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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, November 25, 2010

25 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

SPL Center

  • Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
    Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same ...
  • Antigovernment Dad, Son Blame Each Other in Bank-B ...
    The trial of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge begins its sixth day of testimony in a Salem, Ore., courtroom today, where the father and son face nearly 20 counts ranging from aggravated murder to assault stemming from a December 2008 bank bombing that killed two police officers and seriously injured two ot ...
  • Better Homes and Aryans: April Gaede Wants to be a ...
    April Gaede, long-time white supremacist and Jill-of-all-Aryan-trades, is working on yet another new project. Perhaps the Aryan matchmaker service she was trying to launch in January isn’t working out so well, so Gaede is moving from breeding material to reading material. Her latest venture, which s ...
  • Alabama Justice Compares ‘Liberal’ Jud ...
    Like mentor, like protégé. Newly reelected Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker raised a few eyebrows even in this conservative state with his release last week of a radio campaign advertisement in which he said âliberal activist judgesâ like U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips should be lis ...
  • White Supremacist Group Backs Private Academies in ...
    Old times certainly are not forgotten in some parts of the South. Two private Mississippi academies, set up in 1968 for white children facing the unacceptable (to their parents) prospect of sharing their classrooms with African Americans, are still being enthusiastically funded by white supremacists ...

change: org.

  • Michigan State University Students Storm President ...
    Michigan State University gained infamy in August when two basketball players were accused of rape. Though the police recommended sexual assault charges of the highest level, the Ingham County prosecutor decided not to prosecute since he claimed "no crime had occurred" — even though one of the playe ...
  • Hat-Trick: ICE Releases Fredd Reyes
    Change.org users have pulled a hat-trick with this latest victory: Fredd Reyes is out of detention, making three victories today. Twenty-two years ago, a family fled political persecution and threats of violence in their native Guatemala, and arrived in the United States with their two-year-old son ...
  • Is Aunt Sally A Climate Denier? How to Talk at the ...
    Nothing bursts a tryptophan bubble like politics at the Thanksgiving table. But sometimes it's unavoidable, so why fight it? With a simple smile and an offer of good will, a close-minded debate can turn into a constructive dialogue, whether that's Republican martyr theory, fuzzy coal economics, or c ...
  • This Thanksgiving, Hunger in America Is at a Recor ...
    While millions of Americans have started salivating over their Thanksgiving feasts this week, a huge number of folks may struggle to find any food at all. According to new data, the number of hungry Americans is at a record high, food pantries nationwide struggle to serve a growing number of visitor ...
  • Faith Community Delivers Thousands of Post Cards i ...
    Back in October we told you about the Living Wage Weekend, where labor advocates, local politicians, and the faith community came together to demand a living wage in New York City. It was part of the Living Wage NYC campaign which is pushing for a living wage for city employees. Over 80 congregation ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Council candidate DeSisto outlines his plan for Ta ...
    Tony DiSisto , a candidate for the District 4 City Council seat that represents south Tampa, is campaigning on a 10-point "Tampa Plan." In it, he offers his positions on such topics as the budget, job creation, roads, water management, downtown and culture. In a news release DeSisto e-mailed with hi ...
  • Should BN hold the General Election in the early p ...
    SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.
  • Union, peasant leaders gunned down; bishops condem ...
    With the toll from extrajudicial killings (EJKs) reaching 22 under President Aquino's term by the count of local human rights group Karapatan, Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano filed two resolutions urging the House of Representatives to probe the cases of the two latest victims.
  • Who’s afraid of SC? Not Angat winner…
    Korea Water Resources Development Corp. (K-Water), winning bidder for the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant, is not walking away from the deal because of a Supreme Court-issued temporary restraining order.
  • Korean state water firm still keen on Angat‏ plant
    MANILA, Nov 1 (PNA) -- Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. has reported that Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-Water), Korea's state water utility firm remains interested in acquiring the 218-megawatt (MW) Angat-hydroelectric power plant despite the pending case at the Supreme Court.

Guardian

  • Railway gets 2,100 new carriages
    Transport secretary announces £6bn for Thameslink railway but delays decision on replacing intercity trainsThe government announced today that 2,100 new rail carriages will be introduced on the rail network by May 2019.The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, said £6bn would be spent on the Thamesli ...
  • Snowfalls hit north and east
    Worst affected areas in northern and eastern Scotland and north-east England, as forecasters say cold spell is here to stay Get the latest UK weather forecastsSnow arrived overnight in Scotland and Northern England, punctually as forecast, as temperatures fell and the Met Office warned of at least ...
  • Student protests: the aftermath
    Tens of thousands of school pupils and university students protested against the government's policies on tuition fees yesterday. Follow the reaction and share your experiences here10.26am: I've just been speaking to Jonathan Moses, part of a group of around 100 protesters who occupied the Jeremy Be ...
  • Cambodia holds day of mourning
    Prime minister Hun Sen lights candles and incense at narrow bridge where hundreds of festival-goers were trampled to deathCambodia began a day of mourning with the prime minister, Hun Sen, weeping at the spot where hundreds of people died in a riverside stampede.Hun Sen cried as he lit candles and i ...
  • Siddle hat-trick gives England a bloody nose
    �� David Hopps: Siddle's hat-trick �� Vic Marks: Cook shows why he is treasured �� Day one in pictures �� Day One: OBO �� Day One: blog debate �� Please comment or leave links below or email or on TwitterSiddle's hat-trick10.25am: You may or may not want to watch this. Extraordinarily, Broad appear ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: A most American holiday
    Americans are the most religious people in the developed world, yet Thanksgiving has become our most widely celebrated holiday precisely because it lacks any overt sectarian origins.
  • Commentary: Give thanks for your meal? Maybe just ...
    More than any other holiday, Thanksgiving is about food. We spend hours slicing, chopping and cooking. Then we eat a lot, eat some more, and, finally, fall asleep on the couch. What better way to celebrate being an American?
  • 23 days after vote, Democrat takes California AG r ...
    SACRAMENTO — Kamala Harris' challenger threw in the towel Wednesday, clearing the path for the San Franciscan to become California's top cop and give Democrats a clean sweep of statewide offices.
  • N. Carolina's Easley can't pay court fine, his law ...
    RALEIGH — Former Gov. Mike Easley is too broke to pay nearly $95,000 remaining on a fine imposed on his campaign by the state Board of Elections, his lawyer says.
  • Scientists worry North Pacific salmon may run out ...
    WASHINGTON — With the number of salmon in the North Pacific having doubled in the past 50 years, scientists are increasingly concerned there may not be enough food to support them, and changing ocean conditions could make it even worse.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Turning animal magic into money
    If you're planning to come to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, don't bring a hunger for bluefin tuna with you; you'll be disappointed. London's Olympic Committee is one of a number of authorities and businesses that have just pledged to play no part in the marketing of bluefin "until the fishery is ...
  • China hints at new climate future
    At a recent meeting in Tianjin, there's been intriguing discussion about where the host country, China, is going on climate change. And where it's going is, it seems, towards national legislation to restrict the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. This national law is likely to emerge as part of th ...
  • All eyes on France, as tuna wars loom
    Paris and Brussels are presently seeing skirmishes over the fate of what's become the oceans' most iconic creature - the Atlantic bluefin tuna. � This week and next, the French capital hosts the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) - the org ...
  • Copenhagen or Babel? A climate conundrum
    It's the time of year when an environment correspondent's thoughts turn inevitably to the UN climate summit. A little less than a year after filing into the frozen wasteland of Copenhagen's Bella Center, we're looking this year to the sunnier climes of Cancun in Mexico. Already the wordplay is being ...
  • Nature protection - the new road starts here
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: Was it an end, or a beginning? As delegates streamed away from the convention centre here in Nagoya - and stream they did, many of them having delayed flights to make sure no stone they could turn was left unturned - the talk was of a ...

The Wonk Room

  • Consumer Advocates Give Mixed Reviews To MLR Regul ...
    On Monday, after months of negotiation and deliberation within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued interim-final regulations requiring health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of premium dollars on health care services ...
  • College Graduates In 2008 Borrowed 50 Percent More ...
    At the same time that America’s educational attainment has been falling, the cost of higher education has been consistently rising. College costs are up 23 percent since 2000, and according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, 2008 graduates borrowed 50 percent more to finance their college ...
  • States That Opt-Out Of Medicaid Will Likely Have T ...
    The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Edward Park offers this very concise explanation of what would happen if states opt outed of the Medicaid program, sent back the federal matching rate, and tried to stretch their remaining contributions. Remember, these states believe that they can transfe ...
  • Recognizing Palestinian Progress In Battling Incit ...
    Writing up an event yesterday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in which WINEP’s Robert Satloff, David Makovsky, and Scott Carpenter shared insights from a recent trip to the region, JTA’s Ron Kampeas reports, “Makovsky noted the strides the Palestinian Authority has made in combatin ...
  • Yet Another Poll Finds Most Americans Want To Keep ...
    A new McClatchy Newspapers-Marist poll released earlier this week only reiterates the argument that the mid-term elections were not a mandate to repeal health care reform — most Americans want to keep or expand expand the Affordable Care Act: The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of regist ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What would make harper and Ignatieff change their ...
    So,the detestable, anti-Canadian sociopath and the elitist prick both think that its a good idea to waste our resources training insurgents and rapists for another three years in Afghanistan. This as the current supreme leader behind this whole travesty, Barack Obama, has decided that the whole thin ...
  • Isn't It Ironic?
    Of course I have to comment on the news that Patrick "Asshole" Ross has joined Ezra Levant among the ranks of the Shit-Heads With Big Mouths That Get Them Successfully Sued. I notice that I'm on a list at "Asshole's" stupid blog of bloggers who ban people who disagree with them. Typical lying from R ...
  • What's Wrong Here?
    Ah, I could talk more about how vile and shitty it is that a war criminal like Condoleeza Rice is coming to Canada and people are actually going to spend money to hear her talk. (Jesus Christ, I just can't resist pointing out that those people must be almost as stupid as she is! What do they expect ...
  • "Diary of a Madman": bush II's memoirs & stephen h ...
    Nothing really. I just wonder if upon hearing about bush II's publicity tour for his bound collection of used pieces of toilet paper, whether harper sighs longingly for the day when he can casually admit to complicity in torture too.
  • Yawn! Peter Mansbridge asks "Afghanistan: Was it w ...
    A tired, lame-ass, deluded conversation ensues. (With apologies to Steven Staples of ceasefire.ca who tried to tone-down the rah-rah nonsense.)

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Father of UBS Whistleblower Makes Personal Thanksg ...
    Today, Ronald Birkenfeld, father of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, made a personal Thanksgiving Day appeal to President Barack Obama for his son to be released from prison. In his letter to the President Mr. Birkenfeld stated, "His separation from his loved ones is extremely painful to our ...
  • NWC hosts international visitors
    On November 19, 2010, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) hosted a visit by Middle Eastern officials as part of the State Department's Transparency in Government project for the Near East. The program offered a view of the role of citizens, media and private non-profit advocacy in fostering t ...
  • NWC Urges Public to Take Action to Prevent the Cor ...
    Today, the National Whistleblowers Center voiced its strong opposition to Proposed Rules submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implementing the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and encouraged citizens to take action. (See N ...
  • My letter to Scientific American on PAWA
    The December 2010 issue of Scientific American, page 12,� features my letter to them about the Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA), HR 2067 and S 1580.� I appreciate the way that the editors enlarged this quote on their letters page:� "When whistleblowers speak truth to power, they could finally ...
  • Wham-O takes on patent whistleblowers
    The Wham-O company, maker of the Frisbee, is arguing to a federal appeals court that a qui tam provision in patent law is unconstitutional.� Wham-O's lawyer, Andrew Dhuey, told Law.com that the patent law, 35 U.S.C. � 292, violates the Constitution's "take care" clause which says that the President ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • How Do You Measure The 'Benefits' Of Copyright?
    One of the major problems we have with the way copyright law today is developed is how much of it is faith-based -- with supporters insisting that more stringent copyright law is obviously "better," without presenting any evidence to support that. The history of copyright law is filled with example ...
  • TSA's Failure Based On The Myth Of Perfect Securit ...
    As the complaints against the TSA ratchet up, various people are finally starting to point out why the whole concept of security theater is a farce. The entire setup is based on the idea that you can have "perfect security." But, if you wanted perfect security, the only way to do that is to not le ...
  • Rethinking Money: Breaking Up Currencies
    I remember when I was quite young, my father predicted to me that we'd probably see the end of cash within our lifetimes, as all money would move to electronic money in the form of credit cards (or credit card-like interfaces). Every so often this idea has been discussed, but it usually gets shot d ...
  • Why Is Verizon Wireless Blocking OpenDNS?
    The Washington Post recently ran an interview with OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch, where he notes that Verizon Wireless appears to be blocking OpenDNS, such that users cannot easily route around Verizon Wireless' own DNS services. This seems like an odd decision for Verizon Wireless -- especially a ...
  • EU Parliament Rubber Stamps ACTA Approval
    Despite serious concerns about the way ACTA was negotiated, as well as a declaration against ACTA, it appears that the EU Parliament has reversed course and more or less said that ACTA can move forward. This isn't really surprising, but at least suggests that the EU Parliament doesn't seem to under ...

VacTruth

  • Possible 400 Dead as UK Government Betrays Parents ...
    Toddlers are to be inoculated against six diseases at once in a bid to boost vaccination rates. Recently uncovered evidence suggests as many as 400 children have died from a vaccine and 21,000 experienced an adverse reaction in the UK alone.
  • How Government and Pharmaceutical Companies Gamble ...
    After a high number of dangerous vaccine reactions, these vaccines were pulled from a recent vaccine campaign.
  • GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts To Boost HPV Va ...
    By financing cancer research experts and support groups they can manipulate the market to benefit themselves. GSK is financially influencing experts in attempts to change current medical practices and diagnostics in the early detection of cervical cancer.
  • Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
    Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
  • Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
    In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...

BroadSnark

  • Are all Johns (and Janes) the Same?
    Last Tuesday I linked to an article that really bugged me, but I hadnât quite put my finger on all the reasons why.  It was about a brothel for women that is opening in New Zealand.  The author of the article was predicting that the brothel would be a failure because women “have to be [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apologies for missing my Thursday post.  I’ll make it up to you. You may have heard that there was a protest in Haiti.  UN peacekeepers are being blamed for the Cholera outbreak that has killed more than 900 people.  What a clusterfuck.  And the media reporting has been hideous. Also a clusterfu ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...
  • The Power of Principle
    So I got into a little twitter spat a few weeks ago.  One of the people I follow made the following statement: Some bloggers feel it’s better to be principled than in power. Naturally, I objected. The conversation turned into one of those us v. them tropes.  Us, in the case of this twitterer, bein ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Another busy weekend.  Saw Budrus on Friday.  It was excellent.  It’s playing in theaters all over the place.  You should see it, not just if you are interested in Israel/Palestine.  It has some interesting things to ponder for anyone who wants to use direct action for radical change. Went to t ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Forget Football, Watch Live Feed of Rainforest Ani ...
    Photo via kodismom More often than not, if the television is on during Thanksgiving day, it's tuned into the football games. However, there's something even better you could be watching today. The World Land Trust (WLT) and the Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA), an organization that protect ...
  • Handmade Kids Booties Help Keep WeeHuggers Warm
    Photo: Orland Boot and Shoe Company Earlier this season we oohed and awed over cute, cozy slippers made with recycled wool sweaters and leather jackets and now, there's another crush-worthy slipper company that has us looking for a WeeHugger of our own to dress. Enter Orland Boot and Shoe Compa ...
  • Dirty Rags; from old uniforms to funky object (Pho ...
    Dirty Rags at Elisava Design School. Image Credit: Vicente Zambrano What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban cleaning company. Not only were they asked to ...
  • Beat the Christmas Rush: Celebrate Chanukah
    Photo: modern tribe Chanukah, the Jewish holiday, comes early this year, so there are some frantic shoppers out there already. Here is a little guide to some green and special presents, just in time for the first night of the holiday which takes place on the first of December. There are m ...
  • Are Disposable eReaders In Our Future?
    Image via University of Cincinnati 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. It sounds like a dream come true because, as the researc ...

Biosingularity

  • Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
    People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...
  • Examining Individual Tumor Cells
    Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
  • Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
    Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...
  • You Are Your Bacteria
    Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
  • Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
    In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...

CFACT

  • 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
    Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
  • CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate confer ...
    CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.
  • Biodiversity: Losing which species?
    The current wildlife extinction rate is the lowest in 500 years--according to the UN Environmental Program̢۪s own World Atlas of Biodiversity. Many species have actually expanded their ranges over the past century.
  • Stockholm temperatures freeze global warming claim ...
    Lessons learned from the Swedish temperature record. In science, observations must be taken much more seriously than theories or computer models.
  • How to eliminate salmonella egg recalls
    Electronic pasteurization - hitting eggs and other fresh food with an electron beam - is cheap, quick, and kills virtually all of the food-borne bacteria on your food. It even kills the bacteria that promote rotting, keeping fresh produce fresher for longer.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Rebellious London: students protest against increa ...
    British students and pupils held mass rallies on November 24 to protest against plans by the government to increase annual tuition fees.
  • Russia's VEB likely to repurchase E.ON's share in ...
    Russia's national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) is likely to repurchase German E.ON Ruhrgas' share in Russian gas giant Gazprom, a source in Russia's Energy Ministry said on Thursday.
  • Russia to slice 2012 meat import quota
    Russia's Agricultural Ministry has plans to reduce the national meat import quota for 2012 to include poultry and pork, the head of the ministry's Agricultural and Food Market Regulation Department, Ilya Shestakov, said on Thursday.
  • Inteco rejects media reports of Moscow land deal p ...
    Inteco, the property developer owned by Yelena Baturina, the wife of Moscow's former mayor Yury Luzhkov, rejected a report in the Financial Times that the Russian authorities were investigating Inteco's deal with a little-known company, Premier Estate, for land sale in west Moscow.
  • CSKA Moscow coach Vujosevic must immediately resig ...
    Serbian coach for CSKA Moscow basketball club Dusko Vujosevic should resign immediately due the club's miserable performance in the 2010 Euroleague championships, a Russian basketball expert said on Thursday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Make hay while the sun shines
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’ve been blogging for just about three and a half years now, and in the last week or so I have finally seen some movement on the subject of my very first blog post: an appeal for principled conservatives to push back on the civil li ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The drone attacks may not even be legal. If they are not, they may be war crimes. With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the alternative to cal ...
  • Tracking the new financial WMDs
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Blogger George Washington (emph. in orig.): Remember, credit default swaps didn’t bring down the economy because they are toxic while all other financial vehicles are pure as the driven snow. CDS brought down the economy because they ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Second verse, same as the first:Militants armed with guns and a truck bomb demolished a police department used to detain terror suspects in Pak ...
  • A terrible precedent
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In 2002 CIA agents - Americans - tortured prisoners and were videotaped doing so. In 2005 those videotapes were destroyed, and on Tuesday the five year statute of limitations for filing criminal charges in the matter expired. For a ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • UN Scientists Say Emission Pledges Fall Well Short ...
    UN research shows that the pledges and promises made last year by 80 countries to reduce climate change emissions fall well short of what is needed to hold the global temperature rise to 2C and avoid the worst consequences of global warming.Click here to read this article
  • Trailer: Farmageddon, the Movie
    Farmageddon is a documentary about the escalating fight for food rights in America. Farmageddon is truly the documentary movie that we've all been waiting for. It's about raw milk, farm families harmed by the overreach of government, food safety legislation, and consumer food rights. Click here to ...
  • How to Stop the Killing: Livestock and Predators
    One of the unquestioned and unspoken assumptions heard across the West is that ranchers have a right to a predator free environment. Even environmental groups like Defenders of Wildlife more or less legitimize this perspective by supporting unqualified compensation for livestock losses to bears and ...
  • If You Knew How Dangerous Cleaning Products Were, ...
    They're hiding under your sink, deep in the basement and out in your garage. They seem to be multiplying and most of them are green, for gosh sakes!Click here to read this article
  • ACTION ALERT: Factory Farm Vegetable Lobbyists Go ...
    Agribusiness Shows Its True Colors! Even though an agreement was reached on the Tester-Hagan amendment last week, by the leadership in the Senate, this issue in the food safety bill is still not over! The Tester-Hagan amendment would exempt smaller, organic and local growers from expensive regulat ...

fotoFrontera

  • Trenes y locomotoras I (enormes caballos de hierro ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3n3s ...
  • Fotografías de casas I (grandes ideas para arquite ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3n3 ...
  • Granjas, molinos y paisajes I ( Provincias de Chin ...
    De la misma forma en que hemos compartido con ustedes foto reportajes de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá en nuestro blog de viajes 'Reportero sin Fronteras', lo haremos en esta ocasión con algunas hermosas postales del campo en las Provincias de China.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entr ...
  • Colección de imágenes fantásticas I (10 postales i ...
    Si usted lo prefiere, también podría revisar nuestra colección con 60 imágenes fantásticas con movimiento. O qué tal nuestra serie de imágenes de pegasos. ¿Le parece poco? Vea 23 imágenes de ángelesNota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXVI
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
    Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
  • Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
    While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
  • Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
    How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
  • Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
    A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...
  • What We’re Reading–Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook
    Author Kim O’Donnel recently released The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour, for people that love to eat meat but might also want to eat less of it. In the book’s foreword the Center’s director, Dr. Robert Lawrence, reintroduces the idea to readers that people ...

Norwegianity

  • Turkey Day greetings from the land of cheese
    A cheapshot headline to start, this being a holiday and all. In fact I do not believe I have ever once been served cheese while in Wisconsin save on top of a hamburger. Via time-delayed posting, have a surprisingly happy and gravyly cranberried, verily merrilyed Thanksgiving. � � The cartoon is a re ...
  • Read carefully
    Just got around to remembering to delete my political groups from Twitter. No way am I going to bother to unfollow everybody but dumping the list serves the same purpose, removing one more easy access to political news. Thanks to the Kindle I’m spending my time reading now instead of surfing. Over T ...
  • Does this post make me look political?
    Three wire stories on the TSA and their grotesquely intrusive body scans/pat downs today: A grope too far: Fliers’ anger at TSA boils over Under pressure from public and pols, TSA head says airport screening will be refined, adjusted If even small number of people participate, security protest could ...
  • Slippery when slick
    Yes, it’s slippery out there. Scraped off two cars, salted a sidewalk and picked up a trunk load of tamarind, chilis, plum sauce and mangoes this morning, and am busily ignoring the Vikings game while sorting out some links of possible interest to you and yours. Speaking of slippery…. There may be s ...
  • The Zeeboid process
    The Zeeboid Affair: Gawker outed as chumps [more] Strib’s nicer take I was a troll and voted for her to get an abortion, if only because we don’t need to torture any more children by letting them be raised by politicized assholes like the Arnolds. And isn’t it typical that it’s the husband (aka Zeeb ...

Public News Service

  • 2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family& ...
    2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family” Phoenix, AZ - Many families looking to adopt children are going overseas to places like Russia to find children. Meanwhile, Arizona has 2,500 children in the foster care system waiting for a “forever family.” Comments from Sarah Melick, adoption specialis ...
  • Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...an ...
    Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...and Their Disappearance Phoenix, AZ – The number of small town grocery stores is declining in Arizona, as they compete with superstores in the state's larger cities and shopper attitudes change. But it's a change in the landscape that isn't healthy for ...
  • CDC’s ‘Get Smart Week’ Aims to O ...
    CDC’s ‘Get Smart Week’ Aims to Outsmart Bacteria Phoenix, AZ – Arizona has recently joined the list of states that are home to a type of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia (Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase), only existent in one state in 2001. That fact is part of this week’s “Get Smart About Antibio ...
  • AZ Gets Ready for the Great American Smokeout
    AZ Gets Ready for the Great American Smokeout Phoenix, AZ – The American Cancer Society’s 35th annual Great American Smokeout is this Thursday, November 18. There are compelling health reasons to quit smoking, and there’s plenty of help available. More than 36 million Americans still smoke daily, an ...
  • Smart Meters - They’re Smart, But Are They S ...
    Smart Meters - They’re Smart, But Are They Safe? Phoenix, AZ - The number of metro Phoenix homes equipped with Smart Meters will rise to at least two million over the next two years. But in other states, notably California, some consumers are saying that the wireless electric meters are making them ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Public Says No To Transgenic Fish, Demands Mandato ...
    Nearly 400,000 Citizens Send Letters to FDA Demanding Labeling of GE Fish COMMENTS CITE MATERIAL CHANGES, AS WELL AS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS As the comment period on the labeling of a controversial genetically engineered salmon came to a close yesterday, the Center for Food Safety ...
  • USDA Proposing Interim Planting of Illegal, Geneti ...
    In August, a Federal court ruled that USDA’s approval of genetically engineered (GE), “Roundup Ready” sugar beets was unlawful, concluding that USDA had failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the impacts of this crop on farmers and the environment, such as the biological contamination of non-GE c ...
  • Coalition Reveals Immense Opposition To Transgenic ...
    As Comment Period on Approval and Labeling Winds Down More than 360,000 Send Comments to FDA Demanding Action on GE Fish A coalition of consumer, environmental and animal welfare groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers, grocers and chefs held a joint ...
  • Help CFS Fight GE Salmon
    Check out our new video on GE salmon and support our work! Filed under: GE Animals, GE Food, Take Action
  • Newly Disclosed Government Documents Conclude GE S ...
    EXPERT FISHERIES AGENCIES PROHIBIT GROWING ENGINEERED SALMON IN OPEN-WATER NET PENS UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FDA Declined to Disclose Evidence During September Hearings on Aquabounty Salmon Adding a new twist to the controversy over genetically engineered (GE) salmon, the Center for Food Saf ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Existentialist Cowboy: Please explain what dif ...
    The Existentialist Cowboy: Please explain what difference there is between Republicans and Nazis! by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy When Ronald Reagan became President, his party declared a 'revolution'. He was hailed by American right-wing “reactionaries” as our armed forces –a so-called volu ...
  • African Judas: Barack Obama and the Politics of Wh ...
    From Aboriginal Press Books: It is generally agreed that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States would change the public face of the western world. But we must at this juncture honestly ask ourselves if the substance of that society has adjusted to realistically reflec ...
  • Theo Ellington: A Man in the Mirror | Oakland Loca ...
    A Man in the Mirror | Oakland Local In the wake of the senseless acts of violence that have taken away the lives of Oscar Grant, Derrick Jones and countless other black men, I've grown to feel numb. In my childhood, death and murder plagued my mind. Sometimes people I knew were taken away by n ...
  • Phil Woolas reflects racism of elites|13Nov10|Soci ...
    Phil Woolas reflects racism of elites| Socialist Worker: "by Ken Olende I thoroughly enjoyed watching the odious Phil Woolas being ejected from parliament for lying about Muslims in his election leaflets. During the general election campaign Woolas, then a sitting Labour MP in Oldham, Greater Manc ...
  • Peltier family accuses U.S. government of medical ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 November 2010 Contact: Delaney Bruce, Legal Team Liaison, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106, USA; Telephone: 1-701-235-2206; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info Peltier family accuses U.S. government of medical neglect “A man dies from ...

Pensieve

  • Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of Peac ...
    Too often we are desensitized to the brutality of war. We are tempted to think that we couldn’t function if we let the pain of the world into our lives. But we shouldn’t forget that in the midst of the worst pain, there can be hope. This message by a survivor of war in Iraq [...] Related posts:Whe ...
  • Monetary Crisis Video
    With the US printing money and calling it “quantitative easing”, this video is even more ironic. The US is doing precisely what they were condemning the Chinese for last week, and we all lose from it. But at least it’s catchy. Let’s toast some marshmallows as Rome burns. Like the previous one, this ...
  • TSA Patdowns, Animated in Taiwan
    In their now traditional irreverent style, animators in Taiwan’s Next Media Animation explain the completely insane new travel laws. I’m glad that when I go to the US these days, either I drive, or I ride a bus. Related posts:They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha! Immigration Only a Dream Schadenfr ...
  • Freedom
    Photo by Glen’s Pics These are lyrics that came to me this morning as I was struggling through the paradox of being a “slave to righteousness” versus a slave to sin. Being “slaves” of God is not true slavery, because when we submit to him, he sets us free to do much more than we [...] Related post ...
  • Ortega and Ham Endangering Central America
    Photo by brian.ch The actions of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Honduran minister of Agriculture César Ham are endangering the stability of the region. One is creating a war out of thin air to hide his blatant power grab. The other is taking advantage of Honduran President Lobo’s trip to Ta ...

Green Times

  • Don’t be a tosser
    Recycle (directory/categories/Recycling), recycle, recycle! We can’t say it enough. City councils offer bins and facilities to help your separate your waste. So don’t be a tosser! Recycle! Photo by: Manja Louman  
  • Surfing Green
    Being one with the waves! Such an amazing feeling… Make sure you keep our oceans and beaches beautiful! So you can enjoy being one with nature. Surfing is also a great way to exercise without feeling that you are exercising. And surf brands are helping in protecting the environment, read our articl ...
  • Environmental News 25/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • YikeBike
        Grant Ryan – the inventor – gives a presentation at a TED: Ideas Worth Spreading event about maybe the coolest bike you’ve ever seen! The YikeBike is an electric bike (glossary/categories/technology/electric-bike.html) which you can easily fold up. It’s safe, fast and you can ...
  • Environmental News 24/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. may replace color-coded terror-alert system w ...
    ShareThisU.S. may replace color-coded terror-alert system with more-specific warnings 24 Nov 2010 The Obama administration is considering abandoning the color-coded terrorism-alert system that became a barometer of the nation's anxieties after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and replacing it with adviso ...
  • Korean conflict termed 'US provocation'
    ShareThisKorean conflict termed 'US provocation' 25 Nov 2010 Tensions are running high in the Korean Peninsula as the North threatens further attacks to counter what it has described as South Korea's provocations. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday saying that ...
  • US worried about new WikiLeaks' release
    ShareThisUS worried about new WikiLeaks' release 24 Nov 2010 The United States is concerned about a big dumping of classified documents by WikiLeaks which is expected to include diplomatic cables, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said. "We are gearing up for the worst-case scenario, that le ...
  • 'Critical habitat' set aside in Alaska for polar b ...
    ShareThis'Critical habitat' set aside in Alaska for polar bears 24 Nov 2010 The setting aside of 187,000 square miles in Alaska as "critical habitat" for polar bears could have an impact on oil and gas drilling, federal and environmental officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ( ...
  • Iraqi journalist shot dead
    ShareThisIraqi journalist shot dead 24 Nov 2010 Gunmen shot and killed a young journalist at his home in Iraq in front of his family on Sunday, according to an interior ministry official. Mazin al-Baghdadi was employed as an anchor and reporter for al-Mousiliyya TV in Iraq's northern city of Mosul. ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Pay cheap, buy local: Israeli farmers strike for m ...
    By Audrey Farber One great thing about Israel is that all the produce comes from nearby â whether Israeli territory or Palestinian territory or Syrian territory or Bedouin lands (I am trying very hard to abstain from political opining regarding where farmlands may or may not lie, but that is inh ...
  • In the name of the father: Israel arrests 16 year- ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee In yet another nighttime raid on the village of Bil’in, soldiers stormed Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s house and arrested his sixteen year old son At 2:30 AM this morning Israeli forces entered the village of Bil’in in armored military jeeps and by f ...
  • What’s the point of a trial? Protest organiz ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee: Military Judge Orders to Keep Bil’in Organizer Jailed Even After He Has Finished Serving His Sentence in Full Ed’s note: Not only is organizing popular protest apparently a crime, it is one deserving unending prison sentence. Since it is obvious Isra ...
  • Jews dancing at the gate
    By Jesse Bacon I am proud to note that Emily Schaeffer’s blog post on the BDS movement was linked to in Bradley Burston’s recent column. I have noted Burston’s shift in one of my first blog posts; it makes me happy that we are now part of his evolving thinking and the broader opinion shift that rep ...
  • What “looks and acts like a banana republic? ...
    By Rela Mazali Two recently published items present what I see as telling, if limited and even evasive, probes into the extent and depth of Israel’s militarization, each revealing a different manifestation of it. The first (truncated in the English version which omitted the passages of personal test ...

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 ...

Coteret

  • Israeli media provides a glimpse of how spin drive ...
    On the front page of this morning’s Maariv, senior columnist Ben Caspit reports [full translation at the bottom of the post; Hebrew original here]: At least three top Likud figures who were briefed recently by officials very close to Netanyahu on the talks with the Americans, on the letter that has ...
  • Danny Ayalon to Norway: Why can’t you keep your ar ...
    The Israeli government reaction to the homegrown cultural boycott of the West Bank settlement of Ariel was forceful and blunt: Threaten funding, establish a “Zionist Art Prize” and de-legitimize whoever takes part as fifth-columnists. This should not have been a surprise, coming from a government th ...
  • Lieberman says Israel’s borders “imperialist” and ...
    “Anti-Zionism” can be found in surprising places. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was up in the Golan Heights on Thursday. The settlement of Katzrin awarded him “honorary citizenship of the city.” The Israeli media provided superficial reporting of Lieberman’s acceptance speech, with only gene ...
  • Maariv: Geert Wilders to express support for &#822 ...
    There’s more to this. Israeli adulation for the Dutch ultra-nationalist is not limited to the National Union: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows at Dore Gold’s neoconservative power-house — The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — has been a leading cheerleader. Dutch reinforceme ...
  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • UEA boys Busted Again
    What would a climate scientist do with data they don’t like? Delete it. Muir Russel report caught red handed deleting evidence of climate scientists being caught red handed manipulating the game. Read the truth at Bishop Hill because you ain’t gonna get it from the main-stream climate propagandists. ...
  • How a Scientific Integrity Act Could Shift the Glo ...
    This is the first guest post I received.  It looks like several others have volunteered over the next few days.  My thanks to everyone planning to help out. Jeff ——– By Sean M O’Brien Up until now, peer review has been held up as the gold standard in scientific discourse. Recent developments in th ...
  • No time at all
    As you may have noticed, there haven’t been a lot of posts lately.  Over the past several weeks, I’ve become more and more busy with work.  Now I’m working every night and weekend at home, the result of course is that I’m way too busy to play around with technical blogging. You may have noticed [. ...
  • Climategate Anniversary
    By John Pittman On 11/28/2009, JeffID graciously posted an article of mine http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/context-2/#more-6449 . Now that the anniversary is approaching, I wanted to go back and look at some items of interest including a couple of predictions I made. I started the articl ...
  • Climategate, a year of comedy.
    It has been almost a year now since the UEA emails known as climategate were revealed.  What has followed has been a year of hilarity as one scandal after another followed.  Just think about how funny it was when Pachuri (head of the IPCC) published his sex book, Mann publishing one self exonerating ...

Focal Point

  • The World is Edward Pasteck's Petting Zoo; We Just ...
    Jezebel is trolling itself again. This afternoon, the well-known feminist blog published an essay by one Edward Pasteck entitled,"American Guy In Paris Freed From The Idea Of 'Consent'." "Having just returned from living in Paris, I feel more convinced than ever that America gets many things ...
  • Will Saletan Seemingly Determined to Miss the Poin ...
    Will Saletan of Slate has made a career of suggesting ways that women can compromise their bodily autonomy for the greater good. So, maybe I should take his latest column as a gesture of solidarity. Therein, Saletan argues that we should acquiesce to the new nude backscatter scans because the new .. ...
  • TSA Sexism: Pilots' Junk Off-Limits; Flight Attend ...
    Pilots who shun full body scans are exempt from the TSA's new "enhanced" body searches. Flight attendants are not. Their respective unions complained about the searches, but only pilots got an exemption. Flight attendants and pilots go through the same FBI background checks and fingerprinting. Ove ...
  • Cheating Still Cheating; Bastards Still Bastards
    Do today's college students define cheating differently? That's the thesis of this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled "Cheating and the Generational Divide." The author claims that a recent scandal at the University of Central Florida exposes a "widening chasm in what different ...
  • Non Sequitur: Privatize TSA Screeners for Invasive ...
    Republicans are exploiting public outrage over whole body scanners and new invasive pat-downs to justify privatizing TSA screeners: As criticism grows of the government's new full-body imaging scanners and the alternative "enhanced" pat-downs, some airports are considering ditching TSA agents ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Allows Page Post Targeting through the Gr ...
    Facebook’s weekly developer blog roundup post came early this week, and includes mentions of post impressions data now becoming available in Page Insights, and the fix of the long-standing “Make FB.ui work” bug. Most significantly, location and language targeting for Page posts is now also availabl ...
  • “Iframe Post Proposal” and Unique Identifier Mecha ...
    Facebook has outlined a new “Iframe POST Proposal” as a solution to prevent User IDs from being passed through HTTP refferer headers. The mechanism embeds the UID in a HTTP POST body ensuring that it will not be exposed in any HTTP Referrer header whatsoever (encrypted or otherwise).” The system sh ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    We recently launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Zynga, Digital Chocolate, Solvate, SpanTran E ...
  • Shoebuy.com Gives Purchasers 50 Free Facebook Cred ...
    Micro-incentive provider ifeelgoods launched a promotion today with popular ecommerce store Shoebuy.com to offer users 50 free Facebook Credits for making any purchase on the site. This is the first time ifeelgoods has been used to incentivize action which leads directly to profit for the company ho ...
  • Ads API Profile: AdParlor’s Full-Service Solution ...
    As part of our ongoing series of profiles on companies that offer products for Facebook’s Ads API, today we look at AdParlor. It provides a full-service solution for app developers working on and off the Facebook platform, helping them buy installations without hiring their own Facebook ads managers ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israeli war criminals had better hope for Palestin ...
    Gilad Atzmon argues that the publication of the names and other details of 200 Israeli war crimes suspects who participated in the onslaught against Gaza in 2008-09 is a clear warning that every Israeli complicit in this and other outrages, and not just senior commanders and leaders, is liable for t ...
  • Sarah Palin and the missing "F" word
    Alan Hart views the squalid mix that is Sarah Palin - what she stands for, her ignorant stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, her Murdoch-backed character assassination of President Obama and her prospects for the US presidency. Sarah Palin is “a menace to this country ... a toxic mix of igno ...
  • "War criminals" leak strikes at heart of Israeli s ...
    Paul Larudee considers the implications for Israel and its armed forces of the leaking of the details of 200 Israeli military personnel who participated in the invasion of Gaza of 2008-09, which resulted in the murder of more than 1,400 people, primarily civilians, including over 340 children. "Ins ...
  • Obama plays the fox with the Israeli wolves
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the apparent game plan behind US President Barack Obama's extraordinary concessions to Israel in return for a temporary moratorium on colony expansion in the West Bank will most likely fail because it aims unscrupulously to ensnare the Palestinians into an agreement tha ...
  • No, Mr Netanyahu, you and yours are responsible fo ...
    Alan Hart dismisses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's propaganda that anti-Semitism in increasing. He argues that it is not anti-Semitism but anti-Israelism that is gathering pace and that Israel has only its arrogance, racism and criminal behaviour to blame.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: DHS-TSA Terror Watch L ...
    Resilient Founding Fathers with Propensity for Resistance among One Million+ Terror Watch List Suspects!   In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not rem ...
  • Blows Against the Empire, the Criminalization of D ...
    By way of preface, let me give you a little of my background. I was born a prototypical Southern California working-class surfer boy. As a poor, white kid, I was educated by the California Public School system of the 1960’s and was, therefore, both the avatar of the Liberal Contract of Egalitarianis ...
  • Ron Paul Introduces the American Travel Dignity Ac ...
    ‘We Americans Should Never Give Up Our Rights in Order to Travel’  Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the videos of ...
  • Our National Symptoms-Chasing Yoyo Syndrome
    …And Corrupt System of No-Checks & Many-Imbalances I go on line and check out the major newspaper headlines, and to my delight there is a TSA related headline or two in every one. In the last few days two in every three e-mails I’ve received (and I receive hundreds a day) carry TSA related heads up ...

Afro Spear

  • “Kudos Jammeh shall you live up to your word ...
    Many things have been said and written about Gambian strong man Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Diliu Jammeh. He was listed among the horrid and stinking dictators Africa has ever had. He’s renown for his iron fist when it comes to manning a tiny west African country. So too, he likes honours, bragg ...
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  • Interview With Aristide
    Aristide Speaks from South Africa.   “…The picture is that in Haiti, we have the same people who organized the invasion of 2004 after kidnapping me to put me in Africa. They are still there. That means there is a kind of neo-colonial occupation of 8,900 UN soldiers with 4,400 policemen spending, mor ...
  • “Kanye West Apologizes for Calling Bush a Ra ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  It may be too little and too late, but Kanye West is finally apologizing for calling George W. Bush a racist. Nonetheless, his realization could be a lesson for us all. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, celebrities offered their support to the affect ...
  • “Kanye should never have apologized to Bush& ...
    Article in Race-Talk by Dr. Boyce Watkins  One of the proudest moments in my life as a political observer was when Kanye West did something that almost no other artist or entertainer would be astute or courageous enough to do. In 2005, as people were dying in the streets of New Orleans, West used th ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
  • Truth for Tea Baggers!
    War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….

Unsuitable Blog

  • Operation Christmas Child: Christian Fundamentalis ...
    Somewhere in the minds of millions of children there exists a place where Christmas is every day, and gifts appear beneath the eternal tree and at the foot of the magical fireplace whenever their back is turned. In the hearts of millions of children the joy of giving is equally precious as the joy o ...
  • McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...
  • BT Adastral Plan Wipes Out “Green” Pro ...
    Adastral Park is part of BT’s (formerly British Telecom) Martlesham Heath technology complex, a combination of defence research laboratory and industrial park, situated close to the busy Suffolk town of Ipswich, and adjacent to a large area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You can find Adastral Park b ...
  • Monthly Undermining Task, November 2010: The Onlin ...
    Where do you go for information? I guess, because you are reading this as a web page, then your primary resource for information that you need in a hurry (and aren’t we all in a hurry nowadays?) is the Internet. As far as corporations go, online presence has now eclipsed printed and television media ...
  • George Monbiot on the Fake Biodiversity Agreement
    There is something stirring, and I don’t think it’s just in the air – I think George Monbiot is turning his back on industrial civilization, and about time too. We could do with someone like him in the ranks of the “heretic unbelievers”. Here is his take on the Agreement That Never Was: Everyone agr ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Innovation Strategy #1: Don't Take 'No' for an Ans ...
    This past week, Tom Grasty and I were invited to the Paley Center as part of "The Next Big Thing: The New News Entrepreneurs." We were asked to present Stroome before an extraordinary audience stuffed with CEOs, COOs and presidents of some of the world's most important media companies. During on ...
  • How the FCC is Creating Better Open Data
    In the context of our TileMill project, we’ve been talking about our goal to help make open data from governments more actionable by making it easier to turn GIS data into custom maps. We’re focused on building better tools so people can turn data into custom maps to tell better stories online, but ...
  • Scholarship winner wants to help media "explore ne ...
    When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." Five Knight scholars will grad ...
  • Graduating Programmer-Journalist Wants to Help Und ...
    When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." One of the first two Knight scho ...
  • Graduating "programmer-journalist" wants to help c ...
    When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." One of the first two Knight scho ...

Cutting Edge News

  • North Korea on the Edge - North Korean Artillery A ...
    North Korea and South Korea have reportedly traded artillery fire Nov. 23 across the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea to the west of the peninsula. Though details are still sketchy, South Korean news reports indicate that around 2:30 p.m. local time, North Korean artillery shells ...
  • Farhud Violence--Arabs Against Praying Jews--is Sh ...
    I thought I had heard it all. But to think that Jewish people in the twentieth century were massacred by Arabs at the Wailing Hall in Holy Jerusalem and in Hebron in 1929, as related in Edwin Black's book and article on The Farhud (see When Arabs Massacred Jews Because they Sat While Praying, Novemb ...
  • Airport Pat Downs Not Needed--Just Go for the Scan
    The current hysteria about airport pat-downs and frisking is completely unnecessary. While it is true that pilots and flight attendants should not have to subject themselves to radiation numerous times daily, for the average person flying once or twice per month--or double that, the full scan is con ...
  • Airport Pat Downs Prove We Must Profile Muslims
    Common sense shows that we must treat the Islamic threat to our airports as we would any criminal threat. We must respond with criminal-style profiling of this threat. This means unfortunately, that our Muslim neighbors must be subjected to special attention, along with all Muslims entering this cou ...
  • Palestinian Checkpoints and American Airports
    The next time Palestinian protesters want to to complain about Israeli checkpoints, I would invite them to visit American airports where men, women, and children must be publicly patted down in their private parts because of Arab and Islamic terrorism. Apparently, the Israeli people have come to gri ...

High Country News

  • Not quite so SAD
    Sudden aspen decline appears to be slowing in Colorado, but the trees' glory days may be past.
  • Lone shepherd on a distant promontory
    A writer wanders the mountains north of McCall, Idaho, with Peruvian shepherds, their dogs and sheep.
  • Tribute to a prickly icon
    Both fans and critics contemplate the life and legacy of Edward Abbey in a special issue of the Western literary and arts journal Matter.
  • Western elections wrap-up
    High Country News examines the results of what everyone agrees was a "very weird election."
  • Snapshot of an election
    Maps and graphics chart the relation of campaign spending to Western election results, among other things.

CounterCurrents

  • The Media As Middle Man
    By Farzana VerseyThe sudden interest in the involvement of some Indian media persons in what appears to be lobbying has posed the question about ethics, but it has a lot more to do with the cult of icons
  • Mickey Z. Interviews David Swanson On War Lies
    By Mickey Z.David Swanson has a new book out called War Is A Lie . A thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, Swanson calls it a handbook of sorts, a manual to be used in debunking future lies before future wars have a chance to begin
  • Peak Oil Risks Becoming An Apocalyptic Cult
    By Erik Curren Rejecting the idea of community as wishful thinking is a direct assault on the optimism of people who accept peak oil but still think the future wont be either Mad Max or Waterworld
  • Latest North/South Korean Exchange: Who Needs A Co ...
    By Stephen Lendman Russias Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, stressed a colossal danger which must be avoided. Tensions in the region are growing.A cool response is needed. North Korea has no reason to want conflict. Washington and South Korea may have other ideas
  • NATO Arctic Security And Canadian Sovereignty In T ...
    By Dana Gabriel Arctic nations continue to assert their sovereignty through military means. Rising tensions could further escalate the militarization of the region. While the process to resolve territorial disputes and the competition to secure resources has thus far been peaceful, there is still t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Why American Airport Security Is Really So Horrend ...
    Over the past few days you have read my take on the TSA mess, now read the take of Barry Rubin, my friend and teacher: By Barry Rubin Suddenly, and partly due to changes in procedure, security checks at American airports have become the most controversial topic in the United States. ...
  • CBO Says Effect Of Stimulus Plan Waning (There an ...
    If you are looking for help from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) commonly known as the Porkulus plan you may be a bit too late.� The CBO released a report on the effect of ARRA on Employment and economic output from July 2010- September 2010 and found the effects of Porkulus on out ...
  • Meg Whitman "Nannygate" Proven To Be Union Dirty T ...
    Most people assumed this was the case, but now there is proof.� The "nannygate" incident which essentially toppled Meg Whitman's campaign for Governor of California was a political dirty trick orchestrated by the nurses union. At the end of September the California Governors race was taken o ...
  • Woman Claims TSA Chose Her For Extra Screening Bec ...
    You knew this was bound to happen. Eliana Sutherland of Maryland was flying home from a trip to Walt Disney World when she was picked for extra airport screening. Ms Sutherland claims that she wasn't picked for the screening not because of a perceived danger but because of her bust line. Accord ...
  • CHINA AND RUSSIA QUIT THE DOLLAR
    Is this the beginning of the End? Is the dollar about to finally collapse?� Not today but maybe tomorrow or the day after. China and Russia have announced they will no longer use the US dollar for bilateral trade and from now on will use their own currency. Chinese experts said the move reflecte ...

The Real Agenda

  • China and Russia abandon Dollar, go back to Basics
    The Yuan has now started trading against the Russian Rouble. Is it the end of Reserve currencies? China Daily St. Petersburg, Russia – China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart ...
  • Is North-South Korea Conflict a Pretext to Boost D ...
    Infowars.com Congressman Ron Paul speculated on the Alex Jones Show today that the war footing between North and South Korea could be an orchestrated crisis to boost the dollar and reverse the US economy, paralleling the RAND Corporation’s call two years ago for the United States to become embroiled ...
  • South Korea Fired the First Shot and Admits It
    Both the Clinton and Bush administrations aided North Korea to build up its nuclear arsenal. In 2004, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atom bomb program, admitted sharing nuclear technology via a worldwide smuggling network.
  • Big Pharma Researching for Drugs that Erase Memory
    Drug researchers are working on a mind-altering chemical that could erase your memories. It's all being pursued under the umbrella of "mental health" with claims that this could help victims of emotional trauma. The idea that you can "heal" a patient by chemically lobotomizing them is, of course, en ...
  • Al Gore has gone Insane
    An Inconvenient Lunatic: Gore Says Climate Change is the new Global Terror Hindustan Times Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fi ...

Wind Watch

  • Mystery wind turbine blaze closes road
    A wind turbine burst into flames, shutting a rural road for hours. The blaze at the 25-turbine Tir Mostyn and Foel Goch windfarm in Nantglyn, Denbighshire, lasted for about two hours. Debris left behind by the fire forced North Wales Police to close Drws-y-Buddel, between the site and Pentrellyncyme ...
  • Hundreds of locals marched in rain to protest agai ...
    FERGUS — HOOF Dalton. That was the message from several hundred people on Oct. 26 as they protested outside the sportsplex here about a wind turbine company holding a public meeting. And the group wants more than to kick out the premier. HOOF is an acronym standing for Hands Off Our Farmland. The pr ...
  • DEP: Vinalhaven turbines too loud
    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found that three wind turbines on Vinalhaven have exceeded nighttime noise limits and has asked Fox Islands Wind LLC to modify its operations. The small island wind farm has proven controversial since it began operating a year ago, with some neigh ...
  • Council firm on turbine dispute
    A wind farm company arguing with Palmerston North City Council about ongoing noise problems is hoping to keep the dispute out of the courts, but the council is sticking to its guns. After receiving a complaint a day for more than a year from neighbours of Te Rere Hau wind farm, the council has moved ...
  • Permitting concerns swirl
    �The suggested changes would be to trash it, and start all over,� rancher Heidi Cross said regarding the proposed Converse County wind farm permitting guidelines. �You drive up to Casper and . . . just look at it. It is miserable, it�s disgusting, it�s dirty,� Cross said. Her comments were similar t ...

Not My Tribe

  • Tom DeLay found Guilty of Money Laundering
    Apparently “rigging elections” and other felonies don’t carry as much weight. There’s a potential for a life sentence involved, fat chance. Rich People GET paid for their crimes. Not have to Pay FOR them. Since his crimes have led to large numbers of human deaths including every Iraqi and Afghan who ...
  • TSA and Pentagoons play same lame blame game
    TSA of course saying that people being angry about their Neo-Gestapo (betcha thought I was gonna say “nazi” huh?) thug tactics would cause delays. And not their Thuggish heavy-handed State-Sponsored Terrorism. The people, you see, have no right to resent being treated as criminals with no evidence. ...
  • Petition on Piñon Canyon seizure.
    The Chamber of Commerce both locally and nationally is lobbying to have ranchers evicted from Piñon Canyon. These being the same Chamber of Commerce who fight Health Care on the grounds that the government providing insurance would somehow be seizure of private property without due process. So, the ...
  • US/UK “Liberators” not allowing Afghan ...
    What a surprise. The Puppet Karzhai government, as always echoing what Washington and London (but mainly Wall Street) tell them, is refusing to seat Members of Parliament elected “fraudulently”. This from the most farcical “democracy” in history. Even the French and American puppets in Saigon weren’ ...
  • Pope: Some condom use (may be) acceptable.
    Apparently he figured out that spreading fatal infectious agents like HIV might perhaps maybe be slightly less moral than preventing a billion more babies to be thrown into a hungry, violent world in the next decade. Or something like that. See, every now and then something is done right.

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Stuck in the Left-Right Paradigm...
    Huffingtonpost has written an article about Andrew Napolitano revealing himself to be a truther, and the majority of comments on the article are supportive of 9/11 truth. One comment however that wasn't was this one. Here's where 9/11 conspiracy theory breaks down for me as a practical matter: the ...
  • Slicing Through Every Single 'Debunker' Argument, ...
    The last time Civil Engineer Jonathan Cole did an experiment for free that NIST couldn’t for millions 9/11 "debunker" Dr. Frank Greening had this to say: "I am prepared to admit that my initial proposal as to how steel was sulfided during the 911 events needs to be modified. Certainly it looks like ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subject ...
  • 7/7: The world is not black or white.
    Yesterday it was widely reported in the media that a severely injured survivor of 7/7 had told the inquest into the bombings how he witnessed Mohammed Sidique Khan blow himself up from just a few feet away. Not surprisingly, debunkers have seized upon this as proof that there was no conspiracy. One ...
  • To the Directors of the NIST 911 "Investigation": ...
    Misprision of treason is an offence found in many common law jurisdictions around the world, having been inherited from English law. It is committed by someone who knows a treason is being or is about to be committed but does not report it to a proper authority. It is therefore unusual in that it is ...

Fooducate

  • Cooking With Kids on Thanksgiving (Bonus: 2 recipe ...
    This is a guest blog post by Julie Negrin. It was originally published on Civil Eats. Many people consider Thanksgiving a marathon. For my large family who entertains all year long for the Jewish holidays, it’s more of a brief jog around the block. When I was a kid, my family of six often [...]
  • In Less than 10 years, Either You or Your Spouse W ...
    …or have prediabetes. This, according to a study by health insurer United Health, and as reported by Reuters. Some additional stark figures: By 2020, 50% of Americans will be afflicted by diabetes. The cost to America will be $3.35 TRILLION !!! The direct medical bills, today at $11,700 per diabeti ...
  • Monster Cookies
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Snack Girl has a problem she wants to share. She loves cookies. Not just sorta kinda loves them – LOVES them. So, when she goes to a local cafe she wants to buy one with her coffee for an afternoon treat. As she looks into [...]
  • The Great Fat Debate
    We recently participated in the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE),  organized by the American Dietetic Association. Ten thousand dietitians swarmed the Boston Convention Center for an endless number of education sessions and “healthy” food tastings. One of the most popular sessi ...
  • Hint Flavored Water – A Bridge from Pop to Tap?
    If you can avoid buying drinks at the supermarket - good for you. Tap water is safe, free, and abundant. For those who still need some flavor, you can easily add a wedge of lemon or some mint leaves to your water pitcher. But, if you want the convenience of a prepared drink, Hint may work out well f ...

Traffikd

  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits, last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open a ...

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Debt Vultures Shot for ChanukahLiberia is saved bu ...
    by Greg Palast for In These Times We got’m. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday, the financial vultures, the carcass-chewers who were preying on the dirt-poor African nation of Liberia, gave up. Two shadowy vulture funds, which had won a $43 million court judgment against Liberia, agreed to accept ...
  • The Family JewelsA Veteran’s Story
    by Greg Palast In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread." My father ran to his mother's bedro ...
  • Rove's Vote Trickster: Caging Explained
    On Tuesday, Tim Griffin, former chief of research of the Republican National Committee, is on the ballot for Congress to represent Little Rock, Arkansas. He's favored to win. But Griffin is just as happy to win by stealing votes. Here's a clip from the Elections Files, the Palast team's investiga ...
  • The Petroleum Broadcast SystemOwes Us an Apology
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS 'Frontline' investigation of BP, "The Spill." PBS has uncovered a real shocker:  BP neglected safety! Well, no shit, Sherlock! Pluto rolled over on the rug and looked at me as if to say, Don't we already know t ...
  • Was Tim Griffin merely a "Rove-bot"?Did Karl Rove ...
    Special to the Arkansas Times by Greg Palast (New York, London) Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote Comic book voterguide.To learn more click on the image. Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida ("caging"), has communicated with ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Leadership
    I don’t normally write about leadership.  Somehow it’s become a niche subject: either the subject of some banal business book, or discussed by the military.  It seems remote from politics or even economics because we live in an elite consensus society, where leadership is rare because the price of ...
  • Off to Vegas tomorrow
    Vacation time.  By my count, my first actual vacation in over 20 years (ie. I’m not adding a few days on to what is essentially a business trip.)  Will see how the backscatter machines/patdowns go.  If they go too badly this may be the last time I visit the US unless I’m being paid very [...]
  • Theatre but no solutions
    Advocating sending in the Army while knowing the Army will never be invited allows one to dodge proposals that would significantly harm the cartels in Mexico by crimping their logistics.
  • The real reason for grope-athon and porn-scanners
    Matt Stoller notes: Why does flying sucks more today? Rich people fly in private jets, so the powerful no longer hear complaints from their friends. This comes back to what I wrote before, but with respect to public schools and the Iraq war.  If important people don’t have skin in the game, things ...
  • The cost of being cheap
    Over at Barry Ritholz’s there’s a discussion of the cost of a business being cheap.  Barry recounts how he used to work for a cheap employer and as a result he sent possible employees who could have earned his employer millions to other companies.  He then asks if others are vindictive bastards li ...

Age of Autism

  • Chantal Sicile-Kira on Thanksgiving at Huffington ...
    From our friend Chantal Sicile-Kira. Check out the fun slide show there. Please leave a comment at Huffington Post. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live...
  • Tell Us Why You're Thankful
    Happy American Thanksgiving. Share your gratitude in our comments, won't you? And pass the gravy! Dan, Mark, Kim and the team at AofA.
  • UK Babies to Receive Six Jabs at Once - Will YOURS ...
    Read and comment at The Daily Mail HERE. Just think, the more jabs you give at once, the less a doctor or parent can tell which jab may have caused an adverse reaction. Clever, yes? Do you think parents will...
  • Ginger Taylor: Why Conservatives Don't Get Autism
    Managing Editor's Note: Our good friend Ginger Taylor wrote this post at Adventures in Autism.com as a counterpart to Dan's post last week. We look forward to lively debate. A few days ago, Dan Olmsted at Age of Autism wrote...
  • Winner: Signed Copy The Age of Autism Mercury Medi ...
    Congrats to Susan in TX who has won a signed copy of Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted's The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic. Also, Google Books has posted the Foreward, Introduction and part of Chapter One...

Global BDS Movement

  • Veolia and Alstom feel the heat – BNC calls for in ...
    Occupied Palestine, November 2010 - Veolia and Alstom, the two French companies involved in the construction and management of a tramway linking west Jerusalem with illegal Israeli colonial settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory, described by the UN Human Rights Council as a “clear violation ...
  • Palestinian civil society reaffirms support for pe ...
    Occupied Palestine, 23 November 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) urges the French government to immediately cease all undemocratic, repressive measures against its own conscientious citizens who promote or engage in non-violent boycotts, divestment an ...
  • OECD hires services from extremist Jewish settler ...
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  • Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on ...
    � Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  � Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more
  • Legal Memorandum by Professor Karma Nabulsi on Isr ...
    � Memorandum presented by Dr Karma Nabulsi, University of Oxford, to OECD member-states about their legal obligations during Israel's accession process (May 2010)  � Dr Karma Nabulsi is Fellow of St Edmund Hall and lecturer at Oxford University � read more

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • EU launches website to dispel “urban myths&# ...
    Daily Telegraph – The European Commission has launched a new website designed to win over a sceptical British public to the merits of the European Union by dispelling “urban myths”. One of the myths cited was that officials were to stop bingo callers using the term ‘two fat ladies’ The online guide, ...
  • Murdoch confirms 9pc stake in Ten (Australian TV N ...
    ABC – Media mogul Lachlan Murdoch has bought half of his fellow businessman James Packer’s stake in Ten Network. Mr Packer last month bought just under 18 per cent of Ten in a $280 million off-market raid on the company. Last night, Mr Murdoch’s solicitors Gilbert and Tobin sent a notice to the ASX ...
  • Irish unveil harshest cuts, tax hikes in history
    Associated Press — Ireland unveiled the harshest budget measures in its history Wednesday, a four-year plan to slash deficits by €15 billion ($20 billion) so it can receive a massive bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. The austerity plan axes thousands of state jobs, ...
  • Germany’s top court upholds restrictive GM c ...
    AFP- Germany’s top court on Wednesday upheld a two-year-old law placing sharp restrictions on the use of genetically modified crops, saying it protected the public from the risks of the technology. The Federal Constitutional Court said that 2008 legislation requiring buffer zones between GM and conv ...
  • Full cost of European missile defence could run to ...
    Daily Telegraph – European states will have to spend billions of pounds over the next 10 years to build a ballistic missile defence shield designed to protect the region from nuclear attack, according to Nato officials. But that sum, a Nato background document says, will only meet the cost of comman ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Obama administration moves to protect polar bear
    The Obama administration is setting aside 187,000 square miles in Alaska as a "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could restrict future offshore drilling for oil and gas. The total, which includes large areas of sea ice off...
  • 'The World in 2050' : The Arctic and everything be ...
    Everyone wants to predict the future, but Laurence Smith actually does so in his new book, “The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Our Civilization’s Northern Future” (Dutton, 2010). Smith, a UCLA professor and geographer, traveled the Arctic region after...
  • Greywater Report looks at wastewater's potential
    About 50% of the water used inside U.S. homes can be reused to irrigate landscapes and flush toilets, according to a gray water report released by the Pacific Institute last week. The Overview of Greywater Reuse examined the application of...
  • Kettleman City birth defects not linked to toxic d ...
    A state investigation did not find a common underlying cause for recent birth defects, including heart problems and cleft palates and lips, in Kettleman City, a Central California farming community of about 1,500 mostly Spanish-speaking residents, according to a long-awaited...
  • Report expected on birth defects in Kettleman City
    State health officials are expected to release a long-awaited report Monday on their investigation into the possible causes of severe birth defects in Kettleman City, a Central California farming community of about 1,500 mostly Spanish-speaking residents. State health investigators tested...

water.org

  • Keep up with Water.org Haiti projects (ONE)
    Keep up with Haiti water projects in real time (ONE) – As advocates and activists, a lot of our support comes from actions that we take in front of our computers. Once we type in our names for a petition or click on a link, the issue is gone â unless we take the steps [...]
  • Good Works: Water.org (Family Circle)
    Good Works: Water.org, Matt Damon and Gary White (Family Circle – November 21, 2010) – “Water is such a basic life necessity, but so easy to take for granted,” says Matt Damon. “In the U.S. we simply turn the tap and it appears, hot or cold, and clean. But for so many people around the [...]
  • Water.org to receive $1M donation from Hult (LTTS)
    Matt Damonâs Water Charity To Receive Million-Dollar Donation (Look to the Stars) – Business schools from around the world have been invited by Hult International Business School to compete in its second annual Global Case Challenge. This yearâs theme is on clean water, and this yearâs recipient of ...
  • Haiti’s cholera epidemic no surprise (KC Sta ...
    Haiti’s cholera epidemic is no surprise, experts say (Kansas City Star) GRAND SALINE, Haiti – Water.org, a Kansas City-based organization working to provide safe drinking water in developing countries, has a project under way in Pignon. It is close to Artibonite, the area where cholera first appeare ...
  • Help the toilets with MyShirtHelps.com (ST8MNT)
    WORLD TOILET DAY / Help the toilets with MyShirtHelps.com (ST8MNT) – In case you didnât know, itâs World Toilet day. Since sanitation rules you should thank your toilet. âThe water and sanitation crisis has claimed more lives than all the wars of the 20th century, combined.â So you should probably t ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Jewish settlers move into house after Israeli poli ...
    The US has made clear its disapproval of any expansion of Jewish presence in East Jerusalem. The issue has become a stumbling block for the resumption of talks.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu has no choice but to freeze East Jerusal ...
    "There is no way we will give Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] a license to build in East Jerusalem," the American official said with unconcealed anger. "Our letter will not mention, or even hint at, the explicit word 'Jerusalem.'" Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • A new way to embitter Palestinian lives
    But even this is not enough for the settlers, so they create provocations. For their takeover of the springs does not just deny the Palestinians access to water sources; it also, and primarily, creates a violent provocation.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Thro ...
    In the pharmaceutical industry�s rush to get drugs to market, safety usually comes last. And the public suffers. Submitted by Linda R. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Tea Parties: Deluded and Propelled by Billiona ...
    The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It's one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen and the biggest Astroturf operation in history. Submitted by Linda R. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Interview with an anarchist student occupier at Sh ...
    Mark is a third year Biology student studying at Sheffield University and a member of the Anarchist Federation. He is one among many students currently occupying the Hicks Building on Sheffield University campus. The views expressed in the interview should be ...
  • Portugal shut down by general strike
    ALBERT_PORTUGAL_GEN_295609f[1].jpg A 24-hour general strike protesting the government’s austerity policies largely paralysed Portugal on Wednesday, with planes grounded, trains cancelled and rubbish goin ...
  • Thousands of students take action against cuts and ...
    Millbank.jpg Thousands of students and supporters are due to take part in a national day of action against cuts and tuition fee increases across the UK on 24 November. Post your live updates here. ...
  • Wildcat strike by Canadian postal workers
    GMC_Canada_Post_Truck[1].JPG A number of Canada Post employees in Winnipeg walked off the job Monday to protest a change in the mail sorting procedure. Canada Post's website says t ...
  • Pike River Mine explosion: fate of 29 workers stil ...
    NZmine_290319f.jpg Pike River Mine on the West Coast of New Zealand is said to be one of the most advanced mines in the country, yet workers still bear the brunt of the drive for profit. On Friday 19th N ...

Free Range International

  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
  • Inchon
    Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...

The 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. ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan
    He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like Canad ...
  • Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov 13, ...
    The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
  • Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
    Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
  • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
    She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's our ...
  • Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
    He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.

Scotts Contracting

  • Live Webcast-Retrofitting Cities-How to Green the ...
    Retrofitting Cities: How to "Green" the Cities We’ve Got Live Webcast Nov. 22, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT Register Now More than half the world’s population now lives in and around cities, arguably providing an excellent opportunity for … Continue reading →
  • Quality Solar Panels will be available at $1.89 pe ...
    On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: January of 2011 container quantities (633 pcs) of these High Quality Solar Panels will be available at **$1.89/W with free delivery anywhere in the USA. We are taking … Continue reading →
  • Solar Car Roofs by Fisker Automotive=American Inge ...
    PRESS RELEASE Quantum to Begin Series Production of Solar Roof for Fisker Automotive IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTWW) announced today that it has received a $9.4 million production release for … Continue reading →
  • New: A Car that Runs on Human Waste
    New car runs on human waste Sunday, November 21, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Engineers from alternative energy company GENeco say they have designed an automobile engine that can run off methane gas produced from human waste. To … Continue reading →
  • ‘Sustainability’ can mean profits
    Nov 18, 2010 New York Times NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of Greenwire NEW YORK — The recession taught many companies that "sustainability" can mean profits. Slashing energy use and streamlining production in hard times, businesses learned that being green made a positive … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • نقدی: خداراشکر می‌کنم کشورمان درتحریم است ودعا کنی ...
    رئیس سازمان بسیج مستضعفین گفت: خدا را شکر می‌کنم که کشورمان در تحریم است و دعا کنیم که هر روز تحریم‌ها بیشتر شود
  • درخواست اقدام از دبیرکل سازمان ملل برای آزادی ابرا ...
    به گزارش وبسایت جرس، این نامه با امضای شیرین عبادی، حقوقدان و برنده جایزه صلح نوبل، عبدالعلی بازرگان، عبدالکریم سروش، احمد صدری، محمود صدری، محسن کدیور، عطاء الله مهاجرانی و حسن یوسفی اشکوری، از فعالان سیاسی و پژوهشگران ایرانی مقیم خارج از کشور، برای بان کی مون، دبیرکل سازمان ملل، ارسال شده است.
  • اعتراض شیرین عبادی به شرکت سونی اریکسون
    یک‌سال پس از اعتراف شرکت نوکیا زیمنس به تامین تجهیزات شنود جمهوری اسلامی ایران، شیرین عبادی شرکت سوئدی "سونی اریکسون" را نیز به اقدامی مشابه و "همکاری با دولت ایران در سرکوب مردم" متهم کرد.read more
  • خطراتی در پیش است رضایت مردم را باید جلب کرد
    برخورد با جنبش دانشجویی و تشدید فشارها بر این قشر در آستانه ۱۶ آذر اشتباه است. چرا پرونده حمله کنندگان ۲۵ خرداد ۸۸ کوی دانشگاه تهران در دستور کار قرار نمی گیرد؟
  • افکار عمومی جهان علیه ایران بسیج می شود
    این که در اروپا و امریکا بحران اقتصادی حاکم است، جای تردید نیست و اتفاقا این بحران ناشی از آن برنامه های اقتصادی است که تازه حاکمیت کودتا یادش افتاده که نسخه نجات اقتصادی جمهوری اسلامی همین است.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Update on Ireland
    The news from Ireland this week is that the prime minister has caved in and agreed to accept $84 billion dollars in bail-outs from the IMF and European Union after all. The Irish people protesting daily outside the Irish parliament don’t really believe this. They contend Prime Minister Brian Cowen i ...
  • Buy Nothing Day – Nov 26th
    I’ve just been to the Adbusters site to set up a Buy-Nothing meet-up November 26th  (to make December a buy nothing month – the ultimate act of political resistance.) Using Meetup, Facebook and Twitter, this was a cinch – requiring exactly 3 clicks. People can go to http://www.adbusters.org ...
  • Buy Nothing Day - November 26th
    I've just been to the Adbusters site to set up a Buy-Nothing meet-up November 26th� (to make December a buy nothing month - the ultimate act of political resistance.) Using Meetup, Facebook and Twitter, this was a cinch - requiring exactly 3 clicks. People can go to http://www.adbusters.org/campaig ...
  • Japan: Leading the Way
    There’s a great article in the November issue of Adbusters (www.adbusters.org) "What’s Wrong with Being the World’s #2?" by Roland Kelts. The title is a direct quote from Renho, Japan’s 42 year old Minister of Administrative Reform. She was referring to a supercomputer – not to Japan’s economy – ...
  • Selling Our GM Stock
    Taxpayers sold one third of their holdings in General Motors on November 18th, when GM became a publicly traded company (on Wall Street) again. I’m sorry to report that we lost money on the deal. We only got $33 a share on our stock, and to break even we would have needed to make $44 a share. There’ ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Through Thick and Thin
    It’s been a rough week, what can I say. First, the Veterans Day hangover. Being a veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write [...]
  • It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ...
    On Monday evening a helicopter near Los Angeles filmed what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch some 35 miles west of Los Angeles. The government immediately denied any knowledge of a missile launch, and after much speculation in the media and on the Internet, a few days later the case was sol ...
  • The Forgotten War, the 1956 Israeli Invasion of Eg ...
    Also known as the Suez Crisis or the Tripartite Aggression. This was a lovely little war, brilliant in its simplicity. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal early in 1956, so Britain, France, and Israel came up with a wonderful plan. Israel would invade Egypt, drive the Egyptian army out of the Sina ...
  • Palestinian Dreams
    I’ve been doing some posting in a  discussion group, and like watching the main stream media news, I have been astonished at what I see. For one thing, it really is true, there are people that literally believe that every word uttered on Fox News is the truth. I have a hard time understanding that, ...
  • Gloria Ramirez and the Riverside Miasma, a Medical ...
    At 8:15pm on February 19, 1994, one Gloria Ramirez arrived at the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. She was extremely confused, and suffering from problems with her breathing and heartbeat. All pretty normal ER fare so far. The ER st ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Addressing the Ethanol Rhetoric Over the Expiring ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Ethanol Rhetoric Ramps Up It has been interesting to watch the flurry of ethanol rhetoric since the recent elections. With the $0.45 per gallon subsidy (called the VEETC) and the ethanol tariffs both set to expire at the end of next month, both sides feel ...
  • Inside Shell’s Bintulu GTL Plant
    Robert Rapier writes about his recent tour of Shell's gas-to-liquids plant in Malaysia.
  • Cleantech, Globalization and Energy Independence
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Kevin P. Kane. Kevin is an Oil & Gas analyst and cleantech business consultant living in South Korea. Kevin previously published two widely circulated essays: American Freedom from Oil: A Bipartisan Pipedream and Energy Security ...
  • The Stroke of a Pen
    Bob Dinneen wants Congress to extend ethanol tax credits with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."
  • The Palm Oil Conundrum
    Join the forum discussion on this post People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing field (i.e., they don’t require big subsidies or mandates in order to compete). ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Hunger in America Reaches Record High; You Can Hel ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The long, drawn-out recession and the equally long, drawn-out recovery have taken their toll in more than just unemployment and housing foreclosures. Since the recession began in 2008, 14.7 million more Americans have gone on food stamps, now referred to as the Supplemental ...
  • Ho-Ho-No: How the Holidays Put a Woman's Libido on ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Ladies, does all of the cooking, baking, shopping, entertaining, wrapping, and decorating associated with good holiday cheer leave you too jingle-jangled to be naughty OR nice? The good news: There's probably nothing seriously wrong with you if you prefer catching some shut- ...
  • Landmark Regulations Will Lead to Cleaner Cleaners
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Household cleaning products are about to get a lot, well, cleaner, thanks to a new ruling from the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The board voted last week to limit the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by cleaning products and a variety of other ho ...
  • Airport Body Scans Trigger Travel Angst
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Travelers across the country are wondering if this year's holiday travel season will be especially challenging, thanks to the controversy raised by rigid Transportation Security Administration screening techniques aimed at keeping bombs off of passenger airlines. Amid all th ...
  • Pumpkin Cheesecake? Spicy Wine? It's Alicia Silver ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Thanksgiving doesn't have to be all about wishbones, drumsticks, and dark meat. In fact, even if you are a meat eater, you'll likely appreciate a rich, satisfying vegan recipe, says actress and activist Alicia Silverstone, author of

big think

  • Is Kipling Awake In Kabul?
    Maureen Dowd brought it up, but we are happy she did: it’s an excellent time to remember Kipling, and in particular to remember his most celebrated line from “Arithmetic on the Frontier:” Ten thousand pounds of education falls to a ten-rupee jizail. These lines captured the essential aspect of the . ...
  • The World is Edward Pasteck's Petting Zoo; We Just ...
    Jezebel is trolling itself again. This afternoon, the well-known feminist blog published an essay by one Edward Pasteck entitled,"American Guy In Paris Freed From The Idea Of 'Consent'." "Having just returned from living in Paris, I feel more convinced than ever that America gets many things ...
  • TSA-Proof 4th Amendment Underwear
    When the TSA dramatically upped the level of intimacy for airport security scans this month, public outrage ensued, ranging from tongue-in-cheek mashups to grassroots activism. Now, designers are taking their stab at the TSA with 4th Amendment Underclothes – "a way to protest those intrusive T ...
  • Can a Universe Create Itself Out of Nothing?
    Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed by Brian ...
  • Health Care Costs More in the United States
    In an recent Big Think essay, fellow blogger David Berreby argued that the U.S. deficit is largely a product of our increasingly high expectations about the quality of our health care. As Berreby correctly points out, the growing deficit is largely driven by health care costs. Health care costs are ...

Information Liberation

  • Zogby Poll: 61% Oppose Full Body Scans and TSA Pat ...
    The implementation of full body scans and pat downs by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as part of security enhancements at our nation's airports will cause 48% of Americans and 42% of more frequent fliers to choose a different mode o...
  • Ron Paul: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott ...
    Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Texas Congressman Ron Paul expressed his outrage and disgust with the TSA and its unconstitutional naked body scanners and genital groping under the transparent pretense of protecting the American people from t...
  • "Screw Big Sis": Man Strips Down In TSA Opt Out Pr ...
    A man kicked off today*s National Opt Out Day protest against TSA screening measures in a bold fashion, stripping down to his speedo*s with the words *Screw Big Sis* scrawled on his back before passing through airport security. Telling screeners t...
  • Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?
    The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertari...
  • Woman: TSA Agents Singled Me Out For My Breasts
    ORLANDO, Fla. * The head of the Transportation Security Administration said the agency will look further into allegations that two male TSA workers picked a woman for additional screening because of her breasts. Eliana Sutherland recently flew fro...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Seeking the Rule of Law in Afghanistan
    U.S. efforts to promote the rule of law in Afghanistan are expanding and accelerating.  Nearly a billion dollars has been spent in the past decade to strengthen Afghanistan’s legal infrastructure, rising from $7 million in FY2002 to an estimated $411 million in FY2010.  In July 2010, a new Ambassa ...
  • Terrorism in East Africa, and More from CRS
    Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). “Countering Terrorism in East Africa: The U.S. Response,” November 3, 2010. “Latin America: Terrorism Issues,” October 26, 2010. “U.S.-South Korea Relations,” November 3, 2010.
  • The Evolution of American Military Intelligence (1 ...
    An unclassified U.S. Army history of military intelligence that was formerly used as a textbook in officer training at the Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca is now publicly available online (large pdf). The 1973 volume has been superseded in many or even most respects by subsequent research ...
  • US-Saudi Arms Deal Defended by Gates, Clinton
    A $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia — the largest in U.S. history — is poised to proceed despite questions raised by some members of Congress. In a November 16 letter to Congress (pdf), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the deal: “This proposed sal ...
  • Do Corporations Have Personal Privacy Rights?
    The Supreme Court will decide next year whether corporations are entitled to “personal privacy” and whether they may prevent the release of records under the Freedom of Information Act on that basis.  FOIA advocates say that assigning personal privacy rights to corporations could deal a crippling b ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • More thoughts on science from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates Low-allergy wine, true blood, boronic butterflies – The Alchemist learns of low-allergy wines could one day be possible thanks to the discovery of glycoproteins in the tipple that seem to trigger the sniffles and headaches in susceptible drinkers. In analytical news tr ...
  • Pharma industry could thrive in open
    The pharmaceutical industry is facing tough times. The patents for many of the billion-dollar blockbuster drugs have expired, generics have taken market share. Health insurance companies and national health services are under increasing pressure to cut costs. Manufacturers and governments in the dev ...
  • More thoughts on science from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates Alternative medicine and the law – The science, history, politics, religion, and culture that mean it is legal to sell quackery in many parts of the world. NHS.uk allowing Google, Facebook, and others to track you – The UK's National Health Service has implemented vari ...
  • Science sightings from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates First stem cell trial in stroke patient, how did the media do – In its regular assessment and critique of reporting on medical happenings, NHS Choices looked at the recent early test of stem cell therapy for a stroke victim and reports (amazingly) that "In general, the ...
  • My lucky 13 exam tips for students
    My son and his friends are today heading into their first set of important high school exams, their “mock GCSEs”. They call them mock, but the results they achieve at this stage will determine where they go after they do their GCSEs proper, i.e. their 16+ options. So as a loving dad who has done [.. ...

RFF Library

  • Tax Issues and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Legal ...
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41323/ The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and subsequent oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico has led to substantial damages, particularly in the form of lost wages and income. BP has begun to make interim payments to compensate fo ...
  • Agriculture-Based Biofuels: Overview and Emerging ...
    Congressional research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41282/ …total agriculture-based biofuels production accounted for only about 4.3% of total U.S. transportation fuel consumption in 2009. Federal biofuels policies have had costs, including unintended market and environmental consequences an ...
  • Oil Spill Legislation in the 111th Congress
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41453/ This report dated Oct. 15 summarizes provisions of selected legislation–enacted and proposed–that address oil spill policy issues raised after the April 20, 2010, explosion and resulting oil spill at the Deepwater Horizon drilling pl ...
  • Intermediate-Level Blends of Ethanol in Gasoline, ...
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R40445/ On March 6, 2009, Growth Energy (on behalf of 52 U.S. ethanol producers) applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a waiver from the current Clean Air Act (CAA) limitation on ethanol content in gasoline. Currently, eth ...
  • Water Infrastructure Projects Designated in EPA Ap ...
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/RL32201/ Information on the programmatic history of EPA involvement in assisting wastewater treatment and drinking water projects is provided in two appendixes. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Infrastructure, Regulation, Water Quality, Wa ...

Scientific American - News

  • Distant Galaxies Confirm Dark Energy's Existence a ...
    In the late 1990s, two teams of astronomers stunned the scientific community with the finding that the universe is accelerating in its expansion, somehow overpowering the constant pull of gravity that should be slowing it down. The culprit pressing the cosmic accelerator goes by the name " dark en ...
  • Wind Tunnel Tests Reveal Pterosaurs Could Soar for ...
    The ancient pterosaur was a slow flier that coasted on light air currents and could soar for hours. Colin Palmer, a graduate student at the University of Bristol, arrived at this conclusion by employing his expertise as a turbine engineer to carry out first-of-a kind tests on models of pterosaur win ...
  • HIV Drugs Taken Preemptively Cut Rate of Infection ...
    For HIV-negative men who have sex with men, taking preemptive antiretrovirals seems to reduce the risk of getting infected by about 44 percent, according to a new international study. Among those who reported having unprotected receptive anal sex, the prophylactic drug treatment was about 58 perce ...
  • For Whom the Nobel Tolls: An Evening Out with Jame ...
    NEW YORK--Never open a reporter's notebook inside The River Club. "People don't do work here. It's just not done," admonishes James Watson , the Nobel laureate, who is seated on a leather banquette overlooking Manhattan's East River. Our dinner companions grow jittery, an awkward silence falls, and ...
  • Household Cleaners to be Reformulated to Clean Up ...
    About 2,000 household cleaning products will be reformulated to reduce smog-forming compounds under a new regulation adopted Thursday in California.The rule will trigger a new, mandatatory wave of “green” products, including window cleaners, general purpose cleaning sprays, degreasers, oven cleaners ...

RAWA News

  • Chinese Copper Mine In Afghanistan Threatens 2,600 ...
    The Huffington Post: It was another day on the rocky hillside, as archaeologists and laborers dug out statues of Buddha and excavated a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. A Chinese woman in slacks, carrying an umbrella against the Afghan sun, politely inquired about their progress.
  • Afghan People Suffering Under Powerful Elite Tied ...
    McClatchy Newspapers: The coal dug here fires Afghanistan’s only working cement factory, a strategic industrial asset 150 miles north of Kabul that should be supplying building material for much of the country, generating cash and jobs and improving the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. I ...
  • War on error: that’s what friends are for
    The National Forum: It is estimated that one littoral combat ship costs $613 million. According to World Bank figures, that sum would be enough to educate 6.8 million children in Afghanistan for nine years - or we could buy one warship. Which investment would do more to strengthen Afghanistan and Af ...
  • Australian security firm accused of Afghan corrupt ...
    ABC News: Compass Integrated Security Solutions is owned by Peter McCosker, the son of former Australian cricket player Rick McCosker. Compass provided convoy guards for a food and fuel supplier in Afghanistan. The Armed Services Committee report last month alleged the company hired untrained guards ...
  • Pentagon blows up thousands of homes in Afghanista ...
    ANSWER Coalition: Borrowing a page from its infamous “pacification” effort in South Vietnam, where peasant villages were napalmed and burned to the ground to “save them from the communists,” the Obama-ordered surge in Afghanistan has been secretly blowing up thousands of homes and leveling portions ...

frogblog

  • Kevin Hague speaks to the Government motion relati ...
    Kevin Hague speaks to the Government motion relating to the Pike River coal mine tragedy. This will be our only post today out of respect for the Coast. Kia kaha, our thoughts are with you.
  • Food: UK Govt gets multi-nationals to write policy
    It’s hard to believe, but this is true. Food corporations no longer have to spend millions lobbying for favourable government policy in the United Kingdom. Instead, they have been invited by the new Conservative government to actually write the policy!
  • High-speed buses need roads too
    When Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman questioned the Minister of Finance on how his Government’s heavy investment in roads prepared us well for future oil price rises, Bill English had this to say: “The lesson from past surges in oil prices is that although people may change ...
  • Iraqi Christians rally against violence
     One of the legacies of the US-led invasion of Iraq has been sectarian violence it unleashed, not only between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, but also against the Christian minority.  Yesterday I spoke to a gathering of 100 Iraqi Christians who met on the lawn in front of Parliament to m ...
  • The Book of Lod
    In which a simple typo becomes a movement.  It all started here: Mark Posted November 21, 2010 at 6:02 PM Mendocracy – rule by lies – I like it a lod In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the fac ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Hospitals Still Bad for Your Health
    A study set to be published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that hospitals are still doing a lousy job of taking care of their patients: The study, conducted from 2002 to 2007 in 10 North Carolina hospitals, found that harm to patients was common and that the number of i ...
  • Who Loves Inflation?
    Karl Smith: Reihan Salam has written a bunch of stuff I have been meaning to respond to but haven’t. The only point I want to address because its real quick is that inflation does not erode savings. It only erodes cash and the value of long bonds taken out before the inflation set in. However, th ...
  • Quote of the Day: The Great Turkey Conspiracy
    Peter Suderman tweets: Oh sure, he'll pardon the turkey now. But what you don't know is that next week Obama will have it secretly assassinated. You know, I'd really like to see the whole turkey pardoning thing go away. It was never really a very good schtick in the first place, and it's way o ...
  • Who's Making Money?
    So what explains the crankiness of American business given the very high corporate profits they're raking in these days? Justin Fox crunches the BEA numbers and says the disconnect is simple: financial corporations are making loads of money but domestic nonfinancial corporations aren't: So the re ...
  • The Weird Hubris of the Columnist
    Matt Bai on Obama's problems: In this way, the “Don’t touch my junk” fiasco raises, yet again, what has become the central theme of Mr. Obama’s presidency: America’s faltering confidence in the ability of government to make things work. From stimulus spending and the health care law to the federa ...

Insanity Report

  • It’s All Fun And Games Until a Middle Class White ...
    By know you’ve probably heard of the ridiculous “outrage” over Four Loko, the caffeinated alcoholic energy drink.  Our fearless leaders in Congress, who took a year to argue over the HCR bill and can’t seem to agree on extending unemployment benefits, have moved with break neck speeds to pass laws ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: How to be a LowLife Piece o ...
    Maybe you’ve heard of Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta.  He’s the US solider who was awarded the first Medal of Honor (the nation’s top military award) to a living recipient in nearly 40 years.  To win such an award you have to demonstrate incredible…almost super human acts of bravery and honor.  Here’s ...
  • IC 211: A Nation of Whiners
    Topics for the show: Dylan’s excessive partying Blake Griffin’s flagrant dunking on the Knicks The Pope says condom use is okay in “some cases” Sometimes its best to just STFU Don’t be a Douche The President hasn’t “experienced” the new TSA procedures Americans bitch too much Join the Facebook Group ...
  • IC 210: For Underage Drinkers Who Considered Four ...
    Topics for the show: Ghostface tells the most gay and disturbing story about ODB EVER Kriss explains his rules for orgies i.e. the 20 feet between unobstructed penis rule. No heterosexual man gets turned off because his girl has unmatching bras and panties on… Eva Longoria does it right Four Loko ge ...
  • Movie Review: Diary of a Tired Black Man
    Late Monday night I was bored and decided to watch “Diary of a Tired Black Man.”  I did so knowing I was probably going to want to claw my eyes out when I was done.  People always ask “Kriss why do you torture yourself by watching bad movies?”  I’m not really sure.  I get some [...]

Simple Climate

  • Pick the best Simple Climate change explanation
    So far this year 26 scientists have provided Simple Climate with straightforward explanations of climate change situation. Help choose the best of seven explanations of the underlying physics in the first stage of the poll that will select a reader's favourite by the end of the year.
  • Extra satellite records settle tropospheric warmin ...
    Additional sets of data have been vital in correcting the initial measurements of the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth, which showed no warming trend, to match other records demonstrating climate change. That's according to a review of 40 years of tropospheric temperature research by a t ...
  • When climate becomes a problem too far
    Vivid images are important for understanding global warming, says University of New South Wales psychologist Ben Newell, but go too far and people can react with despair that prevents them doing anything to stop it.
  • Air-stilling temperatures create heat, wind power ...
    Climate change won't cause more hurricanes but will place human bodies under more heat stress, Nat Johnson and Steven Sherwood tell Simple Climate, and will reduce the power generated from wind turbines according to Diandong Ren.
  • Climate change shifts organisms in space and time
    Duke University's Bill Morris finds the hills are alive with moving plants, and warns that climate change impacts could mean species that have worked together in the past will move out of sync.

e!Science News

  • Being a 'good sport' can be critical to maintainin ...
    It's never fun riding the bench – but could it also make you less likely to be physically active in the future? read more
  • How pathogens hijack host plants
    Infestation by bacteria and other pathogens result in global crop losses of over $500 billion annually. A research team led by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology developed a novel trick for identifying how pathogens hijack plant nutrients to take over the organism. They discovere ...
  • Study finds that the same face may look male or fe ...
    Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person's field of view, but female when they appear in a different location. read more
  • DNA uncovers 1 of the world's rarest birds
    A team of Australian researchers involving DNA experts from the University of Adelaide has identified a new, critically endangered species of ground parrot in Western Australia. read more
  • 'Russian doll' galaxy reveals black holes' true po ...
    Following a study of what is in effect a miniature galaxy buried inside a normal-sized one – like a Russian doll – astronomers using a CSIRO telescope have concluded that massive black holes are more powerful than we thought. read more

unEarthed

  • Costa Rica Bans Open-Pit Metal Mining
    Bellavista open-pit mine, Costa Rica In a bold and precedent-setting move, Costa Rica has prohibited all future open-pit metal mining! Environmentalists are celebrating the passage of the new law, which—approved unanimously b ...
  • "The Danger of Cosmic Genius"
    Freeman Dyson My friend Ken Brower has a fascinating piece in The Atlantic Monthly for December on the visionary astrophysicist Freeman Dyson. Ken has known Dyson for years and wrote a wonderful joint profile of Freeman and h ...
  • A Video Toast To The World of Earthjustice
    Today, in the midst of Thanksgiving, we invite you to spend a minute and 17 seconds with us as we honor the many Earthjustice supporters responsible for significant achievements this year on behalf of people, wildlife and the wi ...
  • Friday Finds: California Says No To The Brazilian
    California recently adopted a law that requires cleaning companies to reduce their smoggy ingredients. Plastic looks not so fantastic in parody rap video On the heels of LA's new law banning single-use plastic bags, spirit ...
  • A Reason To Give Thanks—Environmental Laws Survive ...
    Roadless areas of the Tongass N.F. are among Earthjustice's top priorities for protection Although the recent elections signal a return to more inhospitable times for environmental protection in Congress, we are sustained by ...

Brave New Climate

  • The effect of cutting CO2 emissions to zero by 205 ...
    Guest Post by Dr Tom M. L. Wigley. Tom is a a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and former Director of the CRU. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. For his list of papers and citations, click here (hi ...
  • SNE 2060 – a multi-source energy supply scenario
    In this post, I develop a hypothetical multi-energy-supply scenario for global low-emissions electricity in ~2060. The assumed energy mix is 75 % nuclear fission and 25 % non-nuclear sources, with fossil fuel use virtually eliminated except where it is used with carbon capture and storage. The % ann ...
  • Systems modelling for synergistic ecological-clima ...
    For those interested in my current science research directions, I’ve just been funded for another 4 years by the Australian Research Council as a Professorial “Future Fellow“, to continue my work on stochastic systems modelling and scenario optimisation. Here are some details on the project: Title: ...
  • SNE 2060 – assessment of energy demand
    In a previous post on BraveNewClimate – TCASE #The energy demand equation to 2050 — I estimated a mid-century global primary energy demand of ~1000 EJ (see here for definitions). But it may as well have been 2060; the actual date that this global demand will be reached is obviously uncertain, but ...
  • CO2 rising – the science of global warming
    Below are two climate change book reviews by me; I hope you find them as interesting as I did. I’ve provided an Amazon link to one and a Book Depository link to another — because I’m not out to promote any particular online bookstore (although I tend to find the latter cheapest, and as to [...]

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Existentialist Cowboy: Please explain what dif ...
    The Existentialist Cowboy: Please explain what difference there is between Republicans and Nazis! by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy When Ronald Reagan became President, his party declared a 'revolution'. He was hailed by American right-wing “reactionaries” as our armed forces –a so-called volu ...
  • African Judas: Barack Obama and the Politics of Wh ...
    From Aboriginal Press Books: It is generally agreed that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States would change the public face of the western world. But we must at this juncture honestly ask ourselves if the substance of that society has adjusted to realistically reflec ...
  • Theo Ellington: A Man in the Mirror | Oakland Loca ...
    A Man in the Mirror | Oakland Local In the wake of the senseless acts of violence that have taken away the lives of Oscar Grant, Derrick Jones and countless other black men, I've grown to feel numb. In my childhood, death and murder plagued my mind. Sometimes people I knew were taken away by n ...
  • Phil Woolas reflects racism of elites|13Nov10|Soci ...
    Phil Woolas reflects racism of elites| Socialist Worker: "by Ken Olende I thoroughly enjoyed watching the odious Phil Woolas being ejected from parliament for lying about Muslims in his election leaflets. During the general election campaign Woolas, then a sitting Labour MP in Oldham, Greater Manc ...
  • Peltier family accuses U.S. government of medical ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 November 2010 Contact: Delaney Bruce, Legal Team Liaison, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106, USA; Telephone: 1-701-235-2206; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info Peltier family accuses U.S. government of medical neglect “A man dies from ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Only in America – Treason Pays
    Only in America does a political party (Republicans) score political points by trying to destroy presidents of the opposite party. In today’s world, halting the economic recovery, and neglecting to watch nukes in Russia is “good” political strategy.  Lowering taxes on corporations that are already ...
  • Sorry Sarah
    The staff at RepublicansAreADisease.com would spend a little time mocking you if you weren’t such low hanging fruit. By all means keep it up! Guess what Sarah. I can see the Russians kicking our nuke inspectors out as I type….
  • Republican Platform = Global Warming Doesn’t ...
    As more data confirming the fact that the earth is warming, the ice is melting, the permafrost is melting, and this is causing huge problems , the Republicans stand firm. Doing anything to change our current system of oil company subsidies, handouts, and zero income tax policies would hurt the oil t ...
  • Remembering Medicare Part D
    The absolute worst piece of legislation ever written. The bill, Tom DeLay “hammered” through where seniors get drugs, and the tax payer gets the bill. Of course the tax payer funded drugs cost up to five times as much as the same drugs cost other countries health care systems. Isn’t it good to know ...
  • Brainwashed Republican Lemmings
    Should we feel sorry for brainwashed Republican lemmings? The fools that think that giving all the breaks to billionaires while they rob the poor and the middle class is “good for” America. That think all taxes are bad, but don’t understand roads, bridges, jails, and stuff like that. The filthy r ...

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • From the mouths of babes, literally
    The second season of the Israeli version of the reality show Beauty and the Geek is an even bigger hit than the first. Not least because the producers constantly prove that, in Israel 2010, reality outdoes satire. In the second episode, broadcast Tuesday evening, the girls are quizzed in the Channel ...
  • Ynet: “US showing signs of despair from Neta ...
    More than a week passed since PM Benjamin Netanyahu got back from Washington, and still there is no deal on the settlements moratorium. Attila Somfalvi, Ynet’s political correspondent, quotes an Israeli source: “The Americans are showing signs of despair from Netanyahu. They don’t understand what he ...
  • Watch: a sole settler deprives an entire community ...
    A visit by Ta’ayush activists to the hills near Bir el Eid turns into a tug-of-war with a local settler By Mairav Zonszein On Saturday, a lone settler from the illegal outpost of Mitzpeh Yair prevented water access to Palestinians living in Bir el Eid.  This is not the first time this has happened. ...
  • In Safed, a town backs its racist Rabbi
    “Knock on any door in this street and ask who would be willing to rent an apartment to Arabs and I’ll bet you no one will,” says an Arab student from Safed By Daniel OZ In the public park adjacent to the Zefat (Safed) Academic College, all the stone seats and wooden benches are adorned with [...]
  • Referendum law: don’t give the Knesset so much cre ...
    Let’s calm down, shall we? Saying that Knesset legislation has given a coup de grâce to the two state solution (TSS) is a gross misunderstanding of the Israeli political system. It’s almost like a kid telling his father he won’t be able to do his homework tonight because he lost his pencil. Yeah, Da ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FAULTS FIRMS IN FORECLOSURE
    It’s not just the opinion of foreclosure defense attorneys and advocates….and still some ask, “Is the defense of foreclosure ethical?” WASHINGTON â An Obama administration official says a preliminary investigation into the foreclosure process has found inexcusable breakdowns in the basic controls mo ...
  • Countrywide’s Mortgage Document Errors May D ...
    Dailyfinance.com Story | By: ABIGAIL FIELD “Testimony in a New Jersey foreclosure case decided last week may spell big trouble for Bank of America (BAC). If what one bank employee said on the stand proves to be accurate, paperwork problems it acquired when it purchased the failing mortgage provider ...
  • A Candidate For Lee County Sheriff That Really, Re ...
    No commentary from me necessary, read the letter below. candidate-capacity-2200-45 Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Foreclosure Detectives Hunt for Lies
    An article by RUTH SIMON on WSJ online reads… “URBANDALE, IowaâIn two squat, suburban office-park buildings here, Richard Barrent is digging through loan files that could help decide who pays for the mortgage-paperwork debacle. The former Wells Fargo & Co. quality-assurance manager’s two-year-old co ...
  • Does the Defense of Foreclosures by Lawyers Border ...
    Wow, another mind bender here…that is a question asked by a retired federal judge… READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE. I’ll post more later…I’ve decided to take a deep breath and wait before responding to things that make my head explode, but wasn’t this the country that felt that even rapists and murders ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Keeping A Stiff Upper Lip
    My kids won’t kiss me.  Neither will my wife. I can still taste morsels from lunch hours after I’ve eaten. Man, the things I do for Jack Layton! Joking, of course. This is “Movember” and some 80 MPs have grown moustaches for the month in order to bring awareness to prostate cancer and to raise [... ...
  • A Bad Climate For Democracy
    I don’t have too much to say on why the Senate opted to turn down Bill 311 – the Climate Change Bill that was passed through the House and sent to Senate for analysis and ratification. There are numerous enough stories in the media about how the Conservative-dominated Senate harshly struck it down. ...
  • Ottawa Correspondence
    Filed under: Personal, Politics
  • Nap Time
    The Great Depression of the 1930s produced some odd effects. The study of sleep habits was in its infancy during that decade, but even still the researchers in the United States noted a troubling trend: the worse the economic conditions, the more people wanted to sleep but couldn’t. Stress levels fr ...
  • A November of Peril or Promise
    “When chill November’s surly blast make fields and forest bare.”  This Robbie Burns observation comes true each year, but for Sudan the month of November might well prove to be one of the most pivotal periods in its long and bloody history. The internationally significant referendum on whether Afr ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will be croppe ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m expect ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the piece ...
  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science at ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in airp ...

Reader Supported News

  • Rhino Left With No Place to Hide
    Intro: "After the first attack, her horn was removed to dissuade poachers. Still, they came back for the stump. Her only refuge is a zoo." Black rhino Phila charges around her new enclosure after being offloaded at the Johannesburg Zoo, 11/24/10. (photo: (Jon Hrusa/EPA) Sorry, your browser ...
  • Airport Scanner Protests Could Result In Delays
    "Holiday travelers dismayed by airport body scans planned protests at bustling airports Wednesday, while the head of the nation's transport security agency urged passengers to comply with searches to reduce the possibility of delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year." A traveler under ...
  • Effort for Liberal Balance to GOP Groups Begins
    "The internal concept paper for American Bridge lays out a series of priorities for the next year, including initially focusing on attacking vulnerable Republicans in the Senate and the House, as a prelude to major spending in 2012." David Brock, founder of American Bridge, a new Democratic polit ...
  • Airport Scanner Protests Could Result In Delays
    "Holiday travelers dismayed by airport body scans planned protests at bustling airports Wednesday, while the head of the nation's transport security agency urged passengers to comply with searches to reduce the possibility of delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year." A traveler under ...
  • Effort for Liberal Balance to GOP Groups Begins
    "The internal concept paper for American Bridge lays out a series of priorities for the next year, including initially focusing on attacking vulnerable Republicans in the Senate and the House, as a prelude to major spending in 2012." David Brock, founder of American Bridge, a new Democratic polit ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
    Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
  • Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
    While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
  • Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
    How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
  • Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
    A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...
  • What We’re Reading–Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook
    Author Kim O’Donnel recently released The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour, for people that love to eat meat but might also want to eat less of it. In the book’s foreword the Center’s director, Dr. Robert Lawrence, reintroduces the idea to readers that people ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain ...
    Stop NATO November 24, 2010 U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance Rick Rozoff This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preside ...
  • Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
    Stop NATO November 22, 2010 Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force Rick Rozoff The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the wa ...
  • NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
    Stop NATO November 19, 2010 NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Operations Rick Rozoff As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unveils its first 21st century strategic doctrine in Lisbon this week, its first ground war and war outside Europe is in its tenth year with no end in sight. Th ...
  • World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its ...
    Stop NATO November 9, 2010 World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its Reach: Radio interview with Rick Rozoff on the In Context show. http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46842 Click arrow on lower right hand of page. Click to enlarge: U.S. Unified Combatant Commands: Northern Command, South ...
  • Das Pentagon baut in Osteuropa neue NATO-Hilfsarme ...
    Stop NATO 10. November 2010 Das Pentagon baut in Osteuropa neue NATO-Hilfsarmeen auf Rick Rozoff Übersetzt von Luftpost Am 19. und 20. November werden sich die Chefs von 28 nordamerikanischen und europäischen Staaten – also die Regierungschefs aller führenden Militärmächte des Westens und ihrer Vasa ...

Consumerist

  • Long-Armed Mannequin Scares People At Old Navy
    Chad saw this mannequin at a Kansas Old Navy. His freakishly long left arm would be the ideal genetic mutation for Black Friday, allowing one to reach products on shelves from a great distance. Something about the mannequin's expression and the curvature of the arm reminds me of a Wheeler from Ret ...
  • Which Products Are You Most Thankful For?
    In case you hadn't noticed, a lot of what gets posted on Consumerist isn't always the cheeriest of news. But in the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we admit that not everything is a malicious scam filled with melamine, cadmium and lead and secretly owned by Halliburton. For example, I can't re ...
  • My Ex Ruined My Credit And Jamie Dimion Doesn't Ca ...
    Lawrence has been in two bad relationships, first with his ex and now with Chase. He and the woman had shared expenses. He was on her credit card. They broke up but he was still on her card, which she continued to run up to $15k. Lawrence escalated his request to get taken off the card all the way ...
  • Judge Dismisses Burger King Franchisee Lawsuit Ove ...
    A year ago, a group representing around 75% of Burger King franchisees filed a lawsuit against BK corporate, claiming that they were losing money on some products because they were not allowed to sell them for more than one dollar. And now a judge in Florida has dismissed the lawsuit, saying the Ki ...
  • The Time Warner Cable Tech Will Show Up On Time... ...
    Tired of waiting for the cable guy (or gal) to not show up during the vague four-hour block you'd been given when you made the appointment? Thankfully Time Warner Cable is about to start a premium service that will let the cable tech blow off a more specific appointment for just $189.95 a month. T ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Potential Benefits of the new Whistleblower Protec ...
    S. 372, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) currently awaiting Senate passage, is a solid down payment on meaningful reform of whistleblower law for government workers, in terms of rights, due process, remedies and resources. Many of the institutional changes it incorporates into law ...
  • Unjust Actions against Franz Gayl, Michael Moore, ...
    Washington Post: Marine Whistleblower Franz Gayl - Security clearance removal is retaliation This front-page story details the continuing retaliation against GAP client and Marine safety whistleblower Franz Gayl. Among other disclosures, Gayl blew the whistle in 2007 on the bureauc ...
  • World Bank Administrative Tribunal Fails to Reinst ...
    Last week, the World Bank Administrative Tribunal released its latest decisions. Several judgments had implications for whistleblowers, including Order No. 2010-3 – in which the Tribunal dismissed a claim by a whistleblower who challenged the Bank’s revocation of her e-mail account and access to the ...
  • Whistleblower News Roundup 11.15.10
    Knoxville News Sentinel: Anderson 'Whistleblower' Appeal Fails A Tennessee Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judge’s decision to throw out a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former Tennessee County employee. The judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to demonstrate that the employe ...
  • Roundtable Discussion: The Problems with Whole Bod ...
    There’s a viral video spreading about a San Diego man’s experience at the airport when he decided to opt-out of the TSA’s “new and improved” security process. When John Tyner was picked to be taken out of the regular, metal-detection security line, he was given the choice to either be subjecte ...

UK Progressive

  • Green Matters: Eagles Stadium ~ A Cornucopia of Su ...
    By Theodora Filis Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Other than the traditional Thanksgiving Day feast, Americans celebrate this day by watching football. Although the Philadelphia Eagles will not be playing today, Eagles Stadium has multiple sustainable initiatives for the 21st century ...
  • Banks Modifying Tiny Percentage of Mortgages in Ne ...
    by Paul Kiel, ProPublica The government’s mortgage modification program has fallen short on any number of counts. Here’s yet another: It’s failed to boost the number of modifications relative to the need. Every month, we post a graphic rundown of the new numbers from the administration’s program.  ...
  • Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC)(!) Attacks GOP on Climate C ...
    Amazing bit of testimony from the one courageous Republican in the US Senate!
  • Remembering Trans Heroine Rita Hester
    Rev. Irene Monroe This weekend is the 12th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR,) and many of us across the nation will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of their gender identities or gender expressions. The purpose of TDOR is to raise public awareness of hate crimes aga ...
  • Rep. Alan Grayson: What Republicans Can Do With Th ...
    The only democrat with guts, he will be missed.
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