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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.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

27 November - RSS SnapShot Pt 2

new geography

  • The Rise of the Efficient City
    Smaller, more nimble urban regions promise a better life than the congested megalopolis. Most of the world's population now lives in cities. To many academics, planners and developers, that means that the future will be dominated by what urban theorist Saskia Sassen calls "new geographies of centra ...
  • Toronto Election Highlights Failure of Amalgamatio ...
    In my pre-election piece on the Toronto election, I discussed the city’s lingering malaise. It developed slowly but its roots can be traced to the 1998 amalgamation that swallowed up five suburban municipalities. This led to a six folds expansion of city boundaries and a tripling the population ba ...
  • Amtrak Fails To Weather The Storms
    Why do I persist in riding Amtrak, the short name for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, a company originally owned by the freight railways, but now subsidized by Congress and run like a Russian bureaucracy, complete with late trains, sullen employees, myriad petty regulations, budget defi ...
  • The Toto Strategy: How Kansas Can Save Barack Obam ...
    Here�s an idea that could save Barack Obama�s presidency: Give up those troubling Chicago roots and get back to Kansas. If, as Dorothy observed in the Wizard of Oz, �We�re not in Kansas anymore,� get the Wizard to send you back there soon. Barack Obama owes much to Kansas�and the Great Plains in ge ...
  • The Overdue Debate: Smart Growth Versus Housing Af ...
    American households face daunting financial challenges. Even those lucky enough not to have suffered huge savings and retirement fund losses in the Great Recession seem likely to pay more of their incomes in taxes in the years to come, as governments attempt pay bills beyond their reasonable financi ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Britain: D-Notice Issued for Upcoming WikiLeaks Di ...
    Torrent: WikiLeaks Insurance File Via: Guardian: David Cameron and other world leaders were being briefed by the US state department about what American diplomats fear will be contained in the expected leak of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables sent to Washington by US ambassadors around the w ...
  • EU Rescue Costs Start to Threaten Germany
    Via: Telegraph: The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. Credit default swaps (CDS) measuring risk on German, French and Dutch bonds have surged over recent days, rising significantly above ...
  • TSA Agents Use Same Set of Gloves to Carry Out Mul ...
    Via: Natural News: There’s a startling fact about the TSA pat-downs that most of us have not realized: TSA agents often do not change their latex gloves between pat-downs! With these pat-down reaching into your pants, feeling your genitals, and sweeping bare armpits and buttocks, those latex gloves ...
  • Insurance Companies Using Electronic Data About Li ...
    Via: Wall Street Journal: Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity. Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s healthâa costly process. Today, however, data-gathering compa ...
  • FDIC List of Problem Banks Grows
    It’s all about fraud and hiding the reality of what’s really on their books. CNBC link ahead. Hold nose. Via: CNBC: The number of banks on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp’s confidential “problem” list grew over the summer even while the overall industry posted solid net income. The FDIC says its ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 9 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Is Bad For The U ...
    Buckle up and hold on - a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months.  The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is "crossing the Rubicon" by announcing another w ...
  • Happy Holidays? 28 Hard Questions It Would Be Grea ...
    Over the coming weeks, Americans will be wishing each other "happy holidays" millions upon millions of times.  But are these really happy times?  Record numbers of Americans are going to be going hungry and cold this winter.  Millions upon millions of our fellow citizens would gladl ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Holding A Conference On Jek ...
    The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve.  The title of this conference is "A Return to Jekyll Island: ...
  • Living Beyond Our Means: 3 Charts That Prove That ...
    Do you want to see something truly frightening?  Just check out the 3 charts posted further down in this article.  These charts prove that we are now in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world.  As Americans have enjoyed an incredibly wonderful standard of living over th ...
  • Currency Crisis! So What Happens If The Dollar And ...
    Some analysts are warning that the U.S. dollar is in danger of collapse because of the exploding U.S. government debt, the horrific U.S. trade deficit and the new round of quantitative easing recently announced by the Federal Reserve.  Other analysts are warning the the euro is in d ...

Desertification

  • Desertification and land degradation in Africa (Go ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://info.endz.co.cc/2010/11/combating-desertification-africa-counts.html Combating desertification: Africa counts on Algeria to defend continent’s positions ALGIERS- Africa group is counting on Algeria to support and coordinate the continent’s position in ...
  • Planting Tree Seedlings (Google / 5 min Life Video ...
    Seen at : http://www.5min.com/Video/Planting-Tree-Seedlings-to-Combat-Desertification-506874587 Planting Tree Seedlings to Combat Desertification
  • Rapid action required to stem desertification in N ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Rapid_action_required_on_desertification_Algerian_minister_999.html Rapid action required on desertification: Algerian minister by Staff Writers Algiers (AFP) Nov 24, 2010 Rapid action is required to stem desertification in n ...
  • Mauritania faces two major constraints: desertific ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.african-bulletin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=714:mauritania-development-plan-2011-2015&catid=1:latest Mauritania: Development Plan 2011-2015 âIn the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development pre-conference event for LD ...
  • Climate change and desertification: Threat to Food ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201011250632.html Nigeria: Usmanu Danfodiyo University to Hold Summit On Climate Change Mustapha Suleiman – 25 November 2010 Sokoto â Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto will hold an international conference on climate change and d ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Little Cams: Fatty Beats Flatty
    by Eric Pettifor Back in May I wrote a review of the Samsung U10 Pocket Camcorder, concluding "Because of the interface, I would only recommend this sweet little horror if you need something small and cheap which produces high quality vids right now." Time has passed, and I had the opportunit ...
  • Our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll, v 2.0
    By Frank Moher Time to update our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll. Some fine qualifees have presented themselves in recent months. The original idea of the list was to record for posterity those news organizations that have or haven't done their job in covering 9/11. You'll find that roster her ...
  • Dr. Martin’s diagnosis
    By Alison@Creekside Retiring from politics after 17 years, MP Dr. Keith Martin, (Reform, Alliance, Ind, Lib), spoke on CBC's The Current last week about the "serious, serious lack of democracy in Parliament . . . the tragedy of the Commons". Martin began as a Reform MP in '93, attracted by the ...
  • Don’t drink and drive, unless it’s bad ...
    By Bev Schellenberg What does a province do when a law acts as an effective deterrent? They consider changing it, apparently. At least, that’s what the still wet-behind-the-ears Solicitor General Rich Coleman is thinking of doing with BC’s strict new impaired driving laws Since September, B.C. ...
  • Ambrose disappears Sisters in Spirit
    By Alison@Creekside Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons' new missing persons initiative entirely bypass Sisters In Spirit, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdered FN women and girls in the first place, but SIS can no longer use the SIS ...

Worldnews

  • Obamas say daughters prefer just to be kids ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) - SpongeBob or cable TV news? It's apparently not a hard choice for Malia and Sasha Obama. President Barack Obama says his 12- and 9-year-old daughters would pick the talking yellow sponge over a talking head any day. "They are...
  • Proposal would allow cities to ban smoking in ...
    Local governments in Oklahoma could soon have the power to ban smoking in public places under a plan legislators and health groups will announce Monday. The plan calls for the repeal of state laws preventing cities...
  • China eyes closer business ties with Europe ...
    2010-11-27 13:54:08.0China eyes closer business ties with EuropeEU,business ties,the 4th Hamburg Summit11010460Economy2@webnews/enpproperty--> HAMBURG - Chinese State Councilor Ma Kai said in Hamburg on Friday China hopes to continue expanding business ties with the European Union (EU) and Germ ...
  • India's Ambani hosts 'open house'
    MUMBAI ' Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani has hosted a lavish 'open house' party at his opulent new skyscraper residence believed to be the world's most expensive private home. Some 80 of India's rich and famous attended the festivities Friday night at his just-completed 570-feet tall (174-metr ...
  • McDowell fails to make up ground
    It looked even more like mission impossible for Graeme McDowell today as he remained well off the pace at the Dubai World Championship. Needing a top-three finish to have any chance of denying German Martin Kaymer the European Tour's money list title, McDowell resumed down in 42nd...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Several Lawmakers Invested in L-3 Communications, ...
    by Michael BeckelA handful of federal lawmakers are invested in one of the companies behind the controversial full-body scanning machines now in more than 60 U.S. airports. The individual investments are worth thousands, and in some cases tens or hundreds of thousands, of dollars.read more
  • UN Scientists Say Emission Pledges Fall Well Short ...
    by John VidalUN 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.read more
  • Corporations Show Largest Profits in History Amids ...
    by David DayenAccording to revised statistics, the US economy grew at a faster rate than first expected, up to 2.5%. Earlier growth in Q3 2010 was estimated at 2%. But the entire problem with looking at this topline number is reflected in these three paragraphs:read more
  • On the Brink of War? Tensions Heighten in Korea
    Tensions heightened in the Asia Pacific as North Korea fired more artillery shells within earshot of South Korea's Yeongpyeong Island, even as it warned that joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises could put the region on the brink of war.China also expressed similar concerns about upcoming milit ...
  • Talking to the Taliban about Life after Occupation
    by Ghaith Abdul-AhadThe administratorIn the south-eastern city of Khost, the everyday business of the Taliban administration carries on across the street from the fortified, government-run city court and police station.The head of the Haqqani network's civilian administration and his assistant h ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • MOTORCYCLE TOURING MATHEMATICS 102 (X-Raying Your ...
    Bruce Arnold I was in Aylesbury--a quaint little duck-loving town in Buckinghamshire chock-full of disarmingly friendly people and Anglo-Saxon history, but a wee bit lacking in memorable pubs--when the three World Trade Center buildings were brought down on 11 September 2001. My last name wasn't B ...
  • Enhanced Airport Screening Controvery
    by Stephen Lendman On November 23, Washington Post writers Jon Cohen and Ashley Halsey III headlined, "Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners," according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, even though "half of those polled say enhanced pat-down searches go too far." ...
  • Haiti's Deepening Cholera Crisis
    by Stephen Lendman This is the latest update since Haiti's cholera outbreak, previous articles accessed through the following links, including the most recent on Sunday's sham election, an exercise in imperial control:Read more �Original post blogged on b2evolution.
  • Korea war redux: Korea-stone cops
    Written by Eric Walberg Much is being made of North Korea’s shelling of one of 30 disputed islands, Yeonpyeong, which houses a South Korean military base, well inside what should be a demilitarised zone between the two Koreas resulting in the deaths of two South Korean marines and two civilians. Th ...
  • Peaceful Countries do not Celebrate Thanksgiving
    By Elizabeth Young Thanksgiving commemorates the successful harvest and a time the Pilgrims gathered to give thanks, sharing a feast with their Native American neighbors, who had made possible their survival in the New England wilderness. "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" written by Henry "Dean" A ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Video - The CCPA: 30 years of making a difference
    For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been advancing alternatives to a neoliberal agenda that has resulted in growing income inequality, a middle class under siege and persistent poverty despite years of economic growth. There is a better way. Learn more about our contrib ...
  • The financial and human costs of the tough on crim ...
    A new CCPA report analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to more crime and a bigger deficit. Click here to read more and donwload The Fear Factor: Step ...
  • Still Open for Business: Potash Decision
    Now that Investment Canada has rejected BHP Billiton's hostile takeover bid and the sky has not�fallen, perhaps we can finally dispense with the tired argument that restrictions on foreign investment will leave Canada no longer "open for business." In fact, virtually every OECD country has more str ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik in Regina
    ================================== Please join us on November 18th for the Regina leg of Abousfian Abdelrazik's Western Canada speaking tour. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on a visit to Sudan in 2003. The Federal Court of Canada later concluded that this arrest likely took place at th ...
  • Partner Pre-Budget Submissions (Update Nov 12)
    Every year as part of the federal government's budget process, the budget committee asks for "pre-budget submissions." �Essentially these documents are ideas that any person or group can put forward about what they would like to see in the upcoming federal budget. �The goal is to have the ideas find ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
    Body scanners soon coming to public transportation in US | Deccan Herald Full body scanning machines- dubbed ”virtual strip searches” by critics, that existed at various American airports since the beginning of 2010, will soon be find their way to trains, subways and boats. The Department of Homelan ...
  • Mark Ruffalo: Terrorist Actor
    Mark Ruffalo on terror advisory list | Daily Dish Actor Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror advisory list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling. The “Zodiac” actor arranged showings for “GasLand” earlier this year and voiced his concerns ...
  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! He was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. He later recanted his confession and tried unsuccessfull ...
  • Next Stop: Uganda
    Barack Obama’s plan to defeat Ugandan LRA rebels | BBC US President Barack Obama has outlined a plan to disarm one of Africa’s most feared rebel militias, the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army. It aims to defuse the spiralling bloodshed in central Africa by removing the LRA’s leader, Joseph Kony. LRA f ...
  • Dems Push For Repeal of DADT
    Senate Democrats Push For ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal | NPR A lame-duck showdown is looming over a push to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the 1993 law that bars gays from serving openly in the military. A much-anticipated Pentagon study on the possible impact of a repeal is to be released Tuesda ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
    Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pus ...
  • Wendell Potter Appearances for 'Deadly Spin&#3 ...
    For more information, visit WendellPotter.com AUTHOR APPEARANCES WASHINGTON, DC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The National Press Club 529 14th Street, Northwest 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. WASHINGTON, DC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW 7:00 p.m ...
  • Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
    Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...
  • The Lies of Islamophobia
    The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne�s command, including his ...
  • What's Mike Up To?
    What's Mike Up To?

Salon

  • Week in a Tweet contest: Round 3
    Which stories will be featured in this week's Week in a Tweet? It's up to you.
  • Cleveland prepares for LeBron visit, safety
    LeBron James is coming home next week, and the Cleveland Cavaliers want to make sure he has a safe visit.
  • WikiLeaks: U.S. warns of diplomatic shame
    U.S. allies around the world have been briefed by American diplomats about an expected release of classified U.S. files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations' relations with the United States.
  • The US of A breaks the Soviet record
    (updated below)
  • No. 8: Maureen Dowd
    Oh, MoDo. Maybe there are still people who thrill to her dated pop culture references and tiresome "wicked" nicknames for politicians. Maybe somewhere there's a reader who still finds it illuminating to examine elections as battles between effeminate girly Democrats and straight-shooting Republic ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Sarah Palin Fires Back On Gaffes
    Sarah Palin made a small momentary gaffe on Glenn Beck's radio show during an interview, saying we needed to stand by our North Korean allies. She corrected it at once and it was obvious what she meant, but the Leftish press made a major political headline out of it
  • 154 - Night Tree; Eve Bunting
    In this touching Christmas story, a family has made it a tradition to go and find a tree on the night before Christmas.....but, not just any tree, a special tree selected in the moonlit forest. Once they select the tree, they decorate it in the woods for all of the forest creatures to enjoy
  • A waste of time in Cancun?
    By Bob McDonald, host of the CBC science radio program Quirks & Quarks . It seems strange to arrange an international meeting when everyone agrees, ahead of time, that nothing will come out of it
  • NATO, Pakistan, US ‘kiss and make up’ inevitable
    U.S. President Harry Truman signs the bill ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty, part of creating the NATO. Both parties have made a point. Pakistan has refused to allow NATO access to its territories, Pakistan has shut down NATO supplies, Obama has gone to India, and Pakistan has refused to go into ...
  • Apple rejects magazine app about Android from App ...
    Apple app rejection stories are about a dime a dozen at this point (though we do cover the most confusing rejections from time to time), but this one is just too darn funny to not pass onto you. A Danish magazine publisher called Mediaprovider submitted an iOS app to the Apple App Store recently – ...

Groklaw

  • Control Points and Steering Mechanisms in Open Sou ...
    Control Points and Steering Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects Most commercial software today depends on open source software. The commercial software might be using an underlying open source platform, or it might be incorporating open source components, or it might be provided as a commer ...
  • FCC Delays December Meeting
    The FCC has delayed its December open meeting amid speculation that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski may put a key net neutrality item up for vote at the meeting. The FCC's December open meeting has been delayed six days to Dec. 21 from Dec. 15, the agency announced in an e-mail. No reason was given ...
  • USITC INSTITUTES SECTION 337 INVESTIGATION ON CERT ...
    The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Apple, Inc....By instituting this investigation (337-TA-750), the USITC has not yet made any decision on the merits of the case. The USITC's Chief Administrative Law Judge will assign the case to one of the USITC's six administrative law judges (ALJ ...
  • US ITC To Review Apple Patent Claims Against Motor ...
    In a Web post on Tuesday, the ITC said it would investigate Apple's claim that Motorola's smartphones violate six Apple patents for touchscreen and multitouch technology, as well as ways to display, access and interact with information. Some of the patents involve technology used in Motorola's popul ...
  • Open Rights Group: It's our birthday! Celebrating ...
    Today we're celebrating five years of the Open Rights Group. It's been an incredible journey from an online pledge to building a succesful campaigning organisation with full-time staff fighting for your digital rights. Why not join today? Helping us to celebrate is our patron, the marvellous Neil G ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • What to do when FBI raids your hedge fund
    Bloomberg offers some helpful advice
  • Web designers vs web developers
    Web Designers vs Web Developers is brought to you by Wix.com I confess to wearing cargo pants (hey, I carry a lot of gear) and sure aren’t afraid of databases…
  • Black Friday shopping frenzy
    It’s official. The US is insane.
  • Euroskeptic blasts EU banksters for looting the sy ...
    “The euro game is up… Just who the hell do you think you are? You are very dangerous people” Famous euroskeptic Nigel Farage in just under 4 brief minutes tells more truth about the entire European experiment than all European bankers, commissioners, and politicians have done in the past decade. Jus ...
  • Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson. 1955-2010
    From bandmates Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter. Their band, Throbbing Gristle, was a founding member of industrial music, way back 1976. With fellow bandmate Genesis P-Orridge they have have continued to make pushing-the-boundaries art and music. Huge talents, all of them. Sleazy will be missed. ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Robinson and Brahimi: Wrong on Hamas and women
    Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...
  • Celebrate Laila's book launch today!
    Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...
  • Virginians standing up to Cantor!
    A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...
  • The U.S., Congress, and the world in 2010
    I was at a meeting in Washington on Thursday where we were discussing the effects that the democrats' drubbing in the November 2 mid-terms could be expected to have on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process". Most of the participants were understandably glum. (This was just after the news ...
  • Laila El-Haddad and Josh Foust books: on Amazon!
    It has been a crazy and wonderful week! We launched Josh Foust's book Afghanistan Journal on Tuesday. Just prior to that, both his book and Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between went up for sale on Amazon. I've been completing the work on the hardcover ...

First Truths

  • Torture: The Great American Export
    My latest denounces the complete impunity with which the United States and its proxies carry out their torture tactics.
  • Privacy or State Monopoly on Info?
    The federal government is preparing itself, under the pretext of protecting our online privacy, for a huge power grab that will likely consolidate unprecedented amounts of our personal information in the hands of government. I commented on the development for the Center for a Stateless Society.
  • Liberty is the Mother of Equality (And Vice Versa)
    In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that liberty is the channel through which to achieve egalitarian goals, that free markets are the best way to attack the system of privilege we're yoked to today.
  • The Crime Families Meet in Korea
    I address Seoul's G20 summit in a commentary piece for C4SS.
  • Israel, At it Again
    My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society confronts Israel's latest endeavors into violent regional domination and government disinformation.

Media Co-Op

  • The Obituary the Calgary Herald Killed
    The long and short of it is this: a Calgary based company, Blackfire Exploration Ltd, is responsible for the d ...
  • Dirty Oil, Dirty Money: Who is Funding the Tar San ...
    After years of online discussion and personal debates, anti-tar sands activists and Indigenous community members are taking the controversy around the role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs) in resistance movements to a public forum. "We have ENGOs that are coming in and making ...
  • Climate Justice Montreal Releases "Beyond Parts Pe ...
    First edition highlights community struggles and makes the links between climate and social justice Edmonton - At the fourth annual Everyone's Downstream conference, Climate Justice Montreal and members of the provisional comittee for the foun ...
  • UBC's Social Justice Centre needs your support!
    Greetings:   I am writing to you on behalf of the Social Justice Centre of UBC (SJC) and asking for your support and public endorsement to protect the autonomy and integrity of this important resource.  It is facing urgent threats and we need your help now, especially before a December 1, 2010 mee ...
  • Community members gather to strengthen movement ag ...
    Representatives from Trinidad to Utah, Vancouver to Montreal to meet in Edmonton EDMONTON, Nov 25 2010--What do people from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago and the Lutsel K'e Dene in Canada's Northwest Territories have in common? T ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Glenn Beck: a clown by moonlight
    "...there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight...." Lon Chaney Sr.(hat to James Kunstler)David Seaton's News LinksFirst, once again, it is important to remember that it is central to Glenn Beck's message that nothing in it make much, or sometimes any, sense at all. This is not some sort ...
  • Quote of the day
    "In today's world five times more money is being spent on drugs for male virility and on silicone implants for women than is being invested in research for a cure to Alzheimer's disease. This means that in a few years the world is going to be full of old women with big tits and old men with stiff co ...
  • Glenn Beck done by a duck
    It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me – Glenn BeckDavid Seaton's News LinksHere is a marvelous video by Jonathan McIntosh of Rebellious Pixels that explains the Tea Party, Beck and Fox better than an ...
  • Lenny Bruce, Picasso, Christine O’Donnell and the ...
    Picasso: (Children don't try this at home) Lenny Bruce: (Children don't try this at home)Once upon a time a� proud samurai of legendary ferocity approached an elderly zen master famous for his wisdom and asked him if heaven and hell existed. The ancient monk looked at the warrior with withering ...
  • The Rick Sanchez affair
    David Seaton's News Links One of the best comments I have seen on the Rick Sanchez affair comes from one Snuffysmith over at Talking Points Memo, I quote:Sanchez: Jews control the media Jews: No we don�t. BTW, you�re fired. LOLI think that sums the whole thing up pretty well. I'd like to make clear ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Europe Steps Up to Protect Babies from BPA
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202-667-6982; Leeann Brown: leeann@ewg.org Bisphenol-A (BPA) will be banned from baby bottles come June of 2011, announced the European Union’s executive commission on Thursday. Citing concerns of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Black Farmers Finally See Justice
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON - Yesterday (Nov 19) it was announced that the $1.15 billion awarded black farmers in the Pigford settlement that arose from decades of discriminatory practices at the U.S. Department of... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Chemical Lobby Gets Its Way in U.S. Senate
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – For several years now, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been warning of the risks associated with bisphenol A (BPA) – especially the BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Calif. Officials Honored for Efforts to Protect P ...
    Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. – Six dedicated public servants will be honored tonight in San Francisco for their shared commitment to protecting the health and environment of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • Will the Real Ethanol Beneficiaries Please Stand U ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – This month’s election is being called a referendum on taxpayer-funded bailouts and wasteful federal spending, but Congress may not have gotten the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Elderly Couple Wins 11 Million Dollars, and Gives ...
    A retired Canadian couple won $11.3 million in the lottery in July -- but they have already given almost all of it away. 78-year-old Violet Large was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple learned that they'd won the jackpot. She and her husband Allen decided the money was a ...
  • Why do One in Ten Kids in the U.S. Have ADHD?
    A U.S. government survey claims that 1 in 10 U.S. children now has ADHD. This is a sizable increase from a few years earlier. ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) makes it hard for children to pay attention and control impulsive behavior. About two-thirds of the children diagnosed with A ...
  • One of the Most Common Causes of Insomnia
    In my experience, you can have the best diet in the world, have the best exercise program and be free from emotional stress, but if you aren't sleeping well, for whatever reason, it is virtually impossible to be healthy. In this interview, Dr. Rubin Naiman -- a clinical psychologist, author, teache ...
  • Protect Children from Brain Injury - Act Before De ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you have been reading this newsletter for awhile you will know that it is very unusual for me to request anyone to contact their legislators, but if you live in the US, there are two issues that now need your urgent attention and involvement: The upcoming US FDA hearings ...
  • What the TSA is NOT Telling You about Full Body Sc ...
    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a leading privacy group, has asked a federal appeals court to suspend the U.S. government's program of introducing full-body imaging machines at airports. According to the group, the imaging machines constitute a suspicionless search of all airport ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference e ...
  • Canada endorses UN Declaration on indigenous peopl ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival Canada has endorsed the UN Declaration on indigenous peoples three years after the declaration was approved by the General Assembly. In a statement released last Friday, Canadaâs Indian and Northern Affairs department said, âThe Government of Canada wou ...
  • International NGOs unite against oil giants
    Uncontacted Indians' territory in Peru is being invaded by oil companies. © Anon Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru. ...
  • Survival wins Hollywood award for tribal rights fi ...
    'Mine' has been viewed by over 650,000 people worldwide. © Survival Survival International’s film ‘Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain’ has won the award for ‘Best Short’ in the category of International Human Rights at the Artivist Film Festival to be held in Hollywood. ‘Mine’, narrated by Briti ...
  • Botswana government renews insults to Bushmen
    Government minister says Bushmen are 'living in the dark ages'. © Survival Botswanaâs minister of environment, wildlife and tourism is the most recent government official to make disparaging remarks about the Kalahari Bushmen. In an interview with the BBC, Kitso Mokaila said, âI don’t believ ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Menard's claims can't be shrugged off
    Serge Menard's shocking claim, that Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt once quietly offered him an envelope fat with cash, raises more questions than it answers. They are important questions that demand answers, and this story can only add to the growing public sense that rot pervades party fun ...
  • Royal congratulations
    Marrying into the Royal Family is "quite a daunting prospect," says Kate Middleton, so we can see that she's got the royal knack for understatement down properly already. She has nailed the aristocratic bearing, too, and she also displays sometimes a taste for silly hats pronounced enough to ...
  • Williams personified the pride of his province
    To Newfoundlanders still smarting from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's 2008 depiction of Atlantic Canada's "culture of defeat," Danny Williams provided a welcome antidote, exuding confidence in them, their province, the region, and himself.
  • What's next? Subway searches?
    As our American friends celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, most Canadians should have been thankful not to be travelling in the U.S. Bad weather in some places, infrastructure-stimulus highway construction in others, and especially a new level of security at major airports made life difficul ...
  • Menard's claims can't be shrugged off
    Menard told Radio Canada this week that back in 1993, when he was the Parti Quebecois candidate in a by-election in a Laval riding, Vaillancourt offered him an envelope -white, not brown -holding $10,000 in cash. Menard refused it, he says, reminding the mayor that the donation limit in thos ...

Food World Order

  • 11/4 binge & purge: frowny fries & waterwars
    san fran passes law banning toys in happy meals* democrat monsanto-lobbyist supported gop candidate* how the 2010 election results will affect health care & freedom* election unlikely to change s510 fate in senate* what the green movement got wrong: a 'turncoat' explains* world bank q ...
  • monsanto has no magic cure for its woes as company ...
    from digital journal: Monsanto is under the gun on a number of different issues, and the company has no magic elixir or engineered fix to halt the corporation's plummet from its recent position as Forbe's Company of the Year. Major cracks have formed in the Monsanto facade this past year. Dropping f ...
  • alcohol more harmful to your health than heroin & ...
    from natural news: Scientists from Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) recently released a study that assessed which drugs cause the most overall harm to both users and society. According to their analysis, alcohol is the most harmful drug, scoring higher on the list than both ...
  • 10/7 binge & purge: sick, soda, studies
    study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick* politics of food in the pacific northwest* coffee prices rise as futures hit 13yr high* 3-course meal in stick of chewing gum now a possibility* new york seeks food-stamp ban on soda* study shows drop in retail food prices at th ...
  • 11/25 binge & purge: giving thanks
    survey finds more families dining together* s510 vote delayed until after thanksgiving - take action now to oppose food tyranny* s510 food safety? fda has killed far more people than contaminated eggs or lettuce* medical mistakes kill 15,000 patients every month* book series gives consum ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

The Economic Collapse

  • 9 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Is Bad For The U ...
    Buckle up and hold on - a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months.  The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is "crossing the Rubicon" by announcing another w ...
  • Happy Holidays? 28 Hard Questions It Would Be Grea ...
    Over the coming weeks, Americans will be wishing each other "happy holidays" millions upon millions of times.  But are these really happy times?  Record numbers of Americans are going to be going hungry and cold this winter.  Millions upon millions of our fellow citizens would gladl ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Holding A Conference On Jek ...
    The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve.  The title of this conference is "A Return to Jekyll Island: ...
  • Living Beyond Our Means: 3 Charts That Prove That ...
    Do you want to see something truly frightening?  Just check out the 3 charts posted further down in this article.  These charts prove that we are now in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world.  As Americans have enjoyed an incredibly wonderful standard of living over th ...
  • Currency Crisis! So What Happens If The Dollar And ...
    Some analysts are warning that the U.S. dollar is in danger of collapse because of the exploding U.S. government debt, the horrific U.S. trade deficit and the new round of quantitative easing recently announced by the Federal Reserve.  Other analysts are warning the the euro is in d ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The Daily Express and we, the people's Battle FOR ...
    The 25th November 2010 is a date that will go down in British history. It is a date when brave patriots in the media rallied to give reinforcement to we, the people of Britain fighting a remote tyranny. It is the date that the first national media title stood up and said 'no'. 'No' to Briti ...
  • Balls, Ed: Labour's tyranny against the British pe ...
    Ed Balls has been on TV today (he says, picking that detail up from newspapers) talking about Labour's utterly horrendous tyranny against the British people. Of course, he comes nowhere near admitting that they were the most evil and wicked Government seen in this country EVER, but anyway... O ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 21st November 2010
    The Mail on Sunday carries the findings of an 'investigation' by Mary Ellen Synon into the "shocking powers of prosecution the EU has over all of us". Not shocking to those of us who have already been sufficiently alarmed by the rise of the totalitarian Reich of Brussels that we joined and are votin ...
  • Quote of the Day: A spot the suspiciously 'false f ...
    "A German government minister has today revealed that a fake bomb found on an Air Berlin flight in Namibia was manufactured in the U.S. to test airport security. It was not yet clear who had planted 'test suitcase', said German interior minister Thomas de Maziere, but the one fact they had establ ...
  • Quote of the Day: History Repeating Edition
    "I wholeheartedly support the Daily Express campaign. It is a brave campaign from a brilliantly patriotic newspaper and not the first time that the Express has stuck its neck out on an issue that is best for our nation. Back in the 1930s, nearly all the politicians and press thought that Adolf Hi ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • JDownloader - Simple, Useful Download Manager, Ins ...
    JDownloader is a simple cross platform download manager which probably is also one among the most popular download manager for Linux platform. JDownloader is Open Source and written entirely in Java. JDownloader Download Manager for Ubuntu/Linux JDownloader simplifies downloading files from O ...
  • No Proprietary Recipes - Meet The First of Its Kin ...
    Instructables is the first of its kind Open Source�restaurant in the world, perhaps the only one to exist on planet Earth. There are no secret recipes at Instructables�restaurant, everything is Open Source. You can simply log on to instructables.com and download your favorite recipes at no extra cos ...
  • Brukkon Puzzle Game is Now Available for Sale in U ...
    Brukkon becomes the second software to be included into Ubuntu Software Center section for paid softwares. Ubuntu Software Center is the application that got maximum attention perhaps during last two release cycles and things are getting better everyday. Brukkon Puzzle Game Inspired by Class ...
  • 10 Useful Open Source iPhone Applications
    If you are in search for Open Source applications for your mobile platform, we have produced one of the best collection of Open Source Android applications�already and now its iPhone's turn of affairs. Here is a useful collection of 10 Open Source iPhone applications. Last.fm for iPhone - Bring ...
  • Apt-Fast Accelerates Your Apt-Get Download Speeds
    If you have ever wished for a much more faster software downloads in Ubuntu, well, apt-fast could possibly make your wishes come true. Apt-fast is a simple bash script that accelerates apt-get download speeds coinsiderably. Apt-fast and Axel Apt-fast is a simple command line utility that c ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Donegal by-election today could bring down Irish g ...
    Will today’s by-election bring the Irish government down? Posted by George Eaton – 25 November 2010 12:45, New Statesman Victory for Sinn Fein could make it impossible for the government to pass its austerity budget. The bailout may have granted Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen a stay of execution b ...
  • EU hopes to double bailout fund
    [Editor's note: Germany's share of the existing €440 billion bailout alone would --together with interest payable on other bank debts --, eat up almost its entire annual tax revenues already. It is inconceivable that the people of Germany would accept this, let alone a doubling of their bailout burd ...
  • Reuters: Thinking the unthinkable — a euro z ...
    Faced with tough resistance in Ireland and Portugal to debt slavery under the banks, the eurozone could break up, speculates Reuters. Analysis: Thinking the unthinkable — a euro zone breakup By Noah Barkin BERLIN | Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:56am EST BERLIN (Reuters) – Contagion spreads from Ireland to Po ...
  • Fintan O’Toole presents ground-breaking plan ...
    Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole has presented a blueprint that could be used not just by Ireland but by any European country seeking to free itself from the EU/IMF, debt slavery, the police state, from artificial wars and bank funded extremist right-wing parties. His key message: “No one can ...
  • Bruce Arnold: This is the biggest political betray ...
    By Bruce Arnold, Irish Independent Wednesday November 24 2010 Brian Cowen has carried through his third major betrayal of the Irish people, far more damaging than either of the previous assaults on our sovereignty and Constitution. The first was his immediate rejection of the country’s constitutiona ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • This is our greatest crime against ourselves
    By Les Visible We’ve been waiting and watching for some time. We’ve been traveling through a period of fits and starts that has gone on longer than anyone expected; those of us paying any attention anyway. For the rest of us it’s just been an extended period of ever increasing, restless sleep. It’s ...
  • Body Scanners More Dangerous Than Feds Admit
    By Dr. Russell Blaylock Print this Page   Forward Page   Email Us   Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, lecturer, and editor of The Blaylock Wellness Report. The growing outrage over the Transportation Security Administration’s n ...
  • Transportation Security Administration employee is ...
  • Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?
    By Dr. Ron Paul 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 libertarian impulse still exists within the ...
  • Janet Napolitano refuses to test naked body scanne ...
    This policy is for you, not for her… Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. Yet when it came to testing the devices – which produce chalky, naked X-ray images of passengers – ...

Veterans Today

  • TURKEY’S DILEMMA AT NATO SUMMIT
    By ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ Questions began pouring in immediately following our return from the NATO summit in Lisbon, which addressed the missile defense shield issue. What did Turkey gain in this summit? Were all of Ankara’s requests met as reflected in the media? When are the missiles arriving? Was Tur ...
  • FRANKLIN LAMB : CAN ISRAEL DEFEAT HEZBOLLAH IN THE ...
    According to the Lebanese military, at 11 am and again at 1 p.m. on 1l/24/10, a total of six Israeli warplanes crossed into Lebanese airspace, and violated for the 8256th time UNSC resolution 1701 that ended Israel’s 5th war against Lebanon, on August 14, 2006. Nearly, daily, and sometimes several ...
  • Lebanon awaiting decision by Hariri tribunal
    Lebanon is on a knife-edge amid mounting tension over a UN probe into the murder of the country's ex-premier and efforts by regional leaders to try to contain a potentially explosive situation.
  • Great Medical Mystery is Why This Guy is Called an ...
    An "expert" just came out and set us back 40 years on PTSD. He thinks there is no effective treatment and that time will take over. In other words, "get over it" leaving veterans to think there is no hope again. Here we have a major line of BS from an "expert" on PTSD.
  • CHALMERS JOHNSON ON OUR IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
    Take a few minutes to watch and listen to the late Chalmers Johnson condemn America’s fading empire of military bases, its evaporating status as the world’s lone superpower and its unchallenged and unconstitutional Imperial presidency, which answers only to the corpocracy ~ a society dominated polit ...

electric politics

  • A Once and Future Country
    How strange that we Americans refuse to take responsibility for our future. Instead of recognizing our political system for the broken shambles that it is, and trying to fix it, we're waiting, seemingly paralyzed, for some kind of savior or external intervention. Good luck with that! To talk about ...
  • American Presidential Dictatorship
    When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his lates ...
  • Our Unsecure Border
    There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-state ...
  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
    To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
  • Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
    The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Whistleblowers Protection

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • N. Korea Says It Is At ‘Brink Of War’ ...
    CTV News Using a burst of artillery fire to signal its fury with South Korea and its U.S. allies, North Korea warned the conditions brewing in the Korea peninsula have pushed it to the “brink of war.” The flash of artillery fire could be heard in Yeonpyeong, the same island that North Korea attacked ...
  • National Australia Bank Glitch Leaves Millions Cas ...
    The Intel Hub News Network By Avalon A massive technical glitch (as it is described) has delayed payments to millions of customers of Australian Banks. The effected banks include Commonwealth Bank, ANZ Bank, Westpac, HSBC and Citi. According to The Sydney Morning Herald’s – Business Day Online Site, ...
  • Homeland Security Seizes Domain Names
    Editors Note: It is only a matter of a time before DHS moves to shut down any alternative news outlet that stands in the way of their tyrannical plans. The Hill The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement. Immi ...
  • TSA Agent Claims Videotaping Against the “Ru ...
    The Intel Hub The TSA has now been caught denying American citizens the right to videotape their encounters with airport security. It is very clear that TSA believes they are 100% above the law. Forbes My wife and I arrived at the airport for our annual Thanksgiving pilgrimage Tuesday evening, and l ...
  • The Intel Hub Radio Joins Oracle Broadcasting
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas and Alex Thomas For the last 4 months The Intel Hub Radio with Shepard Ambellas has on aired five days a week on American Freedom Radio. During those 4 months we were lucky enough to have some amazing guests including Gerald Celente, Jim Marrs, Congressman Devin Nunes, ...

FRS

  • Interview with Rabah Mohanna of the PFLP on the Pa ...
    [The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has articulated over many years the demand for a single, secular, democratic state in historic Palestine, and the demand for a two-state solution based on a return to 1967 borders, with a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza--two views ...
  • ‘Economic prison zones’ exploit Palest ...
    [This article describes the so-called industrial development zones being set up by Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Turkey and European imperialist powers in the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and within Israel. However, the article sets forth a plan for economic development that does not factor in: ...
  • Nagaland rights activist exposes India’s Arm ...
    [At the end of this article, we are running a news report from May 2010 on the brutal suppression of a demonstration of Naga people by Manipur's police commandos (see picture at right), who coordinate their actions with the Indian army. Nagaland and Manipur are two of the seven small states in north ...
  • Afghans protest against execution of political pri ...
    RAWA News Angry protesters, which included many women, threw eggs and dye bottles to the building of Iranian Consulate in Herat. Hundreds of Afghan citizens staged a protest in Herat against the execution of political prisoners by the Islamic Republic burning posters of Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmou ...
  • From Field to Fork: Obama’s agribusiness rec ...
    By Rahul Goswami, Sanhati November 20, 2010 The government of the USA has planned for India to become an important consumer of its agricultural exports and crop science. India has also been planned as a host country for an agricultural research agenda directed by American crop-seed biotech corporati ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Insider-Trading Probe Reinforces Belief Market is ...
    Pervasive investor mistrust is deeply troubling and here’s why: If that sentiment becomes cemented in the psyche of the average investor, it could drive them further away from the stock market and create another headwind for a marketplace already starving for greater participation from Main ...
  • Currency Crisis! So What Happens If The Dollar And ...
    Some analysts are warning that the U.S. dollar is in danger of collapse because of the exploding U.S. government debt, the horrific U.S. trade deficit and the new round of quantitative easing recently announced by the Federal Reserve.� Other analysts are warning the the euro is in danger of ...
  • Many Say Government Now Operating Outside the Cons ...
    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 39% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the federal government currently operates within the limits established by the Constitution of the United States.
  • EU Rescue Costs Start to Threaten Germany Itself
    The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union.
  • Can you tell which of these government spending pr ...
    If only the American people knew...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ex-AIPAC official threatens to uncover mass spying ...
    Summary: AIPACA former foreign policy chief for the largest Israeli lobby in the US is threatening to provide evidence members of the organization regularly trafficked in classified US government information. The claim comes in the midst of an increasingly ugly lawsuit in which parties have alle ...
  • IAEA report reaffirms Iran's nuclear program peace ...
    Summary: "According to the report, all Iranian nuclear activities, including enrichment, have been under the supervision of the agency, and have not been diverted to nuclear weapons production, which are completely peaceful," Soltanieh was quoted as saying. source: Xinhuaread more
  • The mysterious "laptop documents". Using fake inte ...
    Summary: The US stance in the UN Security Council, has in part based on alleged intelligence documents which provide "evidence" of Iran's nuclear weapons program. A recent article by investigative reporter Gareth Porter confirms unequivocally that the mysterious laptop documents are fake. We ...
  • Gareth Porter: "Evidence" against Iran certainly f ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the fraudulent evidence that is cited as proof Iran had a nuclear weapons program and how outdated missile schematics in the MEK (or Mossad)-sourced “smoking laptop” cast suspicion on the rest of the purloined ( ...
  • Iran Laptop Papers Showed the Wrong Missile Warhea ...
    Summary: PorterWASHINGTON, Nov 19, 2010 (IPS) - The most important intelligence documents used to argue that Iran had a covert nuclear weapons research and development programme in 2003 - a set of technical drawings of efforts to fit what appears to be a nuclear payload into the reentry vehicle ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Sci/Space/Tech Geeks: Earn $5 Today for Joining ID ...
    Earn a $5 sign-up bonus and a chance to win an iPad! Join an influential group of Business Decision Makers/Influencers, IT Professionals, Tech Enthusiasts and Gamers shaping the future of technology. Earn cash for every survey you take, drive the...
  • "We Can Glimpse the Universe Before the Big Bang": ...
    The circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background suggest that space and time did not come into being at the Big Bang but that our universe in fact continually cycles through a series of "aeons," according to University of Oxford...
  • 'Daily Galaxy' Fans: Win a Free $500 Amazon Gift C ...
    Use it to Purchase a Kindle, Android X Smartphone, Apple iPod Touch, Garmin Portable GPS Navigator, Toshiba HDTV With Net TV or Hundreds of Other Products and Accessories. Users of Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg are invited to discover, review and...
  • "The Ice-Nine Phenomenon": Will Artificial Genomes ...
    Craig Venter, famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010, created the artificial genome of a parasite and a pathogen. Will their...
  • World's Largest Shark Sanctuary Established in the ...
    A shark sanctuary larger than Denmark has been declared around the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia, covering 17,760 square miles (46,000 square kilometers) of one of the world's richest marine biodiverse region, the Coral Triangle. Protections also extend to dugongs,...

Natural News

  • Tai Chi really works to alleviate fibromyalgia
    (NaturalNews) The gentle Chinese martial art of Tai Chi is more effective at relieving the symptoms of fibromyalgia than simple stretching could account for, according to a study conducted by researchers from Tufts University and published in the New England Journal of Medicine."Aside from reduction ...
  • TSA agents and Nazi war criminals (comic)
    (NaturalNews) Some apologists are now attempting to defend the lewd, obscene behavior of TSA agents by claiming "they're just doing their jobs." This is the exact same quote that was used by Nazi war criminals to justify their treatment of Jewish concentration camp prisoners; or by Japanese soldiers ...
  • Study: thousands of patients never bother to pick ...
    (NaturalNews) Some experts are bemoaning the fact that not all drug patients are taking their medications. According to a new report out of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, thousands of Americans never pick up their drug prescriptions after ordering them because the ...
  • Soda companies pushed pop as beneficial beverage f ...
    (NaturalNews) For over a hundred years, soda companies been selling products with ingredients that we now know are linked to diabetes, obesity, gout and kidney stones. Those are some of the effects of the High Fructose Corn Syrup and phosphoric acid found in conventional sodas, and we haven't even m ...
  • RainShadow Labs offers premium skin and personal c ...
    (NaturalNews) Here at NaturalNews, we love to feature companies that have made -- and continue to make -- significant strides in providing the cleanest and healthiest products to consumers that are made as naturally as possible. And it is with great pleasure that we introduce to you RainShadow Labs, ...

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court: Pirate Bay Admins Still Guilty, Now ...
    Three of the admins behind The Pirate Bay are all still guilty, a Swedish appeals court decided on Friday, but their jail time has been reduced. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom’s prison sentences have all been reduced from the original one year to between 4 and 10 months each, though t ...
  • Air Travelers Opting Out of Opting Out
    A grassroots opt-out protest planned at airports around the country appears to have fizzled, as early reports indicate that most travelers on Wednesday were opting out of opting out of fully body scans. The protest, called by groups such as WeWontFly.com, encouraged airline passengers to opt out of ...
  • WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cable Dump Reportedly Imminen ...
    The Pentagon warned lawmakers on Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ long-expected release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables could come as soon as Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cables “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” according to an e-mail ...
  • Judge Bars ‘Fair Use’ Defense in Xbox Modding Tria ...
    A California man charged with violating the DMCA by installing mod chip in Xbox 360 consoles won’t be allowed to claim “fair use” at his scheduled jury trial next week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday — a decision potentially devastating to the defense, and not particularly favorable to anyone who thi ...
  • TSA Chief Apologizes to Airline Passenger Soaked i ...
    An airline passenger outfitted with a urine bag for medical reasons had to sit through his flight soaked in urine after a TSA agent dislodged his bag during an aggressive security pat-down. Nearly a month later, he finally received an apology from TSA chief John Pistole. Tom Sawyer, who wears a uro ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Nixon with Lipstick
    What's the difference between Richard Nixon and Sarah Palin? Lipstick. (Well, that and military service, graduate education, a keen intellect, years of national political experience and a proven grasp of policy foreign and domestic.) But as a fellow "serial collector of resentments", the half-ter ...
  • Tom Delay Decries the Criminalization of Politics. ...
    On the day of his booking on conspiracy and money laundering charges five years ago, disgraced House Majority Tom Delay proclaimed, "Let people see Christ through me." Now a convicted felon, Delay isn't turning the other cheek but instead decrying "the criminalization of politics." If that sounds ...
  • GOP Urges Slashing Corporate Taxes as Profits Hit ...
    Despite a decade of Bush tax cut windfalls for the wealthy pushing income inequality to levels not seen since 1929, Republicans are calling for another $700 billion, 10-year payday for the richest Americans. So it should come as no surprise that as corporate profits reached an all-time record in th ...
  • "You Don't Have Any Civil Liberties If You're Dead ...
    Be careful what you ask for; you just might get it. So it is with the uproar from disingenuous conservatives trying to capitalize on the public outcry over the TSA's airport body scans and aggressive pat-downs. While Charles Krauthammer now spouts "don't touch my junk" and Rush Limbaugh declares, ...
  • 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts
    In a rare moment of candor last week, the third-ranking Republican in the House admitted the failure of the Bush tax cuts. "You know, I think it's fair to say, if the current tax rates were enough to create jobs and generate economic growth we'd have a growing economy," Mike Pence acknowledged, add ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • G.O.P. Gains on Capitol Hill May Not Advance Nucle ...
    In an article by New York Times reporter,  MATTHEW L. WALD  he writes, the outspoken supporters of nuclear power are mostly Republicans, and the Republicans are about to take control of the House of Representatives and gain six seats in the Senate. Is this good news for nuclear power? Maybe. But the ...
  • Study finds Texas coal plants foul neighboring sta ...
    Coal-fired power plants in Texas are responsible for dozens of bad air days in neighboring states each year, according to a new analysis released by the Sierra Club.  The report attributes as many as 64 days of harmful levels of smog in Oklahoma to Texas’ coal plants. It also ties the plants to a ...
  • Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a beh ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a behind-closed-door negotiation b/w NRG, CPS Energy, and Chairman Barry Smitherman
  • No Environmental Groups in the Navajo Nation
    I’m not (by any stretch of the imagination) an expert on Native American affairs, but there is an interesting and rather sad drama playing out in the Navajo Nation (a semi-autonomous Native American homeland covering parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico). The Nation also encompasses the Hopi Reserv ...
  • Meghana Menon: Re Energize Texas Intern at Public ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Meghana Menon majors in Enivronmental Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Saturn moon has oxygen atmosphere
    A thin oxygen atmosphere has been discovered on Rhea, one of the moons of Saturn. The new discovery demonstrates that oxygen atmospheres could be quit...
  • Dinosaurs made way for giant mammals
    After the extinction of the dinosaurs mammals grew in size exponentially to fill their habitats. Mammals grew so large within 25 million years in fact...
  • Man traps himself behind his own brick wall
    A man who decided to wall off his cellar completed the task only to find he was stuck on the wrong side. The 64-year-old spent the weekend trapped in ...
  • 'Baby born' captured on Google Street View
    The Google Street View cameras seem to have caught a baby being born on a street in Germany. Speculation is rife over whether or not the scene involvi...
  • Ghost child filmed in cemetery ?
    In 2008 17-year-old Jessie Grayhouse filmed something very strange at a cemetery in Georgia. He'd been filming the tombstones when he noticed a child ...

Grassroots

  • Rural Women (and Men) Lead the Way in Ending Viole ...
    707729276_d8407e6648_t.jpg � � Today, November 25th, is observed around the world as the International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women. Grassroots International joins women and men everywhere�in calling for an end to all violence � int ...
  • A New Kind of Disaster in Haiti in the Midst of St ...
    un_haiti_tent.jpg Haitian peasant leader, Chavannes Jean Baptiste, put it best: �Haiti is going from disaster to disaster.��He was talking about debilitating disease among displaced people in squalid living conditions, tropical storms destroyi ...
  • How peasant farmers feed the planet
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  • Indigenous Youth Find Opportunity at Home
    pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...

Climate

  • Oil-Rich South Sudan Weighs Cost of Progress
    Source:� AFP South Sudan officials are concerned at the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry and are promising a tough new line if the oil-rich region gains independence next year.
  • Growing Emission Credit Market Lures Foreign Partn ...
    Source:� China Daily Global environmental exchange operators are seeking partnerships in China to assure a place in the fledgling emissions trading market as the nation heads toward becoming a world leader in the low-carbon sector ...
  • China Launches Hourly Air Quality Data Index
    Source:� AFP China has started publishing hourly air-quality information for major cities across the country as the world's top source of greenhouse gas emissions tries to rein in its notorious pollution. �
  • Leading Model Undervalues True Cost of Reducing De ...
    Source:� Mongabay A widely used representation of greenhouse gas reduction costs doesn't reflect the true costs of forest conservation, making the proposed REDD mechanism seem cheaper than it actually is, argues a new report.
  • World is Warming Quicker than Thought in Past Deca ...
    Source:� Guardian The world warmed more rapidly than previously thought over the past decade, according to a Met Office report, which finds the evidence for man-made warming has grown even stronger.

GreenBiz

  • Why Water is a Risk and Opportunity Your Company C ...
    Without a clean, constant and secure water supply, many of the world's industries would undoubtedly collapse. But with every risk lies an opportunity, and smart companies such as PG&E and Woolworths are moving to reap the rewards from reducing their customers' consumption and strengthening their sup ...
  • Why Russia is the Land of Opportunity for Climate ...
    Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...
  • The Greening of Professional Sports
    From coast to coast, and in every professional sport, teams and their owners are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts, from solar-powered scoreboards to stadiums located in the heart of neighborhoods, rather than beyond city limits.
  • General Mills' Five-Year Goals Aim to Cut Impacts ...
    The company wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and water and energy each by 20 percent, while also halving its solid waste generation by 2015.
  • Why Business is the Best Bet to Fix Russia's Clima ...
    Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Looks Like a Huckabee-Romney Ticket
    Chris Cillizza takes a look at the few strengths and many liabilities of the top ten Republican candidates for president. First, a list of those candidates: Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Sarah Palin of Alaska, Tim Pawlen ...
  • Shimkus Lies: CO2 is Bad News For Food
    Remember the GOP propaganda pushed by Rep. John "God is infallible and science is not" Shimkus that more CO2 is good for us because it is "plant food?" It's a lie, a lie of omission, but a lie nonetheless. Here's the reality: Global grain production will tumble by 63 million metric tons ...
  • What's Your Inner Duke Telling You?
    Peggy Noonan is so weird. I especially enjoyed her projection of how the president feels about sexual repression as it relates to Americans' opposition to junk-touching (SAR is short for Noonan's proposed "Special Assistant for Reality"): President: I've wondered if this general feeling of disco ...
  • Weird Israeli Politics
    Despite having 85 new members of the House and several new senators, Eric Cantor of Virginia is still the only Jewish Republican member of Congress (one race is still undecided). So, this is a bit odd. With powerful friends like Mr. Cantor, a Virginia Republican and one of the highest-ranking me ...
  • Eight Year-Olds, Dude
    I'm not one to recoil reflexively at all talk of bipartisanship. I know that some lip-service needs to paid to the illusive goal of getting both parties to come together to make compromises to solve problems. So, I understand why the president says stuff like this: Citing the urgency to "accele ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Enjoy this week’s top psychology and psychotherapy articles as you recover from a weekend of marathon eating! Hope these can spark some interesting conversation with your friends and relatives :-) Upper Class People Have Trouble Recognizing Other ...
  • The Psychology of Christmas Shopping
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The holiday shopping season begins in earnest this Friday, and retailers will be going all out to win the hard-earned dollars of gift-giving folks. The L.A. Times explores some of the manipulative tools retailers can use in a recent article titled “Buyer beware –  of ...
  • College Students Face Soaring Psychological Stress
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Certainly the college experience can be a lot of fun: parties, new friends, travel abroad, extracurriculars, and even some exciting classes. But to anyone who has experienced college and then looked back from the other side, it’s no surprise that this is a highly stres ...
  • Culturally-Tuned Depression Treatment is More Succ ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Tailoring therapy and mental health intervention to the cultural needs of specific populations has proven effective in a recent study funded by the National Institute for Mental Health. The study took place at a community health center in Boston’s Chinatown and focused ...
  • Depression, Anxiety, and Motherhood
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s estimated that one in ten new mothers experiences depression after the birth of her child. But mothers whose children are born with congenital heart disease are far more likely to struggle psychologically and emotionally. Coping with a child’s health struggles is ...

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

  • Health Law Faces Threat of Undercut From Courts (N ...
    New York Times: Health Law Faces Threat of Undercut From Courts  —  WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration presses ahead with the health care law, officials are bracing for the possibility that a federal judge in Virginia will soon reject its central provision as unconstitutional and …
  • China Raises 'Concern' ... (Fox News)
    Fox News: China Raises ‘Concern’ Over U.S. Plan to Hold Joint Military Exercises With South Korea  —  DANDONG, China—China made its first official protest over plans by the U.S. and South Korea to hold joint military exercises involving the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Yellow Sea ...
  • Barack Obama to Barbara Walters: 'Extraordinarily ...
    Amie Parnes / The Politico: Barack Obama to Barbara Walters: ‘Extraordinarily proud’ of health care reform  —  President Barack Obama, in a wide-ranging, reflective interview with Barbara Walters, staunchly defends his controversial policies - including sweeping health care reforms and the massive ...
  • Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word ...
    The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail  —  WASHINGTON—Having admittedly “reached the end of [his] rope,” President Barack Obama sent a rambling 75,000-word e-mail to the entire nation Wednesday, revealing deep frustrations with America's political culture, his presiden ...
  • U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Do ...
    Enigmax / TorrentFreak: U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More  —  Following on the heels of this week's domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it's clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy.  Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seize ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • The year of collapse
    Next week, international climate-change negotiations begin in Cancún following 12 months of setbacks. Tan Copsey explains why chances of serious progress towards a global climate treaty are looking slim.The need for action on climate change has never been more urgent. Greenhouse-gas emissions for 20 ...
  • The ongoing hunt for climate cash
    Rich nations have made bold statements about channeling climate finance to developing countries, but concrete agreements remain elusive. As we approach the next round of UN negotiations, Jessica Brown sums up the latest developments.Raising and delivering finance to support the fight against climate ...
  • Nervous neighbours
    Construction of a large-scale dam in Tibet is prompting familiar fears downstream on the Brahmaputra. Joydeep Gupta reports on India's concerns.Only five rivers in the world carry more water than the Yarlung Zangbo, or Brahmaputra as it is known when it reaches India. Only one carries more silt. Ris ...
  • Riding roughshod in Inner Mongolia
    Grassland protection policies in northern China threaten to wipe out a rare breed of horse and ancient cultural emblem. Zhou Wei went to meet two herders trying to save them.On November 12, two herders from Khaskatun in Inner Mongolia wrote to the local authority petitioning it to protect the Mongol ...
  • Slideshow: China’s wetland crisis
    This year, photographer Sean Gallagher travelled across China, documenting the impact of the country’s vanishing wetlands. In a series of images, he introduces a striking story of decline.Wetlands are found on every continent on earth, as rivers, shallow lakes, swamps, mangroves, estuaries and flo ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court: Pirate Bay Admins Still Guilty, Now ...
    Three of the admins behind The Pirate Bay are all still guilty, a Swedish appeals court decided on Friday, but their jail time has been reduced. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom’s prison sentences have all been reduced from the original one year to between 4 and 10 months each, though t ...
  • Air Travelers Opting Out of Opting Out
    A grassroots opt-out protest planned at airports around the country appears to have fizzled, as early reports indicate that most travelers on Wednesday were opting out of opting out of fully body scans. The protest, called by groups such as WeWontFly.com, encouraged airline passengers to opt out of ...
  • WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cable Dump Reportedly Imminen ...
    The Pentagon warned lawmakers on Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ long-expected release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables could come as soon as Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cables “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” according to an e-mail ...
  • Judge Bars ‘Fair Use’ Defense in Xbox Modding Tria ...
    A California man charged with violating the DMCA by installing mod chip in Xbox 360 consoles won’t be allowed to claim “fair use” at his scheduled jury trial next week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday — a decision potentially devastating to the defense, and not particularly favorable to anyone who thi ...
  • TSA Chief Apologizes to Airline Passenger Soaked i ...
    An airline passenger outfitted with a urine bag for medical reasons had to sit through his flight soaked in urine after a TSA agent dislodged his bag during an aggressive security pat-down. Nearly a month later, he finally received an apology from TSA chief John Pistole. Tom Sawyer, who wears a uro ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Madoff's relatives and employees face 40 new lawsu ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The trustee seeking to recover money for defrauded Bernard Madoff investors said he filed 40 lawsuits on Friday, including several against relatives of the convicted money manager.
  • Teenage boys survive 50 days adrift in South Pacif ...
    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Three teenage boys set adrift for 50 days in a small boat in the South Pacific survived on coconuts, a seagull they managed to catch and by drinking rain and then sea water, rescuers said on Friday.
  • South Korea Marines vow "thousand-fold" revenge
    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Marine commander on Saturday vowed "thousand -fold" revenge for a North Korean attack that killed two servicemen as protesters demanded tougher action by the government against its reclusive neighbor.
  • New drug tunnel found at U.S.-Mexico border
    SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - U.S. border agents said on Friday they had found a multimillion dollar drug-smuggling tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border that is more sophisticated than one discovered less than three weeks ago in the same area.
  • Obama hit during basketball game, gets stitches
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was accidentally elbowed in the face while playing basketball on Friday and received 12 stitches to his lip, the White House said.

IntelNews

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

After Downing Street.org

  • Oscar Lopez Rivera: Imprisoned for Supporting Puer ...
    Oscar Lopez Rivera: Imprisoned for Supporting Puerto Rican Independence - by Stephen Lendman After the 1898 Spanish-American War, the US took over the Philippines, Guam, Samoa, Hawaii, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Canal Zone, assorted other territories, and Puerto Rico. On September 29, its ...
  • MSNBC Allows Another Rant Against War $
  • Losing the Real Bradley Manning Story
    Bradley Manning case is approaching.� When we think of Bradley Manning, many of us tend to think of either a Wikileaks document dump or the attack in the video in which two Reuters reporters are killed after a group of Iraqi men are fired upon by an Apache attack helipcopter.� Already dismissed as ...
  • bush: "Please touch my junk" Obama: "No Touch!!"
    The TSA, the Right, and My Busted Watch 26 November 2010 - For the last several days, I have been trying to locate what would appear to be the appropriate and necessary level of angst and fury over the issue of heavy-handed TSA searches at American airports. I say "appropriate and necessary" because ...
  • Afghanistan is About Perpetual War ...
    By Harvey Wasserman The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan. It’s about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest Asia. And it is the tombstone of the Obama Presidency. To justify the fight, they’ve rounded up the usual suspects: Terror. Oil. ...

Grist - News

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

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Washington Independent

  • From AINN’s President and CEO: A Letter of T ...
    Closing The Washington Independent and reducing capacity at The New Mexico Independent are difficult milestones in an otherwise remarkable year for The American Independent News Network. We have been able to accomplish so much, and with so much less. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to give ...
  • The Washington Independent, signing off
    We thought our model of online journalism could rise above the industry's financial struggles. For a while, it did. But in the end, we fell prey to the recession just like everyone else.
  • Lunchtime Links
    Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex… …and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With the Stars voting system. Salon ranks the sexiest men of 2010. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” gets translated into English. Lieberman thinks Palin is qualified t ...
  • Study finds high costs, questionable return for Vi ...
    A new study on the impact of anti-illegal immigration policies in Prince William County, Va., found that the Latino population decreased substantially after the policy was implemented in 2007, with a 7,700-person drop in the non-citizen Latino population between 2006 and 2008. (That number accounts ...
  • Democratic donors still divided over the best appr ...
    Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm elections and what they mean for strategy on various policy and electoral issues going forward. The event was closed to the press, but Politico m ...

Digg Green

  • Mammals Grew 1000 Times Larger After the Demi ...
    NSF enabled the assembly of an international, interdisciplinary team that was the first to quantitatively document body size patterns over the past 100 million years
  • Infinity: What Are You Thinking About?
    Imagine a world where all your thoughts come to life, every amazing invention you can think is realized before your eyes and each adventure is a journey instantly manifested. In their new advertisement for Batelco, the filmmakers at Spyfilms create a reality where all ideas are possible… and it ...
  • Saturn's moon Rhea may have a breathable atmo ...
    Saturn's icy moon Rhea has an oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere that is very similar to Earth's. Even better, the carbon dioxide suggests there's life - and that possibly humans could breathe the air.
  • IKEA Goes Geothermal
    A new IKEA store in the Denver area will employ 500 foot deep holes in its cooling and heating system. Temperatures in the holes hover around 55 degrees year round, so air inside them can be pumped up into the cooling and heating system to reduce energy costs by up to fifty percent. Nationwide, ...
  • Secrets of Shark Speed Revealed
    Scales on a shark's body "bristle" to reduce drag, helping the predator hunt fast-moving prey, new research suggests.

Invisible Opportunity

  • This is our greatest crime against ourselves
    By Les Visible We’ve been waiting and watching for some time. We’ve been traveling through a period of fits and starts that has gone on longer than anyone expected; those of us paying any attention anyway. For the rest of us it’s just been an extended period of ever increasing, restless sleep. It’s ...
  • Body Scanners More Dangerous Than Feds Admit
    By Dr. Russell Blaylock Print this Page   Forward Page   Email Us   Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, lecturer, and editor of The Blaylock Wellness Report. The growing outrage over the Transportation Security Administration’s n ...
  • Transportation Security Administration employee is ...
  • Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?
    By Dr. Ron Paul 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 libertarian impulse still exists within the ...
  • Janet Napolitano refuses to test naked body scanne ...
    This policy is for you, not for her… Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. Yet when it came to testing the devices – which produce chalky, naked X-ray images of passengers – ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...
  • Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
    Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
  • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
    The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...
  • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
    Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
  • Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
    Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...

Inhabitat

  • Black Friday: The World Tells You to Shop, We Ask ...
    Have you already started to become a bit stressed about all the Christmas shopping you have to do? Do you feel pressured to shop with money you don’t have, rather saving it or using it for something more substantial? While we enjoy giving and receiving gifts with some sensibility and social-respons ...
  • COP16 UN Conference for Climate Change Starts Mond ...
    This Monday the 29th will mark the 16th edition of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) and the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP). Kicking off in Cancun, Mexico, COP16 and CMP6 will provide a place for global minds t ...
  • Inhabitat Holiday Gift Guide: Green Gadgets!
    Do you have a gadget geek to shop for on your gift list this year? If you’re struggling with all the tech options out there, take a breath and relax because we’ve compiled an excellent selection of gifts specifically geared towards gadget savvy folks. From super luxe watches carved from sustainab ...
  • GREEN GIFT GUIDE: Gifts Under $50
    If you’ve got a little more than $20 set aside for each person in your gift budget, but are still hoping no to break the bank, then don’t worry because here are our picks for some amazing green gift choices under $50. From practical gifts like Safeguard’s Earth-friendly home cleaning kit, to savory ...
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts under $2 ...
    If you think green gift giving is all about the Benjamins, think again. Our list of gifts under $20 is all about a more wallet-friendly President that won’t have you breaking the bank – good old Abe Lincoln. From cool solar powered flashlights to unique eco-jewelry to charming coasters made out of o ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

  • Recall: Obama’s Election Victory and World Geopoli ...
    Not only does Obama's election as US President now 'whitewash' a terribly-soiled US image in the world, but it also allows the cabal to exploit his committment to widen the war in Afghanistan to their advantage. It is therefore a black/Obama administration that would be led by the nose to attack Pak ...
  • CAN ISRAEL DEFEAT HEZBOLLAH IN THE COMING WAR?
    Hezbollah, has smashed the myth of Israel’s invincibility, broken the barrier of fear, increased the popular demand for resistance, exposed the fake peace process and rejected appeasement, acquiescence and surrender. Hezbollah forces taught the world that Arabs can and will liberate Palestine bec ...
  • IRAN-KOREA NUCLEAR LIES, ORDERS FROM TEL AVIV
    With the world coming down around America, Afghanistan a hopeless quagmire, even by “Vietnam” standards, the dollar in free fall, AIPAC spying openly revealed in civil proceedings and Americans, by the million, abandoning traditional news media, the “nuclear option,” an attack on an American city by ...
  • China, Russia, Iran Dumping Dollar For Gold
    Something is going on that your government does not want you to know about. Very few journalists have written about it and little or nothing has appeared in the mainstream media. The story could be one of major stories of our time. Western powers have tried to destroy gold as a backing for currencie ...
  • Korean Conflict: Pentagon to Deploy Nuclear Aircra ...
    A US nuclear aircraft carrier is to deploy to the Yellow Sea off the coast of South Korea after the two countries agreed to conduct further war games in a show force against North Korea.

Andy Worthington

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

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • 9.12 Project Paranoia: Obama Wants to See You… Nak ...
    Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beckâs 9.12 Project has absorbed much of its founderâs famous paranoia. Based on Beckâs fevered lectures and paid endorsements, legions of 9.12âers have eagerly bought up overpriced gold coins, non-hybrid seeds, and lots of ammo for use in 9.12 Project practice shoots. But not ...
  • David Duke, Huffing About Sexual Mores, Calls the ...
    Now that he’s gaining in years, former Klan boss and longtime white supremacy advocate David Duke, who in his youth gained a notorious reputation as a womanizing playboy, is apparently now shifting to a more traditional role of moralizing geezer. Witness his most recent video “lecture,” wherein he p ...
  • Lie about ‘Illegal Alien Voters’ Goes Viral on the ...
    Nativists were primed to believe something dastardly was afoot with the approaching 2010 elections. ALIPACâs William Gheen warned that undocumented immigrants were planning to commit massive voter fraud with the help of the Democratic Party machine. An Arizona group called Ban Amnesty Now put out an ...
  • Extremist ‘Patriot’ Pastor Videotapes ...
    Radical conservative Pastor Stephen Andersonâs personal antigovernment reality-TV show has unveiled a new episode. Reprising a âroleâ he created and played last year, the firebrand leader of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., once again had a video camera rolling during a routine police t ...
  • Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War ...
    Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the “truth” about 9/11 being an inside job, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to intern dissidents in “death camps,” and the “New World Order” plot to exterminate 80% of the worl ...

change: org.

  • Shop the Feminist Way This Year
    It's Black Friday, which means that people around the country are scrambling to jump-start their holiday shopping by taking advantage of the sales, sales, sales. Or, you could shop online, the feminist way. Here are just a few suggestions, courtesy of Change.org's Women's Rights Cause. Doesn't it ma ...
  • Puckering Up for Equality
    Pucker up. No, it's not Saturday night and it's not last call at the bar. These kisses are for the greater good. "Holiday Hugs and Kisses in Arlington" is an event being sponsored by the Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance (AGLA), set to take place on December 4 in Arlington, Virginia. It is being he ...
  • It's Not "Affordable Housing" If You Need A Six-Fi ...
    New Jersey, a state whose severe budget cuts in early 2010 led to a number of crunches in essential services (massive police and firefighter layoffs come to mind), seems to be taking a step in the right direction by amending the state's affordable housing law. According to the National Housing Insti ...
  • Florida's Orange County Protects Gays, Considers P ...
    Dear Jacksonville: You might still languish on gay and lesbian rights, but many parts of Florida are coming along just fine. The poor LGBT folks who live in your city limits deserve better. Get with the program. Love, Brandon. PS: Read my blog post on Orange County below. Moving along from that poet ...
  • Starbucks Kicks Out Families of Torture Victims
    Starbucks proudly claims to have "a positive impact" on the communities the company's numerous branches all over the world serve. "As good neighbors we get involved with local efforts to bring people together and create positive change whenever we can," reads the Starbucks mission on community invol ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Several Lawmakers Invested in L-3 Communications, ...
    by Michael BeckelA handful of federal lawmakers are invested in one of the companies behind the controversial full-body scanning machines now in more than 60 U.S. airports. The individual investments are worth thousands, and in some cases tens or hundreds of thousands, of dollars.read more
  • UN Scientists Say Emission Pledges Fall Well Short ...
    by John VidalUN 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.read more
  • Corporations Show Largest Profits in History Amids ...
    by David DayenAccording to revised statistics, the US economy grew at a faster rate than first expected, up to 2.5%. Earlier growth in Q3 2010 was estimated at 2%. But the entire problem with looking at this topline number is reflected in these three paragraphs:read more
  • On the Brink of War? Tensions Heighten in Korea
    Tensions heightened in the Asia Pacific as North Korea fired more artillery shells within earshot of South Korea's Yeongpyeong Island, even as it warned that joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises could put the region on the brink of war.China also expressed similar concerns about upcoming milit ...
  • Talking to the Taliban about Life after Occupation
    by Ghaith Abdul-AhadThe administratorIn the south-eastern city of Khost, the everyday business of the Taliban administration carries on across the street from the fortified, government-run city court and police station.The head of the Haqqani network's civilian administration and his assistant h ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer [Tech ...
    Drop your bags, fix a drink, and grab the Windows CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware. More » ...
  • From the Tips Box: Chrome Location, iOS App Update ...
    Readers offer their best tips for moving Chrome to Program Files instead of AppData, updating apps on iOS, and remote printing on a shared printer with Dropbox. More��
  • Remains of the Day: How Many Floppy Disks Would Mo ...
    An app like iTunes would fill up 46 floppy disks, labels are hindering Google's attempts at a cloud music service, and Android 2.3 gets a security fix that 2.2 users don't. More��
  • How to Make a Black Friday Plan Ahead of Time and ...
    Black Friday is great for getting good deals, but if you're the type that's susceptible to impulse buys, it can be a trap that actually causes you to spend more. Here's how to create an effective Black Friday plan and save money. More�� ...
  • Watch for "But-Heads" to Catch a Lie [Mi ...
    If someone tells you that "It doesn't make a big difference to me, but ..." there's a fairly strong chance something does make a big difference to them. Statements like this are dubbed "but-heads," and you should read deeper into them. More ...

Water Privatization

  • Selangor MB: Withdraw Syabas License
    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.
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Christopher Hitchens 1-0 Tony Blair
    Staunch atheist wins over audience in debate with Catholic convert over whether religion is a force for good in the worldIn theory it was not an event that should have created a stir: a philosophical debate on the moral merits of religion. In an age of reality TV drama and Hollywood blockbusters loa ...
  • Christmas tree 'bomb' foiled in US
    A Somali-born teenager is arrested in Oregon after trying to blow up a crowded tree lighting ceremony with fake explosivesA Somali-born teenager has been arrested on suspicion of trying to detonate a car bomb in the United States.Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was charged with attempting to use a weapon ...
  • Irish to protest over austerity plan
    Tens of thousands expected on Dublin march against Ireland's four-year plan to cut spending and raise taxesTens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Dublin today to protest against Ireland's austerity plan.The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) organised the march, saying ...
  • Australia assume control against England
    �� Record-breaking partnership gives Australia 200-run lead �� England negotiate final hour's play but not without alarmEngland have been this way many times in Australia and they have rarely been able to bounce back. The harsh realities of a tropical sun, hard clods of unrelenting Queensland turf a ...
  • Divided by a common language
    Are there too many 'Americanisms' in the Guardian?In The Canterville Ghost (1887), Oscar Wilde wrote: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."I was reminded of this by a reader's letter this week:"Your journalists are increasingly using ugly Americanis ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Afghanistan no longer for the birds
    HERAT, Afghanistan — Rahimullah stood in his field, killing field mice one by one as they were driven from their holes by a rush of irrigation water. But the 55-year-old farmer understands that he's fighting a losing battle against the scrambling rodents. And he knows that he stands even less of a c ...
  • Long lines of shoppers give retailers hope for sea ...
    NEW YORK — Black Friday traffic and sales indications appeared to be topping expectations, giving an encouraging note that consumers may be more willing to loosen their purse strings as retailers kick off their biggest selling season of the year.
  • Black Friday crush forces police to clear Sacramen ...
    SACRAMENTO — Unruly crowds clamoring for Black Friday electronics deals at a Sacramento Wal-Mart prompted an evacuation at the store early Friday morning.
  • Colleges pressed to give credit for work experienc ...
    SEATTLE — Laid off at the start of the recession as the marketing director for a regional homebuilder, Leah Schedin quickly realized she lacked something essential for a new job: a university degree.
  • Obama gets 12 stitches in his lip after basketball ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama took an elbow in the mouth while he was playing basketball Friday and had to have 12 stitches to close the wound, the White House announced.

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 ...
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