25 November - RSS SnapShot Pt 2

Mondoweiss

• Brooklyn-Jenin: The boycott Is legitimate for prom ...
  Oh, Weakness On the way from Brooklyn to Jenin I stopped for a bit of a rest in Tel Aviv and saw that the community of creative artists was still in an uproar around the Ariel Culture Hall issue. I think that some things should be said in the name of militant art and the more [...]
• For killing 9 on the flotilla, Israel should apolo ...
  As many of you know, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is building a museum of "tolerance" on a Muslim cemetery in� Jerusalem. You can see the construction walls in this picture's middle ground, amidst the gravestones. Another branch of the LA-based Wiesenthal center is on 42d Street in New York; and last ...
• The Palestinian right of return is not for the US, ...
  When discussing possible solutions to the current Israeli/Palestinian impasse during a�recent panel discussion entitled "Jewish Perspectives on the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions Movement," participant Gil Kulick suggested a return to the proposals of the 2000 Clinton Parameters, the 2002�Nusseibeh-Ay ...
• Arava Institute claims to promote peace, but remai ...
  The�Arava Institute�s�online event��With Earth and Each Other,��held�Sunday, November 14, exemplified why the Palestinian call for a�boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions�is vital. The event was billed as a celebration of Palestinians,�Israelis and Jordanians working together for the ...
• Israel holds entire family in detention–incl ...
  and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israel razes Palestinian home in E.Jerusalem (AFP) AFP - Israeli police on Wednesday razed an illegally-built house in occupied east Jerusalem, shortly before the Palestinian owner arrived ...

Media Consortium

• ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin | paidConte ...
  ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit is the most high-profile addition so far from a recent grant by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation designed to encourage its grantees to try new methods ...
• 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 ...

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 )

• Obama orders review of Guatemala syphilis experime ...
  President Barack Obama today asked his bioethics commission to dig into the recent discovery that US government-funded scientists intentionally infected subjects with syphilis in a study in Guatemala in the 1940s. "The research was clearly unethical," Obama wrote in a memorandum to Amy Gutmann ...
• Would cholera vaccines have helped in Haiti?
  Three leading researchers today called for the United States to create a national stockpile of cholera vaccines that could be quickly deployed worldwide whenever an outbreak occured, In an opinion article published online by the New England Journal of Medicine the researchers – Matthew Waldor, a ch ...
• "McTerror" at UCLA
  UCLA neuroscientist David Jentsch got an unwelcome surprise at his home this month. Animal rights activists had mailed him razor blades and a “threatening note," according to a news release from the university. A group reportedly founded in the United Kingdom and calling themselves the “Justice ...
• Nations unite to fight tiger’s burning plight
  The nations that are home to the last wild tigers have pledged to try to double the numbers of the world’s largest* cat and to “significantly expand” its habitat by 2022. By the time the next year of the tiger rolls round, the 13 countries hope to have some 7,000 Panthera tigris stalking around i ...
• Strange ‘squidworm’ showcases sea’s secrets
  A bizarre new worm with 10 ‘arms’ has been discovered living some 2,500 metres under the surface of the sea, in an isolated ocean basin in the Far East. Teuthidodrilus samae is a new genus and species of free-swimming annelid worm that appears to be common near the bottom of the Celebes Sea – a d ...

new geography

• Amtrak Fails To Weather The Storms
  Why do I persist in riding Amtrak, the short name for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, a company originally owned by the freight railways, but now subsidized by Congress and run like a Russian bureaucracy, complete with late trains, sullen employees, myriad petty regulations, budget defi ...
• The Toto Strategy: How Kansas Can Save Barack Obam ...
  Here�s an idea that could save Barack Obama�s presidency: Give up those troubling Chicago roots and get back to Kansas. If, as Dorothy observed in the Wizard of Oz, �We�re not in Kansas anymore,� get the Wizard to send you back there soon. Barack Obama owes much to Kansas�and the Great Plains in ge ...
• The Overdue Debate: Smart Growth Versus Housing Af ...
  American households face daunting financial challenges. Even those lucky enough not to have suffered huge savings and retirement fund losses in the Great Recession seem likely to pay more of their incomes in taxes in the years to come, as governments attempt pay bills beyond their reasonable financi ...
• Will Ideology or Pragmatism Rule American Politics ...
  Now that the dust from the midterm elections has settled, America remains just as divided as before on what type of governing approach it favors. As the LA Times’ Gregory Rodriguez, points out, if the United States “was a cartoon character, it would be a cheerful fellow with his head in the clouds ...
• Divining The Stock Market's Future
  Like the rest of us, I pick over the stock market’s runic inscriptions to find meaning in earnings reports, ratios, analyst reports, and trend lines, hoping to divine the traces of an orderly world—something it clearly is not. In modern nations, especially the United States, the averages of stock e ...

GM Watch

• Problems with Monsanto's "new generation" of GM so ...
• Revealed: The glyphosate research the GM soy lobby ...
• New study claims FDA review of GM salmon incomplet ...
• The great biofuel delusion
• Corrupting influence of business of biotech

spiked

• Police on the verge of a nervous breakdown
  A crisis amongst Britain’s boys in blue has led to a proliferation of erratic street wardens and watchmen - and they’re ruining community spirit.
• A botched invasion of the TV schedule
  A BBC drama about bullying in the army was wimpy, but thankfully it wasn’t stopped by protesting military men.
• More moaners’ strike than miners’ stri ...
  Having an official sulk because of a bit of fan abuse suggests many Scottish referees are in the wrong line of work.
• Putting the poo-poking ‘expert’ in the ...
  Yes, it’s great fun watching the British public get its revenge on vegan hag Gillian McKeith. But let’s not get carried away.
• Praising the pope, patronising Africans
  It is crazy to believe that Benedict XVI can decide the fate of millions of Africans with one comment about condoms.

Cryptogon

• India to Deploy 36,000 Extra Troops on Chinese Bor ...
  Via: BBC: India has formed two new army divisions – comprising more than 36,000 men – to defend the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The remote north-eastern state adjoins China which claims large parts of it. The 56th Division will be based in the nearby state of Nagaland to guard the east ...
• Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fr ...
  Via: TruthOut: Since 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – with the support of the United States, Israel and European allies UK, France and Germany – has been demanding that Iran explain a set of purported internal documents portraying a covert Iranian military program of research an ...
• Michael Brea Allegedly Killed Mother with Freemaso ...
  [???] Via: Washington Post: More details surrounding the slaying of 55-year-old Yannick Brea are leaking out. Her son, actor Michael Brea, has been accused of the crime. Despite initial reports that Brea’s mother had been decapitated with a samurai sword, the New York Daily News is now reporting tha ...
• Jury Finds Tom DeLay Guilty On All Counts
  Via: Raw Story: Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress — was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. Jurors deliberated for 19 hours before returning guilty verdicts agai ...
• Former Obama Aide Arrested in Maryland on a Charge ...
  Via: NBC: A New Jersey congressman has fired his chief of staff — a former Obama aide — after the aide was arrested in Maryland on a charge of soliciting sex from a minor. Democratic Rep. Steve Rothman took the action after learning that top aide Robert Decheine was among 11 people snared in a [...]

The Economic Collapse

• The Calm Before The Storm
  An eerie calm has descended upon world financial markets as they await perhaps the two most important financial events of the year this week.  On Tuesday, investors will be eagerly awaiting the results of one of the most anticipated midterm elections in U.S. history.  On Wednesday, ...
• Happy Thanksgiving! Are You Better Off Today Than ...
  As you gather around the table with your family this Thanksgiving, ask yourself this question: are you better off today than you were four years ago?  Unfortunately, most Americans are not.  Both political parties have controlled the White House during the last four years - Barack O ...
• 11 Reasons Why North Korea Is The Most Bizarre Nat ...
  Is the United States about to go to war with the most bizarre nation on earth?  A lot of Americans would actually welcome "the Korean War Part 2", but before people get too excited it is important to keep in mind that we have never been at war with a nation that actually possesses n ...
• Black Friday: A Festival Of Greed In The Midst Of ...
  Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line up before the crack of dawn at retail stores across the nation hoping to find great deals on cheap plastic stuff made outside the United States.  The Friday after Thanksgiving has become an "unofficial holiday ...
• Full Spectrum Dominance: 8 Examples Of How The Gov ...
  Over the past several decades, no matter which political party has been in power the government has continued to become a larger part of our lives. These days many people are speaking of the "nanny state" that we have created, but the reality is far worse than that. The truth is t ...

Desertification

• Send some seeds of fruit trees to Patrick as a sup ...
  Here is a message from Patrick HARRY in Malawi : “Today, I was reading a book entitled Poverty and the Environment published by the World bank.  It book states that Malawi is in biomass-distress due to a high level of … Continue reading →
• Wüsten – Auch in Europa auf dem Vormarsch? ( ...
  Read at : http://www.arte.tv/de/woche/244,broadcastingNum=1173877,day=4,week=48,year=2010.html Dienstag, 30. November 2010 um 08.45 Uhr X:enius Wüsten – Auch in Europa auf dem Vormarsch? Wiederholungen: 30.11.2010 um 17:35 X:enius (Deutschland, 2010, 26mn) ZDF Die Sendung “X:enius” ist das werktäg ...
• New automated weather stations could boost Ethiopi ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91176 ETHIOPIA: Taking the disaster out of drought ADDIS ABABA, 24 November 2010 (IRIN) – New automated weather stations could boost Ethiopiaâs fledgling agricultural insurance schemes, expanding the use of payouts triggered by abnormally low ra ...
• Ready-To-Use Foods (RUFs) expand life-saving treat ...
  Read at : https://www.ftagainsthunger.org/hunger Acute Malnutrition Hunger, or undernutrition, results from the insufficient intake of macro- and micro-nutrients. It can lead to chronic malnutrition (i.e. stunting) or the severe wasting associated with acute malnutrition. Acute malnutrition is the m ...
• The key to long-term food security lies in boostin ...
  Read at: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/47881/icode/ Investments in agriculture must grow Rise in food prices make structural changes urgent 23 November 2010, Abu Dhabi – The key to long-term food security lies in boosting investment in agriculture, particularly in low-income food-deficit cou ...

The Paper Trail

• Reform Reading:  FDIC Says Banks Should Relax ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• “Beneficial Use” of Coal Ash In Questi ...
  Nearly every day over the last 32 months, members of a citizens group in Giles County, Va., have paid a visit to a seven-acre stretch of land along the ancient New River, where a planned business park is now under construction. They’ve snapped photos and shot video of bulldozers unloading more than ...
• Financial Stability Panel Told of “Inexcusab ...
  Banks and mortgage servicers accused of foreclosing homes improperly are being put under the microscope by regulators, who will recommend in January if extra supervision is needed, a senior Treasury Department official told the Financial Stability Oversight Council today.
• Reform Reading:  Republicans Order Up Watchdo ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Reform Reading:  CRS Outlines Tools to Slow D ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

backofthebook.ca

• Our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll, v 2.0
  By Frank Moher Time to update our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll. Some fine qualifees have presented themselves in recent months. The original idea of the list was to record for posterity those news organizations that have or haven't done their job in covering 9/11. You'll find that roster her ...
• Dr. Martin’s diagnosis
  By Alison@Creekside Retiring from politics after 17 years, MP Dr. Keith Martin, (Reform, Alliance, Ind, Lib), spoke on CBC's The Current last week about the "serious, serious lack of democracy in Parliament . . . the tragedy of the Commons". Martin began as a Reform MP in '93, attracted by the ...
• Don’t drink and drive, unless it’s bad ...
  By Bev Schellenberg What does a province do when a law acts as an effective deterrent? They consider changing it, apparently. At least, that’s what the still wet-behind-the-ears Solicitor General Rich Coleman is thinking of doing with BC’s strict new impaired driving laws Since September, B.C. ...
• 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 ...

Worldnews

• Malaysia Airlines returns to profit in 3Q
  More News Malaysia Airlines says it returned to profit in the third quarter as travel increased amid the region's economic recovery. The flag carrier Thursday reported a net profit of 233 million ringgit ($75 million) for the quarter ended September, compared to a loss of 300 million ringgit ($ ...
• Crackdown on Rio drug gangs kills 21
  AT least 21 people have been killed and 153 arrested in four days of clashes as Brazilian security forces crack down on drug gangs in...
• Nissan to unveil diesel variant of Micra in I ...
  BANGALORE: Japanese automobile joint venture Nissan Motor India Limited will unveil the diesel variant of its Micra compact hatchback car in December second week, a top company official said here Thursday. "India will be the first country to have the 1.5-litre K9K diesel version of Micra hatchb ...
• Top bankers, industrialists to advise govt on ...
  NEW DELHI: The government today formed a group of top bankers and industrialists, including SBI chief OP Bhatt ,Ashok Leyland MD R Seshasayee and Hero group chief Pawan Munjal , to advise it on raising India's export competitiveness and doubling overseas shipments in the next three years. The d ...
• Big B sweats it out in the fields, rides a tr ...
  NEW DELHI: He is a Bollywood megastar with millions in the bank but Amitabh Bachchan recently took a rare day off from his high-flying lifestyle to toil in his fields at home in Uttar Pradesh . After registering himself as a seedgrower, the 68-year-old decided to participate in the process hims ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Vatican clarifies condom comment
  The Vatican broadens the scope of Pope Benedict XVI's comments on the use of condoms, saying their use - by men or women - to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids could be seen as an act of "responsibility". (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
• Covidien Collaborates With Arthritis Foundation On ...
  The Arthritis Foundation and Covidien (NYSE: COV) have joined forces to help advance awareness and support for millions of people suffering from osteoarthritis in the United States. Covidien will serve as a sponsor of the Foundation's Let's Move Together Movement Tracker, an educational and physical ...
• Risk of Birth Defects After Use of Acyclovir, Vala ...
  (No abstract is available for this citation)
• Bold claims for optogenetics
  Arising from J. H. Lee et al.Nature465, 788–792 (2010); Lee et al.replyIn a recent Letter to Nature, Lee and colleagues combined optogenetic stimulation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (ofMRI) to examine the relationship between pyramidal-cell spiking and the blood oxygenation level depen ...
• Fulminant Mulch Pneumonitis in Undiagnosed Chronic ...
  (No abstract is available for this citation)

Common Dreams

• Korea Tensions Soar as Deadly Attack Launched
  by John Garnaut, BeijingNorth Korea's young dictator-in-waiting has burnished his leadership credentials by launching a deadly artillery raid on South Korean territory, causing Seoul to scramble F16 jet fighters and return fire.Two South Korean marines were killed and at least 15 people were wounded ...
• America's Failed War of Attrition in Afghanistan
  by Jeremy ScahillAt the end of the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal this weekend, the leadership of the Afghan Taliban issued a statement characterizing the alliance's adoption of a loose timeline for a 2014 end to combat operations as "good news" for Afghans and "a sign of failure for the Americ ...
• US Designates 'Critical' Polar Bear Habitat in Arc ...
  WASHINGTON — The US government on Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could impact new oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic.The Fish and Wildlife Service set aside 187,000 square miles (484,000 square kilometers) off A ...
• Unemployment Extension Standoff 'A Crummy Deal For ...
  by Arthur DelaneyPaul Gilbert lost his job managing a restaurant in Phoenix in May and said he's had a terrible time finding a new one."I have put out at least 25 resumes a week and have only had two interviews," Gilbert told HuffPost. "I want to work. I love to work. I'll do anything, someone pleas ...
• Kabul Is No Child's Playground
  Sue TurtonNato's top civilian spokesperson in Afghanistan has come under fire for playing down the country's level of danger over the weekend. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: The Wisdom of God (Psalm 90; Matt ...
  ExamineReligion: The Wisdom of God (Psalm 90; Matthew 22:34-40) http://exm.nr/gZa7wE
• ExamineReligion: His steps: religious stories prog ...
  ExamineReligion: His steps: religious stories program us http://exm.nr/g9bgAK
• ExamineReligion: New Respect for Cranberry Sauce - ...
  ExamineReligion: New Respect for Cranberry Sauce - A Devotion http://exm.nr/fCIOmX
• ExamineReligion: Making Sense of the Gospels http: ...
  ExamineReligion: Making Sense of the Gospels http://exm.nr/hsufJF
• ExamineReligion: Food for thought- Thanksgiving Da ...
  ExamineReligion: Food for thought- Thanksgiving Day Prayer for PostModern America http://exm.nr/g24jD9

Energy Collective

• Indian Point. A slightly differerent view.
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• Unilever & New Report: How Voluntary Sustainabilit ...
  Two items caught my eye recently.� One is a new report called the State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) Review 2010.� This review was a collaborative effort by the Internatio
• WSJ CEO Council Highlights Potential for Energy Ef ...
  Last week the Wall Street Journal brought together nearly 100 CEO’s of major U.S. companies to discuss the country’s most important policy issues and the role they will play in fostering economic growth, strengthening the economy and driving job creation.
• The Story of Coal.
  One of the many challenges faced by the clean energy and energy efficiency industries is the problem of communicating the impact of fossil fuel energy use. We’ve often discussed how flipping a light switch seems like a simple, clean act--no mess, no visible pollution, no visible impact--when in real ...
• International Isotopes raises $5.8 million
  It is the largest investor stake so far in the project

Green House - USA Today

• NOAA: More oil chemically dispersed from BP spill
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday that more oil from the BP spill was chemically dispersed than it first calculated.
• How to prep your house for an electric car?
  Thinking about an electric car? How you prep your house for it varies widely, depending on the model, your home's wiring and how quickly you want to charge it.
• Sheryl Crow auctions off her solar equestrian farm ...
  Want a peek inside singer Sheryl Crow's solar equestrian estate? Her French style Cross Creek Farm, which uses solar panels to reduce 40% of its electric costs, is now up for auction so the realty company offers a video.
• World's 'largest solar-powered boat' to circumvent ...
  A catamaran, claiming to be "the world's largest solar-powered boat" is is now trying to circumvent the globe without the use of fossil fuels.
• Prince Charles narrates new eco-documentary
  Prince Charles, who's putting solar panels on his 180-year-old home in London, Clarence House, narrates a new documentary on the global environmental crisis.

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

• The day my Faith in America and Americans was brut ...
  Ed Lewis “Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance.” U.S. Supreme Court, US v Minker, 350 US 179 at 187 But, what of the situation when one ...
• Exposing Israel's Fraudulent Third Periodic Report ...
  by Stephen Lendman On October 18, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights offered an "Alternative Report" response to Israel's submission, sent to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). Submitting to the UN, Aharon Leshno Yaar, Israel's Permanent Representative to G ...
• Latest North/South Korean Exchange
  by Stephen Lendman Last March, North Korea was falsely blamed for sinking a South Korean ship, a topic an earlier article addressed, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/06/south-korean-ship-sinking-another-false.html Seoul said there's "no other plausib ...
• Sarah Palin and the missing “F” word
  Alan Hart Sarah Palin (or her publisher) chose a title for her latest book with three “F” words -America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and the Flag. But surely there’s something missing. Another “F” word. One with four letters. What could it be? (My answer in a moment). As she embarks on ...
• The right to demonstrate is the sign of a healthy ...
  by Roland Michel Tremblay As a Court Clerk in a criminal court, most cases just leave me totally indifferent. You could easily think I have lost my heart about such things a few years ago, incapable to feel anything now either for the defendants or their victims. True, I admit it. When you see it e ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• Did You Opt Out? Now You’re a “Domesti ...
  TSA Administrative Directive: Opt-Outters To Be Considered âDomestic Extremistsâ If the information recently acquired by Doug Hagmann of Northeast Intelligence Network is accurate, then something really big is happening in America right now – and itâs most certainly not a step towards individual lib ...
• The 99er’s
  WWH- No, it’s not about people that want to party like it’s 1999. Although many of them would certainly be happy with the jobs they had then – even at those salaries – salaries being offered now are less than those offered for the same positions 12 years ago. It’s about those people [...]
• Queen’s Surf Beach, Waikiki, Thanksgiving Day, 197 ...
  “Polizatto is an unapologetic hippie and Hunga Dunga is his homage to hippiedom. He does an amazing job of showing us things through a new set of eyes and writing erotic scenes that are very hot and at the same time have a real innocence about them. Hunga Dunga is outrageous and very, very funny!” [ ...
• Wikileaks in Button Down Mode
  Wikileaks hints at diplomatic cable release “7 times” greater than Iraq War Logs | Boing Boing The Pentagon today warned lawmakers that WikiLeaks, working together with various news organizations, may publish a “tranche” of classified U.S. State Department cables as early as Friday, Nov. 26. In an e ...
• Getting Ready To Rumble!
  U.S. to stage exercises with South Korea; few good options for dealing with North | Washington Post The United States is dispatching an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off the Korean Peninsula for joint military exercises that President Obama said would reinforce the U.S. alliance with S ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
  Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pus ...
• Wendell Potter Appearances for 'Deadly Spin&#3 ...
  For more information, visit WendellPotter.com AUTHOR APPEARANCES WASHINGTON, DC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The National Press Club 529 14th Street, Northwest 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. WASHINGTON, DC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW 7:00 p.m ...
• 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?

Salon

• The War Room Hack Thirty
  The War Room Hack Thirty is a list of our least favorite political commentators, newspaper columnists and constant cable news presences, ranked roughly (but only roughly) in order of awfulness and then described rudely. Criteria for inclusion included writing the same column every week for 30 yea ...
• Sure, the government is just like your family
  So your mortgage payment's overdue and you're lying awake at 4 a.m. wondering where the money's going to come from when the kitchen smoke alarm starts beeping. What to do? If you're like the two jokers who jumped the gun on President Obama's ballyhooed deficit reduction commission while he was vi ...
• Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money-laundering trial
  Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress -- was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
• The economy that Palin '12 depends on
  This originally appeared at Robert Reich's blog
• Palin, blueblood-bashing and Mitt Romney
  Sarah Palin wasted little time firing back at Barbara Bush, who used an interview with Larry King early this week to express her hope that Palin will stay in Alaska.

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

• Bedbug strategy: Back to drawing board
  Bedbugs don’t back down. But give credit to Liberal backbencher Mike Colle for backing down from his original proposal to eradicate bedbugs, which placed the onus entirely on landlords.
• Team Ford: No lefties need apply
  With the swearing in of mayor-elect Rob Ford less than a week away, his city hall administration is beginning to take shape, and it is a very homogenous shape, indeed. Almost all his reported appointments could be described as right-of-centre. ...
• Overcrowded ERs: How to fix the problem
  The problem of overcrowded hospital emergency rooms is back in the spotlight, this time in Alberta where a Tory MLA has been thrown out of the government caucus for stating there is a crisis.
• Smirking lawyer: Bentley has to act
  Justice distracted is justice denied. That’s the message from Justice Nola Garton as she discharged the jury in a murder trial after the bizarre behaviour by a Crown prosecutor seated in the public gallery in her courtroom.
• Nuclear reactors: We can’t live without them
  The Ontario government’s latest long-term energy plan, while envisaging a broader role for renewables like wind and solar and for conservation, also foresees continuing reliance on nuclear power. Rightly so.

Energy Collective

• Indian Point. A slightly differerent view.
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• Unilever & New Report: How Voluntary Sustainabilit ...
  Two items caught my eye recently.� One is a new report called the State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) Review 2010.� This review was a collaborative effort by the Internatio
• WSJ CEO Council Highlights Potential for Energy Ef ...
  Last week the Wall Street Journal brought together nearly 100 CEO’s of major U.S. companies to discuss the country’s most important policy issues and the role they will play in fostering economic growth, strengthening the economy and driving job creation.
• The Story of Coal.
  One of the many challenges faced by the clean energy and energy efficiency industries is the problem of communicating the impact of fossil fuel energy use. We’ve often discussed how flipping a light switch seems like a simple, clean act--no mess, no visible pollution, no visible impact--when in real ...
• International Isotopes raises $5.8 million
  It is the largest investor stake so far in the project

EU Times

• Iran Must Not Meddle in Afghanistan, U.S. Says Aft ...
  The U.S. said Iran shouldn’t interfere with Afghanistan’s internal affairs following a report that an Iranian official gave an aide of President Hamid Karzai a bag filled with packets of euro bills. “We understand that Iran and Afghanistan are neighbors and will have a relationship,” Philip J. Crowl ...
• Pope: Mideast peace is possible, urgently needed
  Benedict XVI says freedom of religion ‘one of the fundamental human rights,’ should be subject of dialogue with Muslims. Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called for greater religious freedom in the Middle East and said that peace there is possible, urgently needed and the best remedy to the exodus of Chr ...
• Japanese joins the ranks of sequenced genomes
  A Japanese has joined the elite club of humans whose genetic code has been fully sequenced, according to research unveiled on Sunday. The unnamed male gave a sample of DNA which has been unravelled to show all three billion base pairs, or “letters” in the double-helix code for life. Six other genome ...
• Europe’s far-right vows to push referendum o ...
  Since 2005, Turkey has been in membership talks with the European Union – with little success. Far-right parties now say the country poses a threat to EU identity and are planning a referendum to block Turkey’s EU bid. Several far-right European parties have vowed to seek a Europe-wide referendum on ...
• Uganda faces demographic dilemma as population hit ...
  Development experts are warning that Uganda’s high fertility rate might become an economic burden in future if action to check the population surge is not taken. A new population report released on Wednesday shows that a Ugandan woman on average gives birth to seven children, one of the highest fert ...

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

• Saginaw at Plymouth OHL Game Report
  It's Thanksgiving, which means it's pretty likely that no Americans are reading this site today. That makes it the perfect opportunity to write a little about the CHL. I watched the Saginaw Spirit take on the Plymouth Whalers from the designed-for-people-shorter-than-six-feet-tall seats of the Comp ...
• Tom DeLay Found Guilty in Texas
  The Austin American-Statesman's Mike Ward and Laylan Copelin report that an Austin jury has found former House Majority leader Tom DeLay guilty of money laundering and conspiracy charges related to Texas state law prohibiting corporate contributions to campaigns for state offices
• Exercises in Palinology
  With a new book out — confirming her takeover by neocons when it comes to foreign policy — her daughter making the finals but blessedly not winning Dancing with the Stars (imagine the uproar), and her casually saying that if she ran she could probably defeat Barack Obama, attention is focusing even ...
• Google Hotspot Influence Rolling Across All of Goo ...
  We continue to learn about changes across all of Google local products as Hotspot is further integrated into the rating and review process. Lat Long Blog points out that Places will now include a new section highlighting recommendations from friends: I noted in Rating are the new Reviews that Googl ...
• Bridges and overpasses may turn icy this afternoon ...
  by Mike Hamernik UPDATE:  11:45AM:   The National Weather Service has extended the Winter Weather Advisory until 3PM this afternoon and expanded it to included most of Chicago's southern and southwestern suburbs as well as Northwest Indiana

Groklaw

• USITC INSTITUTES SECTION 337 INVESTIGATION ON CERT ...
  The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Apple, Inc....By instituting this investigation (337-TA-750), the USITC has not yet made any decision on the merits of the case. The USITC's Chief Administrative Law Judge will assign the case to one of the USITC's six administrative law judges (ALJ ...
• US ITC To Review Apple Patent Claims Against Motor ...
  In a Web post on Tuesday, the ITC said it would investigate Apple's claim that Motorola's smartphones violate six Apple patents for touchscreen and multitouch technology, as well as ways to display, access and interact with information. Some of the patents involve technology used in Motorola's popul ...
• Novell Canceling Conference Call With Management o ...
  Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) today announced it is canceling its conference call with Management on Thursday, December 2, 2010 to discuss its fourth fiscal quarter and full fiscal year 2010 financial results. The call is being canceled as a result of the announcement that Novell has entered into a de ...
• Open Rights Group: It's our birthday! Celebrating ...
  Today we're celebrating five years of the Open Rights Group. It's been an incredible journey from an online pledge to building a succesful campaigning organisation with full-time staff fighting for your digital rights. Why not join today? Helping us to celebrate is our patron, the marvellous Neil G ...
• Trading Inquiry Widens to Big Firms
  Hedge-fund giants SAC Capital Advisors and Citadel LLC, big mutual-fund company Janus Capital Group Inc. and Wellington Management Co., one of the nation's biggest institutional-investment firms, have received subpoenas from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office seeking trading, communications and ot ...

WideShut

• November 16, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  Lots of topics on this week's show including the dangerous HPV vaccine, and more TV Licence lessons.
• DEMOS and Jobless Britain: WideShut Webcast On Res ...
  Keelan discusses the protests, DEMOS think tank, unemployment in Britain and the agenda of forced work and slave labour.
• LIVE: WideShut Webcast On Air Now
  Keelan discusses the protests, DEMOS think tank, unemployment in Britain and the agenda of forced work and slave labour.
• The Body Scanner Scam
  If Body Scanners cannot detect common forms of terrorism, and are dangerous to our health, what the hell are they being used for?
• Shoot The Messenger: 77 Ripple Effect Creator In C ...
  Freedom of speech on the line as 7/7 Ripple Effect creator John Hill enters court for the second time on November 11th.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Riverkeeper's Second Annual EcoSalon Not to Be For ...
  Riverkeeper's Second Annual EcoSalon Not to Be Forgotten
• Abinanti: Sewage release needed notification
  Abinanti: Sewage release needed notification
• Drexel Hill resident runs in Philadelphia Marathon ...
  Drexel Hill resident runs in Philadelphia Marathon today
• Murray Murmurings: Snowy River is well and truly r ...
  Murray Murmurings: Snowy River is well and truly rooted
• Athletes, Celebrities and Business Leaders Join Wa ...
  A series of witty and fact-filled tweets will be distributed to help raise awareness of the need for clean water around the world.

Politics in the Zeros

• The Hammer gets nailed
  Tom Delay has been convicted of money laundering
• There is not enough money to bail out Spain
  Not after Ireland and Portugal get theirs first. But these bailouts don’t help the populace, only the banksters who made risky loans. If we had actual capitalism, the banks would be allowed to fail rather than being propped up by governments.
• Juarez police officer seeks asylum in Texas
  He says his life in in danger because he arrests the wrong people and won’t take bribes.
• First arrest in insider trading probe
  Don Chu of Primary Global was arrested this morning at 6 am on conspiracy charges by the FBI. May there be many more criminal arrests. And the feds are apparently investigating Goldman Sachs too. Be still my heart! I suspect that many thousands of Wall Street banksters and corrupt hedge fund slime w ...
• Opt-Out Day at airports appears to be a flop
  Think about it. Mass opt-outs for being scanned by TSA would mean long waits on a busy travel day plus by doing so you are demanding to be groped. It’s not surprising that not many are doing it. The increased militarization of US society is troubling. We may have scanners everywhere soon. And to wha ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Three missing teens rescued after 50 days at sea
  Three Tokelauan teenagers missing at sea for 50 days have miraculously been rescued by a New Zealand fishing boat
• Recovery mission 'could take weeks' - Superintende ...
  Superintendent Gary Knowles has confirmed the recovery of the bodies of the 29 miners who died at Pike River could take weeks.
• Australian media abused by West Coasters
  Australian media covering the Pike River disaster have been copping abuse from locals.
• Remembrance service for miners in Greymouth on Dec ...
  A Remembrance service for the 29 miners killed in the Pike River Coal mine disaster will be held on Thursday of next week, December 2.
• Two admit conspiracy in Raymond Piper murder case
  The mother and uncle of murdered Paekakariki man Raymond Piper's former partner, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause him grievous bodily harm

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

• Torture: The Great American Export
  My latest denounces the complete impunity with which the United States and its proxies carry out their torture tactics.
• 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.

Media Co-Op

• Capitalists and Radicals Switching Positions?
    More and more is being made of the corporate takeover of mass movement modes and clichés. From Apple’s first advertisements for personal computers in 1984 where they drew on Orwellian drones being freed by an athletic activist-angel being chased by riot cops, to George Soros the exchange rate vul ...
• Crossing the Line: Customs Agents or Professional ...
  This is the story of my unsettling experience crossing the line into Canada. For some background, please see the introduction to this series here, and if you’re comfortable telling your own story, please do. I arrived at the YVR international ...
• Crossing the Line: Introduction and Call for Stor ...
  Cruel and disturbing behaviour at the Canadian border; my own story, and a request for yours. After a long trans-Atlantic flight, saving a few minutes passing through customs seems like a great idea. Returning to Vancouver from Europe in late ...
• Local Voices Unite in Music, Justice, Equality and ...
  Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network launches holiday "Singing Solidarity" CD fundraiser HALIFAX, NOVEMBER 2010-Maritime artists are notorious for their generosity to their communities. "Singing Solidarity," a CD in support of the ...
• Introduce us to a Friend: Week 3 of the TMC's Nove ...
    If you read toronto.mediacoop.ca, and if you want to see that sort of reporting grow and expand, why not spread the word?  We can put out more critical reporting on issues in Toronto that aren't getting the coverage they deserve from mainstream media. But we need your help! There are countless wa ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Myth destroying chart
  David Seaton's News LinksNo comment. DS
• China’s next president: Xi Jinping
  China�s next president: Xi JinpingXi is China's heir-apparent, in line to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012 as China's top leader. This 56-year-old "princeling"�his father was former Vice-Premier Xi Zhongxun�earned a doctorate in Marxist theory from Tsinghua University but now has a reputation as a supporte ...
• The "Big Lie"... How it works and what it is for
  The big lie kicks in: before and afterAmericans for Prosperity, the rightwing campaign funded in part by the energy billionaires the Koch brothers, is working with the Tea Party movement to increase its impact through the use of new media and social networking. The GuardianRupert Murdoch has declare ...
• Observations of and on the rich
  "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
• North Korea or Murdoch: the art is knowing how to ...
  Korean strongman, Kim Jong-il and his son and successor, Kim Jong-un David Seaton's News LinksThere is a lot of speculation, and practically no hard intelligence, as to why North Korea is behaving so strangely of late. Sinking a South Korean ship and killing 45 sailors, showing off their advanced at ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Black Farmers Finally See Justice
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON - Yesterday (Nov 19) it was announced that the $1.15 billion awarded black farmers in the Pigford settlement that arose from decades of discriminatory practices at the U.S. Department of... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Chemical Lobby Gets Its Way in U.S. Senate
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – For several years now, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been warning of the risks associated with bisphenol A (BPA) – especially the BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Label All Milk Drinkers Should Look Out For (U ...
  A few years ago, a number of U.S. states tried to ban "rbGH-free" claims on dairy. Monsanto, which owned rbGH at the time, helped found a group called AFACT, which supported the bans. AFACT was unsuccessful in most states, but it looked like they might win in Ohio, where the fight went to the courts ...
• New Proof that Fruit Juice and Soda Increase Risk ...
  Drinking too much soda or fruit juice will increase your risk of developing gout, a painful form of arthritis, according to a new study. Women who drank two cans or more of non-diet soda a day, or 12 ounces or more of orange juice a day, were more than twice as likely to develop gout. Women who dra ...
• 3 out of 4 People Should Avoid This Common Food
  Scientists have begun exploring what can be learned from the diet of cavemen who lived ago, based on vegetables, fruit, nuts, roots and meat. Cereals, potatoes, bread and milk�were�not featured at all. It was only with the dawn of agriculture (around 10,000 years ago) that our diets evolved to inc ...
• Consequences of the BP Oil Spill
  The BP oil disaster might end up shifting the entire global energy paradigm -- IF the public is aware of the situation and its consequences. Here are some of the long term effects of the disaster.
• Gorilla Reunion: Damian Aspinall's Extraordinary G ...

JAMA

• Efficacy and Safety of Prescription Omega-3 Fatty ...
  Context� Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common, yet there remains an unmet medical need for additional treatment options. Current pharmacological treatments have limited efficacy and significant adverse events. Limited data from small trials suggest omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may provide a sa ...
• Association of Serial Measures of Cardiac Troponin ...
  Context  Older adults comprise the majority of new-onset heart failure (HF) diagnoses, but traditional risk-factor prediction models have limited accuracy in this population to identify those at highest risk for hospitalization or death. Objectives  To determine if cardiac troponin T (cTnT) measure ...
• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Researc ...
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• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Researc ...
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• Medicare Head Donald M. Berwick, MD, Takes on Miss ...
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Survival - tribal peoples

• Kalahari Bushman appeals to African Commission
  Moeti's grandmother Xoroxloo died of thirst © Survival A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help. 

Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference e ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• First Nations chiefs betray their people
  The revelations just keep on coming from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which has obtained truly startling data about the absurd pay levels of some aboriginal chiefs and band councillors on reserves across Canada. There's good reason to hope that these shocking numbers, revealing as they ...
• Malignant Hezbollah sparks another crisis
  Political science 101: A sovereign state has the sole right to use force on its territory. But the Lebanese government has no such monopoly, as the world saw in the summer of 2006 when Israeli forces, responding to Hezbollah rocket attacks, invaded southern Lebanon.
• Aung San Suu Kyi, a hero for us all
  We're with Barack Obama: Aung San Suu Kyi is one of our heroes, too. Her constancy, dignity, clarity, and almost superhuman restraint, all deployed through long lonely years in the quest for a better life for the people of Myanmar, have made her a beacon of hope in a land languishing under a ...
• Pointless delays on electronic records
  The problem is not convincing Quebec's doctors, pharmacists, medical clinics, and hospitals of the value of the new medium. Serge Dulude of the Association des Medecins omnipraticiens de Montreal told us it is "shameful" how slow Quebec has been in computerizing patients' health records and ...
• Quebec should hedge its bets online
  Quebec is going ahead with its venture into cash-rich Internet gambling, despite warnings that this could increase the number of problem gamblers, a group Quebec seems so far unable to protect from themselves.

Food World Order

• addicted to cheese? here's why
  from care2: Ever felt like you couldn’t give up cheese? Ever think it might actually be a drug? The surprising news is that as far back as the 1980’s researchers have known that cheese contains trace amounts of morphine. Seriously. In 1981, Eli Hazum and his colleagues at Wellcome Research Laborator ...
• 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*

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

• Saturday 20th November 2010 - Wake Up Call Confere ...
  Wake Up Call Edinburgh - Saturday 20th November 2010 The Wake Up Call has been developed as a platform to support those seeking to ascertain Scientific, Political and Spiritual Truth, by providing an information gateway to the Knowledge and Wisdom of the many researchers who have previously explore ...
• Manchester Truth to host BP Population Reduction t ...
  Rufmouth presents 1st speaker in 3 yrs! Ian R Crane, ex oil industry exec spills the beans in amazing talk ‘BP, population reduction and the end of an Age’ be there! Friends Meeting House 3.33pm start Sunday 12th September 2010. See www.IanRCrane.co.uk or contact daved@wfmradio.org for more infor ...
• Heart Attacks And Drinking Hot or Warm Water
  This is a very good article… Not only about the warm water with your meal, but about Heart Attacks. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals for generations, not cold water, it is time we adopt their drinking habit especially while eating. For those who like to drink cold water, this ...
• Transcendence: The True Awakening From The Matrix
• Jim Corr: March from Wood Quay Dublin to the GPO a ...
  ‘I am asking that the Irish people unite, as our forefathers did, and take to the streets at 11am Saturday 27th from Wood Quay Dublin, to voice our anger and concern over the actions of our politicians and what is happening to Ireland.’ -  Jim Corr

The Economic Collapse

• The Calm Before The Storm
  An eerie calm has descended upon world financial markets as they await perhaps the two most important financial events of the year this week.  On Tuesday, investors will be eagerly awaiting the results of one of the most anticipated midterm elections in U.S. history.  On Wednesday, ...
• Happy Thanksgiving! Are You Better Off Today Than ...
  As you gather around the table with your family this Thanksgiving, ask yourself this question: are you better off today than you were four years ago?  Unfortunately, most Americans are not.  Both political parties have controlled the White House during the last four years - Barack O ...
• 11 Reasons Why North Korea Is The Most Bizarre Nat ...
  Is the United States about to go to war with the most bizarre nation on earth?  A lot of Americans would actually welcome "the Korean War Part 2", but before people get too excited it is important to keep in mind that we have never been at war with a nation that actually possesses n ...
• Black Friday: A Festival Of Greed In The Midst Of ...
  Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line up before the crack of dawn at retail stores across the nation hoping to find great deals on cheap plastic stuff made outside the United States.  The Friday after Thanksgiving has become an "unofficial holiday ...
• Full Spectrum Dominance: 8 Examples Of How The Gov ...
  Over the past several decades, no matter which political party has been in power the government has continued to become a larger part of our lives. These days many people are speaking of the "nanny state" that we have created, but the reality is far worse than that. The truth is t ...

CASSE

• In Search of Answers about Economic Growth
  It's time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.
• Enough Is Enough
  Brian Czech's foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.
• An Economy of “Enough”
  On November 17, you'll be able to download the outstanding new report about how a steady state economy would work.
• Thermodynamic Roots of Economics
  We can no longer afford to ignore the fundamental operating rules for the economy.
• The Economics of Lawns and Landscaping
  Rethinking how we manage lackluster lawns and landscapes can create a cascade of economic and environmental advantages.

The Talking Clock

• Patriotic British bloggers in solidarity with our ...
  The Talking Clock is happy to help the 'viral' spread of the following appeal, and we endorse and agree with roughly 95% of the comment within it. We do not want to have to bail out the Irish economy. We do want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder, united with our Irish brothers, sisters and cousins ...
• The Daily Express speaks for the nation
  "THE Daily Express today becomes the first national newspaper to call for Britain to leave the European Union. After far too many years as the victims of Brussels larceny, bullying, over-regulation and all-round interference, the time has come for the British people to win back their country and ...
• As if the world hadn't got enough problems, the wa ...
  The complete and joyous demise of the European Empire is one of the most wonderful things to have happened in our lifetime and, from where I'm sat, I'm starting to have a slight inkling of understanding of how my Grandfather and Great-Grandfather felt on that VE Day, sixty-five years ago. We're n ...
• At last... common sense prevails! DA sends deputie ...
  Every once in a while, an extraordinary outbreak of common sense prevails. After the rush of stories about airport security staff fondling people's genitals - for their own safety, of course - the people of the world finally have a hero. Chief Deputy DA Steve Wagstaffe of San Mateo County, so ...
• Farage: Is this the defining political speech of 2 ...
  Our newly re-elected glorious leader, Nigel Farage, has made what must be a serious contender for the defining political speech of 2010. Have a listen to this and understand why UKIP members overwhelmingly gave him their re-endorsement. Nobody does it like Nigel. And this gem is a masterpiece... Ha ...

Facing South

• One thing we're thankful for
  Thanksgiving is here, Facing South readers -- time to start your ovens, pick your football games and bone up on your Thanksgiving knowledge. It's also, of course, time to reflect on the people and things for which you're grateful. For us at Facing South, that's an easy one: We're thankful ...
• 5 top Election Watch 2010 stories at Facing South
  Thanks to our generous supporters (you can still donate today!), Facing South's Election Watch 2010 was a huge success. In case you missed them, here were some of the big stories we covered and broke about the changing Southern political landscape in 2010: 1 - HOW TO BUY A STATE LEGISLATURE ...
• After a long fight, the Senate funds justice for b ...
  Two years after Congress promised to help late petitioners in a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by black farmers, the Senate has finally approved the money. On Friday evening, the Senate allocated $1.15 billion to settle charges that the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated ...
• Hurricane recovery loans go to Baton Rouge refiner ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens The Louisiana Bond Commission voted last week to issue ExxonMobil Corporation $12 million more in tax-free, low-interest bonds to finance an upgrade of the petro giant's Baton Rouge facility. The $12 million approved Thursday comes on top of $300 million in Gulf Oppo ...
• A huge win for clean energy in Kentucky
  Clean energy activists are elated over a big victory in the heart of coal country, where a Kentucky power cooperative has agreed to cancel plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative struck a deal with an alliance of grassroots activists and others to ...

CenterLine

• Upcoming Event of Note
  The American Constitution Society’s New York Lawyer Chapter and Fordham University School of Law Student Chapter, along with the  New York State Bar Association on Civil Rights, present a discussion entitled, “Trial and Terror: A Discussion of When, Where and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Belgium Charges Nine with Terror Ties Nine people were charged Wednesday in Belgium, accused of having links to terror groups after two reportedly unrelated sweeps of arrests yesterday, one against a âChechen-linked Islamist groupâ and one against a group believed … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Reports: Taliban Leader in Talks Was an Imposter The man believed to be senior Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour and who had met with Afghan officials for months in peace talks was actually an imposter, according to multiple reports. … Continue reading →
• Omar Khadr’s Show Sentencing
  by Joshua L. Dratel According to media reports, during Omar Khadrâs Guantanamo military commission sentencing hearing last month, the prosecutor importuned the jury, composed of U.S. military officers, to âsend a messageâ to the world and impose a 25-year prison … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Al Qaeda Threatens Small-Scale Attacks, Details Cargo Plane Plot The latest issue of Inspire, an online magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, reportedly details the failed cargo plane plot last month and threatens more small-scale attacks against … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Brian Marsden, the man who made asteroids sexy, di ...
  The longtime head of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center calculated the orbits of thousands of asteroids and comets
• Truth in the time of cholera
  The United Nations doesn't want to be blamed for the cholera outbreak in Haiti – but what could it have done to avoid such accusations?
• Google's Street View causes a German food fight
  The search giant's foray into mapping the streets of Germany has touched off pranks, the usual controversy over privacy, and even vandalism.
• Fairground mirrors: answer to invasive body scanne ...
  One way to prevent revealing full-body airport security scans from becoming a privacy nightmare: distort peoples' bodies beyond recognition.
• Today on New Scientist: 24 November 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the race to hack a Kinect, links between religion and punishment, and a fly with an inflating head

Tech Drive In

• 10 Useful Open Source iPhone Applications
  If you are in search for Open Source applications for your mobile platform, we have produced one of the best collection of Open Source Android applications�already and now its iPhone's turn of affairs. Here is a useful collection of 10 Open Source iPhone applications. Last.fm for iPhone - Bring ...
• Apt-Fast Accelerates Your Apt-Get Download Speeds
  If you have ever wished for a much more faster software downloads in Ubuntu, well, apt-fast could possibly make your wishes come true. Apt-fast is a simple bash script that accelerates apt-get download speeds coinsiderably. Apt-fast and Axel Apt-fast is a simple command line utility that c ...
• Probably The Most Realistic CGI You Have Ever Seen ...
  This is seriously impressive. A video that looks so very realistic is supposedly done completely using various CGI techniques. Don't miss this�super-realistic computer-generated video. "At first glance, the minute-long commercial for kitchen worktops looks like slick, well-timed slow-moti ...
• Nero Linux 4 - Never Knew Nero had a Linux Version ...
  This might not be a news at all for most among you, but I was totally surprised when I first came to know about Nero Linux 4, a Linux version of Nero CD burning tool. Nero Linux 4 - Simply Rip, Burn and Copy for Linux OS Nero Linux 4 costs $9.99, but there is a demo version also available ...
• Opera 11 Beta Released With Impressive New Feature ...
  Opera does it again. Latest Opera 11 beta comes with a new impressive feature called Tab Stacking which is in many ways similar to Tab Candy in Firefox 4.0, but a lot more practical approach to the same problem. Opera 11 Beta Released for Windows, Mac and Linux The latest Opera 11 beta was ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Police agent provocateurs spurred on animal activi ...
  Austrian police and interior ministry officials infiltrated an animal rights organisation and spurred them on to commit actions that led to their being charged under harsh new laws concerning membership of criminal organisations, it has emerged. Read more in German at: http://www.krone.at/Niederoest ...
• All Wills to be checked in Austria following justi ...
  The Justice Minister Dr Claudia Bandion-Ortner has ordered all the Wills registered at magistrates courts in Austria to be checked following a scandal in Dörnbirn Vorelaberg where judges, solicitors and other justice officials colluded to forge the wills of dozens if not 100s or dead people. In Aust ...
• Kaprun victims press for justice in Austria
  A lwayer acting for relatives of the 159 victims of the Kaprun fire catastrophe have filed legal action against Austrian Justice Minister Dr Claudia Bandion Ortner and Kaprun Judge Manfred Seiss to block investigations into corruption from being blocked by the the corruption state prosecutor’s offi ...
• Korean War Crisis: Brought To You By Uncle Sam
  Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com November 23, 2010 Despite the fact that South Korea admits it fired the first shots that prompted the North to retaliate, the vast majority of the establishment press are feverishly blaming North Korea for a new escalation in the crisis, while failing completely to ac ...
• Finland’s vaccine watchdog that urged Pandem ...
  The revelation that Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is responsible for assessing whether the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine caused narcolepsy has sparked criticism. THL’s Professor Terhi Kilpi recommended that the government purchase GlxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix, but he has also ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Janet Napolitano refuses to test naked body scanne ...
  This policy is for you, not for her… Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. Yet when it came to testing the devices – which produce chalky, naked X-ray images of passengers – ...
• TSA Worker Abducts Woman
  Here are the type of people who are examining you at the airports… Transportation Security Administration employee is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in his west Georgia home. The alleged victim was abducted from a MARTA mass transit station parking lot in southwest Atlanta, an ...
• Jim Corr: Freedom from the Bankers – Ireland
• Ahmadinejad: They’re finished, the Zionist r ...
• Israel and the Global Frottage Pat Down Rape.
  By Les Visible Max Keiser says, boycott Coca Cola and you can bring down the system. He also says that if people start demanding physical silver, instead of buying the paper that says they own the silver, then J.P. Morgan- a front for Rothschild enterprises- will fall. This is because they are selli ...

Veterans Today

• Opsgear Announces The Opening Of A Site For Free T ...
  Each day in the United States and around the globe, guns, knives & fists are used to rob, rape and kill. Often times those senseless acts of violence could be prevented with some training.
• Ex-House Leader Tom DeLay Found Guilty in Texas Mo ...
  Tom DeLay symbolizes the Bush-Cheney-lobbyists corruption of the beginning of the new millennium By James McKinley Jr. in the NYT AUSTIN – A Texas jury Wednesday found Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader and architect of the Republican Partyâs 1994 takeover of Congress, guilty in a money-la ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  CONTRACTS: No. 1087-10 AIR FORCE Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation of Sunnyvale, Calif., was awarded an $85,859,894 contract modification to exercise the option to continue service under MILSATCOM Orbital Operations and Logistics Support. At this time, no funds have been obligated. SMC SLG/P ...
• Alan Hart : Sarah Palin and the missing “F” word
  Sarah Palin and international law are clearly complete strangers. By Alan Hart Sarah Palin (or her publisher) chose a title for her latest book with three “F” words -America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and the Flag. But surely there’s something missing. Another “F” word. One with four let ...
• AMERICA : THE SILENCE OF A NATION
  Excerpts from a speech by Chris Hedges. The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel’s murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank. Ded ...

electric politics

• American Presidential Dictatorship
  When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his lates ...
• 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 ...

PR News

• American Express promotes small businesses
  NEW YORK: American Express is preparing for "Small Business Saturday," an integrated program that partners with Facebook and is aimed at encouraging cardholders to shop at small businesses on November 29.
• Study outlines food personas for targeted messagin ...
  NEW YORK: American families are taking a healthier approach to food shopping, but those shopping for convenience and to appease children find it more difficult.
• Carver joins University of Maryland Medical System
  BALTIMORE: The University of Maryland Medical Center and its parent group the University of Maryland Medical System named Mary Lynn Carver SVP of communications and public affairs.
• Unigene hires Thomas as VP
  BOONTON, NJ: Unigene Laboratories named Jenene Thomas VP of IR and corporate communications, a new role at the company.
• Match.com finds chemistry with new AOR
  DALLAS: Match.com, including its Chemistry.com brand, hired DKC as its AOR, following an informal review that began in late September.

The Story Behind the Story

• Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
  To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
• 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. ...

k2p blog

• Antarctic sea ice extent almost 3 SD’s highe ...
  The ice extent in the Antarctic is reducing much slower than normally and currently the sea ice extent is about 9% higher or 3 Standard Deviations higher than the 1979 - 2000 average.
• Boeing 787 Dreamliner further delayed to fix elect ...
  Electrical problems which caused a fire on a test flight will cause a further delay for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
• Lowest November temperature since 1995, negative N ...
  Last night the temperature in Northern Sweden dropped to -37 Celsius, the coldest temperature recorded for a November day since 1995. The negative NAO is driving frigid polar air over Sweden
• Haiti cholera death toll revised up to 2,000, elec ...
  The Un is now confirming what others were reporting last week. In the next 3 months the number of cases will be around 200,000 though others think this could be closer to 375,000. The estimate for number of deaths so far has been revised up to 2,000 due to under-reporting from remote areas.
• “Be Afraid”:15,000 gather for Cancun j ...
  After the cold shower at Copenhagen, the UN Climate groupies are gathering at Cancun in Mexico for their next jamboree. Unlike Baden-Powell's scouts whose motto was to "Be Prepared" the motto in Cancun is "Be Afraid"

Left Foot Forward

• Real wages set to fall for three years
  A new report shows that cuts, rising inflation and stagnating pay will make lower middle classes £720 a year worse off. It shows that wages will fall in real terms until 2013.
• Changes at Left Foot Forward
  After nearly two years setting up and editing Left Foot Forward, I have decided to pass on the leadership of the blog to what Ed Miliband might call a “new generation”. Shamik Das, our excellent assistant editor becomes Acting Editor, and Daniel Elton, a trained fundraiser who has been working with ...
• Miliband urges Cameron to “overrule” G ...
  The debate over school sport reached Prime Minister's Questions today, with Ed Miliband putting David Cameron on the spot over cuts to the school sport budget. The Leader of the Opposition urged Mr Cameron to "overrule" Michael Gove, warning him he "will live to regret" the £162 million abolition of ...
• Ireland’s austerity: poor pay to keep corpor ...
  The Irish austerity package (confusingly dubbed a ‘recovery plan‘ by the BBC) can only be described as eye watering. But the focus on the poor while omitting any contribution from corporation tax indicates the ideological nature of this latest set of measures. The Irish government had already announ ...
• Big business oppose cuts – to greenhouse gas ...
  Big business is supportive of many of the public service spending cuts. But UK companies, and the business associations that represent them, are lobbying hard to delay cuts in another area where they could make a positive difference: greenhouse gas emissions. Europe-based companies, including BP and ...

Whistleblowers Protection

• Visit the National Whistleblower Center Speakers' ...
  to book speakers such as Bunny Greenhouse or Coleen Rowley for your next event.

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

• DHS & TSA: Making a List, Checking it Twice
  Canada Free Press By Doug Hagmann Following the publication of my article titled “Gate Rape of America,” I was contacted by a source within the DHS who is troubled by the terminology and content of an internal memo reportedly issued yesterday at the hand of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Indeed, bo ...
• U.S. Aircraft Carrier Headed to Korean Waters For ...
  The Intel Hub Tensions continue to rise in Korea days after a North Korean attack that killed 2 civilians and 2 South Korean soldiers. The South has bolstered security near their western islands as well as sharply increased their military arsenal. They have also ordered the islands near the border o ...
• Pentagon, Military Actively War Gaming ‘Large Scal ...
  SHTFPlan.com The majority of Americans believe that recent government intervention into financial markets, the economy and corporate insolvency has reversed the economic downturn which was described by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as being “on the brink” in 2008. The stimulus, bailouts and ...
• Endgame Legislation: Lame Duck Session Ushers in T ...
  Eric Blair Activist Post When most of us think about “lame duck” Congressional sessions we think of a “do-nothing” government. However, this so-called lame duck session appears to be a time where legislation that has the most restrictions to individual rights is being rammed through. It seems the me ...
• Agenda 21 Sustainability Violates Rights, Gulf Reg ...
  Human Rights Examiner Deborah Dupré Moments before Austin City Council passed its so-called ‘Energy Efficiency Upgrades Ordinance’ supporting globalists’ Agenda 21 for New World Order, John Bush testified, presenting Agenda 21′s history evidencing the evil plan for removing human and civil rights, ...

  Blacklisted News

• Burning with anger: London streets in flames again ...
• Afghanistan Has Been Having Peace Talks With a Fak ...
  Did you hear about the secret talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban aimed at ending the War in Afghanistan? Well, it turns out the "senior commander" the Afghan government was meeting with... wasn't.
• Children 'to be hit by IMF plans'
  Thousands of children will be hungry and cold if the Government rolls out cost-cutting plans signed off by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it has been claimed. A leading children's rights campaigner warned any cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage will directly affect underpr ...
• $335,906 Is The Price Of The Constitution
  When Senators give speeches, they will say that you can't put a price on freedom. But as it turns out you can. You can actually put an exact dollar amount on the Constitution. And that amount is $335,906.
• Dublin to unveil deep austerity plan as Germany wa ...
  In a race against time, or at least against the 'bond vigilantes', the Irish government is to publish a stiff austerity plan on Wednesday afternoon whose drafting was supervised to by the EU-IMF troika.

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter: November 24, 2010
  Mixed Headlines: Even the International Energy Agency Forecasts Peak Oil Escaping From The American...
• NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
  Rick Rozoff As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unveils its first 21st century strategic...
• Black Friday: A Festival Of Greed In The Midst Of ...
  By Michael T Snyder Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line...
• BDS update: Anti-apartheid Hagues
  Despite the stranglehold Israel lobbies have on Euro-parliaments and politicians, there have been...
• U.S. Commodore Stephen Decatur’s Philosophy Haunts ...
  By Sherwood Ross When Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, 1941, he...

My AntiWar

• Cuba Inspired by China’s Economic Reform, To ...
• At Least 23 Shi’ites Killed in Northern Yeme ...
• Ambulance Service: 4,200 Somalis Killed in 2 Years
• Much-Hyped US Airport Pat-Down Protest Fizzles
• Piracy Convictions First in Nearly 200 Years

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Gareth Porter: "Evidence" against Iran certainly f ...
  Summary: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the fraudulent evidence that is cited as proof Iran had a nuclear weapons program and how outdated missile schematics in the MEK (or Mossad)-sourced “smoking laptop” cast suspicion on the rest of the purloined ( ...
• Iran Laptop Papers Showed the Wrong Missile Warhea ...
  Summary: PorterWASHINGTON, Nov 19, 2010 (IPS) - The most important intelligence documents used to argue that Iran had a covert nuclear weapons research and development programme in 2003 - a set of technical drawings of efforts to fit what appears to be a nuclear payload into the reentry vehicle ...
• "Evidence" of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be ...
  Summary: Since 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – with the support of the United States, Israel and European allies UK, France and Germany – has been demanding that Iran explain a set of purported internal documents portraying a covert Iranian military program of research and ...
• To Sanction, or Not to Sanction—That is the Questi ...
  Summary: Majd Sanctions, or any kind of external pressure or even threats of military action, will be, in the end, self-defeating. source: Global Expert Finder read more
• Israel vs Iran: the Washington factor
  Summary: Paul Rogers The mid-term election results in the United States carry implications for Israel’s military plans towards Iran. source: Open Democracy read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Epic Discovery: Universe's Most Massive Galaxies ...
  Some of the universe's most massive galaxies may have formed billions of years earlier than current scientific models predict, according to surprising new research led by Tufts University. The newly identified galaxies were five to ten times more massive than...
• "Anti-Quasar!" -The Strange Black Holes in Androm ...
  Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue dot in the center of the image is a "cool" million-degree x-ray source where a supermassive black hole with the mass...
• Image of the Day: The Ghoulish Beauty of the Cone ...
  The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright star just above the cone is the tree topper and the very bright star at...
• Mount Everest's Sherpas Ring Warning Bell on Globa ...
  When sherpas ring the warning bell on climate change the world should listen: Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to Apa, a Nepalese Sherpa who grew up...
• Are Jupiter's Massive Belt & Great Red Spot (Three ...
  Jupiter's massive, and recently new, white band isn't the only change on the big, gas giant. At the same time, Jupiter's Great Red Spot became a darker red color. said Glenn Orton, a research scientist at JPL The color of...

Natural News

• TSA turns off naked body scanners to avoid opt-out ...
  (NaturalNews) Anticipating a nationwide grassroots surge of protests against naked body scanners and aggressive pat-downs, the TSA simply turned off its naked body scanners on Wednesday and let air travelers walk right through security checkpoints without being X-rayed or molested.All across the cou ...
• Don't Touch My Junk song composer posts commentary ...
  (NaturalNews) By popular request, I've posted a commentary video that provides background information on the creation of the song as well as some blunt talk about security, freedom, the TSA and the Bill of Rights.This Don't Touch My Junk commentary video is available at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp? ...
• Omega-3 fatty acids prevent and may reverse gum di ...
  (NaturalNews) Periodontitis is an extremely common, and often painful, inflammatory disease of the gums. It causes tissue to separate from teeth, resulting in the accumulation of bacteria and potential bone and tooth loss. Mainstream medicine typically treats the chronic disease with strong antibiot ...
• UK to boost vaccination rates by pumping babies wi ...
  (NaturalNews) Apparently drug companies are no longer satisfied with a tiered vaccine schedule, and would rather have babies receive their shots all at the same time in order to ensure full compliance. A recent announcement by the U.K. Department of Health insists that babies should receive a six-in ...
• Naked body scanner companies heavily lobbied polit ...
  (NaturalNews) A new report has revealed that manufacturers of the invasive and dangerous new naked body scanners popping up in airports across the country more than doubled their political lobbying spending in recent years. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, scanner companies ...

Threat Level

• Air Travelers Opting Out of Opting Out
  A grassroots opt-out protest planned at airports around the country appears to have fizzled, as early reports indicate that most travelers on Wednesday were opting out of opting out of fully body scans. The protest, called by groups such as WeWontFly.com, encouraged airline passengers to opt out of ...
• WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cable Dump Reportedly Imminen ...
  The Pentagon warned lawmakers on Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ long-expected release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables could come as soon as Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cables “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” according to an e-mail ...
• Judge Bars ‘Fair Use’ Defense in Xbox Modding Tria ...
  A California man charged with violating the DMCA by installing mod chip in Xbox 360 consoles won’t be allowed to claim “fair use” at his scheduled jury trial next week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday — a decision potentially devastating to the defense, and not particularly favorable to anyone who thi ...
• TSA Chief Apologizes to Airline Passenger Soaked i ...
  An airline passenger outfitted with a urine bag for medical reasons had to sit through his flight soaked in urine after a TSA agent dislodged his bag during an aggressive security pat-down. Nearly a month later, he finally received an apology from TSA chief John Pistole. Tom Sawyer, who wears a uro ...
• Audit Faults TSA’s Training of Airport Screeners a ...
  Flying for Thanksgiving? Whether you plan to submit patriotically to a naked body scan, or opt instead for the full security grope, you can at least rest assured that the 43,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) handling airport screening have benefited from the most rigorous and up-to-date t ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP Urges Slashing Corporate Taxes as Profits Hit ...
  Despite a decade of Bush tax cut windfalls for the wealthy pushing income inequality to levels not seen since 1929, Republicans are calling for another $700 billion, 10-year payday for the richest Americans. So it should come as no surprise that as corporate profits reached an all-time record in th ...
• "You Don't Have Any Civil Liberties If You're Dead ...
  Be careful what you ask for; you just might get it. So it is with the uproar from disingenuous conservatives trying to capitalize on the public outcry over the TSA's airport body scans and aggressive pat-downs. While Charles Krauthammer now spouts "don't touch my junk" and Rush Limbaugh declares, ...
• 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts
  In a rare moment of candor last week, the third-ranking Republican in the House admitted the failure of the Bush tax cuts. "You know, I think it's fair to say, if the current tax rates were enough to create jobs and generate economic growth we'd have a growing economy," Mike Pence acknowledged, add ...
• Obama Saves U.S. Auto Industry from the Party of H ...
  As the American auto industry teetered on the brink of collapse in December 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney beseeched his GOP allies in Congress to back an aid package, warning, "If we don't do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever." Which is exactly right. Because while R ...
• 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
  In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
• What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
  By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
• INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
  When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
• Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
  Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
• Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
  Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

Consortium News

• Iran-Nuke NIE Stopped Bush on War
  A US intelligence estimate refuting claims about Iran's nuke plans killed George W. Bush's war option, reports Ray McGovern. November 22, 2010
• Pat-Down Fury vs. Perfect Security
  America's post-9/11 hysteria may finally be abating as over-the-top airport security outrages the public, says Ivan Eland. November 23, 2010
• A Dark Humor Pervades US Politics
  Victorious Tea Party Republicans bring to Washington not just their ideas but their own curious reality, observes Don Monkerud. November 22, 2010
• Obama's Frantic Mideast Peace Gamble
  President Obama begs Israel's Likud government to return to peace talks, offering many incentives, notes Lawrence Davidson. November 22, 2010
• America's 'Christian Nation' Myth
  A new poll finds a majority of Americans believing the Founders created a "Christian nation," laments Rev. Howard Bess. November 22, 2010

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Cape Town Opera play Tel Aviv amid calls for boyco ...
• Palestinian community destroyed (Kareem Khadder, ...
  Israeli bulldozers Wednesday destroyed housing and animal structures in a Palestinian Bedouin community, its residents said. More than 200 Israeli special forces personnel and more than 2 ...
• Let Israel keep its freeze (Lamis Andoni, Al Jaze ...
  At the beginning of his term, Barack Obama became the first US president to call for a halt in Jewish settlement construction in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories as a prerequi ...
• Jewish settlers move into house after Israeli poli ...
  Fadi Kareem, 21, a member of the evicted family, said: "They came when I was asleep. Police came with loaded weapons aiming them at us, and told us to get out. We knew it was coming but h ...
• The Knesset has killed the two state solution (Di ...
  I just finished watching a live transmission of the Knesset vote on the referendum law. The law, which passed at a majority of 65 to 33, conditions any Israeli withdrawal from any of its ...

Water - AlterNet

• 8 Things Progressives Can Be Thankful For
  Chin up, after all we've got Rachel Maddow, health care, Pittsburgh's f-you to corporate control, and a whole lot more to be thankful for.
• 8 Things Progressive Can Be Thankful For
  Chin up, after all we've got Rachel Maddow, health care, Pittsburgh's f-you to corporate control, and a whole lot more to be thankful for.
• Why Carbon Trading Can't Solve Our Water Crisis
  In a recent NYT opinion argues that one of the best ways to ensure that the world's poorest have access to water is through carbon trading. Here's why they're wrong.
• 28 Must-Read Books That Will Forever Change How Yo ...
  Now if all these books were printed on tree-free paper with soy-based ink, we'd be another step towards true sustainability. Otherwise, the audio or e-book will suffice.
• Pennsylvania Gas Drillers Dumping Radioactive Wast ...
  How did it happen? Provide the revenue-hungry county a rich payout, exploit a legal loophole, and presto, it's a done deal.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Happy Thanksgiving? Not if climate change has anyt ...
  Climate change may be affecting the nasty weather that is ensnaring many holiday travelers. And to add insult to injury, warming will affect the price, quality, and availability of your favorite Thanksgiving foods, especially turkey, whose meat will become firmer, less juicy, and tasteless.
• Come tonight to the town hall meeting on the TCEQ ...
  Austin town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset review – Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of Texas campus. (This auditorium is located in the basement level of Sid Richardson Hall.) All are invited to attend t ...
• Solar incentive funds in the Oncore area or Yes, V ...
  For the last few months people who wanted to install solar systems in the Oncore service area have been disappointed as they have been told that the incentive funds are all reserved. It turns out there is another pool of funds available that has been harder to find. The Oncore website lists all the ...
• Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
• Tom Delay GUILTY
  Tom Delay has been convicted of money-laundering by a Travis County jury. After three days of deliberation in  former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s corruption trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty.  Tom DeLay‘s defense team, presented five witnesses over two days, resting its case  on T ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• 'Baby born' captured on Google Street View
  The Google Street View cameras seem to have caught a baby being born on a street in Germany. Speculation is rife over whether or not the scene involvi...
• Ghost child filmed in cemetery ?
  In 2008 17-year-old Jessie Grayhouse filmed something very strange at a cemetery in Georgia. He'd been filming the tombstones when he noticed a child ...
• Open safety pin found in girl's sinus cavity
  Doctors were shocked to discover a safety-pin in the sinus cavity of a 6-year-old girl. Her parents had taken her to a doctor to be checked out follow...
• 8m crocodile lurks in Queensland river
  Locals in Queensland's Gulf country have reported sightings of an 8m long crocodile in the area. Pastor Elton Thompson says he took photographs of sli...
• Google map users review Area 51
  Users of Google's map service have taken to leaving reviews of the enigmatic Area 51 base. Pranksters claiming to have visited the site which is avail...

Grassroots

• A New Kind of Disaster in Haiti in the Midst of St ...
  un_haiti_tent.jpg Haitian peasant leader, Chavannes Jean Baptiste, put it best: �Haiti is going from disaster to disaster.��He was talking about debilitating disease among displaced people in squalid living conditions, tropical storms destroyi ...
• 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 ...

Climate

• EU Launches 2013 Ban on Disputed HFC Carbon Offset ...
  Source:� Reuters The EU has proposed banning HFC-23 carbon offsets from 2013, mostly from India and China, in order to boost money flowing to offset projects in the poorest countries.
• 2010 So Far "Tied for Hottest Year"
  Source:� Reuters This year is so far tied for the hottest year on record in a new sign of a warming trend, the three major institutes which calculate global warming estimates said. �
• Greenhouse Gases 'Rise to Record Levels in 2009'
  Source:� AFP Greenhouse gas concentrations reached record levels in 2009, the UN's weather agency said, warning that global warming could set off even greater methane emissions from the Arctic. �
• Investors Hope U.N. Talks Keep Climate Deal on Tra ...
  Source:� Reuters Investors in "green" assets hope that upcoming U.N. climate talks will salvage a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in 2011, and in the meantime widen and simplify existing carbon markets.
• Obama Administration Sets Aside 'Critical Habitat' ...
  Source:� AP The Obama administration is setting aside 187,000 square miles in Alaska as a "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to future offshore drilling. read more

GreenBiz

• Why Water is a Risk and Opportunity Your Company C ...
  Without a clean, constant and secure water supply, many of the world's industries would undoubtedly collapse. But with every risk lies an opportunity, and smart companies such as PG&E and Woolworths are moving to reap the rewards from reducing their customers' consumption and strengthening their sup ...
• Why Russia is the Land of Opportunity for Climate ...
  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 ...
• The Greening of Professional Sports
  From coast to coast, and in every professional sport, teams and their owners are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts, from solar-powered scoreboards to stadiums located in the heart of neighborhoods, rather than beyond city limits.
• General Mills' Five-Year Goals Aim to Cut Impacts ...
  The company wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and water and energy each by 20 percent, while also halving its solid waste generation by 2015.
• 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 ...

Reuters Global

• Is Kosovo ready for visa-free travel to the Europe ...
  Citizens of Kosovo want to travel to the European Union without visas. Will the EU consider it? Or will concerns over illegal migration and border security prevail?
• Al Qaeda, its branches and Afghanistan
  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have commented specifically on Afghanistan this month. Coincidence or coordination?
• Sentenced to death: On Pakistan’s minorities
  The sentencing to death for blasphemy of a Christian woman in Pakistan has revived discussion about the treatment of minorities.
• Macedonia and Greece could look to EU for help
  A row with Greece over Macedonia's name has blocked Skopje's path to the European Union and NATO. The EU may find the way forward.
• Ahead of Lisbon, soul-searching in Pakistan
  Pakistanis are questioning their state's involvement with militant organisations and asking if they would be better-off focusing on rebuilding a shattered economy than chasing strategic goals.

Booman Tribune

• Tom DeLay is Convicted of Money-Laundering
  Tom DeLay is one step closer to the slammer: Tom DeLay, one of the most powerful and divisive Republican lawmakers to ever come out of Texas, was convicted Wednesday of money laundering charges in a state trial, five years after his indictment here forced him to resign as majority leader in the H ...
• Sarah vs. Barbara
  I don't know why Sarah Palin loves the Bushes. They all think she's trash. But, in a fight between Barbara Bush and Sarah Palin, I think I'd actually take Palin's side. I can't say Sarah's exactly earned what she has, but she kind of half-worked for it. Barb never lifted a pinkie in her life. A ...
• Taibbi on Mortgage Fraud
  Matt Taibbi's latest piece focuses on the Rocket Docket court set up in Jacksonville to expedite a backlog of foreclosure cases in the state of Florida. It's a well-written, well-argued article, and you really should spend the half-hour it takes to read it because it helps explain the collapse of t ...
• Is Earmark Reform a Good Idea?
  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) are being allowed an amendment to the Food Safety bill that would make it a requirement that any bill with an earmark get 60 votes. Maybe because this is a change in the rules, the amendment will need the support of two-thirds of the Senate (67 vo ...
• Find Something for Lieberman to Do
  I think that the best move with regard to Joe Lieberman is to provide him with an out. He can't win reelection under any realistic scenario. He may get desperate and start flirting around with trying to win the Republican nomination, but it's not a realistic option for him and it would probably co ...

European Tribune

• Not what they used to be ...
  Key things to know about the Irish Recovery Plan: Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - No ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1841 - birth of...
• Wednesday Open Thread
  Go on, you know you want one...
• Ireland's 4 year Austerity Plan
  As approved by our new EU/IMF overlords: RTÉ coverage here, including links to the full...
• Germany continues to be helpful
  EUobserver: Dublin to unveil deep austerity plan as Germany warns euro 'at stake'In a race...

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

• The Psychology of Christmas Shopping
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The holiday shopping season begins in earnest this Friday, and retailers will be going all out to win the hard-earned dollars of gift-giving folks. The L.A. Times explores some of the manipulative tools retailers can use in a recent article titled “Buyer beware –  of ...
• College Students Face Soaring Psychological Stress
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Certainly the college experience can be a lot of fun: parties, new friends, travel abroad, extracurriculars, and even some exciting classes. But to anyone who has experienced college and then looked back from the other side, it’s no surprise that this is a highly stres ...
• Culturally-Tuned Depression Treatment is More Succ ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Tailoring therapy and mental health intervention to the cultural needs of specific populations has proven effective in a recent study funded by the National Institute for Mental Health. The study took place at a community health center in Boston’s Chinatown and focused ...
• Depression, Anxiety, and Motherhood
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s estimated that one in ten new mothers experiences depression after the birth of her child. But mothers whose children are born with congenital heart disease are far more likely to struggle psychologically and emotionally. Coping with a child’s health struggles is ...
• Why Kids Use Drugs
  By Daniel Goldin, LMFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Daniel and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile I have two very different teenage clients who use drugs. The first we’ll call Brittany, a seventeen year old girl whose parents are divorced but who both ar ...

Mountaintop Removal

• In Coal Country, A Win for Clean Energy - Our Futu ...
  In Coal Country, A Win for Clean Energy Our Future Planet Kentuckians for the Commonwealth opposes mountaintop removal coal mining. Photo credit: Laura Heller Clean energy activists are elated over a big victory in ...
• Want to Help End Mountaintop Removal? Send Aid to ...
  Want to Help End Mountaintop Removal? Send Aid to the Frontlines AlterNet (blog) (This list is by no means extensive for this national movement; given that more than half of the mountaintop removal operations are in eastern Kentucky�not ... Citizen groups seek to intervene in WVDEP's lawsuit agains ...
• RAN names Coal MTR CEO Blankenship to its Board of ...
  RAN names Coal MTR CEO Blankenship to its Board of Directors Infoshop News Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, a coal mining company responsible for much of the mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining in Central Appalachia, ... and more��
• Conflicting policies frustrate coal industry, oppo ...
  Conflicting policies frustrate coal industry, opponents ScrippsNews President Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency, headed by Lisa P. Jackson, has sought to limit mountaintop removal mining. ... and more��
• The Mountain Heroes - E/The Environmental Magazine
  E/The Environmental Magazine The Mountain Heroes E/The Environmental Magazine In a campaign called Mountain Heroes, Earthjustice hopes to connect the world at large with stories of those most impacted by mountaintop removal, ...

Memeorandum

• DeLay convicted of money-laundering charges in cam ...
  Washington Post: DeLay convicted of money-laundering charges in campaign finance scheme  —  Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, the Texan architect of Republican power in Congress, was convicted Wednesday of illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to home-state legislative candida ...
• Palin responds to Bushes' criticism: No offense bu ...
  Allahpundit / Hot Air: Palin responds to Bushes' criticism: No offense but they're “blue bloods”  —  Too bad it wasn't Huckabee who tossed this rhetorical grenade, as we could have spent a fun afternoon ripping on him in the comments for such a heavy-handed populist pander.  (Huck would have thrown ...
• Obama on North Korea: China Must Help (Huma Khan/A ...
  Huma Khan / ABCNEWS: Obama on North Korea: China Must Help  —  In Interview with Barbara Walters, Obama Calls on China to Take a Stand Against North Korea  —  President Obama today strongly condemned North Korea's attack on South Korea and, in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters, ...
• Fliers Claim TSA Have Deactivated Body Scanners [U ...
  Joel Johnson / Gizmodo: Fliers Claim TSA Have Deactivated Body Scanners [Updated]  —  According to tweeting travelers, many backscatter and millimeter-wave AIT scanning machines at airports are not in use at all, making opting out impossible.  We've asked DHS/TSA for comment, but you can help us c ...
• Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial ...
  Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press: Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial  —  Below:  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress — was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate mon ...

Energy & Environment News

• After the Nuclear Plant Powers Down
  Instead of hiring a contractor, Exelon has turned the job and the reactors over to a nuclear demolition company.
• Green Column: A Fight for a Name — and Surv ...
  SolarWorld, a German maker of solar modules, is throwing a lot of resources at building its brand when selling its products outside of its domestic market.
• Nations That Debate Coal Use Export It to Feed Chi ...
  As developed countries limit the construction of coal-fired power plants, coal has found a rapidly growing market in China.
• Exxon Mobil Settles State Suit on Newtown Creek Cl ...
  The oil company’s agreement with New York State calls for a faster and more thorough cleanup of spills along the creek.
• China Restarts Rare Earth Shipments to Japan
  Shipments of the minerals, which are vital to products ranging from smartphones to wind turbines, were halted in late September in the context of a diplomatic dispute.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Tajikistan
  Thursday, November 25, 2010 09:27:32 UTCThursday, November 25, 2010 02:27:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 115.90 km (72.02 mi)
• M 5.1, near the coast of Ecuador
  Thursday, November 25, 2010 04:19:43 UTCWednesday, November 24, 2010 11:19:43 PM at epicenterDepth: 53.00 km (32.93 mi)
• M 5.1, south of the Mariana Islands
  Thursday, November 25, 2010 03:28:07 UTCThursday, November 25, 2010 01:28:07 PM at epicenterDepth: 31.70 km (19.70 mi)
• M 5.4, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  Monday, November 22, 2010 05:09:51 UTCMonday, November 22, 2010 02:09:51 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
• M 5.2, Vanuatu
  Saturday, November 20, 2010 06:12:03 UTCSaturday, November 20, 2010 05:12:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 231.70 km (143.97 mi)

China Dialogue

• Nervous neighbours
  Construction of a large-scale dam in Tibet is prompting familiar fears downstream on the Brahmaputra. Joydeep Gupta reports on India's concerns.Only five rivers in the world carry more water than the Yarlung Zangbo, or Brahmaputra as it is known when it reaches India. Only one carries more silt. Ris ...
• Riding roughshod in Inner Mongolia
  Grassland protection policies in northern China threaten to wipe out a rare breed of horse and ancient cultural emblem. Zhou Wei went to meet two herders trying to save them.On November 12, two herders from Khaskatun in Inner Mongolia wrote to the local authority petitioning it to protect the Mongol ...
• Slideshow: China’s wetland crisis
  This year, photographer Sean Gallagher travelled across China, documenting the impact of the country’s vanishing wetlands. In a series of images, he introduces a striking story of decline.Wetlands are found on every continent on earth, as rivers, shallow lakes, swamps, mangroves, estuaries and flo ...
• Unpicking China’s grain prices
  Cereal costs are surging in both Chinese and global markets – but for very different reasons, state researcher Cheng Guoqiang tells Wen Yu.After his sister-in-law moved to Beijing, Zhao Xiaojun of Huangcheng village in Hebei, north China, worked out the economics of borrowing two mu (1,333 square me ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• 8 Things Progressives Can Be Thankful For
  Chin up, after all we've got Rachel Maddow, health care, Pittsburgh's f-you to corporate control, and a whole lot more to be thankful for.
• The Pentagon Gives Itself an E for Effort on the F ...
  Released on the eve of the December strategy review, the Pentagon’s latest “Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan (.pdf)” shows that the insurgents’ momentum has not been broken, despite repeated claims by U.S. and NATO officials. Here’s how the report describes the insurge ...
• New Low For Afghanistan War: 47 Percent of Militar ...
  Every day, more and more people are willing to state the obvious: the Afghanistan War isn’t making us safer and it’s not worth the cost. Now the president is losing a powerful constituency on his Afghanistan policy: almost half of military families say the troops should be brought home . Let’s think ...
• Of Michelle Obama’s Patriotism and Sarah Palin’s I ...
  I am and have been transparent in my disdain towards Sarah Palin. She took stupid all the way to the bank; is a succubus of, and lightening road for, the worst sort of Right-wing populist know-nothing nonsense; and is an expert performer of a particularly noxious type of rural blackface. Apparent ...
• Join in on the World's Biggest Bank Run This Decem ...
  The simple act of removing all of our money from the banks, and doing so in mass on the same day - December 7th would put a huge scare in the financial barons.

Threat Level

• Air Travelers Opting Out of Opting Out
  A grassroots opt-out protest planned at airports around the country appears to have fizzled, as early reports indicate that most travelers on Wednesday were opting out of opting out of fully body scans. The protest, called by groups such as WeWontFly.com, encouraged airline passengers to opt out of ...
• WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cable Dump Reportedly Imminen ...
  The Pentagon warned lawmakers on Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ long-expected release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables could come as soon as Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cables “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” according to an e-mail ...
• Judge Bars ‘Fair Use’ Defense in Xbox Modding Tria ...
  A California man charged with violating the DMCA by installing mod chip in Xbox 360 consoles won’t be allowed to claim “fair use” at his scheduled jury trial next week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday — a decision potentially devastating to the defense, and not particularly favorable to anyone who thi ...
• TSA Chief Apologizes to Airline Passenger Soaked i ...
  An airline passenger outfitted with a urine bag for medical reasons had to sit through his flight soaked in urine after a TSA agent dislodged his bag during an aggressive security pat-down. Nearly a month later, he finally received an apology from TSA chief John Pistole. Tom Sawyer, who wears a uro ...
• Audit Faults TSA’s Training of Airport Screeners a ...
  Flying for Thanksgiving? Whether you plan to submit patriotically to a naked body scan, or opt instead for the full security grope, you can at least rest assured that the 43,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) handling airport screening have benefited from the most rigorous and up-to-date t ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• New corruption scandal deals blow to India's image
  NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's reputation as a place to do business took another hit after the scandal-tainted government charged top public sector bankers with accepting bribes worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Exclusive: Corruption charges to feature in WikiLe ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Classified U.S. diplomatic cables reporting corruption allegations against foreign governments and leaders are expected in official documents that WikiLeaks plans to release soon, sources said on Wednesday.
• South Korea strengthens military near border
  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea ordered extra troops deployed on islands near North Korea on Thursday with Pyongyang warning it would follow its latest bombardment with more attacks if its wealthy neighbor tried any "provocations."
• Kanye West set to bounce Susan Boyle from No. 1
  LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kanye West will likely end Susan Boyle's two-week reign on the next U.S. pop album chart, according to early prognostications from industry gurus.
• If it's Thanksgiving, you must be shopping .
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Forget the turkey and the football -- if it's Thanksgiving, why aren't you shopping?

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #456 (Israel edition)
  US Senate intel committee ex-chief wants Israel spy free. Israel about to announce next Mossad chief. Mossad book authors accused of plagiarism. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #455
  Israel says it did not kill German politician. Foreign cyber spies targeted UK defense official. The 10 most interesting CIA-backed startups. Continue reading →
• Colombians blast Panama for sheltering ex-spy dire ...
  ublic prosecutors in Colombia have strongly criticized the Panamanian government for granting political asylum to one of Colombiaâs former spy directors, who is facing charges of spying on opposition figures. Continue reading →
• Did Mossad kill German politician involved in Iran ...
  Accusations of Israeli involvement in the suspicious death of a German politician have been revived, following new autopsy evidence revealed by a medical examiner. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #454
  Georgia lets Russian envoy visit jailed spy suspect. Danish agency aware of CIA spying since 2004. Iran charges German reporters with espionage. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

• Canberra on alert for WikiLeaks
  AUSTRALIAN officials are bracing for a massive leak of classified US State Department cables. November 26, 2010 - These cables could include embarrassing disclosures about Canberra's secret diplomacy on controversial issues, such as the war in Iraq. The Gillard government was one of several foreign ...
• War Preparedness 101
  By Kevin Young, ZNet read more
• Exposing Israel's Fraudulent Third Periodic Report ...
  Exposing Israel's Fraudulent Third Periodic Report to the UN - by Stephen Lendman On October 18, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights offered an "Alternative Report" response to Israel's submission, sent to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). Submitting to the UN, Ah ...
• Poems Against War
  By Hal O'Leary AMERICA AND APPLE PIE America and apple pie With these we're told we must comply Yes, ours is not to reason why, FOR GOD AND COUNTRY IS THE CRY. But please believe, IT'S ALL A LIE. And I am here to verify To testify and certify That wars are fought to satisfy The greed of tho ...
• They May Not Work, but They Do Cause Cancer: Invas ...
  By James Ridgeway Are you one of the millions of Americans flying this Thanksgiving weekend? Are you thinking about joining the national protest to opt-out of being run through an airport X-ray scanner? If you’re worried about the alternative--getting groped by TSA screeners at the checkpoint--you ...

Grist - News

• Feds designate ‘critical’ polar bear h ...
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government on Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could affect new oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic. The Fish and Wildlife Service set aside 187,000 square miles ...
• Find out where your city is most walkable with Wal ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Today, Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable. That could be useful if, say, you're visiting an unfamiliar city on holiday travel and want to burn off some extra stuffin ...
• Moscow’s transportation policy makes even Re ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Newly elected Republican leaders may be blocking passenger-rail plans in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey and wishing it were the 1950s in Congressional transportation policy, but at least we're doing better than Moscow. Stephen Smith of Market Urbanism takes a look at new may ...
• Mother of Green Party candidate killed by SUV beco ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Natasha Pettigrew, a Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, died on Sept. 20 after a Cadillac Escalade struck her while she was bicycling. The 30-year-old was training for a triathlon about an hour before sunrise. The driver didn't stop and didn't call police until ...
• G20 vows to ‘spare no effort’ for Canc ...
  by Agence France-Presse. SEOUL -- The world's 20 largest rich and emerging economies including China vowed Friday to "spare no effort" at upcoming climate change talks in Mexico, a year after Beijing stymied a deal in Copenhagen. "We will spare no effort to reach a balanced and successful outcom ...

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• Lars Rasmussen Quits Google, Joins Facebook
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• Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• No Cell Phones for Unwed Women in Indian Village
  Honor killing drags India backwards
• Giving Thanks
  This is the perfect time of year to express our joyful gratitude.
• Nintendo and iPad at the Top of Kids Wishlists
  Nielsen Poll shows kids want the hi-tech, high-priced goods. Are you shelling out for an iPad this year?
• American Corporations are all About Profits - Not ...
  While millions of Americans are still unemployed, American corporations achieve record profits and enjoy special tax treatment. What's the matter with this picture?
• NFL Picks Week 12
  Who wins and why - you know you want to know

Time - Top Stories

• Hammered: What Punishment Will Tom DeLay Get?
  The former House Majority Leader was stunned at his guilty verdict for money laundering but he is unlikely to get the maximum penalty
• Pilgrim's Progress: Shaking Up the Turkey Dinner T ...
  Forget the obligatory Butterball. New trends are making Thanksgiving a movable feast
• Philippines: Hope, Finally, for a Family Planning ...
  While Catholics and critics digest the Pope's most recent pronouncement on prophylactics, the Philippines is mired in its own debate about family planning, population and the place of the church in the 21st century
• 'Burlesque' Review: Moderate Musical Lacks Fun Bad ...
  The good news: Cher and Christina Aguilera's 'Burlesque' is nowhere near as bad as 'Showgirls.' Unfortunately, that's also kind of the bad news
• Holiday Shopping Tip: Bring Along Your Shrink
  I thought the recession was supposed to make absurd, conspicuous purchases like these go away. Guess I was wrong.

Washington Independent

• From AINN’s President and CEO: A Letter of T ...
  Closing The Washington Independent and reducing capacity at The New Mexico Independent are difficult milestones in an otherwise remarkable year for The American Independent News Network. We have been able to accomplish so much, and with so much less. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to give ...
• 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 ...

Digg Green

• Cat vs Gator Video Explained
  When a cat meets an alligator in a viral video...the cat wins? How is that possible? James Williams talks to an alligator expert to find out.
• BT Considers Shifting Service Fleet to Electr ...
  Company announces trial of electric vans and promises wider roll-out if the pilot scheme proves successful.
• Are Disposable eReaders In Our Future?
  Scientists at University of Cincinnati have figured out how to use a plain old sheet of paper as a surface for electrowetting, the technology behind e-paper such as used in e-readers and similar devices.
• Why Texas May Be A Better Electric-Car State ...
  When power plant heavyweight NRG Energy announced yesterday that it would invest $10 million in the rollout of the nation’s first privately-finance electric vehicle charging network it also revealed that the city it would debut in would be … Houston, Texas. Um, what?
• How Science Is Changing Your Thanksgiving Mea ...
  Thanks to biotechnology and widespread genetic modification, this isn't your grandma's feast

Invisible Opportunity

• Janet Napolitano refuses to test naked body scanne ...
  This policy is for you, not for her… Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. Yet when it came to testing the devices – which produce chalky, naked X-ray images of passengers – ...
• TSA Worker Abducts Woman
  Here are the type of people who are examining you at the airports… Transportation Security Administration employee is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in his west Georgia home. The alleged victim was abducted from a MARTA mass transit station parking lot in southwest Atlanta, an ...
• Jim Corr: Freedom from the Bankers – Ireland
• Ahmadinejad: They’re finished, the Zionist r ...
• Israel and the Global Frottage Pat Down Rape.
  By Les Visible Max Keiser says, boycott Coca Cola and you can bring down the system. He also says that if people start demanding physical silver, instead of buying the paper that says they own the silver, then J.P. Morgan- a front for Rothschild enterprises- will fall. This is because they are selli ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• 8 Things Progressive Can Be Thankful For
  Chin up, after all we've got Rachel Maddow, health care, Pittsburgh's f-you to corporate control, and a whole lot more to be thankful for.
• A Thanksgiving Miracle for Children of Incarcerate ...
  Terrance Stevens' dream was to help the many children of NY State prisoners that live in his Harlem community and had been left with a great void in their lives.
• Weirdest Training Drill Ever: Feds Imagine Marijua ...
  Northern California is home to thousands of pot growers. There are no known incidents of pot farmer terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure.
• Dutch Want to Ban Foreigners from Marijuana Coffee ...
  The newly elected rightist Dutch government said it wants to bar foreigners from the country's famous cannabis coffee shops.
• Senate Throws Softball Questions in DEA Chief Conf ...
  DEA chief nominee Leonhart is opposed by the drug reform, medical marijuana, and hemp movements, but insiders say it is all but a done deal.

Twilight Earth

• Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
  More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Kiefer Technic Showroom Has Mind Blowing “Dancing” ...
  Read the rest of Kiefer Technic Showroom Has Mind Blowing “Dancing” Facadehttp://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: dynamic facade, Eco Arch ...
• Feast on Fantastical Food Art Landscapes for Thank ...
  This Thanksgiving, if mom is giving you grief for turning mashed potatoes into gravy-covered mountains, maybe you can get her to appreciate your handiwork by showing her these fantastical food photos. It’s all the work of Carl Warner, a UK-based photographer who has spent the last ten years, well, p ...
• Sahara Solar Breeder Project Will Turn Desert Into ...
  The Sahara Solar Breeder Project is currently being developed by scientists from leading universities in Japan, and will use the world’s biggest desert as its main energy source. The idea behind the initiative is to build silicon manufacturing and solar power plants in the desert, in turn using the ...
• Department of Energy Awards $19 Million to Moderni ...
  The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will invest $19 million in five seperate projects, each aimed at optimizing the country’s national grid. The DOE said that the smart grid projects will create a ‘leaner and more efficient, reliable, resilient and responsive’ grid. Read the rest o ...
• Designer Makes 200 Miles Trek In Solar-Powered Whe ...
  The United Arab Emirates is famous for a lot of things – exotic hotels, the tallest building in the world and its ample quantities of sunlight. It’s therefore not a huge to surprise to learn that a solar powered wheelchair has been developed in the UAE. But if this design for health isn’t enough to ...

Pogue's Posts

• Is It Big Brother or Just an Algorithm?
  When Gmail tells you you've forgotten to attach something, after saying in a message that you would, is that creepy or smart?
• 10 Favorite iPhone Apps
  What's on David Pogue's iPhone? He lists his ten favorite apps and more than two dozen runner-ups.
• All Aboard an App for Suburban New York Commuters
  The OnTime app asks one question: what are the two stations of your usual commute. An efficient, time-saving and free app.
• Finally, Google Voice for iPhones
  The Google Voice app is exactly what iPhone fans like me have been waiting and waiting and waiting for. (Android users, you already had this.)
• The Volt Recharges My Batteries
  A test drive of the Chevy Volt convinces David Pogue that electric cars have a future--and are fun to drive.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• How to Make an All-Instant Thanksgiving Dinner
  It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and you forgot to reserve a turkey. Or maybe you are short on time, or just really lazy and don’t want to actually cook the meal. Either way, modern food science has the entire turkey day menu covered: Just add water. We put together an all-instant menu, made up o ...
• How to Catch Microbes Hitchhiking to Mars
  Microbial stowaways on Mars rovers could raise false alarms for astrobiologists hoping to find evidence of life — or worse, could wipe out native Martians waiting in the soil. A new study suggests that current techniques for cleaning Mars rovers could let some of the hardiest life forms, single-cel ...
• Aerial Art Sends Climate Message
  See Also: Exclusive Excerpt: Hack the Planet Scientists Still Waiting to Hear From Journalists Covering Copenhagen Yes Men Want Scientists to Get Political Russian Heat, Asian Floods May Be Linked The Psychology of Climate-Change Denial Brandon’s Twitter stream, reportorial outtakes and citizen-fu ...
• Pulsing Stars Could Fill in for GPS Satellites
  To find your favorite coffee shop in an unknown city, getting directions via satellite works like a charm. But that technology won’t get you from Earth to Jupiter. So theorists have proposed a new type of positioning system based on blinking stars instead of satellites. By receiving radio blips ...
• Zoom in on Top 8 Ultra-High-Resolution Science Pan ...
  Via: National Geographic See Also: Astronomers Make 5-Gigapixel Image of Milky Way Beautiful 17-Gigapixel, 96.5-Gigabyte Image of Yosemite 570-Megapixel Camera Prepares to Hunt for Dark Energy Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space Follow us on Twitter @davemosher and @wiredscience, and on ...

PakAlert

• A 9/11 every other day
  The number of deaths in terrorism-related incidents in Pakistan continues to rise almost everyday. A series, Dispatches, aired on a national channel of Pakistan tracks how cities and their people struggle for survival amidst growing incidents of violence in the country.
• World War III and North Korea
  Scenario 2: This is the start of World War III. China, which launched a missile off the coast of California, is using North Korea to raise tensions and draw the United States military resources away from the Middle East. This would include dividing up the US naval forces between Asia and the Persian ...
• Video: Bombs, Body Scans and Israel
  Americans face more loss of rights and a draconian invasion of privacy from the Zionist dominated government. Sooner or later Americans need to wake up to the real cost of supporting the criminal state of Israel. Terrorism, loss of rights, economic damage, and wars, lots of bloody, costly wars...for ...
• Conflict Alert: North Korea Fires Missles and Arti ...
  North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at a South Korean island today, killing two soldiers, in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.
• China, Japan boats standoff in disputed waters: re ...
  Chinese and Japanese patrol boats were involved in a stand-off near disputed islands, China's state media has reported, accusing the Japanese side of "unreasonable interference".

Andy Worthington

• Guantánamo: Andy Worthington’s In-Depth Inte ...
  Last week, I undertook my first ever interview with Christopher Renner of Community Bridge Radio, which describes itself as “the progressive alternative to talk radio in Manhattan and across the state,” and is the winner of the 2010, 2008 and 2007 Kansas Association of Broadcasters’ First Place Awar ...
• The Rule of Law in the US Hangs on Obama’s R ...
  To listen to certain Republican critics of last week’s verdict in the federal court trial of the Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a former Guantánamo prisoner and a former CIA âghost prisoner,â you would think that the jury had found him not guilty, and that he had been released onto the streets o ...
• Revolutionary Spirit in Bangor, at a Screening of ...
  North Wales has always figured in my life, probably because its seaside resorts (along with Blackpool and Southport) and its mountains (along with the Peak District) were important to those who, like my family, grew up in and around Manchester as working class Methodists. For the working people of L ...
• Did You Miss This? 100 Percent Funding Cuts to Art ...
  In almost all the coverage of the coalition government’s proposed cuts to university funding, as a result of a review conducted by Lord Browne, the former CEO of BP (whose qualifications for such a role have never been adequately explained), it has been noted that the reduction in funding announced ...
• Moazzam Begg in The Independent: The UK Government ...
  Forgive me, dear readers, for bombarding you with articles about the financial settlement recently reached between the British government, 15 former Guantánamo prisoners and Shaker Aamer, the remaining British resident in Guantánamo, and for repeating, over the last week, since this story first brok ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• "Flamboyant" New Squid Worm Surprises, Delights Ex ...
  With head tentacles and iridescent "oars," the new sea species is "definitely flamboyant," one expert said. "I'm delighted by it."
• How Shark Scales Give the Predators Deadly Speed
  Scales on a shark's body "bristle" to reduce drag, helping the predator hunt fast-moving prey, new research suggests.
• Sea Turtles Match Breathing to Dive Depths?
  A new study shows that leatherback turtle buoyancy is likely determined by the amount of air they inhale above the surface before they dive. Video.
• First Fishing Bat Discovered in Europe
  The long-fingered bat is the first bat species in the Mediterranean known to catch and eat fish, scientists say.
• New Satellite Pictures: "Magnificent" Views of Ear ...
  NoneSee Earth's largest sand sea, swirling ice "galaxies," Van Gogh-ready algae, and more in a new collection of artistic satellite images.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Thanks, Aunt Myrtle. Now, put the gun down.
  As fun as it would be to keep talking about national politics, it’s probably time to return my gimlet eyes to local politics. (Wait! one last sip: How awesome are Republicans? They may be drunk with victory, but boy, are they mean drunks! http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/gops-top-tax-guy ...
• Even Republicans Love The Pork
  Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1, of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...
• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a Mom ...
  The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan on t ...
• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why I l ...
• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So far, ...