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Thomas Paine

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Monday, November 15, 2010

15 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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

Blacklisted News

  • Silly Silver Manipulators
    It began with the piece by World Bank president Robert Zoellick, "suggesting" a return to some sort of gold standard. Having a banker come out with that remark was designed to whip the bulls into a manic frenzy -- and it worked. Not only bullion prices, but the share prices of mining stocks began to ...
  • US Carbon Trading Shuts Down, While Other Nations ...
    America’s only nationwide carbon trading market will shut its doors next month, a tacit acknowledegment that Republican gains in Congress spell doom for any sort of federal greenhouse gas regulations. But other countries — even mega-polluter China — are ready to fill the void.
  • Disney texting crackdown: Has the Nanny State come ...
    I'm already feeling a little safer as I've been driving around L.A. today knowing that the Walt Disney Co. has announced a new policy threatening employees with all sorts of punishments, including firing, if they text while they drive.
  • CDC and ADA Now Advise to Avoid Using Fluorid
    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.
  • US firms eye India's U-15 population as future wor ...
    Top American firms are eyeing the huge under-15 population of India for their source of future workforce as the nation is opening its education sector for foreign investment. "With 35% of India's population under the age of 15, we all must join efforts to ensure that this population becomes the ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: “The Dom ...
    Derrick Jensen has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement. He has written some 15 books critiquing contemporary society and the destruction of the environment. His many books include A Language Older than Words, Endgame, What We Left Behind, Resistance against Empire, and Deep G ...
  • Moroccan Forces Raid Protest Camp in Western Sahar ...
    Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday against Morocco’s recent crackdown in Western Sahara. Moroccan security forces last week raided a camp where some 20,000 Sahrawis had been staging a massive protest against the Moroccan occupation. Morocco has announced that it will try in a mil ...
  • Burmese Pro-Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Free ...
    In Burma, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is free. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has spent 15 of the past 21 years in detention. She was released on Saturday by the Burmese military junta after her latest period of house arrest expired. Hundreds of people rushed to her home after the authorit ...
  • Headlines for November 15, 2010
    Cholera Death Toll Surpasses 900 in Haiti, Karzai Calls for Reduced U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan, Aung San Suu Kyi Freed in Burma, U.S. Offers Israel Military Upgrade, Peace Veto for Limited Settlement Freeze, White House Drops Plans to Close Gitmo, Supreme Court Won’t Intervene on “Don’t ...
  • Winter Misery as Afghanistan Food Prices Rise

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • British Peer: Cynics might think Britain is at the ...
    Summary: Lady Tonge Jenny Tonge, the Liberal Democrat peer at the House of Lord has recently attacked the government for its anti-Iran policies and its closeness to the Israeli regime. source: Press TV read more
  • Solidarity with Iran
    Summary: I (We) join with all who stand for justice, peace, sovereignty and self determination in raising my (our) voice to demand: - Lift economic sanctions against Iran. - Recognize the right of Iran to develop and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. - Stop military threats against Ir ...
  • Europe still vital in talks with Iran
    Summary: The more manoeuvring space there is in a negotiation process, research shows, the more likely there will be a solution. In that sense, the inclusion of Turkey (and potentially Brazil) in the new round of talks should be welcomed as an opportunity to open further communication channels a ...
  • ‘Iran, Turkey can be flag bearers of nuclear disar ...
    Summary: TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says that Iran and Turkey enjoy the potential to be the flag bearers of nuclear disarmament in the world. source: Tehran Times read more
  • The Case of Iran: The Militarization of the World
    Summary: Hossein-Zadeh A bully or a mafia godfather would never run out of excuses to punish an insubordinate soul in “his territory.” Accordingly, U.S. imperialism has been very creative in invoking all kinds of excuses to punish Iran for its aspirations to national self-determination. sourc ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Mystery of Jupiter's Massive Vanished Stripe - ...
    A massive, brownish stripe in Jupiter's southern hemisphere that vanished completely in May could soon return, if photographs taken by amateur astronomers point in the right direction. Jupiter historically has two prominent dark bands, one in each hemisphere, but this...
  • "Mirrors in Your Brain": Does an Epic Discovery Do ...
    A recent paradigm-shattering discovery in neuroscience shows how our minds share actions, emotions, and experience -what we commonly call "the monkey see, monkey do" experience. When we see someone laugh, cry, show disgust, or experience pain, in some sense, we...
  • Dark Matter Yields Clues to Structure of the Unive ...
    Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe, (tinted blue), inferred through observations of magnified and distorted distant...
  • Cool It! A Contrarian View of Climate Change (VIDE ...
    Cool It, a controversial new film based on a book of the same name by Danish writer Bjørn Lomborg, a contrarian who delights in questioning the gravity of our planet’s environmental problems, maintains that global warming should be one of...
  • The Daily Debate: "Is Religion as Human as the Fli ...
    Lewis Wolpert believes that mankind's "incorrigible and wholly irrational" religiosity is as human, and as explicable, as the flint axe and the computer. It is a tool for the soul. Religion and belief in a supernatural being is a natural...

Natural News

  • NaturalNews readers raise $30,000 to fight GMOs th ...
    (NaturalNews) It's official: NaturalNews readers have raised over $20,000 for the Institute for Responsible Technology. With our matching donation of $10,000, we have combined to raise over $30,000 for the support of the IRT and its important work opposing GMOs. (That's $10,000 over our original goa ...
  • Votes opposing GMOs crash The Economist poll websi ...
    (NaturalNews) Last week we published a story urging our readers to vote NO on the GMO / biotech survey being hosted by The Economist (http://www.naturalnews.com/030370_GMO_biotech.html). Within two hours after our post went live and people started sharing it on Facebook and elsewhere, the Economist' ...
  • The chemical nightmare in your mattress
    (NaturalNews) The average mattress is a cocktail of toxic substances, warns Barry Cik of Naturepedic, in an article published on www.GreenBiz.com. "My rude awakening came when my wife sent me to buy a crib mattress for our first grandchild," Cik writes. "I was appalled by what I found; the crib matt ...
  • Must-see videos on NaturalNews.TV reveal organic e ...
    (NaturalNews) If you want to know more about the way the world really works, here are some of the most eye-opening videos you'll ever see on issues of food and health. Scrambled eggs This video from the Cornucopia Institute exposes the organic fraud in the egg industry. As you'll learn in this video ...
  • Woman finds cancer cure in dairy-free diet based o ...
    (NaturalNews) Eminent geologist Jane Plant is now promoting a dietary program for the treatment of cancer, saying that going dairy-free and eating cancer-protective foods helped cure her breast cancer where conventional Western medicine had failed. Plant was first diagnosed with cancer at age 42. Ov ...

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

  • Time to Apologize to Plame/Wilson
    Official Washington's "Fair Game" abuse of CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson went beyond the White House. November 14, 2010
  • The UN and the Hypocrisy of Power
    Israel and its defenders in Washington have exposed the UN's impotence over the Palestinians' plight, says Lawrence Davidson. November 13, 2010
  • Dogmatism in an Age of Complexity
    Amid crises fraught with complexity, many politicians thrive by offering a simplistic world view, notes Judy J. Johnson. November 13, 2010
  • WikiLeaks Ban or Global Secrecy Act
    A proposal to criminalize disclosure of CIA or US military contacts aims at WikiLeaks but could hit elsewhere, writes D.H. Kerby. November 11, 2010
  • Angry Voters of a Decaying Empire
    Voters with no real stake in America's corporatist empire expressed pointless anger about their fate, says Phil Rockstroh. November 11, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Even CSI is concerned about “Fracking”
      “FRACKED” CSI: Crime Scene Investigation â FRACKED â  Click here to watch the episode as the CSI team investigates the murder of two men who were about to expose a natural gas conglomerate of poisoning residents in a farming town. Filed under: Global Warming Tagged: Barnett shale, CSI, Fort Wort ...
  • The Texas Railroad Commission and Barnett Shale – ...
    The Energy Resources Committee of the Texas House of Representatives will meet to hear both invited and public testimony in the Fort Worth, Texas City Hall  located at 1000 Throckmorton St. at 9:00 AM on Thursday, November 18, 2010 to discuss interim charge #1.  The 81st legislature charged the comm ...
  • Redistricting and the mid-cycle election
    Republican gains in Congress were the major stories for the national media, but it is the party’s gains in down-ballot local state house races that may have created the most lasting protection for the GOP‘s new majority in the House of Representatives. Once every decade, state legislators begin the ...
  • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • EPA issues subpoena after Halliburton refuses to d ...
    The EPA said it issued the subpoena after Texas-based Halliburton refused to voluntarily disclose the a description of the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, a drilling practice that has been at the center of a controversy in the DFW area.  Halliburton was ...

Unexplained Mysteries

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

  • Climate Science "Under-Reported" at 2009 U.N. Summ ...
    Source:� Reuters Less than 10 percent of the articles written about last year's Copenhagen climate summit dealt primarily with the science of climate change, a study showed on Monday.
  • China Cites Pollution for Rare-Earth Policy
    Source:� Wall Street Journal Chinese officials are signaling greater efforts to tie the export of rare-earth metals to tougher environmental standards, suggesting worries over supplies of the critical elements could continue.
  • China's Ecological Footprint Continues to Grow
    Source:� AFP The spread of consumerism among China's burgeoning middle class is behind the rapid growth of the Asian giant's environmental footprint, a conservation group said Monday. �
  • BP Has Reimbursed $518 Million to U.S. for Oil-Spi ...
    Source:� Washington Post BP has reimbursed the federal governmentt $518 million for cleanup costs for the oil spill in the Gulf, congressional auditors said, but those costs have already hit $581 million and are still growing. re ...
  • Miners to Drill Under Sydney for Gas
    Source:� AFP Miners will drill under central Sydney hoping to strike what is believed to be a vast natural gas reserve the government on Sunday said could reduce the Australian city's carbon footprint.

GreenBiz

  • FirstCarbon Solutions Moves Beyond CO2 with Energy ...
    Greenhouse gas software and services firm FirstCarbon Solutions launched a subsidiary last week to help companies meet their broader energy and sustainability needs.
  • 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.

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

  • Dealing With Republicans
    Anne Kornblut has a piece up at the Washington Post on how the White House plans to proceed. Here's one part of it that might be of some interest to you. The president's advisers hope that a series of upcoming personnel moves - coming as outside critics call for a White House shake-up - will put ...
  • Play With This Toy
    Yes, you can solve the deficit problem , and you don't have to touch Social Security to do it. You don't have to charge admission to the Smithsonian museums to do it. You don't have to defund NPR and PBS to do it. You don't have to slash veteran's health benefits to do it. See for yourself. Di ...
  • Casual Observation
    I'm kind of tired of listening to Hamid Karzai complain about U.S. troops in his country. Any other Afghan I would understand, but Karzai is the main beneficiary of our presence there and he'd be the first person to die without our cloak of protection. I hope we take his advice though. Discuss ...
  • What Really Matters
    The National Security Archive is in the news because they forced the issue of the U.S. sheltering of Nazi war criminals into the open, eventually leading someone to leak the full unredacted report to the New York Times . But that story doesn't actually have much new information. We've known for a ...
  • Blue Dogs Don't Get Why They Lost
    It's kind of amazing that the New York Times can write an article about Heath Shuler and the Blue Dogs without ever trying to analyze why so many of them lost. Shuler actually won reelection, but he doesn't seem to know why. Its no different than me as a quarterback, he said in an interview here ...

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

  • STOP: Another One Hundred Years of Fossil–Digging ...
    CounterCurrents.org STOP: Another One Hundred Years of Fossil�Digging In North America? CounterCurrents.org That coal is also on or near the surface of the land, meaning the development will be mountaintop removal , not unlike the devastation that has been taking ... and more��
  • Campaign shows effects of poor environmental pract ...
    Campaign shows effects of poor environmental practices OHIOU The Post Its latest project concerns the effects of mountaintop removal and coal exploitation, which it says is particularly prevalent in Appalachia. ...
  • Radio Show: Coal Mining and Mountaintop Removal, P ...
    Radio Show: Coal Mining and Mountaintop Removal , Protesting Through Song, and ... Mother Earth News ... deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, who find themselves immersed in a battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coalmine. ... Mountaintop Removal Roadshow comes to AB Tech No ...
  • Educators gather for fun, fellowship - Bluefield D ...
    Educators gather for fun, fellowship Bluefield Daily Telegraph PNC Bank has announced it will stop financing projects that extract coal by surface mining known as mountaintop removal . The Pittsburgh-based company backed ...
  • Mountaintop Removal activist wins $50000 prize - E ...
    Mountaintop Removal activist wins $50000 prize Examiner.com Bo Webb, of Whitesville, who is a mountaintop removal activist has won a $50000 prize for his work protecting communities affected by the coal industry. ... Radio Show: Coal Mining and Mountaintop Removal , Protesting Through Song, and ... ...

Memeorandum

  • Open Letter to Ben Bernanke (Niall Ferguson/Real T ...
    Niall Ferguson / Real Time Economics : Open Letter to Ben Bernanke   —  The following is the text of an open letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signed by several economists, along with investors and political strategists, most of them close to Republicans:  —  We believe the Federal Re ...
  • 'Don't ask, don't tell' presents dilemma for Dems ...
    Roxana Tiron / The Hill : 'Don't ask, don't tell' presents dilemma for Dems in passing defense bill   —  The need to shepherd the defense authorization bill through the Senate in the lame-duck session has left the Democratic leadership with a precarious dilemma.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Rei ...
  • Charlie Rangel walks out of ethics trial (John Bre ...
    John Bresnahan / The Politico : Charlie Rangel walks out of ethics trial   —  Complaining bitterly that he was denied the right to have an attorney present, an emotional Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) walked out of his highly publicized public ethics trial Monday morning, an unexpected twist in the ...
  • Vicious Infighting at NBC News (Howard Kurtz/The D ...
    Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast : Vicious Infighting at NBC News   —  MSNBC's president vowed to fire Keith Olbermann after he threatened to take his case to other networks.  Howard Kurtz on the civil war that has NBC brass—and his own staff—fuming.  —  Keith Olbermann was having dinner with his ma ...
  • Westboro protesters face jeers and slashed tires ( ...
    Manny Gamallo / Tulsa World : Westboro protesters face jeers and slashed tires   —  Related Story: McAlester soldier mourned  —  McALESTER - Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.  —  Shortly after finishing their protest ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Fragile adaptation in Ladakh
    Destructive floods have led farmers to question their ability to survive in the arid reaches of the Himalayas. Arthar Parvaiz reports from north-west India. The devastating flood that struck the normally arid desert of Ladakh , north-west India, in August has multiplied t he worries of local farmers ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • Ireland faces debt crisis talks, may seek bank aid
    DUBLIN/VIENNA (Reuters) - Aid would be available for Ireland's banking sector or the state itself, a top European policymaker said on Monday after a report suggested Dublin could seek money for its stricken banks from an EU emergency fund.
  • UPDATE 1-German stance may push nations to bankrup ...
    * Warns tough stance could bankrupt some euro zone countries
  • Wall Street rises on M&A, retail sales
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock indexes rose at the open on Monday after a pair of proposed multibillion dollar acquisitions and strong October retail sales offset a weak reading on New York manufacturing.
  • Dollar lifted by higher Treasury yields
    LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar index hit a six-week high on Monday, boosted by a rise in U.S. Treasury yields that heightened the appeal of U.S. assets, while the euro was stung as Ireland's debt problems shook confidence in the euro zone.
  • Irish fears ease, stocks mixed
    London (Reuters) - European shares shrugged off early losses and Wall Street look set to open higher on Monday as investors anticipated Ireland would seek help to manage its debts, easing fears about the stability of the euro zone.

IntelNews

  • Israel intelligence source warns of West Bank coll ...
    A senior source inside Israelâs intelligence community has warned that the continuing building of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories could cause the rapid collapse of the Fatah government in the West Bank. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #451 (history edition)
    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 →
  • News you may have missed #450
    Nuke bomb material found in Georgia black market. CIA Director warns against leaks. US issues new unclassified information policy. Continue reading →
  • Scandinavians launch probes into US spying activit ...
    Norway, Sweden and Denmark have launched official investigations into media reports that accuse US embassies in Scandinavian countries of operating illegal intelligence gathering networks. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • The Manchurian Candidate Gives Out a Medal of Hono ...
    John Grant Sergeant Salvatore Giunta will receive a Congressional Medal of Honor this week for bravery under fire in October 2007. At great risk, he assaulted a hill and rescued a gravely wounded comrade being dragged away by an insurgent. He will be the first living soldier to receive the medal sin ...
  • "War Is A Lie" to Be Published November 22nd
    For Immediate Release November 15, 2010 Contact: david@davidswanson.org David Swanson, author of "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union," which rose to #1 among nonfiction books on Amazon.com the day it was published, will publish a new book called "War Is A ...
  • EU 'failing' over CIA renditions
    Amnesty says EU 'failing' over CIA renditions 15 November 2010 - Amnesty International has accused the EU of failing to hold its members to account for their role in the detention of terrorism suspects by the CIA. It calls for European governments to ensure justice for suspects who were interrogated ...
  • Toadying to bush
    Why this toadying to Bush the bungler? {Lest we forget: George W. Bush is responsible for dragging us into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan} 15th November 2010 - As we mourned the dead of two world wars and more recent conflicts, our Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards said the ‘war on ...
  • Censoring Nazi-Hunting History
    Trying to hide our history by protecting elected or appointed government officials, and possibly even citizens, is not what a representative democracy should be. Doing so leads to being that which we condemn others for! History repeats if not learned and the rhetoric here lately, by certain groups, ...

Grist - News

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

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Washington Independent

  • Despite the odds, unions and environmentalists con ...
    A prominent coalition of unions and environmentalists called today for passage of a renewable energy standard during the lame-duck session, but offered few specifics about the likelihood that such a proposal will actually come up for a vote. The Blue Green Alliance — which includes among its members ...
  • Utah conservative groups, leaders commit to modera ...
    Conservatives in Utah signed a pact last week promising to push for a moderate approach to immigration reform as a state lawmaker works on an Arizona-style immigration enforcement bill for the next session. The “Utah Compact” commits politicians and reform supporters to five broad priorities for imm ...
  • Number of GOP senators committed to voting against ...
    With the pressure mounting before the vote on earmarks in tomorrow’s Republican Conference meeting, a growing number of senators are coming out with statements in favor of Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposed moratorium on the practice. The group Taxpayers Against Earmarks has launched a feature on i ...
  • Rangel ties up ethics trial proceedings
    Well, that was quick. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) is holding up proceedings with the argument that he be entitled to counsel. He just asked to withdraw from the proceedings, but before he could, Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) had made a “motion to continue,” effectively questioning whether the tr ...
  • The business case against E-Verify (and immigratio ...
    The Obama administration says it has stepped up immigration enforcement at workplaces through quiet audits of company personnel paperwork to catch a record number of employers who hire illegal workers. Advocates of E-Verify, a program that checks the immigration status of workers before or after the ...

Digg Green

  • Why Family Medical History Trumps DNA Testing ...
    Two important reasons. The simplest is that many of the studies linking a gene variant to one or another disease are incorrect at worst and useless at best. The more interesting reason to rely on your family medical history is that genes do not act in a vacuum. Those realizations have now promp ...
  • Energy: With Peak-Oil Passed, It Is Time For ...
    The World Energy Outlook report 2010 was released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on November 9th. The implications for the future of our planet are grim and stark unless some urgent and concerted actions are taken.
  • Gorgeous Aerial PIC of African Elephant Migra ...
  • How America's 50 Largest Cities Rate on EV Re ...
    The question is no longer whether electric vehicles are coming, but "How fast?" and "Where first?" In a recently published report, 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. How does your city fare?
  • Oil will run dry before substitutes roll out ...
    At the current pace of research and development, global oil will run out 90 years before replacement technologies are ready, says a new University of California, Davis, study based on stock market expectations.

Invisible Opportunity

  • What In The World Are They Spraying?
    By Michael J. Murphy 03 March, 2010 Countercurrents.org What would you say if you were told that airplanes were regularly spraying toxic aerosols in the skies above every major region of the world? That is exactly what a group of protestors were claiming outside of the annual American Association fo ...
  • Video – What in the world are they spraying?
    2 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 3 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 4 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 5 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 6 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 7 of 7 What in [...]
  • World Battles The Invasion Of The Naked Body Scann ...
    By Steve Watson People from all walks of life are rejecting the mass implementation of radiation spewing airport body imaging machines and fighting back against the molestation and groping that women and children are being subjected to at the hands of TSA officials. As we have detailed throughout th ...
  • Guess who ordered nude body scanners
    By Bob Unruh A constitutional attorney preparing to legally challenge the Transportation Security Administration’s enhanced screening procedures â which reveal a virtually nude image of passengers â says airline passengers have Barack Obama to thank for the process. “Legislation has been proposed to ...
  • Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion
    Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports. What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Gro ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • 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

  • Researchers Make Graphene Out of Ordinary Table Su ...
    The manufacturing industry is always looking for new sustainable materials to build from. So far, they have looked into building homes from straw, fruit peel and even books. Now, a team at Rice University believes they can even make a building material from sugar! Read the rest of Researchers Make ...
  • Taiwan Tower: Super Slim Greenery Clad Twin Skycra ...
    Read the rest of Taiwan Tower: Super Slim Greenery Clad Twin Skycrapershttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", ...
  • Amazing Brick Machine Rolls Out Roads Like Carpet
    Brick roads are beautiful and durable, but we don’t see them too often due to the effort it takes to produce them. What once was a labor-intensive, back-breaking job has now become a snap with this automatic Dutch paver laying machine, called the Tiger-Stone. The device rolls out a beautiful and sus ...
  • ANNOUNCING the Inhabitat Green Halloween Contest W ...
    DRUMROLL PLEASE… You came, you crafted, you voted, and now we have a grand prize winner for this year’s Green Halloween Costume Contest! After narrowing down what seemed like and endless number of awesome homemade Halloween costumes to just 18 finalists, we left if up to you readers to decide which ...
  • Our Top 9 Green Style Essentials for Guys this Fal ...
    Looking for a way to step up your style game this fall? Well, look no further because we’ve rounded up 9 very fine, very green picks able to transform your wardrobe from ” WTF?” to “Wowzas!” From classic frost-battling essentials that are built to last, to versatile and structured coats that don’t ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mind-Blowing Brain Images From Then and Now
    � Win a Free Copy of Portraits of the Mind Wired.com and publisher Abrams are teaming up to give away one free copy of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, retail $35. To enter the contest, share your thoughts on these images in the comments below. One ran ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Petraeus and Karzai
    Joshua Partlow and Karen DeYoung report that General David Petraeus is none too happy with Afghan President Hamid Karzai: General David H. Petraeus, the coalition military commander in Afghanistan, warned Afghan officials Sunday that President Hamid Karzai’s latest public criticism of U.S. strategy ...
  • Why Iraqi Parties Don't Trust Maliki: The Example ...
    Diyala Province ( Wikimedia) One of the reasons why it has taken so long to put together a new Iraqi government is because no one trusts Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. All of the major parties have accused him of autocratic tendencies and abusing his power. The premier’s use of th ...
  • McCain’s Call for Hearings, Pentagon’s Refusal to ...
    Politico’s Josh Gerstein points out that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) opposition to the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell study and his insistence on holding hearings on the matter will likely sink any remaining prospects of repealing the ban during the lame duck session. Unless the Pentagon releases th ...
  • Let's Just Make Afghanistan the 51st State and Cal ...
    Last week, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gave another in his series of "helpful" and instructive interviews criticizing the current US military strategy in Afghanistan. Every time he does this it's only further evidence of the disconnect between the Afghan government and the United States on lo ...
  • (Head of) State Secrets: Bush and Schroeder Differ ...
    As I've already noted , former President George W. Bush is apparently settling some scores in his new memoir. In Europe, his passages about former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are attracting a good deal of attention. According to press reports , Bush says Schroder was for the Iraq war before ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • On Not Creating Your Own Reality.
    By now it seems pretty certain that President Obama and congressional Democrats will cave to Republicans and extend all the Bush tax cuts, even for billionaires. After all, as David Axelrod recently said, "We have to take the world as we find it." Compare that to the Bush aide who told Ron Suskind, ...
  • The Long Arc of the Youth Vote.
    Courtney Martin says that instead of drawing inspiration from political candidates, young people must be motivated by the promise of a country that reflects our deeply held values. Chalk it up to my old age (I'm staring down 31 next month), but it seems to me that counting on candidates to provide ...
  • More Uncertain Now Than Ever?
    Kevin Drum certainly does an admirable fisking of claims that "uncertainty" is driving the economic doldrums, thoroughly refuting the confusion that businesses apparently have about the future of government policy. The broader question about "uncertainty," though, is this: When has their ever been a ...
  • Too Big to Be Governed?
    Robert Kuttner says financial reform will fail if industry writes the rules. With its high-profile leader and easily understood mandate, the bureau is also likely to be an exception to the rule that implementing Dodd-Frank will be an arcane and obscure process dominated by insiders. On most fronts, ...
  • Pain or "Austerity" Need Not Apply.
    If you haven't already, you should head over to The New York Times ' website to try out their interactive " budget puzzle ." The calculator charges you with closing the budget gaps for 2015 and 2030, using a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. My plan was pretty straightforward; in the reverse ...

Buzzflash

  • In Alaska, Murkowski Camp Accuses Miller Of Making ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH "OK, so that alleged M is more of an N And the second letter looks like an O. The third appears to actually be a P. The next letter? We really don't know. An O? No way! That's clearly a Q. A W? C'mon? That has to be a V. Alright, alright, the next is an S but After that, ...
  • Desperation Row: Floyd Brown, Creator of the Infam ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH When you heard he was in Alaska trying to rally support for Joe Miller's fading chances at unseating incumbent Senator, Lisa Murkowski, you may have remembered that he was the "Willie Horton" guy. And, while you knew he would try to make some noise, ultimately, you ...
  • Message to Obama's "Deficit" Commission: We Need t ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH With national elections barely over, Republicans and Democrats unveiled their real political agenda, in the form of Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission. The bi-partisan commission has a nightmare vision for working people that, if implemented, will remold American soc ...
  • There Simply Aren't Enough Jobs to Employ Four out ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN It's deja vu all over again from earlier this year, with the Republicans once again seeking to cut off extended federal unemployment benefits. Without Congressional action, millions of Americans without jobs will have no financial support come ...
  • Scalia Declares He is Against the 17th Amendment ( ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN In a debate on November 12 in Texas between Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Antonin Scalia, Scalia once again claimed to be a fundamentalist (a so-called "strict constructionist") when it comes to the Constitution. He fashions himself sort o ...

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Sciencebase

  • Latest science snippets
    My latest science news updates New cancer treatment shows promise – An holistic and alternative approach to cancer treatment that isn't "alternative medicine" Pillbox – prototype pill identification system – Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Progressives Push Lame Duck Congress to Fly
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2010 Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and allies will hold vigils at congressional offices around the country on Wednesday, November 17, to press for action out of a lame duck Congress. read more
  • In New Report, Amnesty International Calls on Euro ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2010 Amnesty International - USA In its new report published today, Open secret: Mounting evidence of Europe's complicity in rendition and secret detention , Amnesty International reveals the latest details in the growing body of proof that European countries were ...
  • Deadly Pesticide Endosulfan Finally Banned in Unit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity today praised the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to finally ban endosulfan, a highly toxic pesticide that for decades has threatened rare wildlife species and been linked to severe hum ...
  • Growth of Ex-Offender Population in United States ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Three decades of harsh criminal justice policies have created a large population of ex-offenders that struggle in the labor market long after they have paid their debts to society, according to a new report from t ...
  • Medical Marijuana Advocates Bring Attention to DEA ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2010 Americans for Safe Access After more than two years as acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Michele Leonhart, who served as Deputy DEA Administrator during George W. Bush's presidency, is scheduled to be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary C ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Projecting Power or Promoting Peace: The Prophetic ...
    by Robert Jensen A version of this essay was delivered at the “People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute” event at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, on November 14, 2010. read more
  • White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fi ...
    by Michelle Chen “You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.” — 15 year-old child soldier read more
  • America's Eggshell Nukes
    by Harvey Wasserman The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made it clear that America's 104 licensed atomic power reactors are not accidents waiting to happen. They are accidents in progress . And proposals to build a "new generation" of reactors are not mere scams. They comprise a predict ...
  • G20 Trials and the War on Activism
    by Naomi Klein The following speech was made by Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein at the telethon held to raise funds the legal costs of G20 protesters. The telethon took place in Toronto on Nov. 11 and rabble.ca carried it live. It can be viewed here. read more
  • What Planet Are Deficit Hawks Living on?
    by Robert Kuttner To read the papers and watch TV news during the past week, you would think that the most dire problem afflicting Americans was the federal deficit in 2020 or 2030. But for most people, the crisis right now is lost income, lost jobs, lost homes. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Today In Afghan Security Theater: Karzai Calls For ...
    By Steve Hynd There's something not quite right going on when Afghan President Hamid Karzai is heavily quoted by Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post calling for a reduction in NATO's military footprint that everyone paying attention has known was on the cards anyway since at least January. You hav ...
  • Afghanistan Strategy: Desperately Seeking Every Wh ...
    By Steve Hynd Two news stories today show just how much "between a rock and a hard place" the U.S. and its allies are in Afghanistan. The first is from Canadian Press and reports that the "clear and hold" parts of COIN ops in Kandahar are failing. A security cordon set up around Kandahar city has fa ...
  • 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, ...

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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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on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: OFPP Issues Memo Requiring Analysis ...
    OFPP calls for Fed to contractor ratio analysis by Jason Miller [Federal News Radio] A Journey From Lawmaker to Lobbyist and Back Again by Eric Lipton [The New York Times] For Whistle-Blowers, Expanded Incentives by Edward Wyatt [The New York...
  • 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....

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Victory! HUD Prevents Domestic Violence Survivors ...
    Activists do a great job advocating for change. We should also pause to celebrate when change happens. Here's a great example of a victory on the fronts of homelessness and domestic violence. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced its plans for stronger affordable h ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • NATO’s upcoming summit
    NATO heads of state and government will meet in Lisbon on the 19th to the 21st of November. On the agenda: approval of a new Strategic Concept document for the Alliance, including a rewrite of NATO nuclear policy; a decision on European NATO missile defence; discussion of the war in Afghanistan; rel ...
  • How can we make the F-35 and Peace an election iss ...
    On Tuesday, November 16, Murray Dobbin, one of Canada’s most popular progressive political commentators will be discussing with you the need for new politics in Canada and how to make the F-35 and Peace an election issue. Tuesday, November 16 2010 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET (4:00 AT, 2:00 CT, 1:00 MT, 12 ...
  • Webcast & Conference Call: How to Make F-35 and Pe ...
    // // Join us in a live discussion with special guest Murray Dobbin, one of Canada’s most popular progressive political commentators and analysts. Learn more about the need for new politics in Canada and how to be successful in framing the F-35 and peace as an election issue. Canada-wide conference ...
  • Has Remembrance Day become a commemoration of war, ...
    Do you feel that Remembrance Day has become a commemoration of war, or does it remain a time to think about peace? Leave your comments below.
  • Refusing to acknowledge the costs of war
    A week-long series in the Toronto Star reveals some of the true cost of Canada’s war in Afghanistan. Friday’s article (Bruce Campion-Smith & Allan Woods, “Tories’ secret Afghan casualty list reveals intensity of combat,” Toronto Star, 5 November 2010) describes how the Conservative government and th ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Smiling Helps Prevent Aging, Wrinkles
    November 15th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson The old adage that it takes more muscle power to frown than to smile may finally be put to rest, at least in terms of how using those muscles affects the aging process. According to Heike Hoefler, a German fitness trainer, actively working facial ...
  • High Fructose Beverages Linked to Gout
    November 15th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson New research derived from the larger Nurses’ Health Study has found a new connection between drinking fructose-rich beverages like soda and developing joint arthritis. According to Dr. Hyon Choi and colleagues from Boston University, drinking high ...
  • Woman Finds Cancer Cure in Dairy-Free Diet
    November 15th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Eminent geologist Jane Plant is now promoting a dietary program for the treatment of cancer, saying that going dairy-free and eating cancer-protective foods helped cure her breast cancer where conventional Western medicine had failed. Plant was fi ...
  • Your Mattress is Loaded with Chemicals
    November 15th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez The average mattress is a cocktail of toxic substances, warns Barry Cik of Naturepedic, in an article published on www.GreenBiz.com. “My rude awakening came when my wife sent me to buy a crib mattress for our first grandchild,” Cik writes. “I was ...
  • Researchers Blame Nose For Body Weight
    November 15th, 2010 BBC News People who are overweight have a greater sense of smell for food, a study has found. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth say their early findings may go towards explaining why some people struggle to stay slim. Experts already know that part of the brain that p ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Tom Engelhardt: war to the horizon
    The stimulus package in Kabul By Tom Engelhardt You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn’t going to end, is it?  Not ever.  Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your “it” might be will indeed end, because everything does, but your gut tells you something ...
  • How much is a three-month settlement freeze really ...
    The offer of a free squadron of F-35 joint strike fighters is “an offer hard to refuse” a senior Israeli defense official tells the Jerusalem Post, but Aluf Benn suggests the Obama administration wants more than a brief extension of the settlement freeze in return. The goal is a coalition shake-up. ...
  • Iraq’s disappearing Christians are Bush and Blair’ ...
    William Dalrymple writes: When George W Bush sent the US into Iraq in 2003, he believed he would be replacing Saddam Hussein with a peaceful, pro-American Arab democracy that would naturally look to the Christian west for support. In reality, seven years on, it appears that he has instead created a ...
  • India’s sound advice on Iran
    Stephen Kinzer writes: This week in New Delhi, President Obama went further than any of his predecessors toward embracing India as an ally, and most Indians are thrilled by this warm treatment. This does not mean, however, that the two countries will align all of their foreign policies. In some are ...
  • Bush’s Decision Points is a terrifying journey int ...
    Anis Shivani writes: This would be less grim to talk about if Bush weren’t still with us. But he is, in every way that matters. The Bush Doctrine lives. No leading American politician can disavow the two key aspects of the Bush Doctrine: that we cannot distinguish terrorists from the countries wher ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Inconvenient eco bags – now with lead
    From the New York Times: Even Reusable Bags Carry Environmental Risk By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM They dangle from the arms of many New Yorkers, a nearly ubiquitous emblem of empathy with the environment: synthetic, reusable grocery bags, another must-have accessory … Continue reading →
  • A suggestion to Dr. James Hansen: go protest coal ...
    Over at the Air Vent, Jeff Id has a very interesting story, and in particular one graph that struck me as thought provoking. When I first saw it, these two stories immediately came to mind: Breaking: NASA GISS Dr. James … Continue reading →
  • Sea Ice News #29
    In sea ice news this week, Arctic sea ice continues its inexorable climb toward the summit, to be reached sometime in March 2011. At present the ice growth is tracking just below the rate of 2007, but it should also … Continue reading →
  • Fighting ice at the nano level – a promise for imp ...
    This is a really neat discovery. As we all know, ice is a big killer and safety hazard, especially on airplanes. This new material prevents supercooled droplets from freezing, sticking, and accumulating.- Anthony From Harvard: Breaking the ice before it … Continue reading →
  • Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 2 of 3)
    Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 2 of 3) Part 1 here Written by Geraldo Luís Lino, special to Climate Change Dispatch – cross posted at WUWT The second keyword for the long overdue reassessment of the climatic issues is knowledge, … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum by Chr ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 15, 2010 The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities tha ...
  • Ralph Nader: Corporate takeover of America
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ thomhartmann | November 09, 2010 http://www.thomhartmann.com Ralph Nader: Corporate takeover of America. Pt. 1 Ralph Nader: Corporate takeover of America. Pt. 2 see Ralph Nader: Corporate socialism controls American government A Recipe For Fascism by Chris Hedges ...
  • Larry Norman: Feed The Poor
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ OneWayRawk | April 24, 2010 This is from his album Tourniquet which came out in 2001—this was going to be his “return” to the music industry but after a tour through Britain…he had another heart attack…another struggle with his heart but as always Larry pulled th ...
  • Stories My Old Man Told Me by Daniel N. White
    by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 29, 2010 The old man was career military, Air Force, pilot, for 24 or so of the prime years of his life.  He went in the Army Air Forces during Deuce with the burning hard-on to be a fighter pilot, and instead spent the war years [...]
  • Pennsylvania to Become ‘Gasland’?
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | November 08, 2010 Standing on top of one of the world’s largest natural gas fields, some Pennsylvanians prepare to take on their new governor, the gas industry, the famous ‘Halliburton Loophole’, and Karl Rove in order to stop the drilling. For more ...

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

  • Mind-Blowing Brain Images From Then and Now
    � Win a Free Copy of Portraits of the Mind Wired.com and publisher Abrams are teaming up to give away one free copy of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, retail $35. To enter the contest, share your thoughts on these images in the comments below. One ran ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Peace Now wants to collaborate with Lieberman
    nlike the Peace Now Settlements Task Force, which has played an important role in documenting and exposing illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, the Tel Aviv leadership of Peace Now is reported to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Hanan Hever: The Demasking Law
    Lieberman reads the political map clearly and understands that the Zionist parties will not be able to stop the process of suppressing democracy for ethnicity... Netanyahu, it seems, won't be taking... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • New Yorkers, Come Out Tuesday to Protest the Hebro ...
    The Hebron Fund has scheduled the “Hebron Aid Flotilla,” a pleasure cruise to raise funds for illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Hebron, Palestine. PROTEST: Tuesday, November 16th, 5:30 – 7:00... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Haifa U. students protest ban on Israeli Arab MK w ...
    "No one can prevent me from going to a university and standing together with my constituency," Zuabi wrote in a letter to Yoav Lavee, the dean of students. "My participation in the event is part of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Peace Now wants to collaborate with Lieberman
    An extraordinary meeting, the first such meeting of the Lieberman era, took place some days ago at the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, when Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met behind... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Use of Omega-3 Does Not Appear to Reduce Recurrenc ...
    Although some data have suggested that omega-3 fatty acid supplements, such as from fish oil, may improve treatment of atrial fibrillation, a randomized trial with more than 600 patients finds that treatment with high-dose prescription omega-3 did not reduce the recurrence of atrial fibrillation ove ...
  • Biomarker May Be Able to Help Predict Risk of Hear ...
    Certain measures of the blood biomarker cardiac troponin T (cTnT), a cardiac-specific protein, using a highly sensitive test, are associated with the development of heart failure or cardiovascular death in older adults, according to a study that will appear in the December 8 issue of JAMA. The study ...
  • Common For Patients to Undergo Multiple Cardiac Im ...
    Multiple testing with the cardiac diagnostic imaging technique of myocardial perfusion imaging is common, and in many patients is associated with a high cumulative estimated radiation dose, according to a study in the November 17 issue of JAMA. The study is being released early online because it is ...
  • Bryant U., Brazilian University Sign Collaboration ...
    Bryant University and Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in teaching, research and community service.
  • Rivers, Fires, Storms on Jupiter, Oil, Mucus, and ...
    The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) takes place this month from November 21-23, 2010 at the Long Beach Convention Center, located in downtown Long Beach, California. The largest scientific conference of its type, the meeting brings togeth ...

Natural Health News

Antemedius

  • The US$200-Trillion Debt Which Cannot Be Named
    From The Daily Bell The scary real U.S. government debt ... Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government debt is not $13.5-trillion (U.S.), which is 60 percent of current gross domestic product, as global investors and American taxpayers think, but rather 14-fold higher: $200- ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Culture Clash! or, Scenes from a Separatist Cook-O ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Gotta say, even though I write about issues of self-determination, secession, and statehood, I didn’t expect to read this on the front page of the Arts and Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times: At a glance it looked like any small-town fair, with smoke waf ...
  • Google Maps to Blame for Nicaragua’s Invasion of C ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford “By no means should Google Maps be used as a reference to decide military actions between two countries.” That’s the official response from Google to news reports that Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica based on Google’s improper drawing of the border. Details from the ...
  • 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 ...
  • David Glazier on a New Piracy Decision, U.S. v. Ha ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by David Glazier, an Associate Professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. As Opinio Juris readers likely recall, there are two ongoing federal prosecutions in Norfolk, Virginia before different judges of Somali pirates who ...
  • One Bright Spot in the Election
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At least the war criminal lost: The basic facts are undisputed: on 15 April 2004 Ilario Pantano, then a second lieutenant with the US marines, stopped and detained two Iraqi men in a car near Falluja. The Iraqis were unarmed and the car found to be empty ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Hot Topic author embarrasses himself in public
    Nearly died laughing this afternoon when I stumbled across Hot Topic's Bryan Walker misleading New Zealand Herald readers about climate change in Kiribati. Bryan seems genuine, but essentially ignorant on climate issues....so I'll go with incompetence rather than malice as...
  • 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...

My Care2 Picks

  • Our two-tiered citizenship thats you on the bot ...
    Corporations are free to lobby against your interests � and to fire you if you fight back.GE, owners of MSNBC donated over $1.5 million politicians on both sides of the aisle. There may be more, but the Supreme Court recently ruled that we no longer have Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Go ...
  • CIA Document Calls For Using Afghan Women as Messe ...
    This classified CIA analysis from March outlines possible PR strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for a continued war in Afghanistan. Hat Tip http://open.salon.com/blog/will_burden Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mardi Tindal's 'Spirit Express' reaches Canadians
    Mardi Tindal Moderator of the United Church of Canada reaches out to grassroots communities, for their perspective concerning global climate change and environmental issues. Submitted by Kyle A. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Conversation from Blue Girl on Food
    BG is a political blogger, medical researcher and university instructor ( retired ) working for a lawyer in K.C. Missouri ( last I saw ) We've been online acquaintances for years: she routinely does clarifying of obscure facts Here are 2 posts together Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...
  • Signs of the Times
    Reworked Webpage with Best of the Web now and videos to come Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Taibbi: the Tea Party Moron Complex | Tea Party an ...
    Taibbi: the Tea Party Moron Complex | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet: "f American politics made any sense at all, we wouldn’t have two giant political parties of roughly equal size perpetually... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History
    Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History [National Security Archive-www.gwu.edu]Washington, D.C., November 13, 2010 - The Department of Justice censored dozens of pages of a candid history... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The Evidence Is Overwhelming: We Aren't Getting Ou ...
    The Evidence Is Overwhelming: We Aren't Getting Out of Afghanistan or Even Iraq | World | AlterNet: "Or what about word that our Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has officially declared the Obama... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Braun: Heroic N.J. teacher was sacrificed for poli ...
    Braun: Heroic N.J. teacher was sacrificed for political cause in hidden video | NJ.com: "Ploshnick, 38 and single, was unlucky enough to be hit on in an East Brunswick bar in August by a young guy... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Full-body scanners used on air passengers may dama ...
    Full-body scanners used on air passengers may damage human DNA: "(NaturalNews) In researching the biological effects of the millimeter wave scanners used for whole body imaging at airports,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Twin car bombs detonate near prison complex in nor ...
    ShareThis Twin car bombs detonate near prison complex in north Iraq, killing prison commander, bodyguard 15 Nov 2010 A prison commander and his body guard were killed on Monday when twin car bombs detonated outside a residential complex housing prison guards and staff in northern Iraq, officials sai ...
  • Taliban-linked activities kill 6 NATO soldiers in ...
    ShareThis Taliban-linked activities kill 6 NATO soldiers in single day 15 Nov 2010 Taliban-linked activities claimed the lives of six service members with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Sunday, proving the day as the deadliest one in the current month, the alliance co ...
  • National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body ...
    ShareThis National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body Scanners By Kim Zetter 12 Nov 2010 Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist [Brian Sodegren] 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. ...
  • Secret report: CIA created 'safe haven' for Nazis
    ShareThis Secret report: CIA created 'safe haven' for Nazis --Justice Department probe points to intelligence agency's involvement with Nazi émigrés after WWII despite being aware of their pasts . 14 Nov 2010 The Central Intelligence Agency created a "safe haven" in the United States for Nazis and t ...
  • 9/11 Family Group Releases TV Ad Calling for World ...
    ShareThis 9/11 Family Group Releases TV Ad Calling for World Trade Center Building 7 Investigation 02 Nov 2010�The NYC Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN) is launching a television ad campaign on Election Day in New York City calling for an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Ce ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Hot Topic author embarrasses himself in public
    Nearly died laughing this afternoon when I stumbled across Hot Topic's Bryan Walker misleading New Zealand Herald readers about climate change in Kiribati. Bryan seems genuine, but essentially ignorant on climate issues....so I'll go with incompetence rather than malice as...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • In any rational order, Lieberman would be a doorma ...
    Over the weekend Avigdor Lieberman said that the Golan Heights was part of Israel because the Sykes-Picot treaty (English-French-Russian agreement 1916) drawing a boundary line west of the Golan Heights was "imperialist" and "arbitrary." Here is Yossi Gurvitz at 972, taking "Homo Sovieticus" and "do ...
  • Foxman: American Jews should shut up about Israeli ...
    Abe Foxman in the Jerusalem Post. By the way, the one position he mentions the American Jewish community shutting up about is Jerusalem, which is the "supreme" issue, the "heart and soul" of the Jewish people. Even though he doesn't even live there, and could. Let's not forget that Partition, which ...
  • Fayyad plan: Eat, drink, go to the toilet and shut ...
    Novelist Robin Yassin-Kassab has a fine piece at Al Jazeera touring the political landscape of the West Bank and showing how remote is the possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state. I was struck particularly by the insult of the "economic peace" idea; Americans threw the tea over the gunwha ...
  • Israeli settlers have started building 1,649 homes ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers / Land, property, and resource theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingWatchdog: Israel started 1,650 new settler homes since freeze end (AFP) Jewish settlers have started building 1,649 homes since the end of a freeze in construction on 26 September, ...
  • Protest the Hebron Fund this Tuesday as they head ...
    From a press release sent out by protest organizers: Sixteen human rights groups are preparing to picket an annual New York City fundraising event that raises money for Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron.��Organizers say they will hold a silent protest at the entrance t ...

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

  • To Wish Upon a Star
    Monday 15 November 2010 One night during my recent walk to Mt. Everest there seemed to be a million stars.� And so the camera was pointed at the treacherous mountain known as Ama Dablam, or �mother�s necklace,� and at the stars above her shoulders.� The serious climbers consider this mountain more d ...
  • 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 Killing Train

  • Citation thoughts
    I spent some time looking at Yves Engler's "Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy" and "Canada and Israel" and noticed that he cites work in a non-standard way. Dawn Paley's recent review of the Black Book, posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op , describes it this way, and I agree: read more
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • Green Gift Monday is the New Black Friday
    Via: The Nature Conservancy Green Gift Monday blog. Black Friday is about crazy deals, waiting in line, excess spending, consumption, capitalism, you name it. Of course, there's nothing wrong with giving. But if you're going to give ('Tis the Season), why not give with your gut, your conscience? ...
  • "Fate of the World" Shifts Gamers' Focus Toward Ba ...
    Image via Fate of the World The mix of annihilation of the human race with solving problems against a whirring clock are key ingredients for a compelling video game. Rather than playing at war or bashing automobiles into brick walls, Fate of the World puts these elements of an interesting game ...
  • Make Today A Zero Waste Day
    The can, bottle and plastics manufacturers and their lobbyists want you to celebrate America Recycles Day today. But recycling isn't good enough anymore; we have to do better. Let's make today a Zero Waste Day: * Support a restaurant that has real mugs and china. * Support companies that hav ...
  • We Call It Transformer Furniture; Lester Walker Ca ...
    While looking for LifeEdited ideas in the July 1969 issue of Popular Science , what should pop up but this amazing bit of "turniture" - it is a bed, which turns into a small dining room table, a larger table for four, and even a discreet "tete-a-tete" couch. The 29 year old designer asks "why ...
  • Get the Facts on Uber-Polluting Koch Industries
    Image: Green Market Before last year, many had never heard of Koch Industries. Even though it's the second largest company in the US, and it rakes in nearly $100 billion every year, it's still something of an unknown entity to most Americans. And that's how company head David Koch prefers it -- ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Arizona voters approve medical marijuana law
    [JURIST] Arizona voters approved Proposition 203 [text, PDF], authorizing the possession of up to two-and-a-half ounces of medical marijuana [JURIST news archive], according to results released by the Arizona Secretary of State Saturday. The measure, voted on during the midterm elections earlier thi ...
  • Rights group praises Suu Kyi release, urges greate ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Saturday praised the release [press release] of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], but urged the Myanmar government to release all political prisoners still held. AI described Suu Kyi's release [ ...
  • Failure to release convicted Azeri journalist viol ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Saturday criticized the Azerbaijani Supreme Court [press release] for failing to order the release of imprisoned journalist Enyulla Fatullayev in violation of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website]. On Thursday ...
  • Myanmar officials release Suu Kyi
    [JURIST] The Myanmar Police Force [official website] on Saturday released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], ending her almost eight years under house arrest. Police left the area and a barbed-wire fence near her home was removed, allowing Suu Kyi to address su ...
  • US urges Hezbollah not to impede Lebanon tribunal
    [JURIST] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [official profile] has urged Hezbollah [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news archive] not to resort to violence [text] in an attempt to impede the investigation of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) [official website] into the 2005 murder of former Leba ...

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

  • Hey, MSM: What Are We, Chopped Liver?
    This post is a meditation on the relationship between blogs and the mainstream media in this narrow niche of the blogosphere related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.    What are we to them?  What are they to us?  Do we want to join ‘em?  Can we even if we wanted to?  Do we want them to [...] Re ...
  • Going Rate for Settlement Freeze: $3-Million a Day
    America is used to buying its way to quasi-peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and appears to be doing something similar by buying Israel’s acquiescence in a 90-day, partial settlement freeze.  The going price: $3.33-million a day for the entire 90 day process.  Now, we know what Hillary and Bibi were d ...
  • Tikun Olam Nominated for Brass Crescent Award
    I’m grateful once again for being nominated for a Brass Crescent award for best non-Muslim blog, which respects Islam and encourages dialogue with it. I never win these things and have no hope this time.  But I’d encourage you to visit the site not only to vote for me but to broaden your experience ...
  • After Deportation, Shyne Turns to Black-Hats for R ...
    Since the latter days of Meyer Lansky till now, Israel seems to embody in the minds of sinners, charlatans and other hypsters a place of redemption and moral repentance.  Most of us if we sin, find ways of repenting quietly, in private.  But there are others in this world, largely gangsters, celeb ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Federal Reserve(s) are (four) Dummies
    "The Federal Reserve isn't evil because they print our money and make us (the U.S. Taxpayers) pay interest on it. They are evil because, until October 2008, the Fed gave us a no-limit credit card that we used to buy houses, cars, RVs, TVs and DVDs--the "stuff" which, according to the GEO4, a massive ...
  • U.S. Government: Domestic Terrorist Public Enemy N ...
    A massive revelation must take place across America, and into other nations... truth regarding the financial greed and fraud under agencies such as the IRS, U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Department of Justice, and bogus "non-Federal" banking corporation such as the Federal Reserve...
  • G20 Bankers of the Year: Faking It
    The G20 Basel III argument is simple despite the complexities of global finance. Do you continue to borrow at high levels with little equity (7%) behind it? Or do you increase your safety net of assets (15%) to minimize potential losses? Many bankers in recent years blamed ordinary consumers for the ...
  • The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
    Universities stand as cowardly, mute and silent accomplices of the corporate state, taking corporate money and doing corporate bidding. And those with a conscience inside the walls of the university understand that tenure and promotion require them to remain silent.
  • This is America, We Don't Do What Makes Sense
    There are things we need to do in this country. But politically we are too timid and risk averse (Democrats) resistant and obstructionist (Republicans), divided, polarized and dysfunctional. In the face of this "official" ineptitude people are mad as hell incoherent and yelling "tea partiers" or pas ...

Switchboard

  • Hilarious video on gated community versus smart gr ...
    OK, this video is really funny.  Due credit to Jeff Speck and Ken Firestone for propagating it around urbanist Facebook circles, and to Andre Spino-Smith and JJ Kinsfather of the Buena Vista, Colorado development South Main , who are credited with putting it together.  Enjoy:    ...
  • In defeat of Prop. 23, we all came together
    As the Democratic daughter of a Republican father, I know firsthand that political parties don't matter when it comes to family. And the coalition that came together to defeat Proposition 23 in California was a bipartisan breath of fresh air. As the pundits tallied the winners and los ...
  • Environmental entertainment on CSI
    Want to combine your interest in environmental matters with your need for entertainment? Catch the latest episode of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation)�on CBS. The full episode can be watched over the internet.�The episode is called "Fracked." In between the fictional crimes�are some�seri ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Party of Disagreeing With Ideas They’ve ...
    Shorter Ross Douthat:   It’s truly inexplicable that many Democrats oppose a deficit “compromise” made between a conservative nominal Democrat and a conservative Republican that includes such longstanding liberal preferences as ending the EITC and slashing the top marginal tax rate to levels not s ...
  • MarkZism Redux: Tyranny or Transcendence?
    Some colleagues suggested my earlier blialogue with my husband about the socio-political implications of Facebook’s ever-changing architecture would be more entertaining in video format. Also, I was further galvanized to speak out about the perils of MarkZism when I learned on Saturday that someone ...
  • The Deficit! It’s All About Earmarks and To ...
    This is kind of fun, although obviously the most interesting decisions would fall outside or in between many of the presented choices. It would also be nice to have some options that allowed maintenance of a near-term deficit in return for closure of the long term. Here’s my plan, which manages to ...
  • Just To Be Clear
    There’s nothing remotely “libertarian” about the Tea Party or its favored representatives. Misogyny, though, they’re soaking in it. Related posts:Just To Be Clear Clear and Hold Let’s Be Clear… Related posts: Just To Be Clear Clear and Hold Let’s Be Clear…
  • A Win is a Win and What Not
    Well, that was, uh… decisive. Oregon winning time of possession is not normally a good thing, but the 9:25 drive to end the game was relatively impressive. Related posts:Civil War!!!!!! Go Beavs!!!!! #1 Related posts: Civil War!!!!!! Go Beavs!!!!! #1

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 ?

  • Under the Influence of Fracking?
    In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
  • Speaking Out on Water Issues
    Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...
  • 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 [.. ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • World Oil Supplies Have Already Peaked, Study says
    The International Energy Agency says that the world has already reached its peak oil production , a surprising conclusion that could have significant effects on future oil prices. In its annual report , the group suggests that production rates likely topped out at about 70 million barrels a day in ...
  • New Class of Insecticides Linked to Bird Declines, ...
    In a new book, a Dutch researcher says the introduction of a new class of insecticides two decades ago has led to a steady decline in bird species that rely on insects as their main source of food. Henk Tennekes, of the Experimental Toxicology Services in Zutphen, the Netherlands, says the widesprea ...
  • As Tigers Near Extinction, A Last-Ditch Strategy E ...
    In the past century, populations of wild tigers have plummeted from 100,000 to 3,500. Now the World Bank and conservationists have launched an eleventh-hour effort to save this great predator, focusing on reining in the black market for tiger parts and ending the destruction of tiger habitat. BY C ...
  • Wolves and Sharks Create Similar ‘Ecology of Fear’ ...
    A ripple-effect “ecology of fear” created by wolves and sharks in their respective ecosystems may be more similar than previously understood, according to a new study. After comparing the relationship between wolves and elk in Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. and tiger sharks and dugongs in Aus ...
  • China Turns to Biogas to Ease Impact of Factory Fa ...
    In China, millions of tons of waste from livestock farms are causing severe water pollution and massive emissions of methane. Now, some large livestock operators are turning to biogas fuel production in hopes of creating “ecological” factory farms. BY ELIZA BARCLAY

Red Ice Creations

  • Foundation X To Assist In UK Financial Reconstruct ...
    For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the e ...
  • Tarantulas help scientists break down human fear
    Scientists using tarantulas to unpick human fear have found that the brain responds differently to threats based on proximity, direction and how scary people expect something to be. Researchers from Cambridge, England used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI, to track brain activity in 20 ...
  • Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars
    But retired Apollo astronaut calls idea ’premature’ Invoking the spirit of "Star Trek" in a scholarly article entitled "To Boldly Go," two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way. They argue that it would be little different ...
  • Geraldo Rivera Does 911 Truth Segment About Buildi ...
    Geraldo Rivera Does 911 Truth Segment About Building 7 Video from: YouTube.com Ed Note: It’s hard to imagine that the mainstream media is now covering 9/11 Truth out of the goodness of their hearts. It would be wise to question the motivations of corporate and major defense contractor-owned media in ...
  • Climate funding may need taxes on flight tickets, ...
    Taxes on international flights, shipping and financial transactions, as well as a global carbon price of $20 to $25 may be key to annually mobilising $100 billion in climate funding by 2020, according to the United Nations high level advisory group on climate change financing which submitted its rep ...

Russia Today

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

  • Homeland Security Chief Asks “Patience” with Airpo ...
    “The nation’s Homeland Security chief asked for air travelers’ âcooperationâ and âpatienceâ with full-body scanning and pat downs this holiday season amid a growing public backlash that the airport tactics are intrusive.” (USA Today) Heck no! FEE Timely Classic “Big Brother Is Watching as Heâs Never ...
  • Obama Says U.S. Must Prepare to Compete Economical ...
    “President Obama returned from Asia on Sunday with a warning to Republican congressional leaders and the American public, saying the United States is âgoing to have to step up our gameâ to compete with the potent Asian economies he witnessed.” (Washington Post) The idea that the U.S. economy compete ...
  • Compromise Being Worked out on Tax Cuts
    “The White House and Republicans in Congress edged ever closer to a deal Sunday on at least a temporary extension of all of the George W. Bush-era tax breaks that are due to expire at the end of the year.” (Washington Times) The last people you should trust with the money are the politicians. FEE [. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
  • Rebellions of 1837
    The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In LOWER CANADA the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent FRENCH CANADIAN NATIONALISM . The French Canadian majority constituted the
  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle till receipts & their r ...
    We’ve had an email from Roger: I was wondering Have you ever featured Till receipts on your website, I work in a supermarket and at least once a day i ‘run out’ of till receipt paper and have to replace it, But i’m sure there is at least 10% of the paper still on the [...]
  • Recycling plastic bottles in the garden: reuse it ...
    Dani saw my mention of using a plastic bottle to make a resealable plastic bag last week and got in touch to say she finds ways to reuse the whole bottle in her gardening adventures. I use an old cereal bag and a bottle top to keep the seeds airtight / waterproof as well as [...]
  • Recycled into Jewellery – more beautiful ite ...
    With all the buy-stuff events coming up over the next couple of months – and because it’s generally wonderful and inspiring, I thought it was high time we had another look around the world of upcycled jewellery – the stuff people are making by reusing and recycling random things that would otherwise ...
  • Green Halloween: How can I reuse or recycle pumpki ...
    Continuing in our Green Halloween series ahead of the spooky day on Sunday… If you’re carving your own jack-o-lantern this weekend, you’ll end up with a whole load of pumpkin seeds. While there are varieties of pumpkin that both taste pretty good and grow to a lantern-friendly size, most shop-bought ...
  • 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 ...

Mondoweiss

  • In any rational order, Lieberman would be a doorma ...
    Over the weekend Avigdor Lieberman said that the Golan Heights was part of Israel because the Sykes-Picot treaty (English-French-Russian agreement 1916) drawing a boundary line west of the Golan Heights was "imperialist" and "arbitrary." Here is Yossi Gurvitz at 972, taking "Homo Sovieticus" and "do ...
  • Foxman: American Jews should shut up about Israeli ...
    Abe Foxman in the Jerusalem Post. By the way, the one position he mentions the American Jewish community shutting up about is Jerusalem, which is the "supreme" issue, the "heart and soul" of the Jewish people. Even though he doesn't even live there, and could. Let's not forget that Partition, which ...
  • Fayyad plan: Eat, drink, go to the toilet and shut ...
    Novelist Robin Yassin-Kassab has a fine piece at Al Jazeera touring the political landscape of the West Bank and showing how remote is the possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state. I was struck particularly by the insult of the "economic peace" idea; Americans threw the tea over the gunwha ...
  • Israeli settlers have started building 1,649 homes ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers / Land, property, and resource theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingWatchdog: Israel started 1,650 new settler homes since freeze end (AFP) Jewish settlers have started building 1,649 homes since the end of a freeze in construction on 26 September, ...
  • Protest the Hebron Fund this Tuesday as they head ...
    From a press release sent out by protest organizers: Sixteen human rights groups are preparing to picket an annual New York City fundraising event that raises money for Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron.��Organizers say they will hold a silent protest at the entrance t ...

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

  • The State Government Deconstructors
    The results of the mid-term election of 2010 will be written over the next two years. Can the Republicans really make good on their promise of fiscal discipline? A glimpse of our future federal budget may be seen in the fiscal actions (and inaction) of America’s governors. Most states are struggling ...
  • Building Sustainable Economies in West Africa – On ...
    Among farmers in western Africa, the passion for agriculture runs deep. Kwabena (Koby) Yeboah farms near the village of Gomoa Adumase about 45 minutes outside of Accra, Ghana in West Africa, driven by his focus and intent to succeed. Koby started farming five years ago at the age of 22. “I love th ...
  • 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- ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Man Made Half Million Dollars from Sale of Virtual ...
    Via: Forbes: Many people might balk at the idea of paying even a dollar for virtual cow in a game like Farmville. But Jon Jacobs has just sold a virtual space station heâs spent the past five years managing for a whopping $635,000 in total, making over half a million dollars. … In virtual life, [... ...
  • Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S.
    Not news, but… Via: New York Times: A secret history of the United States governmentâs Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a âsafe havenâ in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidd ...
  • McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    Via: Guardian: The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald’s and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has lear ...
  • Drug Expert Claims David Kelly Was Murdered
    Via: Daily Mail: Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdose of painkillers. This overdose was found by the original pathol ...
  • After Encounter with TSA, Man Decides Not to Fly, ...
    Via: Insert Title: At this point, I thought it was all over. I began to make my way to the stairs to exit the airport, when I was approached by another man in slacks and a sport coat. He was accompanied by the officer that had escorted me to the ticketing area and Mr. Silva. [...]

The Economic Collapse

  • 5 Dangers To Global Crops That Could Dramatically ...
    The world food situation is starting to get very, very tight.  Unprecedented heat and wildfires this summer in Russia and horrific flooding in Pakistan and China have been some of the primary reasons for the rapidly rising food prices we are now seeing around the globe.  In places s ...
  • 111 Obamacare Waivers And Counting – Can The ...
    In a stunning admission of just how job-killing and business-crushing the new health care law really is, the Obama administration has issued a staggering total of 111 Obamacare waivers (and counting) so far. The list of the dozens of companies and organizations that have been appro ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • The future of global agriculture (Earthscan)
    Read at : http://earthscan.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/earthscan/ijas/2010/00000008/00000004/art00001 The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture Source: International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Volume 8, Number 4, 2010 , pp. 219-236(18) Abstract: D ...
  • Struggling to deal with the impacts of climate cha ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91089 INDONESIA: Farmers lament the impact of La Niña TEGALEGA, 15 November 2010 (IRIN) – Indonesian farmers, who account for 57 percent of the countryâs poor, are increasingly struggling to deal with the impacts of climate change, … Continue r ...
  • Permaculture Magazine
    Read at : Facebook Permaculture Magazine The latest PM66 news is up on the website. For a look at the articles – from kitchen medicines you can make to building natural swimming pools - see http://www.permaculture.co.uk/index.html
  • Backyard gardening to eradicate extreme poverty an ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/11/14/value-of-backyard-farming-underscored-in-phippines/ Value of backyard farming underscored in Philippines http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/287649/value-backyard-farming-underscored Linked by Michael Levenston Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is a ...
  • Smallholder farmers and their rural communities ar ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2010/11/farming-as-business-not-mirage-but.html Farming as a business: not a mirage, but a reality By Moses Abukari, Daniela Cuneo and Roxanna Samii One of the highlights of 2010 West and Central Africa regional implementation workshops was the field trip. While ...

The Paper Trail

backofthebook.ca

  • Ambrose disappears Sisters in Spirit
    By Alison@Creekside Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons' new missing persons initiative entirely bypass Sisters In Spirit, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdered FN women and girls in the first place, but SIS can no longer use the SIS ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Survey: BofA, US Air among worst for customer ...
    Charlotte Business Journal Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 11:14am EST and are among two of the worst companies in the nation for customer service, according to Business Insider.com. US Airways (NYSE:LCC) operates its largest hub at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. BofA (NYSE:BAC) is b ...
  • Google urges US to challenge China Internet c ...
    WASHINGTON - Google Inc on Monday urged Western nations to challenge a growing list of Internet restrictions in China and around the world as a violation of global trade rules and to negotiate new trade deals to protect the free flow of online information. 'More than 40 governments now engage i ...
  • Colin Farrell to take Schwarzenegger role in ...
    Irish star of In Bruges and Alexander beats actors including Michael Fassbender to lead in update directed by Len Wiseman Lead parting ... Colin Farrell recording The Graham Norton Show last week. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA...
  • Petraeus: Wanting early U.S. exit could affec ...
    (CNN) -- In what may be one of the most significant breaches between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration, Gen. David Petraeus personally warned Afghan officials over the weekend the U.S.-Afghan partnership could be "untenable" if Karzai wants U.S. troops out of Afghanista ...
  • Smoking hot Keira Knightley caught sneaking a ...
    She's the beautiful British star who comports herself with sophistication and elegance in multi-million pound movies and high-end adverts for the likes of Chanel. But it seems Keira Knightley is just a normal person sometimes on a night out. The sought-after 25-year-old A-lister was indulging i ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Lawsuits scaring Australian doctors away: Study
    The latest study shows that Australian doctors are now so afraid of being sued by patients that one third are considering giving up medicine. The study looked at nearly 3,000 specialists, general practitioners and trainees. Alarmingly 32% are considering reducing their work hours and 40 per cent are ...
  • ADAPs with Waiting Lists
    NASTAD 3,811 individuals in 9 states*, as of November 11, 2010: Florida: 2,043 individuals Georgia: 672 individuals Iowa: 39 individuals Louisiana: 404 individuals** Montana: 10 individuals North Carolina: 66 individuals Ohio: 328 individuals Rhode Island: 10 individuals South Caro ...
  • Myanmar: MSF Calls For Increased Response To Cyclo ...
    More than two weeks after Cyclone Giri struck the west coast of Myanmar, the emergency response is insufficient to meet people's needs. The October 22 cyclone caused massive destruction in villages east and south of Sittwe, Rakhine State. At least 81,000 people are homeless and 40,000 acres of agric ...
  • Heart break fatal: Study
    In the latest research scientists have found that it is really possible to die of a broken heart. The study shows that the immense grief of losing a loved one means that many people die within three years of their husband or wife.
  • Global Top 10 Drug Discovery Technologies Market T ...
    The 'Top 10 drug discovery technologies strategic analysis and global forecasts (2010 to 2015)' analyzes the top 10 drug discovery technologies with respect to market drivers, opportunities and trends in the diverse geographical regions including North America, Europe, Asia and rest of the world. Br ...

Common Dreams

  • Death Toll From Cholera in Haiti Reaches 900
    Health Ministry officials reported more than 120 new deaths since the previous toll, as authorities and international aid agencies struggled to contain the latest crisis afflicting the desperately poor Caribbean nation. Nearly one month after cholera took hold, the confirmed fatalities rose to 917, ...
  • No Let-Up in Afghan Violence Ahead of NATO Summit
    KABUL - Nine security guards were killed and a Taliban rocket attack on a military base destroyed six armoured vehicles in Afghanistan on Monday, after another deadly weekend for foreign forces and civilians. Insurgent violence showed no sign of letting up in the build up to a key NATO summit, where ...
  • None Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A World Without ...
    by Kate Ravilious Scanning the sky with his binoculars, he searches carefully for any sign of movement: the steady beat of a blackbird's wings, the fluttering of a flock of starlings. It has been a week now since he saw the starlings: just four of them flitting from tree to tree, feasting on the aut ...
  • Amnesty Says EU 'Failing' Over CIA Renditions
    Amnesty International has accused the EU of failing to hold its members to account for their role in the detention of terrorism suspects by the CIA. It calls for European governments to ensure justice for suspects who were interrogated under the programme known as extraordinary rendition. Countries ...
  • Consider Smaller Afghan Force: US Panel
    WASHINGTON - Influential US experts on Friday painted a grim picture of the Afghanistan war, calling on President Barack Obama to consider scaling back the military mission without signs of progress. The task force of the Council on Foreign Relations largely backed the Obama administration's plan of ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

  • In Mumia case, judges argue penalty and sidestep j ...
    Mary Shaw On November 9, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia heard arguments on whether Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pennsylvania's most famous death row inmate, should have his original death sentence reinstated or serve life in prison without parole. Abu-Jamal had been convicted and sentenced ...
  • American Style Free Trade
    by Stephen Lendman Agreements like NAFTA, DR-CAFTA, and various bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) have proved hugely destructive, superseding national laws, sovereignty, labor rights, environmental concerns, and more. "There's no free collective bargaining for workers," says Ralph Nader. ...
  • Obama to Switch Party
    Michael Collins (Satire) (Washington) President Barack Obama has confided his plans to become a registered Republican some time before the end of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. Speaking to his inner circle, he lamented failing to bring the two major parties together. One of his ...
  • TSA promises $10,000 fine for refusing sexual assa ...
    By Rady Ananda At the San Diego International Airport yesterday, about one-fifth of the travelers were selected for sexual assault by transportation security agents. Though TSA’s website did not list SAN as one of the airports employing the carcinogenic naked scan or a full body rub down, one man w ...
  • The Large Hadron Collider and the Statue at CERN
    http://begoodstewardsofmotherearth.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/the-large-hadron-collider-and-the-statue-at-cern/ by Dr. Tom Termotto Can there be a coincidence that the statue at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is none other than Shiva Nataraja – the dancing Shiva, also known as the ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
    New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article .
  • Let's Do Something About Poverty!
    The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty! , in order to encourage ...
  • The growing gap and the problem of recession
    Bruce Livesey writes a blog in the Progressive Economics Forum showing the link between worsening income inequality and the threat of a Great Recession that could 'go on indefinitely'. Read the blog here.
  • Does Canada really have a debt and deficit problem ...
    A new CCPA study examines Canada's debt and deficit and finds that debt in Canada—even after two years of stimulus—is still at very low levels compared to other countries, and compared to the mid-1990s. Big Train Coming: Does Canada Really Have a Deficit and Debt Problem? says a sharp turn to spe ...
  • Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
    A new report by the CCPA and the Rideau Instittute says the planned purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets is the result of a ‘pilot error’ by the Canadian government. Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada carefully examines all of Canada’s current and future security requ ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Wind Farming Is Bad?
    Protesters arrested at Lincoln windfarm | The Sentinel The arrests came as roughly three dozen protesters gathered at the entrance to the project site, shortly before 8 a.m. The action was part of a rally planned by citizen groups opposed to the project on Rollins Mountain, as well as other large-sc ...
  • Obama Comes Home
    Obama arrives home to new reality | Politico The trip began with policy successes and a glowing reception, welcome respite for a president fresh off of a stinging political defeat. But the terrain got thornier as Barack Obama made his way across Asia. Dancing with schoolchildren in Mumbai and reconn ...
  • Troops Don’t Care About Repealing “Don ...
    Pentagon Study Finds Minimal Risk in Ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ | ABC A forthcoming Pentagon study on the impact of repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” will reportedly show that most service members wouldn’t care if they had to live and work alongside openly gay and lesbian peers. Seventy-percent ...
  • The Top 1% Want It All
    Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? | The New York Times On last Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” Obama was already wobbling toward another “compromise” in which he does most of the compromising. It’s a measure of how far he’s off his game now that a leader who once had the audacity to speak at length on [... ...
  • They Blinded US With Science
    Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says | The New York Times A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it de ...

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

  • The disingenuous advice of Fox News Democrats
    The days and weeks that follow a decisive election like the one we just witnessed are a haven for hyperbole and hysterical overreactions and misinterpretations.
  • Obama yet to legally justify drone attacks
    One of the most intriguing issues I came across last week in writing an overview of the ever-expanding American military involvement in Yemen was the question of legality.
  • Axelrod: No 'permanent' tax cuts for rich
    A top adviser to President Barack Obama says the White House objects to "permanent" tax cuts for the wealthy but is silent on the possibility of extending current tax rates for the short term.
  • Obama's toughest task: Make us believe again
    In 2008, candidate Barack Obama fashioned an appeal to independent voters and young adults based in large part not on specific policy pledges but on his promise to end the culture of hyper-partisan hyper-bickering that was poisoning the country's political well.
  • Democrats and the rule of law
    (updated below -�Update II)

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

EU Times

  • Still-defiant Times Square bomber gets life senten ...
    The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims. “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun,” Faisal Shahzad ...
  • Israel expels Nobel peace laureate over Gaza prote ...
    Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who tried to break Gaza blockade, loses appeal against deportation. Israel today expelled an Irish Nobel peace laureate and pro-Palestinian activist who was barred from the country for trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza. Máiread Corrigan Maguire was placed on an ear ...
  • Japan may buy U.S. drones
    Spy planes sought amid regional rise in tensions. The Defense Ministry is looking to buy three Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft from the United States to deal with China’s militarization and North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Self-Defense Force and ministry sources said Sunday. ...
  • Chavez goes to war against Uncle Sam
    Plans to nationalise the Vestey meat empire’s Venezuelan estates are a blow to one of the UK’s richest families. In 1903, two entrepreneurial Liverpudlian brothers arrived in Caracas determined to add to their burgeoning empire of foreign food producers by buying Venezuelan cattle ranches. Over the ...
  • Satellite image shows activity at North Korea&#821 ...
    North Korea continues to keep the experts guessing. Last week, it promoted the third son of its current leader, Kim Jong Il, prompting speculation that he is on track to succeed his father. And now, apparently, it has commissioned construction activity at the site where it used to produce plutonium ...

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

  • Is Facebook Launching Gmail Killer Today?
    Rumor has it that Facebook is launching a Gmail Killer. Codenamed “Project Titan,” this won’t be your standard Facebook messages with something like POP tacked on, but a complete rethink of your email inbox. The invites sent out for today’s event hint strongly at something related to mail or messag ...
  • Jessica Simpson’s Engaged!
    Congratulations are in order for J essica Simpson . She’s engaged ! She’s been dating her boyfriend, now fiance, NFL’er  Eric Johnson for six months now, and it’s been a non-stop love fest for the two. We’re really happy for you J.Simp! And the timing seems like a happy coinkidink too considering h ...
  • Open Letter to Ben Bernanke
    The following is the text of an open letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signed by several economists, most of them close to Republicans: (We could list the signatories if you want) We believe the Federal Reserve’s large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called “quantitative easing”) should ...
  • Final from suddenly silent Heinz Field: Patriots 3 ...
    Any worries about how the Patriots would respond to the humbling loss last week exited early. Any worries about a late comeback by the Steelers exited a little later… around the time safety James Sanders was crossing the goal line with a pick-6. Big-time environment. Big-time opponent. Big-time win ...
  • Mel Gibson Admits To Slapping Oksana Grigorieva In ...
    Well, this story just doesn’t want to go away, does it? According to TMZ , Mel Gibson has apparently admitted to slapping Oksana Grigorieva in a court document. The actor said the pair were fighting while Oksana was holding Lucia. The singer then got “hysterical” and screamed: “Stop yelling or you ...

Groklaw

  • Facebook Makes Good on Threat to Sue Lamebook
    Facebook Inc. has filed [PDF] a trademark infringement suit against Lamebook, which mocks the funny and "lame" things people post on Facebook, in federal court in San Jose. - Legal Pad
  • Microsoft opens new competitive fronts with cloud- ...
    Microsoft has, to some extent, downplayed the new capabilities, saying the cloud-based Windows Server - which goes under the name Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role - is primarily an on-ramp to port some applications to the Azure cloud. "What they really want is people using Azure," MacDonald says. ...
  • Passlogix Sued for Misappropriation and Breach of ...
    Passlogix Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation (ORCL), is being sued by 2FA Technology for misappropriation and breach of contract. ... In the lawsuit, 2FA specifically alleges that Passlogix's senior engineers accessed 2FA's source code with the intent of incorporating 2FA's trade ...
  • Apple Backs Java Under Oracle
    Apple and Oracle on Friday said that Apple will contribute code for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X through the OpenJDK project. - Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
  • Hurd Says Oracle Job More Attractive Than Other Of ...
    Oracle's strong intellectual property was also a draw. "It is the IP that truly attracted me," he said. [PJ: Uh oh.] - Nancy Gohring, PCWorld

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • On the protests in Europe and the lack of them her ...
    At this point, my best guess is that when push comes to shove in Europe, the left will actually win in most nations. They aren’t wimps, they are willing to fight, they are willing to clash hard with the cops and they are willing to directly attack the interests of the ruling class. Unlike in [...]
  • Cellulosic ethanol questioned, government report
    A Department of Agriculture reports suggests that after two decades of research into cellulosic ethanol with no technical breakthroughs, that algae biofuel and oil crops should get the funding. One problem with cellulosic is the logistics in getting hundreds of tons of agricultural waste (or crops g ...
  • Algae biofuel. Major breakthrough quadruples outpu ...
    A Montana State grad student looked at 20 year old algae biofuel research, experimented with it, and devised a way to double the amount of oil produced in half the time – a 4x increase. The secret is adding baking soda, just the right amount at just the right time.
  • Foreclosure fraud rampant. Where is Rule of Law?
    Fraudulent notary seal used by foreclosure mill in Georgia. Video from WSBT who discovered the bogus seal. Via 4closurefraud Depositions by three robo-signers in Florida showed them to be seemingly clueless about what they were doing. Yes, it’s always better to appear stupid than culpable. Ritholz h ...
  • On Obama’s passivity and lack of fight
    William Greider A friend and longtime warrior for liberal reforms described what unfolded in harsh but accurate terms: “First he was rolled by the bankers, then he was rolled by the generals, then he was rolled by the Blue Dogs and other Democrats who had no interest in going along with what he prop ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Virginians standing up to Cantor!
    A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...
  • The U.S., Congress, and the world in 2010
    I was at a meeting in Washington on Thursday where we were discussing the effects that the democrats' drubbing in the November 2 mid-terms could be expected to have on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process". Most of the participants were understandably glum. (This was just after the news ...
  • Laila El-Haddad and Josh Foust books: on Amazon!
    It has been a crazy and wonderful week! We launched Josh Foust's book Afghanistan Journal on Tuesday. Just prior to that, both his book and Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between went up for sale on Amazon. I've been completing the work on the hardcover ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Raising Other People’s Kids
    Filipina women speak out against exploitation under the Live-In Caregiver Program Jocelyn Vergabera’s high cheekbones swell as her lips pull back in a disarming smile. She’s preparing coffee for some of her regulars as they chat to her in Arab ...
  • The Ottawa Protocol: Direct Threat to Campus Free ...
    By Bahtman and Terry Greenberg On Nov. 8-9, 2010, the Inter-parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (ICCA), met in Ottawa and released the Ottawa Protocol, which builds on the foundations of its founding London Declaration in February ...
  • Activists demand end to homophobic violence
    Hate crimes based on sexual orientation increased in 2008: StatsCan Activists committed to eliminating homophobic violence huddled over candles at the Human Rights Monument in downtown Ottawa before marching to Parliament on October 21.� The c ...
  • "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 ...

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

  • Extraordinary Life
    Here’s a little something to inspire your week.
  • This Financial Catastrophe Can Destroy Your Future ...
    We could be facing the worst economic times in recorded American history -- worse than the Great Depression. Many of the�signs are already all around you. All you�have to do is look... Price increases have already begun hitting�America's supermarkets and restaurants. Foods such as milk, beef, coffe ...
  • 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

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival wins Hollywood award for tribal rights fi ...
    'Mine' has been viewed by over 650,000 people worldwide. © Survival Survival International’s film ‘Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain’ has won the award for ‘Best Short’ in the category of International Human Rights at the Artivist Film Festival to be held in Hollywood. ‘Mine’, narrated by Briti ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Quebec should hedge its bets online
    Quebec is going ahead with its venture into cash-rich Internet gambling, despite warnings that this could increase the number of problem gamblers, a group Quebec seems so far unable to protect from themselves.
  • This is no time to forget Haiti
    What shows no sign of passing is the devastation that has crippled Haiti since the earthquake, and the squalor which was daily life for many even before the quake. Aid groups, already working desperately to contain a deadly cholera outbreak, spent this week racing to be ready to cope with th ...
  • PM's new chief of staff needs to cut business ties
    Nigel Wright is a Bay Street titan. As one of the managing directors of Onex, a private equity fund, he built an admirable career with a strong company. He is just the sort of capable, sophisticated executive a prime minister needs to be his chief of staff. The PMO is a pressure cooker that ...
  • A divided Congress must find a way to work
    Awash with "free-floating anger," U.S. voters tried again Tuesday to bring change to their struggling country. But they demonstrated vividly that they are deeply divided about just what sort of change they want. And so their new Congress might prove to be even more potent an instrument of de ...
  • Quebec refuses to make the tough budget choices
    Politically, it's no challenge to spew money around with a firehose and call it stimulus, but turning off the tap and getting budgets back in order is much harder. Somehow, we are not convinced that Quebec can do this almost painlessly, as the government tried to suggest this week.

Food World Order

  • obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research ...
    from grist : The long-simmering debate about Obama's ag policy - whether it represents a new paradigm, agribusiness as usual, or some enigmatic combination - has a new data point to consider. Earlier this month, Congress approved Obama's nomination of Catherine Woteki , the USDA's undersecreta ...
  • 9/30 binge & purge: 100% all-natural deception
    the nature conservancy & corporate donors: monsanto, nestle, altria & more * ben & jerry's taking 'all-natural' label off products * gm salmon frankenfish about to be unleashed into US food supply * ftc complaint charges deceptive advertising by pom * farmer, consumer outcry helping t ...
  • blackwatering the crops
    monsanto hired notorious 'security' firm blackwater from grist : Oscar Wilde once described the traditional English gentleman's pastime of fox hunting as " the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible ." I thought of that great line when I caught news that Monsanto, probably the globe's most rev ...
  • eu food safety chief forced to quit gm lobby role
    from the ecologist : A key figure in charge of food safety within the EU has been forced to quit her director role at a pro-GM group . European Green MEPs had called for EFSA chair Diana Banati 's resignation after she had failed to disclose her seat on the board of directors of the International Li ...
  • pacific northwest grocery stores setting up fake f ...
    from grist : Without a doubt, farmers markets have got a good thing growing . Unfortunately, sneaky copycats have been cropping up as they try to get their paws on the green that comes with that success. In June, Safeway supermarkets in Seattle set up stacks of fruits and veggies outside of their ow ...

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

  • 5 Dangers To Global Crops That Could Dramatically ...
    The world food situation is starting to get very, very tight.  Unprecedented heat and wildfires this summer in Russia and horrific flooding in Pakistan and China have been some of the primary reasons for the rapidly rising food prices we are now seeing around the globe.  In places s ...
  • 111 Obamacare Waivers And Counting – Can The ...
    In a stunning admission of just how job-killing and business-crushing the new health care law really is, the Obama administration has issued a staggering total of 111 Obamacare waivers (and counting) so far. The list of the dozens of companies and organizations that have been appro ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Go on... admit it... Jack & Vera's final reunion m ...
    In a break from political bitching... If, like me, you were one of the many millions watching last night's Coronation Street, then you will have seen the final scenes of one of the soap's most loved characters - Jack Duckworth. As he crossed through the Pearly Gates of that great soap charac ...
  • Now the State wants to touch your sexual organs at ...
    The below is not our story, but that of the original author. Worth noting, as the U.S. is not any different from any other Western nation in the global, one-world government era. The naked body scanners were rushed out oh-so-conveniently quickly. And now, having your genitals examined by hand become ...
  • Quote of the Day: 9th November 2010
    "Mr Hague still claims to be a Eurosceptic! That goose is cooked. This government, like Conservative Governments from Heath onwards is Europhile and elitist. It talks about sovereignty, whilst its other face promises Brussels any and everything that the EU wants." - UKIP's Nigel Farage with a dif ...
  • On Remembrance Sunday, we must ask... why are ther ...
    It is Remembrance Sunday - a day in which we pay our respects to those who have fallen in conflict defending our nation and it's liberties from tyranny and oppression. As Cameron, Clegg and Miliband go to the Cenotaph and look sombre while signing away our sovereignty and freedoms to an undemocra ...
  • Congrats to Paul Nuttall, UKIP's new Deputy Leader
    The Talking Clock would like to congratulate Paul Nuttall MEP on his appointment as new UKIP Deputy Leader. We were a little disappointed when Paul discounted running for the leadership as we thought he was an excellent option for members to consider for the job. That he then announced he was ...

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
    Report: KSM Likely to Remain in Detention Without Trial The Washington Post reported this weekend that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is likely to remain in detention without trial due to opposition in Congress to a civilian trial and the lack of … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Java4Ever - World's Geekiest Movie Trailer is Hila ...
    I am not going to comment anything about this video. If you consider yourself as a geek and love open source and Linux, you are going to love Java4Ever movie trailer. Enjoy! Java4ever is the story about a young man, who thinks "open", and his .Net obsessed father. Cast include "William ...
  • Top 12 Most Popular Posts for October 2010
    Nautilus Elementary in Ubuntu Maverick, A Quick Review Nautilus Elementary is probably the best thing happened to Gnome's very own file browser in a long time. I gave it a go in the just released Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" and I was quite taken aback by the amount of improvements with the new ...
  • Microsoft Open Sources F#
    Microsoft's Don Syme has announced the release of the F# compiler source code as a code drop under Apache 2.0 license. Microsoft Open Sources F# Don Syme, a Principal Researcher for Microsoft and currently involved in designing and implementing F#, has announced the release of the F# compi ...
  • A Faster, Sleeker Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile is Rel ...
    Even though a bit late, Mozilla is making steady progress with the mobile phone version of its popular web browser, Firefox. The latest Firefox 4 beta for mobile brings in a lot of speed enhancements and it is much lighter as well. What's new in the latest Firefox 4 beta for mobile? Reduce ...
  • 1K JavaScript Madness - 10 Awesome JavaScript Demo ...
    1K JavaScript madness(JS1k) had a simple goal, to�challenge programmers and make them create fancy demos written in JavaScript that are 1k�or less�in size. Yeah thats right, just 1024 bytes to play with. If you are wondering if that is even possible, let me inform you that the contest is already ove ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Austrian police chief investigating the abduction ...
    The police inspector investigating the abduction of Natascha Kampusch in 1998 was highly likely murdered, it has emerged. Chief inspector Franz Kröll was found dead in his apartment in Graz in June 2010 a few months after he was prohibited by Vienna state prosecutors in December 2009 from continuing ...
  • Did an agent provocateur set alight an armoured ca ...
    Activists protesting the nuclear waste shipment to Gorleben are being blamed for setting alight an armored riot control car by Bild newspaper, which showed a picture of one activist wearing headgear throwing a petrol bomb on its front page. Michael Fuchs from the CDU immediately used the Bild pictur ...
  • Ireland is in line for £40.7m EU bailout
    The Irish government is to set to request money from the European bailout fund, the 440 billion euro European Financial Stability Facility. In doing this, the Irish government is enabling banks to drain  tax payers throughout Europe in order to pay interest on fraudulent paper debts engineered by Ir ...
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • What In The World Are They Spraying?
    By Michael J. Murphy 03 March, 2010 Countercurrents.org What would you say if you were told that airplanes were regularly spraying toxic aerosols in the skies above every major region of the world? That is exactly what a group of protestors were claiming outside of the annual American Association fo ...
  • Video – What in the world are they spraying?
    2 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 3 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 4 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 5 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 6 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? 7 of 7 What in [...]
  • World Battles The Invasion Of The Naked Body Scann ...
    By Steve Watson People from all walks of life are rejecting the mass implementation of radiation spewing airport body imaging machines and fighting back against the molestation and groping that women and children are being subjected to at the hands of TSA officials. As we have detailed throughout th ...
  • Guess who ordered nude body scanners
    By Bob Unruh A constitutional attorney preparing to legally challenge the Transportation Security Administration’s enhanced screening procedures â which reveal a virtually nude image of passengers â says airline passengers have Barack Obama to thank for the process. “Legislation has been proposed to ...
  • Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion
    Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports. What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Gro ...

Veterans Today

  • WILL OBAMA JOIN LEAR IN THE STORM AND RAGE AGAINST ...
    Two lines in the fourth stanza of The Star Spangled Banner provide a clue to one American mindset that supports empire building. By James M. Wall – Veterans Today âThen conquer we must, our cause it is just, And this be our motto, âIn God is our trust.â Francis Scott Key included an important cavea ...
  • Drop Everything, Cross that River and Help your Br ...
    The Americans decided to leave the place to the locals...how about that?
  • Road to Hope Convoy to Gaza Members Kidnapped
    PRESS RELEASE 12 November 2010 Road to Hope (R2H) convoy members kidnapped from Libya to Greece Greek Commandos board Strofades IV in Greek Waters The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy left London on the 10th of October with £500,000 of medical aid for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip. After ...
  • “Drop everything, cross that river, help your brot ...
    The Americans decided to leave the place to the locals...how about that?
  • SIBEL EDMONDS: THE MAKINGS OF A POLICE STATE
    Little Steps Towards the Big Leap? Time To Test our Might & Will By Sibel Edmonds STAFF WRITER The movement against TSA’s systematic degradation of our nation seems to be gaining a bit of momentum; long overdue. A few lawmakers are making some noise. Let’s hope it is not for show only. Pilots and re ...

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

  • Green challenges on transport policy
    When Labour came to power in 1997, it promised to reverse the remorseless growth in road traffic. Within a few years, Labour's first transport secretary, John Prescott, had self-admittedly failed in this ambition, and indeed Labour had almost been sunk by the fuel-price protests. If the Left is to a ...
  • Now the coalition wants to cut its meagre bank lev ...
    So much remains in doubt on bonuses. But what we know for sure is that the Treasury’s entire bank levy revenue estimates between 2011-2014 were made when bonus payments were anticipated to be higher than they had been in 2008. And the idea that the banks should be offered another sop when they shoul ...
  • Cultural change is best way to make parliament mor ...
    In the general election of 1964, Peter Griffiths, a “Tory nonentity”, shot to victory with a racist slogan; 'Skin-Deep Democracy: How race, religion and ethnicity continue to affect Westminster politics' (pdf), a new report published today by Quilliam, shows that a lot has changed since then - but a ...
  • Many will be worse off under Universal Credit
    Last week’s welfare reform white paper included the following graph, claiming to show that “many households will receive more under Universal Credit than under the current system”; at first viewing, the graph does appear to show small weekly gains for those in lower income deciles, and insignificant ...
  • Cameron’s Happiness Index is welcome news fo ...
    Simon Kuznets, the Nobel Prize winning economist who helped develop GDP, recognised such flaws when warning the US Congress in 1934: “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of the national income.”

 

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