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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • AGRICULTURE: U.S. and EU Subsidies Still Out of Bo ...
    The United States' policy to double agricultural exports shows that its government "has learnt nothing" from the last food crisis, a problem reflected in the dramatic increase in that country's trade-distorting farm subsidies between 2007 and 2008.
  • INDIA: Now the 'Mother of All Scams'
    As India is rocked by a series of billion-dollar scams, the question on everybody's mind is whether the perpetrators will go scot-free in what has been described as a low-risk, high-gain activity in this country.
  • Mexican Farms Need a Water Revolution
    Without financing, many Mexican farmers cannot improve their ageing irrigation systems, which are essential if Mexico is to withstand the effects of climate change and reduce its emissions of greenhouse-effect gases.
  • Malawi's Women Pushing for a Place at the Table
    No sooner had Mariness Luhanga announced her intention to contest local elections in Mzimba district in northern Malawi, than she was summoned to appear before a village court on allegations of insulting men.
  • UGANDA: Sexual Crimes Go Unpunished
    Anna Grace Nakasi, recently chosen to contest next February's local council elections for Tubur subcounty, in Soroti district in North Eastern Uganda, contracted HIV when she was raped during the war.

Scoop - NZ

  • India: enter a great power
    President Obama's recent visit to India represented another considerable and defining step on India's journey to great power status. Although not reaching the heights of George W Bush's 2008 visit and the resultant civil nuclear cooperation deal, this visit signifies a more fundamental coming togeth ...
  • Ireland's young flee abroad as economic meltdown l ...
    Student Niamh Buffini works hard and plays hard. As Ireland's No 1 taekwondo martial arts practitioner - she is rated 12th in the world - her ambitions include winning Olympic gold for Ireland. But by the end of this month her future will have been decided by forces not just beyond her control but ...
  • 2014: New Afghan Exit Target
    The Obama administration is increasingly emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014, a change in tone aimed at persuading the Afghans and the Taliban that there will be no significant American troop withdrawals next summer. In a move ...
  • Taibbi: US Courts Helping Banks Do Over Homeowners
    The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. They told me the state of Florida had created a special super-high-speed housing court with a specific mandate to rubber-stamp the legally dicey foreclosures by corporate mortgage pushers like Deutsche Bank and JP Morga ...
  • Currency Wars: Australian party ending soon ?
    HSBC's currency team said the Australian dollar may be nearing its peak. "One concern relates to the deflating of the property bubble in China. This could happen gently but, if not, the Aussie will not avoid the fall-out. A sharp fall in Chinese property prices may very well lead to a deep exam ...

Independent - London

  • Mystery surrounds killing of Hollywood publicist
    It was a scene befitting a Hollywood true crime drama: A prominent Beverly Hills publicist was gunned down in her Mercedes-Benz after attending a movie premiere, sending the luxury car careening into a light post near Sunset Boulevard.
  • Germany raises security level over terror threat
    Germany's interior minister says he is ordering increased security in the country in light of what he says is a heightened threat from terrorism.
  • Airliner crash pilot 'had been asleep'
    The pilot of an airliner that crashed on landing killing 158 people had only just woken up and was disoriented, a report found today.
  • Rare pink diamond sets jewel record with £29m sale
    One of the world's rarest diamonds has sold for a record-breaking $46m (£29m), the highest price ever paid for a jewel.
  • Haitian protester killed by UN in cholera riot
    After violent clashes in Haiti between protesters and United Nations forces that left several wounded and one civilian dead, UN officials yesterday were endeavouring to discredit claims that the cholera outbreak in the country can be traced to a contingent of peacekeepers recently deployed there fr ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Israel Accuses Norway of Funding Anti-Israel Incit ...
    Israel is accusing the Norwegian government of funding and encouraging blatant anti-Israel incitement, according to Israel's Ynet News. The accusations are based on reports that the Trondheim Municipality is funding a trip for students to New York in order to take part in the Gaza Monologues play, ...
  • Landslide cuts off Cornwall as storms hit south we ...
    The main train line into Cornwall has been blocked by a landslide, cutting off the county from the rest of Britain, as storms bring flooding and disruption to large parts of the south west. Drivers were washed into Portloe harbour near Truro while still in their cars and three feet of standing wat ...
  • Dr Kelly was murdered: British experts
    Drugs experts leading an inquiry into the death of Britain's former weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kelly, say his death was "murder" and not suicide. Experts also called on the police to launch a murder inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, casting serious doubt on the official claim the scientist overd ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: The Road To Hope Convoy For Gaza - Sot ...
    The SOTT Report's Joe Quinn speaks with Ken O'Keefe in Athens following the abduction of members of the Road to Hope convoy that was attempting to bring much needed aid to the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
  • Danish astronomer's remains exhumed in Prague
    Prague - Astronomer Tycho Brahe uncovered some of the mysteries of the universe in the 16th century - and now modern-day scientists are delving into the mystery of his sudden death. On Monday, an international team of scientists opened his tomb in the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn near Prague's ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • BacillaFilla . . .
    SOME VERY CLEVER YOUNG FOLKS AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY have developed "BacillaFilla".  It's a genetically-engineered bacteria that repairs the cracks in concrete. According to io9,BacillaFilla is the kind of biotechnology crossed with materials science that we'll see a lot of in the future. The resear ...
  • Qualifies as the "Best Line Ever"?
    Rez Dog snatched a quote from the end of Jacob Weisberg's review of George W. Bush's published rush to explain himself. Bush wants us to believe he tried his hardest and did the best he could. This thin, shallow book strongly suggests that he did.That's got to be in line for a Best Line Ever! awar ...
  • Extending the quagmire
    NDP Paul Dewar says extending the Afghan mission past 2011 to 2014 requires a vote in Parliament. Lib Bob Rae says : "In principle I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary." Steve says I wasn't gonna ask you anyway.
  • A creative view . . .
    TAKE A BREAK FROM THE STEVIE STUMBLE: Jim Denevan is an artist with sand. Find more of his stuff here.
  • Why is Harper afraid of a parliamentary debate on ...
    Because there's obviously something he's not telling you and a debate would require someone to answer some very embarrassing questions. If Harper is so confident that he has the Liberals on side, he should have nothing to worry about. Right? Maybe not. A debate would shed some light on the fact t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media promote call for private securit ...
    Right-wing media have recently echoed or promoted Rep. John Mica's (R-FL) call for private firms to replace the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in providing airport security. But experts have said that privatized airport security had previously led to numerous security lapses, and ...
  • Fox's Obama "socialism" smear comes straight from ...
    In an interview, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes referred to President Obama's policies as "socialism." Ailes' opinion is shared by his Fox News employees, who regularly characterize President Obama and his administration as "socialist."Ailes smears Obama's "socialism" Ailes: Obama was "told b ...
  • Fox fowards misleading attack on Dream Act
    Fox News advanced the misleading claim that the Dream Act would encourage further illegal immigration and grant in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants. In fact, those not already living in the United States would not be eligible for legal status under the Dream Act, and the bill would af ...
  • Attention, Fox: Obama has called for earmark refo ...
    Reporting on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's reversal on earmark reform legislation, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson declared that "[t]he big onus" now "fall on the president," adding, "will he veto it, or will he sign it?" In fact, President Obama has been calling for earmark r ...
  • Still lapdogs: Media figures host Bush's rehabili ...
    Numerous media figures have interviewed former President George W. Bush following the November 9 release of his book, Decision Points. Bush and his interviewers used these interviews as an opportunity to rewrite his presidency by promoting false claims and misinformation about Bush's tenure.I ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Moral Equivalency: The Cliche of Fools
    In his recent interview with Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart offered as examples of left-wing nastiness a woman calling George W. Bush a "war criminal" at a public meeting, and Maddow herself making a joke about "teabaggers." Neither illustrated his claim that MSNBC's news masquerades as straight news i ...
  • Louie, Louie, Louie Gohmert: A Big Lie on Palesti ...
    Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) needs to read up on some things -- like learn some facts and stuff. . .and use those facts to stop illegals from taking land that is not theirs. You know those Israelis are taking land that is not theirs from Palestinians who are stealing land too, just like those nasty Me ...
  • The Volt: Crossing The Chasm
    Yesterday's announcement that the Chevy Volt�won Motor Trend's�"Car of the Year" Award is not just a bit of Motor City hype. It is the beginning of a palpable solution to climate change. There is no way to�materially�reduce greenhouse gas emissions without electric vehicles connected to a smart g ...
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  • AIPAC On The Brink: And Not One Word In MSM
    AIPAC is in big trouble and the media is ignoring it. If this was, say, the National Rifle Association or NARAL, this story would be on page one. But it's AIPAC, and few want to mess with it. ( Clay Swisher's does here. ). The story was broken in a Antiwar.com piece but is carried in the co ...

TruthOut

  • Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill t ...
    Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House. read more
  • Neuromarketing and 21st Century Politics
    One of the greatest threats to democracy in the 21st Century is the profound ability for marketing to influence human behavior. How can we claim that politicians are elected by the people when the foundations of human decision-making are outside conscious awareness? I’ve been reading The Buying Br ...
  • The US Elections: Outrage, Misguided
    The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats are in power, they bear the brunt of the revulsion over our current socioeconomic and political situation. More than half the “mainstream Ameri ...
  • Killing the Poor Instead of Taxing the Wealthy in ...
    If you happen to be sick and poor and are among the 98 people in Arizona who are awaiting state-funded organ transplants, you've just been handed a death sentence.read more
  • Where's the Growth Supposed to Come From?
    Part of a Triple Crisis series on the Nov. 11-12 G-20 meetings.read more

Planetsave

  • Help Stop Whaling in Iceland
    Killing off some of the most amazing creatures in the history of the planet, whales, is one of those things we are doing right now that make you really question the intelligence of humans. How can we do such a thing? Calling on humans to be more sensitive creatures but also to realize and protect... ...
  • 5 Reasons to Green Your Travel
    Here are 5 great reasons to green your travel, especially aimed at middle- and high-schoolers. This post is a quickie, a way for us to share more news with you by linking to good stories on other sites. Connect with me on Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter, or Care2.
  • LifeEdited
    So many of our environmental problems are purely due to waste, inefficient design and use. Innovator Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger, is trying to help our society reduce our waste with a new design competition, LifeEdited. Here’s an intro from the website: TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is tryin ...
  • DOT [VIDEOS]
    OK, yes, you probably have no idea what DOT is… when I first saw it mentioned, I automatically thought it was referring to the Department of Transportation (due, of course, to my city planning background). But DOT also stands for Do One Thing. The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) has a cool DOT ...
  • Pass Important Legislation to Protect Struggling W ...
    With an anti-conservation majority taking over in the House next Congress, this is our last chance for the foreseeable future to pass important bills — many of which have been waiting for years to pass — to help sea otters, lions, migratory birds and other wildlife. Take action now. Urge your senato ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • More US households short of food - Poverty/World H ...
    Almost 15% of US households experienced a food shortage at some point in 2009, a government report has found. US authorities say that figure is the highest they have seen since they began collecting data in the 1990s, and a slight increase over 2008 levels. Single mothers are among the...
  • Spring Has Once Again Arrived for U.S. Arms Dealer ...
    India was Obama's first stop on his four-country Asian tour. "Open market" and "build stronger U.S.-India ties" were the key words used in American mainstream media coverage and reviews, along with "keeping an eye on China" — allegedly, in observance of how roping in India will affect China on the.. ...
  • Colombia to extradite accused Venezuelan drug lord ...
    BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will extradite a businessman accused of being a drug kingpin back to his native Venezuela, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday, in a move bound to warm already improving ties between the neighbors. Walid Makled, known as "The Turk," was captured in August in C ...
  • Over 700 allege mining firm poisoned drinking wate ...
    Hundreds gather in West Virginia as judges begin 3-day mediation of slurry pollution lawsuit No amount of money can compensate Russell Prince for the life of his 4-year-old daughter, but he and hundreds of families suing Massey Energy Co. traveled to Charleston on Monday in their contin ...
  • Guantanamo inmates set to receive payouts of up to ...
    Editor's Note: Are we expected to conclude that the British government and their M15 and M16 agents are now exhonerated by the payment of hush money to their victims? It's a pity that the truth in the form of "hundreds of thousands of confidential documents" can be hidden beneath a few...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Remember when facts and reality didn't have a libe ...
    Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, one of the chamber's farthest right members and arguably the shrillest voice denying the reality of anthropogenic global warming, is fond of repeating ad nauseum that "global warming is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and that he personally ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Too late - Ireland never should have listened to the austerity jackals. "A meeting of eurozone ministers in Brussels has ended with a promise to work towards further help for Ireland. The European Union monetary affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn, said the 27-country bloc would "intensify" work on a su ...
  • Puppies and Pachyderms
  • "What America is All About"
    Not in 34 years has a president done what President Obama did today, and if you did not watch this once-in-a-generation ceremony live, watch it here now: This afternoon in the East Room of the White House, the President presented the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to Staff Sergeant Salvato ...
  • Here's something funny
    So there's a pretty hilarious little piece over at politico http://dyn.politico.com/prints... that describes a pretty hilarious bout of cluelessness and all around entitled stupidity that pretty well seems to sum up the cluelessness of the GOP leaders who opposed the healthcare bill and still mumble ...

Care 2

  • Air pollution: Silent killer in the city
    Given that more than half the world's population now lives in cities, with the number expected to increase significantly, the implications on individual health are becoming pretty clear. A lot of the discussion here has been specifically on the quality...Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� � ...
  • U.N. Weighs More Troops for Sudan as Referendum Ne ...
    The United Nations may send more peacekeeping troops to southern sudan to deter violence in advance of the scheduled Jan. 9 referendum on possible secession from Sudan.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Michael Moore: Hey Dems, You're Still in Charge: L ...
    The Dems should actually use the power they hold for the next seven weeks, and have the Senate pass the legislation that the House has already passed.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chic Clothing Made from Recycled Cigarette Butts
    Chilean designer Alexandra Guerrero has been experimenting with what just may be the last thing anyone would think of as clothing material: cigarette butts.Submitted by Draganescu Pavlovich to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Man Who Shattered Our Economy - Truthdig
    Rejoice, the housing market is back. Sandy Weill just picked up a humdinger of a wine vineyard estate in Sonoma, Calif., for a record $31 million, so the foreclosure crisis�which the former CEO of Citigroup did so much to create when he successfully ...Submitted by Hans Mueller to Business �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Tuesday’s Discoveries Open Thread
    The Morning Sneeze blows hard on Obama … I make a lovely discovery through my Facebook account … last night was a pitch-black, 60-MPH windy night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
  • Aviation Security that Is Sane and Sensible
    Now that folks are riled up about having their junk juggled by a stranger in a uniform at the airport, it is time to focus on security measures that make sense and are effective. Unfortunately the current system is the worst of a bureaucratic solution and is not based on consistent, standard operati ...
  • “When truth was needed, all we got were facts.” – ...
    Ted Koppel wrote an op-ed last weekend in WaPo that really chapped Keith Olbermann’s butt. Saying pretty much what lots of us have for a very long time, Koppel pointed out that partisan “news organizations” are a contradiction in terms. But what really frosted Keith was Koppel’s assertion that there ...
  • “O, Charlie, Where Art Thou?” BREAKING NEWS
    That would be Charlie Rangel, the long-standing congressman, facing 13 ethics violations. Congressman Rangel had been saying for months to bring on his trial, he was ready, let’s go before he died since he was already 80. Of course, the Democratic leadership pushed it off until after the Mid-term el ...
  • Loss, Absence, And The Holidays
    My sister-in-law lost her mother early Monday morning. She was a sweet little woman (I am not being pejorative, she was very small), who lived with my brother and sister-in-law. The three of them visited not too long ago. This was sudden. Debbie’s mother fell Friday night, the ambulance rushed her t ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Amazing Portraits Created from Recycled Newspapers
    Using old newspapers in a completely unique way, Danish artist Gugger Petter takes portraiture to another level with her amazing artwork. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Untamed Beauty of Scotland's Wilderness
    Scotland is a land of undeniable beauty. With verdant valleys, heather-draped hills, snowy mountains & shimmering lochs, the country boasts a variety of stunning vistas. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
  • The Green Death: Funerals for the Environmentally ...
    At death, we make our final environmental impacts through our funeral arrangements. Two religions in India have rituals with very different effects on the environment. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • 10 Long-Lost Amphibian Species
    1/3rd of the world’s 6,000 amphibian species face extinction.Disappearance of amphibians has become the subject of threat to our environment. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Echidna: The Tiny Spiny Anteater
    Echidnas are astounding animals as they hatch mammals and have a four-headed penis. They have remained unchanged from prehistoric days. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Waterfall New World Order Resistance of Minneapoli ...
    What can I say? I like street art – when it breaks up the unspeakable horror of the modernist nightmare, the endless, colorless flat planes composing our concrete public existence. So it was a surprise to go looking and find these big New World Order stencils around the Hennepin Avenue bridge ...
  • Storm the Boards! Applications Nearly Due for Comp ...
    I spent quite a while writing up all the open boards and appointments in Minnesota. The official post is here - http://tc.indymedia.org/2010/nov/storm-boards-applications-nearly-due-compensated-citizen-slots-panels-and-agencies Just for fun I'll crosspost the whole thing below. Worth yr effort ...
  • Metals To Nibiru! Gold & silver $1400 / $29 parabo ...
    Linkdump O Quick Hitz! Way too many links going on-have fun! Sorry for lack of pics, you gotta clix em to see :-|   "Where is My Mind" came on TheCurrent as I posted this, really appropriate for the ZeroHedge Durden posts. Total Waveform Synchronicity and it ain't even 11/11 yet.... Onwards. ...
  • 1972 CIA memo declares Nixonian resistance to decl ...
    This is it, the droids you're looking for. This memo was published by Wayne Madsen and includes a reference to Alfred McCoy, whose book "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" was the first serious work to break loose the geopolitical underpinnings of state-sanctioned narcotics trafficking. [Full ...
  • British Lord James of Blackheath sez "Foundation X ...
    For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the ...

Daily Censored

  • The Magic of Words
    Yesterday, NPR’s “Morning Edition” magically transported me back to 1974, to when I first watched the Mel Brook’s classic, “Blazing Saddles.”  I was reminded of the scene where the town discovered the Cleavon Little, the man they had hired to be the new sheriff, was black.  Cleavon, upon seeing that ...
  • The Teaching Profession as a Service Industry
    Walt Gardner, writing in his EdWeek blog, concluded recently: “The latest reminder that freedom of speech for teachers in K-12 is an illusion came from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati on Oct. 21. In Evans-Marshall v. Board of Education of the Tipp City Exempted Village Sc ...
  • 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 confida ...
  • Hip Hop & Radical Resistance
    Hip Hop: Radical Resistance, Mobilization and Empowerment By: Solomon Comissiong âI live, I die, I organize, Everything I do – revolutionize, I build what’s good for the whole damn hood, Study G’s like these, really think you should, I study Malcolm Garvey Huey, Malcolm Garvey Huey, Malcolm Garvey H ...
  • A FILM OFFERS INSIGHT INTO THE AMERICAN CHARACTER
    “Stone” takes a hybrid Norman Rockwell-Grant Wood portrait of an aging mid western couple, adds two Quentin Tarantino characters who excel in manipulating and offers a disturbing cinematic slice of real America: repression, religion, lust, violence and escape into seedy mysticism. Young Jack Mabry ( ...

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Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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    Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
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    Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector. But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 12: An Interv ...
    Now that the dust has settled following Election Day, PDA presents a two-part election analysis podast. In this episode, PDA National Director Tim Carpenter interviews author and journalist John Nichols and PDA field coordinator Conor ...
  • IOT: End the War and Occupations November Call
    On This Call… David Swanson: 1. Don’t use the term “Defense” spending when referring to military spending. 2. No one lost any of their elections because they failed to support the wars. 3. Warned about the ...
  • Changing Gears
    Get the Jump on holiday shopping and support PDA! It’s appropriate to thank you again for your recent electoral activities. Thanks to you, progressives did a lot better than the rest of the Democrats. After that ...
  • Million Letter March on Congress
    Join the Million Letter March Stamp Out Climate Change! We’ve got our work cut out for us! With most Republican newcomers to Congress opposed to virtually any climate legislation and the deluge of money from Dirty Energy, how ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 11/5/10 – 11/12/10
    Post election blues? If so, we have the cure! One Nation PDA: As you saw from our email blast earlier in the week, we are continuing to use our One Nation PDA website and it will now ...

Marler Blog

  • Great quote from Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan ...
    "S 510 is the most important food safety legislation in a generation. The Tester amendment will make it even more effective, strengthening food safety rules while protecting small farmers and producers. We both think this is the right thing to do."  Eric Schlosser & Michael Pollan This is from Fo ...
  • Off in the morning to teach a Torts class
    No, it is not a cooking class - That would be Torte.� Not to be confused with tort, a civil wrong at law. A torte is a cake made primarily with eggs, sugar, and ground nuts instead of flour.� Hopefully, the students in the Torts class already know the difference.� Here is a link to my PowerPoint.
  • Salmonella Sickens 1.4 Million Americans Yearly - ...
    Salmonella is a bacterium that causes one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States – Salmonellosis. In some states (e.g. Georgia, Maryland), salmonellosis is the most commonly reported cause of enteric disease, and overall it is the second most common bacterial foodbo ...
  • President Obama weighs in on S. 510 - The FDA Food ...
    STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY S. 510 - The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act - (Sen. Durbin, D-Illinois, and 20 cosponsors) The Administration supports Senate passage of the Manager’s Amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. This bipartisan bill ...
  • Attorney Bill Marler on Foodborne Illness and Food ...
    We are slowly uploading a series of videos on what we do here at Marler Clark.� This video is about the legal work I do and the food safety advocacy that has also become a large part of my life.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.17.10
    Report: Coda delays deliveries of all-electric sedan to late 2011 The bad news continues. Think City will cost $34,000 before incentives Targeted customers include, well, city folk. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.16.10
    Fisker says "Karma is the first and only true electric vehicle with extended range" Oh, snap. Revenge of the Electric Car trailer will be released today Or maybe not. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.15.10
    Report: Leaf dealer demos pushed back to April Capacity is limited. At Witz' End: The more I drive it, the more the Nissan Leaf is (and isn't) like an EV1 Take it from someone who knows. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.12.10
    First Drive: Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion It's Not Late, It Just Won't Be Here Until 2014. Officially Official: General Electric ordering 25,000 electric vehicles, starting with the Volt [w/video] ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.10.10
    Sing it! VW details the all-electric Golf Blue-e-motion Coming not so soon. After winning Automotive X-Prize, Edison2 hints at next-gen projects Winning comes first. ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
    “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President Barack Obama should look to an old naval facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Ana Maria Careaga wa ...
  • "Push Michael Moore Off A Cliff:" Health Insurance ...
    When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the American healthcare system in 2004, it put the health insurance industry on high alert. One person who immediately went on the offensive was Wendell Potter, who at the time was the chief spok ...
  • 88.7 "La Tribu" - Buenos Aires, Argentina
    More than 200 stations in Latin America air Democracy Now! headlines in Spanish. We recently received a wonderful video from 88.7 Radio La Tribu in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Check it out.
  • Economist Ha-Joon Chang on the G20 Summit, Currenc ...
    President Obama arrives in Japan today on the last stop of his ten-day Asia tour. Obama will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit amidst a dispute with the Japanese government over relocating the U.S. military base in Okinawa. Obama comes to Japan after South Korea, where he failed t ...
  • Obama in the Company of Killers
    If a volcano kills civilians in Indonesia, it’s news. When the government does the killing, sadly, it’s just business as usual, especially if an American president tacitly endorses the killing, as President Barack Obama just did with his visit to Indonesia. As the people around Mount Merapi dig ou ...

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • 9/11 Families Ask: What Happened to the Third Buil ...
    9/11 Families Ask: What Happened to the Third Building That Collapsed in the WTC Attacks? A new ad campaign featuring the family members of 9/11 victims, which does not focus on conspiracy theories, is getting serious treatment in the mainstream media. Raw Story / By Stephen C. Webster Via:  AlterN ...
  • Bush’s Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls ...
    Bush’s Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe Huff Post- Dan Froomkin-  First Posted: 11-11-10 03:49 PM   |   Updated: 11-11-10 04:01 PM WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special pr ...
  • What Role Did Comcast Play In Keith Olbermann&#821 ...
    What Role Did Comcast Play in Keith Olbermann’s Suspension?–UPDATED Crooks and Liars- By karoli November 05, 2010 12:14 PM There is a double standard at work with regard to Keith Olbermann’s suspension, not only between other personalities appearing on MSNBC as commentators, but also at the very top ...
  • Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investiga ...
    There are a variety of explanations for the frustratingly backwards outcome of yesterday’s election. Clearly Americans were dissatisfied with the objective reality that the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats actually made things better by cutting the deficit by an historic $122 bil ...
  • It’s a normal day
    Business as usual election results, it’s a normal day, world war three blues, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch

Solari

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The sure route to reforming America
    Summary:  It becomes increasingly apparent that America needs serious reforms, stat.  This post gives a brief description of the problem, but no solution.  However the necessary characteristics of a solution are described, aiding the search. Our political system has since 1976 run increasingly frant ...
  • More about rising food prices (perhaps one of the ...
    Summary:   Readers of the FM website respond to its contents with a flood of comments (emailed or using the comment form).  Mostly critical, appropriate to it content — speculation about the topics on the edge of the known.  Some brilliant.  Some illustrate why America might have a very diffic ...
  • About the coming large rise in food prices
    Summary:  Rising food prices might be one of the most important geopolitical trends of the decade.  This is another post in a series, describing the causes and effects; links to other chapters appear at the end. What result do you expect from this combination of factors? Rising demand for the produc ...
  • Why China will again rise to the top. Their most i ...
    Summary:  There is a simple difference between West and East today, the opposite of that seen during the past few centuries.  Good leadership.  They have it; we do not.  This explains much of what we see in the news. ââ… moral power is to physical as 3 parts of 4.ââ — Attributed to Napoleon in ...
  • About the mystery missile launch (America the fear ...
    Summary:  There is a major threat to America, one that our military cannot defend against: our cowardice.   We have become America the fearful, which clouds our thinking and emboldens our enemies. Today’s mystery missile madness provides yet another in a long line of examples. But there are eas ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • ‘SafeSocial’ monitors children on social networks
    Daily Telegraph – The âSafeSocial.co.ukâ subscription service uses an email address to track children online and alerts parents to any interactions on social networks that could cause concern. Although children must consent to being monitored, the service invisibly cross-checks them and their friend ...
  • Ireland to work with EU/IMF mission on crisis step ...
    Reuters – Ireland pledged on Wednesday to work with a European Union-IMF mission on steps to help a stricken banking sector, a process which could lead to a bailout which Dublin has so far baulked at asking for. Euro zone finance ministers agreed late on Tuesday that a team from the European Commiss ...
  • Haiti officials say cholera deaths now above 1,000
    BBC – The Haitian health ministry said the number of people who had received hospital treatment for the disease had risen to nearly 16,800. Meanwhile, United Nations peacekeepers have stepped up security after violent protests on Monday left two Haitians dead. At least one of the men was shot dead b ...
  • Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs
    AP — Airport security stops one airline pilot because he’s carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they fear low-level radiation from body scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he can’t fly at all when he likens an intrusive body search ...
  • Fiji’s acting prime minister resigns
    ABC – Fiji’s interim minister for defence, national security and immigration, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, has resigned. Mr Ganilau had also been acting as the country’s interim prime minister while Commodore Frank Bainimarama is in China for trade talks. The interim government has not given a reason for the ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    Delayed by a month due to other demands (primarily, a visit to the US and the trial by Military Commission of Omar Khadr), this is the eighth part of a nine-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and ...
  • On Guantánamo, Obama Hits Rock Bottom
    On national security issues, there are now two Americas. In the first, which existed from January to May 2009, the rule of law flickered briefly back to life after eight years of the Bush administration. In this first America, President Obama swept into office issuing executive orders promising to c ...
  • As the UK Government Announces Compensation for Ex ...
    Today, the British government will announce that it will pay millions of pounds in compensation to a number of former Guantánamo prisoners, including Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed, Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil El-Banna, Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga, who, since last year, have been involv ...
  • On Housing Benefit Cuts, British Public Reveals Sh ...
    Such is the hostility in this country towards the poor and the unemployed — a sure sign of the distressing decline of empathy and compassion in the last 30 years — that a poll conducted by Channel 4 News this week found that 58 percent of people thought that the govermment’s proposed welfare cuts sh ...
  • Andy Worthington and Former Guantánamo Prisoners S ...
    In an attempt to maintain pressure on the Pakistani government to secure the return to Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the neuroscientist who, in September, was sentenced in New York to 86 years in prison, the Justice for Aafia Coalition is holding a week-long series of events around the world, enti ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War ...
    Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the “truth” about 9/11 being an inside job, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to intern dissidents in “death camps,” and the “New World Order” plot to exterminate 80% of the worl ...
  • Suicides and Gay-bashings: More Violence for LGBT ...
    The violence never seems to end. This past month has been downright horrifying, with at least five teenagers nationwide committing suicide as a result of anti-gay bullying. There were also two attacks against gay victims in New York City communities normally considered LGBT-friendly. A patron was g ...
  • Extra! Extra! Sharia Takeover of U.S. Averted by O ...
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced yesterday that it is suing Oklahoma over a newly adopted law banning the use of international or Islamic law in state courts. Islam-fearing websites went wild. Hereâs a sampling of headlines and excerpts from some of the more colorful postings Thu ...
  • Antigovernment Dad, Son Blame Each Other in Bank-B ...
    The trial of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge begins its sixth day of testimony in a Salem, Ore., courtroom today, where the father and son face nearly 20 counts ranging from aggravated murder to assault stemming from a December 2008 bank bombing that killed two police officers and seriously injured two ot ...
  • Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
    Saul Anuzis, the current leader of the Michigan GOP, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same post ...

change: org.

  • Bottled Water Companies Nominated for...Corporate ...
    Sometime this fall, Hillary Clinton is going to announce the winner of the Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence. Some of the contenders are downright laughable. To be fair, there's no BP on the list, but there are a bunch of corporations that could be considered questionable, to put i ...
  • Birth Defects Multiply Near Toxic Waste Dump. Clos ...
    In Kettleman City, a low-income farm town located halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, there are between 30 and 64 births each year. So it's startling that in the last three years, at least 11 babies born there have suffered severe birth defects, including cleft palates (pictured). Worse, ...
  • How Your Cell Phone Secretly Recruits Child Soldie ...
    Your cell phone works hard — texting with friends, checking in with family, "accidentally" losing that message asking you to come into work early. But did you know your cell phone may also be responsible for recruiting child soldiers in Congo? That's because the minerals that go into your cell phone ...
  • Are Low-Income San Francisco Students In For A "Me ...
    San Francisco is home to some of the best food reform measures out there, including a new ordinance that prevents restaurants from packaging toys with high-fat or otherwise unhealthy kids' meals. But right now, school nutrition advocates are worried that the same Board of Supervisors who passed the ...
  • Netflix Fails at Describing “Boys Don’t Cry”
    When I watched the movie “Boys Don’t Cry,” I was moved. It’s a rare occasion to see a movie about a transgender person, and even more rare to see a movie with a transgender person that is easy for transgender people to relate to. In the movie, transgender teen Brandon Teena lives his life as a man, ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama's Hopes on Nuclear Arms Fade
    An agreement between the United States and Russia to slash their nuclear arsenals was in danger of collapse after an influential Republican senator in the US said it should not be voted on this year. With his statement on Tuesday, Senator Jon Kyl from Arizona dealt a major setback to Barack Obama's ...
  • U.S. Poll Finds Growing Aversion to Death Penalty
    by William FisherNEW YORK - A clear majority of U.S. voters - 61 percent - would choose a punishment other than death for murder if given a choice, the Death Penalty Information Center said Tuesday as it released the results of "one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted" of U.S. citizens' ...
  • Green Property: The Power of Community Spirit
    by Sarah LonsdaleLlangattock is a small village scattered along a fold in the Brecon Beacon mountains - the softly wooded slopes, high hay meadows and streams making the area one of the loveliest parts of Britain.read more
  • Afghanistan Could Face 'Eye-Watering Violence' Aft ...
    by Jon Boone in Kabul Afghanistan could experience "eye-watering" levels of violence after foreign combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan in four years' time, the Nato representative in Kabul warned today.read more
  • Climate Change: Science's Fresh Fight to Win Over ...
    by Robin McKieThis was simply "the worst scientific scandal of a generation" – a bid by researchers to hoodwink the public over global warming and hide evidence showing fossil fuels were not really heating up our planet. These were the dramatic claims made by newspapers, websites and blogs across th ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Sparkling or flat? Sustainability book club says, ...
    Two weeks ago, the Macalester College Sustainability Book Club met over sandwiches and tap water to discuss Elizabeth Royte's latest book, "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It." In "Bottlemania," Royte -- a veteran environmental writer who previously authored "Garbage Land" and ...
  • Dowd legislation to nix water subsidy receives mix ...
    Pittsburgh City Councilman Patrick Dowd's proposal to curtail water subsidies for southern and western neighborhoods received a mixed reaction from colleagues Tuesday, with one suggesting that Pennsylvania American Water Co. be nudged out of the city.
  • Proposal seeks to end water bill subsidy in Pittsb ...
    Several City Council members said Tuesday this might not be the time for a proposal to end decades of subsidizing the water bills of Pennsylvania American Water Co. customers in Pittsburgh's western and southern neighborhoods.
  • Dowd legislation to nix water subsidy receives mix ...
    Pittsburgh City Councilman Patrick Dowd's proposal to curtail water subsidies for southern and western neighborhoods received a mixed reaction from colleagues Tuesday, with one suggesting that Pennsylvania American Water Co. be nudged out of the city.
  • Parking meter lease plan just makes sense
    I arrived at Monday night's City-County Council meeting on the parking meter privatization plan feeling the same way about the issue as I had for months: conflicted.

Guardian

  • Sarah Palin poised to run for president in 2012
    Critics within Republican party seen as obstacle to Sarah Palin's presidency hopes as she discusses White House bid with familySarah Palin is on the brink of deciding to run for the US presidency in two years, and has said she is consulting her family before making up her mind.However, the final dec ...
  • Man found murdered in Berkshire
    Police close off roads in Sunningdale as witnesses report seeing a body wrapped in plastic in the back of a vanA murder inquiry is under way after a fatally injured man was found in the back of van pulled over by police in Berkshire.Witnesses said the victim had been badly beaten, wrapped in plastic ...
  • BBC series on Rafik al-Hariri pulled
    �� Programmes examine assassination of former PM �� Tribunal may be about to accuse Hezbollah membersThe BBC has suddenly pulled a documentary film series about the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri as tensions mount in Beirut over expectations that Hezbollah operat ...
  • Two held over student fees protest
    Police arrest two 19-year-olds on suspicion of violent disorder following demonstration that spilled into Tory HQTwo men were arrested today on suspicion of violent disorder during the student fees protest, Scotland Yard said.The men, both aged 19, were arrested in Yorkshire. Yesterday, officers inv ...
  • Blocking Sky deal 'jeopardises jobs'
    News Corp chief claims there are no strong grounds for government interventionJames Murdoch warned the British government today not to block News Corporation's bid for full control of pay-TV operator BSkyB, saying it risked "jeopardising" jobs in the UK.The chief executive of News Corp in Europe and ...

McClatchey

  • House Democrats stick with Pelosi - and defiant li ...
    WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi was re-elected the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives on Wednesday — and by so doing, her party members sent a loud message to President Barack Obama: They expect her to stand up for liberal Democratic principles against a White House they fear is wobbly on t ...
  • NATO: Afghan turnover could last into 2015 'or bey ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan--A complete handover of Afghanistans security to Afghan forces by 2014 is realistic, but not guaranteed, the NATO alliances top civilian official said Wednesday, adding that the transition could last into 2015 or beyond. Mark Sedwill, NATOs senior civilian representative in Afgh ...
  • In Modesto, thousands wait to get on housing vouch ...
    Candy Allen wants help paying her rent so she can afford what many consider life's essentials, such as basic cable and her own phone. They are unaffordable luxuries for Allen, who brings home about $1,040 a month and pays about $800 for rent and utilities.
  • Idaho lawmakers take on deep cuts in medical, educ ...
    Absent tax increases, balancing Idahos budget next year means cutting about $340 million, or 14 percent of the states budget.
  • Texas man killed for kissing another man's wife
    An Arlington man was fatally shot Sunday night outside Tyler after a husband saw his wife embrace him, Smith County sheriff's investigators said.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Copenhagen or Babel? A climate conundrum
    It's the time of year when an environment correspondent's thoughts turn inevitably to the UN climate summit. A little less than a year after filing into the frozen wasteland of Copenhagen's Bella Center, we're looking this year to the sunnier climes of Cancun in Mexico. Already the wordplay is being ...
  • Nature protection - the new road starts here
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: Was it an end, or a beginning? As delegates streamed away from the convention centre here in Nagoya - and stream they did, many of them having delayed flights to make sure no stone they could turn was left unturned - the talk was of a ...
  • Banking on innovation for green shoots
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: � Maybe you thought it was all about the science of losing species and ecosystems, and the ethics of doing something about it. But as the final phase of this meeting is making clear, it's largely about money. Everyone here ag ...
  • Raiders of the lost bark
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: The second Tuesday of this meeting was the day glamour came to town - in good and ugly guises. On the good side, I had the chance to sit down with Harrison Ford - an actor whose oeuvre looms large for anyone of my generation, from Wit ...
  • Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes ri ...
    � From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: It's fair to say there's a deal of concern here that what emerges at the end of this fornight's meeting could amount to less than it was supposed to. � Mind you, it was supposed to amount to quite a bit - a pretty comprehens ...

The Wonk Room

  • The Incoming Republican Congress Must Avoid The Et ...
    Our guest blogger is Lisa Gilbert, Deputy Director of Congress Watch at Public Citizen. This week, as both parties hold their leadership elections for the House of Representatives, is a good time to look forward towards what the House will look like under the leadership of incoming Speaker John Boeh ...
  • Republicans Waste Time Complaining They Don’ ...
    This afternoon, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) chief Don Berwick — who was recess appointed by President Obama — appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to answer questions about the agency’s progress in implementing the Affordable Care Act. Since Obama first nominated Berwick, ...
  • Bachmann Claims Iran ‘Already Has Nuclear Ca ...
    Speaking at the National Press Club this morning, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called Iran “a danger to every nation in the world,” and claimed that, according to “intelligence,” “we know that they [Iran] already have a nuclear capability.” This is at odds with the CIA’s March 2010 report ( ...
  • Climate Denier Dick Lindzen Accuses Colleagues Of ...
    In written testimony for a congressional hearing on the state of climate science that comes on the one-year anniversary of the hacking of climate scientist emails, Dr. Dick Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accuses his colleages of academic corruption. Lindzen, a right-wing ideolo ...
  • House Will Vote To Override Obama’s Veto Of ...
    In October, the House and Senate quietly passed a bill — the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010 — that would have forced states to accept notarized documents from any state. This came at the same time that the robo-signing scandal was finally coming into focus, and one of the proble ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Three More Years! Three More Years!
    So, after over 10 years, the Afghan government still can't fight its own battles against its own people? This is an insurgency with limited support from Pakistan and (MAYBE) Iran, versus a government with billions of dollars and the backing of NATO. One wonders how the Taliban was able to stabilize ...
  • On the harpercons' Embarrasing Failure to Win a Se ...
    Over at Dawg's blog they're having great sport imagining the harpercons' attempts to explain away the unprecedented failure of Canada to win a seat on the United Nations' Security Council (which Canada tended to win every ten years). To hear the harpercons yammering about it, the UN is nothing but ...
  • What would make harper and Ignatieff change their ...
    So,the detestable, anti-Canadian sociopath and the elitist prick both think that its a good idea to waste our resources training insurgents and rapists for another three years in Afghanistan. This as the current supreme leader behind this whole travesty, Barack Obama, has decided that the whole thin ...
  • What's Wrong Here?
    Ah, I could talk more about how vile and shitty it is that a war criminal like Condoleeza Rice is coming to Canada and people are actually going to spend money to hear her talk. (Jesus Christ, I just can't resist pointing out that those people must be almost as stupid as she is! What do they expect ...
  • "Diary of a Madman": bush II's memoirs & stephen h ...
    Nothing really. I just wonder if upon hearing about bush II's publicity tour for his bound collection of used pieces of toilet paper, whether harper sighs longingly for the day when he can casually admit to complicity in torture too.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • 81% Of Americans Support Naked Airport Scans... If ...
    With all the stories of people who don't want to be groped or seen naked just to travel by airplane these days, the TSA must be thrilled with a new poll that was put out by CBS that's getting lots of press claiming that 81% of Americans support such full-body scans. Thus we get titles about how Ame ...
  • UK Politician Tossed Out Of Parliament For Lying A ...
    Having just gone through election season here in the US, with all sorts of crazy political claims made in political commercials, it's interesting to see that, over in the UK, one elected member of Parliament, Phil Woolas, recently lost his seat after a court threw out the results of the election bec ...
  • Briefing.com Settles, Admits To Questionable Hot N ...
    Earlier this year, we noted that News Corp appeared to be testing the waters with a hot news claim against Briefing.com for copying various Dow Jones Newswire stories. The details of the case suggested there might actually be a copyright issue, in that some of the material appeared to simply be cut ...
  • Is WIPO Really The Right Organization To Fix Copyr ...
    We recently pointed to a Larry Lessig speech, in which he argued that WIPO should lead efforts for copyright reform, noting that separate country governments were unlikely to lead copyright law in the right direction, since they tended to be beholden to the interests of legacy industries who benefit ...
  • Usenet Community FTD Not Guilty For Linking To Con ...
    We found it a bit troubling earlier this year when a Dutch court found that Usenet community FTD was guilty of copyright infringement because its users merely linked to Usenet locations where unauthorized copies of movies resided. An appeals court has now apparently reversed much of that decision - ...

VacTruth

  • GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts To Boost HPV Va ...
    By financing cancer research experts and support groups they can manipulate the market to benefit themselves. GSK is financially influencing experts in attempts to change current medical practices and diagnostics in the early detection of cervical cancer.
  • Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
    Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
  • Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
    In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...
  • Letter Alerts Obama to Dangers of HPV Vaccines
    In an extraordinary move to prevent further HPV vaccine casualties, Marian Greene the Chairwomen and Co-Founder of the campaign and action group Truth about Gardasil (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/), has written an open letter to President Obama. Her letter urges the President to take time to resea ...
  • Multiple Deaths Linked to Childhood Vaccines
    New evidence suggesting that forty children have died over the past seven years following a routine childhood vaccination. A Freedom of Information (FOI) data request to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). The FOI data revealed that childhood vaccinations are suspected ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apologies for missing my Thursday post.  I’ll make it up to you. You may have heard that there was a protest in Haiti.  UN peacekeepers are being blamed for the Cholera outbreak that has killed more than 900 people.  What a clusterfuck.  And the media reporting has been hideous. Also a clusterfu ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...
  • The Power of Principle
    So I got into a little twitter spat a few weeks ago.  One of the people I follow made the following statement: Some bloggers feel it’s better to be principled than in power. Naturally, I objected. The conversation turned into one of those us v. them tropes.  Us, in the case of this twitterer, bein ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Another busy weekend.  Saw Budrus on Friday.  It was excellent.  It’s playing in theaters all over the place.  You should see it, not just if you are interested in Israel/Palestine.  It has some interesting things to ponder for anyone who wants to use direct action for radical change. Went to t ...
  • Food, Water, Air and Care
    Remember Maslow’s hiearchy of needs?  Sure you do. It is usually presented something like this. You start at the bottom with the most basic needs.  As basic needs are met, you go up the pyramid.  I’ve seen a few of these pyramids.  They usually list the same stuff for basic needs – air, water, ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
  • By: FutureEmergency.com
    [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
  • By: Gina
    It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...
  • By: Elissa
    I am finding it very difficult to grasp how few(no) people are on here discussing this with great concern and passion for changing it. This entire subject has taken me by storm.
  • By: Nestlé and the other reasons I support the boy ...
    [...] those jobs typically going to people from outside the community, [...]

treehugger

  • Mediterranean Great Whites Originally From Austral ...
    photo: Brandon Fick/Creative Commons Some really interesting research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B highlighted by BBC News: Scientists have determined that the great white sharks living in the Mediterranean are more closely related to th...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Weekday Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Spicy Cheese Bisc ...
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter I don't normally serve bread or biscuits with dinner, but our vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner --- this is one of nine recipes -- was going to have sauces and gravy and no mashed potatoes to catch all that good stuff, so biscuits seemed like a great idea. I could have ma ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: 9 Thanksgiving Recipes, Tried ...
    Photo: TreeHugger Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this is one holiday where food is king, queen, court...well you get the point. TreeHugger writer Kelly Rossiter has whipped up (and sampled!) nine delicious vegetarian recipes -- so you can pack your menu full of tasty delights a ...
  • Visions Statements Are Not Enough. Backcasting a P ...
    Image credit: WTL Photos, used under Creative Commons license. I've never liked vision statements. All too often they smack of wishful thinking and fantasy. Yet the environmental movement is rife with them. As I have argued many times before, the green movement needs a concrete plan, and that p ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Butternut Squash ...
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter A lot of good cooks find making pastry a daunting proposition, but this galette is very forgiving. The rustic appearance is part of the charm of a galette so you don't have to worry about how the pastry looks. This delicious savoury pie was a perfect addition to the big Th ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
    Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
  • HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
    Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
  • Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
    People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...

CFACT

  • Real crimes against humanity
    The world is finally catching on to the junk global warming science and is no longer willing to give up dreams of electrified homes, shops and offices, jobs, and improved health and nutrition.
  • Alarmist spammer unleashes Twitterbot to stifle cl ...
    An Australian software developer grew tired of debating climate realists on Twitter so he created spambot to wear down his opponents. The bot responds to anyone who expresses skepticism about man-made global warming by posting one of hundreds of canned replies in an attempt to frustrate skeptics.
  • No more double standards
    Can we afford to continue having double standards that let government officials violate basic standards of honesty and accountability that they apply to citizens and companies? Why should legislators, regulators and investigators be exempt from rules they devise and impose on everyone else?
  • Dead Aid: Is foreign aid killing Africa?
    Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, demonstrates an inverse relationship between receipt of foreign aid and economic growth and prosperity. She proposes alternative paths to economic growth for African nations that include freer trade, foreign direct investment, and the infusion of private capital.
  • Land war in the West heats up
    Uintah County in Utah is suing the Interior Department, alleging that the federal government is illegally withholding federal lands in the county from oil and gas exploration. The land is within the boundary of a proposed wilderness area that has never been approved by Congress.

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Dr. Mercola: 3 Lies Big Food Wants You to Believe
    Lie #1: Industrial Food is Cheap The retail prices may be low, but they fail to include impacts on human health, the environment, and other shared public assets.Click here to read this article
  • Nanotechnology, Climate and Energy: Over-heated Pr ...
    "Very few people have looked beyond the shiny promise of nanotechnology to try and understand how this far-reaching new technique is actually developing. This report is an excellent glimpse inside, and it offers a judicious and balanced account of a subject we need very much to be thinking about." - ...
  • Will the Food Safety Modernization Act Harm Small ...
    Word has it that debate and voting of the Food Safety Modernization Act will begin this Wednesday in the Senate. If passed, S. 510 will greatly expand the FDA's authority over both processed foods and fresh fruits and vegetables. Will it thus make all of us eaters less likely to get sick? Last week, ...
  • L.A. County Passes Sweeping Ban on Plastic Bags
    Enacting one of the nation's most aggressive environmental measures, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban plastic grocery bags in unincorporated areas of the county.Click here to read this article
  • 9/11 Family Members of Victims Cast Doubts on the ...
    A new television ad campaign featuring the family members of 9/11 victims has succeeded in garnering what 9/11 activists have lacked for years: serious treatment in the mainstream media.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Colección de imágenes HDR I (High Dinamic Range)
    He visto que con suma frecuencia, los visitantes del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas buscan imágenes con efecto HDR o High Dinamic Range. Sin esperar tanto, he decidido lanzar nuestra serie especial para todos aquellos que como yo, amamos esta calidad de fotografías digitales.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobr ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte XII (10 escenarios del m ...
    Si usted lo desea, puede escoger un número para ver nuestras entregas anteriores sobre la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. ¡Cada día, tenemos más! [II][III][IV][V][VI][VII][VIII][IX][X][XI][XII]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen s ...
  • Del crepúsculo al amanecer II (10 puestas de sol)
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1][2] Si lo prefiere, vea fotos de: México, Estados Unidos, Canadá.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por fav ...
  • Paisajes naturales II (Más allá de los verdes prad ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4][5][6]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fot ...
  • Iglesias, templos, palacios y edificios VI (11 imá ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4][5][6]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Linksgiving
    Some stuff that’s been piling up. employment/unemployment related: $100k income from content farms? (very atypical â my math says she’s writing 20 articles a day with maybe one day off a week which is doable, but not sustainable) viral video of disgruntled racist jerk going off on a postal carrier [ ...
  • Less as more
    I did dishes last night. Not because I wanted to, but because I really needed to free up some space on my counters and butcher block table. I’d put it off as long as I was able, but the time had come when I simply had to recycle my dishes. I know, I know. If [...]
  • What I’m not linking to, + links
    I almost posted a link to Frank Rich this morning, then I thought, geez, show a little faith. These people can find Frank Rich without your help. Just like you found Paul Krugman’s Friday column without assistance from me, right? Truth is I’m finding the newspapers to be a very boring way to start m ...
  • Snowku
    Gas in the Buick Groceries all put away another cup of tea? � � slip sliding sideways TC streets are full of them assholes in their cars � And for my restaurant client: � Four reservations made for tonight long ago will they show up?
  • The electricity is still there
    The L.A. Times piles on the Twain for what will be a snowbound weekend for most Minnesotans. A review of volume one David Ulin ranks Twain’s works Ulin on Huck Finn I put Huck and Tom on Dad’s Kindle (I think it’s going to be a keeper, his first words were, “my, that’s easy to [...]

Public News Service

  • Group Shines a Light on Money in Politics
    Group Shines a Light on Money in Politics Phoenix, AZ – It is now possible to see who the biggest donors are to members of Congress. A nonpartisan research group has designed a new “widget” with NASCAR like logos so that voters can track the money that is flowing to their legislators. Comments from ...
  • Study: Beware of Junk Science on Education Reform
    Study: Beware of Junk Science on Education Reform Phoenix, AZ – When Arizona, and the rest of the nation, make decisions on how to improve the education system, a Midwest research group is warning policymakers against using what they have discovered is "biased information." Comments from Teri Battag ...
  • Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popul ...
    Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popularity Increases Phoenix, AZ – It’s been five years since the first “check-up” on the health and management of the National Landscape Conservation System – which includes the Agua Fria (AH-wah FREE-ah) and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monuments in Arizo ...
  • AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label
    AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label Phoenix, AZ – A national survey last week painted Latino voters as “less motivated” to go to the polls this fall. Arizona Latinos say that may be true elsewhere, but not in the Grand Canyon State. Comments from “One Arizona” spokesperson Tania Marquez (MAR- ...
  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Hundreds of AZ Wom ...
    Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Hundreds of AZ Women Killed a Year Phoenix, AZ – Women across Arizona are receiving their annual reminder on the importance of early detection when it comes to breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The disease kills hundreds across the sta ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Does TSA Think Tampons Are A Security Risk? - Femi ...
    Does TSA Think Tampons Are A Security Risk? - Feminist Peace Network: "It never ceases to amaze me exactly what it takes to make the American people rise up. Turns out that after all of these years of hyper airport security mania not phasing us, it’s the thought of having to choose between being se ...
  • Fox News anchor effectively says all Hispanics are ...
    Fox News anchor effectively says all Hispanics are illegal aliens | Raw Story Fox News often takes the spotlight for its sensational news coverage, but one Fox News anchor appears to have taken the network a step further. The anchor, Trace Gallagher, claimed that a new study has shown 100,000 illeg ...
  • Boycott List for God-Conscious Consumers
    by Hudwa JawadIslamic InsightsNovember 15, 2010 For years, proponents of a free and frighteningly unregulated global market have argued that all profit is good profit. But not quite. The world has witnessed a consistent exploitation of third world markets and labor at the hands of global mu ...
  • Oakland Police identified officers in Derrick Jone ...
    Oakland Police identified officers in Derrick Jones shooting | The Informant Earlier today, the Oakland Tribune identified the two officers who fatally shot Derrick Jones on Monday evening as Eriberto Perez-Angeles and Omar Daza-Quiroz. Perez-Angeles has been with OPD for three years and is a mem ...
  • A Tale of Two Threats: Who Do the Police Let Live ...
    A Tale of Two Threats: Who Do the Police Let Live When Danger is Present? - Davey D's Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog) With respect to Carlos-Valentino and his bomb threat, everyone was on alert. There was a stand-off on the bridge during which this man tossed his gun, allowed his daughter to run off to ...

Pensieve

  • Freedom
    Photo by Glen’s Pics These are lyrics that came to me this morning as I was struggling through the paradox of being a “slave to righteousness” versus a slave to sin. Being “slaves” of God is not true slavery, because when we submit to him, he sets us free to do much more than we [...] Related post ...
  • Ortega and Ham Endangering Central America
    Photo by brian.ch The actions of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Honduran minister of Agriculture César Ham are endangering the stability of the region. One is creating a war out of thin air to hide his blatant power grab. The other is taking advantage of Honduran President Lobo’s trip to Ta ...
  • Forbid Campaign Contributions!
    Photo by wstera2 I read an article by Noam Chomsky this morning, in which he reflects on the aftermath of the US election. In it are several interesting points, well though out and illuminating; others were less so. Firstly he apparently sees himself as an anti-capitalist, not a Democrat. I suspect ...
  • Flying Dancers of Papantla
    This week, Monterrey is celebrating Mexico’s 200 years of independence from Spain, and 100 years since the Mexican revolution. The city’s largest park, built in the grounds of the steel factory that was once her strongest company, is hosting a fair. I shot this video while I was there last Sunday. A ...
  • Terror Averted Before Key Election…Coincidence?
    Photo by Gord McKenna Since Obama’s inauguration, left-leaning intellectuals have been frustrated in his reluctance or inability to implement the more radical elements of their agenda. At fist they saw him as a savior to the left. Now they are mourning the “Death of the Liberal Class”, as they stand ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 15/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 10/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Eco Tourism, the new green holiday adventure
    Gone are the days of trampling the environment without regard whilst on holiday. It’s time to travel the world in a mindful and earth friendly way!
  • Compost
    1. DEFINITION: "compost" Compost is made of organic materials obtained from plant and animal by products that have been decomposed via aerobic decomposition. Compost or composting is a widely used procedure carried out by farmers and by industries in factories and cities. Individuals can easily pro ...
  • The Koala, an Australian Icon
    The Koala is an Australian icon. We have to be careful with these animals and take good care of their habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html). In particular, Climate change (glossary/categories/climate-change/climate-change-impact-2.html) influences their natural environment a lot. Read this inspir ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US 'to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014'
    ShareThisUS 'to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014' 17 Nov 2010 The US-led NATO military alliance says handing over security matters to Afghan forces could take place well beyond a 2014 target date in some areas in Afghanistan. Mark Sedwill, the top civilian NATO representative in Afghanistan, said the ...
  • Sarah Palin's Daughter Uses Homophobic Slurs
    ShareThisSarah Palin's Daughter Uses Homophobic Slurs 16 Nov 2010 Sarah Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow Palin used multiple homophobic slurs -- including the word f**got -- to attack a Facebook user who criticized her mom's new reality show TMZ has learned. During the premiere of "Sarah Palin's ...
  • UN urges full US torture investigation
    ShareThisUN urges full US torture investigation 17 Nov 2010 The United Nations has called on the United States to conduct a full investigation into torture under the administration of former US President [sic] George W. Bush. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Ernesto Mendez, urged Washingto ...
  • CIA renditions unlawful: Amnesty
    ShareThis'We simply can't allow Europe to join the US in becoming an 'accountability-free' zone.' CIA renditions unlawful: Amnesty 15 Nov 2010 European governments should not follow the United States' reluctance to shed light on unlawful intelligence operations carried out against suspected Islamist ...
  • Holiday security campaign announced
    ShareThisHoliday security campaign announced 15 Nov 2010�The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it was expanding its national "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign to the Washington region, as the agency continued to weather criticism over its intensified airport screening mea ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mortgage securitization. Charting who owns a home
    Dan Edstrom is an expert in charting such relationships and it took him a year to find out who actually owned his home. Note the “Black Hole” on the right side near the top. Apparently some details are unknowable, even to an expert. Such a deranged system of mortgage securitization is error-prone, o ...
  • TSA scanners and body searches are abusive, appall ...
    So says Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips in an interview with CAIVN. CAIVN: What do you think about the TSA’s “nude” body scanners? Judson Phillips: I am appalled by them. First is the radiation hazard which the regime does not even address. Second, I don’t want people staring at me without ...
  • 60% of psychedelic users report LSD flashbacks
    photo © 2009 Chris Halderman | more info (via: Wylio) Hmmph. I feel sorely cheated. Even though I’ve been clean and sober many years now with no desire to go back to that world, you’d think I could have rated at least a couple of acid flashbacks. But no… Nada, zilch, none. Sigh.
  • Austria to Greece. Drop dead
    Austria so totally does not want to contribute $258 million more in their next tranche to Greece, saying Greece isn’t hitting their promised targets. The EU president says the mounting insolvency crises in Greece, Portugal, and Ireland threaten the EU itself. Much of this was deliberately caused by ...
  • Offshore ‘sandbox’ proposed for ocean and wind pow ...
    Scientists and developers plan a testing site between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket for offshore wind, tidal, and wave energy systems. The site would have berths for equipment, allow sharing of information, and be compliant with all regulations – something which will save projects large amounts of ...

Coteret

  • Danny Ayalon to Norway: Why can’t you keep your ar ...
    The Israeli government reaction to the homegrown cultural boycott of the West Bank settlement of Ariel was forceful and blunt: Threaten funding, establish a “Zionist Art Prize” and de-legitimize whoever takes part as fifth-columnists. This should not have been a surprise, coming from a government th ...
  • Lieberman says Israel’s borders “imperialist” and ...
    “Anti-Zionism” can be found in surprising places. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was up in the Golan Heights on Thursday. The settlement of Katzrin awarded him “honorary citizenship of the city.” The Israeli media provided superficial reporting of Lieberman’s acceptance speech, with only gene ...
  • Maariv: Geert Wilders to express support for &#822 ...
    There’s more to this. Israeli adulation for the Dutch ultra-nationalist is not limited to the National Union: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows at Dore Gold’s neoconservative power-house — The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — has been a leading cheerleader. Dutch reinforceme ...
  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Makes Change in Size of Embedded Flash Pl ...
    Facebook has changed the dimensions of flash players embedded in the news feed from 460 by 460 pixels to 398 by 398 pixels. Facebook initially labeled the change a bug that would be fixed, but later made the change official. The new dimensions may cause some flash to be displayed improperly, so deve ...
  • Tags, Quizzes and More on This Week’s List of Fast ...
    This week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining Facebook apps by daily active users helps to surface a few new apps, as well as show that older concepts still have traction. Here’s the top 20: Top Gainers This Week Name DAU Gain Gain,% 1. Windows Live Messenger 9,572,993 +457,539 +5% 2. Social Fun 477,8 ...
  • Facebook’s Engineer-Recruiter Effort Helps Land An ...
    Facebook has acquired stealth startup Walletin and hired its founders Cory Ondrejka and Bruce Rogers. Ondrejka was the first chief technology officer of Linden Lab, developers of Second Life. Unlike the social network’s recent purchases of Divvyshot, ShareGrove, and Hot Potato which were explicitly ...
  • Safeway, GameStop and RadioShack Also Get Facebook ...
    The retail roll-out of Facebook Credits gift cards is continuing today, with the company announcing their availability in three more chains: Safeway, GameStop and RadioShack. The timing suggests that Facebook wants these cards all over the place before the holiday season gets underway, and people st ...
  • Facebook Connect Appears as Sign-Up Option in MySp ...
    As part of its big new site redesign, MySpace has introduced a new Facebook integration that is supposed to let you sign up for MySpace using Facebook Connect. The feature isn’t currently working — you click on the Login with Facebook button, give MySpace extended permissions to access Facebook dat ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Sheriff Obama strikes a one-sided deal with gang l ...
    Neve Gordon views US President Barack Obama’s reckless offer to arms Israel to the teeth, protect it from pressure at the United Nations and fend off attempts to expose its nuclear weapons programme in return for a temporary freeze on construction on stolen Palestinian land.
  • Ehud Barak's criminal legacy regarding Israeli att ...
    Uri Avnery views the criminal legacy of Israeli Defence Minister and war crimes suspect Ehud Barak in hardening Israeli opinion against peace with the Palestinian people.
  • The torturers revisited
    Paul J. Balles find echoes of Kafka in the US torture facility at Guantanamo in Cuba and a secret British detention centre near Basra, in Iraq.
  • Palestine and the fate of the United Nations
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the failure of the United Nations to deliver justice to the Palestinians has condemned it to oblivion and that rather than look to the UN to deliver justice, fairness and equity, civil society must mobilize to do what is right in Palestine, as happened in the struggle t ...
  • Israel's self-destruction: reunifying the Palestin ...
    Jonathan Cook explains how the Israeli racial supremacists' insistence on a Jews-only state could backfire by uniting Palestinians inside Israel, the occupied territories and the diaspora behind "one binational, democratic state for all Palestinians and Jews in historic Palestine".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s New Healthcare ...
    Taking Medical Tourism One Step Further The Obama administration is getting ready to unveil a new innovative healthcare initiative geared to bridge TSA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Tourism Industry to provide airline travelers with several major physical examinations at No C ...
  • Little Steps Towards the Big Leap?
    Time To Test our Might & Will 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 related organizations have been making a little headway. And we ha ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Not So Gradual Degradation Of A Nation
    Paying To Be Raped Every single day millions of us are being subjected to the shameful processes of being searched, screened and viewed naked, patted, groped, fondled, poked and stroked by badge-wearing strangers- police under a different name. Every single day. Millions of us, Americans. Being viol ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Black Women in Europe™: Power List 2010 – Ca ...
    Inspired by Forbes’ Most Powerful Women 2010 List on which Michelle Obama is named the most powerful woman, I decided to compile the Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List 2010. The Black Women in Europe⢠Social Network members have submitted nominees and I invite you to do the same. You can suggest a ...
  • Sonnet For A Writer
    Far rather would I search my chaff for grain And cease at last with hunger in my soul, Than suck the polished wheat another brain Refurbished till it shone, by art’s control. To stray across my own mind’s half-hewn stone And chisel in the dark, in hopes to cast A fragment of our common self, [...]
  • Walking in the Spirit of Richard Wright in Paris
    Let’s Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Richard Wrightâs Death. November 28, 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Richard Wright. It would be wonderful if all of us could gather around his gravesite in Paris but that may be impossible for most of us. Letâs each of us mark this occasio ...
  • “The Reason Why The Black Male ‘Crisis ...
    Interetsing article in the Huffington Post by educator, writer and AfroSpear Googlegroup blogger: José Luis Vilson. Joel Klein’s recent resignation had an interesting alignment to a report that showed that black males in the United States aren’t doing well in this country. You’ve read the statistic ...
  • sat’day riddymz

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...
  • BT Adastral Plan Wipes Out “Green” Pro ...
    Adastral Park is part of BT’s (formerly British Telecom) Martlesham Heath technology complex, a combination of defence research laboratory and industrial park, situated close to the busy Suffolk town of Ipswich, and adjacent to a large area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You can find Adastral Park b ...
  • Monthly Undermining Task, November 2010: The Onlin ...
    Where do you go for information? I guess, because you are reading this as a web page, then your primary resource for information that you need in a hurry (and aren’t we all in a hurry nowadays?) is the Internet. As far as corporations go, online presence has now eclipsed printed and television media ...
  • George Monbiot on the Fake Biodiversity Agreement
    There is something stirring, and I don’t think it’s just in the air – I think George Monbiot is turning his back on industrial civilization, and about time too. We could do with someone like him in the ranks of the “heretic unbelievers”. Here is his take on the Agreement That Never Was: Everyone agr ...
  • Chevron Spoof Posters: Just The Start
    On the coattails of their Chevron spoof (see here for the full story) the Yes Men have opened up the original graphics from their web sites for public subvertising. Angry and frustrated that oil companies like Chevron think they can ignore their environmental and human rights abuses while cleaning u ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Film Review - Filmmaker Justin Strawhand Tackles E ...
    Jersey City filmmaker Justin Strawhand explores eugenics in America in his latest film,�War Against the Weak. Strawhand directed the film, which outlines the connection between the United States� push to create a master race by eliminating the �unfit� and the Holocaust.We caught up with Strawhand in ...
  • Farhud Book Episode is Shattering
    I am not sure if I should be thankful or sorry that you published the excerpt from Edwin Black�s new book, The Farhud (see When Arabs Massacred Jews Because they Sat While Praying, November 15, 2010, Page One).�Suffice it to say, I found that episode of about the 1929 massacre at Hebron, and the his ...
  • Santis Hit the Nail on the Head in Defending Acade ...
    Mr. Santis hit the nail on the head with his article about suppressing religious freedom in the name of boycotting Israel (see Foreign Entities Endanger Academic Freedom in the US, Slices November 15, 2010). I am sure there is always an excuse for suppressing the freedom of women, another religious ...
  • Santis Shows Civilized World is Threatened by Boyc ...
    The recent comment by Yitzhak Santis (see Foreign Entities Endanger Academic Freedom in the US, Slices November 15, 2010) about academic freedom, the boycott movement against Israel and the false appeal by the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) should be a reminder of how th ...
  • The Metal’s Edge - The Rare Earth Dilemma: China’s ...
    Last week, the Cutting Edge News published the first article of a three-part series about rare earth elements, which focused on their role in energy security. This is the second of three articles, focusing on some of the environmental implications of rare earth elements.The topic of rare earth eleme ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • G - 20, APEC And The Extreme Unction Of Credibilit ...
    By Fidel Castro According to Roman Catholic practice, when someone is deathly ill, they make their confession and then receive extreme unction. This is what has happened with United States credibility in the almost simultaneous meetings of the G-20 and APEC. On the basis of this, we dont know what ...
  • The Dominant Culture Is Killing The Planet, Its Ve ...
    By Derrick Jensen A Democracy Now! interview with Derrick Jensen
  • Interview With Chris Martenson: Prepare For peak O ...
    By Alexander Ac Dr. Chris Martenson says that the next 20 years will be very different from the last 20 years. Peak oil will change everything and there is never too soon for preparations. The key is resilience, self-dependency and versatility. He is an optimist and believes that many people will s ...
  • Techno-Optimism Meets Its Match
    By Guy R. McPhersonAccording to the extremely conservative International Energy Agency (IEA), we have passed the world peak for conventional oil (in 2006, they say). In a stunning nod to reality, even the New York Times agrees. In a bizarre case of committee-style cognitive dissonance, the IEA fol ...
  • The Age Of Cheap Oil Is Over
    By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed We are now inhabiting a post-peak world. That is the implication of the International Energy Agencys (IEA) new report, World Energy Outlook 2001, which in its 25-year New Policies Scenario projects that it is most probable that conventional crude oil production never re ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Members Of Congress Personal Income WAY UP-Rest of ...
    One of the great things about America is people are free to make as much money as they can, as long as its made honestly.� Sometimes though, there is a trend in income growth that makes one wonder if there is anything funky going on. The US is still in the midst of a two-year long economic down ...
  • US to Palestinian Authority "Thank You For Taking ...
    By Barry Rubin The U.S. government is rushing an additional $150 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) so that it can have a balanced budget. Funny, the United States doesn't have a balanced budget and the same government doesn't think that's a problem. Moreover, the PA doesn't really ...
  • US Government "Crapped Away" $125 in BILLION in 2 ...
    Many people scoff when a candidate proposes cutting fraud and waste as an element of trimming the Federal budget, but here is a perfect example of how cutting fraud and waste will actually make a dent. It is also an example of how the government still doesn't get it. During the fiscal year jus ...
  • UH-OH!!! Scientist Discovers Global Warming Causes ...
    Here they go again! Those Global Warming Moonbats are just so creative, they figure out ways to blame the dumbest things on global warming. Some of may favorites include, Incredible shrinking sheep, Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean, Surge in fatal shark attack, Boy Scout tornado death ...
  • How The Liberal Jewish Press "Screws" The Jewish P ...
    I don't know if its 2,000 years of Jewish guilt or something in our DNA but the Jewish people have a history of being our own worst enemies. Nowhere is that proven more clearly than in the Jewish press. For any anti-Semites that may be reading this article, I realize that you believe that all media ...

The Real Agenda

  • Chertoff Made a Kill, people left with the Bill
    Airport Body Scanners is another way of ending freedom and getting taxpayers stuck with the cost. Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.) blasted the Transportation Security Administration Wednesday during a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives for invasive “pat-downs” of U.S. citiz ...
  • Airport Scanners: It’s all about submitting
    It’s about giving away liberty for false security.  “Americans have yet to make any really major sacrifices for their security,” says professor. AP An airport traveler who famously resisted a full-body scan and groin check with the words “If you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested” has become an ...
  • U.S. Nazi Past goes Main Stream
    NYT reports about Project Paperclip, CIA-Nazi link Deborah Dupré The Justice Department report, describing what it calls “the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even th ...
  • In the U.S. Senate Bill will criminalize Food Prod ...
    "S.510" U.S. Senate bill that could criminalize saving seeds and outlaw backyard garden food production. It is being called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America.
  • The techno-military control grid known as U.S.A.
    By Luis R. Miranda Ten zones, not fifty states.  Ten governors, not one president, a Congress and a Supreme Court.  Hundreds of detention centers around the ten zones, not freedom of speech, assembly or movement.  Illegal searches in airports and harassment everywhere else, not individual rights.  H ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm buys more properties
    Waubra wind farm operator Acciona has confirmed it has now bought out seven property owners. Director of generation Brett Wickham said yesterday two more properties had been recently purchased by the company. Mr Wickham said post-construction noise monitoring was completed in September. This monitor ...
  • Deaths of rare eagles rises
    The number of eagles killed by turbine blades at one of Australia’s largest wind farms is climbing, with a rare juvenile wedge-tailed eagle the 22nd to die at Woolnorth in Tasmania’s north-west. The farm is killing two protected species at the rate of about 3.2 eagles a year, according to a count by ...
  • Wind project divides Bourne residents
    BOURNE â With two public meetings under their belts, the backers of the New Generation Wind project spent Monday night’s Cape Cod Commission subcommittee hearing addressing concerns including health issues and the financial impacts of their seven proposed turbines. A mix of supporters â wearing the ...
  • Urbana council, residents hit UI over wind turbine ...
    URBANA â Some city council members on Monday night said they were frustrated that a University of Illinois wind turbine project is moving along without consulting city officials or adhering to a new zoning ordinance. Diane Marlin, D-7, said the UI’s plans for up to three 400-foot wind turbines in un ...
  • Windmill noise plan raises stir
    Neighbors of wind farm developments planned in Tippecanoe County are unhappy that officials are considering relaxing the sound limits previously set. After months of wrangling, the county commissioners approved a final wind energy ordinance in August. But the board is now revisiting the document and ...

Not My Tribe

  • No new propaganda under the sun
    Did you think Operation Iraqi Freedom photographers invented the warplanes at sunrise theme? Here’s a propaganda shot circa WWI, where the crack of dawn obviously had to be hand tinted on the original monochrome. It’s no more a manipulation than what our embeds contrive today. The caption under this ...
  • Right Wing running with scissors on the Accidental ...
    Aren't they forgetting a few tiny details in their Racist Dumbass propaganda there?
  • While the rest of the world celebrates Armistice D ...
    We have Veterans Day, or, as I like to put it, “your recruiter lied to you and society used your entire childhood to condition you to accept that, so to make up for getting screwed like that we’ll have a postal holiday and a parade for you”. Just, you know, don’t actually expect those benefits [...]
  • I guess they couldn’t pass the physical&#823 ...
    Gratuitous plug for Endless War by the Country Music Awards just a couple of minutes ago. Something about “Wounded Warrior” being always in their hearts. Yeah, right. It’s one thing for burnt out AlterKokkers like Ted Nugent and Merle Haggard getting up on stage and telling people that if they were ...
  • Pentagon says “we don’t know how we la ...
    It’s all over the net now, an “unexplained, possibly accidental” launch of a missile off California. I read “accidental missile launch”, googled that term and got time after time after time that missiles have been fired without any advance planning. Most of the types that can’t be just launched by o ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • EU President Herman Van Rompuy is Master Yoda!
    (Image by Brocke). Nation states are dead: EU chief says the belief that countries can stand alone is a 'lie and an illusion' Mr Van Rompuy’s speech in the German capital told his audience that ‘the time of the homogenous nation state is over’. He added that the ‘danger’ of Euroscepticism was spr ...
  • Aussie Trades Unionist Exposes 9/11 Cover-up
    alawson911 YouTube.com October 27, 2010 Listen to an overbearing gatekeeper, Jon Faine, attempt to rubbish the genuine concerns of an Australian trades unionist, Kevin Bracken, in an attempt to stifle any debate about the many anomalies in the official 9/11 story. Seldom have I heard anyone, who o ...
  • EU President Herman Van Rompuy channels his lookal ...
    Nation states are dead: EU chief says the belief that countries can stand alone is a 'lie and an illusion' Mr Van Rompuy’s speech in the German capital told his audience that ‘the time of the homogenous nation state is over’. He added that the ‘danger’ of Euroscepticism was spreading beyond the c ...
  • Breaking News: Hell Freezes Over!
  • Commentary on Mystery Of The Urinal Deuce (Comment ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this video today: Here are decent responses published at 911truth.org and 911blogger.com at the time. This episode aired in late 2006, so this commentary is most likely from awhile back as well. I have to wonder if South Park creators Trey Parker ...

Fooducate

  • Four Food Tips for Grandparents
    This is a guest blog post by Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RD, CSSD. We live in age where many children not only know their grandparents but their great grandparents, too. Today we are not a sandwich generation but a club sandwich generation where 4 or 5 generations can interact with each other. One compl ...
  • Hold the Cheese
    Have you seen the latest commercials for Domino’s Pizza , Legends / Wisconsin edition, with all the added cheese? Turns out the USDA has been helping the dairy industry unload gazillions of pounds of dairy products over the years, including cheese. Read this great piece by Michael Moss of the NY Ti ...
  • Pomi – BPA Free Crushed Tomatoes [Product Test]
    Following up on the yesterday’s blog post, we recently took a look at POMI canned tomatoes, that come in a BPA-free package. Penny, a fooducate product tester got a a test pack sent to her home and had only good things to say: I personally liked them a lot. They make three different products: marin ...
  • The Never-Ending BPA Controversy
    Last month, Canada banned Bisphenol-A from all food products. But the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that this move may have been premature: “Circulating levels of BPA in the human body were found to be very low, indicating that BPA is not accumulated in the body and is [...]
  • What Products are People Scanning Most with Fooduc ...
    In the week since we’ve released the fooducate iPhone app, people have been using it to scan tens of thousands of items. We have over 160,000 unique products in our database, and it was interesting to see which would get looked up the most. Here are the top three, so far. #1 is Nutella. [...]

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Canada endorses UN Declaration on indigenous peopl ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival Canada has endorsed the UN Declaration on indigenous peoples three years after the declaration was approved by the General Assembly. In a statement released last Friday, Canadaâs Indian and Northern Affairs department said, âThe Government of Canada wou ...
  • International NGOs unite against oil giants
    Uncontacted Indians' territory in Peru is being invaded by oil companies. © Anon Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru. ...
  • 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 believ ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Wiping out property law and destroying counties to ...
    Bmaz: There are rapidly emerging signs the Obama Administration and Congress may be actively, quickly and covertly working furiously on a plan to retroactively legitimize and ratify the shoddy, fraudulent and non-conforming conduct by MERS on literally millions of mortgages. From CNBC: When Congress ...
  • Hope!
    No,  I’m not being sarcastic.  I still have little hope for the US, but I am very heartened by what is happening in Europe.  The French actions and now the British students rioting.  It is, ironically, even more hopeful that the British government wants to try a student for attempted murder for ...
  • Bush would have endorsed Obama if asked
    From the FT: “The venue was the Oval Office. A group of British dignitaries, including Gordon Brown, were paying a visit. It was at the height of the 2008 presidential election campaign, not long after Bush publicly endorsed John McCain as his successor… Trying to be even-handed and polite, the Brit ...
  • In Flanders Field
    by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Love ...
  • The economic trap the 1st world is in
    For years I’ve been saying the plan was to Japanify. Japanify is another way of saying “extend and pretend”.  You pretend the banks and the rich aren’t broke.  In the Japan scenario, you slowly pay down or write off the bank losses at a pace which doesn’t wipe out the shareholders or bondholders o ...

Age of Autism

  • NY Autism Organization's Unite in Opposition to Cu ...
    The New York State Regents, an appointed board that sets policy for the state's schools will be voting today on new regulations that will reduce speech therapy requirements for students with autism in New York to the federally mandated minimum...
  • 1001 Tips for Parents of Autistic Boys (and Girls) ...
    1,001 Tips for the Parents of Autistic Boys by Ken Siri & 1001 Tips for the Parents of Autistic Girls by Tony Lyons provide today’s Moms and Dads with all the information they need to raise happy, healthy kids with...
  • Massachusetts Dental Society Offering Course in Au ...
    By Kim Stagliano My father is a retired orthodonist and instructor at Tufts University Dental School. He and my Mom came to help Mark for the weekend while I was at NAA in St. Pete. He brought me a course...
  • Read an Excerpt and Win A Signed Copy of The Age o ...
    Win a signed copy of Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted's The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic by leaving a comment on this post. Make sure you fill in the email field with your proper email address....
  • Win 1001 Tips for the Parents of Autistic Boys and ...
    It pays to have friends in high places! Tony Lyons, Publisher at Skyhorse is also the father of a daughter with autism and an author. His colleague Ken Siri has a boy with autism. They teamed up to parents around...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Haiti officials say cholera deaths now above 1,000
    BBC – The Haitian health ministry said the number of people who had received hospital treatment for the disease had risen to nearly 16,800. Meanwhile, United Nations peacekeepers have stepped up security after violent protests on Monday left two Haitians dead. At least one of the men was shot dead b ...
  • Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs
    AP — Airport security stops one airline pilot because he’s carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they fear low-level radiation from body scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he can’t fly at all when he likens an intrusive body search ...
  • Fiji’s acting prime minister resigns
    ABC – Fiji’s interim minister for defence, national security and immigration, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, has resigned. Mr Ganilau had also been acting as the country’s interim prime minister while Commodore Frank Bainimarama is in China for trade talks. The interim government has not given a reason for the ...
  • Community Water Fluoridation: Safety; Infant Formu ...
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Recent evidence suggests that mixing powdered or liquid infant formula concentrate with fluoridated water on a regular basis may increase the chance of a child developing the faint white markings of very mild or mild enamel fluorosis. This occurs on baby ...
  • Associations between fluorosis of permanent inciso ...
    PubMed – (Abstract)… RESULTS: Considering only fluoride intake from ages 3 to 9 months, the authors found that participants with fluorosis (97 percent of which was mild) had significantly greater cumulative fluoride intake (AUC) from reconstituted powdered infant formula and other beverages with add ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Arnold's climate summit: a final hot-air fest?
    It was Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's third and final "Climate Summit," but the annual gabfest went out with more of a whimper than a bang. For three years, the governor has used his star power to attract other "sub-national" leaders of...
  • Plastic bags banned in unincorporated Los Angeles ...
    Starting next July, residents of unincorporated Los Angeles County won't get the ubiquitous "paper or plastic" question when they check out their groceries, and if they request "paper," they'll pay a dime apiece for the the bags. In a 3-1...
  • "Food Justice" : a playbook for the future of food
    The Los Angeles riots in 1992 spurred a group of UCLA students and professor Robert Gottlieb to survey residents in low-income areas of the city. The result surprised them; at the top of the list of what residents said they...
  • L.A.'s solar subsidies: Should the City Council co ...
    Los Angeles homeowners and businesses have applied for $70 million in rebates from the city utility this year to build rooftop solar panels. That should be good news for green jobs and for the small businesses that have grown up...
  • Grizzly jokes aside, will John McCain stand up to ...
    Sen. John McCain loved to crack jokes about DNA research on America's remaining grizzly bears. "I don't know if it was a paternity issue, or criminal, but it was a waste of money," McCain said, repeating the joke during his...

water.org

  • Matt Damon gets $1 Million for clean water (Ecoraz ...
    Matt Damon Gets $1 Million For Clean Water (Ecorazzi) – It was just announced that the Hult International Business School is going to donate $1 million to Water.org as part of an an MBA case competition. An organization co-founded by superstar Matt Damon, Water.org aims to provide safe drinking wate ...
  • Matt Damon’s water bottle for charity (BSCKi ...
    Matt Damon Designs Limited Edition Water Bottle For Charity (BSCKids) – Matt Damon is known for his action packed films, but he is also a big giver to charities. He recently co-founded Water.org to bring awareness about developing nations and their lack of safe water. In fact, Haiti is a big contend ...
  • Students compete for innovative solutions to water ...
    Top business school students from around the world compete for innovative solutions to the global clean water crisis (Boston – November 16, 2010) Hult International Business School announced today that the theme of its 2nd annual Global Case Challenge is the global clean water crisis. In partnership ...
  • Water.org, Mastercard launch $3.6m partnership (MC ...
    MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Water.org, Mastercard Foundation Launch $3.6m Partnership to Boost WaterCredit Program That Uses Microfinance to Increase Access to Clean Water in Africa (MicroCapital) – Water.org, a nonprofit organization promoting access to clean water in Africa, and Mastercard Foundation, a T ...
  • Water.org selected for Hult MBA competition (FT)
    Matt Damonâs charity benefits from global MBA advice (Financial Times) – Hult International Business School is to give $1m to Water.org to implement recommendations made by MBA students in an international case competition. Water.org is a non-profit, co-founded by Hollywood actor Matt Damon, to help ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Jerusalem Mayor: Municipality not allowed to raze ...
    "As of today, the Prime Minister's Bureau does not permit the demolition of homes," Barkat told the State Control Committee. "The bottom line is that the Jerusalem municipality can not carry out any demolitions unless accompanied by the police." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Netanyahu is fomenting revolution in the West Bank
    In Algiers 22 years and a day ago, Arafat declared the establishment of the Palestinian state. According to some of Netanyahu's "supporters" in the PA, if Netanyahu continues with his "nay" policy, he will cause the declaration to be carried out. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • U.S. taxpayers are paying for Israel's West Bank o ...
    Etkes wondered how it is possible that the Obama administration, which is vociferously opposed to the continuation of the status quo in the West Bank, continues to subsidize the road for Israel..Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Holocaust survivor whose life is in danger aga ...
    His only "crime" is to rent out his rooms to three Arab students attending the college in Safed, a religious city in northern Israel that was until recently more famous for Jewish mysticism and Madonna.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • $3 billion in fighter jets to Israel: reward or br ...
    Their description of the terms under which US taxpayers would provide Israel with an "extra" $3 Billion payout looks like nothing so much as a foolish bribe: $33 million a day for a 90-day moratorium on settlements, settlements which are, moreover, allSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Abused Women Showcase Their Life Stories Through ...
    Awaaz-e-Niswaan helped abused women to settle their marital disputes, restoring confidence and making them self reliant was the next step. They learned a new skill and builds confidence especially in photography where pictures convey varied messages
  • UN Urges People of Guinea to Accept Presidential P ...
    The country's Independent Electoral Commission today declared Alpha Cond� the winner of the second round of the poll, which was held on 7 November. The other candidate was Cellou Dalein Diallo.
  • New York's Famous Rubin Museum Sells Dolls Made By ...
    Items include children's dolls made by Buddhist nuns in Dharamsala in India. Tibetan coral necklace from antique Tibetan coral beads with a 24K gold chain will also be displayed. The necklaces cost around $4,575. Meditation aids and other Himalayan
  • Google's Fashion Shopping Web Site
    Boutiques.com is a collection of hundreds of virtual boutiques merchandised by designers, retailers, bloggers, celebrities and just people.
  • UNICEF Ambassador Roger Moore Visits Disabled Ch ...
    Accompanied by his wife, Kristina, Mr. Moore's five-day visit will include an event organized by Special Olympics and UNICEF to highlight the importance of sports and healthy living in developing children's cognitive skills and providing a sense o

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Wall Street Already Finding Loopholes in Financial ...
    recession.jpg Continuing in the tradition of watered down, pro-corporate legislation that the Obama administration is becoming infamous for, new reports are surfacing that banks and financial institution ...
  • Police force shut down of Fitwatch
    The metropolitan police forced the closure of anti-police blog fitwatch.org.uk after it published advice for protesters involved in last weeks' student protests. The order to shut down the site was sent by Detective Inspector Will Hodgso ...
  • Sussex University occupation issues statement
    Occupiers of the Fulton building at Sussex University today issued a statement from the occupation explaining their reasons and putting forward demands. Statement from the occupation: November 15, 2010 This afternoon, over 170 students ...
  • University occupations following London student pr ...
    goldsmiths.jpg Students at Manchester and Sussex universities have staged occupations following the NUS/UCU march against tuition fees and cuts last week. Over 200 students began a ...
  • "Hardcore troublemaker" anarchist group laughs off ...
    millbank.jpg Solidarity Federation, which helped organise the Radical Workers' and Students Bloc at the NUS/UCU education march derides "absurd and patronising" attempts to blame it for damage at Tory HQ ...

Free Range International

  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
  • Inchon
    Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...
  • The Going Is Getting Tough
    The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov 13, ...
    The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
  • Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
    Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
  • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
    She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's our ...
  • Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
    He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.
  • Lyndsay Greene, Author -- encore (Oct 19, 2010)
    Peter talks about planning and preparation for the retirement years with the author of "You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?"

Scotts Contracting

  • New Environmental Game- Facebook Application
    Play "eMission": A New Online Environmental Game. Win Prizes. Today, DoSomething.org, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program, is launching "eMission"âa unique Facebook game with a social mission of encouraging offline actions that save energy … Conti ...
  • Here is a collection of Hints, Installation tips, ...
    On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Did your last window installation leak? Here is a collection of Hints, Installation tips, photos, proper sealant, product recommendations, resources for Installing Vinyl Replacement Windows Sealant is the … Continue read ...
  • Net Zero Home- Equal Consumption and Generation of ...
    On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: November 2010 Netting Zero in a Cold Climate How a house in northern Vermont produces as much energy as it consumes by David Pill As an architect, Iâve … Continue reading →
  • Guest Post: Vote Solar
    With the election over, Congress now has just a few weeks to tackle any unfinished business before adjourning for the year. Can you urge your Senators to extend time-sensitive renewable energy legislation as part of this last hurrah for 2010? … Continue reading →
  • Announcement from ReVitalize St. Louis

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • BP North Sea gas field shut down over Iran
    A major North Sea gas field has been shut down because production could break European Union sanctions against Iran.
  • Azerbaijan, Iran to deepen energy ties
    Azerbaijan pledged to deepen energy ties with neighbouring Iran on Wednesday, signing a memorandum of cooperation with Tehran on gas supplies and electricity swaps.
  • Editor reacts to German journalists accused of spy ...
    The editor for a German tabloid newspaper expressed strong concern Wednesday over two journalists charged with spying in Iran. Iran has charged two German journalists who interviewed the son and lawyer of a woman condemned to die by stoning with espionage, Iranian media reported Tuesday.
  • Iran launches large air defense drill
    Iran launched one of its largest nationwide air defense drills on Tuesday to prepare against any possible attacks on its public or nuclear establishments, local media reported. Aerial defense units from the army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are taking part in the three-stage, five- ...
  • افراطیون و استعمارگران
    ویدئوبلاگ جدید باری مارستن، سخنگوی فارسی وزارت خارجه بریتانیا، به مناسبت روز کتاب و کتاب خوانی در ایران به مشترکات دو کشور نگاه میکنه و میگه read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Kiwi Slang
    One thing I really like about living in New Zealand is that I suddenly have access to a whole new vocabulary to describe everyday experiences. For the most part culture – science, technology, art, law and pseudo-sciences, such psychology, sociology and anthropology – originates with the upper cl ...
  • China, Human Rights, and the FBI
    Interesting all the brouhaha over jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Lui Xiabo – and Obama’s “demands” that he be released – or that at minimum his family be allowed to travel to Oslo to collect his prize. Obviously if the President were really concerned about human rights in China, he could al ...
  • What If We Really Wanted to Reform Education?
    New Zealand’s (conservative) National government has spent the last year trying to implement “National Standards” here. Which is New Zealand’s answer to No Child Left Behind. Last week 240 schools released a statement refusing to administer the standardized tests. It has since come out that an unnam ...
  • Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
    I am a little surprised by all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the Democrats’ loss of the House on November 2nd. It’s not like everyone didn’t know it was going to happen. Not only has Obama been an abysmal president, but his administration has lost a substantial portion of his support bas ...
  • The Prison Industrial Complex – Part II
    As I stressed in my November 3rd blog, it’s no longer politics and fear of violent crime that are driving America’s phenomenal incarceration rate – now the highest in the world. Statistics show that violent and property crime has been declining steadily since 1990 and that nearly half (one million) ...

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • How to Eat Like Fred Flintstone
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Until recently, the diet of our Stone Age ancestors was assumed to have consisted mainly of animal protein and fat, as there was rarely evidence of plant consumption. But in a new report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers ha ...
  • Today's the Day to Support Safe Food and Small Far ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Today, the Senate is expected to move forward with the long-delayed Food Safety and Modernization Act (S. 510), which was first introduced a year ago, but has since been delayed by senators' objections and various amendments. But the bill is finally expected to come before t ...
  • Don't Let Friends Make You Fat This Holiday Season
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—America's obesity rate won't start leveling out until a whopping 42 percent of the population is obese, according to a new Harvard study published this month. Bummin' over the report? Don't look to a friend's shoulder to cry on. The study also found that our buddy systems ar ...
  • Kitchen Comfort for Cold and Flu Sufferers
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As we enter cold and flu season, you can strive to keep your immune system strong by eating a balanced diet of whole foods, getting enough sleep and exercise, and making an effort to manage sources of stress. But sometimes, despite our best efforts, we succumb to a cold-seas ...
  • Electronic Prescribing Eliminates Sloppy Handwriti ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The latest casualty of the modern health care system? Messy physician handwriting, according to a new report. More and more doctors, and pharmacies, have decided to ditch illegible prescriptions scrawled on a tiny pad in favor of electronic prescribing, health information te ...

big think

  • Wednesday Whatzits: Merapi from space and the fear ...
    Well, things got busy enough yesterday that the post I was hoping to write just never materialized. Not only did I have the useful academic load, but I also gave a talk on Iceland over at OSU-Newark to the geology club there (which is apparently all of 4 weeks old) - it was a nice talk with a good . ...
  • How Republican and Democratic Priorities Differ
    The Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen pointed out a striking contrast Monday between what the Senate Republican leadership and the Senate Democratic leadership say their priorities are. Here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) inn a speech to the Heritage Foundation a couple of weeks ag ...
  • Many Good Men: Why So Few Medals of Honor?
    Today, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Salvatore Augustine Giunta. This is the first time a living soldier has been awarded this honor since Vietnam. It is the nation’s highest military honor. Giunta is twenty-five years old. In the introduction to her 60 Minutes piece on Giunta, ...
  • Oh No! Not Another Royal Wedding!
    As Britain braces itself for a ‘winter of discontent’, with students taking to the streets in violent protest and trade unions threatening to organise waves of strikes in protest at the even bigger waves of state sector redundancies on the way, Buckingham Palace today announced that the second in .. ...
  • Study Finds That Fear Won't Don't Do It: Why Most ...
    Over the past few years, a growing body of research from the social sciences has pointed to one of the major challenges in communicating about climate change.� This research suggests that many political leaders, environmentalists, and scientists--by focusing narrowly on the risks of climate change . ...

Information Liberation

  • TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers' Pants
    The TSA*s invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people*s pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked a nationwide revolt against privacy-...
  • The American People Are Taking A Stand Against Nak ...
    An amazing thing is happening.* Americans from every walk of life and from across the political spectrum are standing up and are saying "NO" to naked body scanners and TSA groping.* It isn't as if we are against airport security.* For decades, the va...
  • The Power of Exit: Boycott Air Travel
    Even the most authoritarian institutions sometimes find themselves constrained by our power of exit. We may not have any real control * any voice * over how they*re run or the decisions they make. But we can still sometimes refuse to give them our ...
  • It Is Not Illegal To Record Cops in New Haven. But ...
    A few weeks ago, I wrote about a SWAT raid on New Haven nightclub. The raid was for suspected underage drinking. In addition to the obvious overkill show of force, police also threatened and allegedly arrested a Quinnipiac University student for atte...
  • Ann Coulter Comes Out Against Naked Body Scanners, ...
    Even the statist Ann Coulter is against TSA tyranny, she even accurately says the Airlines should run security. O'Reilly says they're wonderful and the government "has to" run the security because it's supposedly hard to get a hot dog on an airpla...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Better Oversight Due on Unclassified Control Marki ...
    The use of access control markings such as the Transportation Security Agency’s “Sensitive Security Information” (SSI) to limit disclosure of unclassified records has been criticized from time to time as arbitrary and self-serving.  But now, due to a subtle change in the recent executive order on “ ...
  • A Good Leak: DoJ Report on History of Nazi-Hunting
    In a revealing failure of Administration commitments to transparency, an official history of the U.S. government’s post-war pursuit of (or sometimes accommodation with) Nazi war criminals was obtained by the New York Times after the Department of Justice refused to release an unexpurgated version un ...
  • Senate Report on the New START Treaty
    The rationale for the New START Treaty between the United States and Russia on reductions in nuclear weapons was addressed at length in an October 1 report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  On September 16, the Committee recommended ratification of the Treaty, which awaits consideration ...
  • Prompt Global Strike and Nuclear Arms Control
    “Prompt global strike” refers to the possibility of destroying a target anywhere on Earth within minutes or hours using bombers, cruise missiles or ballistic missiles armed with conventional warheads. The prompt global strike mission and its various implications were examined in a new report (pdf) f ...
  • SALT and the Classic Era of Arms Control
    The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that led to the signing of the SALT I Treaty in 1972 were documented in exhaustive detail in the latest volume of the official State Department publication Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS). The new FRUS volume (pd ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • My lucky 13 exam tips for students
    My son and his friends are today heading into their first set of important high school exams, their “mock GCSEs”. They call them mock, but the results they achieve at this stage will determine where they go after they do their GCSEs proper, i.e. their 16+ options. So as a loving dad who has done [.. ...
  • Sizing up the universe
    As a child I devoured books on the stars and planets, on dinosaurs, volcanoes. Was fascinated by the prospect of a space shuttle and lament the fact that I was sent to bed before they landed on the Moon (I was only three at the time, and the Apollo 11 landing happened at 2am UK [...]Sizing up the un ...
  • 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 [ ...

RFF Library

  • Integrating Renewable Electricity on the Grid
    American Physical Society / APS Panel on Public Affairs http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/upload/integratingelec.pdf [From Press Release] U.S. policymakers must focus more closely on developing new energy storage technologies as they consider a national renewable electricity standard, a ...
  • A Track Record of Success: High-Speed Rail Around ...
    US Public Interest Research Group  / by Tony Dutzik and Jordan Schneider and Phineas Baxandall http://tinyurl.com/2edgknl [Docuticker] Drawing lessons from other countries, a new study from U.S. PIRG shows that high-speed rail can boost our economy, save energy, curb pollution and provide a popular ...
  • Electric Car Calculator: Compare Electric Car to H ...
    befrugal.com http://www.befrugal.com/tools/electric-car-calculator/ [PEN-e posting] Is it worth buying an Electric Car? The answer to this question depends on a number of factors including: your driving habits, gas prices, price of electricity and how you value the environmental impact of your drivi ...
  • Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, ...
    PLOS One (November 15, 2010) v5 n11 / by CM Eakin, JA Morgan, SF Heron, TB Smith, G Liu, et al. http://tinyurl.com/2dgzypz [From press release] Coral reefs suffered record losses as a consequence of high ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean in 2005 according to the most comprehe ...
  • Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for ...
    National Academy Press (free download available with registration) www.nap.edu/catalog/13031.html Congress requested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) produce a site-specific biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment (SSRA) of the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (N ...

Scientific American - News

  • Upping the Anti: CERN Physicists Trap Antimatter A ...
    It is the stuff that both science fiction and a good part of author Dan Brown's fortune are made of-- antimatter . [More]
  • Major U.S. Cities Violate New EPA Lead Standards
    Sixteen areas, including Los Angeles, Tampa and Cleveland, have unhealthful amounts of lead in the air that violate national standards, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday.Declared " nonattainment areas ," those regions, located in 11 states , must require smelters and other ...
  • Is the U.S. Government Underestimating the Cost of ...
    All those insults and changes resulting from climate disruption add up quickly: $15 billion for Midwest farmers staring at a year of crop loss and rebuilding as the Mississippi River floods; 600 deaths and 1,000 hospitalizations as a heat wave bakes Chicago; and $147 million gone as Alaska's king cr ...
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers Find Galaxy-Sca ...
    A group of astrophysicists has located two massive bubbles of plasma, each extending tens of thousands of light-years, emitting high-energy radiation above and below the plane of the galaxy. The researchers found the structures in publicly released data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, w ...
  • Open-and-Shut Case: Do Open-Access Journals Enhanc ...
    "If I have seen further," claimed Isaac Newton , "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The key to comprehending such amazing vistas by all researchers is science's incrementalist tradition of building phenomenon-explaining grand theories finding by finding as facts accumulate across decad ...

RAWA News

  • Afghanistan No.1 victim of international terrorism ...
    Xinhua: Afghanistan remains the country most affected by international terrorism, a UN official said here on Monday. Despite progress on the political, social and economic fronts, the terrorist activities of the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other extremist groups continue to be the main challenge to Afghan ...
  • 119.4 Billion USD Investment in the Afghan War Thi ...
    The Register Guard: The panel’s co-chairmen, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, identify $100 billion in defense cuts that could be made in 2015. That would be too little and too late, but what’s almost revolutionary is the notion that if we’re ever to get this nation back on sound economic footing, w ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Winter misery as food prices rise
    IRIN: Ali Ahmad, the sole breadwinner of an extended family in Kabul, has to decide whether to buy firewood to keep his children warm in winter or food to save them from hunger. “Everything is expensive… wheat flour, ghee, sugar, fuel and wood and I cannot afford them,” he complained.
  • Afghanistan War: Bulldozing through Kandahar
    Global Post: The U.S. military has destroyed hundreds of Afghan civilian homes, farm houses, walls, trees and plowed through fields and buildings using explosives and bulldozers in war-torn Zhari district, a practice that has begun to anger Afghan villagers. The much anticipated third phase of the K ...
  • WikiLeaks urges U.S. to fully examine abuses
    Reuters: The founder of WikiLeaks called on the United States on Thursday to fully examine abuses by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and to halt its “aggressive investigation” into his whistle-blowing organization. Julian Assange said WikiLeaks would release thousands of documents this year conc ...

frogblog

  • How could they ally with the French?
    Amongst all the changes that the new UK govt has brought forth, perhaps the most surprising was the military cooperation agreement with the French. After all, as Sir Humprhey pointed out, Britain has been at war with the French for most of the last 900 years and that’s the real reas ...
  • Red faces at Green Cabs over fire@will
    I’ve been a fan of Green Cabs.  They run fleets of hybrid cabs in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and plant trees to offset their carbon emissions. This afternoon I was disappointed to learn that Green Cabs had last Friday fired Millie Francis without notice and without warni ...
  • The Sustainable Economy Conference
    Our conference on ‘A Sustainable Economy for New Zealand’ was held in Parliament’s Legislative Council Chamber last Friday. We’re pleased with the way it went – both the turnout (about 200 people) and the quality of the presentations. The keynote, given by Canadian environmentalist, ...
  • Another charge from NZTA
    Just came across an interesting little example of this government’s ‘penny wise, pound foolish’ philosophy. Anyone thinking about buying a vehicle has up to now had a handy free service available through www.carjam.co.nz  The site apparently gets about 1.5 million hits a month, so i ...
  • Welfare Working Group worries
    I watched with concern Paula Rebstock’s appearance on âQ and Aâ last weekend. (We have two concerning Paulas to deal with in the welfare sector, this one’s not the Minister, but the chair of the Welfare Working Group). Paula R seemed to be crying some crocodile tears for beneficiari ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
    The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...
  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
  • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
    Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Money, Meet Mouth
    Via dKos, this Politico story about the travails of tea party members of Congress really is spectacular: A band of conservative rebels has taken over the House, vowing to slash spending, cut the deficit and kill earmarks. And of course they’d love a seat on the powerhouse Appropriations Committee ...
  • The Great Scanner Backlash
    So how about those backscatter scanners? Everybody hates them. "Don't touch my junk" is about to be added "live free or die" and "give me liberty or give me death" to the pantheon of great expressions of American rebellion. I wish I could join in, but unfortunately I'm already on record a year ago a ...
  • Carbon Taxes and the Budget Deficit
    Matt Yglesias wants the liberal community to drop its longtime love affair with a VAT as a way of raising revenue and instead start showing some love for a carbon tax: I really think the VAT is a decent idea whose time is past and is now obsolete. VAT recommends itself as an economically efficien ...
  • Deficit Plan #2 Hits the Street
    I imagine I'll still be asleep when�Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin announce their version of a deficit reduction plan on Wednesday morning, but their op-ed in the Washington Post sure makes it sound awfully similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan. That's no surprise, I guess, since there are only just so ...
  • Empowering Women
    Dani Rodrik notes the surprising news that among the countries that have most�improved their human development indicators since 1970, the stars are mostly Muslim countries, including several in North Africa: What was their secret? Determined policies to expand educational opportunities and access t ...

Insanity Report

  • Movie Review: Diary of a Tired Black Man
    Late Monday night I was bored and decided to watch “Diary of a Tired Black Man.”  I did so knowing I was probably going to want to claw my eyes out when I was done.  People always ask “Kriss why do you torture yourself by watching bad movies?”  I’m not really sure.  I get some [...]
  • Mike Vick: When I Do Believe In Second Chances
    Remember when I wrote those articles about Chris Brown and how big of an unrepentant jackass he was?  People would give me shit because they claimed that I was being too hard on him.  I would be asked things like “So are you saying people don’t deserve a second chance?”  Of course I think people [.. ...
  • Movie Review: Skyline
    So you may or may not have heard that we’re looking to launch a new site in 2011 that focuses on Movies, TV Shows and other entertainment like that.  We’ve been doing Movie Trailer Reviews and regular Movie Reviews as well as posts and lists based around the movie industry for a while now and [...] ...
  • IC 209: I Quit
    Topics for the show: We’re back after a short hiatus The Political world is crazy A Maryland County Executive and his wife are arrested…the details are absurd Alvin Greene for President? Dear Kanye….you’re back to emoting…please pick what you want to be Rachel Maddow interviews Jon Stewart Some Libe ...
  • Rachel Maddow’s Interview with Jon Stewart
    I watched the whole edited version last night and I’ll watch this unedited version to see what I missed. It was funny watching some Liberals react to Stewart’s answers though. Because Stewart doesn’t give them the answers they want to hear there was a lot of “I’m DONE with Jon” and “I thought he was ...

Simple Climate

  • When climate becomes a problem too far
    Vivid images are important for understanding global warming, says University of New South Wales psychologist Ben Newell, but go too far and people can react with despair that prevents them doing anything to stop it.
  • Air-stilling temperatures create heat, wind power ...
    Climate change won't cause more hurricanes but will place human bodies under more heat stress, Nat Johnson and Steven Sherwood tell Simple Climate, and will reduce the power generated from wind turbines according to Diandong Ren.
  • Climate change shifts organisms in space and time
    Duke University's Bill Morris finds the hills are alive with moving plants, and warns that climate change impacts could mean species that have worked together in the past will move out of sync.
  • Prehistoric CO2 double-up gives warming data
    Measurements from a global warming episode 40 million years ago show that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere increased sea surface temperatures between 2 and 5ºC, Dutch and British scientists find.
  • Extracting urine in the name of climate research
    50,000-year old animal toilets are in fact sensitive measures of prehistoric climate, says Brian Chase, from the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, France.

e!Science News

  • First compelling evidence for a black hole after r ...
    Black holes, or the remnants of hyper-or supernova explosions, have intrigued scientists since the concept was first introduced in 1967. Astronomers have only ever been able to observe gamma-ray bursts, considered the births of young black holes, at far distance. Researchers have now found compellin ...
  • Georgia Tech researchers design machine learning t ...
    Medical websites like WebMD provide consumers with more access than ever before to comprehensive health and medical information, but the sites' utility becomes limited if users use unclear or unorthodox language to describe conditions in a site search. However, a group of Georgia Tech researchers ha ...
  • 'Chaogates' hold promise for the semiconductor ind ...
    In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates." The researchers present their findings in Chaos, a journal published by the American Instit ...
  • Doubled risk of anxiety for 18 month-old children ...
    Research from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) shows that children with severe congenital heart defects have twice the risk of anxiety at 18 months of age compared to healthy children. Children with mild and moderate heart defects, on the other hand, did not show an increased risk of ...
  • TWIPS -- sonar inspired by dolphins
    Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new kind of underwater sonar device that can detect objects through bubble clouds that would effectively blind standard sonar. read more

unEarthed

  • Coal Ash Continues to Leak Into Groundwater
    Coal ash spill Hurry up! Friday is the deadline for submitting comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on its proposal to regulate coal ash, including one option that would keep things as they are (not good). ...
  • EPA Blesses Florida With Nation's First Run-off Ru ...
    Green slime caused by polluted waters Our long fight to get clear standards to control pollution from fertilizer, animal waste, and sewage hit a major milestone this week (Nov. 15), when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agen ...
  • This Wopper Comes a Cropper, Or Does it?
    Reporters speak of a story having legs, meaning that it is likely to continue over an extended period. Spotted owls have legs. The story began in the late '80s, when it became evident that out-of-control logging in ancient fore ...
  • The Fuel of the Future Is... Coal?
    A mountaintop removal coal mining operation near Blair, West Virginia. Photo by The National Memorial for the Mountains. Two interesting articles last week discussed the inevitability of coal as the fuel of the future from qu ...
  • A Fracking Murder Mystery
    Art imitated life on CBS's hit crime show CSI last night.�The episode,�titled "Fracked,"�delved into the�water-polluting form of gas drilling in which millions of gallons of chemically-treated water are blasted into the earth to ...

Brave New Climate

  • SNE 2060 – assessment of energy demand
    In a previous post on BraveNewClimate – TCASE #The energy demand equation to 2050 — I estimated a mid-century global primary energy demand of ~1000 EJ (see here for definitions). But it may as well have been 2060; the actual date that this global demand will be reached is obviously uncertain, but ...
  • CO2 rising – the science of global warming
    Below are two climate change book reviews by me; I hope you find them as interesting as I did. I’ve provided an Amazon link to one and a Book Depository link to another — because I’m not out to promote any particular online bookstore (although I tend to find the latter cheapest, and as to [...]
  • Electricity costs exhibits
    I note that there has been some interesting discussion here on costs of electricity, especial the comparative value of fossil fuels versus nuclear (and renewables). This is a point I will revisit from a number of perspectives over the next few months, because I agree with commenters like Arthur Dent ...
  • Two nuclear-solar dialogues in Melbourne next week
    Back in September, I visited UNSW in Sydney and debated Mark Diesendorf on nuclear and solar power. It was a useful night, with quite a few Sydney-based BNC readers attending. I was pleased with the outcome — I just hope the audio becomes available at some point. Now this “Brain Food” event comes to ...
  • Of brains, biceps and baloney
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s recent book Storms of my Grandchildren makes accessible the evidence behind the judgement of m ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Does TSA Think Tampons Are A Security Risk? - Femi ...
    Does TSA Think Tampons Are A Security Risk? - Feminist Peace Network: "It never ceases to amaze me exactly what it takes to make the American people rise up. Turns out that after all of these years of hyper airport security mania not phasing us, it’s the thought of having to choose between being se ...
  • Fox News anchor effectively says all Hispanics are ...
    Fox News anchor effectively says all Hispanics are illegal aliens | Raw Story Fox News often takes the spotlight for its sensational news coverage, but one Fox News anchor appears to have taken the network a step further. The anchor, Trace Gallagher, claimed that a new study has shown 100,000 illeg ...
  • Boycott List for God-Conscious Consumers
    by Hudwa JawadIslamic InsightsNovember 15, 2010 For years, proponents of a free and frighteningly unregulated global market have argued that all profit is good profit. But not quite. The world has witnessed a consistent exploitation of third world markets and labor at the hands of global mu ...
  • Oakland Police identified officers in Derrick Jone ...
    Oakland Police identified officers in Derrick Jones shooting | The Informant Earlier today, the Oakland Tribune identified the two officers who fatally shot Derrick Jones on Monday evening as Eriberto Perez-Angeles and Omar Daza-Quiroz. Perez-Angeles has been with OPD for three years and is a mem ...
  • A Tale of Two Threats: Who Do the Police Let Live ...
    A Tale of Two Threats: Who Do the Police Let Live When Danger is Present? - Davey D's Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog) With respect to Carlos-Valentino and his bomb threat, everyone was on alert. There was a stand-off on the bridge during which this man tossed his gun, allowed his daughter to run off to ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Bill Maher on Keith Olbermann
    When talking about the difference between Keith and Glenn Beck, Bill Maher said “You and Glenn Beck are not the same. One of you (you) tries to stick to the facts, the other one is very close to playing with his poop”. I guess saying Glenn Beck is close to playing with his poop is [...]
  • Cut and Run – Mitch McConnell
    As it turns out Senator Mitch McConnell was telling Bush to pull some troops our of Iraq ahead of the 2006 election, because it would be a good political move. At the same time hypocrisy Mitch was claiming publicly the Democrat Party wanted to pull troops out of Iraq and “cut and run”. Can you [...]
  • The Teabaggers Will Be Let Down In 3, 2, 1…
    Imagine. People so stupid that they thought the corporate controlled frauds they voted for would do anything but hand out more corporate welfare goodies….. Amazing.
  • Republicans Hate The Troops
    According to this story, 92% of politicians receiving a D, or an F grade are Republicans. Go figure. Raw Story Article
  • Fascism Is Finally Here
    Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Don’t let racism stick: A small act of civic ...
    By Vera Reider I take the No.10 in central Tel Aviv, and, for lack of places, move to the back of the bus. I sit down, I take out my book, and then I see it, right on the glass screen between the seats and the back door, a big, round, sticker: “Now everyone knows – [...]
  • That danse macabre
    Partying in Tel Aviv, a dearly beloved bubble of bubbles in the midst of one of the world’s longest conflicts, can summon some poignant imagery. A homage to Karl Vick and to Lisa Goldman:
  • Veteran TV host Yaron London endorses cultural boy ...
    Yaron London, an elder statesmen of Israeli journalism, television personality and respected intellectual, has a reputation for saying what others think. Over the past decade he has also become known for bitter skepticism regarding the Israeli Left. In this morning’s Yediot [full translation of ...
  • A new bill threatens Reform, Conservative movement ...
    Knesset pushes two more legislative pieces that would drive Israel further from democracy Last week, the Ministerial Legislative Committee – which is responsible for deciding whether a bill will receive government sponsorship, which will allow it to be speedily debated and almost assure its becoming ...
  • Izzie in HolyLand – Part 16: A phone call to ...
    Izzie and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are discussing strategies to continue obstructing the all but vanishing peace process, when suddenly the phone rings Izzie: So listen, Avigdor, Iâve been thinking… Iâm kinda spooked about this whole unilateral thing the Palestinians are planning. I mean, ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Listen To What Congress Has to Say About Fraudclos ...
    Remember that attorneys and advocates have been screaming about the fraud and other issues that permeate the entire foreclosure process for years now. For too long our warnings were ignored and we were disregarded or in fact threatened with professional penalties or sanctions for making the very arg ...
  • IN RE: WILSON—SAND CANYON DOES NOT OWN ANY M ...
    (I’ve been told to watch the case referred to in this blog, In Re: Wilson, a bankruptcy case filed in Louisiana…I don’t yet see the earth shattering impact of this case, but I’m told to stay tuned….it’s coming.  This morning I share just one little nugget from the case.) One of the biggest issues I ...
  • Congressional Testimony on The Fraudclosure Crisis ...
    I’m watching the entire video again right now, my initial takeaways from watching the video is that all of that it shows just how wildly the issues surrounding foreclosure and mortgage servicing fraud have spun wildly out of control.  What cannot be ignored is the fact that most of the issues forec ...
  • LIGHT UP THE CONGRESSIONAL PHONES- THE INTERSTATE ...
    Watch this Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dli7TTHaHS4 Then click over to my friends at www.4closurefraud.com. The Fat Cats are out to get us once again….and if the phones don’t light up, they’re going to roll right over us all….. Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Congressional Report on Foreclosure Fraud- Bank to ...
    Too much for me to read all just yet, but here it is for all the world to see: CongressionalForeclosureReport11-16-10 Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

  • An Apology Would Be Helpful
    Decorum in the House was supposed to be getting better over these last few weeks and there certainly has been the odd better moment. But then yesterday, Conservative Joy Smith rose from her seat and accused Michael Ignatieff of maligning Winnipeg’s Filipino community while he was present in that cit ...
  • The Dragon vs. the Eagle
    Despite the hype, it was never destined to be a breakthrough set of summits. At both the G20 gathering in Seoul and the APEC summit in Japan, participants warily watched the birth pangs of a new world order as China and the United States squared off over the unfolding of the world’s economy. While t ...
  • Street-level Politics
    This past Saturday evening was our Santa Claus Parade – a London tradition that runs through my riding in its entirety. I put it in the Parallel Parliament on this occasion because it reveals, in microcosm, what good politics should be. Have a look at the video. In it you’ll see a compassionate and ...
  • The Four Horsemen
    Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden – the backfield of Knute Rockne’s infamous 1924 Notre Dame football team that became the most famous of its day.  The squad lost only two games in two years and became iconic in sports circles. Queried about his good fortune, Rockne could ...
  • It Changes Everything
    Filed under: Faith, Politics, The New Internationalism

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • It’s life Craig, but not as we know it!
    Typical.  One of the most anticipated technological breakthroughs in years hits the streets, and I’m completely off the web – holed up in an Italian hotel with no internet and no phone. I’m talking of course about J. Craig Venter’s team’s breakthrough in synthesizing a living organism, almost from ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m expect ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the piece ...
  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science at ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in airp ...

Reader Supported News

  • Rumbles of a Palin-Rove War at Fox
    There appears to be a feud brewing between Karl Rove (the old guard GOP) and Sarah Palin (the new guard/Tea Party GOP), and it bears watching. Sarah Palin and Karl Rove appearing on Fox News, 11/16/10. (images: Fox News) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Wall Street Quietly Seeks to Undo New Financial Ru ...
    The report begins: "The heavy hitters of finance lost big battles earlier this year during the overhaul of financial regulation, but they're working hard to win the war. They're quietly trying to soften, if not kill, some of the more controversial provisions." American International Group (AIG) o ...
  • Haitians Turn On UN Peacekeepers They Blame for Ch ...
    Intro: "Rioters and troops clash amid claims from locals that Nepalese soldiers working for UN mission brought disease [Cholera] to country." A UN soldier on patrol in an earthquake refugee camp in Cite Soleil, Haiti. (photo: Andres Martinez Casares/EFE) Sorry, your browser cannot display f ...
  • Sushi Wars: Fight Looms Over Bluefin Tuna
    The report begins: "Nations gather this week to decide how many Atlantic bluefin tuna they can extract from the sea without destroying the multi-billion dollar business that keeps Japan supplied in gourmet sushi and sashimi." An Atlantic bluefin tuna at slaughter, 06/07/09. (photo: EndOfTheLine.c ...
  • Rumbles of a Palin-Rove War at Fox
    There appears to be a feud brewing between Karl Rove (the old guard GOP) and Sarah Palin (the new guard/Tea Party GOP), and it bears watching. Sarah Palin and Karl Rove appearing on Fox News, 11/16/10. (images: Fox News) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Efforts to boost investment in renewable energy
Sify
- Nov 17, 2010
- 9 hours ago
The Government of India is keen to bring new investments in renewable energy projects and help introducing market based competition in renewable energy ...
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White House reviewing 2011 ethanol standard
Reuters
- Nov 16, 2010
- 23 hours ago
By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency's final rule on how much ethanol and other renewable ...
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Ameresco Earns National Association of Energy Service Companies Reaccreditation
MarketWatch (press release)
- Nov 17, 2010
- 8 hours ago
Energy service providers help to pinpoint gaps in energy efficiency and opportunities for renewable energy and to optimize energy supply, whether for a ...
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U.S. Solar Industry Fights to Save Controversial Clean Energy Grants
Reuters
- Nov 16, 2010
- 21 hours ago
The US Treasury's "Section 1603" Renewable Energy Grant Program, part of the $787 billion anti-recession stimulus of 2009, is slated to run out at year's ...
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Bluefin tuna showdown pits economy vs. ecology
AFP
- Nov 16, 2010
- 21 hours ago
PARIS — Dozens of nations gathered in Paris to decide catch quotas for Atlantic bluefin tuna, a highly-prized luxury food consumed raw in Japan as sashimi ...
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Faster water flow means greater diversity of invertebrate marine life
PhysOrg.com
- Nov 17, 2010
- 7 hours ago
15 in the journal Ecology Letters, could help improve management of delicate and complex coastal ecosystems, said James Palardy, a former Brown doctoral ...
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Russia's meteorological network 'out of date' - ecology minister
RIA Novosti
- Nov 17, 2010
- 10 hours ago
Russia's meteorological network needs to be upgraded because it has become obsolete, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Yury Trutnev said on ...
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Birds learn migratory destinations from parents
Sify
- Nov 17, 2010
- 9 hours ago
Because of this, it was quite unexpected to find such a high concentration of related birds," said Xavier Harrison, from the Centre for Ecology and ...
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Willow Palin in hot water for gay slurs against schoolmate on Facebook
Toronto Star
- Nov 17, 2010
- 12 minutes ago
But now it's her 16-year-old daughter, Willow, who's in hot water for using homophobic slurs against a schoolmate who criticized her mother's new reality TV ...
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Caltrans cited by EPA for water pollution
San Francisco Chronicle
- Nov 17, 2010
- 14 hours ago
The US Environmental Protection Agency gave Caltrans a year to upgrade its statewide storm water management program and control discharges or face penalties ...
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Drink, use clean water US experts tell cholera-hit Haitians
AFP
- Nov 17, 2010
- 6 hours ago
Experts are examining water sources and networks in the capital, Port-au-Prince and elsewhere to make sure that people have access to clean water for ...
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Cold Water For Corning, First Solar
Forbes
- Nov 17, 2010
- 23 minutes ago
This morning, Credit Suisse downgraded shares of First Solar from outperform to neutral as oversupply across the industry remains a concern. ...
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