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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, November 13, 2010

13 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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

Blacklisted News

  • Mao Zedong Redux: G20 ushers in 'great leap forwar ...
    A new global development strategy to be unveiled at this week's G20 summit marks a "great leap forward," the head of the OECD said on Thursday. In 1958 the announcement of the Great Leap Forward took place. The program asked for the establisment of large agricultural communes which contained ...
  • Water Wars: World Bank Loans Mexico $100 Million t ...
    The main beneficiaries of this project will be water utilities located in urban communities of more than 20,000 people. Washington, D.C. - infoZine - The World Bank (WB) Board of Directors approved a US$100 million loan for the Mexico Water Utilities Efficiency Improvement Project, which seeks to i ...
  • Smart-Growth Policy Splits Environmentalists
    Most people would assume that environmentalists would rather protect tall trees than tall buildings. But, increasingly, even the staunchest environmentalists are advocating plans to build up cities near transit hubs in order to curb sprawl and limit emissions of greenhouse gases. That has created ...
  • China lashes Fed easing as risk to global recovery
    China said on Thursday that the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to ease monetary policy risked undermining the global economic recovery, adding that Washington "should not force others to take medicine for its own disease".
  • Did You See The Fire In The NYC Sky?
    The sighting came one day after a mysterious condensation trail was spotted off the coast of California. Speculation�over the object that caused it ranged from a fired missile to a contrail from a commercial airliner.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ashton accepts Iran's date for talks
    Summary: The group also wants the comprehensive talks to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. The agreed date is one of the two proposed by the Islamic Republic earlier this week source: Press TV read more
  • US open to Turkey as venue for later round of Iran ...
    Summary: Turkey and Brazil early this year brokered a modified fuel-swap deal which Washington rejected before securing a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran. source: AFP read more
  • ISRAEL UPS THE PRESSURE FOR MILITARY ACTION AND OB ...
    Summary: For some time now, we have been forecasting an intensification of pressure on the Obama Administration, by Israel and pro-Israel constituencies in the United States, for U.S. military strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. source: Race for iran read more
  • Major powers against solving nuclear issue: Ahmadi ...
    Summary: “In the next few days, the dialogue will commence but our experience shows that they are not seeking to solve the issue,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to upcoming talks with six countries over Tehran’s nuclear drive. source: Daily Times read more
  • 'Bibi can take US into war with Iran'
    Summary: Michael Scheuer A former CIA member says the Israeli premier can take US into war with Iran but Washington is not prepared for such a confrontation. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Theory: Earth's Atmosphere Incubated Life -Not ...
    Life on Earth may have originated high up in the atmosphere rather than in the surface waters of oceans or pools, researchers have found. Scientists simulating possible chemical reactions occurring in the upper atmosphere of Titan (above), Saturn's largest moon,...
  • Evolution Has Buried 'Post-Hypnotic' Suggestions i ...
    Evolution has hidden post-hypnotic suggestions in your behavior. You may think you're the absolute master of your emotions, but that whole "consciousness" thing is just a thin scraping of self-awareness over a huge network of evolved drives and compulsions. If...
  • 45-Year-Old Ghostly Mystery of Galaxy M106 Solved
    Astronomers may have cracked a 45-year old mystery surrounding two ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106 (NGC 4258) using results obtained by a team from the University of Maryland, took advantage of the unique capabilities of the ESA’s XMM-Newton...
  • "Junk DNA" Allowed Us to Survive as a Species (Tod ...
    When the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers discovered a shocking fact: our bodies are littered with the shards of retroviruses, fragments of the chemical code from which all genetic material is made. This discovery has...
  • Whales: 35-Million-Year Evolution of a Species
    UCLA evolutionary biologists used molecular and computational techniques to look back 35 million years, when the ancestor of all living whales appeared to analyze the 84 living species of dramatically different sizes and the more than 400 other species that...

Natural News

  • Electronic Privacy Information Center sues TSA ove ...
    (NaturalNews) The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is proceeding with a lawsuit against the TSA over its use of naked body scanners. Filed in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals , EPIC's lawsuit asks for the courts to halt the US government's use of naked body scanners altogether. ...
  • USDA says to eat more cheese while also supposedly ...
    (NaturalNews) The government often has an interesting way of contradicting its own efforts and wasting money in the process. Marketers at an organization called Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which is run and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), have been working in overdrive ...
  • New animation reveals the truth about statin drugs ...
    (NaturalNews) We've just released a new, short animation exposing the truth about the dangers of statin drugs. Called "The Truth About Statin Drugs," this public service announcement animation quotes research published in the British Medical Journal which reveals that statin drugs cause liver dysfun ...
  • FDA proposes new line of cigarette warning graphic ...
    (NaturalNews) After being granted the power to regulate tobacco products for the first time last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come up with a new anti-cigarette marketing campaign that the agency hopes will help deter people from smoking. According to a recent New York Times ...
  • Monsanto pressing for GMO sugar beet ban to be lif ...
    (NaturalNews) Sugar beet farmers from across the country are bemoaning the court ruling from last October that barred any further plantings of genetically-modified (GM) sugar beets until proper safety studies have been completed. But according to a recent Associated Press (AP) report, Monsanto spin ...

Threat Level

  • National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body ...
    Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He’s encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA’s technological strip searches en masse on that day as ...
  • Sarah Palin E-mail Hacker Sentenced to 1 Year in C ...
    David Kernell, the former Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, was sentenced on Friday to one year in custody. Kernell, 22, was convicted earlier this year of misdemeanor computer intrusion and a felony count of obstruction of justice. The jury found hi ...
  • FCC Probing Google Wi-Fi Spy Scandal
    Google’s Wi-Fi-sniffing debacle has become the focus of a Federal Communications Commission inquiry, two weeks after another government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, closed its probe without imposing sanctions. The latest development, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is an FCC exam ...
  • V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State ...
    An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students. The nearly fo ...
  • Friend of Accused WikiLeaks Source Detained at Bor ...
    Federal agents briefly detained and questioned an MIT researcher and friend of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning as he reentered the country from a vacation in Mexico last week. David Maurice House, 23, was met by U.S. customs agents as he deplaned at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport last Wednesday, ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Obama Should Repeat Bush's History on Deficit Comm ...
    Karl Marx famously said that historical events occur twice: first as tragedy, then as farce. But when it comes to his debt commission , President Obama is in danger of standing that old chestnut on its head. Unlike President George H.W. Bush's almost comic dismissal of the recommendations of a Con ...
  • Peter King the Latest Republican to Endorse Medal ...
    On Wednesday, New York Rep. Peter King became just the latest Republican to conclude there ought to be a prize for torture. Defending George W. Bush's admission this week that he authorized waterboarding of terror detainees, King insisted the former president "should get a medal." If that sounds f ...
  • GOP Wages War on 59 Million Uninsured
    Emboldened by their midterm victories, the GOP and its amen corner have stepped up their war against the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the multistate lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. In Texas , Repub ...
  • Bush: No WMDs in Iraq Sickening - and Funny
    Pushing his new memoir in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer which aired Monday, George W. Bush addressed one of the defining episodes of his presidency. Finding no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Bush claimed, left him feeling "sickened." But in 2004, as you may recall, President Bush found ...
  • Republicans Throw Stones at Glass Debt Ceiling
    "Reagan proved," Vice President Dick Cheney famously said in 2002, "deficits don't matter." Not, that is, when a Republican is sitting in the White House. After all, Republicans were silent as the national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan and doubled again under George W. Bush. As it turns out, t ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Houston Redistricting Hearing
    Come one, come all. The House Committee on Redistricting is taking public testimony at hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will help shape the districts for both the house and senate of the Texas legislature, Texas congressional districts, and districts for the election of judicia ...
  • Week two of the Delay trial underway
    Last week we wrote a little about what was happening in the early days of Tom Delay’s criminal trial.  To recap and then sum up last week, in their opening statements, prosecutors said that Tom DeLay took part in a scheme to illegally channel corporate money into Texas legislative races in order to ...
  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
  • Veronica Valesquez: Solar Intern from Austin Colle ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Veronica majors in Environmental Studies and Cultural Anthropology
  • Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz welcome party ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz, the new Region 6 EPA Administrator welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Ghost-hunters to check out the Titanic
    A paranormal group are planning on investigating the wreck of the Titanic for ghosts. The group are looking to find out whether the spirits of some of...
  • NASA discovers "exceptional object"
    NASA are holding a conference on Monday to announce a discovery by the Chandra telescope. Speculation is rife over what the "exceptional object" disco...
  • Mummies of 15th century dogs found
    Archaeologists have discovered six mummified dogs at a pre-Columbian site south of Lima. It is believed the dogs were offerings as part of a funeral h...
  • Could life have come from alien zombies ?
    Taking the idea of panspermia one step further - could dead alien microbes have spread life to the Earth ? Astronomer Paul Wesson has suggested that d...
  • Star system 'resembles game of snooker'
    Astronomers have discovered a star system that appears remarkably like a game of snooker. The star system called NN Serpentis is 1670 light years away...

Grassroots

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

Climate

GreenBiz

  • How IBM, Intel and SAP Confront Corporate Water Ch ...
    Current water constraints and looming threats of shortage and decaying infrastructure are basic facts of business life that few companies have fully absorbed, according to the Artemis Project, which tapped sustainability leaders at IBM, Intel and SAP to share their strategies for grappling with wate ...
  • Water Poses Risks for Companies -- and Opportuniti ...
    Some of the world's largest and most water-intensive companies see growth opportunities in strengthening their water management practices and selling products designed to address water woes, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project's inaugural Water Disclosure Report released today. At the same ...
  • How America's 50 Largest Cities Rate on EV Readine ...
    The question is no longer whether electric vehicles are coming, but "How fast?" and "Where first?" In a recently published report, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and RMI's Project Get Ready looked at the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. to see how they stack up in terms of EV readiness.
  • Wind, Solar Top Walmart Food Distribution Center
    The newest Walmart Canada fresh and frozen food distribution center will be 60 percent more energy efficient that Walmart's other centers and will be topped by wind turbines and solar panels.
  • Ameresco, JCI Help Schools with Sweeping Energy-Sa ...
    Energy efficiency companies are stepping their work to make schools greener with Johnson Controls Inc. and Ameresco� Inc. providing the latest examples of far-reaching projects that will help schools conserve energy and cut utility costs.

Reuters Global

  • Croatia must read European Union signals carefully
    Croatia hopes to become a European Union member in the next couple of years. Effective anti-corruption reforms are a major test of its readiness.
  • APEC’s robots stealing the show
    Miim is one of the more popular delegates at the APEC meetings in Yokohama Japan. She sings. She dances. She tosses her shoulder length hair. She may not be able to spout an alphabet soup of APEC acronyms like the other Asia-Pacific delegates. But she's still pretty lively. For a robot.
  • The murky deaths of Mexico’s kingpins
    Mexican marines killed a top drug war last week but still no photos of his body have surfaced, the latest kingpin to die a murky death.
  • Tanzanian police cast shadow over Guantanamo trial
    Throughout the trial, defense lawyers have been suggesting to the jury that Tanzanian witnesses who testified against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani were in some way intimidated by the Tanzanian national police and fear reprisals back home.
  • India, U.S. build ties, with an eye on China ?
    The one elephant in the room that the leaders of India and the United States didn't name but which was written all over the flurry of announcements made during the three-day Obama trip was China.

Booman Tribune

  • Frivolous Friday Open Thread
    Inspired by WXPN 's Funky Friday playlist: Got any funk? Discuss
  • Laziest Man Alive
    George W. Bush is as predictably lame as Sarah Palin. There's nothing like plagiarizing your own freaking memoir to say, "I've never done an honest day's work in my life." Bush has always had someone else to do the work while he played the front-man or the party-boy. It was true in the Air Forc ...
  • Don't Call it Treason
    What do you call it when the (soon-to-be) House Majority Leader sits down with a visiting head of state and assures him that he and his party can be counted on to side with his country against the president of the United States? This isn't a hypothetical, by the way. It's not like I'm asking w ...
  • Crappy Democrats
    It occurs to me that if any Democrats who just got bounced out of office intend to support a continuation of tax cuts for the richest three percent of the population, then they were worse than useless . It's one thing to vote in a way that helps you get reelected so you can do good things on other ...
  • I Wish They Were Here
    Something needs to be done about our long-term structural deficit. And any feasible political solution is going to be extremely sub-optimal. I get that. I don't expect a bipartisan commission to issue recommendations that I think are fair, or logical, or even supportable. In the end, I have to w ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Beating the Blues: Music Therapy and Depression
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s no secret that music can calm the mind and soothe the soul. But does music therapy work as a form of treatment for depression? A new study suggests that yes, music therapy has the potential to help people overcome depression, especially when used in combination w ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up What a fantastic week in the psychotherapy world! Enjoy this week’s newest and most interesting research, and please let us know what you think. Have a wonderful weekend! We Are Most Happy When Making Love, Exercising or Chatting, and Least Happy ...
  • Want To Prevent Suicide? Promote Depression Awaren ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In recent weeks, suicide awareness and suicide prevention campaigns have seen a huge boost in public momentum, and this is good. But it’s important to remember that talking someone out of suicide does not mean that their problems are solved. Suicide is often the last ...
  • Why I Love the Eleventh Step
    By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The Eleventh Step: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for k ...
  • Not All Holiday Dishes are “Feel-Good” Foods
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many of the fall and winter holidays are associated with feast-like meals and generous sweets. While joyous for many, the next few months can also be stressful for people who struggle with compulsive over-eating. The emotions tied to the holidays can make this even ha ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Another Big Bank Turns Away from Mountaintop Remov ...
    Another Big Bank Turns Away from Mountaintop Removal ! It's Getting Hot In Here I'm saying 'Thank you' this week to PNC bank � which has just released its public position on Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. ... Lift up your eyes... Daily Kos all 2 news articles��
  • Heroic Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activist Bo Webb W ...
    Heroic Anti- Mountaintop Removal Activist Bo Webb Wins Prestigious Purpose Prize The Indypendent I live at the bottom of a mountain top removal coal mining operation in the Peachtree community. Webb and his growing alliance and anti-strip mining ... Coal River man receives national award istockAnal ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Roadshow comes to AB Tech Nov. ...
    Mountaintop Removal Roadshow comes to AB Tech Nov. 17 Mountain Xpress The Mountaintop Removal Road Show features a graphic 20-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal on neighboring communities and the ...
  • Raleigh activist wins $50000 for fight against mou ...
    Raleigh activist wins $50000 for fight against mountaintop removal Charleston Gazette Raleigh County native Bo Webb is being recognized with a $50000 award for his work fighting to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Coal River man receives national award Beckley Register-Herald W.Va. mining ...
  • EPA Takes Historic Step Toward Stopping Mega Mount ...
    EPA Takes Historic Step Toward Stopping Mega Mountaintop Removal Mine Site Media Newswire (press release) If finalized, it will demonstrate EPA's commitment to more vigorously oversee the devastating practice of mountaintop removal in Appalachia. ... EPA Likely To Revoke Largest Mountain Top Remova ...

Memeorandum

  • George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Adv ...
    The Huffington Post : George Bush Book ‘Decision Points’ Lifted From Advisers' Books   —  When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner.  But the book, at least, promises “gripping, never-before-heard detail” about the former p ...
  • Olympia Snowe Is Getting a Challenger - And Soon ( ...
    Brian Bolduc / National Review : Olympia Snowe Is Getting a Challenger — And Soon   —  I have direct knowledge of a conservative in Maine who is preparing to challenge Olympia Snowe.  He has told me he is running but has asked me to keep things vague so as not to step on his announcement, which he ...
  • Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news (Te ...
    Ted Koppel / Washington Post : Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news   —  To witness Keith Olbermann - the most opinionated among MSNBC's left-leaning, Fox-baiting, money-generating hosts - suspended even briefly last week for making financial contributions to Democratic political candidat ...
  • One and done: To be a great president, Obama shoul ...
    Washington Post : One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012   —  President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election.  —  In recent days, he has offered differing visions of how he might approach ...
  • Murkowski: DeMint will have to make first move for ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill : Murkowski: DeMint will have to make first move for ‘making up’   —  If Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is interested in apologizing to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), he'll have to make the first move, Murkowski said Friday.  —  The Alaska senator, who appears poised to win re ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.6, Dominican Republic region
    Saturday, November 13, 2010 04:35:40 UTC Saturday, November 13, 2010 12:35:40 AM at epicenter Depth : 96.60 km (60.02 mi)
  • M 5.1, south of the Mariana Islands
    Thursday, November 11, 2010 14:56:25 UTC Friday, November 12, 2010 12:56:25 AM at epicenter Depth : 38.90 km (24.17 mi)
  • M 6.3, southeast Indian Ridge
    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 04:05:24 UTC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:05:24 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.70 km (6.65 mi)
  • M 5.3, Molucca Sea
    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 03:09:22 UTC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:09:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 14.20 km (8.82 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 01:23:33 UTC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 10:23:33 PM at epicenter Depth : 25.60 km (15.91 mi)

China Dialogue

  • China’s export conundrum
    Complaints about trade restrictions on Chinese raw materials expose inconsistencies in European and American policies – and an underestimation of the environmental case, argue Xin Wang and Tancrède Voituriez.   In 2009, the European Union, United States and Mexico filed a complaint with the World ...
  • Sizing the climate economy
    Global green energy markets will at least double in size by 2020, according to the latest research from HSBC’s climate team. But the fruits will not be evenly spread, writes Nick Robins. 2010 has been a tough year for the global climate agenda. Policy pessimism after Copenhagen has been compounded b ...
  • Embracing urban evolution
    China risks building a generation of rigid cities, unfit for the demands of a changing society, writes Adrian Hornsby. But there is an alternative approach – as an exercise this summer demonstrated. The design of cities takes place in a curious middle ground between invention and evolution. They are ...
  • China’s transformation paradox
    In order to finance the shift to a low-carbon economy, China first requires a period of high-carbon growth, argues Pan Jiahua. China ’s shift to a low-carbon economy will require funding and technology. This can be acquired only through growth – and not a return to traditional agricultural society. ...
  • Low-carbon logic
    Beyond international efforts to cut carbon emissions, China has its own reasons for shifting to a green economy. It’s not a question of if, but how fast, writes Pan Jiahua. Low-carbon development in China is not just about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to combat climate change. It is also an ess ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body ...
    Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He’s encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA’s technological strip searches en masse on that day as ...
  • Sarah Palin E-mail Hacker Sentenced to 1 Year in C ...
    David Kernell, the former Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, was sentenced on Friday to one year in custody. Kernell, 22, was convicted earlier this year of misdemeanor computer intrusion and a felony count of obstruction of justice. The jury found hi ...
  • FCC Probing Google Wi-Fi Spy Scandal
    Google’s Wi-Fi-sniffing debacle has become the focus of a Federal Communications Commission inquiry, two weeks after another government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, closed its probe without imposing sanctions. The latest development, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is an FCC exam ...
  • V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State ...
    An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students. The nearly fo ...
  • Friend of Accused WikiLeaks Source Detained at Bor ...
    Federal agents briefly detained and questioned an MIT researcher and friend of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning as he reentered the country from a vacation in Mexico last week. David Maurice House, 23, was met by U.S. customs agents as he deplaned at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport last Wednesday, ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Analysis: Nine years on, the Taliban have a messag ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - When NATO leaders gather for a summit in Lisbon next week, where Afghanistan will top the agenda, they can expect a message waiting for them from the Taliban.
  • Factbox: Facts about Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi
    (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's fight against military dictatorship, is scheduled to be released from house arrest on Saturday, just days after a military-backed party won the first election in two decades.
  • Pacquiao poised to deliver Margarito knockout, say ...
    ARLINGTON, Texas (Reuters) - British world champion Amir Khan has predicted Manny Pacquiao will knock out Antonio Margarito in Saturday's super welterweight bout, even though he is nearly six pounds lighter than his Mexican opponent.
  • Google and Facebook rivalry takes centerstage
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The technology industry's latest rivalry takes centerstage next week when Internet powers Google Inc and Facebook lay out their competing visions to create a new generation of Web services at a high-profile conference in San Francisco.
  • Taliban attack airport and base in east Afghanista ...
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan's east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, with at least three of the attackers killed.

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    New book examines Powels-Abel spy exchange. Newspaper sues FBI over civil rights informant. Female WWII spy reflects on "horrible and wonderful" life. Continue reading →
  • Colombian agency spied on Spanish politician
    An official report prepared for the Colombian government reveals that an illegal unit set up within the Colombian intelligence services spied on a member of the Spanish parliament. Continue reading →
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    Nuke bomb material found in Georgia black market. CIA Director warns against leaks. US issues new unclassified information policy. Continue reading →
  • Scandinavians launch probes into US spying activit ...
    Norway, Sweden and Denmark have launched official investigations into media reports that accuse US embassies in Scandinavian countries of operating illegal intelligence gathering networks. Continue reading →
  • Bulgarian spy services intercept PM assassination ...
    A conspiracy to assassinate the Prime Minister of Bulgaria has been intercepted in its planning stage by the countryâs intelligence services, according to information published yesterday in the Bulgarian press. Continue reading →

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

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  • Happy veterans day, belatedly
    It’s never too late to give a thought to the good work and sacrifices of America’s veterans. In fact, our reporters will be thinking so much about them today that the site will be pretty quiet. Here’s looking forward to a future when our veterans are more appropriately honored, better provided for, ...
  • Environmentalists are torn as natural gas comes to ...
    TWI obtained a letter from the four major natural gas industry groups pushing for gas to be included in a renewable energy standard. Environmentalists could be open to compromise if safer drilling methods are introduced.
  • Hastings’ next move on offshore drilling is ...
    The Hill has a nice interview with the presumptive next chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) The key takeaway? Hastings plans to look into the oil spill response bill passed by the House and the new regulations established by the Obama administration, but he ...
  • Reid comments on the bipartisan debt commission&#8 ...
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has issued a statement regarding the chairman’s mark released by the bipartisan deficit reduction commission yesterday, and — at least in relation to the reactions of the majority of his Democratic colleagues — his take seems decidedly positive. “I thank th ...
  • Will a Republican House mean beefed-up immigration ...
    With the GOP set to take over the House in January, I’ve been trying to pinpoint some immigration proposals — if any exist — that House Republicans, Senate Democrats and President Obama might agree on. Beyond mandating E-Verify and banning “sanctuary cities,” the next session might see a more robust ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
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Twilight Earth

  • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
    The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...
  • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
    Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
  • Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
    Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...
  • Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedian ...
    Jokes on us. Those blokes from across the pond sure do give their all for a joke! View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partier ...
  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (sc ...

Inhabitat

  • Mesmerizing Paper LED Exhibit Illuminates Tokyo De ...
    Read the rest of Mesmerizing Paper LED Exhibit Illuminates Tokyo Designers Weekhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 24° Studio, Design ...
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  • Dutch Design Week Kicks Off in San Francisco This ...
    Are you stateside, but craving for a bit of European flavor? Well, look no further. If youâre one of the lucky few to be living on the west coast, get ready to see some orange – the Seeing Orange: Dutch Design Week that is! Kicking off this Sunday, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, has [...]
  • Giant Solar Luminaries Highlight a Community’s His ...
    Chicago artist Philip Hartigan created these giant luminaries for a public art project in northwestern Illinois. The luminaries are made out of elm from a local sustainable tree farm, and illuminated at night by solar lights fitted into the lids. Photos and written memoirs from residents of Carroll ...
  • Greenbuild 2010 Kicks Off Next Week in Chicago!
    Attention green building aficionados! If you canât make it to Chicago for the Greenbuild conference next week, donât panic — we’ve got you covered! We’ll be walking the expo hall, hitting the presentations and talking with some of the top green builders and provocateurs in order to uncover the late ...

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  • Ears Could Make Better Unique IDs Than Fingerprint ...
    On a planet hosting 6.7 billion human beings, having proof youâre unique is of tantamount importance. The ear, it turns out, may be the best identification yet. Through a new shape-finding algorithm called “image ray transform,” which boasts 99.6 percent accuracy, according to a study presented ...
  • Hubble Helps Build Most-Detailed Dark Matter Map Y ...
    Using the Hubble Space Telescope and a cosmic magnifying glass effect, astronomers have put together one of the most detailed maps yet of dark matter in a giant galaxy cluster. Dark matter is the stubborn, invisible stuff that makes up nearly a quarter of the mass and energy of the universe, but re ...
  • Feds Criticized in Fight Against Killer Bat Diseas ...
    As an apocalyptic bat disease threatens to spread across the United States, the stage is set for a showdown between the federal government and environmentalists who feel enough isn’t being done to stop it. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the second draft version on Oct. 27 of its nation ...
  • A Visit to a Site of the Batpocalypse
    Note: With the help of Spot.us and Wired, I’m writing a citizen-funded feature on White Nose Syndrome. Spot.us is a micropayment-based service that enables people to directly support journalism they care about. And for a limited time, you can raise money for my story — and dozens of others — just by ...
  • Jupiter’s Missing Stripe Reappears
    Jupiter’s lost cloud belt may be coming back. One of the gas giant’s characteristic red stripes, the South Equatorial Belt, faded late in 2009 and had vanished completely by early May, 2010. The band had waned and returned several times in the past, astronomers noted, and kept an eye out for its re ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Khamenei Explains his Reasons for Supporting Ahmad ...
    Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a group of senior Ayatollahs and influential clerics that he supports President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because, “…when the Leader says something [issues an order], the president accepts [obeys his orders without challenging him] and will carry it out.” Accordi ...
  • Republicans Intent on Torpedoing Obama’s Iran Poli ...
    Telling us what we knew , Shaun Waterman reports that the 112th Congress “ will seek to hold the Obama administration’s feet to the fire on the implementation of sanctions against Iran, undercutting the president’s diplomatic efforts to stifle Tehran’s nuclear ambitions”: [A Republican House] staffe ...
  • Walking Away: When Foreign Policy Goes Awry
    Spencer Ackerman considers a few cases of Obama foreign policy initiatives gone awry : The Obama team came in operating from a sensible-enough presumption: the U.S. has built up enough goodwill and sacrificed enough resources, financial and human, into allied or proxy countries that those allies wi ...
  • Note to Hillary Clinton: Time to Do Israel/Palesti ...
    Hillary Clinton just met with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and here is the pro forma "read out" of the meeting which the State Department distributed: Prime Minister Netanyahu and Secretary Clinton had a good discussion today, with a friendly and productive exchange of views on both si ...
  • While Everyone's Focused on China, What About Germ ...
      SEOUL--  My nomination for underplayed story of the G-20 is Germany's posture. Embedded in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's stance on the hot-button issues of currency exchange rates and fiscal deficits is a veiled but potentially more significant deflection of -- if not defection from -- one of ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Blinders of National Greatnes ...
    Jonathan Chait defends Simpson-Bowles from liberal assault, but in the process makes a strange claim about the politics of deficit reduction: "But I do think that his [ Obama ] signing a major package of legislative reforms that has bipartisan support and would all but solve the medium-term deficit ...
  • The Little Picture: At Least You Can DREAM.
    (Flickr/ Dream Activist ) A rally calling for passage of the DREAM Act. Today, Sen. Harry Reid said he would make a final push for DREAM during the lame-duck session.
  • On the Bush Tax Cuts ...
    ... I don't actually think the administration has been as wishy-washy as people think, because the main evidence for their wishy-washiness is this Huffington Post story , which has a remarkably over-the-top headline with no clear evidence to support it. There are some quotes from White House adviser ...
  • Straight Allies.
    Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic responds to my piece on the (mis-)appropriation of Dan Savage 's "It Gets Better" campaign: I think liberals are sometimes too quick to universalize, too swift to brandish an unearned empathy. At its worse--as Arana details in his piece-- this means avoiding un ...
  • Are Lame-Duck Sessions Undemocratic?
    As anyone at TAP can tell you, I'm prone to long, angry rants against various figures and groups in 19th-century American history. Invariably, one of my targets is the original Progressive movement of the early 20th century. For all the good work they did to improve life for workers and their famili ...

Buzzflash

  • Beatitudes for Veterans Day
    PATRICIA HYNES FOR BUZZFLASH Blessed is the veteran of World War I, who spent his life exposing the horrors of war for those who fight in it and the willful deceit of those who declare it and seek stature from it.  In his first anti-war novel, Erich Maria Remarque wrote "I see how peoples are set ...
  • Senator Bernie Sanders Denounces Proposed Cuts on ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is a statement from Senator Bernie Sanders: "The Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan is extremely disappointing and something that should be vigorously opposed by the American people.  The huge increase in the national debt in recent years was caused by two ...
  • Can Murkowski Politely Say Loser to Palin?
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I’m sure Lisa’s delighted voters decided To choose her. She can be gracious to Palin and politely Say, “Loser!” read more
  • Dickens' Father Was in a Debtors' Prison: Now the ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN When the Republicans promise to take us back to the past, they mean it, including such horrors as prison for debtors. The headline for an article earlier this year in the Minneapolis Star Tribune says it all, "In Jail for Being in Debt." The article paints the ...
  • What Did Voters Actually Say?
    Body If it were possible to wrest some amusement from a jumble of lies and distortions, Republican talking points provide a rich source of laughable moments. Nothing in recent memory comes close to the fast-stepping mastery of answer-avoidance and the dismissive wave of a hand that re ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Suffragium Ex Machina: Voting Machine Monopolies a ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2010 Fair Vote In a Nutshell: read more
  • Conservationists Intervene in Lawsuit to Protect M ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife — represented by the Western Environmental Law Center — today intervened in a lawsuit that seeks the trapping and shooting of endangered Mexican gray wolves , ...
  • CARE Steps Up Haiti Response as Cholera Cases Surg ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2010 CARE Haiti's government reports a sharp increase in the number of Haitians killed and hospitalized by an outbreak of cholera. According to Haiti's Ministry of Health, 11,125 people have been hospitalized with cholera as of November 9 and 724 people are rep ...
  • Dean Baker: Deficit Commission Co-Chairs Ignore Ec ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released the following statement on the proposals offered by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the President's deficit commissi ...
  • Sanders Plans Progressive Alternatives to Deficit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2010 Senator Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that he will work with members of Congress, labor unions, seniors' organizations and others to develop progressive alternatives to proposals circulated by leaders of a White House deficit commi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Saving the Earth with Art
    by Bill McKibben Every once in a while, it's time to try something a little different. After two years of global grassroots organizing, we're pulling out a big gun in the fight against global warming: art. read more
  • Shame on Holder and Panetta for Not Going after CI ...
    by Matthew Rothschild If you’ve been a cynic all along, you win again. I’m referring to the decision this week by the Justice Department not to go after a senior official of the CIA who ordered the destruction of dozens of videotapes of the torture of terrorism suspects. Remember, this wasn’t a lo ...
  • The Fight Over Social Security's Future Is On—But ...
    by John Nichols 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. read more
  • Radicalism Is in the Air and the Rage is Palpable
    by Zoe Pilger Yesterday 50,000 people marched in London against the proposed Coalition cuts to higher education. In the bright November sunshine, the atmosphere was largely peaceful and exuberant. As Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), told the crowd, thi ...
  • Obama in Asia: Meeting American Decline Face to Fa ...
    by Juan Cole Blocked from major new domestic initiatives by a Republican victory in the midterm elections, President Barack Obama promptly lit out for Asia, a far more promising arena.  That continent, after all, is rising, and Obama is eager to grasp the golden ring of Asian success.  read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Honoring Troops and Veterans Means Honoring Their ...
    By Derrick Crowe Today is Veterans Day, the tenth Veterans Day since the Afghanistan War began. The burden of this brutal, futile war falls heaviest on a very small slice of the population: military members and their families. Many of them think that this war is immoral, and that makes fighting in i ...
  • Gates: US Troops In Afghanistan Until At Least 201 ...
    By Steve Hynd SecDef Bob Gates is now saying that Obama's 2011 "beginning of withdrawal" date was mostly spin aimed at the Taliban, to lull them into a false sense of security. MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 8, 2010 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today that he hopes the Taliban think July ...
  • USS Make Shit Up goes to Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us 'Cause if we find we're in a bind we're totally screwed but nevermind We'll pull something out of our behinds, ...
  • When We Wonder About Afghan Corruption
    By Steve Hynd Let's try to remember that creating a situation where pots of cash are washing about with no accountability, no oversight and no record-keeping is always going to create a culture of corruption. The US government has spent about $55bn on rebuilding in Afghanistan since 2001 but cannot ...
  • Gorby on Afghanistan: Victory is Impossible
    By Steve Hynd The man who withdrew his nation's troops from Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev, is pessimistic about America's adventure there, telling the BBC that a US victory "is impossible there". He added that the mess is, to a great extent, America's own fault. "We had hoped America would abide by ...

Water Wars

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

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban stealing US army uniforms to "gain ta ...
    Pentagon officials have warned commanders to avoid shipping uniforms through the usual U.S. supply routes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that the Taliban fighters are stealing them to "gain a tactical advantage on the battlefield."
  • Bomb kills eight in northern Afghanistan
    A bomb hidden in a motorbike killed at least eight people in northern Afghanistan Saturday, an official said.
  • Musharraf refutes allegations about Pak intelligen ...
    Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has rejected the allegations that parts of Pakistan's intelligence service- the Inter-Services Intelligence- supported the Taliban over the years, saying that such accusations were unhelpful in the fight against militants.
  • Taliban mount series of attacks in Afghanistan
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base in Afghanistan's east on Saturday, one of three incidents in 24 hours that marked a sudd...
  • Airbase attacked, 8 killed in Afghan market bombin ...
    NATO base while eight people, including six civilians, died in a separate motorcycle bombing, the latest deadly violence in Afghanistan. Eight militant fighters were killed in a firefight with foreign...

Futurismic

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

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  • Morning Smoke: With All-Star Athletes, Novartis Lu ...
    Drug firm hired athletes, luring doctors to play ball by Chuck Neubauer [Washington Times] Deficit Cutters Reject Gates on Shielding Defense Budget by Tony Cappacio [Bloomberg] Many deficit commission staffers paid by outside groups by Dan Eggen [The Washington Post]...
  • Deficit Commission: Cancel Marine Corps Version of ...
    The co-chairmen of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform issued today a series of draft proposals to cut government spending. In the defense arena, they took a bold stand on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, particularly...
  • Morning Smoke: As SEC Embraces Whistleblowers, Que ...
    SEC Did Nothing to Stop Stanford Ponzi Scheme for Years by Scott Cohn [CNBC] The S.E.C., Whistle-Blowers and Sarbanes-Oxley by Peter Henning [DealBook] In Volcker Rule Debate, All Sides Get Say—But What Will the Regulators Hear? by Ben Hallman and...
  • Double Down for Oversight: PayPal Will Match Your ...
    Double Down for oversight and make a donation to POGO today through PayPal. From Tuesday, November 9 through Friday, November 12, PayPal will match all donations up to $5,000 made to POGO through PayPal. Give $5, it will become $10....
  • Morning Smoke: Did the FDA Risk Its Integrity in F ...
    Watchdog Says FDA Risked Integrity by Alicia Mundy [Wall Street Journal] A Lack of Transparency in S.E.C. Disclosure Rule by Andrew Ross Sorkin [DealBook] Administration announces finalists in cost-cutting contest by Emily Long [GovExec] Disclosing economists' conflicts by Felix Salmon...

Digital Journal

  • World celebrates 3rd annual Random Acts of Kindnes ...
    As mankind becomes more isolated from one another and the world emits a negative energy to the rest of the universe, one foundation has come up with an idea to be kind, even if it’s just one day.
  • Scabies outbreak at prison leads to demonstration ...
    The Stony Mountain Institution in Winnipeg is dealing with a scabies outbreak. After months of requested meetings with the Public Safety Minister Vic Toews that outbreak has a planned visit today.
  • Twitter, airport bombs, Muslim stoning and killing ...
    Two recent events involving the arrest in Britain of people who posted humorous remarks on Twitter are highlighting the extent to which intellectual orthodoxy is snooping into people’s lives and killing Britain’s best asset – its humor.
  • Amber Alert called off after Ontario boys found
    The Huronia West OPP issued two Amber Alerts in the case of a suspected child abduction. Brothers Tyson Fildey, 10, and Mason Fildey-Holy, 5, were last seen at 5:00 p.m. Thursday. The boys were found this morning.
  • Russell mania hits Surrey November 17
    Canadian comedian and international super-star Russell Peters will enliven, in a very big way, the quiet city of Surrey, British Columbia, next Wednesday in a book-signing session at a local Chapters book store.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Preventable Tragedy: A Hawaiian Teen's Suicide Aft ...
    Hawaiian teen Erwin Viado Celes had a lot going for him when he killed himself last September at age 19. He had a steady job at a pizza restaurant, college aspirations, a mentor in his kickboxing coach, and caring friends who now are fundraising to cover his burial costs. He'd also survived severe e ...
  • Choosing Streets Over Shelters
    This week I was in Washington, D.C. I had a few meetings, and even though it was raining out, I decided to walk because I didn't have money for taxi rides. I met a few new homeless friends along the way. Calvin has only been homeless for a month. Like he says, "There is no guarantee that you'll alwa ...
  • Dallas County Cuts Critical Funding for Homeless C ...
    "Help the Homeless Week" kicked off last Thursday in Dallas, but something was noticeably absent from the opening day breakfast fundraiser , and I'm not talking about pancakes. Mike Rawlings, the city's former homeless czar, zapped some of the joy when he announced that The Bridge , Dallas' homeless ...
  • Homeless Teen's Potential Foster Parents Deserve M ...
    More bad news on the foster care front . Or rather, bad news about a would-be foster care placement. Lutheran Child Family Services, an organization in Illinois that received $20 million from the state last year, declined to place a homeless 15-year-old boy named "Kenny" with an enthusiastic and wel ...
  • Instead of Pushing the Homeless Around, Standardiz ...
    The homeless are often targets of hate crimes . They are regularly told by cops to move along . They are unwelcome guests at some public places like libraries . They are sometimes even prevented from "loitering" in front of the shelter where they live. They are an underprivileged class that many peo ...

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • 2011 GIN Leadership Cruise
    2011 GIN Leadership Cruise January 21-24, 2011 and January 28-31, 2011 Take a much-needed, much-deserved break this winter from the ice and cold, and sail straight into the warm high seas of the mighty Caribbean on Royal Caribbean’s world famous Majesty of the Seas luxury liner. Invite your friends ...
  • Dental Work Linked to Heart Attack Risk
    November 9th, 2010 WebMD By: Denise Mann Heart attack and stroke risk may rise in the month following invasive dental treatments such as tooth extractions, a study shows. The risk returns to normal levels within six months, according to the study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. This is not ...
  • As Fed Policy Sinks the Dollar, Prices of Essentia ...
    November 9th, 2010 Daily Finance By: Charles Hugh Smith Intended or not, the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing has crushed the U.S. dollar. (The second round announced Nov. 3 is called “QE2″ because it’s the second round of easing since the financial crisis of late 2008.) Intended or n ...
  • 290,000 Eggs Recalled Due to Salmonella at Ohio Eg ...
    November 9th, 2010 WebMD By: Michael J. DeNoon A new egg recall has been issued for some 290,000 eggs after salmonella was detected at the Ohio facility where the eggs originated. That number includes about 120 dozen eggs today added to the recall, first announced late Friday, Nov. 5. The eggs were ...
  • What Is Organic? USDA Trying to Define It
    November 9th, 2010 AOL News By: Dave Thier If you’ve ever wondered exactly what that “USDA organic” seal actually means, you’re in good company. The U.S. Department of Agriculture itself has been asking the same question ever since it established the National Organic Program in 2002. “Organic” is in ...

Pambazuka News

  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...

War in Context

  • Did Bibi win the midterms?
    James Traub writes: It is widely believed in Israel that Netanyahu’s close aides have been demeaning Obama to the Israeli public through an orchestrated whispering campaign and that this accounts in part for Obama’s dismal poll ratings there. And he and his Likud party have longstanding ties to the ...
  • Baghdad attacks on Christians prompt archbishop’s ...
    The Guardian reports: The martyr in their midst was known all around the area. But in case anyone had missed it, a mourning sign had been posted outside Saad Adwar’s house in the Baghdad suburb of Kampsar, revealing exactly where he lived. It said simply that Adwar had been killed “by the hand of ...
  • Major Dutch pension fund divests from occupation
    Electronic Intifada reports: The major Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), which has investments totaling 97 billion euros, has informed The Electronic Intifada that it has divested from almost all the Israeli companies in its portfolio. PGGM, the manager of the major Dutch pe ...
  • Glenn Beck: inspired by Iran or Lyndon LaRouche?
    George Soros is a Jewish tycoon and mastermind of ultra-modern colonialism. He is also a thug who is deployed as an economic hitman for the British empire. The first claim comes from a video produced by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence which has depicted Soros operating out of the Situation Room in ...
  • US military destroys hundreds of Afghan homes
    You first have to destroy the nation so that you can then rebuild it — this seems to be innovative thinking that Gen David Petreaus has brought to Afghanistan. Flatten a farmer’s home, destroy his source of livelihood, and then hand him a compensation card that can only be redeemed by an Afghan gov ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Save the Sunburnt Whales
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it â and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She … Continue reading →
  • Undetected crack causes unpredictable results
    From Geekosystem:  [This is a must watch video / safe for work] On Wednesday, thousands of Springfield, Ohio residents were left without power when a 275-foot smokestack being demolished fell the wrong way, knocking down two 12,500 volt power lines … Continue reading →
  • Drought, Titicaca, Poopo, and Local Tipping Points
    Press Release 10-216 Catastrophic Drought Looms for Capital City of Bolivia Historical ecology of the Andes indicates desert-like setting on the horizon Catastrophic drought is on the near-term horizon for the capital city of Bolivia, according to new research into the … Continue reading →
  • A bad news week for AGW proponents
    This is a collection of news story excerpts this past week. AGW proponents and environmentalists is general are taking hit after hit in the media this week. – Anthony From the GWPF via email: The Crisis of Climate Catastrophism The … Continue reading →
  • Stubborn Antarctic Ozone Hole refuses to change
    Maybe it is because the major catalyst isn’t CFC’s after all? See this story: Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole In the conclusions of the paper here (PDF) there is this: Thus, the above facts (1)â(5) … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Workfare to be imposed in Britain by Chris Marsden
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Chris Marsden www.wsws.org 13 November 2010 Britain is being subjected to a savage programme of social engineering, designed to create an economy where millions work for much less than the present £5.93 an hour minimum wage. This centres on plans to introduce ...
  • Tony Blair: Glossing Over Remembrance Day by Felic ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 11 November, 2010 “You fasten all the triggers for the others to fire, Then you sit back and watch when the death count gets higher, You hide in your mansion’s as young people’s blood flows, Out of their bodies and in to the mud.”  — Bob Dylan. ...
  • The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ storyofstuffproject | March 17, 2010 http://storyofbottledwater.org The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a bi ...
  • Lisbon Summit: NATO To Retain Nuclear Arms, Build ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 10, 2010 In little more than a week the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will convene a two-day summit in Lisbon, Portugal with the heads of state and government (presidents and prime minist ...
  • Adam Curtis: The Living Dead Part 3: The Attic (19 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ BBC Three Films About the Power of the Past was the second major documentary series made by British film-maker Adam Curtis. This series investigated the way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others. It was tr ...

Your New Reality

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    David Foster Wallace : "Human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle ...
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    IraqBodyCount on the Chilcot Inquiry : "Throughout the inquiry most of the attention has remained firmly fixed, fixated even, upon the interplay between political and military actors here and in the USA, and the ramifications of the war as felt by them, while the subject that is of greatest conce ...

Wired - Science

  • Ears Could Make Better Unique IDs Than Fingerprint ...
    On a planet hosting 6.7 billion human beings, having proof youâre unique is of tantamount importance. The ear, it turns out, may be the best identification yet. Through a new shape-finding algorithm called “image ray transform,” which boasts 99.6 percent accuracy, according to a study presented ...
  • Hubble Helps Build Most-Detailed Dark Matter Map Y ...
    Using the Hubble Space Telescope and a cosmic magnifying glass effect, astronomers have put together one of the most detailed maps yet of dark matter in a giant galaxy cluster. Dark matter is the stubborn, invisible stuff that makes up nearly a quarter of the mass and energy of the universe, but re ...
  • Feds Criticized in Fight Against Killer Bat Diseas ...
    As an apocalyptic bat disease threatens to spread across the United States, the stage is set for a showdown between the federal government and environmentalists who feel enough isn’t being done to stop it. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the second draft version on Oct. 27 of its nation ...
  • A Visit to a Site of the Batpocalypse
    Note: With the help of Spot.us and Wired, I’m writing a citizen-funded feature on White Nose Syndrome. Spot.us is a micropayment-based service that enables people to directly support journalism they care about. And for a limited time, you can raise money for my story — and dozens of others — just by ...
  • Jupiter’s Missing Stripe Reappears
    Jupiter’s lost cloud belt may be coming back. One of the gas giant’s characteristic red stripes, the South Equatorial Belt, faded late in 2009 and had vanished completely by early May, 2010. The band had waned and returned several times in the past, astronomers noted, and kept an eye out for its re ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gang suspected of attacks on Arabs in Jerusalem
    Young men have reportedly been roaming in and around Independence Park seeking Arabs to attack, trying to identify them by their accent. IOA Editor: As is so often the case, propaganda is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s self-destruction
    Asad Ghanem: "The core of the negotia- tions for Abbas is about ending the occupation, but he has progressively conceded to Israel its very narrow definition of what constitutes occupied land. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli who disrupted Netanyahu’s speech: We were ...
    Matan Cohen, Israeli who disrupted PM's speech: We were raised on human rights. Youngster who heckled Netanyahu during GA address in New Orleans says US Jews distancing themselves from community due... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Peace Now: Israel approves 1,300 new settler homes
    "Technically, it would be very easy to stop these plans, but what they are doing is promoting them," [Peace Now spokeswoman] said, saying it was highly unlikely Netanyahu was unaware the plans were... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Rabbis’ edict bars renting to Arabs
    Safed’s chief rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu: “When a non-Jew moves in, residents begin to worry about their children, about their daughters. Many Arab students have been known to date Jewish girls.” ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • A Chipmunk Morning
    A chipmunk waking up in the morning is the cutest thing imaginable!
  • Fat Cat in a Pot
    With enough effort, you can achieve your goals -- although it may take a couple of tries.
  • Farmed Salmon Exposed
    Fish farms are killing off wild salmon.� Norwegian policies are making farmed seafood unsustainable and unhealthy. Open cage salmon farms, used to raise what is perhaps the most popular type of farmed fish, pose numerous problems for the environment and public health.
  • Chemicals in Fast Food Wrappers Show Up in Human B ...
    Perfluoroalkyls, which are chemicals used to keep grease from leaking through fast food wrappers, are being ingested by people through their food and showing up as contaminants in blood. Perfluoroalkyls are stable, synthetic chemicals that repel oil, grease, and water. They are used in surface prot ...
  • Green Tea Extracts Plus Vitamin D Boost Bone Healt ...
    Green tea polyphenols combined with a form of vitamin D called alfacalcidol could boost bone structure and strength, according to a new study in mice. The mixture may reverse damage to bones caused by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced chronic inflammation, which could in turn reduce the risk of ost ...

Antemedius

  • The Face Of The Republicans; Rush Limbaugh, Racist ...
    The Republicans have a real problem, no not genetic, hygienic or even esthetic (though way too many of them do fall down in these areas) no, their problem is a moral one. It is hard to give any credibility to a party and a movement that venerates a racist douche-bag like Rush Limbaugh. This is a man ...
  • Which Section of the Elites Will Govern After Tues ...
    Real News' CEO Paul Jay's commentary on the top six ways Obama and the Democratic Party allowed a resurgence of the Republicans: Real News Network - November 01, 2010 How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP ..transcript follows.. Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR: Welcome to the The Re ...
  • Robert Scheer: Appetites for Wealth
    Laura Flanders of GRITtv talks once again with Truthdig.com's Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer , author of " The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street ", about Barack Obama's economic policies and team, about the blackmailing ...
  • All Hail The Decider-in-Chief
    Originally published at Asia Times If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it … For the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state. - Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels On the same ...
  • Election Choice: Slow or Speed Downward Spin Into ...
    (From The Paragraph .) With House minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) already picking committee assignments, it seems the Republicans are eager to take control of the House — and resume America’s rapid downward spin into plutocracy . ++ 1 The downward spin sped up in 2001, when the Bush II Republi ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Dana on the Principle of Legality in International ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller While doing research for an essay on sentencing and the rights of defendants in international criminal law — my contribution to the international law/Islamic law conference to which I’m now heading — I stumbled across an exceptional essay by Shahram Dama, a ...
  • Carolyn Evans New Dean of Melbourne Law School
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that my colleague Carolyn Evans has been appointed Dean of the Melbourne Law School — the first female Dean in the law school’s history.  Carolyn is one of the world’s leading law and religion scholars, as her biography attests: ...
  • Obama Endorses India to Join Security Council as P ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson News services are reporting that President Obama, speaking to the Indian Parliament, has endorsed India receiving a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.  The AP story adds that this was the biggest applause line in the speech, fully consonant with the ...
  • Kevin’s Traveling Roadshow
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am heading to Europe on Wednesday for a couple of weeks.  I will be in Salzburg from November 13-19, participating in an amazing project on the intersection of international and Islamic law that is sponsored by the International Bar Association and the Sa ...
  • U.S. Takes Its Lumps at the U.N. Human Rights Coun ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I understand the rationale behind the Obama Administration’s policy of engagement with the U.N. Human Rights Council.  So I understand why U.S. delegates subjected themselves to sharp and sometimes ridiculous criticism by other states during a session yesterday on Unite ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • An Immense Malaise Torments American Society
    Citizens have discovered they've been swindled. They don't have the democratic political system they need. Those who gravitate around the union movement, feminist associations or defense of the environment are frustrated by the absence of change Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • Bush Makes Clear He Approved Torture
    In a memoir due out Tuesday, Bush makes clear that he personally approved the use of TORTURE* against alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an admission the human rights experts say could one day have legal consequences for him. ( # lawyers ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Go ...
  • US Launched Financial War on World and They're Fig ...
    US banks and corps are aggressively leveraging themsleves into other countries' economies, but other coutnries are starting to fight back. Long article and a complicated story, but well worth the read for those concerned about intl banks taking over. Submitted by Mac R. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • A TV Channel Dedicated to Social Good - Halogen
    If your TV provider doesn't offer Halogen, demand it! Halogen was created as a platform for social good where people can connect with their purpose and with each other. Submitted by Brian Reilly to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Killing Reconciliation: Military Raids, Backing of ...
    The Obama administration says it is backing a strategy of reconciliation with the Taliban.Night raids by US Special Operations are killing the reconciliation the administration CLAIMS to support ( so...that's NOT what the strategy is for ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note- ...

Angry Indian News

  • Conyers joins growing chorus calling for Bush tort ...
    Conyers joins growing chorus calling for Bush torture probe | Raw Story: "Following the revelation that President George W. Bush not only approved of but emphatically supported his administration's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Oakland cops thought slain man's scale was a gun
    Oakland cops thought slain man's scale was a gun: "Police declined to identify the officers who fired their weapons. But sources identified them as Officers Eriberto Perez-Angeles, who has been with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Catholic bishops: More exorcists needed
    [yahoo news] NEW YORK – Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms. The two-day training, which... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Joe Miller Hires Floyd Brown, Man Behind Infamous ...
    Joe Miller Hires Floyd Brown, Man Behind Infamous Willie Horton Ad, Citizens United, Impeach Obama Site: [huffpo.com] "NEW YORK -- Republican Joe Miller has hired a controversial political hand to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Post-Katrina Shootings Witness: Cop Said Looters ' ...
    Post-Katrina Shootings Witness: Cop Said Looters 'Deserved To Be Shot': [huffpo.com] "NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer on trial for gunning down a man outside a strip mall in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Mondoweiss

  • Blogger Sheizaf would rather write about cinema, b ...
    On Wednesday, the New York Times did a piece quoting Netanyahu's speech before the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in New Orleans and didn't mention that young Jewish activists repeatedly heckled the PM, even as the disruption was all that anyone was talking about. That night I went to an ...
  • Israeli military invades Palestinian village after ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Lieberman: 'There won't be another building moratorium' During visit to Golan Heights foreign minister adamant that Israel will not be pressured, says pressure must be put on Palestinians. h ...
  • Today in Bil’in
    � Today's demonstration in Bil'in was joined by a large number of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals. Members of the Fatah party were also present.The protesters walked together towards the Apartheid Wall, carrying posters of Yasser Arafat, in commemoration of the Fatah leader who passed awa ...
  • Brooklyn church crowd goes with the idealists on B ...
    I went to the 'Jewish Perspectives on the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions movement' event in Park Slope last night. It was at the Church of Gethsemane, an appealingly humble Presbyterian Church on 8th avenue. The lady who'd arranged the event said they'd asked for space at several synagogues and ot ...
  • A perspective on the Jewish Federation General Ass ...
    My name is Shereen Naser, I am a young Palestinian-American woman, and I attended the 79th General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. Don’t ask me why, I’m still not entirely sure. I think when I first made the decision to go, I did so confident I would be turned away from register ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • China court rules against plaintiff in first HIV e ...
    [JURIST] A Chinese court ruled Friday against a man who claimed he was denied a teaching job because he is HIV-positive, in China's first HIV/AIDs employment discrimination lawsuit. The man, known only by the alias Xiao Wu, said that he passed requisite academic tests and interviews [BBC report] for ...
  • Supreme Court refuses to block 'Don't Ask Don't Te ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Friday refused to vacate [order, PDF] a stay issued by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] allowing the military to continue enforcing its Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news arch ...
  • Rwanda high court orders opposition leader to rema ...
    [JURIST] The Rwandan high court ruled Friday that opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza [campaign website; JURIST news archive] will remain jailed for the duration of her trial on charges of forming a terrorist organization. Judge Johnstone Busingyi indicated that his decision was based on Ing ...
  • ACLU files suit over military discharge pay policy
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Wednesday over a US military policy that cuts the separation pay of honorably discharged gay and lesbian service members in half. The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of ...
  • Kenya rights group accuses official of interfering ...
    [JURIST] The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) [advocacy website] on Friday accused former Cabinet minster William Ruto of interfering with the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] investigation into the 2007 post-election violence [JURIST news archive], denying accu ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israel Warns Citizens to Return Home from Sinai Im ...
    Israel’s National Security Council issued its highest-level terror threat (“red-very high-concrete threat based on reliable intelligence”) for the Sinai and urged all Israelis to leave immediately and return to Israel.  It urged Israelis with family members visiting Sinai to contact loved ones and ...
  • When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects ...
    In this blog, I focus less on purely internal Israeli politics and more on the bigger picture of Israeli democracy and relations with its Palestinian minority and the Occupation.  But Eyal Clyne has written a riveting, tremendously comprehensive report on a massive pattern of corruption and violenc ...
  • Obama’s Cluelessness on Israel in Indonesia Speech
    I’ve just been reading coverage and an excerpted video of Obama’s Indonesia speech (full text).  I’m reminded of how brilliant he is as a strategist, theorist, and speechmaker (when before have you ever heard a U.S. president with the moxie to end a speech with the words “Asalaam Aleikum?”) and how ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • IDF During Cast Lead: Use a Cell Phone, Go to Para ...
    Back in the days when U.S. politicians wanted to prove they were tough on crime there used to be a slogan: “Use a gun, go to jail.”  Now, Tzahal has improved on that with news that if you were a Gazan using a cell phone during Operation Cast Lead, you were in some cases targeted [...] Related pos ...

Ode Magazine

  • A salute to the potency of optimism
    By: Anne Thomas Ode is about (extra)ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Alice Herz-Sommer is one such person. At 107 years old she is the oldest living survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Despite the many tragedies of her past, Alice’s positive, loving, music-filled atti ...
  • Cycling coast to coast for WaterAid
    By: BrookeApplegarth Brittany App, photographer from San Luis Obispo, California, and Garrett Russell, videographer of Portland, Oregon, are on a mission to raise awareness to bring fresh drinking water to those who need it most. Biking from San Diego, Califo ...
  • Making sanitation sexy
    By: Group_Gordon Can sanitation be sexy? Acumen Fund , a nonprofit venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs serving the poor, not only thinks so, but thinks it should be obvious to everyone. Acumen Fund is challenging people to use their creative genius to ...
  • Peace is more arduous
    By: PeaceCorso Mid-term elections were last week in the United States, and they got me thinking about the wars that we insist upon perpetuating. George Bernard Shaw weighs in: "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous." Former P ...
  • Freedom through Kundalini yoga
    By: EllenJefferds I just finished editing a book titled Depth Over Time , by my spiritual teacher Swami Khecaranatha ("Nathaji"). He is the head of Sacred Space Yoga Sanctuary (at Rudramandir) in Berkeley, California. When Nathaji asked me to serve as the ed ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Climate change: cruising for an eviction notice, ...
    I recently learned about a rather interesting statement made back in 2009 by Representative John Shimkus of Ilinois about the Bible and climate change.  The reason I just heard about it this week is that Representative Shimkus is now, following the turnover of the House, in the running ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
    Chile: A second set of comments from public authorities was issued concerning the environmental impact assessment of the Cuervo river hydroelectric dam project .  The company Energía Austral will have to respond to the 228 comments. ( El Divisadero , 11/10/10)  The National Geological ...
  • Progress on HFCs, the Super Greenhouse Gases? - Go ...
    This week the parties to the Montreal Protocol , the treaty that saved the ozone layer , met in Bangkok to consider what they can contribute to preventing climate change.  The good news from Bangkok, reflected in a declaration of 91 developed and developing countries (reprinted below), ...
  • Bikes I have enjoyed photographing
    When I travel, I look for interesting photos of bicycles. �I love to ride, I love to travel, and I love to take photos, so it all sort of fits. �And, today, in a sort of Frivolous Friday, why-not sort of way, I'm going to share a few: �� �� Paris �� ��Dublin �� ��Lucca �� ��Riq ...
  • Data confirm lack of supermarket access in poor ne ...
      A recent analysis by the Brookings Institution , in collaboration with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), finds that nearly 2 million residents of low- and moderate-income communities in 10 large U.S. metropolitan areas lack access to something most of us take for granted—a local superma ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Orphaned Global Health Issues
    Today is the second annual World Pneumonia Day, a small sign of growing attention to the deadliest and yet until recently one of the least high-profile childhood diseases. As recently as last year, Nicholas Kristof was bemoaning the inadequacy of investment in prevention and treatment, although pneu ...
  • Caine?
    I’ve often wondered; you put Michael Caine on that island with Toshiro Mifune and Lee Marvin, who wins? Via AG. Related posts:My Summer of Akira I Called It. The Final Data Related posts: My Summer of Akira I Called It. The Final Data
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    Why would any self-respecting scientist choose that as their mission? That was my son’s response to this story on the front page of the Times today. But he could have easily been talking about various other studies over the years in which scientists confirm the obvious or answer questions no one rea ...
  • Terrorball Revisited
    This is a helpful comparison: Middle Eastern terrorists hijack a U.S. jetliner bound for Italy. A two-week drama ensues in which the plane’s occupants are split into groups and held hostage in secret locations in Lebanon and Syria. While this drama is unfolding, another group of terrorists detonates ...
  • Armistice Day
    I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh [...] Re ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • ENERGY: Small nuclear may be the wave of the futur ...
    They are less capital-intensive and flexible, but it's not yet clear how regulators should weigh their safety.
  • Special Report: Asia Practice
    Law firms with a beachhead in the People's Republic of China are profiting from record growth. Plus, the state of the legal markets in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.
  • Navy lawyers launch a new battle plan
    The Navy's top lawyers are restructuring the service's criminal defense and prosecution operations in response to a sharp decline in the number of courts-martial and a shift in the practice of law.
  • Postal Service ringing twice
    Disputes between the U.S. Postal Service and the commission that regulates it have landed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals twice this year. In the latest case, postal officials have hired top legal talent to fight a decision by regulators to reject a postage rate increase.
  • Number of women lawyers hit five-year low at NLJ 2 ...
    The percentage of women partners and associates working at NLJ 250 law firms this year fell to its lowest point since 2006.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Oil Companies Are Not Prepared to Respond to Massi ...
    Harsh weather conditions, darkness, and shifting sea ice could delay efforts to respond to offshore oil disasters in the remote Arctic by six months or more, and likely result in oil being trapped in and under the ice for years, according to a new report. The report by the Pew Environment Group , wh ...
  • Beak Deformities May Suggest Greater Environmental ...
    Scientists have seen a spike in beak abnormalities in several species of wild bird populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, an epidemic that impairs the birds’ ability to feed and could suggest a wider environmental health problem. More than 2,100 northwestern crows captured in Alaska, Washi ...
  • Mountain Terrain Provides Safe Haven for Species a ...
    The habitat diversity of the planet’s mountain ranges may offer a safe haven for species threatened by the effects of climate change , according to a new study. Using infrared photography and sensors to monitor soil temperatures in Switzerland’s central Alps, researchers from the University of Basel ...
  • After a Strong Counterattack, Big Coal Makes a Com ...
    With an aggressive campaign focused on advertising, lobbying, and political contributions, America’s coal industry has succeeded in beating back a challenge from environmentalists and clean-energy advocates. The dirty truth is that Big Coal is more powerful today than ever. BY JEFF GOODELL
  • Creating ‘Living’ Buildings With Materials That Pu ...
    A new field, known as “ethical synthetic biology,” aims to combine chemistry, architecture, and climate science to construct buildings out of materials that extract CO2 from the atmosphere and convert the carbon into structural material . For example, scientists at the University of Greenwich are ex ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Wayne Madsen: China Fired Missile Seen In Southern ...
    Experts agree that this was a ballistic missile being fired off of Los Angeles. Pentagon insists it was a jet aircraft or model rocket. China flexed its military muscle Monday evening in the skies west of Los Angeles when a Chinese Navy Jin class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, deployed secretl ...
  • The Doomsday Machine and the Race to Save the Worl ...
    This emergent set of planetary-scale technologies is attracting millions of dollars in investment; it is high on the research agenda at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the UK’s Royal Society; and it is being promoted by the scientists behind it as "the only practical way to protect biodive ...
  • 35,500 year old axe - world’s oldest - discovered ...
    Archaeologists have found a piece of a stone axe 35,500 years old on sacred Aboriginal land in Australia, the oldest object of its type ever found. The pieces of ground-edge stone axe was found in west Arnhem Land. Credit: Monash University/Bruno David The shard of stone was found in Australia’s lus ...
  • Who was Behind the Death of Dr. David Kelly? The C ...
    We are publishing the letter which the Telegraph refused to publish. This letter was written in response to an article by Andrew Gilligan, journalist who states that "the case is closed" in a final answer to the "conspiracy theorists". Is Andrew Gilligan in a conflict of interest? He is reporting on ...
  • To Boldly Go to New Worlds, NASA Announces ’100-Ye ...
    It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a NASA official says that "within a few years" scientists will unveil a prototype for a spaceship capable of taking earthlings to other worlds. Speaking at a Long Now Foundation conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Simon Worden, center d ...

Russia Today

  • Free trade focus at APEC forum
    Already accounting for half of all global economic activity, Pacific Rim nations have gathered in Japan for the annual APEC summit, seeking to expand their influence and boost free trade.
  • Record high temperatures rule in Russia
    After this summer's unprecedented heatwave, temperatures in Russia are breaking records again. Several regions, including the capital, are experiencing extremely warm weather, unheard of at this time of year.
  • Georgia: No smoking? No way!
    According to the World Health Organization, regular smokers are shortening their lives by 15 years. But in Georgia, the strength of the addiction for some, means choosing fags over food.
  • Israel says no to NGO’s helping Palestinians
    International NGOs working with Palestinians are supposed to provide vital help to the people, but Israel claims they are provoking trouble. As a result, the Israeli Interior Ministry has been withdrawing permits for...
  • Guests kill newlyweds for rings
    A wedding party in the northern Russian city of Murmansk ended with a horrific double murder. Two guests reportedly killed the bride and groom to rob them.

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

  • Tetris Game May Alleviate PTSD
    Tetris is a very old video game (1984 in fact) invented in the old USSR no less. But it has many incarnations and has a popular form on Facebook, I should know because my youngest daughter plays it all the time. While trawling the InterWebs this morning, I found an interesting post on my buddy’s [.. ...
  • Chang’e 2 Moon Photos
    Finally some coherent Chinese moon probe (Chang’e 2) photos are released, along with one of the Chinese bosses of course. … … Released with some fanfare (thatâs the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, there. [Editor's note: originally had Jiabao as the "head of state"; that would actually be the president, ...
  • Cliff High Interview
    Cliff High, inventor of the Internet future forecasting ‘bot Web Bot, is on the Veritas site giving his perhaps last interview. In it, he discusses the dollar, world currencies, conspiracies and other esoteric subjects. Including his Web Bot. http://www.manticoregroup.com/radio/latest.htm http://www ...
  • NASA’s EPOXI Hartley 2 Encounter
    Yesterday NASA’s recycled spacecraft EPOXI (which was the second part of the spacecraft that released the probe that collided with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005) encountered it’s second comet (Hartley 2) on a close fly-by, thus saving money by reusing expensive space-probes. Even though no collisio ...
  • Adam Gorightly on the Paracast
    Esoteric writer of all things cultural and Fortean Adam Gorightly gives a good interview on this past Sunday’s (10/31) Paracast discussing astral travel, vivid dreaming, alien abductions and psychedelic drugs. Oh yeah! Adam Gorightly Interview on the Paracast

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Thank You
    Decades of government economic and social management have left the American people with a fiscal mess of elephantine proportions. Future generations face crushing debt and tax burdens (unless less they repudiate and rebel against them). The hole is so deep that any set of proposals to address the pr ...
  • Obama’s South Korean Failure
    The top news story is Barack Obama’s failure to finalize a “free trade” agreement with South Korea. Everyone expected this to be a done deal. There usually are no surprises as these meetings, but in this case there was one. So the commentators are wondering if Obama has lost is “mojo.” This is just ...
  • Obama Takes a Shot at Chinese
    “President Obama said today that the global economy is on âthe path to recovery,â though he assailed one of the world’s largest economies — China — for what he called currency manipulation.” (USA Today) Our central bank doesnât manipulate currency; it quantitatively eases. FEE Timely Classic “On Tra ...
  • Debt Commission Draws Bipartisan Ire
    “By putting deep spending cuts and substantial tax increases on the table, President Obamaâs bipartisan debt-reduction commission has exposed fissures in both parties, underscoring the volatile nature and long odds of any attempt to address the nationâs long-term budget problems.” (New York Times) P ...
  • Help for the Downtrodden Corporate Exporter
    The Ex-Im Bank grows out of the mercantilist belief that the wealth of nations is determined by the level of exports and that therefore government promotion is paramount. In reality mercantilism functioned as a cover for polices that served special interests.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Reeling from BP, Alabama residents still seek assi ...
    By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. -- Like so many on the Gulf Coast, Ana Chau is dealing with two disasters. This time last year, she and her husband made their living shucking oysters. Now they are out of work, their industry crippled indefinitely by the millions of ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The looming unemployment crisis
    Number of Americans who are currently unemployed: 14.8 million Average duration of their unemployment: 33.9 weeks October's overall unemployment rate, essentially unchanged since May: 9.6 percent Unemployment rate for the South*, according to the latest available numbers: 9.3 percent Cur ...
  • Incoming House leadership plans environmental assa ...
    The House leadership in the newly elected 112th Congress has some big changes planned on the environmental policy front, from rollbacks of protective regulations to an assault on climate science. Following last week's mid-term election that gave Republicans control of the House, Rep. Eric ...
  • Spill panel: Driven by 'compulsion' to finish well ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica As we noted earlier this week, members of the presidential commission investigating BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill made clear that they don't believe individual BP workers consciously decided to put corporate profit over safety when making decisions regarding the de ...
  • Polluted communities to meet with first black EPA ...
    By Robert Bullard, OpEdNews It has now been two months since former DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming made history when the Obama administration named her to become the first African American and female to head EPA Region 4 , which includes eight southern states -- Alabama, Florid ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Green Halloween: how can I reduce the amount of sw ...
    Continuing in our Green Halloween series… What with food safety issues and all the urban legends about razor blades & whatnot, nearly all trick-or-treat treats these days are shop-bought and individually wrapped – possibly the worst way to eat sweets or chocolate in terms of packaging waste, especia ...
  • Interesting reducing, reusing & recycling links
    With Halloween approaching, check out this fab tutorial on making mini skull lanterns out of little plastic bottles – she says “milk bottles” but from a British POV, they look more like little yoghurt drink bottles. Either way though, ace! SueAnn on Lil Bird Told Me has posted a great idea to make o ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle acorns?
    It’s possibly getting a bit late in the year for this one but I kept forgetting to post it earlier in the autumn ;) Our house backs onto woodland that includes a lot of oak trees. There are millions of acorns out there. Whenever we’re out on dog walks, we hear and see them them [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a clothes aire ...
    A couple of weeks ago on on The Really Good Life, I post my top 5 clothes line drying tips. One of my tips is to use a clothes peg airer thing if possible – one of these things – it stops the little items taking up space on your main line and is easy [...]
  • Great reusing and recycling ideas from October
    We’ve had some great comments on Recycle This over the last month. Here are some of my favourites: I’ve seen this idea in a couple of places recently but Paul in Austin, TX was the one to mention it here – use the necks and lids from plastic bottles to make random plastic bags air [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Blogger Sheizaf would rather write about cinema, b ...
    On Wednesday, the New York Times did a piece quoting Netanyahu's speech before the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in New Orleans and didn't mention that young Jewish activists repeatedly heckled the PM, even as the disruption was all that anyone was talking about. That night I went to an ...
  • Israeli military invades Palestinian village after ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Lieberman: 'There won't be another building moratorium' During visit to Golan Heights foreign minister adamant that Israel will not be pressured, says pressure must be put on Palestinians. h ...
  • Today in Bil’in
    � Today's demonstration in Bil'in was joined by a large number of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals. Members of the Fatah party were also present.The protesters walked together towards the Apartheid Wall, carrying posters of Yasser Arafat, in commemoration of the Fatah leader who passed awa ...
  • Brooklyn church crowd goes with the idealists on B ...
    I went to the 'Jewish Perspectives on the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions movement' event in Park Slope last night. It was at the Church of Gethsemane, an appealingly humble Presbyterian Church on 8th avenue. The lady who'd arranged the event said they'd asked for space at several synagogues and ot ...
  • A perspective on the Jewish Federation General Ass ...
    My name is Shereen Naser, I am a young Palestinian-American woman, and I attended the 79th General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. Don’t ask me why, I’m still not entirely sure. I think when I first made the decision to go, I did so confident I would be turned away from register ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Ozone talks delay action on climate
    The international ozone talks wrapped up in Bangkok today with negotiators making some progress on hydrofluorocarbons but ultimately delaying a decision on whether, when and how to overhaul the Montreal Protocol in order to tackle global warming head on. The outcome wasn't a surprise, as discus ...
  • A hint of Higgs?
    Last week, one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) made a quiet step towards discovering the Higgs particle — part of the mechanism that physicists think endows things with mass. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector announced that it had detected its first pair of Z bosons. Z ...
  • Europe opens €4.5 billion clean energy fund
    A long-debated multi-billion euro fund for clean energy projects in Europe opened its first call for proposals on 9 November, with the aim of helping large industrial companies push forward commercial-scale low-carbon plants. The fund aims to support at least eight demonstration projects to captu ...
  • Alleged mega-fraud under investigation in Athens
    Greek prosecutors and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) are investigating alleged misuse of European Union (EU) research money by a group of Greek academics.
  • Editorial concern over controversial longevity stu ...
    The editor-in-chief of the journal Science has expressed concern about a study that found links between certain DNA sequence variations and extreme longevity. The results were used to devise a test that could, according to the authors, determine whether a person is genetically inclined to live 100 y ...

new geography

  • Livability and All That
    Livability is one of those once innocuous words, like sustainability, that now receive almost unquestioned acceptance in the bureaucracy, academia and the media. After all, words like sustainability and livability have no acceptable negative form. Who could be in favor of anything unlivable, insens ...
  • The Two Worlds of Buenos Aires
    Central Buenos Aires is undoubtedly one of the world's great tourist destinations. Days could be spent walking among its narrow streets admiring the plentiful art noveau, art-deco, beaux-arts and other architectural styles. The triumphal Avenida 9 de Julio is one of the world's widest boulevards wit ...
  • Asia’s Go-to Cities: Moving Between Mumbai and Sin ...
    As someone who has lived in both Singapore and Mumbai, I can appreciate both in their uniqueness. Each city has its own unique place in the world, neither lesser than the other. In 2006, I left behind a slightly laid back, well run Singapore, a city trying to come to terms with its boring and over- ...
  • Geography of the Election: The Philadelphia Collar ...
    The Obama coalition of 2008 has begun to fracture with independents, women and college educated voters bolting to Republicans and the youth vote seemingly uninterested in this election. But perhaps the most critical change took place in suburbia. This was particularly evident last week in southeast ...
  • Geography of the Election: A New Era of Racial Pol ...
    Laura Jean Berger worked on the Congressional Campaign of Assemblyman Van Tran. This is her account of the results. Energy and free beer flowed through Assemblyman Van Tran's campaign headquarters, the crowd anxiously building with anticipation each time Fox News reported another House seat for t ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Proposal in Sweden to Require ISPs to Archive All ...
    Via: The Local: Emails and mobile phone text messages would be stored for six months by internet service providers (ISPs), according to a bill presented by the Swedish government on Thursday to bring the country in line with EU data retention rules. Critics have come down hard on the proposal, which ...
  • Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners
    Via: Rolling Stone: The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. They told me the state of Florida had created a special super-high-speed housing court with a specific mandate to rubber-stamp the legally dicey foreclosures by corporate mortgage pushers like Deutsc ...
  • Pentagon Readies New Ship-Killers for Showdown wit ...
    Via: Wired: Pentagon planners were wary of China’s double-digit military-budget growth rates even before the global economic crisis put the squeeze on America’s own defense investment. Now the Chinese army’s growth continues while America’s flat-lines. That’s got the U.S. military, especially the Na ...
  • Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Released into the W ...
    What happens to the bats, dragonflies, bird and other creatures that eat the GM mosquitoes? Via: New Scientist: An outdoor trial of mosquitoes genetically engineered to sabotage Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue fever, has been declared a success by scientists in the field. … Oxitec bree ...
  • Dollar Soars on Ireland Wreckage; Might Be Hammer ...
    WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. There’s still another trading day to go, but the dollar will likely print a weekly hammer-like candle off the support: Is this really a hammer? Not really. But the proximity to the support is causing me to squint re ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Is Crime Making A Comeback? 12 Crime Statistics Th ...
    For about a decade and a half, crime rates in the United States have generally fallen.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that even during those "good" years, the United States still had the most car thefts, the most rapes and the most murders in the world.  And even though th ...
  • Suffocated By Red Tape – 12 Ridiculous Regul ...
    Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a small business.  The ...
  • 30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Ner ...
    The mainstream media is full of happy economic news these days.  The S&P 500 has shot up 16 percent since the beginning of July.  Ford Motor Company just reported a profit that jumped nearly 70 percent in the third quarter.  It was Ford's best third quarter performance ever and it w ...
  • 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
    In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...

Desertification

  • Regional agricultural policies in Africa (AfricaFi ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=24557 Food sovereignty: Common challenges in Africa and Europe (French text) Author: Secretariat de la Campagne EuropAfrique Date Written: 1 October 2010 Primary Category: Food and Land Document Origin: Secretariat de la Campagne EuropAfrique Secon ...
  • FAO crop calendar: crops and seed varieties adapte ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36727&Cr=Agriculture&Cr1= UN develops guide on appropriate crops for African farmers Farmers in 43 African countries can now consult a âquick reference calendarâ developed by the United Nations agriculture agency for advice on the most appropria ...
  • Get your own spekboom and grow hundreds of sapling ...
    Read a Facebook message of Pierre JANSSENS (The Spekboom Group) : “You may know that Spekboom is a brilliant plant for your garden, hardy, water-wise, great for making fabulous evergreen hedges while helping suck CO2 from the atmosphere. A small … Continue reading →
  • Iran is listed among countries at great risk of de ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.tabnak.ir/en/news/2548/desertification-a-huge-concern Desertification a Huge Concern IRAN DAILY Nov. 8, 2010 Iran is listed among countries at great risk of desertification. The countryâs water reserves reached 130 billion cubic meters this year, w ...
  • Each region of Nigeria as its own share of problem ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://keepingourplanetgreen-gti.blogspot.com/2010/11/way-forward-for-niger-delta-region.html Monday, November 8, 2010 The Way Forward for the Niger Delta Region THE NIGER DELTA ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT  By Donatus Omoake JP National C ...

The Paper Trail

backofthebook.ca

  • Revolting, but not worth fighting.
    By Rachel Krueger Book banning is for right-wing fundamentalists and crotchety spinsters and very tense parents of pristine children and also EVERYONE who saw The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure on Amazon last Tuesday and immediately clutched their pearls.  Including me.  The site has sinc ...
  • The sentimental publishers of “The Sentiment ...
    By Frank Moher Okay, so I was set to go all crazy right-wing on Gaspereau Press and suggest that its federal funding should be pulled because of its refusal to capitalize on its Giller Prize victory. Johanna Skibsrud's The Sentimentalists won the $50,000 award on Tuesday night, and immediately he ...
  • Brave Steve defends Israel’s far right
    By Alison@Creekside Live-blogging from the Ottawa Conference on Combating Antisemitism, the intrepid Kady does her level best to find out what The Plot -- a secret exhibit from the US Anti-Defamation League that is off-limits to media -- is all about. I don't know either but I'll lay you odds ...
  • Why I won’t listen to Canada Reads 2011
    By Steven W. Beattie Thirty seconds. That’s the approximate amount of time it took after the announcement of the 40 titles in contention to appear on the 2011 edition of the CBC’s "Canada Reads" program for Twitter to explode with tweets from authors, publishers, friends, and fans, all of them ...
  • The G20: Bill Blair and “preventive detentio ...
    By Alison@Creekside At the Public Safety Committee yesterday, Toronto Chief Bill Blair lobbed the following statement about "preventive detention" at the G20 into the proceedings [just before the 4 minute mark]: "I think you are all familiar with images of members of that group who were smashing ...

Worldnews

  • Pistons Get 1st Road Win, Beat Clippers In OT ...
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reserve Charlie Villanueva scored 30 points and the Detroit Pistons used a 9-0 run in overtime for a 113-107 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. Austin Daye and Richard Hamilton added 12 points apiece for Detroit (3-6), which picked up its first road win in ...
  • Outdoor games are vital for kids
    Children chasing one another in parks and playgrounds or playing outdoor games is a sight now rarely seen due to academic pressure and the lure of video games, say experts, warning of the dangers of neglecting physical activity. "Play Life", quantitative research commissioned by Nickelodeon cha ...
  • Obama warns on exports as APEC summit starts ...
    US President Obama called on surplus economies to end reliance on exports for growth, while his Chinese counterpart vowed to rely on domestic demand and gradually reform its currency. The two leaders were speaking a day after a summit in Seoul of the Group of 20 major economies managed only vag ...
  • Obama meets with Japanese, Australian prime m ...
    APEC summit begins Yokohama, Japan (CNN) -- Nearing the end of his 10-day trip to Asia, President Obama met Saturday with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during a bilateral event in Yokohama, Japan. "The United States does not have a closer or better ally than Australia," Obama told rep ...
  • Fabregas: Wenger focused on glory
    Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas believes manager Arsene Wenger is "more focused than ever" on the Gunners' cause after five years without a trophy. The north London side were booed off the pitch after losing to Newcastle last weekend, but Fabregas reckons Wenger remains committed...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • IIP Recognition For Substance Abuse Testing Lab Tr ...
    UK based Trimega Laboratories is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as having met the standards set by the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) Standard. Its accreditation follows an examination by the Employer Representative Quality Board of IIP and reflects the commitment and hard wo ...
  • Advanced Life Sciences Submits Full Proposal To NI ...
    Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ADLS), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs in the therapeutic areas of infection, oncology and respiratory diseases, today announced that it has submitted a full proposal to ...
  • Oligomerix, Inc. Awarded Phase II NIH Grant To Dis ...
    Oligomerix, Inc. announced the receipt of a two-year Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant for $1.6M from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), for a program to discover small molecules and antibodies targeting tau protein oligomers in the developme ...
  • Reata Pharmaceuticals To Present Data From Pivotal ...
    Reata Pharmaceuticals announced that the company will present data on the primary endpoint from a pivotal Phase 2b clinical trial of bardoxolone methyl in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes. The data will be presented in a late-breaking oral presentation at the American S ...
  • How having a brow lift cured my migraines
    Penny Radcliffe’s migraines were so debilitating they left her bedridden for one day a week. The 57-year-old has just become the first woman in Britain to be cured with latest surgery.

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • God Will Not Allow Global Warming Proclaims Rep. J ...
    U.S. House Representative John Shimkus (Republican-Illinois), who has opposed cap and trade legislation because he believes God will not allow the earth to be destroyed by global warming, is running to become the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman.
  • The problem with "Peak Oil" from an economist’s po ...
    The National Geographic Daily News blog cites a new International Energy Agency report that pins 2006 as the year in which oil production rates attained a pace that will not be again matched. Or, in other words, 2006 was the year of �Peak Oil.�� That projection is just one scenario of several looked ...
  • Progress on HFCs, the Super Greenhouse Gases? - Go ...
    This week the parties to the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that saved the ozone layer, met in Bangkok to consider what they can contribute to preventing climate change.� The good news from Bangkok, reflected in a declaration of 91 developed and developing countries (reprinted below), is growing supp ...
  • Cleantech, Globalization and Energy Independence
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  • Short and long term strategies
    I have been at the first Doha Carbon and Energy Forum this week, organized by Qatar Petroleum and the Qatar Foundation with support from ExxonMobil. The event focused on steps that could be taken in Qatar and the region to begin to address the issue of carbon emissions. Sessions on carbon capture an ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Texas Prisons May be Worse Than Abu Ghraib
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Reeves County Detention Center in Texas The back to back debacles of Bush-Perry have turned the state prison system into a domestic Abu Ghraib in which 'prisoners' are tortured, attacked by dogs, shocked and, in other ways abused, exploited, humiliated, ter ...
  • Reinventing a War Criminal: Defending the Bush Leg ...
    by Stephen Lendman The Bush legacy is based on lies, deceit, crimes of war and against humanity, and complicity in criminal fraud, a disgusting record deserving denunciation and prison, not shameless feting. Yet his new book, "Decision Points," attempts the impossible, a brazen scheme to rei ...
  • Which "human" rights do you call for?
    Kourosh Ziabari One of my close friends is suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a severe mental illness which has almost paralyzed his entire life. He was diagnosed with the psychosis at the age of 15 and now, more than a decade after that time, he is married and has two children. The psyc ...
  • Obama Team's Deficit Cutting Proposal: Benefit the ...
    by Stephen Lendman Some background. In his January 27 State of the Union address, Obama announced plans to "freeze government spending for three years," starting in 2011, saying he'd establish a bipartisan fiscal commission by executive order to cut the deficit by imposed austerity. In other words, ...
  • IN MOTION: THE PLOT TO DESTROY THE UNITED STATES
    by Gordon Duff CAMOUFLAGED TANKS AS SEEN BY MILITARY SATELLITE SEE IT COMING AND STOP IT, EVEN IF IT COSTS YOU EVERYTHING “The 2010 election had one purpose, war with Iran, even if the risk is world conflict and the real loser, no matter what happens on the battlefield is the United States.” P ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Flashback to the 1990s: austerity and health care
    Although at the periphery of federal budget debates, transfers the provinces were put in focus again this week . �The Chretien government with Paul Martin as finance minister put Canada through the most recent cuts to program spending to erase the deficit starting in 1996. �Part of the result was cu ...
  • UK students resist Canadian-style austerity
    As CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in today's Globe and Mail , the UK government is trying to cram through the biggest public spending cuts in its history. We’ve seen the movie and it does not end well. That’s what our federal government did in 1995, and the books got balanced all righ ...
  • Rebuilding BC's legal aid system: a rights-based a ...
    Our new study on legal aid in BC explores the impact of cuts to the system and proposes a new rights-based approach that would cut both economic and social costs. Listen to interviews with the authors on CBC's Early Edition , Jim Harrison's show on CHNL in Kamloops and Adam Stirling's show on CFAX i ...
  • Live discussion: Should Canadians be able to pay i ...
    Today (at 12 p.m. ET) the globeandmail.com will host CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan (pictured below) and private clinic surgeon Dr. Brian Day for a live discussion on the question: Should Canadians be able to pay in order to jump the healthcare line? Here is the Globe 's intro to the discus ...
  • Government: Deficit gone in 5yrs. PBO: Doubtful
    The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) yesterday released � its assessment � of the federal government's � October economic update . �In its October update, the government projected that the federal deficit would be eliminated in 5 years. �Yesterday's PBO report argues that there is an 85% chance tha ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Riding the Rails, Looking for Work
    by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis Now that an entire week or so has passed, it’s possible to make a cool, complete and objective assessment of the meaning of the 2010 vote. Thus, ladies and gentlemen, it becomes clear what this election was all about: jobs. I mean, just [...]
  • TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR III
    Dell Jordon had no idea as she was driving into Choctaw Nation Territory that she would meet two people who would totally led to change in her life that even she had not imagined. However, not only did she meet Shasta and Jace Reid, who were at a Reid annual gathering, which was always [...]
  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! This weeks question – He didn’t really take music too seriously other than a hobby until his time at Vill ...
  • It’s Not The Great Recession, It’s The ...
    Matt Taibbi: Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners | Rolling Stone he foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. They told me the state of Florida had created a special super-high-speed housing court with a specific mandate to rubber-stamp the legally dicey for ...
  • America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship
    Licensed to Kill | Counterpunch The United States Department of Justice routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus and concocted crimes that are not even on the statutes book. The distinguished defense attorney and civil libertarian, Harvey A. Silverglate, published a book last year, “Three ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Meet the Tea Party's first 2012 target
    The National Review's Brian Bolduc brings news that a conservative who is part of the Tea Party movement will soon announce a challenge to Sen. Olympia Snowe in the 2012 Republican primary:
  • Bush memoir borrows quotes
    Thank god Bob Woodward can read the minds of everyone in establishment Washington and faithfully record their thoughts months after the fact, because George W. Bush simply would not have been able to write his "memoir" without the help of previously published accounts of his presidency.
  • Jim Inhofe to Tea Partiers: Earmarks are great!
    Tea Partiers hate government spending, and like all Serious opponents of wasteful spending, they would like to ban "earmarks." As John McCain taught us, eliminating earmarks will solve the deficit, basically. So newly elected Senate Republicans are being pushed to vote for an earmark ban. It's a ...
  • Introducing: Week in a Tweet
    Here at Salon, we know we have some of the smartest readers out there (modesty be damned!). So, we're excited to announce a new weekly reader contest: Salon's Week in a Tweet.
  • The right's favorite 300-pound (plus) porn star
    Slate's Dave Weigel, taking note of the latest Chris Christie video to hit YouTube, is puzzled that no other aspiring national GOP�star is exploiting the viral (and free) nature of online video the way the New Jersey governor is:

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • God Will Not Allow Global Warming Proclaims Rep. J ...
    U.S. House Representative John Shimkus (Republican-Illinois), who has opposed cap and trade legislation because he believes God will not allow the earth to be destroyed by global warming, is running to become the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman.
  • The problem with "Peak Oil" from an economist’s po ...
    The National Geographic Daily News blog cites a new International Energy Agency report that pins 2006 as the year in which oil production rates attained a pace that will not be again matched. Or, in other words, 2006 was the year of �Peak Oil.�� That projection is just one scenario of several looked ...
  • Progress on HFCs, the Super Greenhouse Gases? - Go ...
    This week the parties to the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that saved the ozone layer, met in Bangkok to consider what they can contribute to preventing climate change.� The good news from Bangkok, reflected in a declaration of 91 developed and developing countries (reprinted below), is growing supp ...
  • Cleantech, Globalization and Energy Independence
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  • Short and long term strategies
    I have been at the first Doha Carbon and Energy Forum this week, organized by Qatar Petroleum and the Qatar Foundation with support from ExxonMobil. The event focused on steps that could be taken in Qatar and the region to begin to address the issue of carbon emissions. Sessions on carbon capture an ...

EU Times

  • Geert Wilders, Anti-Islam Dutch Politician, On Tri ...
    Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders appealed for freedom of expression Monday as he went on trial for alleged hate speech at a time when his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all-time highs. Prosecutors say Wilders has incited hate against Muslims, pointing to a litany of qu ...
  • China accused of invading disputed islands
    Anti-China protesters gathered Saturday in Tokyo and six other major cities in Japan to rally against what it calls an invasion of disputed islands that both claim are part of their territories. Protesters held up Japanese flags and chanted, “We will not allow Communist China to invade our territory ...
  • Ethnic lines drawn as Bosnia-Herzegovina elects it ...
    Voters would witness something unusual during the run-up to the Oct. 3 presidential elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). On Tuesday a crowd of estimated 10,000 crammed the central square of the northeast Bosnian town of Tuzla, demonstrating support for Fahrudin Radoncic, one of the few new per ...
  • Obama pressed to weigh Iran strike
    Senator Joe Lieberman, Congressman Howard Berman say US must put time limit on sanctions. US President Barack Obama is under pressure to consider a military strike on Iran, according to the Financial Times. Both Senator Joe Lieberman and Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee ...
  • Terror Suspect Was White House Guest and Recipient ...
    Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the Marxist FARC terrorists and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation. The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided in the terror sweep. Radical Hatem Abudayyeh pro ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Katie Couric in Seoul
    President Obama’s trip to the G-20 summit in Seoul went about as conservatives expected. Reporters asked his wife, “Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Obama?” It was that bad. From the Associated Press: “The world’s most important economies are going home to look after themselves. The ...
  • What If Aung San Suu Kyi Goes Free?
    Whenever Aung San Suu Kyi is allowed her freedom, the Burmese authorities never know what might happen. When she was released from her first stint in custody, in 1990, her National League for Democracy overwhelmingly won elections. The junta responded by cancelling the results and placing her under ...
  • Cultures of Militarization: In Canada and Beyond
    GLOBAL MILITARIZATION From Cultures of Resistance CULTURES OF MILITARIZATION NEW BOOK RELEASE: Toronto , October 25, 2010 – A new book from the editors of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies adds perspective to the rampant militarization of everyday civilian culture. Cultures of Militarizat ...
  • Fish Threaten G20 Summit!
    I expect many of you heard the news about the South Koreans recruiting goldfish to protect the G20 summit. Six goldfish have been placed in six water tanks around the conference building to protect the drinking water. Animal activists denounced the South Koreans for animal cruelty. The lives of gol ...
  • Watch Raw Video: Anti-G20 Activists Clash With Pol ...
    Anti-G20 activists clash with police in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 11, 2010 (screen capture from AP video) Two news reports & video: South Korean labour and civic groups joined with international activists on Thursday, November 11, 2010, to stage protests against the ongoing G-20 summit in Seoul. Wat ...

Groklaw

  • Oracle-SAP Trial: Oracle Damage Expert Lands On $1 ...
    Oracle's damage claims are dwindling just as fast as Oracle executives can talk them up. Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled late Monday night to exclude evidence from Oracle that would, in theory, outline potential lost profits from selling PeopleSoft and Siebel customers other Oracle products. On Tuesday ...
  • Microsoft sues Motorola over "excessive" WiFi, H.2 ...
    Not content with suing Motorola in October over alleged patent violations in its Android phones, Microsoft has decided to chuck another lawsuit Motorola's way. This time, the company is claiming that Motorola has reneged on its duty to provide reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) agreements for p ...
  • When and How to Launch a Standards Consortium
    Abstract: The last twenty-five years have been marked by an explosion of consortia formed to develop, promote and/or otherwise support standards enabling information and communications technology. The reasons for forming a new consortium, as compared to adding to the work program of an existing body ...
  • Adafruit Industries - We have a winner
    WE HAVE A WINNER - Open Kinect driver(s) released - Winner will use $3k for more hacking - PLUS an additional $2k goes to the EFF! That's right - We have a winner for the $3k bounty for Open source drivers for the Xbox Kinect....He's running all this on a Linux laptop (his code works with OpenGL) an ...
  • Sham Reexamination Requests and Federal Preemption ...
    Lockwood v. Sheppard Mullin (Fed. Cir. 2010) This is an interesting case that is pending before the Federal Circuit. The focus of the appeal is whether a patentee has any cause of action for a third-party's baseless filing of a reexamination request. The patent laws themselves offer no remedy so Lo ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

First Truths

  • Liberty is the Mother of Equality (And Vice Versa)
    In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society , I argue that liberty is the channel through which to achieve egalitarian goals, that free markets are the best way to attack the system of privilege we're yoked to today.
  • The Crime Families Meet in Korea
    I address Seoul's G20 summit in a commentary piece for C4SS .
  • Israel, At it Again
    My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society confronts Israel's latest endeavors into violent regional domination and government disinformation.
  • Pieces for the Center for a Stateless Society
    My most recent work can be found at the website of the Center for a Stateless Society , a project of the Molinari Institute "dedicated to building awareness of, and support for, market anarchism." The first piece, Anarchy as Order , under the Center's Feature Articles heading, is a companion to, or ...
  • A Distinction Without A Difference
    My reaction to the announcement of troop withdrawals from Iraq, entitled A Distinction Without A Difference , comes through the Center for a Stateless Society. Thanks again to the Center for being so receptive to my ramblings.

Media Co-Op

  • "You're not crazy and it's not your fault."
    Derrick Jensen on this destructive culture On November 17, Jensen returns to the University of Victoria, BC to speak about "Endgame: the Problem of Civilization." 7 pm at MacLaurin Auditorium, room A144. Admission is free. More info here . De ...
  • SEARS LOCKOUT Toronto street action
    Words on a major North America-wide campaign against a large corporation department store Sears, featuring Wayne Rae of the Un ...
  • What Happened This Weekend at the ISF, A View from ...
    The Elephant in the Room: Iran. The Tiger Behind the Elephant: China. This article is a continuation of Part 1. The reader would be best served by reading Part 1 before delving into Part 2. The United States Congressional delegation, consist ...
  • Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
    FBI targets Bradley Manning support network at border FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust Detainment of Activist MEDIA: Mike Gogulski, Steering Committee, Bradley Manning Support Network press@bradleymanni ...
  • G20 MY HEART BLEEDS... Officer Bubbles Exposed
    G20 Exposed: 'My Heart Bleeds..'.. G20 Toronto Exposed (� http://www.torontog20exposed.ca/ �) Press for Truth (� http://pressf ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • UK Students trash British Conservatives' HQ. ... t ...
    Students have finally had enough. Fees were introduced in 1998 and we hardly heard a squeak; they were bumped up to over £3,000 in 2006 and no one revolted. But today students smashed their way into the Tory party campaign HQ in a show of anger against a political elite they believe have abandoned t ...
  • The must see, must pass along video
    David Seaton's News Links Steve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video and it is a powerful and positive piece of work. If you like it pass it on. DS
  • Tales of Globalization: USA and India: a marriage ...
    "I believe that the relationship between the United States and India will, in fact, be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st Century." President Obama - BBC News The most dramatic and remarkable improvement in consumption has been of those who were already the richest people in India � that i ...
  • The Kochs: paying to keep America dumb
    AJ Goode and his wife Mary who live in a shelter in Los Angeles - BBC News David Seaton's News Links Around the world people ask themselves, if Americans are so dumb, why is the country so rich? Americans are not really born that stupid, but making them stupid is a huge industry. The Koch Brothers ...
  • The Koch Brothers
    Charles and David Koch David Seaton's News Links Jane Mayer has written what may be, because of its future repercussions, a history making article in the New Yorker. Her exhaustively researched article shows that the brothers Koch of Koch Industries are supplying a great deal of the money fueling t ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Luckiest People in the World
    Some of these people came within just inches of death, but they got out of their predicaments safe and sound.
  • CDC and ADA Now Advise to Avoid Using Fluoride
    A new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association finds once again that, contrary to what most people have been told, fluoride is actually bad for teeth. Exposure to high levels of fluoride results in a condition known as fluorosis, in which tooth enamel becomes discolored. The conditio ...
  • Amazing Rescued Baby Hummingbird
  • Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Lim ...
    Physician William D. Leak was found to have performed unnecessary nerve tests and excessive invasive procedures, including injecting some patients with agents that destroy nerve tissue. But that didn't stop Eli Lilly from using him as a promotional speaker and adviser. Leak is part of the drug indu ...
  • The Completely Curable Disease Your Doctor is Trea ...
    Click here to watch this video A new federal report projects 1 in 3 American adults could have diabetes by 2050. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the number of Americans with diabetes may double or triple over the next 40 years. People with diabetes face medical ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

  • Ottawa should allow potash deal
    Brad Wall, the premier of Saskatchewan, wants Ottawa to ban an Australian-based company's bid to buy Potash Corp., which operates in Saskatchewan. Industry minister Tony Clement and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are expected to say by today if Ottawa will allow the sale. We hope they do.
  • The United Nations disgraces itself -again
    The United Nations has proven itself to be only half hostile to women and their welfare. By giving Saudi Arabia a seat on the executive board of a new superagency for women, but refusing a spot to Iran, the world body has dug itself deeper into a hole of cynical hypocrisy.
  • The United Nations disgraces itself -again
    The United Nations has proven itself to be only half hostile to women and their welfare. By giving Saudi Arabia a seat on the executive board of a new superagency for women, but refusing a spot to Iran, the world body has dug itself deeper into a hole of cynical hypocrisy.
  • Murder reminds us just how vile the Mob is
    The murder of 86-year-old Nicolo Rizzuto in his own kitchen Wednesday evening is a reminder of the way organized crime really works.
  • The United Nations disgraces itself -again
    The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women -commonly called UN Women -was created this year as a super-agency to promote women's rights and interests. Four UN bureaucracies were brought together to form a single more powerful agency. It is a promising sign that UN Women w ...

Food World Order

  • forbes admits it was 'wrong on monsanto, really wr ...
    from gmwatch : The only dubious aspect of this article is the suggestion that Monsanto's fortunes might be saved by its new soybean seed with " high levels of omega-3 fatty acids ," which " could appeal to health-conscious consumers ." We doubt that Monsanto soybeans (if GM) and health-conscious con ...
  • media monarchy: interview w/ barbara peterson of f ...
    interview w/ barbara peterson : download /subscribe \archive the latest special interview episode from media monarchy features a great talk with writer/activist barbara peterson of farmwars.info & truth squad radio . this one-hour conversation gets into the " corporate shenanigans ... and in ...
  • 10/14 binge & purge: can't feel the beating
    warning to glenn beck: don't drink diet coke * video: beck sidekicks attempt to debunk aspartame controversy * roger beachy's evangelical push for gm foods * build the pressure on the gates foundation * what's driving monsanto's fall from grace? * family farm ordered to destroy 50, ...
  • 3/4's of US obese or overweight by 2020, says alar ...
    from natural news : America is already on the verge of drowning in sick-care bankruptcy, but the situation is about to get even worse. According to a new study released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , three-fourths of Americans will be obese or overweight by 2020 . Tha ...
  • 11/11 binge & purge: spam the torpedos!
    33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese * wv dept of ag gets grant to study e. coli in beef * salmonella in france: 500 sick from beef patties * carnival splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship * food wrappers leach harmful ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Is Crime Making A Comeback? 12 Crime Statistics Th ...
    For about a decade and a half, crime rates in the United States have generally fallen.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that even during those "good" years, the United States still had the most car thefts, the most rapes and the most murders in the world.  And even though th ...
  • Suffocated By Red Tape – 12 Ridiculous Regul ...
    Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a small business.  The ...
  • 30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Ner ...
    The mainstream media is full of happy economic news these days.  The S&P 500 has shot up 16 percent since the beginning of July.  Ford Motor Company just reported a profit that jumped nearly 70 percent in the third quarter.  It was Ford's best third quarter performance ever and it w ...
  • 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
    In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The EU's Secret Indoctrination Programme to takeov ...
    Our friends and colleagues at Bloggers4UKIP have a fascinating post today, examining documents that have come to light revealing "the extent and nature of plans made to propaganderise and indoctrinate the people of Britain in to becoming "pro-marketeers" (pseudo speak for pro-EU in the 1970's)." ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 7th November 2010
    Our glorious leader, Nigel Farage, is popping up in the most unpredicted of places - and in a positive light, too. That the positivity should have stretched to the Independent on Sunday caught this blogger completely off guard, but there Nigel is, in all his newly re-elected glory in an opinion piec ...
  • Forget the Brown Shirts, the colour is red as LABO ...
    What the f*ck? Yes, I did say f*ck. And here's the missing 'u' to stick in it. The Labour Party, which broke about every promise in their 2005 manifesto... The party which has had an MP sacked by two judges for lies in election literature... Which is the party of ALL of those MPs bein ...
  • Cameron, Clegg and Miliband should ALL stay away f ...
    Yesterday, around 35 idiots seemed to rouse the whole of England - and rightful people around the globe - with their sick poppy burning display. We say this with confidence because interest in the story is like nothing that this blog has ever seen. Not ever. The people of this country feel very s ...
  • Muslim MP bravely leads calls for Islamist Extremi ...
    One of the few Muslim MPs - Labour's Khalid Mahmood - has bravely spoken out in light of the disgusting events which took place in London yesterday. In a very welcome move, he holds no punches and tells Islamist extremists to get out of Britain. Quoted by the Daily Express, Mahmood says: "Thes ...

Facing South

  • Reeling from BP, Alabama residents still seek assi ...
    By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. -- Like so many on the Gulf Coast, Ana Chau is dealing with two disasters. This time last year, she and her husband made their living shucking oysters. Now they are out of work, their industry crippled indefinitely by the millions of ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The looming unemployment crisis
    Number of Americans who are currently unemployed: 14.8 million Average duration of their unemployment: 33.9 weeks October's overall unemployment rate, essentially unchanged since May: 9.6 percent Unemployment rate for the South*, according to the latest available numbers: 9.3 percent Cur ...
  • Incoming House leadership plans environmental assa ...
    The House leadership in the newly elected 112th Congress has some big changes planned on the environmental policy front, from rollbacks of protective regulations to an assault on climate science. Following last week's mid-term election that gave Republicans control of the House, Rep. Eric ...
  • Spill panel: Driven by 'compulsion' to finish well ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica As we noted earlier this week, members of the presidential commission investigating BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill made clear that they don't believe individual BP workers consciously decided to put corporate profit over safety when making decisions regarding the de ...
  • Polluted communities to meet with first black EPA ...
    By Robert Bullard, OpEdNews It has now been two months since former DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming made history when the Obama administration named her to become the first African American and female to head EPA Region 4 , which includes eight southern states -- Alabama, Florid ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Karachi’s Counterterrorism Office Bombed; At Least 18 Are Dead A police building housing Karachiâs lead counterterrorism agency was attacked by armed gunmen and a car bomb Thursday night, leaving 18 dead and at least 100 wounded, according to reports. The … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    UK Police Say Bomb Was Timed to Explode Over U.S. Eastern Seaboard British police released a statement Wednesday offering new details about the U.S.-bound package bomb discovered at the UKâs East Midlands Airport. The statement offered a timeline for the … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    No Charges in Destruction of CIA Tapes Depicting Harsh Interrogations The Justice Department will not pursue charges over the destruction of dozens of tapes made by the CIA showing harsh interrogations of detainees, according to multiple reports. Jose Rodriguez Jr., … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Video, al-Awlaki Justifies the Killing of Americans A 23-minute video released Monday on jihadist forums features U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki justifying the killing of Americans. âDon’t consult with anybody in killing the Americans…Fighting the devil does not require a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Yemeni Judge Orders al-Awlaki’s Arrest On Saturday, a Yemeni judge ordered the âforcibleâ arrest of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The Independent reports that âJudge Mohsen Alwan ordered Awlaki to be âarrested by force, dead or aliveâ after al-Awlaki failed to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Macbuntu - Mac OSX Look and Feel for Ubuntu!
    Macbuntu is a nice little script that can completely transform your Ubuntu and make it look like Mac OSX. There were other projects like Mac4Lin with similar goals before, but Macbuntu is way better performer in mimicking Mac OSX look and feel. Macbuntu - Brilliant Transformation of Ubuntu i ...
  • Chamba Swathanthra Cinema - India's First Open Mov ...
    It seems Blender open movies have inspired quite a number of people. Chamba Swathanthra Cinema is an open movie project by a bunch of free software enthusiasts from Kerala, India. Chamba Swathanthra Cinema is probably first of its kind open movie project ever initiated by anyone other than Blender f ...
  • China Mobile - World's Largest Mobile Phone Enterp ...
    World's biggest mobile phone enterprise, China Mobile, is all set to join Linux Foundation as a Gold Member. China Mobile now becomes the 10th Linux Foundation Gold Member which also includes the likes of Google, Motorola and HP. China Mobile Joins Linux Foundation China Mobile is the largest a ...
  • Sharp to Launch Glasses-Free 3D Android Based Mobi ...
    You read it right, 3D technology is coming to your smartphones too. Sharp is all set to launch two glasses free 3D enabled handsets in Japan and what makes the deal even sweeter is the fact that, both these handsets will be powered by Linux based Android operating system. The Age of Linux and O ...
  • How to Install Deluge 1.3.1 in Ubuntu Maverick, Lu ...
    Though Transmission is good, Deluge has always been my favorite bit torrent client in Ubuntu. It is nice and simple to use and feature packed as well. Deluge hit version 1.3.1 few days ago. Here is what you need to do install latest Deluge in Ubuntu. What's New in Deluge 1.3? Deluge 1.3 wa ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • French riot police officer deployed in German prot ...
    A French CRS riot police officer wearing body armour was deployed in Germany to drag protestors against the transport of  nuclear waste shipment from railway tracks, it has emerged. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,728572,00.html The police officer can be seen wearing a gun. The use ...
  • Police raid German farms without warrants
     Police in Germany raided at least three farms located on the route of the train transporting nuclear waste to a depot in northern German on Modnay evening without a warrant in another sign of how the country is sliding into a police state. Police conducted unauthorised raids on at least three farms ...
  • Seasoned Canadians give German protestors tips
    From Lance Owen, Toronto:  A bunch of ordinary people stopped 17,000 police! Wow! And they had to bring in police from other countries?? Something doesn’t smell right. Did German police refuse to act? Anyway, I’m glad things were relatively peaceful. In actions like these however, we have to expect ...
  • Iceland probe on bank collapse says 80% of credit ...
    The report of the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) of the Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, into banking fraud published on April 12 2010 explains that the Iceland banks crashed because 80% of the credits were made to the owners of the banks and their friends. http://sic.althingi.is/
  • Austrian judge’s application raises fears of ...
    A judge who himself played a role together with Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner and Cabinet Secretary Georg Krakow in the controversuial Bawag trial has applied for a job to Bandion-Ortner for a position on the country’s  highest court, which has now been tasked with reviewing that same tr ...

Invisible Opportunity

Veterans Today

  • WHICH “HUMAN” RIGHTS DO YOU CALL FOR?
    This is only a simple instance of how the pioneers of human rights fail to respect and venerate what they consider to be their first and foremost social value. Who knows about the real, on-the-ground abuses of human rights by them? By Kourosh Ziabari — Veterans Today One of my close friends is suffe ...
  • Yemen Bombs and Smart Donkeys
    May be the bombs were not the real issue behind this clumsy operation. But the mail bombs did carry explosives after all, it carried an explosive message that said; there are MUSLIMS behind this terrorist act who held a grudge against the west as old as the crusades and the fall of the Muslim empire ...
  • IS AMERICAN PUBLIC ABOUT TO TOSS ISRAEL?
    Some opinion analysts, like the 2009 Zogby International poll of American attitudes toward Israelis and Palestinians, express surprise with what they are learning from the American public and detect significant changes in American public attitudes favoring US disengagement from Israel
  • U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
    CONTRACTS: No. 1043-10 November 12, 2010 CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Enersys Energy Products, Inc., Warrensburg, Mo., is being awarded a maximum $38,466,077 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for storage batteries. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Air ...
  • Peco Manufacturing Teams with HireVeterans.com
    PECO Manufacturing Joins with HireVeterans.com to Attract US Military Veterans to Their Workforce By Randy Miller Previously named Product Engineering Corporation, PECO was founded in 1938 by Ralph McGilvera. Since its inception, PECO has produced aluminum and zinc die castings. Today PECO is a dive ...

electric politics

  • Our Unsecure Border
    There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-state ...
  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...
  • Óχi Euro
    Until fairly recently the Greek debt crisis wasn't so much in the news. Now, it's roiling markets and a lot of commentators are wringing their hands over the possibility that it could precipitate another world-wide financial crash. That's probably a baseless fear. Greece is mainly a Eurozone proble ...
  • Folk History
    To talk culture I turned to the award winning writer Luc Sante . Because Luc is Belgian, and therefore doubly an expert, I seized this opportunity to also talk about Tin-Tin comics, which I grew up on as a kid in the Belgian Congo and in Brussels. Among other topics we cover Luc's latest book, Folk ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Left Foot Forward

  • Will the “greenest government ever” ge ...
    Tomorrow the House of Commons will debate a new law to make the UK’s meat and dairy production more sustainable, but it is still unclear whether or not the self-styled "greenest government ever" is going to back it. South American rainforests and wildlife rich grasslands are being trashed to graze a ...
  • We need to move on from the clichés and misunderst ...
    The coverage of David Cameron’s visit to Beijing has brought the usual litany of clichés and misunderstandings about China, drawing unabashedly on a fine tradition of western depictions of the Oriental “other”. China is unfailingly presented as a totalitarian state, headed by inscrutable politicians ...
  • Fraser Nelson’s attack on 50p tax rate is fu ...
    Writing in the Spectator, Fraser Nelson claims that the 50p tax rate, along with other high profile taxes on the wealthy, actually reduces tax revenue from the top percentile. The major piece of evidence he draws on is the table below. Showing the tax liability through income tax shouldered by vario ...
  • Cameron’s crazy claim vanity photographer wi ...
    David Cameron has made the bizarre claim his vanity photographer will actually save the taxpayer lots of money. Former Tory party staffer Andrew Parsons and WebCameron filmmaker Nicky Woodhouse are being paid £35,000 each by the Cabinet Office, for jobs that were not advertised and didn't exist unde ...
  • Home secretary forced to “water down” ...
    The Financial Times reports today that home secretary Teresa May was forced to "water down" her first major speech on immigration last week, after an intervention from Downing Street and business secretary Vince Cable. Unnamed sources within the government told the FT that May's original speech was ...

 

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