James Mwandha, Disability Rights Activis ...
    Via email from the Global Partnership for Disability and Development Dear Friends, I have received the shocking news from Uganda of the Death of Honorable James Mwandha. He has been suffering from Post Polio syndromes and Pressure. The World Disability Movement has lost an Asset. May his soul rest ...
  • Seoul G20 Summit: How can Asia help Africa?
    This is the first blog post from ONE intern Tom Wallace, who works in our UK office. Please give him a warm welcome! The G20 , a combination of finance ministers from twenty of the world’s most influential economies, meet in Seoul this week to discuss how to promote development in the poorest natio ...
  • Microsoft sues Motorola, again
    Microsoft escalated its legal battle with Motorola Inc. on Tuesday with a lawsuit accusing the phone maker of charging inflated royalties for networking technology that the software giant uses in its Xbox gaming system. The suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, comes on the heels of another laws ...

Groklaw

  • Adafruit Industries - We have a winner
    WE HAVE A WINNER - Open Kinect driver(s) released - Winner will use $3k for more hacking - PLUS an additional $2k goes to the EFF! That's right - We have a winner for the $3k bounty for Open source drivers for the Xbox Kinect....He's running all this on a Linux laptop (his code works with OpenGL) an ...
  • Exclusive: Oracle enlists private eyes to find HP ...
    Oracle Corp has hired private investigators to track down Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker, believing testimony by the former SAP chief will help its efforts to claim about $4 billion in damages for software theft, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters. [PJ: Blech.] - Reuters
  • Oracle's Larry Ellison takes stand in SAP case
    TomorrowNow offered maintenance services and support software for customers of the companies Oracle acquired. SAP also launched a sales campaign called "Safe Passage" to entice those customers to switch to SAP. Ellison said that at the time, he considered SAP's moves a "grave threat" to Oracle. "I ...
  • Michigan assistant AG fired after targeting openly ...
    Cox said he wasn't firing Shirvell for "exercising ... First Amendment rights, (however) unpopular (the) positions might be," but for persistent and personal harassment.... Gordon said that she and her client aren't done going after Shirvell. That includes trying to have him disbarred as a licensed ...
  • Apple and I.B.M. Arent All That Different
    Yet I.B.M. and Apple can be viewed as the yin and the yang of high-tech innovation, as two companies with more in common than is generally understood. There is a lot of eureka invention and deep science in I.B.M.'s varied businesses, industry experts say. And Apple's continuing success, they add, is ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Revealing interview with Khaled Meshaal
    The enterprising, Bucharest-based researcher Manuela Paraipan published an interesting, revealing interview with Khaled Meshaal in Open Democracy last week. I'm sorry I don't have time to analyze it very thoroughly right now-- things are really hopping in the publishing business, with two JWB title ...
  • Yesterday's Taksim Square bomb
    Thanks to everyone who's expressed concern for my wellbeing after yesterday's bomb in Taksim Square. In the incident, a suicide bomber detonated himself at the entrance to a police bus. He killed himself and injured 15 police officers and 17 members of the public. Te indications seem to be it was ...
  • D. Broder and the war fever in Washington
    Just how serious the current, rising epidemic of war fever is in Washington DC is indicated by a column in today's WaPo in which veteran pundit David Broder argues quite clearly that for Pres. Obama, "orchestrating a showdown" with the regime in Iran in 2011 and 2012 will be a successful policy at b ...
  • More impressions, Istanbul
    So many conversations, so many amazing meals, so much history. One major thing that has emerged from the conversations, for me, is a much more robust sense that what we are seeing in Turkey today is not a function just of the actions and policies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), b ...
  • Istanbul, for all that ails you
    Today, I feel like maybe I died and went to heaven. I am sitting in an apartment that is perched on the heights of Istanbul's Cehangir neighborhood right across the Golden Horn from the Topkapi Palace. I stare out of the picture windows at the confluence of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus. Ferry- ...

First Truths

  • Antitrust and the Ultimate Monopoly Redux
    In a leading text for the study of antitrust law, law professors Phillip Areeda, Louis Kaplow and Aaron Edlin assert: In the absence of legal impediments, competitors would like to join together to eliminate competition among themselves, restricting output and raising prices. A perfect scheme wou ...
  • Peace Talks For War
    I opined for the Center for a Stateless Society on the United States-negotiated peace talks between Israel and Palestine. I've previously written on the issue here .
  • Liberty or Authority: The Social(ism) Question
    Although the vicissitudes of the political season belie the fact, when November draws to a close the state will persist. And with it will remain its ring of members, superficial substitutions notwithstanding, all ready to deal in douceurs with wealth created by the productive among us. Convinced a ...
  • Mortgage Liens On Our Lives
    The state, though it assures us of the goodwill behind its housing policies, has succeeded in a master stroke of subterfuge that further condenses wealth in the troves of the elite. The mortgage fiasco once again demonstrates that the state will mobilize when the interests of its club members are im ...
  • Terrorism By Any Other Name
    In federal court on Tuesday, Faisal Shahzad, whose attempt to bomb Times Square with homemade explosives was thwarted back in May, was handed a life sentence. In a statement made during a hearing, Shahzad, an American radicalized by the United States’ sanguinary, terroristic crusade against the Mu ...

Media Co-Op

  • Mexican Journalist Carlos on Mexico's Drug war
    Carlos Fazio, a journalist from Mexico City, spoke in Vancouver in October, 2010. This is his entire speech, in which he discussed the so called war on drugs and the Merida Initiative, which is modeled on the failed Plan Colombia.
  • Secret Agreement in the Works Between ENGOs and Ta ...
    Will environmentalists continue to allow foundation funding to dictate to the movement? A slew of recent articles have pointed to the likelihood that some foundation-funded environmental groups and the tar sands extraction industry are getting ...
  • Calgary Home Invasion & Beating is Suspected Neo-N ...
    Victims are saying nothing was stolen Justin Devine, an activist with Anti-Racists Canada is reporting that at 1:30 AM this morning, 5 males carried out an armed home invasion on his and his wife’s residences in Calgary. Bonnie Devine recently ...
  • Read With Caution
    Engler's Black Book tantalizes and torments Yves Engler's The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy , which came out in 2009, has generated keen interest across the country, and opened up discussions that are long overdue. "The goal of this bo ...
  • Why "Media Democracy" isn't Enough
    Yesterday I had the chance to go to the annual Media Democracy Day event in Vancouver. As usual, it was a nice chance to see lots of folks I don't get to have face time with all that often, as well as to interact with many new people. That sa ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The must see, must pass along video
    David Seaton's News Links Steve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video and it is a powerful and positive piece of work. If you like it pass it on. DS
  • Tales of Globalization: USA and India: a marriage ...
    "I believe that the relationship between the United States and India will, in fact, be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st Century." President Obama - BBC News The most dramatic and remarkable improvement in consumption has been of those who were already the richest people in India � that i ...
  • The Kochs: paying to keep America dumb
    AJ Goode and his wife Mary who live in a shelter in Los Angeles - BBC News David Seaton's News Links Around the world people ask themselves, if Americans are so dumb, why is the country so rich? Americans are not really born that stupid, but making them stupid is a huge industry. The Koch Brothers ...
  • The Koch Brothers
    Charles and David Koch David Seaton's News Links Jane Mayer has written what may be, because of its future repercussions, a history making article in the New Yorker. Her exhaustively researched article shows that the brothers Koch of Koch Industries are supplying a great deal of the money fueling t ...
  • Tea Party: Nixon's chickens come home to roost
    David Seaton's News Links The political climate in America is toxic and it has been ever since Richard Nixon launched his Southern Strategy and caused Republicans to pause from their golf and stock coupon clipping long enough to plunge into neofascist populism and charismatic religion. The fiscal co ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Organic Food May Become a Thing of the Past
    Over the past 15 years or so, a collection of five giant biotech corporations -- Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow and DuPont -- have bought up more than 200 other companies, allowing them to dominate access to seeds. The takeover has been so dramatic that it is becoming difficult for farmers to find ...
  • Probiotics Send Signals From Your Gut to Your Skin
    Much more is known about how probiotics work in your gut than is known about their effects elsewhere in your body. But new research shows that there may be signals coming from these gut microorganisms that are sent to your skin and mucosa. According to Professor Christine Lang, the potential benefi ...
  • The Hazardous Gas in Your Mouth: Is This the First ...
    Costa Mesa, California is the first city in the United States to call for an immediate end to dental amalgam. Dental amalgam is a filling material that is 50 percent mercury. The resolution calls on federal and state agencies to eliminate amalgam, and asks dentists in Costa Mesa to switch to non-t ...
  • Drug Company Pays 3/4 of a Billion Dollars for Sel ...
    Drug company GlaxoSmithKline is paying $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs. Glaxo will pay $150 million in criminal fines and $600 million in civil penalties. Several of the company's drugs were adulterated at one of the company's plants be ...
  • Hamster Synchronization

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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) ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Schools can't solve the dropout crisis alone
    Quebec has thrown everything it can think of at its school dropout rate: more teachers, more money, more encouragement. There has been hand-wringing over whether girls are shortchanged, or boys. Are there too few male teachers in elementary schools? Too few female science teachers in high sc ...
  • An unjustified intrusion into personal life
    The Quebec Court of Appeal's decision this week in the notorious "Lola" case got one thing right, at least, when it suggested that anyone tempted to move in with a sexual partner without benefit of marriage or contract should know the rules before going ahead.
  • The thrill of hockey has no gender lines
    The induction of Canadian Angela James and American Cammi Granato into the Hockey Hall of Fame sent a mixed message to young girls. For all of their extraordinary accomplishments, these two great players were selected only after the Hall of Fame opened up two extra spots for women.
  • No more delays: Fix the Turcot now
    The Centre Gadbois sports complex, in Southwest borough, has a spacious parking lot under the Decarie Expressway, at the southern edge of the Turcot Interchange. But that lot is closed now, because chunks of debris keep falling into it from the structure above. Nor is that the only spot wher ...
  • No more delays: Fix the Turcot now
    The Centre Gadbois sports complex, in Southwest borough, has a spacious parking lot under the Decarie Expressway, at the southern edge of the Turcot Interchange. But that lot is closed now, because chunks of debris keep falling into it from the structure above. Nor is that the only spot wher ...

Food World Order

  • 'obama go back' protest by farmers in india
    from gmwatch : Cotton growers in Vidarbha on Friday staged candle-light protests on the eve of US President Barack Obama's visit to the country, seeking to draw his attention to the plight of the agriculture sector in the region caused by American policies . Protests were held under the banner of th ...
  • 11/4 binge & purge: frowny fries & waterwars
    san fran passes law banning toys in happy meals * democrat monsanto-lobbyist supported gop candidate * how the 2010 election results will affect health care & freedom * election unlikely to change s510 fate in senate * what the green movement got wrong: a 'turncoat' explains * world b ...
  • monsanto has no magic cure for its woes as company ...
    from digital journal : Monsanto is under the gun on a number of different issues, and the company has no magic elixir or engineered fix to halt the corporation's plummet from its recent position as Forbe's Company of the Year . Major cracks have formed in the Monsanto facade this past year. Dropping ...
  • alcohol more harmful to your health than heroin & ...
    from natural news : Scientists from Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) recently released a study that assessed which drugs cause the most overall harm to both users and society . According to their analysis, alcohol is the most harmful drug, scoring higher on the list than bo ...
  • 10/7 binge & purge: sick, soda, studies
    study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick * politics of food in the pacific northwest * coffee prices rise as futures hit 13yr high * 3-course meal in stick of chewing gum now a possibility * new york seeks food-stamp ban on soda * study shows drop in retail food prices ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Sex, lies and money in the church
    source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
  • Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
    source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
  • Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
    source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
  • Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
    source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010   By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ri ...
  • What science say about religious conversion
    source:  Helium.com,  October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Iceland President Accuses England, Holland of Fina ...
  • Berlusconi Pushing for Israeli Membership of the E ...
    Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel’s settlement policy as an impediment to peace. “My greatest desire, as long as I am a protagonist in politics, is to bring Israel into membership of the European Union,” said Si ...
  • .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
    Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
  • Child Rapists Protected By The State
    In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
    In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...
  • Barack Obama And Ben Bernanke Continue To Defend Q ...
    Even as Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke publicly defend the Federal Reserve's new $600 billion quantitative easing program, top finance officials around the globe are expressing alarm and outrage.  But what did Obama and Bernanke expect?  "Quantitative easing" is little more than lega ...
  • Millions Of Unemployed Americans Now Live As Paupe ...
    Most Americans still do not understand just how bad the economic horror we are facing really is.  Today, millions of Americans are living as paupers in the land that their foreathers built even as America's infrastructure is literally being sold out from under their feet by corrupt ...
  • 100 Dollar Oil Is Coming
    The price of oil has been hovering around 80 dollars a barrel for quite some time now, but get ready, because it is going to move significantly higher.  Oil prices have already risen about 9 percent over the past month, and many believe that this could very well be the start of a ne ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 10th November 2010
    "Shabby and secret dealings between member states last year made Herman Van Rompuy president of the European Council. At the time, he was mocked in Britain largely because he was unknown, mouse-like and, well, Belgian. But last night in Berlin, Van Rompuy showed what he really is. And that is, a ...
  • Quote of the Day: 5th November 2010
    "If I was bold before the accident, I'm fearless now. And this is the time to be fearless; to be strong and decisive and to push for what we believe in. For never have the political classes been more out of touch with public opinion. Patriotic Old Labour voters have known this for a long time. Th ...
  • My thoughts on the student Millbank protests.... i ...
    You've no doubt seen the images of the student protests in Millbank. I'm not sure I agree with their cause. I can see both sides of what the students think on tuition fees. I can also see what the politicians - and no doubt some of the taxpayers - might say. Should University tuition be free? Pro ...
  • Why is Labour's Harriet Harman telling lies... abo ...
    You've probably seen Harriet Harman on the news, responding to the Phil Woolas court verdict. She says it is: "no part of Labour's politics to try to win elections by telling lies". Really? So where's the European Union referendum? LIES! We couldn't have one because the Lisbon Treaty ...
  • Quote of the Day: A 'The biggest threats to the cl ...
    "Britain's promise to more than double its use of biofuels by 2020 is "significantly" adding to worldwide carbon emissions, the Government admitted yesterday. ...The study, from the Institute for European Environmental Policy, found that far from being 35 to 50 per cent less polluting, as require ...

Facing South

  • Spill panel: Driven by 'compulsion' to finish well ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica As we noted earlier this week, members of the presidential commission investigating BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill made clear that they don't believe individual BP workers consciously decided to put corporate profit over safety when making decisions regarding the de ...
  • Polluted communities to meet with first black EPA ...
    By Robert Bullard, OpEdNews It has now been two months since former DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming made history when the Obama administration named her to become the first African American and female to head EPA Region 4 , which includes eight southern states -- Alabama, Florid ...
  • Obama administration promises swift investigation ...
    At the first gathering of the federal Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force that took place yesterday in Pensacola, Fla., the U.S. Justice Department pledged to launch swift criminal and civil investigations into the parties responsible for the Gulf oil disaster that killed 11 workers and spil ...
  • As Obama pushes nuclear industry's expansion, its ...
    Two nuclear power plants owned by New Orleans-based Entergy were forced to shut down over the weekend following serious operating problems, including a radioactive leak at one plant in Vermont. Those troubling incidents come on the heels of an electrical explosion at NRG's South Texas nuc ...
  • VOICES: Elephants make dinosaurs of the Blue Dogs ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South What's the future of the "Blue Dog" Democrat? It's a legitimate question to ask in the wake of last Tuesday's election. Here in Mississippi, two "Blue Dog" Democrats -- 1st District Congressman Travis Childers and 4th District Congressman Gene Taylor -- lost their re- ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    No Charges in Destruction of CIA Tapes Depicting Harsh Interrogations The Justice Department will not pursue charges over the destruction of dozens of tapes made by the CIA showing harsh interrogations of detainees, according to multiple reports. Jose Rodriguez Jr., … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Video, al-Awlaki Justifies the Killing of Americans A 23-minute video released Monday on jihadist forums features U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki justifying the killing of Americans. âDon’t consult with anybody in killing the Americans…Fighting the devil does not require a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Yemeni Judge Orders al-Awlaki’s Arrest On Saturday, a Yemeni judge ordered the âforcibleâ arrest of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The Independent reports that âJudge Mohsen Alwan ordered Awlaki to be âarrested by force, dead or aliveâ after al-Awlaki failed to … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Memoir, Bush Says He Personally Approved Waterboarding KSM In âDecision Points,â Pres. Bushâs memoir due out Tuesday, Bush writes that he personally approved the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to the Washington Post. According to the report, âBush … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Ghailani Trial, Prosecution and Defense Rest An earlier than expected end came Wednesday to the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, accused of participating in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, with the prosecution and defense both resting … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Script to Install Incredible Compiz Experimental P ...
    I was looking for something like this for so long. Using this incredible script, you can easily install some of the finest Compiz plugins in Ubuntu which are not available by default since they are dubbed "experimental". This is one script you should not give a miss at any cost. Compiz Exper ...
  • Life Beyond X - Ubuntu Drifting Away from X11 Towa ...
    X Windows System(commonly known as X or X11) has been part of Linux for so long that everyone seems to have forgotten if there even existed any alternatives at all. Well, Canonical founder Mark Shuttlework recently reminded us all that there are indeed alternatives to X and they are planning to move ...
  • Android Gains 44% of US Smartphone Market Share in ...
    Android is growing by leaps and bounds. In line with the predictions by Gartner Research a month ago, Android now is the fastest growing smartphone mobile OS in US(and the world) and sales of Android phones led Apple iOS, RIM's BlackBerry and others in the US for the third quarter. Android OS was in ...
  • Upload to Google Docs via Nautilus Using Nautilus- ...
    Nautilus-GDoc is a nice little Nautilus script that will help you integrate Nautilus with Google Docs. A new 'send to GDoc' option will be available in your Nautilus right click menu. Download and Install Nautilus-GDoc Download Nautilus-GDoc Extract it and copy paste the�"Send To GDoc" fi ...
  • 'A New Start' GTK Theme is Incredibly Cool!
    If Equinox and Elegant GNOME were not good enough themes for you, may be it's time for something new like 'A New Start' GTK theme. It is a little too bright for my taste but still worth mentioning. Check it out. A New Start GTK Theme Download 'A New Start' GTK Theme . You also need to dow ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • My invitation to participate in the SciCom journal ...
    It is a great pleasure for me to have been invited to participate in the SciCom discussion forum along with journalists from Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung, from Austria’s news magazine Profil, the state-run TV station, the ORF and the Kronenzeitung, at the Technical University, Vienna, tom ...
  • German police ask for football matches to be cance ...
    The German police union Dpolg has called for all football league games to be cancelled in Germany this weekend to give the police involved in an operation to quell protests against the transport of nuclear waste to a depot in Gorleben this weekend a chance to rest up. The demand by the police union ...
  • Former Green Party MP in Germany talks about lust ...
    Barbara Rütting who was a Green Party member in the Bavarian regional parliament before quitting in dismay, talked frankly to Markus Lanz in a TV show broadcast on ZDF in October about her experience of the lies, lust for power and indifference to the welfare of the people so commonplace among Germa ...
  • World Awakens To Criminal Banking Cartel
    Intentional destruction of the dollar creates massive backlash among those not on board globalist bandwagon Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Tuesday, Nov 9th, 2010 A global backlash has emerged against the Federal Reserve’s blatant policy of devaluing the dollar by printing $600 billion out of thin air ...
  • Austrian Interior Ministry accused of cover up ove ...
    Austria’s Ministry of Interior has come under fire for dragging its feet over an investigation into the activities of the neo Nazi website with links to far-right Freedom Party politicians, such as Martin Graf and Johann Gudenus, a military academy in Wiener Neustadt,  police officers and even pe ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Video – Mysterious Missile Launch over South ...
    Okay, what is it?  Missile? Contrail? Chemtrail?  Why wouldn’t the military explain it away immediately?  There are folks from wired.com saying it’s only a contrail.  But the military folks take twenty four hours to say it wasn’t their missile? Many odd things going on with this one…
  • Unlicensed barbering arrests: Did Florida deputies ...
    The police state at work.  It would seem that a far more efficient use of police would be to start raiding the banks and bankers that have engaged in far more serious fraud… As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business ho ...
  • The moral illegitimacy of governments
    By John Kaminski rebelnews.org We don’t have leaders, statesmen, or philosopher kings anymore. We have bagmen for the Jewish financial mob that rules the known world with its money tricks, with not a patriot in sight when the orders come down from the big boys, the top Rockefellers, Rothschilds and ...
  • Israel’s pillars of Samson: not quite Armageddon b ...
    By Alan Sabrosky 11 August 2010 Alan Sabrosky considers the relationship between the subservience of successive US presidents, including Barack Obama, to Israel and Israel’s ongoing access to US nuclear codes and systems, and its ability to override safeguards in the US to obtain command and control ...
  • The Empty People – those who love money abov ...
    by Tom Dennen The Empty People. Joe Sixpack’s death came during his enlightenment this week during a bank holiday on a Main Stream Medium (MSM), talking heads show hosted by one Dylan Ratigan, whom I have mentioned before in his run up to the question, âIs it Time for a Revolution in America?â Well, ...

Veterans Today

  • Letter to British Liberal Democrats: protecting wa ...
    âShowing no remorse for the 1,400 dead (including 320 children and 109 women), the thousands horribly maimed and the hundreds of thousand made homeless, Livniâs office issued a statement saying she was proud of Operation Cast Lead, the murderous blitz she unleashed.⠖  Stuart Littlewood Liberal De ...
  • Zionism needs the Israeli Jews to feel frightened: ...
    By Kourosh Ziabari An exclusive,  in-depth interview with Alan Hart, veteran British journalist and former BBC Panorama Correspondent. Author of  Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews Alan Hart is an indispensable name in journalism. Unquestionably, he has been one of the most influential British jour ...
  • Introducing Salute to Service: A New Online Hub in ...
    In honor of Veterans Day, Causecast will be celebrating the men and women of America’s armed forces with the Salute to Service campaign. The campaign’s online hub (www.salutetoservice.org) will provide visitors to the site with the opportunity to take easy actions to support veterans through the wor ...
  • National Veterans Day Ceremony 2010
    The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery . The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans’ organizations and ...
  • WSI Takes a Moment of Silence and Thankful Reflect ...
    WSI would like to take a moment and show gratitude to all Veterans today on Veterans Day. Too often we take for granted our liberties and freedom especially in this fast paced world where life seems to matter only on the computer screen and in the office. We take for granted our freedom which we wou ...

electric politics

  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...
  • Óχi Euro
    Until fairly recently the Greek debt crisis wasn't so much in the news. Now, it's roiling markets and a lot of commentators are wringing their hands over the possibility that it could precipitate another world-wide financial crash. That's probably a baseless fear. Greece is mainly a Eurozone proble ...
  • Folk History
    To talk culture I turned to the award winning writer Luc Sante . Because Luc is Belgian, and therefore doubly an expert, I seized this opportunity to also talk about Tin-Tin comics, which I grew up on as a kid in the Belgian Congo and in Brussels. Among other topics we cover Luc's latest book, Folk ...
  • The F-35 Boondoggle
    A trillion dollar gold-plated warplane that can't do anything very well. But it looks slick. Brilliant! I'll have a dozen, please. If Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates were serious about containing Pentagon costs they'd cancel the F-35. If Congress were serious about budget deficits they'd stop funding it. I ...

PR News

  • Airlines get out ahead of new security requirement ...
    The major airlines launched communications plans around new requirements on air passenger data in advance of the November 1 deadline, in a strategy to avoid passenger confusion and frustration.
  • Midterm messages focus on economy
    WASHINGTON: The Democrats and Republicans have ramped up communications leading up to the midterm elections on November 2, with the state of the economy taking center stage.
  • Kraft's Blocki passes away at 85
    ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL: James R. Blocki, 85, retired SVP of advertising and marketing services for Kraft Foods, died at his home in Arlington Heights, IL on Thursday, November 4, 2010, after a long illness.
  • Study shows brands improving on social engagement
    CHICAGO: A new report from ComBlu showed brands have improved over the past year in the area of social engagement.
  • McDonald's hires MWW's Forsatz for new position
    NEW YORK: McDonald's hired MWW's Cheryll Forsatz to fill a new position, director of PR for its New York region, as the company looks to continue driving business results in the key market.

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 ...

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  • You: Netanyahu: Iran must believe world is willing to act - Summary (earthtimes.org)
  • Iran Arrests Terrorists With British Links (grantlawrence.blogspot.com)
  • Lindsey Graham in a confrontational mood (washingtonmonthly.com)
  • You: US senator sees war with Iran, 'confrontation' with China (nation.com.pk)**
  • ** 31 years on and counting the constant U.S. violations of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty by attacking signatories of a plan to restrict nuclear weapons spread...in the name of violations which are not substantiated upon investigation.
  • What else would you expect from the owner of global nuclear overkill which lies incessantly to 'justify' mass murders ?  
  • Nor is North Korea's belligerence at having its integrity and intelligence insulted surprising : resorting to having the goods if it is going to carry the burden of economic sanctions - an act of war - from the treaty breaker which does not keep its own agreements and burdens to make other arrangements save nuclear power generation feasible : confiscating Korean and Iranian bank accounts and international ability to provide for themselves while proving a bank account in U.S. dollars not worth the paper they aren't  printed on as far as security of deposit is concerned for any foreign corporation, person or government. And that without securities fraud being taken into account.
  • Korea at least does not have one problem facing Iran : active international certification, as the result of over 4000 inspections by the IAEA, of being unable to retaliate in kind against WMD. Well, until the latest head proved more amenable than the previous boss  to accepting the spurious representations of U.S. secret agents as 'evidence'.
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