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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, November 19, 2010

19 November - RSS SNapShot! Pt 2

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

Blacklisted News

  • End of Free Internet: US Senate Committee Approves ...
    It seems the lame duck Congressional session is becoming anything but unproductive. Yesterday, we saw the cloture of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), and today the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act was unanimously approved by the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday ...
  • TSA Abuse Opens the Door to Resistance
    September 11th, 2001 marked the beginning of a decade of fear and trembling, and the people of the United States were drawn to the ever expanding federal government for protection. Homeland Security was created and new security measures were imposed, both largely accepted by the populace. Today, nea ...
  • Release of the ‘Dancing Israelis’, Coincidence or ...
    A Few Days after AA Flight 587 Crash: Government Covered Up Likely Sabotage and Released Mossad Agents Arrested on 9/11
  • Bill Gates: mobile health technology will save liv ...
    Bill Gates, co-chair and trustee of the�Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave a keynote address yesterday at the�mHealth Summit, an annual gathering that focuses on improving health care through mobile technology.
  • Energy Tells Tale of Fading West, Booming East
    The patient is the United States and the diagnosis is “Asia shock.”

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Punk Rock Legend Patti Smith Wins National Book Aw ...
    The singer-songwriter, poet, artist and punk rock legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award in the non-fiction category for memoir, Just Kids. The book tells the story of Smith’s coming of age in New York City and her lifelong friendship and creative collaboration with the renowned photogra ...
  • Student, Prisoner Advocate Tam Phan Faces Deportat ...
    Tam Phan came to the United States from Vietnam when he was six years old. He later became involved with a gang and spent 17 years in prison. He turned his life around and is now pursuing a master’s degree in urban policy and administration at Brooklyn College and is working at the Fortune Society, ...
  • As New York Debates Secure Communities Program, St ...
    A battle is brewing in New York over the Secure Communities Program, a controversial federal immigration enforcement policy that requires local police to forward fingerprints of every person they arrest to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. New York Gov. David Paterson has approved a Secure C ...
  • Haitians Barricading Streets with Coffins as Prote ...
    Protests are continuing in Haiti over the cholera outbreak that has now killed more than 1,100 people and infected some 17,000. On Wednesday, residents in the city of Cap-Hatien clashed with U.N. troops for the third consecutive day. Crowds have taken to the streets expressing anger at the Haitian g ...
  • Headlines for November 18, 2010
    Gitmo Prisoner Acquitted of All But One Charge in Embassy Bombings, Insurers Gave Chamber Over $86M to Defeat Healthcare Reform, Study: Lawmakers’ Personal Wealth Increased 16% in 2008, FBI Meets with Google, Facebook in Wiretap Push, Senate to Vote on Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, Murkowski Cl ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Appeasement of U.S. military expansionism is a dea ...
    Summary: Obama and Medvedev Only a mass mobilization of the people - and nations - of the world opposing any further sanctions or attacks on Iran can stay the deadly hand which seeks world domination through military and financial aggression. source: Pravda.Ruread more
  • Bloggers Blast an Iran War Scenario
    Summary: Amidst mainstream press headlines of an angry and divided electorate, the blogosphere last week suggested there is at least one thing people across the political spectrum agree on: Going to war with Iran to boost the U.S. economy is a troubling idea. source: journalism.orgread more
  • Iran urges 'unbiased' anti-terror policy
    Summary: UNSC, NY, 16 Nov 2010"Alongside efforts aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation, there must also be drive for nuclear disarmament, so that the ominous shadow of nukes and weapons of mass destruction no longer loom above humanity," a Foreign Ministry official in charge of international ...
  • Medvedev to hold talks with Iranian leader
    Summary: Ahmadinejad and Medvedev"After all, we should ask them.... what is worrying them. This doesn't mean that we have to accept their arguments, but I believe we should talk with them," Kremlin aide Sergey Prikhodko said. "Iran stands ready to help settle this conflict. Our proposal always ...
  • The Fog of Containment
    Summary: George Kennan shouldn't be our Cold War guide to dealing with Iran. Try Richard Nixon. source: Foreign Policyread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
    Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
  • Amazon Goes Hollywood: Now, You Can Too!
    Amazon.com is getting into the movie business by opening Amazon Studios, with the goal of using the Internet to put fresh movies on the big screen. The new Internet movie studio will allow writers to upload screenplays to its website,...
  • '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...
  • Extreme Species Living Without Oxygen Hint at Poss ...
    A recently identified species, a loriciferan of the genus Spinoloricus, discovered early this summer by Roberto Danovaro at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy inhabiting an anoxic, or oxygen-free environment, loaded with toxic levels of sulfides. Electron microscopy...
  • X-File Dept: 'Quantum Weirdness' Could Allow ET Te ...
    Quantum mechanics underlies many of the most revolutionary discoveries and principles of human technology, from the big bang to the laser, to the transistor to superconducting magnets used at CERNs LHC. Extraterrestrial technology more advanced than ours might manifest itself...

Natural News

  • US Senate debate on S.510 Food Safety bill could e ...
    (NaturalNews) At 10:30 today, the U.S. Senate picks up its debate on the issue of S.510, the "Food Safety and Modernization Act" which is really a wolf in sheep's clothing. It would grant the FDA new, tyrannical powers that could be used to criminalize backyard gardening, outlaw saving seeds, impris ...
  • Senate bill S 510 vote imminent - procedural vote ...
    (NaturalNews) U.S. Senate Bill S 510 is now on the Senate floor where a vote is expected shortly. Yesterday, the Motion to Invoke Cloture passed on a vote of 74-25 (see how they voted, below), sending the bill forward for a final vote perhaps as early as today.US Senate offices are experiencing a hu ...
  • Rejuvenate Plus superfood is high in DNA and RNA w ...
    (NaturalNews) The list of superfood products I consume on a daily basis is a very short list, and the quality of products on that list keeps getting better each year. You probably already know that when I blend up a superfood fruit smoothie, I add a scoop of Rejuvenate Berries and Herbs, which is an ...
  • Statin drugs are over prescribed in healthy people ...
    (NaturalNews) Mainstream medicine has been calling for more and more people to be placed on "miracle" drugs known as statins that lower cholesterol. There have even been suggestions that statins should be sold over the counter or given out free when people buy junk, fat-loaded fast food (http://www. ...
  • Teens carry 30 percent more BPA than adults
    (NaturalNews) Teenagers carry 30 percent more of the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in their bodies than older adults, according to a study conducted by researchers from Statistics Canada.BPA is an industrial chemical used to make hard, clear plastics for water bottles and baby bottles, and resins ...

Threat Level

  • Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at B ...
    A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him. The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two U.S. Customs and Border Prote ...
  • Senate Committee OKs Domain-Name Seizure for Pirat ...
    The United States inched a procedural step closer Thursday to becoming the world’s internet piracy policeman. The Senate Judiciary Committee, voting 19-0, approved legislation that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them do ...
  • Lawmakers Move to Eject Nude Scanners from New Yor ...
    A New York City lawmaker on Thursday introduced legislation to prohibit the TSA from using its advanced body scanners at New York airports, including JFK, the busiest international airport in the country. Democratic councilman David Greenfield says six fellow council members have signed onto the pro ...
  • WikiLeaks Founder ‘Detained in Absentia’ in Swedis ...
    A Swedish judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “detained in absentia” to answer questions in a rape and coercion investigation in Stockholm, prosecutors announced Thursday. The investigation stems from encounters Assange had with two women during his visit to Sweden last August, where ...
  • Righthaven Says It Will Stop Suing Over News Exerp ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven this week promised to narrow its lawsuit campaign in the face of a courtroom defeat, when a judge ruled that a real estate website made “fair use” of a newspaper article from the Las Vegas-Review Journal. Righthaven is the lawyer-heavy company based in Las Vegas that spr ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Sharron Angle Joins Bush in Praising Dictators
    Tea Party favorite and failed Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle is no fan of democracy. Angle, after all, declared if her supporters failed to help her "take out" Harry Reid, they should resort to "Second Amendment remedies." Now, two weeks after her defeat at the polls, the Las Vegas Sun reve ...
  • The Return of the Free Lunch Party
    As Ronald Reagan's budget chief almost thirty years ago, a frustrated David Stockman famously lamented that when it comes to spending discipline, "there are no real conservatives in Congress." Now, three decades after he concluded "the supply-siders have gone too far," Stockman called the Republica ...
  • "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 ...

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

  • Study finds Texas coal plants foul neighboring sta ...
    Coal-fired power plants in Texas are responsible for dozens of bad air days in neighboring states each year, according to a new analysis released by the Sierra Club.  The report attributes as many as 64 days of harmful levels of smog in Oklahoma to Texas’ coal plants. It also ties the plants to a ...
  • Lubbock Town Hall Meeting on TCEQ Sunset
    The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving.  The Lubbock town hall will take place Friday, November 19th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Texas Tech School of Law. All are invited to attend these town hal ...
  • Perry’s deputy budget chief named new PUC executiv ...
    The Public Utility Commission (PUC) has named one of Gov. Rick Perryâs chief energy advisers to take over as executive director of the agency that oversees the much of the electric industry in the state as well as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Brian Lloyd, spent 10 years at PUC before ...
  • Meghana Menon: Re Energize Texas Intern at Public ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Meghana Menon majors in Enivronmental Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali studies Political Science and Int'l Studies at University of Texas at Austin.

Unexplained Mysteries

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

  • Cancun Climate Talks Only a 'Staging Post'
    Source:� AFP Upcoming climate talks in Mexico will only be a "staging post" en route to a globally binding deal, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday, pressing notably the US and China to do more.
  • Canada's Conservatives Kill Bill to Cut CO2 Emissi ...
    Source:� AFP Canadian PM Stephen Harper's Conservative government has defeated climate change legislation put forth by opposition parties calling for deep CO2 emissions cuts.
  • Lisa Murkowski Claims Victory in Alaska Senate Ele ...
    Source:� Los Angeles Times Sen. Lisa Murkowski claimed victory Wednesday night over defiant challenger Joe Miller after building a decisive lead in near-final vote tallies.
  • Hastings Seeks Expanded Energy Role for Natural Re ...
    Source:� The Hill Rep. Doc Hastings � the likely chair of the House Natural Resources Committee� is making a play to yank control of energy policy away from the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.
  • Coal Plants, Rising and Retiring
    Source:� NYT Green While many believe that far stricter regulation of carbon dioxide emissions is inevitable in the next few years, coal plants are still under construction around the country.

GreenBiz

  • Why Business is the Best Bet to Fix Russia's Clima ...
    Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Let's Put a Racist in Charge of Immigration
    I'm sure the American people went to the polls two weeks ago thinking that it would be a good idea to put a racist in charge of immigration policy in the House of Representatives. As one of its first acts, the new Congress will consider denying citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants w ...
  • If I Were DSCC Chairman
    As we just learned, it's easier for Republicans to pick up House seats in blue and purple districts during midterm elections because turnout is low and the people who don't turn out come disproportionately from the Democrats' base. Conversely, Democrats have the best chance to pick up purple distri ...
  • The End of Rationality in the House
    I fell asleep last night (and, coincidently, woke up) watching a hearing of the House Science Subcommittee on Energy & Environment chaired by Brian Baird (D-WA). The topic was climate change and there were three panels of scientists who discussed why they believe carbon dioxide in the atmosphere i ...
  • The Industry Republicans Wanted to Kill ...
    ... is alive and well, thanks to the Democrats and President Obama. What industry, you ask? The American automobile industry: Seventeen months after veering into bankruptcy, General Motors has become the unlikely darling of Wall Street, poised to complete an initial public offering Thursday th ...
  • Another Bad Day
    Well, I'm beat. Finn has his first significant cold and he can't understand why when he tries to drink from a bottle he can't breath. This makes him irritable in the extreme. Add to this that I had no internet, phone, or television access from about 10:30am on today, and you can see that my day w ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Predicting Psychotherapy’s Effectiveness on Childh ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Therapy is the leading type of treatment for people who experience anxiety, both adults and children. For many of these people, the therapy proves highly successful, but for a small subset it yields weaker results. Scientists have found a way to identify children’s co ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • GAO issues report on EPA mining crackdown - Charle ...
    GAO issues report on EPA mining crackdown Charleston Gazette (blog) The US Government Accountability Office just issued a long-awaited review of the Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal coal mining in ...
  • Stand up for Appalachia! - American Rivers (blog)
    American Rivers (blog) Stand up for Appalachia! American Rivers (blog) You may remember our listing of the Gauley River as one of America's Most Endangered Rivers�� in 2010, due to the destructive practice of mountaintop ... and more��
  • PNC Bank Will No Longer Fund Mountain Top Removal ...
    Wilkes Barre Times-Leader PNC Bank Will No Longer Fund Mountain Top Removal Think Progress PNC Bank, the top funder of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, has announced that it will end its support ... PNC to stop financing mountaintop coal miningPhiladelphia Inquirer PNC to Stop Financing Mount ...
  • NCC: Discussion to follow environmental film - Nor ...
    Technorati NCC: Discussion to follow environmental film Norwich Bulletin Terry Ratliff and Beverly May face the challenges of living near a mountaintop removal mine from very different perspectives in �Deep Down. ... Film Premiere: Deep Down on Independent Lens, Tuesday, November 23Technorati all ...
  • 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 ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • House fails to eliminate NPR funding (Jordan Fabia ...
    Jordan Fabian / The Hill: House fails to eliminate NPR funding  —  The House on Thursday voted to move forward on legislation without voting on a proposal put forth by Republicans to defund NPR.  —  Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the next majority leader, said the vote demonstrates that Democrats “are s ...
  • Live Blog: Committee Recommends Censure for Rangel ...
    Andy Newman / City Room: Live Blog: Committee Recommends Censure for Rangel  —  Representative Charles B. Rangel at the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct hearing on Thursday.  —  Update, 6:29 p.m. |  The House ethics committee has recommended censure for Representative Charles B. Ra ...
  • The Unorthodox Frontrunner (Philip Klein/American ...
    Philip Klein / American Spectator: The Unorthodox Frontrunner  —  Viewed in isolation, Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential candidacy is doomed.  —  In 2008, Romney earned himself a reputation as a flip-flopper as he dramatically attempted to reshape himself as a stanch conservative despite having previ ...
  • Pence: Don't Forget Social Issues; Decision on Pre ...
    The Note: Pence: Don't Forget Social Issues; Decision on Presidential Run ‘Sometime Early Next Year’  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports:  —  Rep. Mike Pence this week left his post in House leadership, with the wide presumption that he'll run for president or for governor of Indiana in 2012.
  • Dems will vote on just middle class tax cuts, Hoye ...
    Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Dems will vote on just middle class tax cuts, Hoyer says  —  Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, a senio ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Reflections of a climate veteran (2)
    In the conclusion of Tan Copsey’s interview with James Hansen, the American climatologist discusses the role of science in global-warming activism, and says it is time to take the fight to the law courts.Tan Copsey: You played an interesting role in a case in the United Kingdom, where your testimony ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Bizarre Tale of Graft and Sleazy Political Opp ...
    How we got to the point of full body scans, the massive personal intrusion that represents, and the tens of millions spent for machines that irradiate us.
  • Obama Isn't Standing Up to the Heartless Rich
    For two years Barack Obama has increasingly made a mockery of hopes for a green New Deal.
  • Profits, Pensions, and the Return of GM
    Today marked the return of automaker GM to public trading on the stock market. All hail the American automakers, returning to profitability in a little over a year after bankruptcy proceedings and billions of government dollars in bailouts, right? Not so fast. Though the stock prices are expected to ...
  • Obama’s DEA Nominee Pledges To Ignore Administrati ...
    It was a little over a year ago when the United States Department of Justice announced that it would back away from pursuing cases against medical marijuana patients and providers who are acting in accordance with state and local laws. “As a general matter, pursuit of [federal law enforcement] prior ...
  • What's Glenn Beck's Problem with Social Justice? M ...
    Beck can scapegoat all he wants, but the Institute for Policy Studies and other independent organizations will continue to fight the good fight.

Threat Level

  • Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at B ...
    A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him. The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two U.S. Customs and Border Prote ...
  • Senate Committee OKs Domain-Name Seizure for Pirat ...
    The United States inched a procedural step closer Thursday to becoming the world’s internet piracy policeman. The Senate Judiciary Committee, voting 19-0, approved legislation that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them do ...
  • Lawmakers Move to Eject Nude Scanners from New Yor ...
    A New York City lawmaker on Thursday introduced legislation to prohibit the TSA from using its advanced body scanners at New York airports, including JFK, the busiest international airport in the country. Democratic councilman David Greenfield says six fellow council members have signed onto the pro ...
  • WikiLeaks Founder ‘Detained in Absentia’ in Swedis ...
    A Swedish judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “detained in absentia” to answer questions in a rape and coercion investigation in Stockholm, prosecutors announced Thursday. The investigation stems from encounters Assange had with two women during his visit to Sweden last August, where ...
  • Righthaven Says It Will Stop Suing Over News Exerp ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven this week promised to narrow its lawsuit campaign in the face of a courtroom defeat, when a judge ruled that a real estate website made “fair use” of a newspaper article from the Las Vegas-Review Journal. Righthaven is the lawyer-heavy company based in Las Vegas that spr ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #453
    France accuses Iran of violence at Tehran embassy. CIA picks Air Force general to lead military ops office. Aussie spies spooked out by student filmmakers. Continue reading →
  • 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 →
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    New book examines Powels-Abel spy exchange. Newspaper sues FBI over civil rights informant. Female WWII spy reflects on "horrible and wonderful" life. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • PEDDLING WAR TO CHILDREN
    By Robert C. Koehler In the gap between a boy’s passionate fantasies and the smell of dead bodies in a mass grave marches . . . America’s Army. “He wonders if God is punishing him because before he joined the Army he thought of war as something fun and exciting.” We couldn’t wage our current wars wi ...
  • Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons ...
    Gareth Porter, Truthout: "The Obama administration says there can be no diplomatic negotiations with Iran unless Iran satisfies the IAEA fully in regard to the allegations derived from the documents that it had covert nuclear weapons program. That position is based on the premise that the intelligen ...
  • Secret Service closes UNT building to ‘organized s ...
    DENTON, Texas – At the behest of the Secret Service, the University of North Texas has closed one of its buildings to some of its students tomorrow afternoon, when four speakers were scheduled to address students and the public there. All four speakers had spoken today in Dallas at a rally protestin ...
  • More Fun Than Killing Muslims: A Game of Nonviolen ...
  • A Conversation with Firas Majeed of Native Without ...
    By Joshua Brollier Joshua: Welcome to our listeners out there. This is Joshua Brollier with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. I’m here in Syria with Firas Majeed, the founder of the Native Without A Nation project. Firas is a 34-year-old Iraqi refugee living in the Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus ...

Grist - News

  • Understanding the smart meter backlash
    by Jonathan Hiskes. David's been writing lately about the intersection of technology and human habits and culture, arguing that energy is a behavioral challenge as much as a technological one. There's a prime of example of how these things collide -- and why climate hawks should pay attention ...
  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • TSA Hit With Lawsuits As Revolt Explodes
    In one shocking incident, TSA goons pulled down woman’s blouse, exposing her breasts, and laughed about it. By Paul Joseph Watson The TSA has been hit with a number of lawsuits as the revolt against Big Sis, naked body scanners, and invasive groping measures explodes, with one case involving a woman ...
  • TSA pats down a screaming toddler
    You might think a 3-year-old would whiz through security. A child is non-threatening, wears slip-on shoes, and carries little luggage. Not the case for Mandy Simon who was passing through security with her dad at the airport in Chattanooga, Tenn. A TSA employee gave Mandy the pat down and she starte ...
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    Experts also called on the police to launch a murder inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, casting serious doubt on the official claim the scientist overdosed on painkillers. According to Dr Andrew Watt who is a top clinical pharmacologist, Kelly could have only take a âsafeâ dose of coproxamol painkiller ...
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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
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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

  • Greenbuild 2010: The Best Eco Designs From Day 1
    Read the rest of Greenbuild 2010: The Best Eco Designs From Day 1http://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: 2010, chicago, Eco, green, GreenB ...
  • Clever Side Table Turns Wood Scraps Into a City Sk ...
    This clever piece by Joost Wever is made from wood scraps pieced together to form a side table with modern appeal. The top is flat, depicting a patchwork pattern squares and rectangles — but if you peek below, the wooden blocks have been arranged to form the skyline of Holland. READ MORE > Pe ...
  • In Recycling Your Old Vuvuzela, There is a World o ...
    Though we miss the excitement and camaraderie of the World Cup that took place in these stunning green stadiums this past summer, we don’t really miss the low drone of thousands of vuvuzelas on every television. These plastic horns were once the topic of many the heated conversations, but as of la ...
  • Toyota’s Hydrogen Powered FCHV-adv Undertakes Firs ...
    While this week’s LA Auto Show may be making headlines with its sheer number of showcased models, that does not mean other innovations are not happening in other parts of the world. In fact, on the other side of the pond, Toyota’s hydrogen powered FCHV-adv (Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle-advanced) has b ...
  • Banana Leaf Maxi Pads Offer Cheap Solution for Rwa ...
    Did you ever have to save your money just to purchase something as basic as sanitary napkins? It may seem like a strange question but for many women in developing countries, the answer is “yes.” Rwandan woman can miss up to 50 days of work and school a year because they canât afford sanitary [...]

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Extragalactic Exoplanet Found Hiding Out in Milky ...
    Some extrasolar planets are truly out of this world. Astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet in the Milky Way that came from another galaxy. The planet, which has a mass of at least 1.25 Jupiters, orbits an elderly star that was ripped from a small satellite galaxy some 6 [...]
  • Spacecraft Flies Through Cosmic Snowstorm
    See Also: New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby Close Encounter Coming With Ghostly Green Comet Reader Photos: Ghostly Green Comet Approaches Earth Aging Spacecraft Set On New Comet Hunt New Evidence of Ice Age Comet Found in Ice Cores Follow us on Twitter @astrolisa and @wiredscience, and o ...
  • Universe’s Quantum Weirdness Limits Its Weirdness
    The more one probes the universe at smaller and smaller scales, the weirder matter and energy seem to behave. But this strangeness may limit its own extent in quantum mechanics, the theory describing the behavior of matter at an infinitesimal level, according to a new study by an ex-hacker and a ph ...
  • Feds’ Transgenic-Salmon Review Ignores Big Picture
    When the Food and Drug Administration announces the fate of the AquAdvantage salmon, the first genetically modified (GM) animal ever considered for commercial consumption, they may have considered only a fraction of their decision’s consequences. So far the FDA has focused on whether or not the sa ...
  • Analysis of 2008 Collapse Shows Economy Networked ...
    A new study of the 2008 collapse has joined economics and network theory in a graphic depiction of inevitable failure. In the preceding years, formerly far-flung sectors of the economy had been pulled together, linked by a newly deregulated financial industry. Thus intertwined, the economy took a f ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Guantanamo Detainee Ahmed Ghailani Convicted, Cons ...
    A courtroom sketch of Ahmed Ghailani Ahmed Ghailani has been convicted in federal criminal court for his role in the 1998 Embassy bombings in East Africa. The judge in the case will sentence Ghailani to a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life in prison, guaranteeing a very long sentence for th ...
  • US Doomed to Repeat History in Afghanistan
    In a few weeks the US will mark its 110th month of combat operations in Afghanistan; the same length of time as the Soviet Union’s military presence in that country.  Since the media is focused on the planned announcement of a U.S. and NATO commitment to sustained combat operations in Afghanistan un ...
  • The Ghailani Disaster that Wasn't
    I'll have a post up on the verdict in the Ahmed Ghailani case over at Greg's place. Bottom line: So here's the reality: Ghailani's trial took a mere month, at the fraction of the cost of flying translators, jurors, lawyers and reporters back and forth from Guantanamo. He will likely spend the rest o ...
  • Legislation Removes Ahmadinejad from Powerful Post ...
    Conservative allies of Iranian Speaker of parliament Ali Larijani passed a bill this week that removed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from his influential post as Chairman of the General Assembly of Iran’s Central Bank. According to Tabnak, a conservative website with ties to Mohsen Rezai, the forme ...
  • DOD Spokesperson: Pentagon is ‘Pushing For’ Repeal ...
    This afternoon, Defense Department spokesperson Geoff Morrell gave the Pentagon’s strongest endorsement yet of passing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal during the lame duck session of the Senate. Speaking to reporters at a news conference, Morrell said that the Pentagon, as part of the Obama administrat ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: There's a Hack for That.
    Fareed Zakaria, who usually offers more trenchant political analysis, succumbs to the conventional wisdom on the budget deficit, arguing that "[t]he fate of the U.S. is going to be decided over the next year." In other words, it is the most immediate, important policy decision facing the United Sta ...
  • The Little Picture: Funny Money.
    (The Federal Reserve Bank of New York) A panel from an education comic book on the state of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  • Same-Sex Education.
    At The Root, Deron Snyder champions the idea of same-sex education for young black men as a way to overcome those dire statistics that have been making the news lately. All of this is based on the success of Chicago's Urban Prep, an all-male charter school in Chicago that sent all of its 2010 gradua ...
  • Cut, Lather, Repeat.
    It's the GOP strategy: Cut taxes, get into a lather about high tax rates, repeat. (I've left out the part about blowing up the deficit). Here, influential House Republican Mike Pence puts the strategy into action: Jim DeMint and I are offering legislation on Capitol Hill today to say, look, let's m ...
  • TAP's Take: Airport Gropefest.
    On this week's podcast from The American Prospect: Monica Potts, Adam Serwer, and Jamelle Bouie discuss TSA's new full-body scanner and the controversy over Sarah Palin's daughter calling someone a "faggot" on Facebook. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. We're on iTunes! Cli ...

Buzzflash

  • Murkowski, Against All Odds, Wins Alaska Senate Se ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH In a dark political season which many Didn't see much light in Lisa pulls out a stunner with a once-in- A-lifetime write-in.read more
  • Facts Don't Seem to Matter When You Have Governmen ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN Thirty years after Ronald Reagan assumed office, we're still having a national debate on trickle down versus trickle up. This is odd if you look at the history and the facts because the whole Reagan-Bush concept of making the wealthy wealthier ...
  • Bernie Sanders to FCC: Block Comcast-NBC Merger
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  • The Party of No and No Ideas: Republicans are Buil ...
    Body For anyone who remembers the Joe McCarthy witch hunts and the runaway partisanship of the Clinton impeachment furor today’s leadership overhaul in Washington is an unpleasant reminder of what those days were like. More than just a rejection of current policy a right-wing Congress ...
  • Does the George Bush "Memoir" Come With Crayons an ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH You have to marvel at George W Bush's audacious return to the national stage not to mention his curious timing. After all, there wasn't what you would call an overwhelming popular demand clamoring for his reappearance. Apparently even putative war criminals got to make a liv ...

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Sciencebase

  • Science sightings from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates First stem cell trial in stroke patient, how did the media do – In its regular assessment and critique of reporting on medical happenings, NHS Choices looked at the recent early test of stem cell therapy for a stroke victim and reports (amazingly) that "In general, the ...
  • 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 ...
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  • Canned heavy metal and more
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Renews Call for Ratification of International ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2010ACLUThe American Civil Liberties Union submitted a statement to a Senate hearing today urging ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international treaty that affirms principles of fundamental ...
  • National Leaders and DREAM Youth Urge Immediate Ac ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2010America's VoiceThe day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced he will bring the DREAM Act to the floor, as a stand-alone measure, during the lame-duck session, DREAM-eligible youth joined national leaders at the National Press Club to call on ...
  • Make Black Friday Green by Keeping the Trees in Mi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2010Rainforest Action Network (RAN) In time for Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) wants to help consumers make better choices about the books they buy this holiday season.read more
  • Midterm Voters Were Largely in the Dark on the Ide ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2010Public CitizenThe amount of information available to voters about who was behind attack ads during the midterms was dramatically less than in previous years, a new Public Citizen study shows. The study was released at a press conference held today by six good g ...
  • Leaked E-mails Show the State Department’s Top Wat ...
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Common Dreams-Views

  • Why Desperate Haitians Want to Kick Out UN Troops
    by Isabeau DoucetYou may have heard about the civil unrest in Haiti over recent days, on the heels of a hurricane that thwarted efforts to contain a cholera epidemic that is now a national emergency.read more
  • Guilty Until Proven Guilty
    by Karen GreenbergLiberty versus security, that initial heated debate over the war on terror, is again rearing its head with much bravado, nowhere more so than in our nation's courtrooms where American justice continues to pay the price.read more
  • 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

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Is the only way to end the Afghan war a 2012 prima ...
    By Steve Hynd Here's how well the NATO surge in Kandahar, Afghanistan, is going: The number of people assassinated in the city in the past six weeks has jumped to 13, compared with six in a similar period in May and June before the big US operations began, according to data collated by a security co ...
  • 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 ...

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 for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • 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.
  • Films out of Africa to vie for top honours at fest ...
    DUBAI — Seven feature, documentary and short films from across the African continent will screen at the seventh Dubai International Film Festival next month, Festival organisers announced yesterday.

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Electronic Intifada

  • The deadly lie of democracy in Iraq
    An elections process in Iraq cleverly diverts all attention from the colossal incompetency of the government, and spins the tall tale of a young, fledgling born-again count ...
  • A privatized Nakba
    Palestinians describe the Israel Land Administration Law (ILA) quietly passed by the Israeli Knesset in 2009 as the final stage in the 62-year process of displacement from their ho ...
  • Book review: An Israeli academic's struggle agains ...
    The Israeli historian Ilan Papp�'s new memoir Out of the Frame manages to link Papp�'s personal struggle against Israeli McCarthyism with a broader struggle for human and p ...
  • With Netanyahu bribe, Washington going for broke
    Another setback for the Palestinian national movement may be unfolding as Barack Obama dangles a lavish package of incentives in the face of Benjamin Netanyahu in an attempt to lur ...
  • The obstacles to reporting the truth about war
    The threats of death, maiming and incarceration are perhaps the worst and most direct obstacles to the objective coverage of situations in which human rights violations are committ ...

Afghanistan Sun

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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on Government Oversight

  • Human Trafficking Not at a Standstill
    For years there have been allegations of contractors engaging in sex and labor trafficking in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia. The Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed (p. 21 of 295) human trafficking problems in 2006. As a result, the government amended...
  • Does the Top Watchdog at the State Department Lack ...
    POGO has obtained information raising questions about the independence of the State Department's top watchdog, de facto Inspector General (IG) Ambassador Harold Geisel. We break down the problem in full in a letter sent earlier today to President Barack Obama,...
  • POGO Files Friend of the Court Brief in AT&T v. FC ...
    POGO, along with other good government advocates, has filed a "friend of the court" brief in the case of AT&T v. FCC. In the brief, we challenge a Court of Appeals' decision that the "personal privacy" exemption protecting information from...
  • Morning Smoke: Afghanistan Reconstruction IG Testi ...
    Embattled IG for Afghan War to testify by Josh Boak [The Washington Post] Afghan Auditor Faces U.S. Inquiry by Nathan Hodge [The Wall Street Journal] Lockheed finds cracks in F-35B test aircraft by Bob Cox [Fort Worth Star-Telegram] USAF spots...
  • House Armed Services Pushes For Extra Engine Earma ...
    On Monday, National Journal’s Megan Scully reported that the House Armed Services Committee is pursuing an unusual course: getting an up-to $465 million earmark for a second engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) into a continuing resolution. Typically, earmarks...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Texas Town Delays and Weakens Plans for a Homeless ...
    When they say everything is bigger in Texas, you would hope that would also mean a larger sense of compassion. But when it comes to dealing with homelessness, that's not always the case. The City Council of Lubbock, Texas, has once again stalled on proposed plans to establish a homeless committee to ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Steven Staples on Canada’s extended Afghanistan mi ...
    Here are some links to media reports that include comments by Steven Staples on the decision to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan: Barbara Yaffe, “Harper gambles on grudging support for ‘non-combat’ role,” Vancouver Sun, 17 November 2010 CTVNews, “Cannon says ‘risk factor’ remains for troops,” ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • BPA Destroys Sperm
    November 18th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Results from a five-year trial on the effects of bisphenol-A (BPA) in human males has revealed that the popular plastics chemical destroys sperm. One of the few BPA studies involving humans, the trial sheds more light on the obvious harm BPA causes ...
  • Monsanto to Start Testing Genetically Modified Whe ...
    November 18th, 2010 Reuters By: Carey Gillam Monsanto Co could start field testing genetically modified wheat within one to two years, but remains cautious about future commercialization, according to one of the company’s top wheat technology executives. Six years after shelving an earlier biotech w ...
  • Florida Airport to Opt Out of TSA Screening
    November 18th, 2010 WDBO.com By: Ken Tyndall The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm. Orlando Sanford International Airport has decided to opt out from TSA screening. “All of our due di ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-17-10
    Today, Kevin abolishes all rumors and gives you the truth behind inflation, the TSA and the government. Plus, Dr. Bob Marshall gives you the facts behind the dangers of Magnesium Stearate & Stearic Acid! Self Help: Cure Your Fears   Loss Weight Fast   Begin Here   Enjoy A Free Cruise!   Invest Now!  ...
  • Drug Companies ‘Exploit Legal Loophole&#8217 ...
    November 17th, 2010 The Telegraph By Rebecca Smith Rules that were intended to encourage drug companies to research and develop new medicines for rare diseases that are being misused, the 20 consultants said in the British Medical Journal. Instead of developing new drugs they are obtaining licenses ...

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

  • Do neoconservatives really care about the Iranian ...
    Ali Gharib writes: The rumblings of the largely underground Iranian Green Movement encourage neoconservative pundit Reuel Marc Gerecht. “I think it’s the most amazing intellectual second revolution…that we’ve seen in the Middle East,” he told a packed briefing room at Bloomberg’s D.C. headquar ...
  • Obama’s dubious Mideast bet
    Tony Karon writes: In the grand poker game of Middle East peacemaking, everyone around the table is wondering just what cards President Barack Obama is holding. That’s because the President has placed a potentially ruinous bet on what can be achieved over the 90 days of the partial settlement ...
  • The origin of America’s intellectual vacuum
    Chris Hedges writes: The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors t ...
  • Israeli Rabbi: ‘Jews should make the Arabs flee’
    The Independent reports: First they threatened to burn his house down. Then they pinned leaflets to his front door, denouncing him as a Jewish traitor. But Eli Tzavieli, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, is defiant. His only “crime” is to rent out his rooms to three Arab students attending th ...
  • The myth of American pressure
    Osamah Khalil writes: Recent reports that the administration of US President Barack Obama offered Israel a series of incentives to continue its limited ten-month moratorium on settlement building have sparked an outcry among Palestinians and their supporters. Although the concessions for halti ...

Watts Up With That?

  • IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing T ...
    Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010 Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which … Continue reading →
  • Extreme cold expected during the next week
    Record cold expected. The Al Gore effect as well as the testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday has caused a massive chunk of Arctic air to descend from Western Canada into the United States.  How do temperatures 6o-70F degrees below average … Continue reading →
  • Roger Pielke Sr. on the House global warming heari ...
    The Perpetuation Of Climate Misunderstandings By The U.S. House Of Representatives Subcommitee On Energy and Environment The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommitee On Energy and Environment Hearing titled A Rational Discussion of Climate Change: the Science, the Evidence, the Response that … Con ...
  • Heidi Cullen’s “weather is not climate ...
    I’ve read a number of the testimonies before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment yesterday. It had a number of excellent presentations, and you can watch the entire video here. One presentation made me chuckle though, and that’s the … Continue reading →
  • Judith Curry: Climate change can be categorized as ...
    That headline is Dr. Judth Curry’s testimony before The House Testimony on global warming yesterday. It had a number of excellent presentations, and you can watch the entire video here. Some excerpts below, the entire presentation is available for download … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Lesson of Repression By Mark A. Goldman
    by Mark A. Goldman Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.gpln.com Nov. 18, 2010 If you want to fly these days, there’s a high probability that you will be given two choices.  The choices are:  subject yourself to potentially harmful x-rays as you allow a stranger to view your naked body or,  be pa ...
  • Our National Symptoms-Chasing Yoyo Syndrome by Sib ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 18 November, 2010 …And Corrupt System of No-Checks & Many-Imbalances I go on line and check out the major newspaper headlines, and to my delight there is a TSA related headline or two in every one. In the las ...
  • The 80 Something Club by Philip A. Farruggio
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 15, 2010 You can catch them on many Tuesdays at rush hour in my town of 60,000. One of the four still has the strength and vigor to stand with his protest sign. The other three have had to resort to bringing folding chairs. Still, what ...
  • The QE2: Bernanke Prints Again by Sean Fenley + Qu ...
    by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything Nov. 14, 2010 The Federal Reserve’s QE2 is being met with near universally condemnatory reviews. The Fed’s effort to buy up $600 billion in government bonds is being seen as a shot in the dark for the foundering Obama adminis ...
  • Socialism and society By Jerry Mazza
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com Nov. 14, 2010 Most people don’t realize that when they board a public bus or subway that a form of socialism is carrying them to their destination. The city government owns the means of travel for no-prof ...

Your New Reality

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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

  • Extragalactic Exoplanet Found Hiding Out in Milky ...
    Some extrasolar planets are truly out of this world. Astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet in the Milky Way that came from another galaxy. The planet, which has a mass of at least 1.25 Jupiters, orbits an elderly star that was ripped from a small satellite galaxy some 6 [...]
  • Spacecraft Flies Through Cosmic Snowstorm
    See Also: New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby Close Encounter Coming With Ghostly Green Comet Reader Photos: Ghostly Green Comet Approaches Earth Aging Spacecraft Set On New Comet Hunt New Evidence of Ice Age Comet Found in Ice Cores Follow us on Twitter @astrolisa and @wiredscience, and o ...
  • Universe’s Quantum Weirdness Limits Its Weirdness
    The more one probes the universe at smaller and smaller scales, the weirder matter and energy seem to behave. But this strangeness may limit its own extent in quantum mechanics, the theory describing the behavior of matter at an infinitesimal level, according to a new study by an ex-hacker and a ph ...
  • Feds’ Transgenic-Salmon Review Ignores Big Picture
    When the Food and Drug Administration announces the fate of the AquAdvantage salmon, the first genetically modified (GM) animal ever considered for commercial consumption, they may have considered only a fraction of their decision’s consequences. So far the FDA has focused on whether or not the sa ...
  • Analysis of 2008 Collapse Shows Economy Networked ...
    A new study of the 2008 collapse has joined economics and network theory in a graphic depiction of inevitable failure. In the preceding years, formerly far-flung sectors of the economy had been pulled together, linked by a newly deregulated financial industry. Thus intertwined, the economy took a f ...

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 ...
  • Website reveals details of hundreds of IDF ‘war cr ...
    “In underlining them we are purposefully directing attention to individuals rather than the static structures through which they operate,” the website states while calling on visitors to spread the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Experts Available to Discuss Impact of Alzheimer's ...
    The NJ Institute for Successful Aging can provide experts can provide experts to comment on the impact of Alzheimer's, including research, disease diagnosis, clinical care and strategies for caregivers.
  • Discovery in How HIV Thwarts the Body's Natural De ...
    Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have solved a 20-year puzzle: why natural killer cells fail to protect the body against HIV. The discovery opens up a new target for drug therapies.
  • Process Leading to Protein Diversity in Cells Impo ...
    Researchers -- led by James Eberwine, PhD, the Elmer Holmes Bobst professor of Pharmacology and co-director of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute -- have documented a novel form of splicing in the cytoplasm of a nerve cell, which dictates a special form of a potassium channel protein in the outer m ...
  • Tougher Rating System Evaluates Nine Supercomputer ...
    Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new "Graph500" challenge, first introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The list of submitters and the order of their finish was released Nov. 17 at the supercomputing conference SC10 meeting ...
  • Am. Jrl. of Public Health Highlights: January 2011
    1) Primary disease prevention is not only good for our health, but also our budgets; 2) Connections exist between neighborhoods and the risk of chronic disease onset in later life; 3) Urban areas with smaller food markets may be bad for your waistline.

Natural Health News

  • How to Wrap a Cat for Christmas
    When you need the perfect gift for that special someone.
  • Why do Obstetricians Still Rush to Clamp the Cord?
    For many years, the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics have advised against early umbilical cord clamping.� But obstetricians have been reluctant to change their habits. Although no clamping occurs in nature, cord clamping has become such an acce ...
  • Largest U.S. Egg Producer Caught Abusing Chickens ...
    The Humane Society of the United States has released an undercover video that shows animal abuse at a Texas farm operated by the largest egg producer in the United States.� The video shows images of dead birds, overcrowding and hens covered in feces. CNN reports: �At one point the video sh ...
  • Clear Your Mind, and the Distractions Will Stop
    A 3D animation showing how little problems can grow into big ones unless you clear your mind.
  • Adderall Abuse Claims a Young Life
    Kyle Craig, a 21 year old student at Vanderbilt University, stepped out in front of a passenger train and ended his own life. Kyle had been using Adderall, a drug prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), to help keep awake in order to study.� He pretended to have ADHD and sou ...

Antemedius

  • Just When You Think Bush Can Sink No Lower, He Doe ...
    Many Bush critics make the mistake of underestimating him. This is one area where he has surprised with his ability to take a presumably bottomed out status and bottom it some more. Bush’s latest return with the same brash cockiness that has been a staple item recalls the words of a professor of hi ...
  • Department of Labor Sues To Close A Massey Energy ...
    29 miners died in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. The mine had scores of safety violations prior to the accident, but it kept on going anyway. This is the way it is in the modern energy business. They give lip service to the idea of safety while all the while gaming the system, pushing the boun ...
  • The United States of Austerity
    The global economic and financial system was founded in 1945 -- over 60 years ago -- when the United States was made the solvent heart of the global financial system. This meant that there was an absolute necessity that the US economy never suffer a lasting recession. And, as long as the banks were ...
  • Good News For Murfreesboro Mosque! Judge Refuses I ...
    My father loved the law. He loved it because it was an attempt to provide balance without resort to violence. Note the attempt in that sentence, it is important to recognize that justice is not about exact balancing but about a society making a concerted effort to balance the harm done by one person ...
  • Okay Democrats, Let's Talk About Our Failure And W ...
    Okay, we got beaten. We did, there is no getting around it. What is important is why did we get beaten? Is it a repudiation of liberal policies? No. Is it that the nation is center-right and wants government to be that way too? No, else the voters would not have put the Republicans in the driver’s 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

  • Lindsey Graham on All Options Open re Iran and Nuk ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Tod Lindberg, editor of the Hoover Institution’s Policy Review, reports in the Weekly Standard on a blunt message delivered by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-NC) at a discussion meeting of senior transatlantic policy makers, the Halifax International Security Fo ...
  • A Head-Spinning Self-Execution Story
    by Duncan Hollis This is a wild tale of self-execution (which, I'm fairly sure, is the first time anyone has used the adjective "wild" to describe the self-execution concept).  For years, the Bush Administration sought to get the U.S. Congress to amend the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to ease l ...
  • The Al-Aulaqi Hearing
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Probably many readers have seen this over at Lawfare, but Ben Wittes has a very interesting account of the oral argument from a few days ago on the Al-Aulaqi targeted killing lawsuit.  A snippet: Judge Bates was deeply engaged with counsel for both sides th ...
  • In Honor of the 35th Anniversary of Michael Walzer ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I’m at Penn Station, waiting for the train from New York City back to DC, happy but slightly dazed after an intense three day conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars.  My thanks and congratulations to Gabb ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Secret police traffic ticket quotas
    News release received, worth reading: The quota doco NZ On Air wouldn't fund Candor Trust In the OECD land with the highest toll per kilometre driven, Paula Rose says "both the Commissioner and I are of the view that there...
  • 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...

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

  • Federal Lawsuit Reveals Inhumane Conditions at For ...
    Federal Lawsuit Reveals Inhumane Conditions at For-Profit Youth Prison | Southern Poverty Law Center: "The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Jackson, MS... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Green Change : War is a drug
    Green Change : War is a drug: "Right there - in black and white - on page 12 of the student newspaper of the Community College of Baltimore County. 'Over in Iraq and Afghanistan killing becomes a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ImmigrationProf Blog: Antonio Ocampo Released in N ...
    ImmigrationProf Blog: Antonio Ocampo Released in New Orleans: From the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice:VICTORY IN NEW ORLEANS!FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS RELEASE OF IMMIGRANT DETAINEE FROM... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Haitians Barricading Streets with Coffins as Prote ...
    Haitians Barricading Streets with Coffins as Protests against U.N. Continue over Cholera Outbreak: [democracynow.org] "JUAN GONZALEZ: Protests are continuing in Haiti over the cholera outbreak that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • UN deletes gay reference from anti-execution measu ...
    UN deletes gay reference from anti-execution measures - from Pink News - all the latest gay news from the gay community - Pink News: "A United Nations panel has deleted a reference to gays and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • GMOs Creep Across Eastern Oregon
    Transgenic bentgrass is spreading across Eastern Oregon years after fields of the GMOs were plowed under.
  • In the wake of S.510 Fake food safety….it won’t be ...
    Live Link:  The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved _______________________________________________  Why is “free trade at any expense” reserved only for multi-national corporations?  Why is every other sector of the economy supposed to be allowed to engage in a free-for-a ...
  • Truth Squad Radio Show – What’s not in S.510 and w ...
    This week we will talk with Nicole Johnson about what is not included in the supposed "food safety" bill S.510 and why!
  • Burning Goodwill: A reply to a consumer organizati ...
    Live Link:  The PPJ Gazette Copyright ©2010 by W. R. McAfee, Sr. ___________________________________________ A reply to a consumer organization’s email soliciting ‘friends’ to contact their representatives in Washington and ask them to support  S. 510, the Food “Safety” bill ________________________ ...
  • Stop S.510, the fake food safety bill, at your sta ...
    S.510 can be stopped right at your state governor’s door. Unless our governors give permission and designate one or more agencies inside your state to contract with USDA/FDA, they cannot implement, enforce or otherwise criminalize agriculture in your state.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US-led soldier killed in northern Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS-led soldier killed in northern Afghanistan 18 Nov 2010 A US-led soldier has been shot dead while on patrol in northern Afghanistan, according to the British Ministry of Defense. The British soldier from 1st Battalion Irish Guards died after being ambushed in the Nahr-e Saraj area in Afgh ...
  • Blast kills one in N Afghanistan
    ShareThisBlast kills one in N Afghanistan 18 Nov 2010 A bomb blast has killed one person and injured another one in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz, an official says. The blast occurred in a market place on Wednesday, Xinhua quoted provincial deputy police chief, Abdul Rahman Haqtash, as s ...
  • US drone crashes in southern Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS drone crashes in southern Afghanistan�[What a shame!] 18 Nov 2010 An unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the US-led NATO forces has crashed in volatile southern Afghanistan without causing any casualties. The aircraft went down late on Wednesday in the Kharwar district of Logar Province ...
  • TSA to investigate body scan resister
    ShareThisTSA to investigate body scan resister 15 Nov 2010 The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan. Tyner recorded the half-ho ...
  • Israel demands written US guarantees before freeze
    ShareThisIsrael demands written US guarantees before freeze --Official says Netanyahu will not present Cabinet with�US proposal for renewal of settlement construction moratorium until he receives written security guarantees. 16 Nov 2010 Israel has demanded the United States provide written security ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Secret police traffic ticket quotas
    News release received, worth reading: The quota doco NZ On Air wouldn't fund Candor Trust In the OECD land with the highest toll per kilometre driven, Paula Rose says "both the Commissioner and I are of the view that there...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • NSFW (unless you work at AIPAC)
    The following is a dramatization of Steven J. Rosen's deposition given on September 22, 2010 as part of his lawsuit against AIPAC.You can read the entire deposition, in a pdf after the jump. Now someone just has to animate the portions that are leading commentators to ask "why isn’t AIPAC properly r ...
  • Residents react to court allowing ‘Jewish on ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers / Land, property and resources theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingResidents fume as court approves Jewish-only housing / Jillian Kestler-D'Amours ..."We are very disappointed from the decision of the [Supreme] Court," said Sami Abu Shahadeh, the C ...
  • Michael Bloomberg and New York’s Muslims: a ...
    (Protesters throw shoes at a portrait of Mayor Michael Bloomberg after the mayor's trip to Israel while Operation Cast Lead raged on. PHOTO: Zahra Hankir) Ever since Lawrence Swaim of the California-based Interfaith Freedom Foundation articulated his valuable insight to me that the question of Isra ...
  • Hasan’s dilemma
    Despite the efficiency of crime labs in TV dramas, or the storied deductions of Sherlock Holmes, law enforcement officials will tell you that most criminals are caught by informants. This truth extends to international terrorism. The recent effort to place explosives on cargo aircraft headed to the ...
  • Protesting the Hebron Fund, I remember a long afte ...
    The Hebron Fund held its annual fundraiser in New York Tuesday night. A report from O'Neill, a former member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in the South Hebron Hills, who attended the protest: I was just leaving Hebron�s Old City one day in August 2009 when a friend of mine, Hamzi, invited me to go s ...

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

  • Canadian democracy - procedural tricks to kill the ...
    Canada's weak climate change bill was killed by the Senate today (see the star article for example). The Harper people's vision for the country isn't compatible with trying to stop climate change. This is known, and unsurprising. What is interesting to me is the procedural trick used to make this c ...
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • GOP Congressman Calls for Climate Action (Video)
    We've entered a political era in the United States that's distinctly hostile to climate science -- a pretty stunning number of the new Congressmen coming to the Hill next year claim that climate change isn't real, or that it isn't caused by man. Meanwhile, the scien...Read the full story on Tree ...
  • An Inside Look at LA's Community of Visionary Acti ...
    Photo credit: Astig!!/Creative Commons It's interesting to me that many people judge Los Angeles without really knowing her. She really is the City of Angels. I've lived in Los Angeles for going on a dozen years now, and at long last I can affirmatively state that I have found "my tribe." I'm r ...
  • Maine Residents Wary of Smart Meters, GE Pours $55 ...
    Photo via mpeterke There's quite a bit of news in the smart grid scene, and we've rounded up the most interesting stories. Check out the what's what, from smart appliances taking over the industry to how much money the DOE is sending to new smart grid companies. ...Read the full story on TreeHu ...
  • Oxford Atlas of the World, 17th Edition (Book Revi ...
    Photo taken by Michael Graham Richard, used with permission of Oxford University Press What a Fascinating Planet! Maybe it's my geeky side, but I've always liked encyclopedias and atlases. When I was younger, I spent hours looking for one thing but reading about 15 others things on the way the ...
  • Today on Planet 100: A New Way to See the World (V ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Florida Supreme Court requiring all foreclosure pr ...
    [JURIST] Chief Justice Charles Canady [official profile] of the Florida Supreme Court [official website] issued a memorandum [text, PDF] Wednesday to the chief judges of Florida's 20 judicial circuits directing them to ensure that all foreclosure proceedings in the state are open to the public. The ...
  • Accused Russia arms dealer pleads not guilty in US ...
    [JURIST] Accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty in a US court on Wednesday and is currently being held without bail. Bout faces charges [AFP report] stemming from a 2008 indictment [text, PDF] for selling weapons to a terrorist group and conspir ...
  • Georgia lawmaker introduces bill banning illegal i ...
    [JURIST] A member of the Georgia House of Representatives [official website] introduced legislation on Wednesday to ban enrollment of illegal immigrants [HB 25 text; materials] in public post-secondary education institutions. The bill, introduced by Rep. Tom Rice (R) [official website], amends Title ...
  • UN rights chief says Bolivia indigenous people fac ...
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay [official profile] warned Wednesday that, despite the Bolivian government's reforms, most indigenous people and other vulnerable groups continue to suffer from extreme poverty and exclusion [press release]. Pillay commended progress [U ...
  • New Jersey high court rules efforts to recall US s ...
    [JURIST] The New Jersey Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that a state statute and portion of the New Jersey Constitution [text] authorizing the recall of US senators is unconstitutional. The ruling was issued in a case involving efforts to recall Senator Robert Menendez ...

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

  • IDF: Covering Up the Murderous Crimes of Cast Lead
    In what is likely the first use of the IDF Dirty 200 list for further investigation and analysis of specific potential war crimes incidents already known, an Israeli reader has done some excellent forensic research, connecting dots between Israeli media reports and the list to expose the previously ...
  • ‘Imagining Heschel,’ New Play Features Richard Dre ...
    Richard Dreyfuss is performing in a concert reading, Imagining Heschel, from an exchange of letters between America’s seminal Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel and a Roman Catholic Cardinal.  Here’s how the website summarizes the production: Imagining Heschel is a concert reading exploring ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • IDF Cast Lead Dirty 200
    Many of you have either already seen or heard of a list of 200 IDF officers who served in Operation Cast Lead.  It is being circulated samizdat/Wikileaks-style around the internet as a starting point for criminal investigations of possible war crimes charges against those who served in the massacre. ...

Ode Magazine

  • Folio heralds Ode a 2010 award finalist
    By: EmilyAviles Today Folio announced the Eddie and Ozzie award finalists. The Folio awards span all corners of the magazine publishing industry and recognize the very best in editorial and design. Ode Magazine is thrilled to have been nominated not once, but twice ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • The Reagan Revolution Redux
    The Right Wing plan to drown government in a bathtub is coming to fruition right before our eyes, especially here in Washington State. Here's how conservatives did it, with help from the feckless Democrats.
  • The Lesson of Repression
    If you want to fly these days, there's a high probability that you will be given two choices. The choices are: subject yourself to potentially harmful x-rays as you allow a stranger to view your naked body or, be patted down by someone you don't know in a manner that others have described as humi ...
  • Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, How at Risk Is the Justi ...
    The presumption of innocence may be slowly dying in the courtrooms where our terror trials are being held, as Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU Law School and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, points out in today's post.
  • Cervical Cancer Needlessly Killing 4,000 American ...
    Some 200,000 women around the world stricken by cervical cancer will die of it even though the disease is preventable.
  • Dentist X For Police Commissioner
    New York City Public Education And Mayor Bloomberg's Chancellor Pick;How Square Pegs Ending In Round Holes Do Not Apply To Elites

Switchboard

  • Need a mortgage? Better not have leased to the gas ...
    A recent article out of Northeastern Pennsylvania – a hotbed of gas production in the Marcellus Shale – reports that landowners are discovering an unexpected (and unwelcome) side effect: they can’t get mortgages. My colleague Amy Mall has previously blogged about how the Federal Housi ...
  • Preserving California's Holy Grail at Tejon Ranch
    If Tejon Ranch is the Holy Grail of conservation in California – and it is – the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) is the people’s knight in shining armor. The board’s purchase of conservation easements today is a giant leap forward on the road to protecting over 240,000 acres of Calif ...
  • Experts lay out facts while coalition calls on Con ...
    Yesterday, the groups Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Grocery Manufacturers Association held a briefing on Capitol Hill featuring the Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University, Bruce Babcock. The topic? The future of the Volumetric ...
  • URGENT: Call now--Ban on BPA in baby products back ...
    Although it appeared at the end of the day yesterday that the chemical industry had succeeded in killing off Senator Dianne Feinstein’s amendment to ban the use of the toxic chemical bisphenol A in baby bottles and sippy cups, -- the Senator herself declared as much in a statement on t ...
  • NRDC Founder John Adams to Receive Presidential Me ...
    President Obama announced Wednesday that John Adams, the founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, will receive the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is America’s highest civilian honor, and it is a fitting tribute to a man who has done so much to safeguard the health a ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Finally
    In a major upset, the Dems seem to have actually decided to pursue the strategy on tax cuts that was always blindingly obvious. Related posts:Idiotic Plan B Finally Approved The Final Data Related posts:Idiotic Plan B Finally Approved The Final Data
  • I Demand That the Useless Stats I Remember Be Held ...
    Not everyone is happy with the good news Paul mentions below.   Take not-blogger Murray Chass, who in a blog post online column claims that the dumb criterion that caused sportswriters of yore to determine that such durable immortals as LaMarr Hoyt and Steve Stone and Pete Vukovich were the best pit ...
  • Maybe humanity isn’t doomed after all
    Nowledge triumphs. Related posts:The Case Against Humanity Ron Howard’s Crimes Against Humanity Doomed Related posts:The Case Against Humanity Ron Howard’s Crimes Against Humanity Doomed
  • More from the Tinfoil Hat Brigade
    Here’s some more embarrassingly reported tripe on the purported health dangers of cell phones, this time from The New York Times. Since its publication about a week ago (Nov. 13), “Should You Be Snuggling with Your Cell Phone?” has been among the paper’s top e-mailed articles. Predictably, the dub ...
  • Mental decency
    Glenn Greenwald as usual does an excellent job summarizing the Orwellian proceedings surrounding the detention and trial of Ahmed Ghailani. One point that bears particular emphasis is that the government, or more precisely the Obama administration through its Department of Justice, made clear at th ...

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.

  • OPINION: Class actions wipe out
    The Supreme Court should not accept AT&T's form �consumer 'agreement,' which works like a diabolical Rube Goldberg contraption to eliminate customers' rights.
  • OPINION: Oklahoma amendment is unconstitutional
    Barring courts from considering shariah law violates the supremacy clause and the First Amendment.
  • Federal Circuit upholds $631K in fees and sanction ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a lower court's order that patent lawyer Jean-Marc Zimmerman and patent holding company Eon-Net pay $631,135.18 in sanctions and fees. In the lower court case, the trial judge found "indicia of extortion" in patent lawsuits filed by Zimmer ...
  • FDIC sued over financial services company seizure
    For the third time since August, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has been sued in federal court over allegations that the agency mishandled its role as receiver of an ailing financial institution.
  • Summit over, group plans to get serious about lawy ...
    One year ago, 150 legal educators, continuing legal education providers, bar association officials and law firm professional development experts gathered in Scottsdale, Ariz., for a three-day discussion about improving lawyer training. Now they're preparing to act.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • 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 natio ...
  • New Class of Insecticides Linked to Bird Declines, ...
    In a new book, a Dutch researcher says the introduction of a new class of insecticides two decades ago has led to a steady decline in bird species that rely on insects as their main source of food. Henk Tennekes, of the Experimental Toxicology Services in Zutphen, the Netherlands, says the widesprea ...
  • With Tigers Near Extinction, A Last-Ditch Strategy ...
    In the past century, populations of wild tigers have plummeted from 100,000 to 3,500. Now the World Bank and conservationists have launched an eleventh-hour effort to save this great predator, focusing on reining in the black market for tiger parts and ending the destruction of tiger habitat. BY C ...
  • Wolves and Sharks Create Similar ‘Ecology of Fear’ ...
    A ripple-effect “ecology of fear” created by wolves and sharks in their respective ecosystems may be more similar than previously understood, according to a new study. After comparing the relationship between wolves and elk in Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. and tiger sharks and dugongs in Aus ...
  • Beak Deformities May Suggest Greater Environmental ...
    Scientists have seen a spike in beak abnormalities in several species of wild bird populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, an epidemic that impairs the birds’ ability to feed and could suggest a wider environmental health problem. More than 2,100 northwestern crows captured in Alaska, Washi ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Priest Assault Case: Should sex abuse justify vigi ...
    It is a dark story with an even darker twist: William Lynch, 44, was arrested last month for going into nursing home, luring an elderly priest into the lobby and beating him bloody. Lynch insists when he was 7 years old the priest, 65, had sexually molested him. After Lynch was arrested, the blogosp ...
  • Air Force Seeks Neuroweapons To Enhance US Airmen’ ...
    Intelligent advanced aircraft is one thing, but if the Air Force wants to be in prime warfighting condition, its pilots had better come with advanced weaponry, too. That’s why the Air Force wants neuroweapons that can enhance airmen’s performance, while degrading the mental states of their foes. Con ...
  • Scientists claim breakthrough in antimatter hunt
    Scientists claimed a breakthrough Thursday in solving one of the biggest riddles of physics, successfully trapping the first "anti-atom" in a quest to understand what happened to all the antimatter that has vanished since the Big Bang. An international team of physicists at the European Organization ...
  • Sweden Seeks to Detain Assange in Rape Case
    A Swedish prosecutor requested a court order Thursday to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. "The reason for my request is that we need to interrogate him," Director of Public Prosecution said in a statement. "So far ...
  • A New Ancient Crystal Skull Discovered!
    The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull is no longer unique! Out of Africa - by way of California -emerges another ancient skull, "Compassion", with a detachable jaw. Already, this skull is re-carving the crystal skull landscape! With the 2008 release of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skul ...

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

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Campaign and Mission is Fighting for Persons with Disabilities. Making Our Voices Heard. Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action posted by: Kristina ChewSubmitted by Edward Janus to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
    In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high]Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �No ...

The Freeman

  • Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks Bring FDA Rebuke
    “The Food and Drug Administration cracked down Wednesday on four manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic drinks, giving them 15 days to stop adding caffeine to the products or stop selling them altogether.” (New York Times) Are Irish coffee and rum and coke next? FEE Timely Classic “Big GovernmentâBi ...
  • Bernanke Promises Jobs through “Quantitative Easin ...
    “Behind closed doors, [Fed chief Ben Bernanke] told lawmakers that Fed studies show its program to buy nearly all the U.S. Treasury’s debt in the next eight months will help create 700,000 jobs, according to meeting participants.” (Washington Times) Inflation sets the table for higher unemployment. ...
  • The Canard of “Underutilized Resources&#8221 ...
    Despite the seductive logic of the Keynesian physicians, printing money is patent-medicine quackery that stands to do the patient more harm than good.
  • 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

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

  • Ruling the Roost: Florida's congressional hawks ga ...
    The economy, jobs, taxes -- these are the issues grabbing post-election headlines about the Republicans' agenda for Congress. But the new GOP leadership could have even more dramatic impact on issues beyond U.S. borders. That's because the Republicans poised to lead key House foreign polic ...
  • EPA coal ash rule comment period closes this week
    If you want to weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposals for regulating coal ash, you have until this Friday, Nov. 19. The EPA is currently weighing two approaches for regulating the toxic stuff left over after burning coal for electricity: as a special hazardous waste w ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Senate rejects women's pay equali ...
    Amount U.S. women earn for every dollar earned by men: 77 cents Amount African-American women earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 61 cents Amount Latinas earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 52 cents Amount women living in Southern states* earn for every dollar earned by a man: 7 ...
  • 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, ...

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 improve my greywater system?
    We’ve had an email from Su: I do like to tax the minds of all who read these sites, not intentionally, but in a ‘why don’t I know how to do that’ sort of way. Here goes, I collect all the water from my washing machine, and use it to flush the loo. However, hauling [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle straw coasters & placem ...
    We’ve had an email from Katy: Cleaning out my mum’s cupboards I’ve found some tatty straw tablemats and a set of coasters that must be as old as me! Can I compost them? Maybe. A cautious composter might want to leave them out – you don’t know if the straw has been treated with anything [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a chair?
    We’ve had an email from Adele: For my Product Design A2 level I am aiming to create a chair made from recycled materials. Iâve got to be able to collect them in a fairly short time, and of course it would be very helpful if the items were free…Iâve got an open mind about it, [...]
  • How can I get into the habit of taking packed lunc ...
    Today we’re putting a spin our usual “how can I reduce this…” question after an email from Martine: I hate having to buy sandwiches every day but I can’t get into the habit of making lunch in the morning. I do it for a couple of days then stop. I hate spending all that money [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle pet food pouches?
    Our lovely old cat Boron has had the last of his teeth taken out this week – he’s always been prone to gum problems and while gummy, he seems happier now his mouth isn’t so inflamed. Our vet says he might still be able to have dry food – which has made up the bulk [...]

Mondoweiss

  • NSFW (unless you work at AIPAC)
    The following is a dramatization of Steven J. Rosen's deposition given on September 22, 2010 as part of his lawsuit against AIPAC.You can read the entire deposition, in a pdf after the jump. Now someone just has to animate the portions that are leading commentators to ask "why isn’t AIPAC properly r ...
  • Residents react to court allowing ‘Jewish on ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers / Land, property and resources theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingResidents fume as court approves Jewish-only housing / Jillian Kestler-D'Amours ..."We are very disappointed from the decision of the [Supreme] Court," said Sami Abu Shahadeh, the C ...
  • Michael Bloomberg and New York’s Muslims: a ...
    (Protesters throw shoes at a portrait of Mayor Michael Bloomberg after the mayor's trip to Israel while Operation Cast Lead raged on. PHOTO: Zahra Hankir) Ever since Lawrence Swaim of the California-based Interfaith Freedom Foundation articulated his valuable insight to me that the question of Isra ...
  • Hasan’s dilemma
    Despite the efficiency of crime labs in TV dramas, or the storied deductions of Sherlock Holmes, law enforcement officials will tell you that most criminals are caught by informants. This truth extends to international terrorism. The recent effort to place explosives on cargo aircraft headed to the ...
  • Protesting the Hebron Fund, I remember a long afte ...
    The Hebron Fund held its annual fundraiser in New York Tuesday night. A report from O'Neill, a former member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in the South Hebron Hills, who attended the protest: I was just leaving Hebron�s Old City one day in August 2009 when a friend of mine, Hamzi, invited me to go s ...

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 )

  • Animal genomes riddled with the 'skeletons' of anc ...
    It’s time for animals - including humans - to admit that the bacteria, viruses and other microbes have won. Our bodies are home to many times more bacterial cells than animal cells and countless trillions of viruses. Ancient retroviruses make up a good size chunk of our genome. Now, scientists ha ...
  • Canada's climate bill flattened
    Posted on behalf of Hannah Hoag “Spitting mad,” is how the Victoria Times Colonist described Andrew Weaver, a climate modeller at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, following the news that Canada’s climate change bill had been defeated in the Senate late on Tuesday. “Retiring with a ...
  • UK could cut skilled migrant visas by 25%
    International researchers attempting to get visas for the UK could be in for a rough time following a government advisory panel's recommended limits on the number of ‘highly skilled’ migrants. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recommended today that the number of people allowed in under the ...
  • Taxonomy in trouble in Canada
    Posted on behalf of Hannah Hoag Canada is at risk of losing its taxonomic expertise, according to a report released today. The report details stagnant research funding, greying experts, a lag in digitization and a lack of support for national collections. This is threatening Canada's underst ...
  • One last climate hearing, just for the record...
    Humorous. Tragic. Entertaining. Tense. Terrifying. Downright goofy. The Democrats’ final climate hearing on the House Science Committee Wednesday was all of the above. It was a lively affair by Capitol Hill standards, with excursions into temperature records, cloud physics and computer modelling ...

new geography

  • The Other Chambers of Commerce
    The recent political conflict between the Obama Administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has thrown a new spotlight on an old communication problem. Local chambers of commerce, although they predate the U.S. Chamber by nearly a century and a half, often are assumed to be part of the U.S. Cha ...
  • Car Wars: Should Autos Rule The Road? Part II
    We have a severe drug problem, we've been told, that mostly affects suburbanites. The dangerous drug is not taken by mouth, nor by injection, yet it is used daily by every family member and must be stopped before we, as a nation, are utterly destroyed. According to many experts, our “dependence” ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Double Kill Shot Dealt to the Religion of Scientif ...
    This reminded me of the Pioneer anomaly: The Pioneer anomaly or Pioneer effect is the observed deviation from predicted trajectories and velocities of various unmanned spacecraft visiting the outer solar system, most notably Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. Both Pioneer spacecraft are escaping from the so ...
  • Senators and TSA Defend “Love Pats” at ...
    It’s sexual assault. It’s state sponsored sexual assault. See: TSA – Sexual Assault. Via: CBS News: “I’m wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats,” Sen. McCaskill said.
  • Viewers Pull Plug on U.S. Cable Television
    Via: Financial Times: The number of people subscribing to US cable television services has suffered its biggest decline in 30 years as younger, tech-savvy viewers lead an exodus to web-based operations, such as Hulu and Netflix. The total number of subscribers to TV services provided by cable, satel ...
  • 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 ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 12 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – Federal ...
    Do you remember the days when getting elected to Congress or choosing to work for the government was referred to as "public service"?  The idea was that you would be making a sacrifice for the greater good of the country.  Well, those days are long gone.  Today, getting elected to C ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • USA : Senate Bill S 510 would grant U.S. governmen ...
    Read at: http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds (NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called “the most dangerous bill in the ...
  • Micronutrient deficiency, hidden hunger, an holist ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91119 KYRGYZSTAN: The hidden threat of micronutrient deficiency TALAS, 17 November 2010 (IRIN) – By the time Fatima Emilova was six months old she had been hospitalized twice for 10 days at a time with debilitating bouts … Continue reading →
  • 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 ...

The Paper Trail

  • Reform Reading:  Banks Prepare for Stress Tes ...
    A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • Another Victory for the Status Quo: Boehner and Pe ...
    A day after Senate Democrats and Republicans voted to keep their leadership in place for the third straight Congress, House Democrats and Republicans yesterday voted to do the the same.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Nato to discuss Afghan exit
    The Nato military alliance�is expected to back plans for a gradual withdrawal of most of the 150,000 foreign troops from Afghanistan within four years. The target for handing over security to Afghan forces by 2014 will top the agenda at�a two-day summit of the defence bloc�in Portugal's capital ...
  • Bell shows he is now a class apart
    MIKE SELVEY in Hobart CRICKET:�IT IS the bounden duty of Australia A teams to cut the Poms down to size before the big stuff starts, and just for a while mid-innings yesterday, when England got the wobbles and lost a trio of wickets for 13 runs while still a hundred or so behind the hosts, it l ...
  • Angelina Jolie Bosnia film: Other Hollywood f ...
    The misunderstanding between Angelina Jolie and war victims' groups in Bosnia is not the first time Hollywood has been accused of insensitivity towards local people linked to the production of a film. Angelina Jolie has moved most of the production of the as-yet-untitled picture to Hungary foll ...
  • Tips for hitting the road with your pets
    If you plan to hit the road over the holidays with little Fido in tow, there are a few things to keep in mind. Emily Kaufman, who writes as The Travel Mom, and trainer Zak George (www.zakgeorge.net), host of Animal Planet's SuperFetch, have teamed up to offer 10 tips for anyone traveling with p ...
  • EDITORIAL: Democracy in Myanmar
    Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the democratization movement in Myanmar (Burma), urged pro-democracy forces to unite and called on the military government to agree to dialogue. Having been released from house arrest on Nov. 13, she delivered a speech before the public for the first time in seven an ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • Rush to Approve Frankenfish May Prove Risky
    WASHINGTON - With the US government close to approving genetically modified salmon for human consumption, a study out Thursday warned that key risks to society could be missed in the rush to the market.If approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the quick-growing salmon would be the first so-ca ...
  • Rocky Road Ahead for DREAM Act
    by Marcus Stern, ProPublicaAfter failing to win comprehensive immigration reform during a period when Democrats controlled both the White House and Congress, immigration proponents are now hoping to use the lame-duck session to snag an 11th-hour consolation prize: the DREAM Act. read more
  • In First Interview Since Critical Injury at West B ...
    The U.S. peace activist Tristan Anderson has given his first interview since being critically injured when Israeli soldiers fired a high-velocity tear gas canister directly at his head in 2009. Anderson was taking part in a weekly nonviolent protest against Israel’s separation wall in the West Bank. ...
  • Angry Left to Obama: Stop Caving on Agenda
    by Sam YoungmanLiberals furious with a White House they view as constantly telegraphing compromise with Republicans are pressuring President Obama to get tougher, arguing that is the only way he will win both progressives and independents in 2012.Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Camp ...
  • Land of the Food Insecure: Record Rates of Hunger ...
    Almost 15% of US households experienced a food shortage at some point in 2009, a government report has found.US authorities say that figure is the highest they have seen since they began collecting data in the 1990s, and a slight increase over 2008 levels.Single mothers are among the hardest hit: Ab ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Cutting the cost of clean energy 2.0
    For decades, progressives have worked to cut the cost of clean energy through R&D and deployment programs that pro-pollution, anti-science conservatives have bitterly fought.� This year, conservatives defeated the most promising effort to generate the funds needed to make massive clean energy invest ...
  • Good News, But Not Really News: The Green Sector I ...
  • Systems modelling for synergistic ecological-clima ...
    For those interested in my current science research directions, I�ve just been funded for another 4 years by the Australian Research Council as a Professorial �Future Fellow�, to continue my work on stochastic systems modelling and scenario optimisation.�Here are some details on the project: Title:� ...
  • Coal’s unknown (and unknowable) future
    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.
  • Scientists: Innovation Needed on Energy Storage, G ...
    New innovations in energy storage, transmission, and the integration of variable electricity sources are necessary to enable renewable energy sources to contribute significantly to the U.S.

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

  • S.510, Food Control (aka, People Control) for Dumm ...
    By Robert Palmer “Monsanto,” one of the most powerful multi-national corporations in the world, and arguably a major player in The New World Order conspiracy aimed at controlling millions via the food they eat, probably needs no introduction. The Powers That Be (TPTB, a non-conspiracy acronym) has ...
  • American Idle
    by Keith Johnson Live every day as if it were your last... and then some day you'll be right. ~H.H. "Breaker" Morant~ History is not likely to speak well of today’s Americans. While the people of nations around the globe stand up to their oppressors, Americans sit idly by as their government run ...
  • America's Gulf: An Ongoing Catastrophic Disaster
    by Stephen Lendman On August 14, Obama did what he does best, deceiving and betraying the public. Again it was on the Gulf disaster, saying: "Today, the well is capped, oil is no longer flowing into the Gulf, and it has not been flowing for a month....I also want to point out that as a result o ...
  • THE “CALIFORNIA MYSTERY MISSILE”
    By Gordon Duff AN EPIC AMERICAN FAILUREThe submarine launch of an ICBM off the California coast on November 8 is a milestone in American history. The immediate denials that it was an American test were a public relations disaster. America’s government does little but lie to its people, 9/11, Osama ...
  • New Jersey moves to ban TSA scanners and sexually ...
    By Rady Ananda "Is that a Pistole in your pocket, Nappy, or are you just happy to see us?" In response to public and pilot outrage at sexual assault by transportation security authorities and to the carcinogenic x-ray machines used to scan flyers, New Jersey lawmakers announced on Monday the intr ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA 30th anniversary conference and gala dinner: ...
    Dear CCPA Friends and Members, I hope you can join me in Ottawa on November 18 to celebrate the CCPA�s 30th anniversary. We are marking this special occasion with a gala dinner at the Chateau Laurier and an all-day conference at the University of Ottawa entitled�Advancing D ...
  • The financial and human costs of the tough on crim ...
    A new CCPA report analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to more crime and a bigger deficit. Click here to read more and donwload The Fear Factor: Step ...
  • Still Open for Business: Potash Decision
    Now that Investment Canada has rejected BHP Billiton's hostile takeover bid and the sky has not�fallen, perhaps we can finally dispense with the tired argument that restrictions on foreign investment will leave Canada no longer "open for business." In fact, virtually every OECD country has more str ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik in Regina
    ================================== Please join us on November 18th for the Regina leg of Abousfian Abdelrazik's Western Canada speaking tour. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on a visit to Sudan in 2003. The Federal Court of Canada later concluded that this arrest likely took place at th ...
  • Partner Pre-Budget Submissions (Update Nov 12)
    Every year as part of the federal government's budget process, the budget committee asks for "pre-budget submissions." �Essentially these documents are ideas that any person or group can put forward about what they would like to see in the upcoming federal budget. �The goal is to have the ideas find ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Bristol Palin Apologizes
    Bristol apologizes for sister’s slur | The Washington Post Bristol Palin posted a brief apology on Facebook late Tuesday after 16-year-old sis Willow used anti-gay slurs (captured in screen shots by TMZ) to attack a classmate who criticized the family’s TLC reality show. “Haha your [sic] so gay,” wr ...
  • Cholera Reaches Mainland
    Cholera, fear spread beyond the border | Miami Herald The cholera epidemic that has plagued Haiti for weeks has made its way to Florida and the Dominican Republic. A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who li ...
  • Assange Arrest Order Issued
    Arrest order for WikiLeaks’ Assange | Aljazeera A Swedish prosecutor has requested the arrest of Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, to face charges of rape and sexual molestation. The request for the arrest of Assange, 39, comes nearly a month after he rel ...
  • Pot Smokers Are Not Thugs
    Moderate Cannabis Use Not Associated With Delinquent Behavior | NORML Marijuana use is not an independent predictor of delinquent behavior by young people, according to data to be published in the journal Addictive Behavior. Investigators at the French University de Toulouse-Le Mirail reviewed surv ...
  • Let’s Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans ...
    For OpEdNews: Michael Moore – Writer An open letter to Congressional Democrats Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation’s capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take over the House while the Democrats will retain control of the ...

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

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

  • NATO summit: Redefine nuclear role
    It's time for NATO to come in from the Cold War and update its stance on nuclear weapons.
  • Paying students: Wrong answer to problem
    By floating the idea of paying poor students to attend school and pass exams, the Toronto public school board’s education director, Chris Spence is, once again, shining a spotlight on the problem of inequality in our schools.
  • Balancing budgets: Don’t do it on backs of cities
    If history is any measure of what’s to come, Canada’s municipal leaders have good reason to worry about a possible new round of downloading by federal and provincial governments. In the 1990s, cities nationwide were saddled with downloaded costs as ...
  • Port Hope: Radioactive rhetoric
    Port Hope received a public death sentence this week. Now, its 16,000 residents are trying to climb out of the shallow grave dug for them by Australian anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott.
  • Iranian gays: Canada their sanctuary
    A virtual underground railroad exists that helps to spirit gays out of Iran.

Energy Collective

  • Cutting the cost of clean energy 2.0
    For decades, progressives have worked to cut the cost of clean energy through R&D and deployment programs that pro-pollution, anti-science conservatives have bitterly fought.� This year, conservatives defeated the most promising effort to generate the funds needed to make massive clean energy invest ...
  • Good News, But Not Really News: The Green Sector I ...
  • Systems modelling for synergistic ecological-clima ...
    For those interested in my current science research directions, I�ve just been funded for another 4 years by the Australian Research Council as a Professorial �Future Fellow�, to continue my work on stochastic systems modelling and scenario optimisation.�Here are some details on the project: Title:� ...
  • Coal’s unknown (and unknowable) future
    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.
  • Scientists: Innovation Needed on Energy Storage, G ...
    New innovations in energy storage, transmission, and the integration of variable electricity sources are necessary to enable renewable energy sources to contribute significantly to the U.S.

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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Obama Claims Vindication on GM
    President Barack Obama crowed Thursday that his administrations decision to bail out General Motors left a healthier industry, saved jobs and put taxpayers in position to get their money back. We are finally beginning to see some of these tough decisions that we made in the midst of crisis pay off, ...
  • Dell Beats Street On Business Sales, Stock Soars ( ...
    Computer maker Dell reported record quarterly earnings after market close today, handily beating analyst expectations. The company earned 45 cents per share ($822 million) on revenue of $15.4 billion. Consensus estimates were 32 cents per share on $15.7 billion in revenue. The income figure is more ...
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops Intel Hints at Sequel Plan ...
    Will there be a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops? Although anything’s possible , clues in the game’s Intel and hidden computer terminal provide credible evidence of what’s next for Alex Mason and his comrades. Obviously, plot discussion follows, so don’t read on if you don’t want any spoilers. Thi ...
  • Extragalactic Exoplanet Found Hiding Out in Milky ...
    Some extrasolar planets are truly out of this world. Astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet in the Milky Way that came from another galaxy. The planet, which has a mass of at least 1.25 Jupiters, orbits an elderly star that was ripped from a small satellite galaxy some 6 to 9 billi ...
  • Can Israel Survive Without the West Bank?
    This is the question Rabbi Reuven Spolter asks , in reference to the contention often made on this blog, that it is in Israel's best interest to help birth a Palestinian state on the West Bank. Spolter is writing from the settlement of Elkana:  (L)ooking at a map from halfway around the world peopl ...

Groklaw

  • Oracle Policies Anticompetitive, asserts SIA in ap ...
    The Service Industry Association has filed an appeal to the U. S. Department of Justice about what it considers as Oracle, Inc's (ORCL:NASDAQ) anti- competitive policies pertaining to hardware maintenance of Oracle's Sun Microsystems products. The SIA contends the new policies are directed at th ...
  • Oracle submits specs for Java 7 and 8
    An Oracle official detailed on Tuesday the submissions of upcoming Java releases to the formal specification process, including versions 7 and 8 of Java's standard edition. - Paul Krill, NetworkWorld
  • Java SE 7 and 8
    Sometimes doing the right thing can be extremely difficult. In spite of and because of my commitment to Java, I had to decline an invitation to join the Java SE 7 and 8 expert groups. Talk about a tough decision! Why did I decline? I'll contribute to open source projects and open standards, standard ...
  • Dispute Over Dead Sea Scrolls Leads to a Jail Sent ...
    Prosecutors said that Mr. Golb established e-mail accounts pretending to be Lawrence H. Schiffman, the N.Y.U. scholar and professor, and sent messages to university officials making a fabricated admission of plagiarism. - NYTimes
  • Selected Web 2.0 Summit Videos
    [PJ: Your choices include: Jim Balsillie, RIM, Carol Bartz, Yahoo!, Andy Jassy, Amazon, Eric Schmidt, Google Evan Williams, Co-founder, Twitter, Inc., and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook.] - InformationWeek

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Clinton advisers declare war on Obama
    James Carville was beyond blunt today, saying “If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, heâd have two.” James Carville and Stan Greenberg on the failed Obama economic message. “During the campaign… their message of ‘what we are doing is working,’ people would get mad, okay,” said Ca ...
  • Ron Paul introduces anti-TSA bill
    Ron Paul has introduced a bill saying the government can not do to use what would be illegal for us to do. In the speech, he says Americans have been submissive to the government for too long, the members of Congress should undergo the same screenings, and that we need to stand up and fight [...]
  • The ‘limping left’ may need a sip of tea
    Lawrence Lessig, founder of Change Congress and activist for clean government says the anti-corruption goals of the Tea Party are admirable and that the left should work towards the same goals. Traditional liberals will no doubt be driven batty by a prominent progressive activist like Lessig saying ...
  • Solar power from asphalt
    photo © 2010 Peter Hellberg | more info (via: Wylio) Asphalt retains heat well. Researchers want to harness the energy. Here’s how they plan to do it. Embed photovoltaic cells in the pavement and use it to power street lights. Put water-filled pipes in the asphalt, which would be warmed by the sun, ...
  • Low cost algae biofuel in 18 months, hopes Sapphir ...
    Rather than growing algae in expensive, enclosed reactors, they plan to test growing algae outdoors in ponds. Algae, in theory, has the potential of producing 5,000 to 10,000 gallons of fuel per acre, higher than most other forms of biomass by a wide margin. Algae can also grow in brackish water on ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Robinson and Brahimi: Wrong on Hamas and women
    Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...
  • Celebrate Laila's book launch today!
    Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • Privacy or State Monopoly on Info?
    The federal government is preparing itself, under the pretext of protecting our online privacy, for a huge power grab that will likely consolidate unprecedented amounts of our personal information in the hands of government. I commented on the development for the Center for a Stateless Society.
  • 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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • Climate Justice Montreal Releases "Burning Water/Q ...
    A primer on shale gas extraction in Quebec and what people can do to stop it Montreal - Today, Climate Justice Montreal released Burning Water, a primer on shale gas extraction - or "fracking" - in Quebec. The publication outlines the extent o ...
  • SFU Visual Arts & Goldcorp: "Framing Cultural Capi ...
    Wed. Nov. 24 panel discusion on corporatization, gentrification and ethics �The SFU Visual Art Student Union would like to invite you to attend Framing Cultural Capital:� An Informative Dialogue on the Corporate University and the Ethics of ...
  • The War is Over
    Film review of War Don Don, showing Saturday at the Amnesty International Film Festival in Vancouver In the centre of Freetown, the capital of  Sierra Leone, sits a key cog of international justice. The Special Court for Sierra Leone was creat ...
  • Militant Artshow at UBC (is really fuckin good!)
    Allow me a quick moment to encourage those of you who are able, to make the trek up to the UBC art gallery to check out a show: http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/current/mark-boulos - i dont really know anything about this particular art institution or this artist, but the show is worth the 5 hour bus ride. ...
  • Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet issue 23
    A province-wide call for justice The November 16-30 issue compares a $31-million Point Grey residence to SROs, looks at the police raid of a Victoria bookstore, listens to the call for justice for First Nations deaths in police custody, and ta ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Haitian cholera: opening soon in theaters near you ...
    Haitian VenusA Collier County woman is Florida's first documented case of cholera imported from Haiti. The woman, who lives in southwest Florida, had been visiting family in the region of the earthquake-devastated nation that is at the center of its cholera epidemic.(...)"We really don't anticipate ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Calif. Officials Honored for Efforts to Protect P ...
    Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. – Six dedicated public servants will be honored tonight in San Francisco for their shared commitment to protecting the health and environment of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The 6 Top Thugs of the Medical World… As Ranked by ...
    On August 19, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller issued a call for whistleblowers to step forward and help the state and federal government crack down on health care and pharmaceutical industries that defraud the government of billions of dollars. Announcing that the Indiana Medicaid program wo ...
  • Research Proves 'Gender-Bending' Chemicals Affect ...
    New research proves that 'gender-bending' chemicals, which leach from human products into rivers and oceans, can have a significant impact on the ability of fish to breed. The study has important implications for understanding the impacts of these chemicals. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) af ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

  • Multiple Testing, Cumulative Radiation Dose, and C ...
    Context  Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is the single medical test with the highest radiation burden to the US population. Although many patients undergoing MPI receive repeat MPI testing, or additional procedures involving ionizing radiation, no data are available characterizing their total lo ...
  • Infection With Transmissible Strains of Pseudomona ...
    Context  Studies from Australia and the United Kingdom have shown that some patients with cystic fibrosis are infected with common transmissible strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Objectives  To determine the prevalence and incidence of infection with transmissible strains of P aeruginosa and wheth ...
  • Doxorubicin Plus Sorafenib vs Doxorubicin Alone in ...
    Context� In a randomized phase 3 trial, 400 mg of sorafenib twice daily prolonged overall survival of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and Child-Pugh A disease. In a phase 1 study, sorafenib combined with doxorubicin, 60 mg/m2, was well tolerated by patients with refractory sol ...
  • Diagnosis, Microbial Epidemiology, and Antibiotic ...
    Context� Acute otitis media (AOM) is the most common condition for which antibiotics are prescribed for US children; however, wide variation exists in diagnosis and treatment. Objectives� To perform a systematic review on AOM diagnosis, treatment, and the association of heptavalent pneumococcal con ...
  • Discussing Radiation Risks Associated With CT Scan ...
    (No abstract is available for this citation)

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

  • Police computer mess shows a leadership failure
    Almost anyone who works in an office will feel a little frisson of fear upon hearing the phrase "information-technology upgrade." But even by the usual standards of hardware headaches and software screw-ups, the Montreal police department's case is going to be legendary.
  • You can't just 'delete' a sitting premier
    An online petition demanding the resignation of Jean Charest is an amusing novelty. And so it is spreading, and the number of signatures is growing, with the same "viral" speed shown by various previous amusing Internet novelties: cute kittens, funny ads, "Hail Mary" pass videos, droll examp ...
  • 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?

Food World Order

  • 11/18 binge & purge: radioactive water, cheese fri ...
    usda, oregon ag refuse to publicize gm bentgrass escape* video: texas covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years* epa sued for allowing mercury pollution 900x safe level* reminder on arizona restrooms: don't drink from toilets* big cheese vs real cheese: usda's bailout of pro ...
  • 'food safety' bill reaching congressional conclusi ...
    urgent: contact your senator now about s510 - senate debate could extend into the weekend from natural news: Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new auth ...
  • agroterror threataganda: terror fight extends to n ...
    fbi says surveillance aims to protect nation's food supply from ketv: Federal and local authorities said they're keeping a close eye on the vulnerabilities of the heartland's agricultural industry in efforts to prevent terrorist attacks. The FBI said it's actively watching Nebraska farmland and fa ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • 12 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – Federal ...
    Do you remember the days when getting elected to Congress or choosing to work for the government was referred to as "public service"?  The idea was that you would be making a sacrifice for the greater good of the country.  Well, those days are long gone.  Today, getting elected to C ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 10th November 2010
    "Shabby and secret dealings between member states last year made Herman Van Rompuy president of the European Council. At the time, he was mocked in Britain largely because he was unknown, mouse-like and, well, Belgian. But last night in Berlin, Van Rompuy showed what he really is. And that is, a ...
  • My thoughts on the student Millbank protests.... i ...
    You've no doubt seen the images of the student protests in Millbank. I'm not sure I agree with their cause. I can see both sides of what the students think on tuition fees. I can also see what the politicians - and no doubt some of the taxpayers - might say. Should University tuition be free? Pro ...
  • Quote of the Day: A 'The biggest threats to the cl ...
    "Britain's promise to more than double its use of biofuels by 2020 is "significantly" adding to worldwide carbon emissions, the Government admitted yesterday. ...The study, from the Institute for European Environmental Policy, found that far from being 35 to 50 per cent less polluting, as require ...
  • Economy: Crashed by Design?
    We're confident a few of our readers will understand the reference here, but just to quickly bring everyone else up to speed... There is a common theory amongst some that the current global financial crisis has been caused deliberately - that the economies have been crashed by design on the road ...
  • Mandy's 103K... how do we find out about Cleggy?
    The Daily Telegraph informs us today that Peter Mandelson still receives £103,200 per year from the European Commission. (Money which the EU has snaffled from the taxpayers of formerly sovereign European nation states - all of which are now financially crippled). According to the report, he conti ...

Facing South

  • Ruling the Roost: Florida's congressional hawks ga ...
    The economy, jobs, taxes -- these are the issues grabbing post-election headlines about the Republicans' agenda for Congress. But the new GOP leadership could have even more dramatic impact on issues beyond U.S. borders. That's because the Republicans poised to lead key House foreign polic ...
  • EPA coal ash rule comment period closes this week
    If you want to weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposals for regulating coal ash, you have until this Friday, Nov. 19. The EPA is currently weighing two approaches for regulating the toxic stuff left over after burning coal for electricity: as a special hazardous waste w ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Senate rejects women's pay equali ...
    Amount U.S. women earn for every dollar earned by men: 77 cents Amount African-American women earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 61 cents Amount Latinas earn for every dollar earned by a white man: 52 cents Amount women living in Southern states* earn for every dollar earned by a man: 7 ...
  • 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, ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Ghailani Acquitted On All But One Charge Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried by a U.S. civilian court, was acquitted on all but one of more than 280 charges Wednesday by a jury in U.S. federal court … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • AMD Joins MeeGo Linux Open Source Project
    After Nokia's decision to�go it alone with MeeGo, more good news is coming in for MeeGo open source mobile phone OS project.�During the MeeGo Conference 2010, AMD made an important decision to join Linux Foundation's MeeGo open source Linux project and thereby provide the much needed�engineering exp ...
  • 10 Incredible Icon Sets for Ubuntu/GNOME
    Yesterday, we brought to you one among the most amazing collection of themes for Ubuntu through our 7 brilliant GTK themes for Ubuntu/GNOME�post. Now it's time for some really cool icon sets for your Ubuntu/GNOME. Read on. Faenza is definitely the most favored and popular third party icon se ...
  • Elegant Gnome Theme Pack Becomes Ever More Elegant ...
    Elegant Gnome Theme Pack needs no introduction. Like many of you, it is one of my most favorite themes along with Equinox�in Ubuntu Maverick. Latest update brings in a lot more finesse to the already beautiful Elegant Gnome theme. What's new in Elegant Gnome Theme Pack 1.0? Fixed the style ...
  • Nokia Won't Make Android Phones, Decides to Stick ...
    Stephen Elop's first major decision as Nokia's new chief executive was to continue with its go-it-alone strategy and use its own MeeGo and Symbian operating systems instead of adopting Google's Android. This decision to stick with MeeGo and Symbian(for midrange smartphones) could prove to be the mos ...
  • Urban Terror HD Won't Be Open Source Anymore
    Urban Terror is an open source first person shooter(FPS) game powered by the ioquake3 engine which originally started out�as a Quake 3 mod. In a recent blog post, developers of the game have made it clear that, future releases of Urban Terror will no longer be distributed as an open source GPL game. ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Will Ireland save civilisation again?
     When I spent some time today looking through some of my Mum’s possessions, I found an old British passport, and it was a reminder  of just how short in duration the independence of Ireland has been. Though born in Dublin in an independent Irish state to Irish parents, she had to make an extra appli ...
  • Was the Irish War of Independence in vain, asks th ...
    Was it for this? Thu, Nov 18, 2010 Irish Times IT MAY seem strange to some that The Irish Times would ask whether this is what the men of 1916 died for: a bailout from the German chancellor with a few shillings of sympathy from the British chancellor on the side. There is the shame of [...]
  • Why culture in Ireland counts now more than ever, ...
    The Irish Times – Thursday, November 18, 2010 Spreading the real news from Ireland By Colm Tóibín This countryâs economic crisis may be making headlines, but a much more serious and deeply influential image of this country emanates from the culture we send out to the world, argues Colm Tóibín . ...
  • German police take to the streets in force ahead o ...
    Just ahead of the November budget that will push ever more German’s into poverty for the profit of the banks, the Berlin government is stepping up security throughout the country under the pretext of a terrorist threat. Armed police are patrolling airports and train stations and police patrolling in ...
  • “Terrorist” false flag operation in Ge ...
    According to the Germangovernment,  a man with a device including batteries linked to a detonator and ticking timer in his suitcase tried to get through airport security in Windhoek heading for Munich. Just how likely is a genuine terrorist to have a device like this in his luggage? Suspected bomb m ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • TSA Hit With Lawsuits As Revolt Explodes
    In one shocking incident, TSA goons pulled down woman’s blouse, exposing her breasts, and laughed about it. By Paul Joseph Watson The TSA has been hit with a number of lawsuits as the revolt against Big Sis, naked body scanners, and invasive groping measures explodes, with one case involving a woman ...
  • TSA pats down a screaming toddler
    You might think a 3-year-old would whiz through security. A child is non-threatening, wears slip-on shoes, and carries little luggage. Not the case for Mandy Simon who was passing through security with her dad at the airport in Chattanooga, Tenn. A TSA employee gave Mandy the pat down and she starte ...
  • New Jersey Legislators Take on the TSA
  • Dr Kelly was murdered: British experts
    Experts also called on the police to launch a murder inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, casting serious doubt on the official claim the scientist overdosed on painkillers. According to Dr Andrew Watt who is a top clinical pharmacologist, Kelly could have only take a âsafeâ dose of coproxamol painkiller ...
  • ERIC CANTONA “KILL THE BANKS” (A MUST ...

Veterans Today

  • Activision’s Call of Duty Endowment Launches 25-Da ...
    As the nation celebrates Veterans Day, the Call of Duty Endowment announced today that it was launching a twenty-five day social media campaign to build awareness about the issue of veterans’ unemployment. Throughout the endeavor, fans and followers of the Call of Duty Endowment’s Facebook and Twitt ...
  • New WSI Franchisee Discusses His One Week Training ...
    Marcus Henry an American Veteran and New Member of the WSI Franchise, Discusses His Training at WSI Headquarters.
  • GORDON DUFF: FEAR AND LOATHING IN EUROPE, HOW TO ...
    ITALY IS DOWN AND TO THE LEFT SOMEWHERE, YOU CAN’T MISS IT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I am including one photo from Switzerland.  I have a couple of good friends there, one a Vietnam veteran who has been hiding out there from the law for a long time.  When I saw him last, [...]
  • Rent Vs. Buy – Tips for Military Families on the M ...
    Consider your orders: What is the length of your current orders? The decision-making process can start and, possibly, end here. The longer you expect to remain in a single location, the more sense it makes to buy a home. Indeed, many financial planners recommend against purchasing a home unless you ...
  • O’Keeffe & Company Joins HireVeterans.com
    O’Keeffe & Company Joins Forces with HireVeterans to Reach out to Military Veterans. By Randy Miller About OâKeeffe & Company, Inc. Founded on the belief that traditional agencies in the IT&T space lack real insight into the specifics of its clientsâ marketing challenges, OâKeeffe & Company is a ful ...

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 ...

k2p blog

  • Rolls Royce kept Airbus and Qantas in the dark abo ...
    SHRAPNEL from the engine explosion on Qantas QF32 severed a fuel pipe and narrowly missed the wing's fuel tank. Rolls Royce kept Qantas and Airbus in the dark about engine modifications.
  • Spaceport America gets ready for first commercial ...
    The New Mexico Spaceport Authority, which plans to start launching citizen astronauts on suborbital flights within 18 months, has begun soliciting contract bids from local businesses for day-to-day operations of the facility.
  • Belated action on scientific misconduct in India
    This is the sordid tale about scientific misconduct by a Dr.Gopal Kundu, discovered by an anonymous mail, confirmed by an internal investigation and retractions by two international journals mail, denied by a politically correct Government appointed panel and finally acknowledged by the Indian Acade ...
  • Rolls Royce must replace 40 of 80 Trent 900 engine ...
    Up to half of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines of the type which disintegrated on an Airbus superjumbo this month may need to be replaced by the three carriers in Australia, Singapore and Germany.
  • Case of UN cholera reaches Florida from Haiti whil ...
    The UN is either in denial or is intentionally avoiding admitting that UN troops have introduced cholera into Haiti. There are reports that the official figures of 1100 dead and 18,000 infected are grossly under-stated.

Left Foot Forward

  • Coalition suffers slump in Lib Dem support while d ...
    The latest Reuters/IPSOS Mori Political Monitor makes grim reading for the Liberal Democrat leadership. Though the headline voting intention figures - Conservatives 36% (-3); Labour 39% (+3); Liberal Democrats 14% (unchanged) - actually represent an improvement from their faltering performance in th ...
  • Public sector mutuals are a good idea but the coal ...
    The announcement by Francis Maude yesterday that the coalition government wants to set up mutuals to run our public services is typical of what’s wrong with Cameron and Clegg’s ramshackle regime. On one level the plan seems a good idea – to give people who work in public services the opportunity to ...
  • Immigration cap turning into a major headache for ...
    The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has today published the findings of its report to the government on the recommended level for the proposed cap on skilled immigration from outside the European Union. The report demonstrates the scale of the task which the Government has set itself by committin ...
  • What Iain Duncan Smith needs to learn from Germany
    Iain Duncan Smith announced last week that the unemployed will, under some circumstances, be required to undertake unpaid “community work”, with strict sanctions for those who fail to comply. His view was that this would help people re-integrate into the labour market, by getting into the habit of w ...
  • No faith in Cameron’s ‘Big Society’
    What is the government's version of a ‘Big Society’ all about? According to a strong statement from a new Christian network called Common Wealth – in which I should straight away declare my interest as a supporter – it’s an ideological con trick aimed at co-opting civil society groups (including chu ...
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