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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

17 November - RSS SnapShot Pt 2

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Blacklisted News

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  • Madagascar colonel says he'll take the presidentia ...
    A colonel who's claiming to have seized power in a coup in Madagascar says he's intending to take the presidential palace. "We are in mutiny since this morning. We have decided to overthrow this regime", Noel Rakotonandrasana said in an interview with France 24 [1]. "From now on all instituti ...
  • BREAKING: Senate votes cloture on S 510 – must now ...
    Yesterday, Senator Bob Casey informed his Pennsylvania constituents that the $1.6 billion price tag for S 510 will stop food smuggling in the United States. I kid you not: “These provisions add personnel to detect, track and remove smuggled food and call for the development and implementation of st ...
  • Wall Street quietly seeks to undo new financial ru ...
    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.
  • Codex Alimentarius, Control over the Food Supply a ...
    Contrary to popular belief Codex Alimentarius is neither a law nor a policy.  It is in fact a functioning body, a Commission, created by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Health Organization under the direction of the United Nations. The confusion in this regard is largely du ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Rep. John Lewis on Congress After GOP Victory, Clo ...
    U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia) joins us to talk about the shifting political landscape following the Republican gains in the midterm elections, the Obama administration’s abandonment of its pledge to close Guantnamo Bay, the Afghanistan war, and the conviction of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N ...
  • 45 Years Later, Former Alabama State Trooper Plead ...
    A white former Alabama state trooper has pleaded guilty to killing a black civil rights worker 45 years ago at the height of the civil rights movement. Seventy-seven-year-old James Bonard Fowler was sentenced to six months in prison for the 1965 shooting of 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson during a me ...
  • “Push Michael Moore Off a Cliff”: Heal ...
    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 spoke ...
  • Jury Appears Deadlocked in Landmark Civilian Trial ...
    A federal jury in New York is deliberating in a landmark trial of the first former Guantnamo detainee to be tried in the civilian court system. On Monday, the jury appeared deadlocked after a juror asked to be excused, saying she was being attacked for her conclusions about the defendant, Ahmed Khal ...
  • Headlines for November 17, 2010
    Report: Lenders, States Discuss Foreclosure Compensation Fund, Canada to End Afghan Combat Mission, Protests Continue in Haiti over Cholera Outbreak, New U.N. Torture Expert Urges U.S. Torture Probe, U.N. Security Council Rejects Probe of Western Sahara Crackdown, GOP Sen. Seeks Delay to START Vote, ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 500 Peace Activists Call for Immediate End to Econ ...
    Summary: No War No sanctions More than 500 peace activists from around the globe, in a statement, called for an immediate end to the existing economic sanctions on Iran, and asked the western states to recognize Tehran's right of access to the peaceful nuclear technology source: Fars News Agen ...
  • NATO's Iran 'threat' conundrum
    Summary: The chief problem with this "enemy perception of Iran" is that it tends to view Iran through the Cold War lens of a zero-sum game, whereas in reality Iran and the West have substantial shared interests, such as with respect to combating drug trafficking and terrorism, Iraq's and Afghani ...
  • Iran, Cold war analogies misused
    Summary: Afrasiabi In conclusion, the US policy-makers are well-advised to be wary of excess metaphors and inapt comparisons that may fit in the popular depictions of the Islamic Republic in US media nowadays, yet hardly in tune with the requirement of thoughtful, long-term policy toward today's ...
  • US Influence Weakens in Iraq, Iran Gains
    Summary: MalikiSeven and a half years after the US invasion of Iraq toppled its legitimate government and destroyed the Iraqi state, American influence in Iraq is dropping like a stone. The resulting mix of Iraqi politics might fairly be characterized as 40 percent Iraqi nationalism, 40 percent ...
  • ‘Lifting sanctions must be a precondition for Iran ...
    Summary: Iran's Parliment (Majles)MP Mohammad Dehqan says Iran must link a lifting of sanctions on the Islamic Republic to a resumption of talks with the 5+1 group(the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Germany). source: Tehran Timesread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • 'Daily Galaxy' Fans: Win a Free $500 Amazon Gift C ...
    Use it to Purchase a Kindle, Android X Smartphone, Apple iPod Touch, Garmin Portable GPS Navigator, Toshiba HDTV With Net TV or Hundreds of Other Products and Accessories. Users of Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg are invited to discover, review and...
  • New Theory: Earth's Atmosphere Incubated Life -Not ...
    Life on Earth may have originated high up in the atmosphere rather than in the surface waters of oceans or pools, researchers have found. Scientists simulating possible chemical reactions occurring in the upper atmosphere of Titan (above), Saturn's largest moon,...
  • Crisis at the Edge: Why are the Planet's Coral Re ...
    Hundreds of international demonstrators gathered on the tiny island of Sergeant's Caye off the coast of Belize City, Belize, this past Saturday to ask: is this "THE END" for the Belize barrier reef and other reefs around the world? Held...
  • The Billion-Year-Old Paleo-Lakes of Mars (Will Fo ...
    This time we've seen shorelines for sure: early reports of Red planet irrigation canals might have been greatly overstated, created by optical illusions and an intense desire for neighbors, but we're working with much better equipment and we can now...
  • Does Time Slow Down in a Crisis?
    Scientists are asking if we can turbocharge our time perception. In The Matrix, hero Neo wins his battles when time slows in the simulated world. In our real world, accident victims often report a similar slowing of time as they...

Natural News

  • Obsession with killing microorganisms is dangerous ...
    (NaturalNews) Using products with antimicrobial chemicals must be a great way to protect your health. After all, you're killing loads of germs while you wash your body and clean your house -- and that's a good thing, right? Not according to biologist and engineer Rolf Halden of the Biodesign Institu ...
  • Arizona voters approve medical marijuana
    (NaturalNews) Arizona voters recently passed Proposition 203, a measure that legalizes marijuana use in the state for medicinal purposes. The passage of the new law makes Arizona the 15th U.S. state to approve marijuana as a legal treatment for chronic and debilitating illness.Passed by a slim margi ...
  • RVF vaccine causes liver disease, death
    (NaturalNews) Many governments are pushing a new livestock vaccine for Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a serious and deadly virus that infects both humans and animals, and that spread across various regions of Africa earlier this year. But a recent study shows that the vaccine itself causes serious liver p ...
  • Wendy's unveils natural-cut fries made with sea sa ...
    (NaturalNews) If you ever ask yourself whether all of us in the natural health community are really making a difference, look no further than today's astonishing news: the Wendy's fast food chain has announced new "natural-cut" French fries made with sea salt. What makes them "natural-cut?" They sti ...
  • European support for GMOs continues to plummet
    (NaturalNews) Europeans are growing weary of all the pro-GMO (genetically-modified organism) propaganda being spewed by multinational biotechnology companies like Monsanto, and polls now show that strong support for GMOs has reached a low of roughly five percent. In other words, somewhere in the vic ...

Threat Level

  • Kryptos Artist to Reveal Rare Clue to Baffling CIA ...
    Kryptos sleuths may finally get some help cracking the CIA sculpture that has confounded amateur and professional cryptographers for two decades. Artist Jim Sanborn, who created the cypher sculpture in 1990 for CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, plans to release a new clue to help puzzle detect ...
  • Taiwanese Animators Recreate TSA ‘Junk’ Incident
    If you’re still trying to understand how an airline passenger wound up under government investigation for refusing a TSA body scan and security grope at a San Diego airport, this new clip from the Taiwanese news-animation company NMA is your Zapruder film. It also covers the November 24 opt-out pr ...
  • Beatles for Sale on iTunes — Yawn
    What Beatles fan does not remember when John Lennon was assassinated? And any real Beatles fan knows the Fab Four’s last live concert-tour appearance was at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in 1966. And every Beatles purist remembers 1987, the year the Beatles appeared on CD. It brought to life wha ...
  • TSA Investigating ‘Don’t Touch My Junk’ Passenger
    The TSA has launched an investigation of a passenger in San Diego who left the airport after opting out of an invasive body scan and criticizing the proposed alternative pat-down. John Tyner, a 31-year-old software programmer, recorded the encounter on his mobile phone and posted it to his blog. F ...
  • One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Bod ...
    At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • "We Don't Negotiate with Ourselves"
    Everything you need to know about the difference between the governing style of Republicans and Democrats is on display in the battles over the passage and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Despite large Congressional majorities and broad public support for ending as promised the budget-busting Bush ...
  • Meet the $700 Billion Club
    For most of the 1990's, the top income earners in the United States paid a 39.6% tax rate during a time which produced a booming economy for them - and pretty much everyone else. Now, after the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy produced a decade of falling household incomes, skyrocketing defici ...
  • Obama Should Repeat Bush's History on Deficit Comm ...
    Karl Marx famously said that historical events occur twice: first as tragedy, then as farce. But when it comes to his debt commission, President Obama is in danger of standing that old chestnut on its head. Unlike President George H.W. Bush's almost comic dismissal of the recommendations of a Cong ...
  • Peter King the Latest Republican to Endorse Medal ...
    On Wednesday, New York Rep. Peter King became just the latest Republican to conclude there ought to be a prize for torture. Defending George W. Bush's admission this week that he authorized waterboarding of terror detainees, King insisted the former president "should get a medal." If that sounds f ...
  • GOP Wages War on 59 Million Uninsured
    Emboldened by their midterm victories, the GOP and its amen corner have stepped up their war against the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the multistate lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. In Texas, Republ ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Come tonight to the town hall meeting on the TCEQ ...
    Austin town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset review – Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of Texas campus. (This auditorium is located in the basement level of Sid Richardson Hall.) All are invited to attend t ...
  • Dallas town hall meeting focused on Railroad Commi ...
    Citizens and environmental groups concerned about possible air and water pollution from the Barnett Shale spoke out last night in Arlington.  Nearly 140 people gathered to express concerns about the Texas Commission on Environment Quality (TCEQ) and the Railroad Commission (RRC). Rita Beving, with P ...
  • Federally enforceable protections from toxic coal ...
    PLEASE HELP  GENERATE 200,000 COMMENTS BY NOVEMBER 19th If you have not already sent your comment to the EPA. simply send it using the links below.  We can win this! If you have been affected by coal ash contamination and have a personal or family story to tell, click here. If you do not have your [ ...
  • Website offers some details about fracking chemica ...
    Yesterday, Halliburton unveiled a new website that offers some details about the mix of chemicals used in a natural gas drilling technique following the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) decision last week to subpoena Halliburton to force the company to turn over information about the chemical ...
  • News Roundup from TPA for November 9, 2010
    The Texas Progressive Alliance remains committed to moving forward as it brings you this week’s blog roundup. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme is still reeling from the republican blowout. Say goodbye to your Social Security and hello to Warren Chisum in your bedroom. Off the Kuff starts to discuss ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Team develops "event cloak" concept
    A team of physicists have come up with an idea for an "event cloak" that can hide events from being seen. The system would work by opening up a time g...
  • Pterosaurs used "pole vault" takeoff
    According to a new study pterosaurs would have "pole vaulted" in to the air when taking off. Unlike modern birds prehistoric winged reptiles would hav...
  • Bottle of white wine sets new world record
    Selling at auction for $304,375 it has become the most expensive bottle of wine in history. The 1947 French Cheval-Blanc was sold at auction in Geneva...
  • SETI astronomers launch new campaign
    Astronomers all over the world are focusing their telescopes to try and pick up evidence of alien life. The campaign will see telescopes trained on so...
  • Reindeer meat on sale for Christmas
    UK supermarket Lidl has been under fire for stocking reindeer meat on the run up to Christmas. The store has attracted a great deal of criticism and h...

Grassroots

  • How peasant farmers feed the planet
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  • Indigenous Youth Find Opportunity at Home
    pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • Greenbuild 2010: Carrier U. to Train Employees and ...
    The Carrier University Institute for Sustainability, the firm became the first business to license the USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design curriculum for employee and client training.
  • Inside Unilever's Big, Broad, Bold Sustainability ...
    Unilever unveiled its 2020 sustainability plan yesterday, and no one can accuse the company of playing small ball. Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan will attempt to do something that will be incredibly hard to achieve: growing a company's sales without growing its environmental footprint.
  • FirstCarbon Solutions Moves Beyond CO2 with Energy ...
    Greenhouse gas software and services firm FirstCarbon Solutions launched a subsidiary last week to help companies meet their broader energy and sustainability needs.
  • How IBM, Intel and SAP Confront Corporate Water Ch ...
    Current water constraints and looming threats of shortage and decaying infrastructure are basic facts of business life that few companies have fully absorbed, according to the Artemis Project, which tapped sustainability leaders at IBM, Intel and SAP to share their strategies for grappling with wate ...
  • Water Poses Risks for Companies -- and Opportuniti ...
    Some of the world's largest and most water-intensive companies see growth opportunities in strengthening their water management practices and selling products designed to address water woes, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project's inaugural Water Disclosure Report released today. At the same ...

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • The GOP is in Full Annihilation Mode
    It's a constitutional requirement that two-thirds of the Senate vote to ratify any treaties that the U.S. government signs. The New START Treaty has the votes to pass in this Congress but probably does not in the next, which will have six more Republicans. That's why it is important to ratify the ...
  • Don't Call it A News Media
    The Mustache of Understanding has a good piece up today at the New York Times that examines the viral lie that the president's trip to Asia cost the taxpayers $200 million a day (or, about $2 billion total). He rightly praises CNN's Anderson Cooper for running down the origin of the story (an unna ...
  • Ten Years Gone, Ten Years Wasted
    Ten years ago, I hosted my extended family's annual Thanksgiving get-together. Do you know what everyone was debating? How much longer Gore and Lieberman should continue fighting for the election victory they had won but been denied. My position was that they owed it to all the people who knocked ...
  • Ten Years Gone, Ten Years Wasted
    Ten years ago, I hosted my extended family's annual Thanksgiving get-together. Do you know what everyone was debating? How much longer Gore and Lieberman should continue fighting for the election victory they had won but been denied. My position was that they owed it to all the people who knocked ...
  • The TSA Guidelines for Sanctions
    Remember John Tyner, the "Don't touch my Junk" guy who is being threatened with a civil lawsuit and an $11,000 fine for leaving the airport (after he had been escorted out of the security area by the TSA) after refusing a backscatter full body scan and an intrusive pat down in which the TSA agent wo ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Mental Health and Cancer: The Often-Overlooked Con ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Dealing with an illness as serious as cancer is no small thing. A cancer diagnosis of often accompanied with swift and aggressive treatment, and it’s all but expected that a person will be overwhelmed, worried, fearful, and anxious while doctors focus on their medical ...
  • Virtual March Spreads Anti-Bullying Campaign Acros ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline This week, November 15-19, is Anti-Bullying Week in the UK, and thousands of participants have kicked the week off by participating in the Big March. This march took place in no single location, but rather across the homepages of 60 websites during European business h ...
  • Self-Esteem for the Holidays, Part I
    By Tina Gilbertson, MA, Self-Esteem Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Tina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Where should we spend the holidays this year? Should I give a gift to my neighbors? How can we invite so-and-so to dinner without inviting that annoying ______ of hers? The ...
  • Beating the Blues: Music Therapy and Depression
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s no secret that music can calm the mind and soothe the soul. But does music therapy work as a form of treatment for depression? A new study suggests that yes, music therapy has the potential to help people overcome depression, especially when used in combination w ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up What a fantastic week in the psychotherapy world! Enjoy this week’s newest and most interesting research, and please let us know what you think. Have a wonderful weekend! We Are Most Happy When Making Love, Exercising or Chatting, and Least Happy ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Film Hits Screens - Louisville ...
    Mountaintop Removal Film Hits Screens Louisville Courier-Journal ... the Louisville Film Society will host two screenings of a new documentary about the effects of mountaintop removal mining on a small Eastern Kentucky ...
  • The Wizards of Finance - Huffington Post (blog)
    The Wizards of Finance Huffington Post (blog) The Wizards of Finance are slowly backing away from mountaintop removal mining (MTR) like the well-brought up from a drunk, puking, distant cousin. ...
  • The Webb Abides: Heroic Anti-Mountaintop Removal A ...
    The Webb Abides: Heroic Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activist Wins Prestigious ... Huffington Post (blog) I live at the bottom of a mountain top removal coal mining operation in the Peachtree community. Webb and his growing alliance and anti-strip mining ... and more��
  • Mountaintop removal comes to CO. - The Daily Plane ...
    Mountaintop removal comes to CO. The Daily Planet When a mountaintop removal coal mine encroaches on their community, the two find themselves on opposite sides of a debate — who controls, consumes, ...
  • Citizen groups seek to intervene in WVDEP's lawsui ...
    Citizen groups seek to intervene in WVDEP's lawsuit against EPA's mountaintop ... Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 4:46 pm and is filed under Legal actions, Mountaintop Removal. You can follow any responses to this ... Want to Help End Mountaintop Rem ...

Memeorandum

  • One Way to Trim Deficit: Cultivate Growth (David L ...
    David Leonhardt / New York Times: One Way to Trim Deficit: Cultivate Growth  —  We look back on the late 1990s as a rare time when the federal government ran budget surpluses.  We tend to forget that those surpluses came as a surprise to almost everybody.  —  As late as 1998, the Congressional Budg ...
  • How Palin Conservatives Are Cheating The DWTS Voti ...
    Jezebel: How Palin Conservatives Are Cheating The DWTS Voting System  —  It's been alleged that the Tea Party's “Operation Bristol” is keeping the teen mom in the competition.  However, the real conspiracy is that her conservative supporters have figured out a way to exploit ABC.com's email-voting ...
  • Health panel brings out big guns (Christine McConv ...
    Christine McConville / Boston Herald: Health panel brings out big guns  —  The state's health insurance connector — the highly touted agency that aims to bring cheap medical care to the masses — has turned into a legal pit bull by aggressively going after a growing number of Bay Staters who say the ...
  • That's the Story? (#GalacticFail Edition) (Josh Ma ...
    Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: That's the Story?  (#GalacticFail Edition)  —  The Politico has a story up tonight about how and why the bipartisan, everybody-get-along summit between President Obama and congressional Republicans ended up getting postponed.  And a key part of it, according to ...
  • THE FALLOUT OF KYL'S BETRAYAL.... The optimism had ...
    Steve Benen / Washington Monthly: THE FALLOUT OF KYL'S BETRAYAL.... The optimism hadn't been expressed publicly, but the White House really did think it finally had a deal in place for Senate ratification of the new arms control treaty with Russia, New START.  —  Republicans had made Sen. Jon Kyl ( ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Reflections of a climate veteran (1)
    James Hansen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. After 30 years in the field, he tells Tan Copsey why cheap fossil fuels are still obstructing progress – and why taxing carbon is the answer.James Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a member of the United ...
  • The right course for rivers
    A decade after the World Commission on Dams launched its seminal report on responsible water and energy projects, Peter Bosshard says its recommendations are still spot on.Ten years ago today, Nelson Mandela launched the report of the independent World Commission on Dams (WCD) at a glitzy ceremony i ...
  • Fragile adaptation in Ladakh
    Destructive floods have led farmers to question their ability to survive in the arid reaches of the Himalayas. Arthar Parvaiz reports from north-west India.The devastating flood that struck the normally arid desert of Ladakh, north-west India, in August has multiplied the worries of local farmers, a ...
  • China’s export conundrum
    Complaints about trade restrictions on Chinese raw materials expose inconsistencies in European and American policies – and an underestimation of the environmental case, argue Xin Wang and Tancrède Voituriez.  In 2009, the European Union, United States and Mexico filed a complaint with the World ...
  • Sizing the climate economy
    Global green energy markets will at least double in size by 2020, according to the latest research from HSBC’s climate team. But the fruits will not be evenly spread, writes Nick Robins.2010 has been a tough year for the global climate agenda. Policy pessimism after Copenhagen has been compounded by ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Kryptos Artist to Reveal Rare Clue to Baffling CIA ...
    Kryptos sleuths may finally get some help cracking the CIA sculpture that has confounded amateur and professional cryptographers for two decades. Artist Jim Sanborn, who created the cypher sculpture in 1990 for CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, plans to release a new clue to help puzzle detect ...
  • Taiwanese Animators Recreate TSA ‘Junk’ Incident
    If you’re still trying to understand how an airline passenger wound up under government investigation for refusing a TSA body scan and security grope at a San Diego airport, this new clip from the Taiwanese news-animation company NMA is your Zapruder film. It also covers the November 24 opt-out pr ...
  • Beatles for Sale on iTunes — Yawn
    What Beatles fan does not remember when John Lennon was assassinated? And any real Beatles fan knows the Fab Four’s last live concert-tour appearance was at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in 1966. And every Beatles purist remembers 1987, the year the Beatles appeared on CD. It brought to life wha ...
  • TSA Investigating ‘Don’t Touch My Junk’ Passenger
    The TSA has launched an investigation of a passenger in San Diego who left the airport after opting out of an invasive body scan and criticizing the proposed alternative pat-down. John Tyner, a 31-year-old software programmer, recorded the encounter on his mobile phone and posted it to his blog. F ...
  • One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Bod ...
    At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Upsized GM IPO could be biggest deal ever
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co is boosting the size of its common stock offering by more than 30 percent to $15.5 billion, two people familiar with the matter said, potentially making its landmark IPO the largest U.S. offering ever.
  • Pacquiao simply the best of all time, says Arum
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When it comes to boxing, veteran promoter Bob Arum has seen it all in a career spanning almost half a century and he unwaveringly believes Manny Pacquiao has become the best fighter of all time.
  • Euro hunkered down near 7-wk lows on Irish woes
    LONDON (Reuters) - The euro traded near seven-week lows versus the dollar on Wednesday, hobbled by the lack of a clear solution to Ireland's debt crisis while high-yielding currencies suffered as risky trades were unwound.
  • Thailand extradites Russian arms suspect to U.S.
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout arrived in New York from Thailand on Tuesday to face U.S. terrorism charges, the Justice Department said.
  • Fed officials defend drive to lower rates
    MONTGOMERY, Alabama (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday fought back against a stream of criticism over its $600 billion economic stimulus, arguing it was necessary to shore up the fragile recovery.

IntelNews

  • Did FSB leak Russian double spy’s name to the medi ...
    The revelation that a double agent betrayed the ten Russian deep-cover spies, who were arrested in the United States last summer, may have been leaked to the media as part of a turf war between two rival Russian spy agencies. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #452
    Britain's GCHQ turns to Google for help. CIA double agent pleads guilty from prison. Georgia offers to negotiate with Russia over spies. Continue reading →
  • Israel intelligence source warns of West Bank coll ...
    A senior source inside Israelâs intelligence community has warned that the continuing building of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories could cause the rapid collapse of the Fatah government in the West Bank. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #451 (history edition)
    New book examines Powels-Abel spy exchange. Newspaper sues FBI over civil rights informant. Female WWII spy reflects on "horrible and wonderful" life. Continue reading →
  • Colombian agency spied on Spanish politician
    An official report prepared for the Colombian government reveals that an illegal unit set up within the Colombian intelligence services spied on a member of the Spanish parliament. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Kucinich Proposes a Novelty: Serious But Not Crazy ...
    Dear Colleague: Perhaps the most crucial vote you will cast in the reorganization of the 112th Congress involves the Ranking Member position of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This is because the presumptive Chair of the full Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, has already ...
  • Conyers' Deficit-Neutral Jobs Bill
    From Put America to Work Campaign Conyers' Deficit-Neutral Jobs Bill cross-posted from Open Congress blog by Donny Shaw (July 14, 2010) If I had to pick the top three factors in U.S. politics right now I would say the unemployment situation, concern about the deficit, and distrust of the financia ...
  • The Secret Transfer of Nuclear Materials
    START needs to be restarted, which was totally scrapped in the previous administration, and vigorously negotiated, with total common sense goals, to rid the planet of these Weapons of Total Mass Destruction!! U.S., Kazakhstan complete secret transfer of nuclear materials November 16, 2010 - Working ...
  • Make Kucinich Ranking Member on Oversight
    Oversight ranking member: Towns does zip for 2 yrs. Kucinich would oppose crazy oversight with serious oversight. It's been decades since we've seen anything other than crazy Republican attacks on Democrats, Democratic fear before Republicans, and each party giving its own presidents a free ride. L ...
  • Climax of Years of Denials
    Guantánamo payout deal is climax of years of denials of UK role in rendition Analysis: Settlement means no more damaging documents or information will be released by the courts 16 November 2010 - The disclosure that UK citizens and residents incarcerated in Guantánamo Bay are to receive millions of ...

Grist - News

  • U.S. wants China to reciprocate green energy subsi ...
    by Agence France-Presse. SHANGHAI -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Monday that China should allow foreign companies to qualify for its subsidies aimed at encouraging renewable energy projects. Chu said foreign firms, including Chinese companies, qualify for U.S. clean energy subsidie ...
  • EPA issues guidelines for cutting greenhouse-gas e ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. EPA issued guidelines on Wednesday to help industries comply with greenhouse-gas emission cuts beginning next year, as the nation takes steps to stem global warming. The move follows a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that carbon emissions are pollutants ...
  • Christie finds the Right’s kingmakers demand ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. In most of the democratic world, it's possible to be a conservative leader who doesn't completely dismiss climate science. In fact, it's common. The dismissive position of the American Right's elite is unique. This was embarrassingly clear at the recent International Securit ...
  • Home Energy Score could be a much-needed MPG for h ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Miles-per-gallon ratings provide a quick way to evaluate a vehicle's performance. Walk Score provides a quick way to evaluate a neighborhood's performance. Neither standard is perfect, but both are useful for helping people get their heads around the concepts of fuel efficie ...
  • The post-election outlook for regional cap-and-tra ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. When the national climate bill crashed this summer in a flaming streak of senatorial ineptitude, climate hawks could take a little comfort in the progress that continued on the state level. Ten northeastern states have been running an active cap-and-trade program for power pl ...

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Washington Independent

  • The Washington Independent, signing off
    We thought our model of online journalism could rise above the industry's financial struggles. For a while, it did. But in the end, we fell prey to the recession just like everyone else.
  • Lunchtime Links
    Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex… …and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With the Stars voting system. Salon ranks the sexiest men of 2010. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” gets translated into English. Lieberman thinks Palin is qualified t ...
  • Study finds high costs, questionable return for Vi ...
    A new study on the impact of anti-illegal immigration policies in Prince William County, Va., found that the Latino population decreased substantially after the policy was implemented in 2007, with a 7,700-person drop in the non-citizen Latino population between 2006 and 2008. (That number accounts ...
  • Democratic donors still divided over the best appr ...
    Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm elections and what they mean for strategy on various policy and electoral issues going forward. The event was closed to the press, but Politico m ...
  • New report lays out failures that led to Deepwater ...
    An interim report released today by the National Academy of Engineering lays out a series of failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill. The report isn’t pretty. It points to “failures and missed indications of hazard,” “insufficient checks and balances” on safety a ...

Digg Green

  • Los Angeles Bans Plastic Bags
    The ban will affect nearly 1.1 million residents countywide and has been called one of the nation's most aggressive environmental measures to date.
  • New Toads with Big Noses and Fiery Eyes Disco ...
    For over a week, a team of researchers scoured the cloudforests of Chocó, Colombia, looking for amphibian species "lost" to science. Working through damp, cold, conditions, the team's spirits waned as each day passed without any results. Then, an entirely unexpected discovery proved all the har ...
  • Space-time cloak could hide events
    It would be the perfect hiding place: a hole carved out of space–time. The space–time cloak would be an upgraded version of the 'invisibility cloak' that generates a pocket in reality in which actions can be concealed. The proposed device could edit actions out of history.
  • Designer Bacteria Can Heal Cracks in Concrete ...
    Researchers have designed bacteria that can produce a special glue to knit together cracks in concrete structures.
  • For Some Girls, Gynecology Surgery Leaves Unw ...
    Surgical instruments, such as sponges, are rarely left inside children after procedures, but girls under 18 undergoing gynecological surgeries appear to be at a particularly high risk for these upsetting and expensive mishaps, according to a new study.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Video – Helen Thomas Interview
    Helen Thomas speaks frankly about her views, particularly her views on Palestine and Israel.
  • Body scanners have ‘mutagenic effects’
    By Declan McCullagh A Californian university professor of biochemistry said the Obama administration’s claim that full-body scanners pose no health risks to air travellers is in “error”. The administration’s defence of the controversial machines, which use x-rays to perform what critics have dubbed ...
  • San Diego Man Balks at Scan
    By Mike Krumboltz Folks have been surrendering their dignity in the name of safe air travel for years. Most of the time, this happens without incident. But John Tyner, who was scheduled to fly from San Diego’s Lindbergh Field to South Dakota for a hunting trip on Saturday, drew the line when he was ...
  • Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer: Abolish ...
    By Art Carden The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President’s health care proposal. In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, vi ...
  • David Kelly was murdered as he could not have take ...
    By Miles Goslett and Sue Reid Mystery: Dr Kelly was found in woods near his home Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdos ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
    Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
  • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
    The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...
  • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
    Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
  • Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
    Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...
  • Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedian ...
    Jokes on us. Those blokes from across the pond sure do give their all for a joke! View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partier ...

Inhabitat

  • BionX Electric Bikes to Join California Bikeshare ...
    Canadian autoparts giant Magna International has volunteered its BionX electric bikes for a four-week bikeshare trial in California, which will release a fleet of bikes on the Sacramento campus of the California Energy Environmental Protection Agency. The bikeshare scheme has been launched in partne ...
  • ChargePoint Unveils First Public EV Charger In Was ...
    ChargePoint just unveiled the first public electric vehicle charging station in Washington, D.C. as part of Coulomb Technologies‘ $37 million ChargePoint America program. The program was paid for in part by a $15 million DOE grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and it aims to in ...
  • Salvaged Cedar Longhouse Inspired by Native Archit ...
    Read the rest of Salvaged Cedar Longhouse Inspired by Native Architecturehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", Alfred Waugh Arch ...
  • Genetically Modified Bacteria Can Fix Cracked Conc ...
    Researchers at the U.K’s University of Newcastle have created a new type of bacteria that generates glue to hold together cracks in concrete structures — that means everything from concrete sidewalks to buildings that have been damaged by earthquakes. With approximately 5% of all man-made CO2 emiss ...
  • EXCLUSIVE PICS: Shipping Container Prefab Home Pop ...
    Read the rest of EXCLUSIVE PICS: Shipping Container Prefab Home Pops Up in NYhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Christos Marcopoulous ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Jet Lag May Cause Stupidity
    SAN DIEGO — In addition to making you groggy and dazed, jet lag may make you stupid. A study presented November 15 at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting finds that hamsters suffering extreme, chronic jet lag had about half the normal rate of new neuron birth in a part of the brain. What’s ...
  • Physicists Tame Bird Songs With Statistics
    The notoriously complex song of the finch has finally succumbed to statistics. Physicists have developed a model that can map out and predict the notes birds sing in sequence. The new model is roughly eight times more accurate than previous attempts to unravel complex bird songs. If the scientists ...
  • Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space
    Images: USGS/NASA See Also: Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space Erupting Volcanoes on Earth as Seen From Space Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space Huge Holes in the Earth: Open-Pit Mines Seen F ...
  • Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday
    Wake up early and look up tomorrow: The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak in the hours just before dawn Wednesday and Thursday. The Leonids come every year in November, when the Earth passes through a cloud of debris trailing the comet Tempel-Tuttle. When the dust Tempel-Tuttle leaves ...
  • How Wii and Kinect Hack Into Your Emotions
    Nintendo’s Wii game console may owe some of its extraordinary success to emotions that are triggered by specific movements: It might essentially be using your body to hack into your brain. A better understanding of which motions trigger which emotions might not only lead to better games, but could ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Will the Cancun Conference on Climate Change Be Co ...
    Environmental ministers and climate change negotiators have been very busy the past few weeks. With the UNâs Cancun Climate Conference due to kick off at the end of November, scores of international environmental meetings have been staged, and other conferences that were not specifically about ...
  • Bachmann Claims Iran "Already Has Nuclear Capabili ...
    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 ( ...
  • Containment as an Alternative Strategy
    Patrick Porter of the King's College London has a great, short article in the UK Guardian newspaper on how a selective containment strategy could be the better solution over trying to maintain a global international presence, or "world supercop" in my parlance. At its best, [containment] is a prac ...
  • What If Muslims Don't Want to Become "Liberals"?
    It's easy to make fun of those who overhype the supposedly impending imposition of sharia law within the United States. The Muslims are not taking over, at least not anytime soon. There’s, um, like, 1 percent of us in the United States. At the same time, though, we shouldn’t pretend that there aren’ ...
  • The Generalized System of Preferences: On Tariffs ...
    Far and away the most persuasive critique of the most recent round of proposed trade deals is that these agreements actually have relatively little to do with trade. Instead since all kinds of business regulations “affect” trade, you’ve got a lot of stuff about intellectual property rules, capital ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Candidate of Resentment.
    This Sunday's New York Times Magazine contains a lengthy article on Sarah Palin's nascent presidential campaign. The author, Robert Draper, managed to score an interview with Palin despite the fact that he is neither an employee of Fox News nor a conservative talk radio host, a remarkable achievemen ...
  • The Senate and Business.
    Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid tabled a vote on a bill to promote natural-gas and electric vehicles today in the hopes that a compromise with Republicans is close. That should give some hint that proceeding with the cloture votes on the Paycheck Fairness Act and the food-safety bill could be a bad ...
  • Sabotage!
    A few days ago, Matthew Yglesias floated the possibility that Republicans are trying to sabotage economic growth for political gain: So I know that tangible improvements in the economy are key to Obama’s re-election chances. And Douglas Hibbs knows that it’s key. And senior administration officials ...
  • Actual Good News on Health Coverage.
    Here's some good news on the Affordable Care Act front, from The Wall Street Journal: The number of small businesses offering health insurance to workers is projected to increase sharply this year, recent data show, a shift that researchers attribute to a tax credit in the health law. Many small bu ...
  • Blind Trust.
    Tim Fernholz asks whether efforts to offer borrowers mortgage modifications are endangered by the current documentation crisis? The mortgage mess isn't going away. Loans, sold as many as 12 times before ending up in a complex security or on a financial institution's balance sheet, have been found w ...

Buzzflash

  • Michele Bachmann's Love/Hate Relationship with Ear ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I had an idea the other night with which I knew I could go to town But it arrived as I was drifting off to sleep And I didn't write it down. As I read the news the next morning There was Michelle Bachmann online Coyly declaring that earmarks were Something that she could ...
  • Senator Bernie Sanders: Increase Taxes on the Weal ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is a news release from Senator Bernie Sanders: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced that he will work with members of Congress, labor unions, seniors' organizations and others to develop progressive alternatives to proposals circulated by leaders of a White ...
  • When Last Seen, Palin Was in a Helicopter Flying T ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Southern GOP Congressman Blames Not Taking The Senate On Ex-Alaska Governor Spencer Bachus should keep in mind that Sarah's not someone with whom to trifle; When last seen, Palin was in a helicopter Flying towards Alabama with a rifle. In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, ...
  • As the Rich Get Richer, the Middle Class Disappear ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN While the deficit-reduction commission focuses on reducing the debt, little attention is being paid to the downsizing of the middle class in the US. For many who pursued the "American dream," it is now turning into an anxious struggle for surviv ...
  • A Thought About Dubya’s Spin (I Mean “Book”) Tour
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH He’s still got that brash Texas swagger I’m sure he’ll soon sit down with Bill-O But the idea of a chat with Jon Stewart Makes Dubya curl up like an armadillo.read more

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Sciencebase

  • 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 [ ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Free Press Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cas ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2010Free PressYesterday, Free Press filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in FCC v. AT&T, Inc., which will be heard by the Supreme Court on Jan. 19, 2011. The case asks the Court to decide whether corporations may claim "personal privacy" rights whe ...
  • National Leaders and DREAM Youth Urge Immediate Ac ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2010America's VoiceThis Thursday at noon, DREAM-eligible youth will join national leaders to call on Congress to pass the DREAM Act before the end of 2010. Archbishop Jose Gomez, Co-Adjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles, Chairman, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's ...
  • Obama Executive Order on ‘Faith-Based’ Initiative ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2010Americans United for Separation of Church and StateToday's White House executive order on "faith-based" funding fails to correct significant constitutional problems and leaves important civil rights issues unresolved, says Americans United for Separation of Chu ...
  • Federal Reserve and Unemployment
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2010Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He said today: "While America is suffering through its worst spell of unemployment since the Great Depression, some Republicans in Congress a ...
  • Obama Executive Order On ‘Faith-Based’ Initiative ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2010Americans United for Separation of Church and StateToday’s White House executive order on “faith-based” funding fails to correct significant constitutional problems and leaves important civil rights issues unresolved, says Americans United for Separation of ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Could Nonviolent Resistance Defeat Petraeus' Night ...
    by Robert NaimanPop quiz on the news: who said this week, referring to the dispute between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. military commander David Petraeus over U.S. Special Forces "night raids" that break into Afghans' homes in the middle of the night: Many Afghans see the raids as a ... hu ...
  • A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
    by Amy Goodman"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.read more
  • Want to Stand Up for Climate Science? We're Doing ...
    by Brenda EkwurzelThe Los Angeles Times created a minor firestorm in the science blogosphere this week when it reported that 700 members of the American Geophysical Union plan to aggressively take on climate skeptics, including members of Congress. read more
  • The Necessary Reckoning on Rendition and Waterboar ...
    by Ken KudeThe British government's settlement agreement to pay compensation to former Guantánamo detainees over claims that they were unlawfully captured and abused while in custody is a meaningful, though not complete, government statement on its complicity in extraordinary rendition and tortur ...
  • Corporate Flimflammers in Our Communities and Cong ...
    by Jim HightowerThe signature phrase of America's booming good food movement has been expanded from "organic" to "local and sustainable."Good! The phrase suggests great quality, strong environmental stewardship and a commitment to keeping our food dollars in the local economy. If you support the loc ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • It's Not 2014 Either, Says NATO Envoy
    By Steve Hynd Just days after the Obama administration stopped talking about 2011 entirely and started touting 2014 as the end of the combat mission in Afghanistan, the NATO envoy in Kabul says we can forget that date too. Mark Sedwill, the civilian counterpart to US commander General David Petraeus ...
  • Today In Afghan Security Theater: Karzai Calls For ...
    By Steve Hynd There's something not quite right going on when Afghan President Hamid Karzai is heavily quoted by Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post calling for a reduction in NATO's military footprint that everyone paying attention has known was on the cards anyway since at least January. You hav ...
  • Afghanistan Strategy: Desperately Seeking Every Wh ...
    By Steve Hynd Two news stories today show just how much "between a rock and a hard place" the U.S. and its allies are in Afghanistan. The first is from Canadian Press and reports that the "clear and hold" parts of COIN ops in Kandahar are failing. A security cordon set up around Kandahar city has fa ...
  • Honoring Troops and Veterans Means Honoring Their ...
    By Derrick Crowe Today is Veterans Day, the tenth Veterans Day since the Afghanistan War began. The burden of this brutal, futile war falls heaviest on a very small slice of the population: military members and their families. Many of them think that this war is immoral, and that makes fighting in i ...
  • Gates: US Troops In Afghanistan Until At Least 201 ...
    By Steve Hynd SecDef Bob Gates is now saying that Obama's 2011 "beginning of withdrawal" date was mostly spin aimed at the Taliban, to lull them into a false sense of security. MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 8, 2010 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today that he hopes the Taliban think July ...

Water Wars

  • Water wars: Hearing looms on eminent domain takeov ...
    According to the California Department of Public Health, drinking water being served to Lake Forest Water Company customers exceeded state arsenic levels in 2007, and the problem has not been corrected, despite water company owner Rick Dewante saying it has.
  • Water Wars: Oregon Vs. Nestle
    Bottled water is a huge industry, and a profitable one. Last year it netted $10 billion in the US, but there are signs that the industry is slowing. Restaurants have turned away from pricey bottled water, and consumers have returned to tap water to save money. Nestlé is a huge player in the sector: ...
  • Water wars: Hearing looms on eminent domain takeov ...
    According to the California Department of Public Health, drinking water being served to Lake Forest Water Company customers exceeded state arsenic levels in 2007, and the problem has not been corrected, despite water company owner Rick Dewante saying it has.
  • The Other, Bigger, War
    October 27, 2010: Terrorism isn't the biggest cause of death and violence in Yemen, the water shortage and tribalism are. The high birth rate and growing production of Khat has increased poverty and water demands.
  • Our pick for attorney general: Ken Hodges
    Georgians deserve a take-charge pitbull with battle scars by CL staff WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: After 13 years of the spineless Thurbert Baker, Georgians need an AG willing to root out public corruption, help end the water wars and not use the office to further a political agenda. THE LOWDOWN: There was ...

WordPress | Economics

  • Max passion
    These Youtube clips from last year give a clue as to why I wish Max Keiser was heard more in BBC tha
  • Earthbag Building in Pisco, Peru
    Pisco Sin Fronteras is working to improve the living conditions of families and communities in Pisco
  • Small Change
    The following is taken from A History of Money: From AD 800: The Continental aspect of the problem i
  • The Teetering Eurozone
    I wrote yesterday of the impending bailout of Ireland by the EU, and some of the implications. Since
  • Super Link Drop, Monetary Policy Edition
    For those of you to love to hear my amateur ruminations on economic matters far beyond my depth, tod

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban neither Islamic nor Pakistani, asserts Mal ...
    Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday that the Taliban are 'mercenary killers and they are neither Islamic nor Pakistani', stressing that the country stands united against terrorism.
  • 'Stepped-up military operations only way to b ...
    NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that stepped-up military operations on the ground might be the only way to bring Afghan insurgents to the negotiating table.
  • Canada to pull civilian staff from Kandahar, ...
    Canada is slashing aid to Afghanistan and abandoning any presence in Kandahar by withdrawing not only troops but civilian officials who manage development projects from a Provincial Reconstruction Team, next year.
  • Afghan Christian to go to trial on Sunday for his ...
    Kabul – An Afghan national, in prison since May because of his religion, will be put on tried this Sunday. However, he has been denied legal counsel. Local sources say no one knows what charges ...
  • Guardsman Works to Develop Afghan Army
    By Army Capt. Anthony DeissTask Force Rushmore KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 17, 2010 While many South Dakotans are aware of the contributions South Dakota Army National Guard units have made in su...

Futurismic

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

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  • Open Government Success Stories: Labor's Online En ...
    Culture change can be a messy, difficult business. POGO has been observing the Obama administration’s drive toward creating a culture of increased openness in our federal government, and it is clear that there are significant hurdles. At the beginning of...
  • Morning Smoke: Pentagon Requires All "Senior Mento ...
    Pentagon stops shielding senior mentors from disclosure by Tom Vanden Brook [USA TODAY] Pentagon to Contractors: How About You Pay for Your Overbudget Gear by Spencer Ackerman [Danger Room] Earmark Ban Exposes Rifts Within Both Parties by David M. Herszenhorn...
  • Morning Smoke: Inspector General: FEMA Did Not Awa ...
    IG report faults FEMA contracting for disaster response by Andy Medici [Federal Times] Senior acquisition officials question procurement policy direction by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] Judge reinstates F-35 whistleblower suit by Bob Cox [Sky Talk] Short life for STOVL F-35...
  • Congressional Investigations We Could Really Use
    With the help of POGO and other good government groups, Congressional Quarterly's Brian Friel has put together a decent wish list of investigations for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the key congressional watchdog committee now led by Representative...
  • Inspector General Community Posts Recommended Prac ...
    The Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) just posted a new report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG). The report, titled “Recommended Practices of Office of Inspector General Hotlines,” is the...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Put Housing First in the Second City
    This week, the Chicago City Council's Housing and Finance committees voted 13 to 8 to send an affordable housing bill to lame-duck mayor Richard Daley. Can it make the windy city a bit more hospitable to low-income people? The measure, known as the Sweet Home Chicago bill, would require that 20 perc ...
  • A Roving Tent City Continues to Look for a Home
    Nickelsville, the self-sufficient tent city in Seattle that has been working towards making things better for those who are homeless but not helpless, moved into a new location this week. While residents, who call themselves Nickelodeans, wait to hear about a permanent location, they settled in for ...
  • His Success Story Gets Two Thumbs Up
    Yes, Anthony is homeless. We met at a rotating shelter near Detroit. When Anthony first lost his job and place to live, he tried squatting in an abandoned building filled with people using drugs. Then he found MCREST Rotating Shelter. I love the rotating shelter model. Basically a group a faith-base ...
  • Victory! HUD Prevents Domestic Violence Survivors ...
    Activists do a great job advocating for change. We should also pause to celebrate when change happens. Here's a great example of a victory on the fronts of homelessness and domestic violence. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced its plans for stronger affordable h ...
  • Preventable Tragedy: A Hawaiian Teen's Suicide Aft ...
    Hawaiian teen Erwin Viado Celes had a lot going for him when he killed himself last September at age 19. He had a steady job at a pizza restaurant, college aspirations, a mentor in his kickboxing coach, and caring friends who now are fundraising to cover his burial costs. He'd also survived severe e ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Government confirms Afghanistan extension
    The Harper government has confirmed that it is extending Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan until 2014 (Jane Taber, “Conservatives bump Afghan withdrawal date back three years,” Globe and Mail, 16 November 2010). Approximately 950 Canadian soldiers, to be based mostly in the Kabul area, will b ...
  • NATO’s upcoming summit
    NATO heads of state and government will meet in Lisbon on the 19th to the 21st of November. On the agenda: approval of a new Strategic Concept document for the Alliance, including a rewrite of NATO nuclear policy; a decision on European NATO missile defence; discussion of the war in Afghanistan; rel ...
  • How can we make the F-35 and Peace an election iss ...
    On Tuesday, November 16, Murray Dobbin, one of Canada’s most popular progressive political commentators will be discussing with you the need for new politics in Canada and how to make the F-35 and Peace an election issue. Tuesday, November 16 2010 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET (4:00 AT, 2:00 CT, 1:00 MT, 12 ...
  • Webcast & Conference Call: How to Make F-35 and Pe ...
    // // Join us in a live discussion with special guest Murray Dobbin, one of Canada’s most popular progressive political commentators and analysts. Learn more about the need for new politics in Canada and how to be successful in framing the F-35 and peace as an election issue. Canada-wide conference ...
  • Has Remembrance Day become a commemoration of war, ...
    Do you feel that Remembrance Day has become a commemoration of war, or does it remain a time to think about peace? Leave your comments below.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Body-Searching Children: No for the US Army, Yes f ...
    November 17th, 2010 The Atlantic By: James Fallows Please read the note below. A US Army staff sergeant, now serving in Afghanistan, writes about the new enhanced pat-down procedure from the TSA. Summary of his very powerful message: to avoid giving gross offense to the Afghan public, and to prevent ...
  • Pilots and Passengers Rail At New Airport Patdowns
    November 17th, 2010 Reuters By: Jeremy Pelofsky Stepped-up security screening at airports in the wake of foiled terrorism plots has provoked an outcry from airline pilots and travelers, including parents of children who say they are too intrusive. With the busiest holiday travel season nearing, flie ...
  • TSA Rage Hitting All Age Demographics Now
    November 17th, 2010 Time.com By: Megan Gibson It seems like pretty much everyone hates the TSA these days. After refusing a full body scan, John Tyner in San Diego was told that he’d have to submit to a pat down. Tyner then recorded his conversation with security personnel, where he tells them, “If ...
  • TSA Screener Terrorizes 3-year-old Girl
    November 17th, 2010 The Examiner By: Joe Newby Imagine taking your family to the airport and watching as Federal agents terrorize your 3-year-old child. That is exactly what happened to little Mandy Simon. She was first forced to surrender her teddy bear, and ended up getting flagged for further scr ...
  • ‘If You Touch My Junk, I’m Gonna Have You Arrested ...
    November 17th, 2010 Raw Story By: John Byrne TSA threatens man with lawsuit, $10,000 fine after refusing pat down A man trying to board a plane at San Diego International Airport refused the airport’s “backscatter” machine (which takes a snapshot of items beneath a passenger’s clothes) got into an a ...

Pambazuka News

  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • AIPAC is on the brink
    The Forward reports: The espionage case against two senior officials of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington was dropped last year. But it has not been forgotten, and is now threatening to draw the lobby into new depths of mudslinging. Papers filed in the civil lawsuit of former lobbyist Steve Rosen ...
  • Clear evidence that Stuxnet targeted Natanz nuclea ...
    The latest evidence revealed by two independent groups of researchers studying the code in the Stuxnet malware — the world’s first identified cyber weapon — indicates the Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz was almost certainly the target for attack. Not only was it aimed at programmable lo ...
  • The overestimation of our power and the underestim ...
    Patrick Porter writes: The road to strategic hell is paved with good intentions. Consider the words of General Sir David Richards, the chief of defence staff. We can’t defeat al-Qaida and its ilk, he believes, but we can contain it. In other words, we might never destroy it physically or ideologica ...
  • Billions can be saved in defense budget: McCain
    Reuters reports: Senator John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said billions of dollars could be saved from the defense budget by cutting lawmakers’ pet projects, known as earmarks, and fixing troubled arms programs. McCain told a foreign policy forum on Monday th ...
  • From the top there’s only one way forward: down
    Mature cosmological systems recognize the cyclical nature of change: that growth is followed by decay and that power gathered is later dispersed. These are not ideas readily embraced by an imperial power and thus America has driven itself into a trap which it cannot back out of without undermining i ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Canadian Senate kills climate change bill
    Via CBC News, what a great irony for Climategate day: Senate kills climate change bill Last Updated: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 The Canadian Press Senators have voted down an opposition bill to tackle climate change with just days to go … Continue reading →
  • Unhinged LSU professor gives stemwinding global wa ...
    Dr. Bradley Schaefer really knows how to reach young college students: spouting hyperbolic proclamations of death and nuclear obliteration.  The Louisiana State University astronomy professor is filmed saying some pretty ugly things, even for the typical unhinged liberal professor.  But … Continue ...
  • Al Gore to Host Live InteractiveTown Hall Meeting ...
    (Curious that this happens on the anniversary of Climategate…. h/t to Joe D’aleo ) Al Gore will host a live interactive online town hall called Math, Science and the Future of Our Nation today at noon. (12PM EST, 9AM PST) … Continue reading →
  • Climategate Anniversary Humor
    Well, one year ago this week, a tipping point occurred. The apple cart was upset. Richard A. left this humorous satirical comment which seemed appropriate for today, so I’ve elevated it to a full post. Press Relase â CRU East … Continue reading →
  • The unbearable flatness of 10.7
    While sunspots are often the proxy of choice for solar activity reports, the 10.7 cm radio band is also an excellent indicator of solar activity. As you can see in this NOAA graph below, it is slowly coming up, but … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky: Liberal-conservative divide no more ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | November 17, 2010 Noam Chomsky: Liberal-conservative divide no more than an illusion amongst ordinary Americans transcript [...] CHOMSKY: I think there’s very little truth to it. What’s happened over the past roughly 35 years is that both parties ha ...
  • Savage Austerity by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox November 14, 2010 “Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.” James Connolly, Irish Freedom Fighter and founder of ...
  • Tony Blair: Glossing Over Remembrance Day by Felic ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 11 November, 2010 “You fasten all the triggers for the others to fire, Then you sit back and watch when the death count gets higher, You hide in your mansion’s as young people’s blood flows, Out of their bodies and in to the mud.”  — Bob Dylan. ...
  • The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ storyofstuffproject | March 17, 2010 http://storyofbottledwater.org The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a bi ...
  • Lisbon Summit: NATO To Retain Nuclear Arms, Build ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 10, 2010 In little more than a week the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will convene a two-day summit in Lisbon, Portugal with the heads of state and government (presidents and prime minist ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Jet Lag May Cause Stupidity
    SAN DIEGO — In addition to making you groggy and dazed, jet lag may make you stupid. A study presented November 15 at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting finds that hamsters suffering extreme, chronic jet lag had about half the normal rate of new neuron birth in a part of the brain. What’s ...
  • Physicists Tame Bird Songs With Statistics
    The notoriously complex song of the finch has finally succumbed to statistics. Physicists have developed a model that can map out and predict the notes birds sing in sequence. The new model is roughly eight times more accurate than previous attempts to unravel complex bird songs. If the scientists ...
  • Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space
    Images: USGS/NASA See Also: Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space Erupting Volcanoes on Earth as Seen From Space Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space Huge Holes in the Earth: Open-Pit Mines Seen F ...
  • Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday
    Wake up early and look up tomorrow: The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak in the hours just before dawn Wednesday and Thursday. The Leonids come every year in November, when the Earth passes through a cloud of debris trailing the comet Tempel-Tuttle. When the dust Tempel-Tuttle leaves ...
  • How Wii and Kinect Hack Into Your Emotions
    Nintendo’s Wii game console may owe some of its extraordinary success to emotions that are triggered by specific movements: It might essentially be using your body to hack into your brain. A better understanding of which motions trigger which emotions might not only lead to better games, but could ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Obama’s bribe
    In addition to the concession in the Jordan Valley and the [$3.00B] offer of combat jets that would effectively double the annual aid from the US, the deal is said to include a promise by Washington... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Flashmob: Cape Town Opera say NO
    Tel Aviv, November 15 2010, an anti-apartheid flashmob during the performance of "Porgy and Bess," performed by South Africa's Cape Town Opera. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much ...
  • Akiva Eldar: US taxpayers are paying for Israel’s ...
    According to a June 2010 fact sheet on the USAID Internet site, last year American taxpayers funded the paving of 63 kilometers of asphalt roads in the West Bank. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IO ...
  • Second squadron of F-35s [free of charge] is ‘an o ...
    Israel signed a contract for 20 F-35s – a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin – in early October in a deal valued at $2.75 billion. Under the offer made to Prime Minister... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Peace Now wants to collaborate with Lieberman
    nlike the Peace Now Settlements Task Force, which has played an important role in documenting and exposing illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, the Tel Aviv leadership of Peace Now is reported to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Statement by ADA President Raymond Gist, DDS, on W ...
    "The ADA welcomes the Kellogg Foundation to the fight to improve the oral health of the millions who suffer from its lack. Unfortunately, the foundation's recent efforts to address this complex issue focus exclusively on expanding a single provider model, the controversial Alaska Dental Health Aide ...
  • Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center to Host Health Ca ...
    In a sustained effort to seek consensus-driven policies that would build a high-value health care system, the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center will host a symposium Dec. 5-7 entitled "Achieving the Vision: Advancing High-Value Health Care."
  • Study Demonstrates Improved Wait Times for Patient ...
    Toronto Western Hospital study demonstrates improved wait times for patients suffering back pain.
  • Preventative Dental Care, Daily Toothbrushing Are ...
    When it comes to pet dental care, two Kansas State University veterinarians hope that owners remember an important message: Prevention is always better and often cheaper than treatment.
  • Winners of Baylor University's Fourth Annual MBA N ...
    MBA students from across the nation competed in Baylor University's Fourth Annual MBA National Case Competition in Ethical Leadership Nov. 10-12. The University of Iowa earned first place, followed by the University of Washington in second place and Pepperdine University in third.

Natural Health News

  • Fearless Cat Attacks Alligators
    The bravest cat in the world defeats two alligators.
  • Amazing Video Animation of the Inner Life of a Cel ...
    This animation was designed to take cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell. �It illustrates the mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus.
  • New Study Shows Antibiotics Have Little Impact on ...
    Giving children antibiotics when they get ear infections doesn�t do much to speed their recovery.� What�s more, it raises the risk of side effects. A study found that 80 out of 100 children, if given only medication to reduce pain or fever, would recover from an acute ear infection within a few ...
  • U.S. Earns 'D' for Premature Births
    The United States has gotten a "D" grade for its preterm birth rate from the March of Dimes. The organization recently released its 2010 report card. The target rate for preterm births is 7.6 percent or less, according to the March of Dimes. There are currently no states that meet that standard ...
  • Forget Diseases, Hospitals Cited Again as Major Ki ...
    According to a new analysis from the U.S. government, one in every seven hospitalized Medicare patients is harmed by treatment mistakes.� These�types of adverse events contribute to 15,000 deaths every month, or a total of 180,000 deaths per year. Patient-rights groups�are calling the findings alar ...

Antemedius

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, Off-Base America
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Last year, it was Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq.� This year, it�s Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.� Next year, it could easily be Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diego Garcia, Bahrain, and Turkey.� Or of course they could choose to play in Jap ...
  • Sen. Kyl Plays Politics With Nuclear Safety, And W ...
    What do you do when you get everything you ask for in a negotiation? Do you take the deal or do you continue to push and delay? Well if you are a Republican in the Senate it is obviously the latter. It does not matter if the issue is, oh, say the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. You know it is n ...
  • The Last Refuge of Failed Economic Empires and Ban ...
    Laura Flanders of GRITtv.org talks with economist & Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington Dean Baker about the Obama Administration deficit commission's recommendations for massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care progra ...
  • Election Results - People Are Collateral Damage
    Thomas Ferguson is Political Science Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a contributing editor of The Nation, and author of "Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political System". Back in April 2009 Ferguson was interviewed by Real N ...
  • Ballot Box Blues: The Most Dispiriting Election o ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com By the time you read this, I�ll already have voted -- the single most reflexive�political act of my life -- in the single most dispiriting election I can remember.� As I haven�t missed a midterm or presidential election since my first vote in 1968, that says s ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Surprisingly Free e-SOS Podcast
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I have my podcast debut this week over at Surprisingly Free – “a weekly podcast featuring in-depth discussions with an eclectic mix of authors, academics, and entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology, policy, and economics.”  I talk about my forthcoming ...
  • Culture Clash! or, Scenes from a Separatist Cook-O ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Gotta say, even though I write about issues of self-determination, secession, and statehood, I didn’t expect to read this on the front page of the Arts and Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times: At a glance it looked like any small-town fair, with smoke waf ...
  • The New World of International Trade Arbitration
    by Roger Alford In the past twenty years the world of investment arbitration has taken the commercial world by storm. There are over 2,750 bilateral investment treaties and almost every one of them has an arbitration provision. Investment arbitration is now a prominent feature of the arbitration ...
  • Google Maps to Blame for Nicaragua’s Invasio ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford “By no means should Google Maps be used as a reference to decide military actions between two countries.” That’s the official response from Google to news reports that Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica based on Google’s improper drawing of the border. Details from the ...
  • Culture Clash! or, Scenes from a Separatist Cook-O ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Gotta say, even though I write about issues of self-determination, secession, and statehood, I didn’t expect to read this on the front page of the Arts and Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times: At a glance it looked like any small-town fair, with smoke waf ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BREAKING: Royal Wedding announced, Wills and Kate ...
    It's official...for those interested Buckingham Palace has confirmed the engagement of Prince William and long time girlfriend Kate Middleton, next year. "The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton," the statement...
  • Obituary: The Prof goes to new pasture
    This just in from Lincoln University: NZ loses its first soil science professor with death of ‘The Prof’ A father figure in modern New Zealand soil science, Emeritus Professor Thomas William Walker, popularly known through his television appearances as “The...
  • Hot Topic author embarrasses himself in public
    Nearly died laughing this afternoon when I stumbled across Hot Topic's Bryan Walker misleading New Zealand Herald readers about climate change in Kiribati. Bryan seems genuine, but essentially ignorant on climate issues....so I'll go with incompetence rather than malice as...
  • Cognitive dissonance in media over climate change
    You know the game is over on global warming when even readers of alarmist magazines like Scientific American deliver the editors bad news like this in a readers' survey: **77% believe that current climate change is caused by natural processes...
  • TGIF EDITION: More new leads in Swedes case
    SIgn up to our Facebook or Twitter feeds for regular TGIF alerts..but the full digital newspaper can be accessed from the link in the middle of the following page: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1358

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

  • Chinese Woman Sentenced to Year in Labor Camp Over ...
    Chinese Woman Sentenced to Year in Labor Camp Over Tweet | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA BlogWe’re appalled that the Chinese authorities sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Singapore sentences UK author to jail - Amnesty In ...
    Singapore sentences UK author to jail - Amnesty International Australia: "Singapore has dealt a sharp blow to freedom of expression by sentencing 76-year-old British author Alan Shadrake to jail for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Guinean military declares emergency - Africa
    Guinean military declares emergency - Africa - Al Jazeera English: "Guinea's military has declared a state of emergency following violence after a tense presidential election.Nouhou Thiam, armed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • MI5 officer will not be prosecuted over Binyam Moh ...
    MI5 officer will not be prosecuted over Binyam Mohamed abuse | World news | guardian.co.uk: "An MI5 officer at the heart of allegations surrounding the abuse of British resident and US detainee... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BREAKING NEWS: 33 Chilean Women Lock Themselves In ...
    BREAKING NEWS: 33 Chilean Women Lock Themselves In 9,000 ft Deep Mine - Hispanically Speaking News: "A group of 33 women has taken over the coal mine “Chifl�n del Diablo” in Lota, close to Santiago... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • BREAKING: Royal Wedding announced, Wills and Kate ...
    It's official...for those interested Buckingham Palace has confirmed the engagement of Prince William and long time girlfriend Kate Middleton, next year. "The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton," the statement...
  • Obituary: The Prof goes to new pasture
    This just in from Lincoln University: NZ loses its first soil science professor with death of ‘The Prof’ A father figure in modern New Zealand soil science, Emeritus Professor Thomas William Walker, popularly known through his television appearances as “The...
  • Hot Topic author embarrasses himself in public
    Nearly died laughing this afternoon when I stumbled across Hot Topic's Bryan Walker misleading New Zealand Herald readers about climate change in Kiribati. Bryan seems genuine, but essentially ignorant on climate issues....so I'll go with incompetence rather than malice as...
  • Cognitive dissonance in media over climate change
    You know the game is over on global warming when even readers of alarmist magazines like Scientific American deliver the editors bad news like this in a readers' survey: **77% believe that current climate change is caused by natural processes...
  • TGIF EDITION: More new leads in Swedes case
    SIgn up to our Facebook or Twitter feeds for regular TGIF alerts..but the full digital newspaper can be accessed from the link in the middle of the following page: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1358

Mondoweiss

  • If anti-semitism justifies ethnic cleansing, then ...
    Jerome Slater tries to make the claim that Zionism isn’t racism. Many of the commenters who responded to his post presented more eloquent and knowledgeable arguments than I can, so I’ll keep it brief. According to Slater, Zionism isn’t racism because it’s just Jewish nationalism. Likewise, White nat ...
  • Settler convicted of kidnapping and abusing Palest ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions 8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 – 16 2010 Beit Ommar National Committee Member Released From Prison On Tuesday November 16th, Eyad Jamil Al Alami was released from prison. He was arrested on Mo ...
  • J Street is shunned by Reform synagogue in Newton ...
    Astonishing. A J Street event is cancelled by a Reform Newton synagogue due to fierce opposition by a small group inside the congregation. And they have money. This is why Barney Frank has said that he can't come out against settlements. In the most "liberal" district in the country. Because neocons ...
  • Breaking w/ Israel has helped Turkey in competitio ...
    This is interesting. Risk analyst Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia group was on Charlie Rose two nights back describing the struggle between market capitalism and state capitalism, US v China. My sense is that risk analysts are cold fish who assess the geopolitical business climate without regard to the m ...
  • Perry: Obama’s obeisance to Netanyahu is &#8 ...
    Here is an amazing post by Mark Perry at Foreign Policy blasting Obama's deal with Netanyahu for a settlement freeze extension as a gutless concession of power. Even Petraeus is afraid of the Israel lobby, which dominates Establishment attitudes, Perry says, and he honorably cites the killing of Fur ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Michael Yon invited by Brits and US to embed again
    Published in The US Report at theusreport.com Published on June 24, 2010 by Kay B. Day Michael Yon has been invited to embed again by both Great Britain and the US.Michael Yon isn’t a correspondent who sparks a neutral reaction in the reader. You either love him or you don’t. There’s not much of an ...
  • Heavenly Shower
    Published: 16 November 2010 The Himalaya near Mount Everest are ruthless and serene, while the stars tracing above are without love or grudge.� Seasonal tides of fair and foul weather wash in thousands of trekkers, and more ambitious climbers who kletter by night and day.� Many reach their aspiratio ...
  • To Wish Upon a Star
    Monday 15 November 2010One night during my recent walk to Mt. Everest there seemed to be a million stars.� And so the camera was pointed at the treacherous mountain known as Ama Dablam, or �mother�s necklace,� and at the stars above her shoulders.� The serious climbers consider this mountain more di ...
  • Mt. Everest
    Published: 04 November 2010NepalBefore returning for third time to Afghanistan this year, have made another trip to the Himalaya.� I made this image of Mt. Everest about a week ago.� You are welcome to download a copy for personal use. Please also buy a copy of my upcoming photobook, "Inside the In ...
  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell:"We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan documen ...

The Killing Train

  • The Haditha Massacre in the Iraq War Diary
    I did a query of the Iraq War Diary for all entries on November 19, 2005 (there were 179). Among them was this entry on the Haditha massacre. It has been seriously redacted, possibly more than other entries, as it appears quite incomplete, with no explanation of how the casualties came about: Report ...
  • The First Battle of Fallujah 2004 in the Iraq War ...
    Below I look at incidents in April 2004, during “The First Battle of Fallujah”. In some ways the account of the battle in the war logs confirms what was reported, but some of the details (such as when ceasefires were announced) are different. The war logs probably understate civilian deaths. They do ...
  • Citation thoughts
    I spent some time looking at Yves Engler's "Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy" and "Canada and Israel" and noticed that he cites work in a non-standard way. Dawn Paley's recent review of the Black Book, posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op, describes it this way, and I agree: read more
  • Teaching: Jacques Ranciere and Sugata Mitra
    A few months ago I was blown away by Sugata Mitra's TED talk on child-driven education. Mitra's thesis is that children can teach themselves. What they need is not teachers who know how to do what they are trying to learn, but materials, problems, one another (groups), and perhaps encouragement. Mit ...
  • Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
    An interview with Pedro Cayuqueo Justin Podur and Manuel Rozental October 20, 2010 read more

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Guinea presidential candidate to challenge electio ...
    [JURIST] Guinean presidential candidate and former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo announced Monday that he would take to the Supreme Court to challenge his defeat [press release, in French] in the West African nation's November 7 runoff election. The election, Guinea's first since it gained ind ...
  • Rights group urges Egypt to investigate death of m ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] called Tuesday for Egyptian authorities to promptly and thoroughly investigate [press release] the death of 19-year-old Ahmed Shaaban who was allegedly tortured in police custody. Shaaban went missing from his hometown in Alexandria, Egypt, on N ...
  • Federal judge denies motion for mistrial in ex-Gua ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Monday denied a defense motion for mistrial in the trial of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news archive]. The motion came after an anonymous juror ...
  • UK government settles with 16 Guantanamo detainees ...
    [JURIST] The UK government on Tuesday announced a settlement with 16 Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees over allegations of torture. Details of the settlement agreement, which are legally bound to a confidentiality agreement, have not been released, although at least seven detainees are ...
  • Thailand extradites accused Russia arms dealer to ...
    [JURIST] The Thai government on Tuesday extradited alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to the US to stand trial. The Thai Cabinet [official website, in Thai] approved the extradition [Bangkok Post report] and handed Bout over to US law enforcement officials for ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • I Am a Blogger No Longer
    This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
  • Billy Joel Explains the Election
    What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...
  • Obama Considers Staff Changes, Ever So Carefully
    Despite urgent pleas from Democrats that he shake up his White House staff, President Obama will proceed with a plan he put in place before the election, one that calls for a careful review the structure of his office before making changes.  Chief of Staff Peter Rouse is leading the review, and Obam ...
  • 2012! It's Never Too Early for Mitt-Chif
    Item: Someone has set up this website: http://mittromneyflipflops.com/ Item: An advertisement for displaying Romney's congratulations to Michigan's governor elect, Rick Synder, shows up on people's Facebook page.  This is odd because Romney never endorsed Snyder; he endorsed Rep. Pete Hoekstra in th ...
  • On Election Night, What You Might Have Missed
    Some elections, President Obama said today, are "exhilarating." Others are "humbling."  Last night's was chalk full of news -- so much news that you might have missed some of it. ** The Three Iowa judges who ruled that same-sex marriage was legal were all roundly defeated, thanks to a blizzard of ad ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Barre Seid Plausibly Denies Funding ‘Obsession,’ A ...
    Justin Elliott has finally solved the riddle of who gave $17-million to Clarion Fund to distribute 28 million DVDs of its anti-Muslim porn (not as in sex) film Obsession during the 2008 presidential election.  Well, to be more specific, we know who, or more precisely what gave the gift to Clarion: ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Aipac’s Linen, Very Dirty and Very Public
    The transcripts of depositions (warning: this is a single pdf page containing hundreds of pages of transcripts with no easy way of navigating through it) in Steve Rosen’s $20 million defamation case against his former employer, Aipac, are just becoming public as both sides ratchet up pressure on the ...
  • Israeli Police Commander to TV News Director: ‘We ...
    Israel is a democracy, right?  That’s what all the press releases say, don’t they?   But I wonder how those who praise said democracy to the skies manage to reconcile that with horror stories like the ones I’m about the recount. Israel’s Channel 10 News ran a series on police violence and abuse.  ...
  • Oklahoma, Goddam!
    During the 1960s, the State of Mississippi had race relations so strained, so violent, so primitive that it often appeared the place was a holdover from an earlier era of human brutality perhaps before civilization took hold.  There were ambush killings, church bombings, rapes, lynchings, snarling ...

Ode Magazine

  • Feeding a passion for peace
    By: PeaceCorso "Ban Ki-moon (born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in ...
  • A salute to the potency of optimism
    By: Anne Thomas Ode is about (extra)ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Alice Herz-Sommer is one such person. At 107 years old she is the oldest living survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Despite the many tragedies of her past, Alice’s positive, loving, music-filled atti ...
  • Cycling coast to coast for WaterAid
    By: BrookeApplegarth Brittany App, photographer from San Luis Obispo, California, and Garrett Russell, videographer of Portland, Oregon, are on a mission to raise awareness to bring fresh drinking water to those who need it most. Biking from San Diego, Califo ...
  • Making sanitation sexy
    By: Group_Gordon Can sanitation be sexy? Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs serving the poor, not only thinks so, but thinks it should be obvious to everyone. Acumen Fund is challenging people to use their creative genius to s ...
  • Peace is more arduous
    By: PeaceCorso Mid-term elections were last week in the United States, and they got me thinking about the wars that we insist upon perpetuating. George Bernard Shaw weighs in: "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous." Former P ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • The greening of professional sports
        You’re looking above at AT&T Park, where the World Series champion San Francisco Giants play.  It’s one of the greenest stadiums in the country, writes Amanda Little in Forbes: “[The Giants’] stadium, AT&T Park, which accommodates about 45,000 fans, runs its scoreboard on solar ...
  • Good News (and Bad) for Hawaii's Resident Whales
    Over the last year, my colleagues and I have written repeatedly about the plight of Hawaii’s coastal false killer whales, which have declined to about 150 animals.  NRDC petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service last fall to put them on the endangered species list.  Today the ...
  • We can do it: Act now to get BPA out of baby produ ...
    Readers, we need your help in the next few days.  Within 48 hours, the Senate will likely vote on a measure that would ban the toxic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) from children’s feeding products.  Go here and urge your senators to vote YES and protect children from developmental problems ...
  • Water as a Global Business Issue - Or How I Talked ...
    Last Friday, the non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project released this remarkable report summarizing the results of a survey investigating how some of the world’s largest businesses are addressing water issues.  It clearly reveals that the world’s business community realizes that water is ...
  • Coral Reefs in Hot Water: More Reasons to Protect ...
    An article in Science magazine last month reported that 2010 may be the worst year for coral die-off ever in the Caribbean due to abnormally warm waters since June.  This spells the latest chapter of disaster for coral reefs; spectacular ecosystems that are often called the rainforests ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • FOX goes PC: Bows to pressure to characterize murd ...
    Monday USA TODAY ran a seemingly innocuous little story about a children’s book putatively authored by Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Some sharp-eyed patriot at FOX News, always on the alert for signs of subversion at the highest level of our government, noticed one graph in the middle of the story, and re ...
  • From the Mouths…
    Michael Goldfarb(!) asks a halfway useful question: Assuming time is a scarce resource in the lame duck (and it is), and assuming the votes might be there for START (and they aren’t)…..would liberals rather have a fight over DADT or START? As you would suspect, this question is loaded; there’s not n ...
  • Van Halen Should Not Be A Model For Personnel Deci ...
    You know how Van Halen somehow, defying all the odds, managed to replace Sammy Hagar with a lead singer who was even worse?    Apparently, Obama is considering doing something similar with its top economic adviser. Apparently Jeff Skilling wasn’t available… Related posts:Today’s Decisions I: I ...
  • Discovered!
    What you say on Facebook can apparently be used against you in a court of law. Related posts:Iraqi Air Force Discovered!!!!! Wait; Does My Status Still Need to be in the Third Person? Computer Geeks: “Give Us Your Huddled Facebook Masses” Related posts:Iraqi Air Force Discovered!!!!! Wait; Does ...
  • Let This Be A Lesson
    If you assume contemporary congressional Republicans are bargaining in good faith, you’re almost certainly wrong. Related posts:Republican History Lesson The Wrong Lesson Here’s A Lesson from 9/11: Don’t Take Harvey Mansfield Seriously Related posts:Republican History Lesson The Wrong Lesson He ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Incoming Speaker jumps into healthcare lawsuit
    U.S. Rep. John Boehner, the likely next speaker of the House of Representatives, is lending his support to a federal lawsuit hoping to overturn the Democrats' new healthcare law.
  • 2010: The NLJ 250
    The National Law Journal's annual ranking of the nation's largest law firms.
  • Wham-O hurls constitutional challenge to patent ma ...
    Frisbee maker Wham-O Inc. is mounting a constitutional challenge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to a statute that allows whistleblowers to sue companies for falsely labeling their products as covered by patents. It remains to be seen if its claim will fly.
  • Kentucky bar proposes regulation of attorneys' Fac ...
    The Kentucky Bar Association is the latest regulatory body to wade into the murky issue of social media and lawyer advertising rules. The bar's commission on attorney advertising has proposed regulations that would bring lawyers' Facebook and MySpace communications under the bar's advertising rules.
  • Former big firm associates suspended over sexual e ...
    The Illinois Supreme Court has suspended the law licenses of two former associates from prominent law firms over a drunken sexual encounter with a Wisconsin woman in 2005.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Under the Influence of Fracking?
    In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
  • Speaking Out on Water Issues
    Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...
  • DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...
  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Indian Temperatures Could Rise Significantly by 20 ...
    A new report forecasts that average temperatures in India could climb 2 degrees C (3.6 F) within two decades, with even higher temperatures projected for some coastal regions. According to the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment, a group of more than 100 scientific organizations, the nati ...
  • Interview: A Shark Conservationist On Targeting th ...
    As Asian economies have boomed in the last two decades, demand for sharks fins — a prized delicacy — has soared, leading to severe overfishing of many shark species. As many as 70 million sharks are killed Sonja Fordham annually, a toll that is driving an estimated one-third of the world’s 1,044 ...
  • As Shark Slaughter Continues, A Defender Targets F ...
    As the economies of China and other Asian nations have boomed, demand for shark fins — a prized delicacy — has soared, leading to severe overfishing of many shark species. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, shark conservationist Sonja Fordham talks about the battle to save one of the world’s ...
  • More Than 1 Million Electric Cars Projected to Be ...
    National and local incentives promoting the use of electric vehicles in Asia will help put more than 1.4 million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles on roadways by 2015, making it the largest market worldwide for electrified vehicles, according to a new report. While Asian markets have so far focus ...
  • World Oil Supplies Have Already Peaked, Study says
    The International Energy Agency says that the world has already reached its peak oil production, a surprising conclusion that could have significant effects on future oil prices. In its annual report, the group suggests that production rates likely topped out at about 70 million barrels a day in 20 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • National Opt Out Day (November 24)
    On Nov. 24 say "I opt out" when told to go through the bodying imaging machines and submit to a pat down. Also, be sure to have your pat down by TSA in full public - do not go to the back room when asked. Every citizen must see for themselves how the TSA treats law-abiding citizens.
  • Wrong of the Swedish Security Service to Cover Up ...
    It would not be surprising if the "safe source" in Gothenburg is misinterpreted excess material from the massive telephone intercepts that Swedish and foreign security forces are engaged in. The Security Service now takes over in Gothenburg and it's wrong of them to cover it all up, writes Gösta Hul ...
  • The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scena ...
    On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he w ...
  • Mexican Drug Cartel Zetas Founding Members Trained ...
    Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage. It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel - and left rott ...
  • Is the American Dream Over?
    America has long been a country of limitless possibility. But the dream has now become a nightmare for many. The US is now realizing just how fragile its success has become -- and how bitter its reality. Should the superpower not find a way out of crisis, it could spell trouble ahead for the global ...

Russia Today

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

  • Secret Map of Britain
    I don’t usually use the Above Top Secret site as a reference, but this came through The Debris Field and a site named ‘what’s all this, then?’ and it piqued my curiosity. The title of the article is “The Secret Map of Britain” and it’s not entirely what you think it is: A recent thread [...]
  • Inexplicata: Uncanny Mexican UFOs
    UFOs are a tradition in Mexico and Latin America at large as this uncanny video show. Notice how the UFO splits apart into two “stages”, perhaps indicating the nuts and bolts theory of UFOs. However in a witness interview the person indicates the UFO came down and “healed” him, which appeals to the ...
  • The Paracast: Dr. Frank Salisbury
    This past Sunday Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien interview Dr. Frank Salisbury and discuss nuts n’ bolts UFOs, the paranormal theory of UFOs, Jacques Vallee, the Skinwalker Ranch, the “greys” theology and parallel dimensions. Excellent interview. Dr. Frank Salisbury Interview
  • Tetris Game May Alleviate PTSD
    Tetris is a very old video game (1984 in fact) invented in the old USSR no less. But it has many incarnations and has a popular form on Facebook, I should know because my youngest daughter plays it all the time. While trawling the InterWebs this morning, I found an interesting post on my buddy’s [.. ...
  • Chang’e 2 Moon Photos
    Finally some coherent Chinese moon probe (Chang’e 2) photos are released, along with one of the Chinese bosses of course. … … Released with some fanfare (thatâs the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, there. [Editor's note: originally had Jiabao as the "head of state"; that would actually be the president, ...

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against human ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • TSA Chief Goes before Congress Today
    “The head of the Transportation Security Administration will likely get a pat-down on air-travel security measures as he testifies before Congress on Wednesday morning. The appearance by John Pistole was scheduled before controversy broke out over the past week about the agency’s full body scans and ...
  • Fed Under Fire
    “The Federal Reserve is facing the fiercest political assault on its powers in three decades as it struggles to help revive the U.S. economy.” (Bloomberg) Itâs about time. FEE Timely Classic “Market Money and Free Banking” by Bettina Bien Greaves
  • Poll Shows More Want Job Stimulus before Deficit C ...
    “More voters express support for spending that spurs job creation than for efforts to cut the deficit, according to a poll released today.” (Bloomberg) Public miseducation is succeeding. FEE Timely Classic “Flunking Economics” by Lawrence W. Reed
  • A Nation of Consumers?
    A fundamental tenet of economics is that the end of production is consumption. Unfortunately, Keynesian economists seizing the public microphone claim the purpose of consumption is to clear the shelves so producers will have something to do in the future.
  • DHS Secretary Says Scanners, Frisks Are Necessary
    “Amid criticism over intensified airport screening measures, Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the Department of Homeland Security’s use of full-body scanners and pat-downs as essential to âmatch the changing threat environment that we inhabit.â” (Washington Post) Yet somehow the Israelis think th ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Oil industry pushes panic button over Gulf of Mexi ...
    The oil industry is pushing back against the Obama administration's recently-announced plans to conduct an environmental study of new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. On Nov. 4, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement ...
  • Some Gulf spill claimants waiting for months
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Since Gulf spill claims czar Kenneth Feinberg took over from BP in late August, many claimants have reported that their applications have remained under review for months and that they have not yet received decisions. Roughly 71,000 claims are currently under review, ...
  • GOP donor Pope: I didn't 'buy the North Carolina l ...
    Even in a year marked by record-shattering election spending, North Carolina donor Art Pope's role in fueling the Republicans' historic victories in the state legislature was unique in its scale and impact. As Facing South documented in an in-depth report last week, Pope's family and three gr ...
  • Housing aid won for Mississippi's low-income Katri ...
    A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed over Mississippi's decision to divert federal funds meant for rebuilding low-income housing after Hurricane Katrina in order to expand a shipping port. The hard-won agreement means the state will direct $132 million to lower-income families ...
  • Uranium contamination found downstream of Tennesse ...
    A river downstream of a privately-owned nuclear fuel processing plant in East Tennessee is contaminated with enriched uranium, according to an interim report by a university scientist that was released last week. The contamination was found in the Nolichucky River and Davy Crockett Lake n ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • World War II
    Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.
  • Winnipeg General Strike
    The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
  • War of 1812
    The war of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The process of calling

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle the plastic bags from c ...
    Like tin foil the other week, I can’t believe we haven’t covered this one already. To extend the product shelf lift and to protect it from moisture, most breakfast cereal is wrapped in some sort of plastic – either a snug film wrapping or, more frequently, a plastic bag/liner – inside its cardboard ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle flat soda water or flat ...
    We’ve had an email from Ellie: I’ve found about half a dozen opened bottles of soda water and tonic water in the back of our drinks cupboard from last Christmas (I don’t know why there is so many!) They’re flat now but I know you can use soda water for stain removal so I wondered [...]
  • How can I repair a broken bra?
    After a couple of years of faithful service, one of my beloved bras has broken. It’s one of the two really quite expensive bras I own – they cost a lot of money but worth it — supportive, comfortable to wear and resulting in (what is I’ve been told is) a pleasant boob shape. Because [...]
  • How can I get the last of the gel out of the bottl ...
    We’ve had an email from Sylvia in a similar vein to our “how to use the last of everything” post a few months ago: I love Avon products but I canât for the life of me figure out how to get all of the gel out of the bottle when I canât shake any more [...]
  • Bike mudguards from plastic milk bottles
    Quentin has been in touch with this great idea: It always surprises me that these days many bicycles are supplied without mudguards. Anyhow, I’ve discovered for my children’s bicycles, that a very satisfactory set of mudguards can be made from a couple of 4 pint milk cartons, 5 x 15cm tie wraps and ...

Mondoweiss

  • If anti-semitism justifies ethnic cleansing, then ...
    Jerome Slater tries to make the claim that Zionism isn’t racism. Many of the commenters who responded to his post presented more eloquent and knowledgeable arguments than I can, so I’ll keep it brief. According to Slater, Zionism isn’t racism because it’s just Jewish nationalism. Likewise, White nat ...
  • Settler convicted of kidnapping and abusing Palest ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions 8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 – 16 2010 Beit Ommar National Committee Member Released From Prison On Tuesday November 16th, Eyad Jamil Al Alami was released from prison. He was arrested on Mo ...
  • J Street is shunned by Reform synagogue in Newton ...
    Astonishing. A J Street event is cancelled by a Reform Newton synagogue due to fierce opposition by a small group inside the congregation. And they have money. This is why Barney Frank has said that he can't come out against settlements. In the most "liberal" district in the country. Because neocons ...
  • Breaking w/ Israel has helped Turkey in competitio ...
    This is interesting. Risk analyst Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia group was on Charlie Rose two nights back describing the struggle between market capitalism and state capitalism, US v China. My sense is that risk analysts are cold fish who assess the geopolitical business climate without regard to the m ...
  • Perry: Obama’s obeisance to Netanyahu is &#8 ...
    Here is an amazing post by Mark Perry at Foreign Policy blasting Obama's deal with Netanyahu for a settlement freeze extension as a gutless concession of power. Even Petraeus is afraid of the Israel lobby, which dominates Establishment attitudes, Perry says, and he honorably cites the killing of Fur ...

Media Consortium

  • Jim VandeHei Talks Politico Pro : CJR
    An interview w/Jim VandenHei about Politico Pro, which will provide 'high-impact, high-velocity reporting on the politics of energy, technology and health care reform' for political and policy professionals. At what price? $2,495 for the first subscriber to a single vertical such as energy; and afte ...
  • Discounted memberships: A short term gain with lon ...
  • The Newsonomics of membership " Nieman Journalism ...
    New journalism is hungry for new business models. Beyond millions in foundation start-up support, what will sustain these enterprises? One answer: membership. The notion is borrowed from NPR (née National Public Radio), which we must remind ourselves is no “experiment.” While the daily press is te ...
  • Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring | paidC ...
    One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to their e-editions, a broad category that includes digital replicas, online-only subscriptions, Kindle subscriptions, and products like Times Reader. Leading th ...
  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    t the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, w ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Making memories takes time
    You really should stop when you smell the roses, at least if you want to remember where they are and how they smell. At the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego, California, Loren Frank from the University of California-San Francisco reported results of experiments showing that t ...
  • Fish’s mucous sleeping bag stops bedbugs biting
    A mucous ‘mosquito net’ may be the true function of the cocoons some species of fish doze in. Many fish on coral reefs go to a lot of trouble before they go to bed to encase themselves in a mucous cocoon in which they doze away till dawn. Exactly why they do this is something of a mystery. In ...
  • Nuclear research inquiry condemns organ harvesting
    A catalogue of dubious practices has been exposed today by a report into how organs came to be removed illegally from the dead bodies of British nuclear workers for testing without proper consent. Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, said the events detailed in today’s ...
  • UK science shake-up stirs passions
    The UK’s chief scientist was not consulted about a reorganisation of key roles within the government department responsible for research, it emerged in a Parliamentary hearing this morning. John Beddington, the government’s Chief Scientist, told a House of Lords committee hearing that the aboliti ...
  • Stem cell trial for stroke begins
    A safety trial of a stem cell therapy for stroke has enrolled its first patient, the UK company developing the treatment announced today. Surrey-based ReNeuron’s treatment will transplant neural stem cells into the brains of stroke patients, in hopes of promoting the renewal of damaged areas. ...

new geography

  • Car Wars: Should Autos Rule The Road? Part I
    We've decided to become a one car family. Denver has proven to be the ideal locale for this experiment, of sorts. The "Mile High City," and particularly our new neighborhood, provide a range of mobility options beyond the four-wheel variety for trekking from place to place. The metropolitan area ...
  • California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Len ...
    In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide, California voters essentially ratified a political and regulatory regime that has left much of the ...
  • The State Government Deconstructors
    The results of the mid-term election of 2010 will be written over the next two years. Can the Republicans really make good on their promise of fiscal discipline? A glimpse of our future federal budget may be seen in the fiscal actions (and inaction) of America’s governors. Most states are struggling ...
  • Building Sustainable Economies in West Africa – On ...
    Among farmers in western Africa, the passion for agriculture runs deep. Kwabena (Koby) Yeboah farms near the village of Gomoa Adumase about 45 minutes outside of Accra, Ghana in West Africa, driven by his focus and intent to succeed. Koby started farming five years ago at the age of 22. “I love th ...
  • Livability and All That
    Livability is one of those once innocuous words, like sustainability, that now receive almost unquestioned acceptance in the bureaucracy, academia and the media. After all, words like sustainability and livability have no acceptable negative form. Who could be in favor of anything unlivable, insens ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Scientist Who Studied How Mosquitoes Transmit Dise ...
    Via: The Tampa Tribune: A University of South Florida researcher stumbled out of her hotel room Monday night and told two guests she had ingested cyanide, police said. Chitra Chauhan, 33, wife and mother of a 3-year-old, was pronounced dead at a hospital about two hours later, victim of an apparent ...
  • FDIC Conducting About 50 Criminal Investigations I ...
    Mmm hmm. Via: Wall Street Journal: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is conducting about 50 criminal investigations of former executives, directors and employees at U.S. banks that have failed since the start of the financial crisis. The agency responsible for dealing with bank failures is steppin ...
  • For 18 Minutes in April, China Hijacked 15% of the ...
    Via: National Defense Magazine: For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. This massive redirection of data has received sc ...
  • Scientists Warn Airport X-Ray Scanners May Be Unsa ...
    Via: AFP: Some US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners now being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. “They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,” Dr ...
  • PRICE CONTROLS ON FOOD IN CHINA
    Via: BBC: China’s premier Wen Jiabao has said the government is preparing new measures to stem double-digit food price inflation. “The state council is formulating measures to curb the overly fast rises of prices,” he said in a statement on the government’s website. He gave no details, but they are ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Is Indiana Putting Armed Security Guards Into ...
    Did you ever think that things in America would get so bad that we would need to put armed guards into our unemployment offices?  Well, that is exactly what is happening in Indiana.  Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of ...
  • Could The Financial Crisis Erupting In Ireland, Po ...
    The Irish banking system is melting down right in front of our eyes.  Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain are all drowning in debt.  It is becoming extremely expensive for all of those nations to issue new debt.  Officials all over Europe are begging Ireland to accept a bailout.  Po ...
  • How In The World Did We Get To The Point Where The ...
    Ben Bernanke and the rest of the folks over at the Federal Reserve did not just wake up one day and decide that they wanted to start printing hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air.  The truth is that the economic forces that have brought us to this point have taken decades ...
  • 5 Dangers To Global Crops That Could Dramatically ...
    The world food situation is starting to get very, very tight.  Unprecedented heat and wildfires this summer in Russia and horrific flooding in Pakistan and China have been some of the primary reasons for the rapidly rising food prices we are now seeing around the globe.  In places s ...
  • 111 Obamacare Waivers And Counting – Can The ...
    In a stunning admission of just how job-killing and business-crushing the new health care law really is, the Obama administration has issued a staggering total of 111 Obamacare waivers (and counting) so far. The list of the dozens of companies and organizations that have been appro ...

Desertification

  • Negative consequences of deforestation (Google / Q ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://qmbxgc.com/?p=595 The Soil Quickly Compacts As Rainwater Flows Economically, deforestation has contributed much in giving many communities the opportunity to make positive changes in their lives. The negative consequences of deforestation Unfortunately ...
  • Drought in South America (Google / Ubalert)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ubalert.com/a/34732 Drought – South-America – Bolivia The word “catastrophic” seems like it should be overkill, but when it comes to drought caused by an increase in global temperatures, that’s just what the residents … Continue reading →
  • Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) and desertifi ...
    Read at : http://montecho.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/the-environmental-value-of-sea-buckthorn/ The Environmental Value of Sea Buckthorn November 16, 2010 by kaarina76 With its bright orange berries and long silver-gray leaves, Sea Buckthorn is a very beautiful plant. For this reason, it has long been ...
  • Global warming will bring more frequent floods, dr ...
    Read at : http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2010/11/lobal-warming-could-bring-floods.html Global warming could bring floods, drought and disease to Ukraine Global warming will bring more frequent floods, droughts and an increase in insect-borne disease to Ukraine, ecologists have warned. “Global ...
  • China met its target of 95 percent agricultural se ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/16/5470494-china-can-feed-itself-today-but-what-about-tomorrow- China can feed itself today, but what about tomorrow? By Ed Flanagan, NBC News BEIJING â Despite severe droughts and flooding that ravaged grain p ...

The Paper Trail

  • National Academy Releases Interim Report on Deepwa ...
    The National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council have just released preliminary findings on what caused the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil platform earlier this year, concluding that a series of human failings contributed to the accident.
  • Harry Reid’s New Chief of Staff is His Top C ...
    Fresh off his unanimous re-election by Senate Democrats to be Majority Leader for the 112th Congress, Nevada’s Harry Reid has promoted aide and long-time financial supporter David B. Krone to be his new chief of staff. As we reported in June in our Who Bankrolls Congress investigation, Krone held t ...
  • The More Things Stay the Same: Senate Democratic, ...
    Both parties in the U.S. Senate voted today to preserve the status quo in leadership, keeping Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell at the helm. As the Center for Public Integrity reported in a June series Who Bankrolls Congress?, the men who will set their parties’ agendas have ties to powerful business i ...
  • Mutual Fund Champion On Short List for SEC Investo ...
    As the Securities and Exchange Commission considers who will lead a new office giving Main Street investors a bigger megaphone within the agency, the short list is said to include Mercer Bullard, a University of Mississippi law professor and head of a shareholder advocacy group.
  • Reform Reading:  Should Fannie and Freddie be ...
    A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

backofthebook.ca

  • Ambrose disappears Sisters in Spirit
    By Alison@Creekside Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons' new missing persons initiative entirely bypass Sisters In Spirit, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdered FN women and girls in the first place, but SIS can no longer use the SIS ...
  • Revolting, but not worth fighting.
    By Rachel Krueger Book banning is for right-wing fundamentalists and crotchety spinsters and very tense parents of pristine children and also EVERYONE who saw The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure on Amazon last Tuesday and immediately clutched their pearls.  Including me.  The site has sinc ...
  • The sentimental publishers of “The Sentiment ...
    By Frank Moher Okay, so I was set to go all crazy right-wing on Gaspereau Press and suggest that its federal funding should be pulled because of its refusal to capitalize on its Giller Prize victory. Johanna Skibsrud's The Sentimentalists won the $50,000 award on Tuesday night, and immediately he ...
  • Brave Steve defends Israel’s far right
    By Alison@Creekside Live-blogging from the Ottawa Conference on Combating Antisemitism, the intrepid Kady does her level best to find out what The Plot -- a secret exhibit from the US Anti-Defamation League that is off-limits to media -- is all about. I don't know either but I'll lay you odds ...
  • Why I won’t listen to Canada Reads 2011
    By Steven W. Beattie Thirty seconds. That’s the approximate amount of time it took after the announcement of the 40 titles in contention to appear on the 2011 edition of the CBC’s "Canada Reads" program for Twitter to explode with tweets from authors, publishers, friends, and fans, all of them ...

Worldnews

  • MTV and 'The Real World' return to Las Vegas ...
    MTV launched its first episode of The Real World 25 years ago, and for its 25th anniversary season, the show is returning to Las Vegas. It’s the second time Las Vegas has been home to The Real World. In 2002, the young crew lived in a specially designed penthouse at The Palms. Today, that same ...
  • Tiger Woods' new digs are move-in ready
    In case you missed that was making the rounds last week, check out the birds-eye view of Tiger Woods’ new home and practice facility on Jupiter Island, Fla. If there was any doubt as to who got the reported $50 million property...
  • Christina Aguilera: The Bleach Blonde Babe ...
    The 29-year-old Staten Island born pop star Christina Aguilera received the 2,423rd on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her musical career that has resulted in five Grammy’s. The star falls directly in front of the Hard Rock Café. Celebrities are the fashion icons for beauty, makeup and hairstyle ...
  • Aiyar dismisses hype over Obama saying India ...
    New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Mani Shankar Aiyar today dismissed the 'hype' surrounding US President Barack Obama's assertion that India has "emerged", saying a "poor country like ours" can never aspire to become a superpower. "Why is this illusion that we are an emerging power, that's because we w ...
  • Celebrity DJ among 14 indicted in cocaine rin ...
    © emilie froquet - Fotolia.com GREG RISLING,Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A celebrity disc jockey and the heads of an entertainment company were among 14 people indicted in a cocaine ring in which private jets were used to shuttle large amounts of the drug from Southern California to Ba ...

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MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Clean coal: climate solution or oxymoron?
    One reason why the energy business is so fascinating is that smart, thoughtful and well-meaning people can look at the same facts and come to dramatically different conclusions.Two examples crossed my desk this week: the cover story in the new issue of The Atlantic and a report out today from DB Cli ...
  • The Energy Independence Trust: Where’s the Innovat ...
    �The� Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) have thrown their cap into the policy maelstrom left in the wake of failed cap and trade by offering their Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy 1.0 Plan.�
  • The forecast for climate blogs
    The previous post drawing analogies between the state of climate blogging and cable news drew a wide variety of responses, some here, some over at the Energy Collective, and some in private e-mails (if such a thing exists).
  • 2010 Green Supply Chain Awards Recognize Companies ...
    Last week, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine announced the recipients of its 2010 Green Supply Chain Awards.� These awards recognize companies that are making sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategies.
  • Reid Promises Incoming Senator: Cap and Trade is D ...
    This should come as no surprise... According to E&E news ($ubscription required): There will be no cap-and-trade climate bill considered in the next Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised a colleague today. Newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said today that Reid made a "total ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • GERD gone in 60 Seconds (Some Humor)
    By Robert Palmer [GERD is a lot of burping, a burning sensation in the chest and abdomen and an excessive amount of mucous masking as saliva that makes you cough a lot.] Seven months ago I was diagnosed with Reflux laryngitis. I was told to swallow the mucous in my mouth instead of clearing my th ...
  • A Bribe Too Good to Refuse
    by Stephen Lendman When all else fails, offer money, or in this case weapons for peace (a clear oxymoron) via for a three month settlement construction moratorium in name only. In fact, new building is unimpeded, Obama's offer a facade to hide reality on the ground. More on the deal below. Last De ...
  • Haiti's Cholera Epidemic Sparks Outrage
    by Stephen Lendman In early November, thousands of Haitians rallied for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return and presidential hopeful Jean-Henry Ceant in the November 28 elections, one rigged by banning 14 political parties, including Fanmi Lavalas, by far the most popular. Ceant founded Aime ...
  • Washington Backing Indonesian State Terror
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article said it was expected, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/03/expected-obama-administration-backing.html It discussed Indonesia's National Armed Forces (TNI), especially its thuggish Kopassus Special Forces Command, i ...
  • DEBT COMMISSION: A PREDICTABLE OUTCOME
    by Mary Pitt When President Obama announced that he would be naming a commission to work out a plan for reduction of the national debt, some of us expectied that the people to be named would include such names as Paul Krugman and Jonathan Turley, a man with experise in matters funancial, and one wi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Why Are Bankers Allowed To Break The Law?
    Seriously, Jail the Bankers or This Economy Will Never Fully Recover | Alternet By refusing to hold the corporate criminals at the heart of the housing crisis accountable for their crimes, we’re creating powerful incentives for future malfeasance. The Great Recession showed the world that the crimes ...
  • UK Police Shut Down Activist Blog
    Met Police take down protest advice blog | ZDNet A website that offered advice to protesters has been shut down at the behest of the Metropolitan Police, prompting criticism from a legal human rights organisation. The Fitwatch website was taken offline on Monday by hosting company JustHost.com, afte ...
  • TSA Responds To Porno-scanner Flack
    My question to President Obama: Would you let your wife and daughters go through the TSA pat-down? TSA chief likely to face lawmakers’ questions on pat-downs, body scans | CNN The head of the Transportation Security Administration will likely get a pat-down on air-travel security measures as he test ...
  • Weeds
    The secret life of pot growers | LA Times A woman from Humboldt County writes anonymous, fictionalized blog accounts of skirting the law and, with luck, staying alive. A woman drove into the Humboldt County hills to earn some money trimming the leaves from marijuana buds. At a cabin, the grower who’ ...
  • Two of the president’s initiatives, on disar ...
    Barack Obama’s hopes for a nuclear-free world fading fast | The Guardian Barack Obama’s hopes of reshaping US foreign policy stand on the brink of failure tonight, after two of his most cherished initiatives â nuclear disarmament and better relations with Moscow â were dealt serious setbacks. Accord ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Effort to delay Nancy Pelosi leadership vote fails
    Democratic critics of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have failed in their effort to postpone a vote on keeping her as the party's leader. The California Democrat hopes to secure the job in a vote later Wednesday by Democrats who will be in the House next year.
  • Iraqi president says no to Tariq Aziz death order
    Iraq's president said Wednesday he won't sign off on a death penalty sentence against one of Saddam Hussein's closest confidantes, Tariq Aziz, setting the stage for a possible battle over the fate of the man known as the international face of the dictator's regime.
  • Sarah Palin chose football over campaigning for Ch ...
    This Sunday's New York Times Magazine introduces Sarah Palin's inner circle of advisors and aides. Long story short, she's obviously running for president but she's also obviously not disciplined enough to mount a serious campaign. I'm seeing visions of the hilarious, aborted Giuliani campaign -- ...
  • Fox chief reached out to ADL over Beck criticism
    Here's an interesting coda to the exchange between the Anti-Defamation League and Fox's Glenn Beck about Beck's attack on Holocaust survivor George Soros: Fox chief Roger Ailes reached out to the ADL's Abe Foxman after Foxman criticized Beck, the Daily Beast�reports.
  • The Blue Dog campaign to scapegoat Nancy Pelosi
    House Democrats are gathering behind closed doors on�Capitol Hill today to pick their leadership team for the next Congress -- although "ratify" might be a more appropriate term.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Clean coal: climate solution or oxymoron?
    One reason why the energy business is so fascinating is that smart, thoughtful and well-meaning people can look at the same facts and come to dramatically different conclusions.Two examples crossed my desk this week: the cover story in the new issue of The Atlantic and a report out today from DB Cli ...
  • The Energy Independence Trust: Where’s the Innovat ...
    �The� Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) have thrown their cap into the policy maelstrom left in the wake of failed cap and trade by offering their Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy 1.0 Plan.�
  • The forecast for climate blogs
    The previous post drawing analogies between the state of climate blogging and cable news drew a wide variety of responses, some here, some over at the Energy Collective, and some in private e-mails (if such a thing exists).
  • 2010 Green Supply Chain Awards Recognize Companies ...
    Last week, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine announced the recipients of its 2010 Green Supply Chain Awards.� These awards recognize companies that are making sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategies.
  • Reid Promises Incoming Senator: Cap and Trade is D ...
    This should come as no surprise... According to E&E news ($ubscription required): There will be no cap-and-trade climate bill considered in the next Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised a colleague today. Newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said today that Reid made a "total ...

EU Times

  • Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes – The Most Beautifu ...
    If you want to see beauty on earth, pack your bags and head to Plitvice lakes located in Croatia. The Picturesque beauty of the Plitvice lakes makes it one of the oldest tourist sites. Sixteen lakes form the Plitvice lakes National Park. These lakes are surrounded by three mountains. So one can see ...
  • Are Google’s Driverless Cars Legal?
    Google’s project to design driverless vehicles raised several questions about the future of driving. But it also raised a more topical question: Are Google’s heavily-modified driverless vehicle prototypes even legal? We found out. Researchers have been working on driverless vehicles since the late 1 ...
  • Malta guards Europe’s gates against African ...
    As an EU member it’s obligated to take in asylum-seekers. But as the flow of desperate Somalis and others hoping to reach Italy and farther has increased, it is making it harder than ever, drawing criticism from rights groups. Reporting from Valletta, Malta â When the 24-year-old Somali chemistry te ...
  • National Pride Matters as Three in Five Americans ...
    There is a sense of national pride when a world-wide innovation is created in the U.S. Advertising that emphasizes a product is “Made in America” plays to that national pride, and it seems to have results. Three in five Americans (61%) say they are more likely to purchase something when the ad touts ...
  • Senior German politician calls to stop Muslim immi ...
    Christian Democratic Union party leader stirs controversy following racial remarks; says ‘we donât need additional immigrants from ‘foreign cultures’. A German official on Saturday called to stop Muslim immigration into the country, stirring public controversy. Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christia ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Iraq pres rejects Aziz death order, partly because ...
    Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Wednesday he will not sign an execution order for Tareq Aziz, the former deputy of dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death last month for crimes against humanity. “No, I will not sign the execution order for Tareq Aziz, because I am a socialist,” Talabani t ...
  • INDYCAR: The Paddock Pulse (November 17 Edition)
    View full size photo » So I was cooking Kraft Macaroni and Cheese for my kids this evening, and I thought, "There's a metaphor in this for IndyCar blogging." I was wrong. Okay, so that's a sucky lede for this week's Paddock Pulse
  • Morning Bell: Who Should Control Your Health Care, ...
    After President Barack Obama installed Dr. Donald Berwick as head administrator of Medicare and Medicaid by recess appointment, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked at the daily press briefing if “it would have been politically troublesome in an election year to have all these comments aired out ...
  • Haiti cholera reaches Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic has detected its first case of cholera, following the outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Haiti last month. The patient is a Haitian migrant who had recently returned from his homeland, the health minister said. The Dominican authorities had stepped up border controls and ...
  • Prince William and Kate Middleton Interview VIDEO
    Prince William and Kate Middleton sat down on Tuesday for their first interview following the official announcement of their engagement. ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS A royal wedding will take place sometime in the spring or summer of 2011.  The event is expected to draw a television audience of one billion pe ...

Groklaw

  • Steve Ballmer sells $84 million of Microsoft stock
    On Thursday, Ballmer sold 3.1 million shares and on Friday he sold 27,800 shares, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. - Seattle Times
  • US trade agency releases final text of ACTA
    The final language of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is available at the USTR's website. - Grant Gross, ComputerWorld
  • How to guides ATandT : Does Windows Phone support ...
    Windows Phone 7 and microSD Cards Users are strongly encouraged to review this section carefully before inserting the right type of microSD card into Focus, a Windows Phone 7 device. Windows Phone 7 does not support freely swapping microSD Cards in and out. Many commercially available retail micr ...
  • Bankruptcy Judge Sanctions Lawyer, Warns About Bei ...
    Quoting an earlier opinion, Markell said lawyers should not succumb to a "butler-style" of legal representation where the "sequaciously servile lawyer does whatever the client wants and then cites that client's command as a shield to the improper actions." "Lawyers are not given the privilege of as ...
  • The Linux desktop may soon be a lot faster
    The patch by Linux kernel developer Mike Galbraith adds a mere 233 lines of code to the kernel's scheduler, but it cuts desktop latency down by a factor of ten. That's impressive - it's almost like getting a new computer. In the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds himself praised the performa ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Virginians standing up to Cantor!
    A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...
  • The U.S., Congress, and the world in 2010
    I was at a meeting in Washington on Thursday where we were discussing the effects that the democrats' drubbing in the November 2 mid-terms could be expected to have on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process". Most of the participants were understandably glum. (This was just after the news ...
  • Laila El-Haddad and Josh Foust books: on Amazon!
    It has been a crazy and wonderful week! We launched Josh Foust's book Afghanistan Journal on Tuesday. Just prior to that, both his book and Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between went up for sale on Amazon. I've been completing the work on the hardcover ...
  • Revealing interview with Khaled Meshaal
    The enterprising, Bucharest-based researcher Manuela Paraipan published an interesting, revealing interview with Khaled Meshaal in Open Democracy last week. I'm sorry I don't have time to analyze it very thoroughly right now-- things are really hopping in the publishing business, with two JWB title ...
  • Yesterday's Taksim Square bomb
    Thanks to everyone who's expressed concern for my wellbeing after yesterday's bomb in Taksim Square. In the incident, a suicide bomber detonated himself at the entrance to a police bus. He killed himself and injured 15 police officers and 17 members of the public. Te indications seem to be it was ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Hemp Wanted: The Atlantic Hemp Industry (or lack t ...
    Help Wanted.The Atlantic Hemp Industry is in Need of a Jumpstart. My friend Cameron Twyford is a great musician, and a huge hemp fan. I suggest you click on this link and listen to his song "Ain't no shortage of solutions", while you read thi ...
  • State of Pennsylvania Kept Tabs on Ontario Activis ...
    Paranoia pays for US firm   The Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR) is a private company that was hired to write “Intelligence bulletins” for the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security. The nature of the reports, which co ...
  • Own your Media: Join the TMC
    If you haven't yet become a member of the TMC now is your chance, visit mediacoop.ca/join November is our membership drive and ...
  • Anti-Poverty Activists Crash Liberals' Party
    OTTAWA - On the evening of Wednesday November 10th members of Under Pressure, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and No One Is Illegal disrupted an Ontario Liberal Party's fundraiser dinner. A rowdy crowd of roughly 30-40 people assembled at the Crown Plaza hotel, where the Liberals were enjoying ...
  • The Spectre of the ARA
    Christie Blatchford blocked from speaking in KW by Anti-Racist Action   On Friday, November 12th 2010, in response to the presence of white racist apologist Christie Blatchford speaking at the University of Waterloo, members of KW Anti Racist ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Beck, rhymes with yecch: Murdoch flirts with antis ...
    Welcome to the "Glenn Beck Program," where Jews are Nazis and those who exploit ancient anti-Semitic conspiracy narratives are friends of the Jews.� Michael Wolraich - CNN �Soros' people called me to say I am an anti-Semite because I was going to air this," he says in one program. "Probably, I am m ...
  • UK Students trash British Conservatives' HQ. ... t ...
    Students have finally had enough. Fees were introduced in 1998 and we hardly heard a squeak; they were bumped up to over £3,000 in 2006 and no one revolted. But today students smashed their way into the Tory party campaign HQ in a show of anger against a political elite they believe have abandoned t ...
  • The must see, must pass along video
    David Seaton's News LinksSteve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video and it is a powerful and positive piece of work. If you like it pass it on.DS
  • Tales of Globalization: USA and India: a marriage ...
    "I believe that the relationship between the United States and India will, in fact, be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st Century." President Obama - BBC News The most dramatic and remarkable improvement in consumption has been of those who were already the richest people in India � that i ...
  • The Kochs: paying to keep America dumb
    AJ Goode and his wife Mary who live in a shelter in Los Angeles - BBC News David Seaton's News Links Around the world people ask themselves, if Americans are so dumb, why is the country so rich? Americans are not really born that stupid, but making them stupid is a huge industry. The Koch Brothers ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Will the Real Ethanol Beneficiaries Please Stand U ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – This month’s election is being called a referendum on taxpayer-funded bailouts and wasteful federal spending, but Congress may not have gotten the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Blood Pressure Concerns? This Popular Drink Helps ...
    A study just published in the International Dairy Journal suggests whey protein beverages are effective at reducing blood pressure in people at risk for hypertension. According to researchers: �We found that whey protein beverages lowered BP only in individuals with previously high BP, but not ...
  • Revenge Against the Honking Horn
    Everyone has wanted to do this at some point in their life ...
  • 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. You will ultimately foot a much bigger bill, paying your part of hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, medical exp ...
  • Scientists Unlock How Trans Fats Harm Your Arterie ...
    Scientists have discovered the method by which dietary trans-fats cause hardening of the arteries. A study on mice suggests that high levels of trans-fats cause atherosclerosis by reducing the responsiveness of a key protein, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, that controls growth and differenti ...
  • Why You Should Avoid Root Canals Like the Plague
    Many people have had questions about root canals so I thought it would be wise to repost this article. It was an interview with Dr. George Meinig, who was dentist and leader in teaching people about the dangers of root canals. He wrote the book Root Canal Cover Up. Because I first became aware ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Menard's claims can't be shrugged off
    Serge Menard's shocking claim, that Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt once quietly offered him an envelope fat with cash, raises more questions than it answers. They are important questions that demand answers, and this story can only add to the growing public sense that rot pervades party fun ...
  • Staying in Afghanistan is the right thing to do
    Canadian combat troops have been in bloody, troubled Kandahar since early 2006, a longer time than Canadian troops spent in Europe in the First World War.
  • Pizzeria fires are cause for alarm
    Baseball players have a saying about knockdown pitches: "Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action." So what can we make of fires in three pizzerias, a cheese importer, and roughly a dozen cafes, all in the Montreal North-St. Leonard area in the last 14 months?
  • Royal congratulations
    Marrying into the Royal Family is "quite a daunting prospect," says Kate Middleton, so we can see that she's got the royal knack for understatement down properly already. She has nailed the aristocratic bearing, too, and she also displays sometimes a taste for silly hats pronounced enough to ...
  • Menard's claims can't be shrugged off
    Menard told Radio Canada this week that back in 1993, when he was the Parti Quebecois candidate in a by-election in a Laval riding, Vaillancourt offered him an envelope -white, not brown -holding $10,000 in cash. Menard refused it, he says, reminding the mayor that the donation limit in thos ...

Food World Order

  • 10/28 binge & purge: food stamp fortune cookie
    food stamp usage soars among working families* why monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals' herbicides* fda seizes $700,000 of rice from georgia warehouse* one-third of US adults could have diabetes by 2050: cdc* colgate accused of toothpaste recipe theft in india*
  • costco selling an apocalyptic year's worth of disg ...
    or, you could get good storable food at efoods direct from gizmodo: Either our nation's obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don't, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800. ...
  • 1 in 7 US homes hit by hunger; numbers nearly doub ...
    from alertnet: The number of U.S. households that reported getting emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession, a government report said on Monday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the number of households jumped to 5.6 from 3.9 milli ...
  • 'high-fructose corn syrup' getting rebranded as 'c ...
    from livescience: The good news: Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup is at a 20-year low. The bad news: The folks who make this insidious sweetener aim to rebrand it to boost sales. High-fructose corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar and acts as a food preservative, too, so the food industr ...
  • obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research ...
    from grist: The long-simmering debate about Obama's ag policy - whether it represents a new paradigm, agribusiness as usual, or some enigmatic combination - has a new data point to consider. Earlier this month, Congress approved Obama's nomination of Catherine Woteki, the USDA's undersecretary ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Is Indiana Putting Armed Security Guards Into ...
    Did you ever think that things in America would get so bad that we would need to put armed guards into our unemployment offices?  Well, that is exactly what is happening in Indiana.  Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of ...
  • Could The Financial Crisis Erupting In Ireland, Po ...
    The Irish banking system is melting down right in front of our eyes.  Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain are all drowning in debt.  It is becoming extremely expensive for all of those nations to issue new debt.  Officials all over Europe are begging Ireland to accept a bailout.  Po ...
  • How In The World Did We Get To The Point Where The ...
    Ben Bernanke and the rest of the folks over at the Federal Reserve did not just wake up one day and decide that they wanted to start printing hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air.  The truth is that the economic forces that have brought us to this point have taken decades ...
  • 5 Dangers To Global Crops That Could Dramatically ...
    The world food situation is starting to get very, very tight.  Unprecedented heat and wildfires this summer in Russia and horrific flooding in Pakistan and China have been some of the primary reasons for the rapidly rising food prices we are now seeing around the globe.  In places s ...
  • 111 Obamacare Waivers And Counting – Can The ...
    In a stunning admission of just how job-killing and business-crushing the new health care law really is, the Obama administration has issued a staggering total of 111 Obamacare waivers (and counting) so far. The list of the dozens of companies and organizations that have been appro ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Thought for the Day
    When I was growing up, we generously gave a couple of MILLION pound in aid to stop hundreds of thousands of people dying of famine in Ethiopia. A mere twenty or so years later, we might have to give a few dozen BILLION in aid to Ireland so that a few politicians can keep together their European U ...
  • Quote of the Day: 17th November 2010
    "Today, as EU officials seek to bounce Ireland into direct economic rule, we can see how deadly serious the Eurocrat elite are. There is no need for Ireland to accept a bail out at this time - and yet the EU elite deliberately talk up the prospect in order to strengthen their control. If Ireland ...
  • Is David Cameron the most dangerous man in Britain ...
    A few days ago, we asked you whether Nick Clegg was the most hated man in Britain. Judging by the number of web visitors arriving here having searched on Google for "Nick Clegg hated", it looks as though a lot of people suspect he might be. Today we ask: Is David Cameron the most dangerous man ...
  • Would the European Union kindly just hurry up and ...
    Readers of the Daily Mail appear to be in extremely optimistic, bordering on rapturous this morning at news that the European Union could be being read the last rites. The 500+ comments are almost unanimous in their rejoicing at the headline: "Ireland's debt crisis could kill the European Union s ...
  • Now a series of airline passengers complain of sex ...
    Following the decision of one brave man to go public with his defiant refusal to submit to intimate body searches as part of airline security, a whole raft of passengers have now also gone public. One man has told how his testicles and backside were fondled. Another man's experience - describe ...

Facing South

  • Oil industry pushes panic button over Gulf of Mexi ...
    The oil industry is pushing back against the Obama administration's recently-announced plans to conduct an environmental study of new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. On Nov. 4, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement ...
  • Some Gulf spill claimants waiting for months
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Since Gulf spill claims czar Kenneth Feinberg took over from BP in late August, many claimants have reported that their applications have remained under review for months and that they have not yet received decisions. Roughly 71,000 claims are currently under review, ...
  • GOP donor Pope: I didn't 'buy the North Carolina l ...
    Even in a year marked by record-shattering election spending, North Carolina donor Art Pope's role in fueling the Republicans' historic victories in the state legislature was unique in its scale and impact. As Facing South documented in an in-depth report last week, Pope's family and three gr ...
  • Housing aid won for Mississippi's low-income Katri ...
    A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed over Mississippi's decision to divert federal funds meant for rebuilding low-income housing after Hurricane Katrina in order to expand a shipping port. The hard-won agreement means the state will direct $132 million to lower-income families ...
  • Uranium contamination found downstream of Tennesse ...
    A river downstream of a privately-owned nuclear fuel processing plant in East Tennessee is contaminated with enriched uranium, according to an interim report by a university scientist that was released last week. The contamination was found in the Nolichucky River and Davy Crockett Lake n ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Britain to Pay Settlements to Former Guantanamo Detainees Britain has agreed to pay 15 former Guantanamo detainees and one current detainee millions of dollars in order to avoid lawsuits that allege the British government was complicit in their detention and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Sign of Jury Deadlock in Ghailani Trial A juror in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in U.S. civilian court, sent the judge a note Monday, saying that she felt âattackedâ by other jurors … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: KSM Likely to Remain in Detention Without Trial The Washington Post reported this weekend that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is likely to remain in detention without trial due to opposition in Congress to a civilian trial and the lack of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Karachi’s Counterterrorism Office Bombed; At Least 18 Are Dead A police building housing Karachiâs lead counterterrorism agency was attacked by armed gunmen and a car bomb Thursday night, leaving 18 dead and at least 100 wounded, according to reports. The … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    UK Police Say Bomb Was Timed to Explode Over U.S. Eastern Seaboard British police released a statement Wednesday offering new details about the U.S.-bound package bomb discovered at the UKâs East Midlands Airport. The statement offered a timeline for the … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 12 Open Source Android Applications Worth Checking ...
    According to Gartner, Android is all set to become one among the most preferred mobile phone OS out there and�burgeoning�Android Market is a sign of things to come. Already some 100,000 apps and growing. But how many of these applications are open source after all? There are no reliable statistics. ...
  • 7 Brilliant GNOME GTK Themes
    One of the most common queries I get from our readers is regarding the availability of quality themes in Ubuntu. As you all know there are plenty of themes out there and the difficult thing is to choose good from bad. So here is our collection of 6 brilliant GNOME GTK themes you should definitely gi ...
  • How to Install VirtualBox 3.2.10 in Ubuntu Maveric ...
    VirtualBox is a proprietary virtualization software package currently being developed by Oracle Corporation. Using VirtualBox, you will be able to install additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, each with its own virtual environment. Install VirtualBox 3.2 Repository Au ...
  • DeadBeef - Simple, Lightweight Music Player for Ub ...
    DeadBeef is probably the simplest and the most lightweight music player I have ever used in my Ubuntu. If you are someone who loves to keep it simple and useful at the same time, DeadBeef is one music player you definitely don't want to miss. DeadBeef 0.4.3 DeadBeef is nimble, lightweight ...
  • Script to Install Incredible Compiz Experimental P ...
    I was looking for something like this for so long. Using this incredible script, you can easily install some of the finest Compiz plugins in Ubuntu which are not available by default since they are dubbed "experimental". This is one script you should not give a miss at any cost. Compiz Exper ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Austrian court rules doctor has to compensate chil ...
    A court in Austria has ruled that a doctor has to pay compensation to a child who became almost completely blind as a result of a Hepatitis B vaccination given as part of a school vaccination programme. The court in Graz ruled on May 19, 2010 (6R 5/10t) that the doctor who works for the [...]
  • Links between GSK and Finland’s swine flu va ...
    Ties Between Big Pharma and THL Draw Complaints published today 11:48 AM, updated today 12:21 PM http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/11/ties_between_big_pharma_and_thl_draw_complaints_2147563.html The Chancellor of Justice has received 14 complaints regarding ties between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the ...
  • US vaccine injury programme is unfairly administer ...
    THE NATIONAL VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM (NVICP) SHIELDS VACCINE MAKERS FROM BEING SUED  The NVICP is unfairly administered and has only compensated a small percentage of those damaged by the vaccines they were given By Ulla Danielsen “In the early 1980s, though some other vaccines were bein ...
  • Yet more evidence of corruption in the Austrian ju ...
    It turns out I was wrongly informed by Austrian government justice officials – including by an official at the Justice Ministry  – that a lawyer is needed to claim compensation from the Republic of Austria for a court guardianship that was wrongly initiated.  The finance procurator’s office said ...
  • Please support the blog
    Please help keep the blog going by your donations. Also, please help me to  fund legal action against the Austrian government over their attempt to put me under a court guardianship by making false statements, as judge in Vienna himself determined when he dropped the court guardianship in September. ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Video – Helen Thomas Interview
    Helen Thomas speaks frankly about her views, particularly her views on Palestine and Israel.
  • Body scanners have ‘mutagenic effects’
    By Declan McCullagh A Californian university professor of biochemistry said the Obama administration’s claim that full-body scanners pose no health risks to air travellers is in “error”. The administration’s defence of the controversial machines, which use x-rays to perform what critics have dubbed ...
  • San Diego Man Balks at Scan
    By Mike Krumboltz Folks have been surrendering their dignity in the name of safe air travel for years. Most of the time, this happens without incident. But John Tyner, who was scheduled to fly from San Diego’s Lindbergh Field to South Dakota for a hunting trip on Saturday, drew the line when he was ...
  • Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer: Abolish ...
    By Art Carden The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President’s health care proposal. In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, vi ...
  • David Kelly was murdered as he could not have take ...
    By Miles Goslett and Sue Reid Mystery: Dr Kelly was found in woods near his home Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdos ...

Veterans Today

  • North American Aircraft Services (NAAS) Joins Hire ...
    NAAS teams with HireVeterans.com to Attract Military Veterans to Their Work Force. By Randy Miller North American Aircraft Services (NAAS) is a specialized service provider to the aerospace industry. Their core competency is to provide quality aircraft fuel tank repair and modification services. The ...
  • SMS Joins HireVeterans.com
    SMS, A Veteran Owned Small Business Reaches out to US Veterans for Quality Employment By Randy Miller THE SMS DIFFERENCE SMS is a company that is as dedicated to its employees as it is to its customers. Because of the nature of the IT industry, they are constantly exposed to a complex and ever-chang ...
  • The Conservative Corruption of Progressive Thought ...
    It is my firm belief that the appropriate attitude for a progressive to bring to every discussion is a firmness of thought and an open mind to divergent ideas. A progressive, by definition, should have the intellectual capacity to recognize that one can neither scream, nor insult, one's way to a sol ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    From the VA: 1.      Obama Awards Medal of Honor To Afghanistan War Vet. ABC World News (11/16, story 6, 0:50, Stephanopoulos, 8.2M) reported, “For the first time science the Vietnam War, the nation’s top military award, the Medal of Honor, has been given to a living recipient, Staff Sergeant ...
  • Dittoheads, race and the denial of history
    - Without well-crafted appeals to racism, the modern Republican Party would be without a constituency. So the GOP needs to falsify and deny its racist history in the face of the changing demographics of 21st-century America and the success of the civil rights movement. As the New York Times noted a ...

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Left Foot Forward

  • Age UK outline vision for the future of social car ...
    Social care is currently in crisis due to lack of funding. The number of older people needing care is growing but rationing through eligibility criteria means fewer and fewer are qualifying for local authority support. There are few services aimed at preventing those with low-level care needs from r ...
  • Cameron: Cable doesn’t know what he thinks
    David Cameron rapped Vince Cable over the knuckles at Prime Minister's Questions today - insisting the business secretary's claim that Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) were "Maoist and chaotic" was actually "not his view".
  • Clegg wanted Lib-Lab Coalition to commit to cap on ...
    Nick Clegg went into Coalition talks with Labour demanding "a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees". It means he changed his mind on the issue three times in as many weeks.
  • What kind of jobs recovery is going on?
    There is some good news in today’s labour market statistics. There were 2,448,000 people unemployed in the three months from July to September, down 9,000 on the figures for April to June. The number of people in employment was up 167,000 from April-June, reaching 29,189,000.
  • In defence of the liberal arts – why the gov ...
    Last week thousands of students and academics marched on parliament to protest against sweeping changes to higher education funding. The coalition government has announced an astonishing 80 per cent cut in public funding for higher education. As a result, fees will treble to £9,000 per year. Student ...

 

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