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Saturday, November 13, 2010

13 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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

 Sidebar Spider Search for Water Related Terms at Bottom

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S.: Blue-Ribbon Panel Finds AfPak Strategy at "C ...
    The administration of President Barack Obama should begin shifting to a counterterrorism (CT) strategy requiring many fewer troops in Afghanistan if its pending review finds that the current counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy is not working, according to a new report by a bipartisan task fo ...
  • CUBA: Popular Knowledge Can Transform People's Wor ...
    Valuing and sharing common people's knowledge and experience, awakening critical consciousness and finding paths for effective social participation are the processes used by more than 1,000 people in Cuba working in Popular Education, a liberating approach to education developed by Brazilian educa ...
  • Vaccines Make Gradual Headway Against Child Pneumo ...
    It had seemed her kids had the flu or a cold. But when it got worse, she took little Abigail to hospital. It was already too late; Abigail died in her mother's arms.
  • HUMAN RIGHTS: Reading the Bones
    Created with the aim of recovering the remains of the victims of forced disappearance from Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has already worked in 40 countries and is expanding the scope of cases that it investigates.
  • U.S. Defaults on Vow to Reform Asylum System
    One year after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans for a wide-reaching overhaul of the country's long-mismanaged immigration detention system, human rights and immigration advocacy organisations are charging that the government has yet to make significant progres ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Road trip with Roma - Brussels to Bulgaria
    Emiliya doesn't want people to know that she is Roma. She wants people to know that she speaks four languages: that her parents scrubbed toilets and washed cars in Brussels to put her through the Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria: that she is a qualified nurse in Bulgaria and that her degree w ...
  • Leading Chinese credit rating agency downgrades US ...
    One of China's leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Peak OIl: "The Debate is Over"
    It's been a long time coming, but the uber-significant Peak Oil issue has finally started to infiltrate the corridors of power. What they'll do with this information remains to be seena4¦. There is no reason for optimism. - Dr. James Schlesinger (former Secretary of Defence and the U.S.'s first Sec ...
  • Bank of America Practices Force Homeowners to Face ...
    According to the lawsuit, it is standard practice for Bank of America to ignore agreements made with homeowners in order to force them into foreclosure. In addition, Bank of America intentionally provides homeowners with misleading and inconsistent information about their loans, illegally ignores re ...
  • Potential health risks of backscatter X-ray airpor ...
    Some University of California San Francisco faculty wrote an open letter on the potential serious health risks of the whole body back scatter X-ray airport security scanners. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent - London

  • Violence in Bangladesh as ex-PM ordered from home
    Police in Bangladesh fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrators trying to prevent authorities from evicting the leader of the opposition from a home she has occupied since 1982.
  • Thousands stage anti-China protest in Japan
    Thousands of demonstrators waving Japanese flags and shouting anti-China slogans marched against Chinese Premier Hu Jintao's visit for an economic summit that comes as a territorial dispute strains ties between the Asian giants.
  • Suicide bombers attack Nato base
    A group of would-be suicide bombers tried to storm a major Nato base in eastern Afghanistan early today but were repelled before they could enter.
  • Talent tug of war makes Silicon a happy valley
    Christmas came early this year at Mountain View, the sunny "campus" in Palo Alto, California, that is Google's global headquarters.
  • Cholera epidemic puts 200,000 at risk in Haiti
    Up to 200,000 Haitians could contract cholera as the epidemic which has already killed 800 spreads across the battered Caribbean nation of nearly 10 million, the United Nations warned yesterday.

Rogue Government.com

  • Cameras to Catch Terrorists Triple in New York Wit ...
    New York City is almost halfway to its goal of installing 3,000 cameras as part of a network to monitor signs of terrorism, about triple the number it had in June.
  • Council on Foreign Relations panel advises Obama t ...
    Influential US experts on Friday painted a grim picture of the Afghanistan war, calling on President Barack Obama to consider scaling back the military mission without signs of progress.
  • Obama's Economic World View Rejected On World Stag ...
    President Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring global economic growth ran into resistance on all fronts yesterday, putting Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.
  • Obama Says Federal Reserve's Easing Wasn't Aimed a ...
    President Barack Obama said the U.S. Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing is designed to boost growth, not affect the value of the dollar, rebuffing charges that America is seeking a weaker exchange rate.
  • David Cameron tells G20 to end trade barriers
    Broadening his scope to the current pressure points of trade imbalances and nations' efforts to keep currencies competitive, Mr Cameron warned that protectionism must be fought "in all its forms" to avoid the mistakes behind the depression era of the 1930s.

Innovation Canada

  • Studying sturgeon
    It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
  • Talking Fish
    When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...
  • Bridge Building
    You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...
  • Better infrastructure, better results
    In 2001, when the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) opened on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), CRI researchers knew where many of its students would have to go to conduct experiments and analyze their findings — elsewhere.While the CRI was theoretically a 21st-century effort to mea ...
  • Crime and rehabilitation
    When Hugh Brody embarked on an experiment to interview aboriginal youth in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in 2005, spending three years in prison was the last thing he expected to do. But that all changed when he met Angela George, a member of the Chehalis First Nation near Chilliwack, who was wor ...

Signs of the times

  • The Story of Electronics
    Why "designed for the dump" is toxic for the people and the planet. The Story of Electronics employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution's collateral damage - 25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill.
  • MicroChipping the Population? : Big Pharma to begi ...
    The age of pharmaceutical microchipping is now upon us. Novartis AG, one of the largest drug companies in the world, has announced a plan to begin embedding microchips in medications to create "smart pill" technology. The microchip technology is being licensed from Proteus Biomedical of Redwood Ci ...
  • Video Shows Israeli Soldiers Cheering Destruction ...
    Israeli soldiers appear on camera cheering on the destruction of Palestinian houses in Gaza in a video that surfaced Thursday. The video, shot with a mobile phone during Israel's winter attack on Gaza, shows soldiers laughing and exclaiming as they witness a series of explosions destroying three Pa ...
  • Suicide Rates Soar Among US Veterans: Official
    Washington - The economic downturn and the trauma of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have pushed more US veterans to suicide, Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said Thursday. As Americans across the United States and around the world celebrated the contributions of men and w ...
  • Northern Lights and John Lennon
    A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and stirring up auroras around the Arctic Circle. A beacon of light from the John Lennon memorial Imagine Peace Tower pointed to the display over Reykjavik, Iceland, on Nov 11th: "The combination of the beacon and the Northern Lights resembl ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • You're starting to piss me off
    You're only as good as the good you can do. If you're an ombudsman, that means you weigh the complaint with the knowledge that you are the only door through which the complainant feels safe to pass. But if the complainant doesn't believe he/she is going to get a sympathetic ear, they'll find anothe ...
  • Meaning
    Most of us are probably aware of this by now: Well-placed sources have told The Canadian Press they expect Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make a decision soon on a proposal that would send up to 600 troops to Kabul to continue NATO training efforts. The Canadian personnel would not be involve ...
  • Gee... ya think?
    The editorial writers at the newspamazine which likes to call itself Canada's national rag have this to say : (Emphasis mine) But Parliament has already adopted a resolution that expressly supports the training mission beyond July, 2011. That resolution of March, 2008, called for an end only to C ...
  • What BCL said.
    Frankly, I think if Iggy wants to support an extension of Canada's Afghanistan mission to 2014, he should have to get up in the HOC, hold hands with Prime Minister Harper, and explain the whys and wherefores behind this Lib./Tory coalition. Lets face it, he's been a crap leader of the oppositio ...
  • No title
    Grope and Flail: Accommodations for the RCMP, who sent nearly 20,000 officers to the two summits, topped $65-million, including big bills from nearly every major hotel in Toronto. But most of the accommodation cost, $57-million, went to a massive trailer camp in Muskoka – a cost of $700 per room ...

Media Matters for America

  • Glenn Beck lashes out at the Anti-Defamation Leag ...
    Glenn Beck lashed out at the Anti-Defamation League over its condemnation of his outrageous smear of George Soros as a Nazi collaborator. Beck said that the criticism of his comments was part of a "Soros-started" "smear campaign" and directed his staff to find out "if there's any George Soros ...
  • Fox continues its guilt-by-association smears on ...
    Fox News is baselessly smearing numerous participants in a "Capitol Hill Prayer Group" as being "among a 'Who's Who' of controversial figures" with "terror ties." But many of those listed are outspoken opponents of terrorism and appear to have no ties to terrorists; indeed, at least one has rece ...
  • Fox News distorts Dream Act
    Fox News claimed that the Dream Act would give citizenship to certain unauthorized immigrants and that the legislation creates "an illegal alien student preference program." In fact, the proposal would provide conditional permanent residency status, not citizenship, to those eligible, and it d ...
  • Caught red-handed: Beck doctors video and lies ab ...
    In the third part of his special attacking George Soros, Glenn Beck repeatedly highlighted a Soros quote and claimed it demonstrates that Soros wants "global citizens... voting on who represents us." But Beck deceptively cropped Soros' quote, completely reversing its meaning. Beck doctors Soros quo ...
  • According to Beck, Fox should fire Beck for " ...
    Glenn Beck has claimed that News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch "would fire me" if he was "making up lies" about George Soros. But in the second part of Beck's multi-day special attacking Soros, he rehashed falsehoods from the first day and introduced additional false accusations. Beck claims Fox "w ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Failure Of The G-20 Summit
    The President emerged today from a meeting with the heads of state and finance ministers of the 20 biggest economies, in Soeul, South Korea, saying they had agree to "get the global economy back on the path of recovery." But where are the specifics? The three-page communique that also emerged fro ...
  • Why We Should Be Aware Of The Budget-Deficit Mania
    We're in for another round of budget-deficit mania. The first draft of the President's deficit commission, written by its co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, is a pastiche of ideas - some good, some dumb, some intriguing, some wacky. The only unifying principle behind their effort seems ...
  • Obama's First Stand
    The President says a Republican proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts to everyone for two years is a "basis for conversation." I hope this doesn't mean another Obama cave-in. Yes, the President needs to acknowledge the Republican sweep on Election Day. But he can do that by offering his own versi ...
  • Glenn Beck Shows Neo-cons it's 1932,
    American Jewish Stalinists of the 1930s broke with Russian Communism in lurches, as their locomotive of history kept de-railing. For some, the wake-up came with Stalin's unofficially but patently anti-Semitic "purge trials" of the mid-1930s. Others, who downplayed Russian Communism's unresolved "Jew ...
  • Beck/Soros: AJC, AIPAC Forbidden To Use Term "Six ...
    It is good news that the Anti-Defamation League has come out swinging against Glenn Beck for using Nazi imagery and themes in his war against George Soros. Beck does not hate Soros for being a Jew. He hates him for backing liberal causes. But, in his (futile) effort to bring down Soros, he is depi ...

TruthOut

  • Business Culture and the Death of Public Education ...
    The recent news that Mayor Bloomberg has anointed Cathleen P. Black, the chairwomen of Hearst Magazines, as the new chancellor of the New York City school system is another high profile example of how much business elites in the United States despise public education and its traditional role as a gu ...
  • Supreme Court Lets "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Stand
    The Supreme Court ruled on Friday to leave the military's "don't ask, don't tell" ban on openly gay members in effect while a lower court reviews a federal judge's ruling that struck down a ban last month, according to the Supreme Court blog . read more
  • Mark Weisbrot | G-20 Barking Up the Wrong Tree
    If the G-20 is going to be nothing more than a talking shop on economic issues, they ought to at least talk about the economic problems that really matter, and the ones that they can do something about. Not that currency values don't matter – they are actually very important. And it is interesting t ...
  • QE2: It's the Federal Debt, Stupid!
    Unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks. It's about saving the country from Greek-like austerity measures necessitated by a burgeoning federal debt. read more
  • Alexander Cockburn | A Bitter Woman
    Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad's ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush's case, as her eldest son has just disclosed on national TV, the fetus she miscarried, put in a mason jar and then handed to the teenage George Jr., to take to the hospital. Imagine! " ...

Planetsave

  • Climate Scientists Ready to Engage Public and Take ...
    Bring it on – time for climate scientists to engage A House Science and Technology subcommittee hearing scheduled for November 17 may be the last time in some time that climate science gets a supportive hearing in the House before Republicans take charge next year. Planned well before the midterm el ...
  • Cloning Farm Animals & Livestock to be Illegal in ...
    I didn’t even know there were people cloning fighting bulls and racehorses, but apparently there are. While the European Union (EU) has recently proposed a 5-year ban on farm animals and livestock, this ban would not include the “sport” animals mentioned above. More from the League Against Cruel Spo ...
  • Reducing Urban Water Use
    This is a special guest post from the Earth Policy Institute (subheadings and photo above added). Enjoy. Lester R. Brown U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that “civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water.” The one- ...
  • $10.2 Million Grant Awarded to California Bicyclis ...
    $10.2 million was recently awarded to folks in Northern California to further develop their bicycle/pedestrian network. In particular, the money is for the East Bay Pedestrian and Bicycle Network, a part of the Green Transportation Initiative Project. In total, this project will consist of nearly 20 ...
  • People in Action: Spreading the Earth Policy Insti ...
    This is a guest post from the Earth Policy Institute. Enjoy. This year has been filled with catastrophic environmental events in all parts of the world. The Russian heat wave, the Pakistan flood, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Haiti earthquake, and the break off from the Petermann Glacier were al ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Canada to extend participation in Afghan War throu ...
    13 November 2010 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Thursday that his Conservative government has decided to extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) participation in the Afghan War for a further three years through 2014. Harper did not provide details beyond saying that Cana ...
  • US diplomatic offensive tightens strategic encircl ...
    13 November 2010 Washington’s aggressive diplomatic campaign in Asia over the past two weeks has amounted, in the words of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to “a full court press” against China, with the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean emerging as potential future theatres of war. ...
  • The Family Jewels. A Veteran’s Story - Editor's Ch ...
    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread."...
  • Are we living in the end times? - World View
    Is the world ignoring signs of the so-called "end times"? According to renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek the capitalist system is pushing us all towards an apocalyptic doomsday. He points to the faltering economy, global warming and deteriorating ethnic relations as evidence.    On Thursday ...
  • Remembrance Day: Reversing the Tide of War. Say No ...
    Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen." (Mahatma Gandhi) The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and emba ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Believers have a kernel of doubt, atheists like us plant it and nurture it and tend it and bring it to full flower When believers confront death, they are not prepared for grappling with the fact that when death occurs it might truly be the end. We, on the other hand, consider the very concept of et ...
  • This Is What Happens When You Fail to Refute the L ...
    It's difficult to remember, but as recently as 2-1/2 years ago, the lies told by republicans were still infrequent enough, and confined mostly to the fringe, that they stood out from the bulk of political discourse, which while banal and misleading was not 100 percent blatantly mendacious. It was, o ...
  • An epilogue of sorts
    A bit of Missouri legal news: Warrensburg Schools settle sexual abuse lawsuit by female athletes, will pay them $809,000 Nov 11, 2010, 10:57 PM WARRENSBURG, Mo. - The sexual abuse lawsuit filed by six Warrensburg High School female athletes has been settled out of court, with the school district's ...
  • I *told* you that it helps to read a book or two b ...
    In one of the snippets of George Bush's interviews I saw, he seemed to be especially proud of the fact that he had written his book all by himself. I looked at the screen and shouted "Liar!" with scorn dripping from my voice, but that is what one would expect from me. I have never hid the fact that ...
  • Now that's what I call chutzpah
    Remember the Dukester? Randy "Duke" Cunningham is the former ace fighter pilot who parlayed his status as a war hero into a congressional seat that he promptly used to enrich himself and his defense contractor buddies by taking over two million dollars in bribes (we'll call that the quid ) and in e ...

Care 2

  • At 88, Actress Betty White Is Made Honorary Forest ...
    Despite the several Emmys under her belt, and a host of other accolades, Betty White says that this honorary title is the most special award yet. Submitted by AmericanForests Org to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Every home needs a Harvey
    A few moments of video that sends a happy/positive message out, about adopting a pet . Very entertaining clip that should put a smile on your face and hope in your heart for pets that need homes. Every home needs a Harvey :-) Submitted by Jae A. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 17 dogs die in kennel arson attack but pup survive ...
    SEVENTEEN dogs have died in a fire after their kennels were hit by an arson attack. But one lucky puppy � Kenny � survived the fire at Gelligaer in the Rhymney Valley, suffering burns. He was last night recovering after being treated for his Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� � ...
  • Should 9-year-old climb Mount Everest?
    A 9-year-old Nepalese boy says he can do it, too. Or at least that's what the child's father is reportedly promising. Submitted by Alina Taylor to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Oil spill still poisoning wildlife years later, na ...
    Eight years ago, a pipeline ruptured in a remote section of northeastern British Columbia, spilling a thick, viscous mixture of more than 1,000 barrels of oil and saltwater into a boggy area near Doig River Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • TGIF Open Thread
    Chris Christie is attracting national attention as prospective GOP pres candidate in 2012 … “Fair Game” director Doug Limon shares more on how the movie was made … “America’s most shameless political newsletter will host a Republican presidential debate in a few short months” … Murkowski is doing ex ...
  • We Don’t Blame You, Pat
    Sajak, that is. Mr. Sajak was kind enough to issue an apology recently for Keith Olbermann. Why, you might ask? Many years ago, Mr. Sajak often had Olbermann on his show as a sports analyst. He enjoyed his wry sense of humor and intellect. Hey, so did I, in all honesty.I used to DVR “Countdown,” [.. ...
  • More Ground Zero Mosque B.S. [Update]
    Below, George W. Bush chickens out on taking a stand on the Ground Zero mosque. He apparently thinks that the less controversial he appears, the more books he’ll sell. And the media coverage of the Ground Zero mosque proposal has fallen off the radar of the MSM. But news stories continue to be pri ...
  • Joe & Valerie on Hardball + Last Word
    Enjoy Tweetie interviewing Joseph Wilson. Matthews gushes over Valerie at the end. cute. Lawrence O’Donnell interviews the Wilson’s about the new George Bush book and about the new movie, Fair Game, (Now in theatres)
  • Thursday Open Thread
    Meechelle speaks at Ramstein … Is Father Joe Scarborough taking confessions from Democratic senators? … Two Secret Service agents tell what really happened the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated … Dare politicians cut Social Security? … Me and my problem with sites featuring celebrities … Hil ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Miracle of Nanotechnology
    Research in environmental technologies sometimes means thinking outside the box and focusing on productive nanotechnologies and smart materials. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Amazing Environmental Art by John Dahlsen
    John Dahlsen is a legend in the field of environmental art, creating stunning artworks from recycled objects with award winning talent. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Monkeys Compete to Groom their Babies
    Vervet monkeys and sooty mangabeys have a "market value" on who fondles their young. There are many variables that affect access to the babies. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Bizarre and Disgusting Foods from Around the Globe
    Have you ever tried snake whiskey or smoked Laotian rat... or bull's testicles? Here are some gruesome foods from around the world. Enjoy! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Famous Faces Carved Out of Phone Books
    Recycling phone books to make stunning sculptures is the way in which Environmentally friendly artist Alex Queral likes to make his contribution to 'green' art. Brilliant read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Verdict on Controlled Oil Burns and Cancer Risk
    The levels of dioxins released when workers protectively burned oil in the gulf were not high enough to pose a serious threat to public health, two studies say.
  • Support Grows for Expansion of Ozone Treaty
    Ninety-one countries now favor expanding the Montreal Protocol to cover the proposed phase-out of HFCs, a potent greenhouse gas, according to an official who attended an annual meeting in Bangkok.
  • Water Deals Heighten Concern for Farms
    The latest transfer of water from farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley to nearby developers raises anew the issue of whether, and how, taxpayer-subsidized water rights should be sold.
  • A Review of 'Cool It'
    A documentary about the economist Bjorn Lomborg counters the widely held assumption that he is an antagonist of climate scientists.
  • Arctic Drilling Poses Untold Risks, Study Conclude ...
    Uncertainties about sea ice, storms, equipment and the potential for an effective spill response in the remote region loom large, a Pew study says.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

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

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Decoding the G-20 Drama
    The brouhaha over "global re-balancing" boils down to this: Americans buy too much stuff from China.
  • Military Spending Takes its Place at the Table
    The military spending cuts proposed by the Deficit Reduction Commission is both good and bad for a truly sustainable defense budget.
  • Tea Party at the Pentagon?
    What if the tea partiers decided to go after big government over at the Pentagon?
  • Race and Economics: A Nation and Its Capital Divid ...
    The best hope I see for the country and it's cities, like Washington DC, is that sooner rather than latter the electorate recognizes that changing politicians isn't a change we can believe in, rather the country must radically change the trickle down, deregulated economy which has maintained racial ...
  • From The IPS Cave: A Conversation between Newman F ...
    Due to a recent move within the IPS office, the Newman Fellows are forced to share an office (along with New Economy Working Group Coordinator, Noel) in the side "cave" where nobody visits--this has forced them to talk to each other.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • Websites, handbooks, and more…
    Dive into PDA with your eyes open As the dust settles after the mid-term elections and a busy year for PDA winds down, now is a good time to let folks know about some of the ...
  • American Midterm Candidates Pandered For Pro-Israe ...
    y Linda Milazzo At a time when Israel faces near universal condemnation for the May 30th killings of eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish American aboard the Gaza bound Mavi Marmara, and worldwide rebuke for ...
  • Election Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results
    lection Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results with Laura Flanders of GritTV, The Nation’s Richard Kim & John Nichols, and Journalist David Goodman The midterm elections saw two key Senate victories for the ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elec ...
    EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elections, the Tea Party, and the Future of the Democratic Party For the past 20 years, renowned filmmaker, author and activist Michael Moore has been one of the most ...
  • Living in an Era of Change
    by: C.J. Atkins | politicalaffairs.net The 29th CPUSA Convention was a big success and will hopefully go a long way toward improving the party’s contributions to the democratic movement.  The strategic policy of ...

Marler Blog

  • Major Article - Clinical Infectious Diseases - Out ...
    MAJOR ARTICLE - Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 Associated with Raw Milk, Connecticut, 2008 Alice Guh,1,2 Quyen Phan,2 Randall Nelson,2 Katherine Purviance,2 Elaine Milardo,4 Stacey Kinney,2 Patricia Mshar,2 Wayne Kasacek,3 and Matthew Cartter2 1Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disea ...
  • Video - Marler Clark - The Food Safety Law Firm
    We have been doing a series of videos to help explain why and how we do what we do.� Here is the next installment:
  • River Ranch Recalls Salmonella Romaine Lettuce
    River Ranch Fresh Foods of Salinas, Calif., issued a voluntary recall of romaine lettuce heads Nov. 4 as a precaution against salmonella contamination. The bulk-packed, 24-count cartons bore the lot code 13816291, according to a news release by the California Department of Public Health. The heads ...
  • Alaska orders recall of Listeria contaminated salm ...
    The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has requested the recall of a batch of smoked salmon from a Fairbanks producer after it found a shipment contaminated with Listeria.� The department has targeted half-pound bags of Santas Smokehouse Cajun-Style Smoked Keta Salmon sold between Aug. ...
  • FDA: Lot of Mauri Gorgonzola cheese positive for E ...
    * Mauri Gorgonzola cheese with sell-by dates of 01/13/11 and 01/14/11 is being recalled because of a positive test for E. coli O157:H7. DPI Specialty Foods of Tualatin, Ore., cut, packaged and distributed the cheese to Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) stores in Colorado. * Consumers who have a ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.12.10
    First Drive: Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion It's Not Late, It Just Won't Be Here Until 2014. Officially Official: General Electric ordering 25,000 electric vehicles, starting with the Volt [w/video] ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.10.10
    Sing it! VW details the all-electric Golf Blue-e-motion Coming not so soon. After winning Automotive X-Prize, Edison2 hints at next-gen projects Winning comes first. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.09.10
    Nissan Leaf slapped with $51,000 price tag in Switzerland Location, location, location. Wrightspeed lands $5 million in Series A funding for Digital DriveSystem Spend an extra $1,000 up front ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.08.10
    Four auto companies named greenest in America, but none are domestics Instead, Toyota wins for "Worldwide Leadership in Hybrid Technology." Shocker. Li-Ion Motors Inizio: a $139K electric supercar that so ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.05.10
    Honda CEO: Looks "like there will be a market for electric vehicles" after all No kidding? David Vespremi: Will the Nissan Leaf's familiarity breed contempt? Why the Leaf is a lot like a TV ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Economist Ha-Joon Chang on the G20 Summit, Currenc ...
    President Obama arrives in Japan today on the last stop of his ten-day Asia tour. Obama will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit amidst a dispute with the Japanese government over relocating the U.S. military base in Okinawa. Obama comes to Japan after South Korea, where he failed t ...
  • Obama in the Company of Killers
    If a volcano kills civilians in Indonesia, it’s news. When the government does the killing, sadly, it’s just business as usual, especially if an American president tacitly endorses the killing, as President Barack Obama just did with his visit to Indonesia. As the people around Mount Merapi dig ou ...
  • Juan Gonzalez: NYC Schools chancellor Joel Klein w ...
    You could tell the Joel Klein era was ending long before Mayor Bloomberg made it official on Tuesday. It became clear one cold January night in the cavernous auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School, during an extraordinary all-night meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy. Read More at t ...
  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy
    As the 2010 elections come to a close, the biggest winner of all remains undeclared: the broadcasters. The biggest loser: democracy. These were the most expensive midterm elections in U.S. history, costing close to $4 billion, $3 billion of which went to advertising. What if ad time were free? We h ...
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA at 7pm ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 29 at 7pm EST.

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Bush’s Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls ...
    Bush’s Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe Huff Post- Dan Froomkin-  First Posted: 11-11-10 03:49 PM   |   Updated: 11-11-10 04:01 PM WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special pr ...
  • What Role Did Comcast Play In Keith Olbermann&#821 ...
    What Role Did Comcast Play in Keith Olbermann’s Suspension?–UPDATED Crooks and Liars- By karoli November 05, 2010 12:14 PM There is a double standard at work with regard to Keith Olbermann’s suspension, not only between other personalities appearing on MSNBC as commentators, but also at the very top ...
  • Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investiga ...
    There are a variety of explanations for the frustratingly backwards outcome of yesterday’s election. Clearly Americans were dissatisfied with the objective reality that the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats actually made things better by cutting the deficit by an historic $122 bil ...
  • It’s a normal day
    Business as usual election results, it’s a normal day, world war three blues, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch
  • Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Vic ...
    Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Victim To Apologize To HIM The Huffington Post |  Nick Wing First Posted: 10-27-10 10:30 AM   |   Updated: 10-27-10 11:24 AM Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter behind the white sneaker that notoriously stomped on a MoveOn activist’s head in Ke ...

Solari

  • Turkey Prices Hit Record Before Thanksgiving on Fe ...
    By Elizabeth Campbell Americans will be paying more for their Thanksgiving turkeys this month after rising feed costs led to reduced output in the U.S. U.S. wholesale, frozen turkeys jumped to $1.09 a pound on average yesterday, the highest price ever and up 28 percent from a year earlier, accordin ...
  • My New Favorite Tee
    A wonderful member of our network wore this tee to lunch the other day. I just love it! - Catherine Related reading: Reggie Watts: The Beginning Is Near T-Shirt Blue Collar Industries
  • Solari Report - Selected Tax Issues to Consider Wh ...
    Excerpts from “Selected Tax Issues to Consider When Investors Move or Exchange Precious Metals Holdings ” By Carolyn A. Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts In this Report, we identify and summarize certain IRS revenue rulings and other guidance that may apply to precious metals exchanges and the det ...
  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 11.11.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, November 11, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ...
  • Special Solari Report - Proposals for Annuitizatio ...
    Over the past few years, various proposals for annuitization of 401(k) and IRA accounts upon retirement and automatic enrollment in 401(k) programs have been made.  On September 14-15, 2010, the Departments of Labor and the Treasury held a joint hearing on Lifetime Income Options for Participants an ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • About the coming large rise in food prices
    Summary:  Rising food prices might be one of the most important geopolitical trends of the decade.  This is another post in a series, describing the causes and effects; links to other chapters appear at the end. What result do you expect from this combination of factors? Rising demand for the produc ...
  • Why China will again rise to the top. Their most i ...
    Summary:  There is a simple difference between West and East today, the opposite of that seen during the past few centuries.  Good leadership.  They have it; we do not.  This explains much of what we see in the news. ââ… moral power is to physical as 3 parts of 4.ââ — Attributed to Napoleon in ...
  • About the mystery missile launch (America the fear ...
    Summary:  There is a major threat to America, one that our military cannot defend against: our cowardice.   We have become America the fearful, which clouds our thinking and emboldens our enemies. Today’s mystery missile madness provides yet another in a long line of examples. But there are eas ...
  • The Enigma of American Power
    Summary:  We’ve just held elections with the most serious issues MIA.  Without discussion of our foreign wars or massive spending on military and intelligence (more than the rest of the world combined; many times that of all potential enemies combined).  Without discussion of our decaying infrast ...
  • The end of the world. That is, the end of the wor ...
    Summary:  A status report about the end of the post-WWII world.  The great recession has accellerated the process, revealing its weaknesses and showing the people of the rapidly growing emerging nations that they have outgrown it.  The US is almost its lone defender, a futile effort wasting time and ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australian political parties get millions from ban ...
    The Australian – THE major political parties are receiving millions of dollars worth of dividend payments from the banks as they attack the big four. The investment arms of the Labor and Liberal parties are shareholders in the banks and are on track to receive a healthy boost to revenue, as the bank ...
  • Australian PM helps big banks beat new G20 rules
    The Australian – JULIA Gillard has won significant concessions for Australian banks at the G20 summit. This comes as all four major banks infuriated the government by pushing their mortgage rates beyond the Reserve Bank’s official movement. Global leaders at the G20 summit in Seoul last night ticked ...
  • Fed ‘New World Order’ May Boost Treasury Volatilit ...
    Bloomberg — Treasury volatility over the shorter term may increase as the Federal Reserve begins its second round of asset purchases under quantitative easing, according to Morgan Stanleyâs James Caron. Bank of America Merrill Lynchâs MOVE index, measuring price swings based on over-the-counter opti ...
  • Drug expert claims David Kelly was murdered as he ...
    Daily Mail – Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kellyâs death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdose of painkillers. This overdose was found by the original pathologis ...
  • Muslim cleric Omar Bakri sentenced to life in Leba ...
    BBC – The radical Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Muhammad, has been sentenced to life in prison by a military court in Lebanon. He told the BBC from his home in Tripoli that he had been informed by his lawyer of the verdict on Thursday. He had been tried in his absence by the court, accused [...]

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington and Former Guantánamo Prisoners S ...
    In an attempt to maintain pressure on the Pakistani government to secure the return to Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the neuroscientist who, in September, was sentenced in New York to 86 years in prison, the Justice for Aafia Coalition is holding a week-long series of events around the world, enti ...
  • The Cruelty and Stupidity of the Government’ ...
    Journalists like to portray Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, as a caring, decent man, but while this may be true in his personal life, politically he is a ruthless ideologue, whose white paper on welfare reform, unveiled yesterday, reveals that he is, to be blunt, monstrously crue ...
  • 50,000 Students Revolt: A Sign of Much Greater Ang ...
    They came from all over the country, creating a 50,000-strong throng of students and University lecturers that filled Whitehall. Peaceful but vocal, the protestors were armed only with banners and placards, but at times the noise, as they chanted their opposition to the government’s planned £2.9 bn ...
  • Five New UK Screenings of “Outside the Law: ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “This is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American ...
  • Are Control Orders About To Be Scrapped?
    Well, well. I’m not holding my breath, but the Observer’s announcement on Sunday that âThe scrapping of control orders for terror suspects moved a step closer last night when ⦠senior Whitehall security sources broke ranks to reveal that MI5 was ‘not wedded’ to keeping the contentious regimeâ is pr ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why I l ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So far, ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems . You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez . You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. You ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is – Sq ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked up se ...
  • Veni, Vidi, Voting
    Hey all! Gimlet Eyes just got back from the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, DC (did you see me? I was right in the middle! With a sign!) and now I’m fired up and ready to go. First things first. The rally was incredible. No, it wasn’t partisan. In fact, it really wasn’t political: Stewart ...

SPL Center

  • Founding Fathers on Facebook Hijacked by the Radic ...
    The Founding Fathers as white racist poster boys? Do a Facebook page search of the name Thomas Jefferson, and the very first listing that will appear is Thomas Jefferson â American. You can click to join 11,753 people who âlikeâ the page. Well, congratulations. You just signed onto fan pages sponsor ...
  • Glenn Beck: A Quarter of Americans May Face Starva ...
    Cranking up his doomsday predictions to a new fever pitch, Glenn Beck this week warned that by January some 75 million Americans could be starving. “race yourself. We went to two or three experts yesterday,” the Fox News Channel host said in his Wednesday radio broacast. “[O]ne of them said that by ...
  • With ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Movement Growing, New SPL ...
    The so-called “sovereign citizens” movement — men and women who believe they are exempt from most state and federal laws, regulations and tax codes — is spreading like a prairie fire. While many of these are tax resistors or perpetrators of “paper terrorism” – the filing of nuisance liens and such – ...
  • New Report Examines ‘Tea Party Nationalism,& ...
    Back in July, the NAACP publicly called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate extremists and racist individuals within their ranks. Although the presence of such elements in Tea Party circles had been evident for some time, movement figures tended to be dismissive and defensive in their response. Such ...
  • Report: Would-Be Terrorist Inspired by ‘Schoolteac ...
    The media watchdog Media Matters for America today released audio of an interview conducted with Byron Williams, the would-be terrorist who last July was arrested after a shootout with cops on his way to San Francisco, where he allegedly planned to kill employees at the offices of the ACLU and the T ...

change: org.

  • South Korea Looks for Bear Farming Remedy
    In South Korea, it's illegal to extract bile from live bears. While this is the type of law that shouldn't even have to be on the books, the sad reality is that it not only exists for a reason, but it's also been completely ineffective in stopping the bear bile trade from South Korea to China and Vi ...
  • Michigan Groups Prepare to Counter the Westboro Ba ...
    Welcome to this week's edition of crazy church. I shouldn't call a church crazy, I know, but the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) defies logic on so many levels. Take this recent website posting on the Church's page: “WBC to picket the worthless brats who attend East Lansing High School, as well as the ...
  • How We Can Shed Pork By Cutting Out Corn
    With the swelling federal deficit getting harder and harder to ignore, politicians of all stripes like to wax poetic about cutting the lard. They may want to sit down with environmental groups, who have their budget hawk hats on and are lighting up a big neon blinking arrow "LOOK HERE." Corn m ...
  • Benedictine University Community Responds to Schoo ...
    The President of Benedictine University, William Carroll, made quite the splash this week when he justified the termination of a lesbian employee by saying, essentially, that Catholic values deemed it moral to fire LGBT people. In a statement that went out to the public via the Office of the Preside ...
  • It's Not Rape When a Cop Does It & Other News ...
    So, almost forgot how much you disliked that George W. Bush guy, huh? In an apparent attempt to make Barack Obama look good in comparison -- someone really ought to check his trash for payroll stubs from the DNC -- the former president has been making the rounds defending torture and illegal war and ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...
  • Shocking State Fair Scandal, Wage Theft Epidemic, ...
    by Art Levine Activists in more than 30 cities, organized by Interfaith Worker Justice and backed by labor groups, are staging a National Day of Action Against Wage Theft on November 18. read more
  • Student Fees Protest: 'This Is Just the Beginning'
    Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of London today in a demonstration that spiralled out of control when a fringe group of protesters hurled missiles at police and occupied the building housing Conservative party headquarters. read more
  • Confidential JPMorgan Chase Memo Predicts Congress ...
    by Megan R. Wilson JPMorgan Chase , the $2 trillion bank and financial services firm, predicts that the newly Republican-controlled U.S. House will clash with the still-Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate to the point where progress on large legislation is completely halted, according to a confidentia ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Cobb seeks audit of Water System revenue uses
    MARIETTA - Cobb Chairman Tim Lee said Thursday that the county will hire outside auditors to review whether Cobb Water System revenues have been used within the terms of county-issued bonds - and...
  • South West Water Standardizes on Informatica Data ...
    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Informatica Corporation , the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced that South West Water in the U.K. has selected Informatica Data Quality , an integral part of the Informatica Platform, to deliver trusted, high quality data ac ...
  • Privatization Not Answer to Water Crisis, Says WPN
    MANILA, Philippines – Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) Friday said that contrary to the claim of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), allowing profit-oriented private corporations to take over the management and distribution of water resources will not address the water crisis. The (WP ...
  • The Slow Change in Legal Discourse: Why Humans Are ...
    Both the Supreme Court and Congress have facilitated the privatization of the public sphere
  • City Could Privatize Trash, Payroll, Sewer Repairs
    Key City Council members will push to privatize city services like payroll, solid waste, and sewer and water repairs in next year’s budget.

Guardian

  • Aung San Suu Kyi 'is free'
    Burma's military rulers are reportedly on the verge of releasing the country's pro-democracy leader from house arrest. Follow live updates here 10.53am: The AFP news agency says there are unconfirmed reports that Aung San Suu Kyi has been released. AP says government officials have read a release or ...
  • Extinguisher thrower hunt continues
    Police still looking for protester who threw extinguisher from roof during student protests after arrested man is bailed A man was arrested and then released on police bail in Cambridgeshire yesterday by officers hunting for the protester who threw a fire extinguisher from a roof at Wednesday's anti ...
  • More than Strictly dancing at stake
    Treatment of Ann Widdecombe on Strictly Come Dancing is pivotal for a BBC beset by sexism and ageism claims On the BBC Strictly Ballroom website comments, you're not allowed to say anything mean about Ann Widdecombe. "This blog is an area for fans �� overly negative and critical posts will be remove ...
  • 'Don't ask, don't tell' ban upheld
    US supreme court upholds 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, rejecting Log Cabin Republicans' request before appeals court decision The US supreme court has rejected a request to lift the Pentagon's ban on openly gay men and women serving in the US military in advance of a decision by an appeals court o ...
  • Quarter of all cancers found late
    Figures show 'alarmingly high' number of patients only diagnosed with cancer when admitted to hospital in emergency Nearly a quarter of all cancer cases in England went undetected until patients were admitted to hospital in an emergency, according to a study. Figures from the National Cancer Intelli ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Nature protection - the new road starts here
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: Was it an end, or a beginning? As delegates streamed away from the convention centre here in Nagoya - and stream they did, many of them having delayed flights to make sure no stone they could turn was left unturned - the talk was of a ...
  • Banking on innovation for green shoots
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: � Maybe you thought it was all about the science of losing species and ecosystems, and the ethics of doing something about it. But as the final phase of this meeting is making clear, it's largely about money. Everyone here ag ...
  • Raiders of the lost bark
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: The second Tuesday of this meeting was the day glamour came to town - in good and ugly guises. On the good side, I had the chance to sit down with Harrison Ford - an actor whose oeuvre looms large for anyone of my generation, from Wit ...
  • Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes ri ...
    � From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: It's fair to say there's a deal of concern here that what emerges at the end of this fornight's meeting could amount to less than it was supposed to. � Mind you, it was supposed to amount to quite a bit - a pretty comprehens ...
  • Bushmeat - ending the monkey business
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: Many westerners would view the idea of eating monkeys with deep distaste. But for people raised on bushmeat, in Africa and elsewhere, the equation is different. "Forbidding hunting [bushmeat] is not a solution for the Baka," Mes ...

The Wonk Room

  • Will Missouri’s Incoming Republican Lawmaker ...
    On election day, as the New York Times’ David Leonhardt put it, “voters mostly chose the status quo [regarding taxes], rejecting measures that would have raised new taxes but also those that would have repealed existing ones.” However, one state may be facing an incoming class of lawmakers ready to ...
  • Supreme Court Denies Don’t Ask, Don’t ...
    Earlier today, the Supreme Court denied a request to vacate the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals’ stay of an earlier district court injunction that prevented the Pentagon from enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The decision comes just days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Congress that if it ...
  • Baucus Backs Effort To Repeal ACA’s 1099 Pro ...
    Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has announced that he will introduce legislation to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement in the Affordable Care Act. The provision, which requires small businesses to report any purchases over $600, was intended to increase the tax compliance of s ...
  • TARP 2: No Way To Create Jobs And Help Our Nation ...
    Our guest blogger is John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. As President Obama heads back from Asia, he faces another important week with Congress set to rejoin the debate over whether to extend expiring tax cuts. Republicans are holding needed middle-class ...
  • House GOP Spending Plan Would Force States To Make ...
    In their “Pledge to America,” House Republicans insist that one of the ways in which they plan to reduce the federal deficit is rolling non-defense discretionary spending back to the 2008 level. As Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) put it when pressed for specific budget items that he would cut, “the line ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • On the harpercons' Embarrasing Failure to Win a Se ...
    Over at Dawg's blog they're having great sport imagining the harpercons' attempts to explain away the unprecedented failure of Canada to win a seat on the United Nations' Security Council (which Canada tended to win every ten years). To hear the harpercons yammering about it, the UN is nothing but ...
  • What would make harper and Ignatieff change their ...
    So,the detestable, anti-Canadian sociopath and the elitist prick both think that its a good idea to waste our resources training insurgents and rapists for another three years in Afghanistan. This as the current supreme leader behind this whole travesty, Barack Obama, has decided that the whole thin ...
  • What's Wrong Here?
    Ah, I could talk more about how vile and shitty it is that a war criminal like Condoleeza Rice is coming to Canada and people are actually going to spend money to hear her talk. (Jesus Christ, I just can't resist pointing out that those people must be almost as stupid as she is! What do they expect ...
  • "Diary of a Madman": bush II's memoirs & stephen h ...
    Nothing really. I just wonder if upon hearing about bush II's publicity tour for his bound collection of used pieces of toilet paper, whether harper sighs longingly for the day when he can casually admit to complicity in torture too.
  • Yes, It's Utter Contempt For Parliament
    Dale at Hill Queeries calls it: The Conservatives’ contempt for Parliament apparently knows no bounds as they are expected to deliver their fall economic update today, in Mississauga of all places. No, you’re not mistaken – the House isn’t sitting this week. For them to deliver it outside of the ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Supreme Court hears argument on employer liability ...
    Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Staub v. Proctor Hospital .� I don't know why I could not find an article about it in this morning's newspaper. U.S. Army Reserve First Sergeant Vincent Staub worked as an angiography technician for the Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois, f ...
  • NWC Opposes Corporate Lobby Attempt to Weaken Whis ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center issued a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opposing recommendations by the “Corporate Lobby,” which threaten the integrity of the whistleblower provisions found in the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposals by the Corporate Lobby are not "use ...
  • NWC comments to OSHA on regs for NTSSA, FRSA, STAA ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three sets of regulations for whistleblower cases. DOL had issued the interim regulations on August 31, 2010. One set of regulations, 29 CFR Part 1982 , covers whistleblower cases from both the ...
  • Boeing's brief claims SOX can never protect disclo ...
    Lawyers for Matt Neumann and Nick Tides are currently finishing their last brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an appeal that will decide if corporate fraud whistleblowers can ever be protected from retaliation when they make disclosures to the media. For the National Whistle ...
  • NWC speaks with ATU Local 689
    Today Lindsey Williams and I spoke with the Executive Board of Local 689, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) .Local 689 represents employees of Washington DC's Metro system. Lindsey is the Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) . We spoke about the National Transit System Securit ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Forget Information Overload: What If The Real Prob ...
    For years, I've definitely been a believer in the idea that there's information overload today. After all, there are so many new sources of information out there that of course one of the problems many people believe they face is that they simply can't keep up. However, I may need to seriously ret ...
  • Why iPad Magazine Apps Suck: They're Defined By Th ...
    Earlier this year, we suggested that the media industy's infatuation with the iPad as some sort of savior was going to result in serious disappointment. Part of the reason was that the media industry was salivating over the false belief that it could bring back the old "gatekeeper" control that it ...
  • Odd That TV Networks Would Block Their Own Ads Fro ...
    There have been all these stories lately about how the various TV networks are "blocking Google TV." But, that's getting the story backwards. What the networks are doing is not blocking Google TV -- which is basically just a browser -- but they're blocking their own, freely available content and a ...
  • Newsweek Merges With The Daily Beast... To Shut Do ...
    Lots of talk today about the fact that Newsweek, the struggling magazine that's been around for 77 years, has merged with two-year old website The Daily Beast, which never really picked up all that much traffic considering its ambitions. But in an odd move, reports now are saying that the plan is t ...
  • Blaming Popcorn For Hollywood's Troubles
    An anonymous reader sends over a blog post from The Telegraph suggesting that the real issue for the movie industry isn't "piracy," but popcorn . The basic idea is that the theater owners drive the success of the movie industry and the theater owners make their money off of popcorn, so they only wa ...

VacTruth

  • Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
    Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
  • Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
    In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...
  • Letter Alerts Obama to Dangers of HPV Vaccines
    In an extraordinary move to prevent further HPV vaccine casualties, Marian Greene the Chairwomen and Co-Founder of the campaign and action group Truth about Gardasil (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/), has written an open letter to President Obama. Her letter urges the President to take time to resea ...
  • Multiple Deaths Linked to Childhood Vaccines
    New evidence suggesting that forty children have died over the past seven years following a routine childhood vaccination. A Freedom of Information (FOI) data request to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). The FOI data revealed that childhood vaccinations are suspected ...
  • Mind Virus Injected into New Mothers by Pharma and ...
    Through repetition, the "reassuring" voice that many parents crave will soon be injected into the minds of pregnant and new mothers everywhere, thanks to companies with deep financial pockets. The latest trend in building a support system for new parents who may find themselves tired, overwhelmed, ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...
  • The Power of Principle
    So I got into a little twitter spat a few weeks ago.  One of the people I follow made the following statement: Some bloggers feel it’s better to be principled than in power. Naturally, I objected. The conversation turned into one of those us v. them tropes.  Us, in the case of this twitterer, bein ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Another busy weekend.  Saw Budrus on Friday.  It was excellent.  It’s playing in theaters all over the place.  You should see it, not just if you are interested in Israel/Palestine.  It has some interesting things to ponder for anyone who wants to use direct action for radical change. Went to t ...
  • Food, Water, Air and Care
    Remember Maslow’s hiearchy of needs?  Sure you do. It is usually presented something like this. You start at the bottom with the most basic needs.  As basic needs are met, you go up the pyramid.  I’ve seen a few of these pyramids.  They usually list the same stuff for basic needs – air, water, ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Let me kick things off with this excellent piece by Tony Karon.  You do not speak for me Netanyahu.  Israel is not my homeland. If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my university studies focused primarily on human rights violations related to the drug w ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • With Graphic Labels, FDA Will Show, Not Tell, Impa ...
    A proposed graphic label to accompany cigarette packs. Photo: Food and Drug Administration If you've spent time in Europe, you're probably accustomed to seeing forceful health warnings on cigarette packs. If you're like me, you've wondered why American products can't pack the same punch as the ...
  • Students Design Transformer Vegan Shoes that Trans ...
    Farm Sanctuary's Gene Baur, Olsenhaus' Elizabeth Olsen and Russell Simmons (left to right). Photo: Getty Olsenhaus founder Elizabeth Olsen is the queen bee of vegan footwear. Not only does she have a slew of celebrity followers, including Moby , Russell Simmons ,
  • Newly Discovered Lizard Species is All Female, Sur ...
    Though it's been a well-known ingredient to chefs in South East Asia for some time, the lizard is new to science. Photo credit: L. Lee Grismer Though it has been a regular item on menus across the Mekong delta for as long as anyone can remember, the lizard, now known as Leiolepis ngovantrii , h ...
  • A Picture is Worth: The Green Tag Lists The Procee ...
    Image Credit: Lunch Breath With Permission click to enlarge Graphic designer and cartoonist Tobias Lunchbreath lampoons all of those tags made of recycled cardboard telling us where our money goes. More at Lunch Breath , found on Core77 ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • GE to Purchase 25,000 Electric Cars by 2015!
    Photo: GM, GE Largest Single EV Commitment So Far GE, the ginormous multinational conglomerate (according to Forbes, they have about 780 billion dollars in assets and 115 billion dollars of yearly sales), has decided to switch 25,000 vehicles from its fleet to electric vehicles, starting with ...

Biosingularity

  • A new target for cancer drugs
    Suppressing cancer cells’ ability to cope with damage to their DNA could enhance dramatically the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin, according to a new pair of papers from MIT biologists. In studies of mice, the researchers found that slowing down a specific system for tolerating ...
  • Decloaking perforin, the protein assassin
    When the immune system identifies a cell that needs to be eliminated, such as a virus-infected cell or cancer cell, natural killer cells descend and puncture the offending cell, injecting toxic enzymes to spell its doom. At the centre of this immune response is a crucial protein called perforin, whi ...
  • Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk
    Following a healthy lifestyle, which means exercising, eating healthfully, keeping the waistline trim, limiting alcohol intake, and avoiding smoking, could reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by 23%, according to a study from Denmark. via Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk.
  • First Human Liver Grown in Lab
    For the first time, human cells have been used to create a lab-grown liver. It’s a milestone on the way to creating a new source of livers for transplant, Wake Forest University (WFU) researchers say. Last June, a different research team reported growing a liver from animal cells. But if the goal is ...
  • New virus ‘jumps’ from monkey to scien ...
    A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have ‘jumped’ from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report. Although it’s an unusual move for that type of virus and does warrant further monitoring, the researcher ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • A terrible precedent
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In 2002 CIA agents - Americans - tortured prisoners and were videotaped doing so. In 2005 those videotapes were destroyed, and on Tuesday the five year statute of limitations for filing criminal charges in the matter expired. For a ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Abbreviated “blogger fail” edition. For some reason the scratch file I use for accumulating links throughout the week got blanked out late Thursday. Here’s what I was able to recover from memory. Our image in the Muslim world would ...
  • The Lilies - Cry when you sleep (the Shoes remix)
    Last year Tahiti Boy And The Palmtree Family topped my music of the year list, so obviously I’m a big fan. Amazingly enough, they teamed up with another artist from that list, Os Mutantes, to form The Lilies. “We Are The Lilies” is available on iTunes in France ; not sure if it can be bought outsi ...
  • The fetishization of efficiency
    In the wake of the Republican victories Tuesday there will probably be a renewed emphasis on neoliberal economics - at least as imagined by conservatives. Of course, “pure” neoliberal economics is one of those wonderful belief systems, like communism, that postulates an ideal end state. The world it ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .More from the WikiLeaks dump: Unvarnished details: American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recen ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Coalition Pushes for Amendment to Controversial Se ...
    Over 125 national, state, and grassroots organizations are notifying members of the United States Senate that an amendment proposed by Sen. Jon Tester (MT) and Sen. Kay Hagan (NC), is critical to ensuring that the food safety bill being considered by the Senate does not injure the livelihoods of fam ...
  • The Fight Over Social Security's Future Is On—But ...
    The debate about the future of Social Security has opened, and how progressives respond will decide whether the United States is a civil society or a pirate state where the government's primary role is to take from the poor and give to the rich. Click here to read this article
  • Ban Toxic Toys, Other Kids' Products, Says US Stud ...
    Toxic toys and other children's products containing harmful ingredients require an extensive overhaul of the legislation that governs them, says a new U.S. scientific paper. Click here to read this article
  • Bank of America Is in Deep Trouble, and There May ...
    Will Bank of America be the first Wall Street giant to once again point a gun to its own head, telling us it'll crash and burn and take down the financial system if we don't pony up for another massive bailout? Click here to read this article
  • Review: Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
    Environmentalism is important and also controversial. We have choices. We can look for enlightenment on the subject from someone who pontificates from their power-massage recliner in their climate-controlled McMansion in the suburbs or we can look to someone whose livelihood depends on a correct und ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXV
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada ' Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes '. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre ...
  • Los insectos de mi jardín IV (8 fotos tipo macro)
    Revise nuestras fotos anteriores de esta serie. [1] [2] [3] [4] Desde hace algunos meses, he venido compartiendo con todos ustedes una hermosa colección de fotografías tipo macro relacionadas con los insectos. Esos interesantes bichos pequeños que a veces pasamos desapercibidos, pero con quienes sin ...
  • Peces en el mar I (4 fotos preciosas del fondo mar ...
    Para quienes gustan de colocar en el fondo de su ordenador, computadora, laptop o ipad las mejores imágenes, les tengo en exclusiva 4 fotos del fondo marino en alta resolución . No deje de visitarnos porque siempre encontrará usted nuevas fotos de diversas categorías y absolutamente gratis. Nota: Ha ...
  • Volcanes, montañas y nevados II (11 postales grand ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestras fotos anteriores sobre esta misma serie titulada 'Volcanes, montañas y nevados' [1] [2] ¡Cada día, mejores fotos! Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPC ...
  • Paisajes naturales I (Más allá de los verdes prado ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Tengo el gusto y honor de presentarles la primera parte de nuestra serie ' Paisajes Naturales (Más allá de los verdes prados) '. Empezamos con nueve fotografías muy lindas y será muy pronto cuando les haga llegar nuevas tomas para deleitar su ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Toons and maps
    Not much else to post about. Still reading, getting Dad’s Kindle broken in. It’s confirming a theory I’ve long had about my eyes. I hold the Kindle fairly close and read it with my left eye. The computer monitor, otoh, I read with my right eye. My left eye, which connects with my right brain, [...]
  • Rekindling my love of reading
    Just posted something new to the other other blog (not my blog actually, but as a registered member I have posting privileges). Since I last posted anything, I’ve been reading. A lot. Since Sunday I’ve read about four and a half books. Light stuff. I’m warming up by re-reading Roger Zelazny’s ten-vo ...
  • The task of Kerstenado
    In case you needed reinforcement on why this is now a politics-free zone, here’s Katherine Kersten’s opening post-election graf: Last week’s historic election repudiated the grandiose, left-wing governance schemes of President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Conservatives are still toas ...
  • Wishing
    I was thinking tomorrow was more than early enough for unveiling some changes, but the new mast (Heathianity?) goes so well with this Waxy-found video, I figured I shouldn’t wait. Can you count all the copyright violations in this video? Yes, this may be a blank screen by tomorrow as I expect this o ...
  • Dropping bookmarks
    Some, not much, duplication with the RSS feeds. Crooks and Liars The Daily Beast (good riddance, only Mediaite begins to compete with this online rag for flat out whoring/snarking the establishment line) The Raw Story (too juiced, my BP always goes up after checking them out, Glenn Beck ‘fantasizes’ ...

Public News Service

  • Plans to End Childhood Hunger in AZ by 2015
    Plans to End Childhood Hunger in AZ by 2015 Phoenix, AZ – Actor Jeff Bridges is hoping a new program announced this week will end childhood hunger in Arizona and across the nation by 2015. The No Kid Hungry Campaign incorporates public-private partnerships, nutrition education and increased particip ...
  • Advocates: Don't Repeal Health Reform on the Backs ...
    Advocates: Don't Repeal Health Reform on the Backs of Arizona Children Phoenix, AZ – Leaders in the new Republican-dominated U-S House say the midterm election was a mandate from Americans to repeal health reform. Advocates for Arizona children say they find that hard to believe. Comments from Dana ...
  • Gaping Holes Appearing in AZ Abuse Victim Safety N ...
    Gaping Holes Appearing in AZ Abuse Victim Safety Net Tucson, AZ – The impact of state budget cuts on programs targeting abuse victims is now becoming apparent at emergency shelters. These havens of last resort for women and children are increasingly operating at or above capacity. Comments from Susi ...
  • Consumer Alert: Halloween Costumes Can be Toxic
    Consumer Alert: Halloween Costumes Can be Toxic Phoenix, AZ - Arizona parents may be exposing their children to harmful chemicals from Halloween costumes. Some plastic masks contain PVC, which can cause harm to kids, and a lot of face paints contain lead, according to the Environmental Working Group ...
  • Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' Approach to CPR Comes to ...
    Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' Approach to CPR Comes to AZ Phoenix, AZ – The age-old method of doing CPR is changing. The American Heart Association is out with a new recommendation - one that focuses on steady, regular chest compressions first, instead of mouth-to-mouth first. Comments from Shirley Hage ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Help CFS Fight GE Salmon
    Check out our new video on GE salmon and support our work! Filed under: GE Animals, GE Food, Take Action
  • Newly Disclosed Government Documents Conclude GE S ...
    EXPERT FISHERIES AGENCIES PROHIBIT GROWING ENGINEERED SALMON IN OPEN-WATER NET PENS UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FDA Declined to Disclose Evidence During September Hearings on Aquabounty Salmon Adding a new twist to the controversy over genetically engineered (GE) salmon, the Center for Food Saf ...
  • Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban On rBGH-Free L ...
    Relying on evidence of compositional differences between milk from cows treated with rbST/rbGH and milk from untreated cows, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down an Ohio state ban on labels pertaining to the use of artificial hormones in dairy products (IDFA et al v. Boggs, U.S. Cour ...
  • Center for Food Safety Testifies at Congressional ...
    Congress Sharply Critical of USDA’s Biotech Crop Oversight Failures, Calls for New Regulations  Live webcast: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy? (Part II),” at: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov, 2pm EDT. Today the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and G ...
  • Thirty Eight Representatives And Senators Call On ...
    Over Fifty Organizations and Businesses Endorse Congressional Letters;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety applauds the 38 Representatives and Senators for requesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt the approval of the long-shelved AquaBoun ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects ...
    When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects Citizens? � Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place : "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. �Bu ...
  • Six Nations Land: A View
    A'nowara'ko:wa: Six Nations Land: A View First the facts: Canada is a settler state located in the northern portion of Turtle Island, formed out of two European colonies established here in the seventeenth century, one by Great Britain and one by France. These colonies were established on the ba ...
  • Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term ad ...
    Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term advantage - National - NZ Herald News : "On December 6, 2010 New Zealand will host the fourth meeting of negotiators trying to strike a free trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This proposed mega free-trade treaty currently sp ...
  • United Farm Workers | "Stupid Indians" .... "India ...
    United Farm Workers | These are the kind of insults, from supervisors, made to indigenous workers at Giumarra Vineyards. And you can imagine the treatment that goes along with this attitude. Please read the below alert and then take action. In January we reported that a young woman, 17 years o ...
  • Imperialist Barbie: The Case Against Rimah Fakih « ...
    Imperialist Barbie: The Case Against Rimah Fakih « The Cynical Arab Rimah Fakih, a native of my very own Southern Lebanon, was recently photographed crowd-surfing atop a slew of American soldiers – flaunting a set of prim and polished nails in the ironic shape of a peace sign. This perverse display ...

Pensieve

  • Forbid Campaign Contributions!
    Photo by wstera2 I read an article by Noam Chomsky this morning, in which he reflects on the aftermath of the US election. In it are several interesting points, well though out and illuminating; others were less so. Firstly he apparently sees himself as an anti-capitalist, not a Democrat. I suspect ...
  • Flying Dancers of Papantla
    This week, Monterrey is celebrating Mexico’s 200 years of independence from Spain, and 100 years since the Mexican revolution. The city’s largest park, built in the grounds of the steel factory that was once her strongest company, is hosting a fair. I shot this video while I was there last Sunday. A ...
  • Terror Averted Before Key Election…Coincidence?
    Photo by Gord McKenna Since Obama’s inauguration, left-leaning intellectuals have been frustrated in his reluctance or inability to implement the more radical elements of their agenda. At fist they saw him as a savior to the left. Now they are mourning the “Death of the Liberal Class”, as they stand ...
  • Honduras: Among the 3 Most Corrupt Nations in the ...
    Transparency international has published its results on its annual survey of perception of government corruption. The format is a zoomable world map with a ranked list below it. Honduras, at 134th place with a score of 2.4 is tied with Nigeria and Bangladesh and 7 others; not a good place to be. In ...
  • CNN Doctoring
    Is it me or did CNN want to soften news of Hugo Chavez expropriating two US-owned businesses in Venezuela? Related posts:Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First? Related posts: Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First?

Green Times

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US military base in Afghanistan attacked
    ShareThis US military base in Afghanistan attacked 13 Nov 2010 Taliban militants have attacked an airport and a foreign military base in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, security officials say. Nangarhar provincial police commander Obidullah Talwar confirmed the attack. Fourteen bombers were involv ...
  • Documents: KBR knew of toxic exposure at Iraq plan ...
    ShareThis Documents: KBR knew of toxic exposure at Iraq plant 12 Nov 2010 Months after arriving on the job in 2003, a U.S. defense contractor [terrorist group] trying to restore Iraq's oil fields had blood and urine tests showing personnel with "significant exposure" to a toxic, cancer-causing indus ...
  • Palin email hacker gets 366 days in custody
    ShareThis Palin email hacker gets 366 days in custody --Prison or halfway house 12 Nov 2010 The former Tennessee college student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account was sentenced on Friday to 366 days in either federal prison or a halfway house. David Kernell faced a maximum o ...
  • Baby Sea Lion Born In Australia's Adelaide Zoo
    ShareThis Baby Sea Lion Born In Australia's Adelaide Zoo By Joanna Zelman 12 Nov 2010 Adelaide Zoo received a real Halloween treat this year! According to the non-profit group Zoos South Australia , a baby sea lion was born on Halloween in the Australian zoo. Unfortunately, the newborn's mother did ...
  • Obama is president of extra-judicial killing, says ...
    ShareThis Obama is president of extra-judicial killing, says ex-Guantánamo inmate --Guantánamo: 'It is like a town now and every thing around it has continued to expand. It seems that this is a permanent facility and they intend to keep it as such.' 13 Nov 2010 US President Barack Obama’s attempts t ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Welcome to the Zoo
    By Audrey Farber, crossposted at Mondoweiss.net My neighborhood doesn’t have street signs. And when it does, they don’t refer to names of streets anyone is familiar with. House numbers, too, are scarce. I didn’t know my own street address until yesterday â four and a half months after my arrival. My ...
  • What Is, and Isn’t the Boycott, Divestment, ...
    By Emily Schaeffer The call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel is gaining momentum. At the same time, it is widely misinterpreted, unfortunately by skeptics, opponents and proponents alike. The basic premise behind BDS movements, wherever they have taken place, is that they a ...
  • Meir Kahane (of unblessed memory) Comic Strip Hero
    By Jesse Bacon Ma’an News reported last week on a comic book honoring Meir Kahane, the slain Jewish fascist leader whose politics were even too much for the Israeli Supreme Court. His party remains banned. Reading the comic strip, a few things become clear. First of all, the artistic quality is incr ...
  • A Lost Decade in Israel-Palestine: Diary Series Ki ...
    This diary opens a collaborative effort to profile the past decade in the life of Israel-Palestine. A Lost Decade in all respects. Far worse than Japan’s âLost Decade.â Unfortunately, the events that set this decade onto its lamentable trajectory happened shortly before the advent of the blogosphere ...
  • Budrus hero calls for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s ...
    By Jesse Bacon I recently had the good fortune to attend a packed Monday night NYC screening sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. One issue raised by the extremely well-informed director was how similar protests in other villages have had difficult ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • G20. US against the world
    “In circumstances where countries are facing undue burden of adjustment, policy responses in emerging-market economies with adequate reserves and”increasingly overvalued flexible exchange rates may also include carefully designed macro- prudential measures,â the G-20 leaders said in the statement. T ...
  • Truly, a wondrous escalator
  • Polizeros caching software change
    Polizeros is now running W3 Total Cache. You may notice the site is loading faster. (There were a few hiccups earlier in the day while installing it but those have been resolved.) Caching software makes copies of frequently used pages, like the Home Page, then serves themup to those browsing the sit ...
  • Mush from the Wimp
    Krugman on Obama’s latest caving to the Republicans. Mush from the Wimp.
  • Storing home solar power with flow batteries
    Flow batteries, which recharge quickly, are currently used for load-leveling and storing power from wind or solar. Premium Power, who makes such batteries for grid-scale usage, wants to bring them to the home market for storing solar power. The batteries could also be used to recharge EVs. Their pri ...

Coteret

  • Maariv: Geert Wilders to express support for &#822 ...
    There’s more to this. Israeli adulation for the Dutch ultra-nationalist is not limited to the National Union: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows at Dore Gold’s neoconservative power-house — The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — has been a leading cheerleader. Dutch reinforceme ...
  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
  • Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
    Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
  • The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
    This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...

Deadline Live

  • Mexico families fleeing drug war forced to relocat ...
    The raging drug war in the US-Mexico border region has forced hundreds of residents to seek refuge in neighbouring towns. The border town of Ciudad Mier is the latest fallout from a nationwide drug war that has pitted gangs against each other and government forces. Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras repor ...
  • School Makes Boy Take American Flag Off Bike
  • Mexico hunting 12-year-old drug hitman
    MEXICO CITY â Soldiers are hunting a 12-year-old suspected drug gang hitman accused of helping wage a gruesome turf war in central Mexico, a state prosecutor and Mexican media said on Friday. The boy, known only as “El Ponchis,” is believed to be working for the South Pacific cartel in Morelos state ...
  • Kosovo police bust organ trade ring
    Several doctors and a former senior health ministry official have been indicted as part of an investigation into illegal organ trafficking in Kosovo. European Union prosecutors have submitted a file on the case to Kosovan authorities. The indictment names five people accused of trafficking in human ...
  • EU President Declares End of Nation States
    Van Rompuy urges EU expansion in first ‘Europe Address’ “Nationalism and fear represent some of the greatest threats to the European Union, European Council (PUPPET) president Herman van Rompuy said in the first annual ‘Europe Address’. The bloc’s expansion remains a high priority.” “Coincidentally” ...

The Air Vent

  • Climategate, a year of comedy.
    It has been almost a year now since the UEA emails known as climategate were revealed.  What has followed has been a year of hilarity as one scandal after another followed.  Just think about how funny it was when Pachuri (head of the IPCC) published his sex book, Mann publishing one self exonerating ...
  • Blackboard on Eq 34
    The M10 hurricane paper discussion is continuing now at the blackboard.  I haven’t mentioned it much but I do consider it one of the best examples of blog based science on the internet.  As usual, I’m way way too busy to have fun, but the discussion has lapsed into the derrivation of eq 34 which [ ...
  • Hide the Incline!
    A missile was launched off our coast today, in case you are new here, I’m an aeronautical engineer.  I’ve watched rockets and planes my whole life.  Today a mysterious missile was launched off the California coast which was very disconcerting.    The pentagon is calling it everything except wha ...
  • Rain on the blackboard
    Lucia has an interesting post on condensation at the blackboard.  Now that I’m understanding Anastassia’s claims better, I’m not sure this relates at all to her work but that doesn’t stop it from being interesting. Link here if you’re interested.
  • He’s a Denier
    Coming up on a year since Climategate and Minnesotans for Global Warming has a new song commemorating the event. The denier mantra doesn’t bother me as much as some, it doesn’t describe skeptics anyway. H/T Brian H.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Advertising, Privacy Legislatio ...
    Facebook Top Online Display Advertiser – ComScore released online display advertising numbers for the third quarter and announced Facebook was in first place. There were 1.3 trillion display ads in the third quarter, Facebook took 23% of that with 297 billion impressions. Yahoo, Microsoft, Fox and G ...
  • University of Illinois’ Augmented Reality Drawing ...
    Facebook hosted the finals of its Camp Hackathon competition last night through today, featuring a face-off between winners of smaller hackathons on five college campuses. Young developers came to Facebook headquarters to create new applications in one night, where they would be judged by Facebook l ...
  • Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook to Joi ...
    Paul Buchheit, an early Google employee who coined its “Don’t be evil” motto and created Gmail, is moving on from Facebook to become a partner at startup incubator Y Combinator. Buchheit joined Facebook in August of last year when the social network acquired his social sharing service FriendFeed. Bu ...
  • Will Facebook Employees Get a Shorter Email Domain ...
    Multiple sources have been saying for weeks that a new Facebook email service, dubbed “Project Titan” internally, is coming soon. And with the company’s invite to an event in San Francisco on Monday featuring an “Inbox” logo in the email, it seems to be hinting at it too. So, here’s the latest we’r ...
  • More New Games Top This Week’s List of Emerging Fa ...
    Games fill all five of the very top spots on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users. But a few interesting non-game apps are growing as well, a bit further down the list: Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. Hollywood ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Palestine and the fate of the United Nations
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the failure of the United Nations to deliver justice to the Palestinians has condemned it to oblivion and that rather than look to the UN to deliver justice, fairness and equity, civil society must mobilize to do what is right in Palestine, as happened in the struggle t ...
  • Israel's self-destruction: reunifying the Palestin ...
    Jonathan Cook explains how the Israeli racial supremacists' insistence on a Jews-only state could backfire by uniting Palestinians inside Israel, the occupied territories and the diaspora behind "one binational, democratic state for all Palestinians and Jews in historic Palestine".
  • Western media frightened of the "F" word in its Is ...
    Alan Hart views the rapid rise of fascism in Israel and contrasts the debate taking place there regarding the extent to which the Zionist entity has become fascist with the Western mainstream media's unwillingness to give voice to those Israeli Jews who can see fascism coming.
  • Letter to UK Liberal Democrats: protecting war cri ...
    Stuart Littlewood challenges Britain's Liberal Democrats, the junior partners in the Conservative-led governing coalition, to confirm or deny Foreign Secretary William Hague's claim that they had agreed to amend UK law so that Israeli war crimes suspects can visit Britain without fear of prosecution ...
  • The parcel bomb plot: Al-Qaeda's gift to Israel
    Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that the recent Yemen-linked parcel bomb plot, responsibility for which has been claimed by the Al-Qaeda franchise in the Arabian Peninsula, serves only to aid Israeli propaganda and help mobilize Israel's stooges in the West.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Not So Gradual Degradation Of A Nation
    Paying To Be Raped Every single day millions of us are being subjected to the shameful processes of being searched, screened and viewed naked, patted, groped, fondled, poked and stroked by badge-wearing strangers- police under a different name. Every single day. Millions of us, Americans. Being viol ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #35
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Sullivan Michael Sullivan discusses his book, the American Adventurism Abroad, on how the United States, over the past 60 years, encompassing both the Cold War and the “war on terror,” came to succeed the earlier European imperial powers as arbiter of the interna ...
  • Chris Floyd’s ‘The Good Corporal’
    ‘To the Exposers of Power & the Troublers of Dreams’ Yesterday one of our readers e-mailed me a link to a recent work by Chris Floyd dedicated to truth tellers who are commonly labeled as whistleblowers, but aptly referred by him as the Exposers of Power and the Troublers of Dreams. About three year ...

Afro Spear

  • Racism in a place called “heaven”
    In the 19th century, when black American slaves were escaping north along the underground railroad, they would refer to their final destination Canada as “heaven” or “the promise land”. Although slavery had been abolished in the British colonies since 1834, upon arrival these newly freed black men ...
  • “Tanzania, yet again, goes to the dogs!&#822 ...
    Though Tanzania has always wrongly been regarded as a strong and peaceful country in the region, this does no longer hold water thanks to what transpired in the just ended elections. Recent sham and rigged general elections opened everything bare as it told the whole hidden story behind this former ...
  • 2 African American Republicans Elected To Congress
    Allan West (left) from Florida and Tim Scott from South Carolina, are the first black Republicans to be elected to the U.S. Congress in over a decade. Both apparently represent the more conservative wing of the party and had received support from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.  Read NYTimes article ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • When Voting and Racism Collide
    Meet John Barr; Ypsilanti Township, Mich racist. I met John this past Tuesday (Nov 2) when I went to my polling location to vote. Backstory: Over the last few months, I had been debating how I would vote for Mich governor. I was or torn between voting for a republican whom I felt was competent [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • BT Adastral Plan Wipes Out “Green” Pro ...
    Adastral Park is part of BT’s (formerly British Telecom) Martlesham Heath technology complex, a combination of defence research laboratory and industrial park, situated close to the busy Suffolk town of Ipswich, and adjacent to a large area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You can find Adastral Park b ...
  • Monthly Undermining Task, November 2010: The Onlin ...
    Where do you go for information? I guess, because you are reading this as a web page, then your primary resource for information that you need in a hurry (and aren’t we all in a hurry nowadays?) is the Internet. As far as corporations go, online presence has now eclipsed printed and television media ...
  • George Monbiot on the Fake Biodiversity Agreement
    There is something stirring, and I don’t think it’s just in the air – I think George Monbiot is turning his back on industrial civilization, and about time too. We could do with someone like him in the ranks of the “heretic unbelievers”. Here is his take on the Agreement That Never Was: Everyone agr ...
  • Chevron Spoof Posters: Just The Start
    On the coattails of their Chevron spoof (see here for the full story) the Yes Men have opened up the original graphics from their web sites for public subvertising. Angry and frustrated that oil companies like Chevron think they can ignore their environmental and human rights abuses while cleaning u ...
  • BBC Radio Uses Industry Funded “Expert&#8221 ...
    I like the BBC. It manages to do a very difficult job being the national, public-funded broadcaster of the UK, while at the same time generally refusing to kow-tow to the demands of the state and it’s corporate owners. On the other hand there is a lot to criticise the BBC for, in particular its [... ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Remix Radio Re-Imagines Public Radio as Interactiv ...
    While we continue to delve into code-level collaboration with Spot.Us to get our Story Exchange crowdfunding project launched later this year, I'll take the opportunity in my next couple posts to give updates on other emerging PRX services that are helping reshape public radio, and that ultimately w ...
  • Overcoming the Challenges of Using Ushahidi in Low ...
    With the increased adoption of Ushahidi around the world, we are finding that one problem (which we anticipated in the very beginning of the initiative) is that of low bandwidth regions. In the early days of testing the platform in Kenya, we found that the map would take ages to load, and so the dev ...
  • A Six-Step Process for Managing Web Projects
    After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
  • A Six-Step Process for Managing and Developing Web ...
    After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
  • Citytracking Presents Data on Cities for Maps, Vis ...
    Citytracking, one of this year's Knight News Challenge winners, will present digital data about cities that journalists and the public can easily grasp and use, and provide tools to let them distribute their own conclusions. We will build a series of tools to map and visualize data that is truly Int ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Economic Recovery - Obama Defends Fed $600 ...
    President Obama has defended the Federal Reserve’s decision to pump another $600 billion into world markets. Asked at a Monday press conference in India about the decision, which has been criticized abroad and by Republicans in Congress, Obama said the Fed’s intention was to promote growth in the U. ...
  • The Edge on Terrorism - Al-Qaeda Strikes Out this ...
    The October 29 discovery of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) inside two packages shipped from Yemen launched a widespread search for other devices, and more than two dozen suspect packages have been tracked down so far. Some have been trailed in dramatic fashion, as when two U.S. F-15 fighter air ...
  • The Obama Edge - How the World Views Obama and the ...
    The 2010 U.S. midterm elections were held, and the results were as expected: The Republicans took the House but did not take the Senate. The Democrats have such a small margin in the Senate, however, that they cannot impose cloture, which means the Republicans can block Obama administration initiati ...
  • Medicare on Edge - Powerful Medical Insiders Make ...
    Early this month, a group of 29 doctors gathered in a modern conference room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, a few blocks from Lake Shore Drive. Over the course of four days, the little-known group composed mostly of specialists made a series of decisions crucial to the massive government entitlement ...
  • The EV Edge - Honda is Finally on Board with Plug- ...
    Many people new to the EV world may not understand the importance of Honda’s announcement about the inevitability of EVs. Honda’s new CEO, Takanobu Ito, stated in an interview with Reuters, “It’s starting to look like there will be a market for electric vehicles. We can’t keep shooting down their po ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Anguish of Kashmiri People: Are We Listening?
    By Ram Puniyani Layers of democracy, within the state need to be strived for and peoples voices of dissent need to be listened carefully rather than insulted and blindly opposed without understanding the logic of their statements and suffering of the people of Kashmir
  • Militants Regrouping In Pakistani Kashmir
    By Zafar Iqbal Islamic militants have started re-emerging in various cities and towns of Pakistani administrated Kashmir
  • Which Human Rights Do You Call For?
    By Kourosh Ziabari How justified is the sanction imposed on Iran? Here is a real life story
  • IEA World Energy Outlook 2010: Questionable Assump ...
    By Gail Tverberg The World Energy Outlook 2010 makes quite a number of assumptions that seem wrong, and omits important ideas. Here are a few that Oil Drum staff members have mentioned. You may have others you think should be added to the list
  • Global Oil Availability Has Peaked:EU Energy Chief
    By Reuters The availability of oil worldwide has already peaked, the European Unions energy chief Guenther Oettinger said on Wednesday. My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globall ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Yasir Arafat Dead 6 Yrs Today, His Legacy (Killin ...
    By Barry Rubin Six years ago, on November 11, 2004, Yasir Arafat died. On that occasion, former President Bill Clinton explained why he wouldn�t attend Arafat�s funeral: "I regret that in 2000 he missed the opportunity to bring [Palestine] into being��.� Not Israel, but Arafat did so. ...
  • GREAT New Online Home For Political Discussion
    When I started using the internet as a news source one of the first places I found for conservative thought was Lucianne.com �a news aggregator that has been around for ten years. When the folks at Lucianne created a website aggregating blog posts, I was proud to be one of the bloggers selected to p ...
  • ADL Goes After Glenn Beck More Proof That Its Just ...
    The Anti-Defamation League has taken up the Media Matters' cause by attacking Glenn Beck' s series against George Soros: Glenn Beck's description of George Soros' actions during the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top. For a political commentator or entertainer to ha ...
  • Demonizing Israel and Pretending It Is Ordinary Cr ...
    By Barry Rubin This is getting to be a pretty common kind of story. The mayor of Frankfurt invites a Jewish intellectual whose family left Germany in 1932 to speak on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The problem is that this man, Alfred Grosser, is a ferocious critic of Israel. Grosser ...
  • A Prayer For Our Veterans
    Lord who grants salvation to kings and dominion to rulers, Whose kingdom is a kingdom spanning all eternities; Who places a road in the sea and a path in the mighty waters - may you bless protect the military of these United States of America, may they complete their mission quickly, and return ...

The Real Agenda

  • Nation-States are Dead says European Union Chief
    The age of the nation state is over and the idea that countries can stand alone is an ‘illusion’ and a ‘lie’, the EU president believes.
  • Government Funded Terror: An Open Admission
    If there was any doubt that governments fund terror and stage false flag attacks against themselves, that doubt should be erased by a recent exchange within the British House of Lords. In addressing his peers in the House, Lord James of Blackheath revealed that he had been involved in the laundering ...
  • China Fired Missile seen over California Coast
    Asian intelligence sources believe the submarine transited from its base on Hainan through South Pacific waters, where U.S. anti-submarine warfare detection capabilities are not as effective as they are in the northern and mid-Pacific, and then transited north to waters off of Los Angeles.
  • The People vs The Full Body Scanners
    A growing number of airline passengers, labor unions, and advocacy groups, however, say the new procedures--a choice of full-body scans or what the TSA delicately calls "enhanced patdowns"--go too far.
  • Anarchists Take Over peaceful protests on London
    Anarchists hijacked the event, setting off the most violent scenes of student unrest seen in Britain for decades. Militants from far-Left groups whipped up a mix of middle-class students and younger college and school pupils into a frenzy.

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

  • Right Wing running with scissors on the Accidental ...
    Aren't they forgetting a few tiny details in their Racist Dumbass propaganda there?
  • While the rest of the world celebrates Armistice D ...
    We have Veterans Day, or, as I like to put it, “your recruiter lied to you and society used your entire childhood to condition you to accept that, so to make up for getting screwed like that we’ll have a postal holiday and a parade for you”. Just, you know, don’t actually expect those benefits [...]
  • I guess they couldn’t pass the physical&#823 ...
    Gratuitous plug for Endless War by the Country Music Awards just a couple of minutes ago. Something about “Wounded Warrior” being always in their hearts. Yeah, right. It’s one thing for burnt out AlterKokkers like Ted Nugent and Merle Haggard getting up on stage and telling people that if they were ...
  • Pentagon says “we don’t know how we la ...
    It’s all over the net now, an “unexplained, possibly accidental” launch of a missile off California. I read “accidental missile launch”, googled that term and got time after time after time that missiles have been fired without any advance planning. Most of the types that can’t be just launched by o ...
  • As long as they have their Priorities straight
    “Justice” Department drops charges against CIA Torture Freaks for destroying evidence, as in the Videos they took of their coward comrades exercising power over helpless people. Cop Porn in other words. I bet George W and Cheney have copies though, for the above mentioned reason. Meanwhile the REAL ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Who is Really "Stupid and Wrong": Key Ideas and Ev ...
    A letter sent to Australian media : Recently the President of the Trades Hall Council and Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, Kevin Bracken, telephoned into a local radio program that was discussing the Australian troop deployment to Afghanistan. Mr Bracken aired the implicit view that, i ...
  • "Jacque Fresco Exposed" Debunked
    Well, I made a few videos and was persuaded to post them so I will. They are debunkings of a guy named PeterWhitlock on Youtube. The videos are about The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement, if you haven't heard of either of them, you can watch the documentary "Zeitgeist: Addendum": or go t ...
  • The neverending incredulity of JREFers
    After watching Jon Cole's excellent presentation "The Great Thermate Debate", I decided to visit the wretched hive of scum and villiany that is the JREF forum and read the responses from the people who believe that well placed, accurately timed, 4500 degree thermite reactions are unable to bring dow ...
  • Jesse Ventura: The Constitution Says They Can Do I ...
    Bill O'Reilly says Muslims killed us on 911 on the View. Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar Walk Off the set Jesse Ventura afterward on the Joy Baher Show... Related Info: TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11 The Pentagon Attack: The No-Jetliner Claims
  • "... Wegen Neunundneunzig Luftballons!"
    Red alert over bizarre North Korean plan to attack G20 summit with balloons filled with chemical weapons A bizarre plot by North Korea to attack the G20 summit using balloons filled with biological or chemical weapons emerged last night. The claim that ageing tyrant Kim Jong-Il will attempt to dis ...

Fooducate

  • Good Foods, Bad Foods at the 2010 Dietitian Confer ...
    We participated earlier this week in the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. The expo includes a showcase by food companies boasting their healthy products to masses of dietitians and future dietitians. Some products are clearly healthy and make sense, but others ...
  • Taco Bell’s Sodium Spin
    This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, director of nutrition labeling at Palate Works. PR people really know how to spin. Take a look at the video and press release by Taco Bell: “Taco Bell has been quietly testing a reduced-sodium version of its menu at 150 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth are ...
  • ADA Launches Kids Eat Right – Shop. Cook. Eat.
    We’re in Boston for the 2010 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE),  organized by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The ADA has just announced a new initiative to get kids eating healthfully – Kids Eat Right. The idea is to get registered dietitians involved in their local communiti ...
  • Pictures from an Exhibition
    We’re at the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo, in Boston this year. The event is the years biggest meetup of dietitians, members of the ADA. More than 10,000 dietitians are expected to attend this year (that’s about 15% of the total dietitian population in the US!). Aside from the many ...
  • Challenges in Nutrition [from Tufts Friedman Sympo ...
    We’re in Boston this weekend for 2 important nutrition events. Today we participated in Tufts University’s Friedman Symposium, and starting tomorrow we will be at FNCE, the American Dietetic Association’s annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. At the Friedman Symposium, we participated in t ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • The Family JewelsA Veteran’s Story
    by Greg Palast In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread." My father ran to his mother's bedro ...
  • Rove's Vote Trickster: Caging Explained
    On Tuesday, Tim Griffin, former chief of research of the Republican National Committee, is on the ballot for Congress to represent Little Rock, Arkansas. He's favored to win. But Griffin is just as happy to win by stealing votes. Here's a clip from the Elections Files, the Palast team's investiga ...
  • The Petroleum Broadcast SystemOwes Us an Apology
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS 'Frontline' investigation of BP, "The Spill." PBS has uncovered a real shocker:  BP neglected safety! Well, no shit, Sherlock! Pluto rolled over on the rug and looked at me as if to say, Don't we already know t ...
  • Was Tim Griffin merely a "Rove-bot"?Did Karl Rove ...
    Special to the Arkansas Times by Greg Palast (New York, London) Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote Comic book voterguide.To learn more click on the image. Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida ("caging"), has communicated with ...
  • SarahPAC Candidate "Should Be in Jail"NBC TV airs ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail." Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote comic That's hardly the kind of endorsement a candidate for Congress expects. But that is the conclusion of voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Bush would have endorsed Obama if asked
    From the FT: “The venue was the Oval Office. A group of British dignitaries, including Gordon Brown, were paying a visit. It was at the height of the 2008 presidential election campaign, not long after Bush publicly endorsed John McCain as his successor… Trying to be even-handed and polite, the Brit ...
  • In Flanders Field
    by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Love ...
  • The economic trap the 1st world is in
    For years I’ve been saying the plan was to Japanify. Japanify is another way of saying “extend and pretend”.  You pretend the banks and the rich aren’t broke.  In the Japan scenario, you slowly pay down or write off the bank losses at a pace which doesn’t wipe out the shareholders or bondholders o ...
  • Death and Rebirth of a Republic
    (From Formerly T-Bear) First it is “Change election funding” but to do so Law needs be legislated; but the legislature is broken. Then it is “Elect more better™ legislators” but the political process is corrupted; the political parties are broken. Then it is control the government but that is run an ...
  • The Life Cycle of a Republic
    (From Formerly T-Bear) First it is “Change election funding” but to do so Law needs be legislated; but the legislature is broken. Then it is “Elect more better™ legislators” but the political process is corrupted; the political parties are broken. Then it is control the government but that is run an ...

Age of Autism

  • AAP’s Errol R. Alden, MD: The Worst CEO in America ...
    Managing Editor's Note: AAP response to the overwhelming parental concerns about the current pediatric vaccine schedule? Better science? NAH... Pay parents in focus groups to create more ads to dispel fears! "...We're currently working on a new ad to ease...
  • Age of Autism Will Be Back Tomorrow: Today Is Comm ...
    Out of respect and love for people with autism who struggle to communicate, we are participating in the Communication Shutdown Day today. No Facebook, no Twitter, no blogging. To participate, get the CHAPP (charity app) HERE. See you tomorrow.
  • Dan Olmsted On Why Progressives Don't Get Autism
    By Dan Olmsted The midterm elections have ushered in a period of reflection and reckoning for the nation’s liberal-left movement that today usually describes itself as “progressive.” As The Huffington Post bluntly put it, “Progressive Heroes Go Down to Defeat.”...
  • An Interview Kim Stagliano on Autism, Acceptance a ...
    Click HERE to listen to Teri Arranga interview Kim Stagliano, author of All I Can Handle I'm No Mother Teresa on Autism One Radio A Conversation of Hope. You can order the book at Amazon HERE. Thank you to Teri...
  • Why is Paul Offit's "Autism" Org Teaching VACCINE ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Why doesn't the Autism Science Foundation take autism out of their name once and for all? They are the Vaccine Schedule Protection Foundation. They exist to protect the vaccine schedule and the autism community has raised the...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australian political parties get millions from ban ...
    The Australian – THE major political parties are receiving millions of dollars worth of dividend payments from the banks as they attack the big four. The investment arms of the Labor and Liberal parties are shareholders in the banks and are on track to receive a healthy boost to revenue, as the bank ...
  • Australian PM helps big banks beat new G20 rules
    The Australian – JULIA Gillard has won significant concessions for Australian banks at the G20 summit. This comes as all four major banks infuriated the government by pushing their mortgage rates beyond the Reserve Bank’s official movement. Global leaders at the G20 summit in Seoul last night ticked ...
  • Fed ‘New World Order’ May Boost Treasury Volatilit ...
    Bloomberg — Treasury volatility over the shorter term may increase as the Federal Reserve begins its second round of asset purchases under quantitative easing, according to Morgan Stanleyâs James Caron. Bank of America Merrill Lynchâs MOVE index, measuring price swings based on over-the-counter opti ...
  • Drug expert claims David Kelly was murdered as he ...
    Daily Mail – Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kellyâs death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdose of painkillers. This overdose was found by the original pathologis ...
  • Muslim cleric Omar Bakri sentenced to life in Leba ...
    BBC – The radical Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Muhammad, has been sentenced to life in prison by a military court in Lebanon. He told the BBC from his home in Tripoli that he had been informed by his lawyer of the verdict on Thursday. He had been tried in his absence by the court, accused [...]

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Grizzly jokes aside, will John McCain stand up to ...
    Sen. John McCain loved to crack jokes about DNA research on America's remaining grizzly bears. "I don't know if it was a paternity issue, or criminal, but it was a waste of money," McCain said, repeating the joke during his...
  • An Arctic oil spill could linger for years
    Almost everyone can agree that, however bad the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was, a major spill in an icy Arctic sea would be worse. How much worse? A new report commissioned by the Pew Environment...
  • CalPERS putting $500 million into green companies
    The country’s largest public pension fund is, like so many other investment bodies, going green. The California Public Employees Retirement System said Wednesday that it will pour $500 million into environmentally friendly companies. The portfolio will focus on “top performers...
  • Electric, diesel or hybrid car? Cost and CO2 calcu ...
    As the Environmental Protection Agency struggles with how to accurately label passenger vehicles for fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, a new online cost and CO2 emissions calculator launched today to help fill the void. "Electrics, hybrids, plug-ins, all these alternative...
  • Lawsuit seeks state protection for the Pacific fis ...
    An environmental group has filed a lawsuit accusing California wildlife authorities of failing to protect the remaining populations of Pacific fishers in Northwestern California and the southern Sierra Nevada range. Filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, the suit seeks...

water.org

  • Matt Damon – Why Water.org? (EW)
    Matt Damon on ‘True Grit,’ his charity work, and raising four girls (Entertainment Weekly) – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why is Water.org so important to you? MATT DAMON: Every 15 seconds, a kid is dying because he or she doesnât have access to clean water and sanitation. Itâs pretty staggering. In Americ ...
  • Putting star power behind good works (NY Times)
    Putting Star Power Behind Good Works (New York Times) – Matt Damon, his film work aside, enjoys a star status as one of the best-known social entrepreneurs. Gary White met Mr. Damon after the actor had set up a nonprofit group to address water issues. Mr. Damon had become interested in water while h ...
  • 4 Standout gifts that give back (O)
    One for Me, One for You: 4 Standout Gifts That Give Back (O, The Oprah Magazine) – If Matt Damon has a water bottle to sell us, we’re buying. The flasks in question are from Water.org (the nonprofit Damon cofounded with social entrepreneur Gary White). They come in BPA-free plastic ($19) and stainle ...
  • Water.org gets ‘Glamour’ous shout out (ONE)
    ONEâs causes get a âGlamourâous shout out (ONE) – At ONE, we never ask for your money â we just ask for your voice as part of our advocacy work around poverty alleviation. But, we have to admit, itâs pretty cool when outside sources encourage donations to some of the effective programs we care deepl ...
  • Arts for a Better World for Water.org (Miami Premi ...
    Better World Exhibit Benefits Global Charities during Art Basel (Miami Premier Guide) – Joining Miamiâs December art scene with élan, ARTS FOR A BETTER WORLD (âAFABWâ) is a bold endeavor to unite a large-scale commercial exhibition with the non-profit community. From December 1 to 5, 2010, more tha ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Canadian Prime Minister Praised for His Stirring W ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper was praised for his courageous speech on Israel and Anti-Semitism. Submitted by Ian N. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • US to boost military aid to Israel
    US Congress approved a boost of $400 million worth of additional military equipment for Tel Aviv last month, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Thursday. The fresh aid package will bring the value of American military equipment stockpiled in Israe Submitted by ElderberryAway T. to US Politic ...
  • Bil'in invaded for the fourth time in three days
    When people from the village arrived, the 20 soldiers pointed their guns directly in the face of the people, and acted very aggressively. They also broke down the door of al-Khatib's house when they entered. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Shocker: Sarah Palin Still Doesn't Read Newspapers
    Sarah Palin has always had what one could call a tense relationship with the press. You know, the "liberal media" -- which, as far she's concerned, is every media outlet except Fox News. Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel's latest building plan is a pointless provo ...
    Thus, this direct, public tussle with the American government and world opinion leads to a new situation: Israel's being defined as a peace rejectionist and an untrustworthy state. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • U.S. SportsUnited Teams up with NASCAR to host th ...
    The delegation comprised of young adults involved in auto racing as drivers, mechanics, and car or track performance technicians will visit the new NASCAR Hall of Fame.
  • UN Prepares to Facilitate Voluntary Return of 56 ...
    The United Nations refugee agency said today it is preparing to help internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan who fled military operations in South Waziristan last year to return to their villages after some of them expressed their desire to
  • US President Sends Eid Congratulatory Message to H ...
    On the eve of the Muslims Eid Al Ad-ha, the president of the United States of America Barack Obama on Friday sent a congratulatory message to his Somali counterpart Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed to wish him a good Eid festival.
  • Congressman Sestak Takes Part in Montgomery County ...
    In working with Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Congressman Sestak has advocated for a seamless transition from active duty to the VA medical system and access to medical treatment appropriate to a Veteran's condition.
  • UN Urges Myanmar the Release of Suu Kyi and 2 ...
    Four United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government of Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally release pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as the over 2,200 political prisoners detaine

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  • 10 Hard Truths About Veterans Day
    sadsoldier.jpg A good way to remember Veteran's Day is to remember the long list of ways US veterans have suffered and continue to suffer at the hands of the U.S. Government: www.tiresiasspeaks.wordpres ...
  • Students smash Tory headquarters
    the NUS/UCU backed demo on 10.11.10 was expected by many, including libertarian communists to be a pretty tame, reformist affair. How wrong we were... This report appeared on indymedia last night. The authors are not known to me and desc ...
  • Notes from an FBU picket line
    fire.JPG Joe Thorne reports back from the front lines of the London firefighters strike against mass sackings and shift pattern changes. The FBU has held two eight hour strikes in ...
  • Striking firefighter hospitalised by station manag ...
    One firefighter has been airlifted to hospital and three others injured after a station manager drove his car through a picket line. Tam Ozdemir of Red Watch, Croydon was rushed to hospital with suspected neck and pelvic injuries.
  • Three new traslations in English of leaflets from ...
    Here are three documents we translated in English and that seem to us to be important. We would like to apologize for the mistakes in translations, which sometimes sound as “Frenglish”, but it’s the concern for internationalism that prevails. ...

Free Range International

  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
  • Inchon
    Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...
  • The Going Is Getting Tough
    The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
  • What A Mess
    I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
  • Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
    The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...
  • SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
    ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Executions of Nigerian and Ghanaian Citizens in Ma ...
    Following the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s recent reports about the secret executions of death-row prisoners inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison, reliable sources told the Campaign that two of the inmates who were recently executed were citizens of Ghana and Nigeria. read more
  • Nasrin Sotoudeh Still on Hunger Strike; Allows Her ...
    Feministschool.com, a website in Iran, reported that Iranian authorities continue to refuse jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s demands for due process, forcing Sotoudeh to continue her hunger strike. Sotoudeh has agreed to friends’ requests to drink water after nine days of being on a dry ...
  • Solidarity must not come at the expense of Iranian ...
    However, seeing this man welcomed like a hero and as a symbol of the Iranian people left a deeply bitter taste in my mouth. As proud as I am of the independent political path our country has taken and the role it plays as an enabler of resistance to Israel, I am deeply aware of the great costs we ha ...
  • UN Women: Iran’s deserved rebuff
    Tehran has been kept off the UN Human Rights Council, but it did win a spot in April on yet another UN agency, the Commission on the Status of Women. That means Tehran’s mullahs still have a forum in which to express their medieval views. That’s not good. But two would have been worse.
  • PEN Canada and CJFE call for help for Hossein Dera ...
    (CJFE/PEN Canada/IFEX) - Canadian media organisations are writing to Prime Minister Harper about concerns for the Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan: read more

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

  • It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ...
    On Monday evening a helicopter near Los Angeles filmed what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch some 35 miles west of Los Angeles. The government immediately denied any knowledge of a missile launch, and after much speculation in the media and on the Internet, a few days later the case was sol ...
  • The Forgotten War, the 1956 Israeli Invasion of Eg ...
    Also known as the Suez Crisis or the Tripartite Aggression. This was a lovely little war, brilliant in its simplicity. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal early in 1956, so Britain, France, and Israel came up with a wonderful plan. Israel would invade Egypt, drive the Egyptian army out of the Sina ...
  • Palestinian Dreams
    I’ve been doing some posting in a  discussion group, and like watching the main stream media news, I have been astonished at what I see. For one thing, it really is true, there are people that literally believe that every word uttered on Fox News is the truth. I have a hard time understanding that, ...
  • Gloria Ramirez and the Riverside Miasma, a Medical ...
    At 8:15pm on February 19, 1994, one Gloria Ramirez arrived at the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. She was extremely confused, and suffering from problems with her breathing and heartbeat. All pretty normal ER fare so far. The ER st ...
  • Where are we, and what are we doing in this handba ...
    I’ve lately been tripping on just how much the world has changed in the past ten years, or more specifically, how the USA has changed. The “War on Terror” has been going on for nearly ten years now, and it’s reached new heights of transcendental absurdity. Absurd on many levels. Absurd in that the t ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Cleantech, Globalization and Energy Independence
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Kevin P. Kane. Kevin is an Oil & Gas analyst and cleantech business consultant living in South Korea. Kevin previously published two widely circulated essays: American Freedom from Oil: A Bipartisan Pipedream and Energy Security ...
  • The Stroke of a Pen
    Bob Dinneen wants Congress to extend ethanol tax credits with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."
  • The Palm Oil Conundrum
    Join the forum discussion on this post People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing field (i.e., they don’t require big subsidies or mandates in order to compete). ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part III
    Join the forum discussion on this post This is the concluding installment of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy). Part I discussed the overall goals of the Navy’s biofuel efforts, and in Part II we covered why coal-to-liquids (CTL) is presently off-l ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part II
    Join the forum discussion on this post In Part I of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), we covered the nature of what the Navy is trying to achieve (and why) with respect to incorporating renewable energy into their operations. Part II begins with a ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Are You Ready for Rising Food Prices?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the price of food staples, including grains, beef, coffee, cocoa, and sugar, have risen sharply in recent months. And retailers like Safeway Inc. and Kroger are indicating that they’ll be passing their suppliers’ price increases ...
  • How to Get Killer Hair without Poisoning Anyone
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In an attempt at shiny, stick-straight hair that lasts for more than a month, all sorts of people are flocking to salons for a pricey keratin-based straightening commonly known as the "Brazilian blowout." The popular hair-straightening service is reportedly touted by Nicole ...
  • Ronald McDonald Is Stalking Your Kids
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—San Francisco raised eyebrows last Tuesday when the city's Board of Supervisors approved a measure preventing fast-food restaurants from including toys in unhealthy meals. The measure doesn't amount to an outright ban, but henceforth, any kid's meal that comes with a toy has ...
  • Beat the Egg Recall with 5 Egg-Free, Protein-Packe ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Sure, eggs are a near-perfect breakfast food. But with another large-scale recall of salmonella-tainted eggs hitting the news , it’s more important than ever to take the time to make sure your egg source is safe. While you look for a local or organic egg supplier (or if you ...
  • Why Healthy Milk Comes from Less-Gassy, Longer-Liv ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In 2006, a United Nations report raised some eyebrows when it found that cow flatulence accounts for more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the tailpipe emissions from the transportation sector combined. The report blamed issues associated with industrialized operations—thin ...

big think

  • Salman Rushdie, Rainn Wilson and Walter Mosley Int ...
    Big Think interviewed an array of luminaries in a variety of fields this week, including "The Office" star Rainn Wilson, famed novelist Salman Rushdie, and writer Walter Mosely. Rushdie came into the Big Think offices today to discuss fantasy, video games, Islam, and how to attract women. His . ...
  • Big Thinker Andrew Shears Has a TV Show for Every ...
    Last week, Big Think blogger Frank Jacobs featured "The United States of Movies," on his blog Strange Maps . The map, originally posted Reddit , assigned a movie to every U.S. state and generated plenty of online buzz. Today Big Think commenter Andrew Shears responded with a similar map assigning a ...
  • Why Our Deficit Problem Is A Medical Issue
    Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum has nailed the real problem with the deficit-cutting ideas floated the other day by the the co-chairs of President Obama's Commission of Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Their trial balloon concentrates on discretionary spending and Social Security, while the real ...
  • she28: Sustainable Sanitary Products Empower Women ...
    Every year, millions of girls and women in the developing world miss up to 50 school and work because they are menstruating and lack access to the proper sanitary products, which puts them at a severe learning and earning disadvantage. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) tackles the issue with an . ...
  • The Election Cycle Never Ends
    For politicians, the election cycle never ends. Now that the 2010 midterms are over—or almost —it’s time to start thinking about 2012. Two years from now the real prize, the presidency, will be back on the table. With a divided Congress likely to mean gridlock , both parties will spend most of the . ...

Information Liberation

  • Making Pilots Puke
    Believe me when I say that I despise unions as much as the next anarchist. With their taxation of victims based on profession rather than geography and their violence against those who object to paying for "services" they neither want nor need, ...
  • World Battles The Invasion Of The Naked Body Scann ...
    People from all walks of life are rejecting the mass implementation of radiation spewing airport body imaging machines and fighting back against the molestation and groping that women and children are being subjected to at the hands of TSA officials....
  • Big Sis Forced To Respond To Nationwide Revolt Aga ...
    The federal government has been forced to respond to the accelerating backlash against new TSA measures which have outraged the nation, with TSA Administrator John Pistole and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano set to meet today with execut...
  • The Gold Standard Never Dies
    John Maynard Keynes thought he had pretty well killed gold as a monetary standard back in the 1930s. Governments of the world did their best to help him. It took longer than they thought. Gold in the money survived all the way to Nixon, ...
  • TSA Screener Accosts 3 Year Old Child at Security ...
    Doesn't this make you feel safe?...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Canned heavy metal and more
    My latest science news updates on SpectroscopyNOW – a sneak preview just for you ahead of their going live on 15th November, covering heavy metals in sardines, enzyme inhibitors for pain relief and sleep problems, the possibility of oral insulin without a Trojan horse carrier, and a spectroscopic te ...
  • Making the web work for academia
    The internet has changed fundamentally the way we communicate, the way we work, even the way we live our lives. That much is obvious to anyone who has ever shopped at Amazon, looked up a reference on PubMed, or gone social via Facebook. Those of us who’ve been using email and the wider world tools [ ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Preliminary Assessmen ...
    GAO Report GAO-11-90R http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1190r.pdf [Summary] Because the total costs of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are still unknown, the federal government’s financial exposure as a result of the oil spill is also unknown. BP has voluntarily established a Trust to be funded incremen ...
  • Accelerating Successful Smart Grid Pilots
    World Economic Forum http://tinyurl.com/24w7rmf [Abstract] Over the last 12 months, the utility industry has witnessed progress on two fronts: the recognition by governments of the importance of fiscal stimulus in kick-starting the transition to the low-carbon economy and the centrality of smart gri ...
  • Oil Spill Prevention and Response in the U.S. Arct ...
    Pew Charitable Trusts http://tinyurl.com/29kuxgw [Executive Summary] This report examine the risks, challenges and potential consequences of oil spills associated with oil and gas exploration and production in the outer continental shelf (OCS) of the United States Arctic Ocean. The April 2010 Deepwa ...
  • Climate Risks and Adaptation in Asian Coastal Mega ...
    World Bank http://tinyurl.com/2dwtsmf [From press release] The report Climate Risks and Adaptation in Asian Coastal Megacities examines the impact of climate change on Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila, under a range of different scenarios through to 2050. The report is the product of a two-year ...
  • What’s Next for Alternative Energy?
    Boston Consulting Group / Balu Balagopal, Petros Paranikas, and Justin Rose http://www.bcg.com/documents/file65667.pdf [From Press Release] What’s Next for Alternative Energy examines the state of seven of the most significant alternative-energy technologiesâadvanced biofuels, electric vehicles (EVs ...

Scientific American - News

  • Unraveling Cement's Molecular Mysteries Could Be K ...
    After months of hearings and finger-pointing, a Deepwater Horizon investigative commission formed by President Obama has begun to shed light on what led to the April 20 explosion that killed 11 and initiated a deep underwater gusher that spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of ...
  • NASA's Successor to Hubble Is $1.4 Billion Over Bu ...
    An independent review of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a mammoth space-borne observatory that should greatly surpass even the venerable Hubble Space Telescope in observing power, has revealed that the telescope will cost about $1.4 billion more than had been thought. And the telescope is ...
  • Cat Lap: Engineers Unravel the Mystery of How Feli ...
    One morning a few years back Roman Stocker was watching his cat, Cutta Cutta, drink, and began to wonder about the mechanism by which cats lap fluid into their mouths. [More]
  • Out to Launch?: "Mystery Missile" off California C ...
    When the crew of a KCBS television news helicopter caught sight of a growing, glowing streak in the evening sky off the southern California coast November 8, experts and amateurs alike began to wonder just what this "mystery missile" was. [More]
  • The Heat Was On: Atmospheric CO 2 Triggered a Glo ...
    Atmospheric CO 2 was the primary driver of a 400,000-year global warming event, known as the middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO), according to a new study. The finding, which could help climatologists better understand the precise relationship between CO 2 concentration and climate change today, ...

RAWA News

  • Mounting evidence of British war crimes
    WSWS: Britain’s armed forces stand accused of torture and murder, perpetrated in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The scale of the abuses involved cannot be attributed to a few “rogue” individuals, or covered up by the routine excuse that Britain simply got “too close” to the United States and is guilty o ...
  • Number of sexual assaults is unacceptable, expert ...
    Postmedia News: The figures, reported in the recently released Canadian Forces Provost Marshal 2009 report, show reports of sexual assaults have decreased slightly, from 166 in 2008, but the numbers are still very troubling, said Michel Drapeau, a retired colonel now practising military law.
  • AFGHANISTAN: Food Security Outlook, October 2010 t ...
    Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET): Internally displaced households and repatriated Afghan refugees from Pakistan in cereal deficit areas in east, south, and central Afghanistan are expected to be moderately to highly food insecure. There food security condition will worsen as Afghanista ...
  • US not tracking spending on Afghan projects, audit ...
    BBC News: The US government has spent about $55bn on rebuilding in Afghanistan since 2001 but cannot easily show how the money was spent, a government watchdog says. The special inspector general's office for Afghanistan reconstruction talked of a “confusing labyrinth” of spending.
  • Harper’s flip-flop on Afghanistan
    The Vancouver Sun: We should have known it was too good to be true. Harper’s many, many repetitions of his government’s commitment to get all the troops out by July 2011 are well known. I think he may actually have meant it because by these repeated statements he framed the issue so strongly that al ...

frogblog

  • Fear and loathing in the agrarian sector: a rural ...
    This family not only lost their jobs under the fire at will legislation but have been, hopefully only temporarily, split up by it: Their “crime”, apparently, was to stick up for another worker who was a recent immigrant, and was being victimised in a racist manner by the employer. ...
  • MP expenses: Another one bites the dust
    Metiria Turei went in to bat on the issue of MP expenses today, following the resignation of Ethnic Affairs and Women's Affairs Minister Pansy Wong. The current arrangements encourage rorting by maximising so-called “entitlements”. As Metiria says, it is time for an independent review.
  • Right to silence cancelled
    It’s great that the NZ Herald, in an editorial this morning , recognises that “New Zealanders stand to lose some hard-won freedoms under a bill [the Search and Surveillance Bill] moving largely under the radar through Parliament.” Decoding that sentence, it means we should have take ...
  • You’re using too much sauce and aioli. You& ...
    As the Government presses on with the ACT Party’s policy of extending its fire at will law to all employees in their first 90 days on the job, the NZ Council of Trade Unions are highlighting more instances of employer abuse of the existing fire at will law. Here’s Aaron Greave, a Ti ...
  • Alcohol Bill is a weak drink
    Sue Kedgley just delivered the Green Party’s first reading speech about the Alcohol Reform Bill (ARB). The final bill glosses over a lot of the essential recommendations from the Law Commission’s report. It fails to address the main causes of alcohol related harm: price, saturation ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Republicans and the Young
    Over at FrumForum, Nils August Andresen tries to figure out why university students have become so anti-Republican even though they themselves haven't gotten especially more liberal over the past few decades. A changing ethnic mix might be part of it, but: Let me advance another hypothesis. Today ...
  • Targeting Inflation
    Today, the LA Times does its best to help out the Fed by increasing inflation expectations, splashing this across its front page: Rumblings of inflation grow louder On Tuesday prices of many raw materials continued to surge, with gold, cotton and sugar reaching record highs. A closely watched in ...
  • Chart of the Day: Peak Oil
    Stuart Staniford passes along a fascinating little finding: If you go to the executive summary of the 2009 International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook, and search for "peak oil", your browser will come up empty. The whole subject was so beneath the dignity of a serious energy agency that th ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 12 November 2010
    On the left, Inkblot has claimed ownership of the newly reupholstered reading chair. Surprisingly, it took him a couple of days. Usually it takes more like a couple of minutes when something new comes through the door. In any case, it's his now. On the right, Domino takes advantage of our current No ...
  • Earmarks, Schmearmarks
    I am, of course, thrilled to see conservatives beating each other senseless over earmark reform. They've spent years demagoguing Democrats over it, and the spectacle of Sen. James Inhofe now complaining that he's being demagogued over earmarks is pretty priceless. Still, Inhofe makes an unassailable ...

Insanity Report

  • Rachel Maddow’s Interview with Jon Stewart
    I watched the whole edited version last night and I’ll watch this unedited version to see what I missed. It was funny watching some Liberals react to Stewart’s answers though. Because Stewart doesn’t give them the answers they want to hear there was a lot of “I’m DONE with Jon” and “I thought he was ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Tucker Carlson…
    So I finally got my fill of playing Call of Duty:  Black Ops and decided to stop neglecting my site and do some writing… Who am I kidding?  I haven’t gotten my fill of Black Ops yet.  I just have to go into the office for a couple of meetings today so I figured I’d [...]
  • #FreeKeith…Cause Suspended Rich Guys Need Our Supp ...
    So Keith Olberman survived the world’s shortest suspension and will be back hosting Countdown on Tuesday.  With all apologies to MSNBC’s attempt at “see we  aren’t like Fox News” this whole incident has proven to me once more that Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same problem.  Let’s take the ...
  • How The Fuck Does Bill Maher Get Away With This Sh ...
    I’ll be honest.  When the whole Juan Williams/NPR Fiasco went down, I didn’t call Juan a bigot.  I didn’t cry for him being fired because, well, he had no business being on NPR to begin with.  But I wasn’t going to call the man a bigot solely because he had the backbone to admit a [...]
  • IC 208: Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Bush People
    Topics for the show: Woman in West Virginia utters words you never thought would be in a Police Report The NFL and bad coaching Mike Shanahan makes a good excuse for why parents should beat their kids Weezy’s free The McRib is back San Fran bans the Happy Meal The Midterm Elections Kanye West vs [.. ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate change shifts organisms in space and time
    Duke University's Bill Morris finds the hills are alive with moving plants, and warns that climate change impacts could mean species that have worked together in the past will move out of sync.
  • Prehistoric CO2 double-up gives warming data
    Measurements from a global warming episode 40 million years ago show that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere increased sea surface temperatures between 2 and 5ºC, Dutch and British scientists find.
  • Extracting urine in the name of climate research
    50,000-year old animal toilets are in fact sensitive measures of prehistoric climate, says Brian Chase, from the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, France.
  • Arctic warming full ahead
    With both the Northeast and Northwest Passages opening to shipping this year, as the Arctic climate continues to change rapidly, ships actually using them could make matters worse.
  • “Cherry picking” is a rotten accusation
    Choosing which data to include and which to leave out is central to science, argues Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang, even though critics of climate scientists might object to leaving out certain weather stations from their temperature measurements.

e!Science News

  • Cystic fibrosis gene typo is a double whammy
    An imbalance of salt and water in patients with cystic fibrosis makes their lungs clog up with sticky mucus that is prone to infection. The cause of the offending imbalance is a well-known genetic error, one that blocks the molecular expressway for tiny chloride ions to move across the surface of th ...
  • Tests show bright future for gadonanotubes in stem ...
    Gadonanotubes (GNTs) developed at Rice University are beginning to show positive results in a study funded by a federal stimulus grant through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year. read more
  • Hospital certification program for cardiovascular, ...
    The American Heart Association should develop a comprehensive hospital certification program with policies and evidence-based criteria for cardiovascular disease and stroke care in the United States, according to an American Heart Association Presidential Advisory published in Circulation: Journal o ...
  • Breaking the ice before it begins
    Engineers from Harvard University have designed and demonstrated ice-free nanostructured materials that literally repel water droplets before they even have the chance to freeze. read more
  • NIST releases draft report on South Carolina furni ...
    Major factors contributing to a rapid spread of fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., on June 18, 2007, included large open spaces with furniture providing high fuel loads, the inward rush of air following the breaking of windows, and a lack of sprinklers, according to a draft report rel ...

unEarthed

  • A Fracking Murder Mystery
    Art imitated life on CBS's hit crime show CSI last night.�The episode,�titled "Fracked,"�delved into the�water-polluting form of gas drilling in which millions of gallons of chemically-treated water are blasted into the earth to ...
  • There's Plenty of Skilled Labor To Fight Air Pollu ...
    It takes chutzpah to assert that there aren't enough skilled workers—during the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression—to comply with EPA regulations to reduce air pollution. But the power sector has done just that ...
  • Friday Finds: When Grizzlies Eat Us…They May Be Hu ...
    Starving grizzly bears are increasingly clashing with humans over food. Image courtesy of stock.xchng Enviros and drillers become fracking bedfellows in regulator debate New York's Department of Environmental Conservation i ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill Doesn't Prepare Us For An Arctic Oi ...
    Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska's cold waters A new report on the perils of offshore oil drilling reminds me of an old saying about how today's generals are always preparing to fight yesterday's wars. The report, by Pew Environ ...
  • Dispersants Made Gulf Oil Much More Contaminating
    And here's yet another clue to the question of what happened to all that oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown well. A Canadian toxicologist reports that dispersants did break up the oil and make it less visible—b ...

Brave New Climate

  • CO2 rising – the science of global warming
    Below are two climate change book reviews by me; I hope you find them as interesting as I did. I’ve provided an Amazon link to one and a Book Depository link to another — because I’m not out to promote any particular online bookstore (although I tend to find the latter cheapest, and as to [...]
  • Electricity costs exhibits
    I note that there has been some interesting discussion here on costs of electricity, especial the comparative value of fossil fuels versus nuclear (and renewables). This is a point I will revisit from a number of perspectives over the next few months, because I agree with commenters like Arthur Dent ...
  • Two nuclear-solar dialogues in Melbourne next week
    Back in September, I visited UNSW in Sydney and debated Mark Diesendorf on nuclear and solar power. It was a useful night, with quite a few Sydney-based BNC readers attending. I was pleased with the outcome — I just hope the audio becomes available at some point. Now this “Brain Food” event comes to ...
  • Of brains, biceps and baloney
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s recent book Storms of my Grandchildren makes accessible the evidence behind the judgement of m ...
  • Open Thread 7
    Open Thread 6 is getting overly bloated in its old age, at 650 comments, and is taking too much time to load. So it’s time for new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So [...]

Indigenist Opinion

  • When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects ...
    When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects Citizens? � Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place : "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. �Bu ...
  • Six Nations Land: A View
    A'nowara'ko:wa: Six Nations Land: A View First the facts: Canada is a settler state located in the northern portion of Turtle Island, formed out of two European colonies established here in the seventeenth century, one by Great Britain and one by France. These colonies were established on the ba ...
  • Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term ad ...
    Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term advantage - National - NZ Herald News : "On December 6, 2010 New Zealand will host the fourth meeting of negotiators trying to strike a free trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This proposed mega free-trade treaty currently sp ...
  • United Farm Workers | "Stupid Indians" .... "India ...
    United Farm Workers | These are the kind of insults, from supervisors, made to indigenous workers at Giumarra Vineyards. And you can imagine the treatment that goes along with this attitude. Please read the below alert and then take action. In January we reported that a young woman, 17 years o ...
  • Imperialist Barbie: The Case Against Rimah Fakih « ...
    Imperialist Barbie: The Case Against Rimah Fakih « The Cynical Arab Rimah Fakih, a native of my very own Southern Lebanon, was recently photographed crowd-surfing atop a slew of American soldiers – flaunting a set of prim and polished nails in the ironic shape of a peace sign. This perverse display ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • The Teabaggers Will Be Let Down In 3, 2, 1…
    Imagine. People so stupid that they thought the corporate controlled frauds they voted for would do anything but hand out more corporate welfare goodies….. Amazing.
  • Republicans Hate The Troops
    According to this story, 92% of politicians receiving a D, or an F grade are Republicans. Go figure. Raw Story Article
  • Fascism Is Finally Here
    Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...
  • Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
    If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
  • No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
    83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Time to Fight Back: Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver!
    Are you sick of being screwed over by Wall Street? Now is the perfect time for us to get some revenge! A crack in the foundation has been exposed! If people go out and buy silver in large numbers, JP Morgan will lose $4 BILLION.
  • We Need A Rally To Restore The Rule Of Law And/Or ...
    The Federal Reserve represents global banking interests who have overstepped their legal authority. Their Quantitative Easing program is an explicit violation of the Constitution. By deliberately devaluing the dollar and causing the price of basic necessities to rise, the Federal Reserve is, as a m ...
  • Dear America, Your Taxes Are Going Up 20%, Food an ...
    We are now creating short videos to break issues down in an easily understood manner. The goal is to have a video that family and friends can watch which explains our crisis and hopefully inspires passive people into action. In this first video, David DeGraw discusses the Federal Reserve's latest ...
  • Midterm Election Further Demonstrates Need for Rev ...
    Yes, I sound extreme, but these are extreme times. Most Americans have only a vague understanding of the collapse that we have been set up for. I’m not going to sit quietly as our future is ripped out from under us. I see the path we are on and I intend to change it!
  • ‘Road Through 2012′ Book Release Moved ...
    I've had two very powerful interests threaten to sue me over the release of my new book. To make matters even worse, a third interest is going to lengths to make my life as difficult as possible...

+972

  • Nov 12: Ma’ariv Calls for Israel to Enlist A ...
    The Roundup: Ma’ariv calls on Israel and AIPAC to team up to release American spy; Israel’s most important columnist denounces “Appartheid Law”; IDF General thinks conflict with Hama is “inevitable”   The Headlines: Israeli-American Relations > Ma’ariv is calling upon Israel to act now â with AIPAC ...
  • In the Israeli film “2048,” the Jewish ...
    An Israeli director has made a film that imagines a near future in which Israel has ceased to exist, fading into history. Yaron Kaftori’s “2048″ was screened at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque last summer on Tisha b’Av – the date on which observant Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second temple ...
  • Letter from America: I long for the days when I ca ...
    I am on a speaking tour in the United States on behalf of the Anarchists Against the Wall and the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee in order to raise money for our depleted legal funds. I have been traveling throughout the American east coast to colleges, bookstores and universities talking ...
  • Congressional Republicans: The best friend BDS eve ...
    The incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), provides a glimpse of what the Israeli-Palestinian agenda of the Republican dominated congress will look like. Ynet: Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, who stands to head House Foreign Affairs Committee, opposes transfe ...
  • Footage: Soldiers cheer as houses are bombed
    Veteran activist Assaf Kintzer has put out the following video up on Youtube, saying it’s cellphone footage taken by IDF soldiers during operation Cast Lead: The subtitles on the video sometimes work, sometimes not. Here’s my own transcription. Skip it if the subtitles do work. [00:3o] Soldier 1: “N ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Ironman World Championships and the Foreclosure Wa ...
    Watch the Video Then Click on the Link Below for More Information About the Race! Ironman Clearwater Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • The American Bankers Association ‘splains Wh ...
    Gotta hand it to the Fat Cats, they’ve twisted this thing up so tight, everyone can point fingers in eight directions at once and disavow any responsibility for the chaos that is Fraudclosuregate. As a basic principle, the Committee acknowledges the need for more clarity in transaction documents gen ...
  • HAMP BAILOUT TRACKER- ANGER AND FURY
    For those delusional people out there that think there was any real effort to modify mortgages (I was certainly one of them), have a look at the following report which shows just how obscenely wasteful, unproductive and ineffective the program was…a breakdown of money received….my money, your money, ...
  • AMERICANS HAVE GROWN SOFT- WE COULD LEARN ABOUT PR ...
    “We have lost faith in the government until they prove that their politics is for the people and not for the corporations.” She talked about the “anger” among people at the “arrogance of the political class.” SCREW THE BANKS- MAIL KEYS, NOT PAYMENTS Like the Roman legions vanquished in the Teutoburg ...
  • Fraudclosuregate- Video Explanation of the Coming ...
    The tragedy and treason of our foreclosure courtrooms is just a symptom of the much larger economic, political and legal rot that has swept across this country virtually unchecked.  The banks and institutions own us all.  Their evil machine has spun wildly out of control such that no one.  Not them, ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Four Horsemen
    Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden – the backfield of Knute Rockne’s infamous 1924 Notre Dame football team that became the most famous of its day.  The squad lost only two games in two years and became iconic in sports circles. Queried about his good fortune, Rockne could ...
  • It Changes Everything
    Filed under: Faith, Politics, The New Internationalism
  • Citizens’ Vimy Ridge
    Today is Pat Stogran’s last day. To officials at Veteran Affairs Canada the ombudsman was a thorn in the side that just wouldn’t quit agitating. To veterans themselves, and their supporters, he was a true, bona fide hero, taking on a system that seemed insensitive and incapable of adapting to the ne ...
  • Duet For Child Soldiers
    This is a little embarrassing, but bear with me. Romeo Dallaire was kind enough to come to London on Sunday evening November 7th to speak at a fundraiser for our NGO – Canadian Aid For Southern Sudan. We’ve been employing former child soldiers in south Sudan to assist us with the building of school ...
  • The Lobby and the House
    Here’s something of a private tour of the opposition lobby in Parliament and a tour of the chamber of the House of Commons itself.  You’ll see Conservative Michael Chong in it briefly, whose bill I’m seconding to improve the decorum in Question Period. And you’ll get a close-up of the Speaker’s cha ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
  • Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
    By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...
  • Doctor-Heroes Standing For Better Vaccine Science
    by Barbara Loe Fisher The cry that was heard around the world in the early 1980's, when mothers and fathers realized an old, crude pertussis vaccine was killing and damaging the brains of their children, is being echoed today by new generations of parents struggling to raise vaccine injured childre ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m expect ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the piece ...
  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science at ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in airp ...
  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnolog ...
    Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation!  In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [...] ...

Reader Supported News

  • Get Ready for the Great MERS Whitewash Bill
    The report begins: "When Congress comes back into session next week, it may consider measures intended to bolster the legal status of a controversial bank-owned electronic mortgage registration system that contains three out of every five mortgages in the country." A gate to a foreclosed home is ...
  • Obama Taps Bank Regulator for Troubled Fannie, Fre ...
    The report begins: "President Barack Obama on Friday tapped North Carolina's top bank regulator to take over the troubled mortgage-lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, potentially putting him at the center of one of the major economic debates facing Congress next year." In Boulder, Colorado ...
  • Get Ready for the Great MERS Whitewash Bill
    The report begins: "When Congress comes back into session next week, it may consider measures intended to bolster the legal status of a controversial bank-owned electronic mortgage registration system that contains three out of every five mortgages in the country." A gate to a foreclosed home is ...
  • Obama Taps Bank Regulator for Troubled Fannie, Fre ...
    The report begins: "President Barack Obama on Friday tapped North Carolina's top bank regulator to take over the troubled mortgage-lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, potentially putting him at the center of one of the major economic debates facing Congress next year." In Boulder, Colorado ...
  • G-20 Summit Ends With Watered-Down Agreement
    Article summary: "Instead of specific steps to avert damaging currency and trade wars, the participants agree only to avoid 'competitive devaluation' of currencies. Obama insists progress was made." President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference at the G20 Summit in Seoul. 11/12/10. (pho ...

War Resisters League

  • IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
    Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
  • Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
    Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
  • International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
    Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...
  • March for Justice on October 2!
    What: One Nation Working Together Who: A broad-based national coalition of labor, racial and economic justice groups, community organizations, and antiwar organizations. Where: Washington D.C. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial When: Saturday, October 2 Dear fellow War Resisters, As the U.S. expen ...
  • Latino Youth Defines DREAM Act as a DeFacto Milita ...
    By VAMOS Unidos Youth We write this statement to raise our voices as Latino youth working and living in the Bronx, New York in opposition to the DREAM ACT as it stands. We demand that we return to our original DREAM ACT that had a community service option instead of a military one. The military [... ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
    How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
  • Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
    A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...
  • What We’re Reading–Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook
    Author Kim O’Donnel recently released The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour, for people that love to eat meat but might also want to eat less of it. In the book’s foreword the Center’s director, Dr. Robert Lawrence, reintroduces the idea to readers that people ...
  • Meatless Monday Launches at Johns Hopkins Universi ...
    Today marked the launch of Meatless Monday on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.  Elaborate banners of cartoon cows, chickens and pigs that read, “Monday is my day off!” greeted students as they entered JHU Dining Service’s three main dining areas: Levering Food Court, Fresh Food Court and ...
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    On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) released a draft report that, given their usual alignment with agricultural interests, is surprisingly straightforward in its assessment of the inadequacy of conservation practices in place on farms in t ...

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  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
  • Obama's Indecent Interval
    Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
  • Divide and Conquer
    At an upcoming conference in London, the Afghan government will unveil its plan to bring the Taliban rank and file back into the political fold -- and plead for international assistance for its new initiative. 

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Conservation groups launch Save Our Parks Week
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    The Alberta Wilderness Association and the Environmental Law Centre have posted their comments on Bill 29, Alberta Parks Act . The bill will receive second reading on November�15. Alberta Wilderness Association: Alberta Parks Under Threat (pdf) ...
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    Pembina Institute 4 Nov 2010 OTTAWA , ON — Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, made the following comments in response to Minister Prentice's resignation on Th ...
  • Save Our Parks - 2 Weeks for Action!
    Sierra Club of Canada 8 Nov 2010 (All day) - 16 Nov 2010 (All day) Alberta Tourism, Parks & Recreation Minister, Cindy Ady, introduced a new parks Act into the Legislature (Called Bill ...
  • New Park Act Endangers Parks
    CPAWS Northern Alberta 9 Nov 2010 (All day) - 12 Nov 2010 (All day) Take action to protect Alberta's Provincial Parks If you care about Alberta's parks, please act today! As you may ...

 

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Renewable energy summit is Monday in Sandy
Salt Lake Tribune
- Nov 12, 2010
- 16 hours ago
More than 400 people are expected to attend a daylong Utah Renewable Energy Business Summit on Monday at Salt Lake Community College's Larry H. Miller ...
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CORRECT: GE Energy Financial Services Hits $6B Target For Renewable Energy ...
Wall Street Journal
- Nov 11, 2010
- Nov 11, 2010
("=GE Energy Hits $6B Target For Renewable Energy Investing," at 6:25 pm EDT Thursday, misstated the name of the GE unit in the headline, the status of the ...
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More than $4.7M in energy grants headed to Neb.
BusinessWeek
- Nov 12, 2010
- 14 hours ago
Money from the USDA's Rural Energy for America Program will be used to install renewable-energy systems and increase energy efficiency. ...
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Congressional Committee Hearing to Explore Integrating Renewable Energy into ...
USGlass News Network (USGNN)
- Nov 12, 2010
- 18 hours ago
“USGBC has long been a proponent of building-integrated renewable energy generation, highlighting its importance in the 2008 National Green Building ...
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Human Habitat

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Sharks and wolves share 'ecology of fear'
Wired.co.uk
- Nov 11, 2010
- Nov 11, 2010
By Duncan Geere |11 November 2010 |Categories: Wired Science Ecologists studying how wolves and sharks affect their respective ecosystems have concluded ...
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Old Sentinel Building Breathes New Life
Patch
- Nov 13, 2010
- 6 hours ago
The former Santa Cruz Sentinel building, which held memories for several reporters in attendance, will soon be the new home of Cruzio Internet and Ecology ...
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Ecology board accuses GMR Energy of legal breach
Sify
- Nov 11, 2010
- Nov 11, 2010
The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) has moved court against top executives of GMR Energy Ltd for allegedly starting construction on a ...
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Ecology green mortgages buck the trend – highest monthly gross lending levels ...
PRLog.Org (press release)
- Nov 12, 2010
- 22 hours ago
PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 12, 2010 – As providers of the UK's first green mortgages, and funded by the savings of its ethically minded members, Ecology ...
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water floods pollution
Scott asks EPA to delay Fla. water pollution rules
BusinessWeek
- Nov 12, 2010
- 14 hours ago
It accused EPA of failing to enforce the federal Clean Water Act, which was pass passed in 1972 "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and ...
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Fla. man charged with water system tampering
MiamiHerald.com
- Nov 13, 2010
- 6 hours ago
A Florida man is jailed on charges of tampering with a public drinking water system. The FBI says Earl Davis climbed a fence on Nov. ...
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Water Cooler – November 12th, 2010
CappersPicks.com (blog)
- Nov 13, 2010
- 7 hours ago
Here we go with today's sports water cooler talk. Here, you won't just find the straight news; you'll find the stuff everyone is talking about – the ice ...
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APNewsBreak: SC AG: Tentative accord in water case
BusinessWeek
- Nov 12, 2010
- 14 hours ago
By MEG KINNARD The water dispute between North Carolina and South Carolina neared resolution Friday, with a bistate commission approving a joint settlement ...
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