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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 3

The Wonk Room

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

thwap's schoolyard

  • Omar Khadr: Canada Has Lost Its Fucking Mind
    I just don't recognize this country anymore. Really. Sure it's been ugly. Just ask any First Nations person. Ask the Japanese from the internment camps in World War II. Ask the unemployed young men beaten with clubs on their "On to Ottawa" trek. Ask all the victims of inequality, sexism and racism. ...
  • Short n' Sweet
    From Straight Goods dot CA: We can't all export our way to prosperity.
  • Will the Stacy Bonds case change anything?
    Remember those heady days when the unelected bush II regime's massive incompetence and racist indifference to the sufferings caused by Hurricane Katrina made some people think that he was finished? Remember when stephen harper's contemptuous treatment of Parliament was so glaring that even Andrew C ...
  • Sister in Spirit
    It's not a new story, and this post has no new information. It's just been bugging me since I read about how the harpercon government is removing funding from this worthy initiative (to give it to the RCMP to set-up their own missing persons database that will not even have a focus on Aboriginal wom ...
  • Patrick Ross's reply to the Judge's ruling
    According to Balbulican in Dr. Dawg's comments: It’s not quite accurate to say that Patrick failed to respond to the Notice of Libel. I have obtained partial transcript: “…LOL so much for so called legal ‘expertise’. What you fail to realize, your so called “honour” is that Day has f ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

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

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you live in the DC area, we will be having a really free market on Tuesday, December 14th from 7 PM to 10 PM at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW, Wash DC. This Tuesday, November 30th, it looks like I’ll be on Thinking Liberty at a little after 8 PM U.S. eastern standard [...]
  • Are all Johns (and Janes) the Same?
    Last Tuesday I linked to an article that really bugged me, but I hadnât quite put my finger on all the reasons why.  It was about a brothel for women that is opening in New Zealand.  The author of the article was predicting that the brothel would be a failure because women “have to be [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apologies for missing my Thursday post.  I’ll make it up to you. You may have heard that there was a protest in Haiti.  UN peacekeepers are being blamed for the Cholera outbreak that has killed more than 900 people.  What a clusterfuck.  And the media reporting has been hideous. Also a clusterfu ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...
  • The Power of Principle
    So I got into a little twitter spat a few weeks ago.  One of the people I follow made the following statement: Some bloggers feel it’s better to be principled than in power. Naturally, I objected. The conversation turned into one of those us v. them tropes.  Us, in the case of this twitterer, bein ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • London Designer Brings Semi-Permanent Inflatable B ...
    Image courtesy of Airclad.com Need a spare room, but only for a few months? Want to make your outdoor jacuzzi an indoor one for the winter? Thanks to Airclad, by Inflate, now you can. The London based designer, which has been producing temporary inflatable structures (marketed for events and co ...
  • Crack Garden is Not What You Think
    Photo: asla This crack garden is not what it sounds like... It's a sustainable, simple and cheap answer to a design problem. How to make a garden out of a concrete slab without spending a fortune. Created in the small back yard of a San Francisco apartment building, it was inspired by t ...
  • Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots
    Photo via The Stamford Times While some teenagers spend their time mulling over which sports team to root for or pop-star to obsess over, others are up to more important things -- like working to save endangered species. Sure, it's a long way from the halls of a middle-school in Connecticut to t ...
  • Turn Black Friday Green, Part II: Green Silence
    Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Shopping the day after Thanksgiving is typically frowned on by many in the "responsible" movement. But if you just can't help yourself - do it with a little green flair. Buy that sports enthusiast a pair of Green Silence by Brooks for the holidays. Light in weight ...
  • Turn Black Friday Green, Part I: KIND Towels
    Photo Credit: Joel Fitzpatrick If you must shop the day after Thanksgiving, at least buy something sultry and green. Joel Fitzpatrick, famous for making Hush Puppies a household name, has launched KIND towels to put a little desire back into your cloth goods. The line is all-natural, un-dyed, ...

Biosingularity

  • New study reveals how cannabis suppresses immune f ...
    An international team of immunologists studying the effects of cannabis have discovered how smoking marijuana can trigger a suppression of the body’s immune functions. The research, published in the European Journal of Immunology, reveals why cannabis users are more susceptible to certain types of ...
  • FDA Advisory Panel Backs New Lupus Drug Benlysta
    At the end of a day of often emotional testimony, an FDA advisory panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend the approval of a new drug for the treatment of systemic lupus. If the FDA follows the panel’s advice, the drug, belimumab, will be the first drug approved in more than 50 years for the chronic ...
  • Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
    Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
  • New Drug May Safely Boost ‘Good’ Chole ...
    An experimental pill that boosts levels of “good” HDL cholesterol has cleared a major safety hurdle, renewing hopes of fighting heart disease in a new way. Although the study of the drug, anacetrapib, was designed to look primarily at its safety, researchers say they were stunned by its dramatic eff ...
  • Wandering Mind May Lead to Unhappiness
    People are happiest when having sex, exercising, or talking to others — in large part because such activities require enough concentration to keep their minds from wandering, new research indicates. In general, people spend almost half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • The Carbon Ranch: Fighting Climate Change One Acre ...
    The potential for CO2 storage in soils is three times greater than the atmosphere. And since two-thirds of the Earth's landmass is covered with grass, the potential impact on the climate could be gigantic. In fact, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, the nation's leading climatologist, postulates that 50 ppm ...
  • UN Scientists Say Emission Pledges Fall Well Short ...
    UN research shows that the pledges and promises made last year by 80 countries to reduce climate change emissions fall well short of what is needed to hold the global temperature rise to 2C and avoid the worst consequences of global warming.Click here to read this article
  • Trailer: Farmageddon, the Movie
    Farmageddon is a documentary about the escalating fight for food rights in America. Farmageddon is truly the documentary movie that we've all been waiting for. It's about raw milk, farm families harmed by the overreach of government, food safety legislation, and consumer food rights. Click here to ...
  • How to Stop the Killing: Livestock and Predators
    One of the unquestioned and unspoken assumptions heard across the West is that ranchers have a right to a predator free environment. Even environmental groups like Defenders of Wildlife more or less legitimize this perspective by supporting unqualified compensation for livestock losses to bears and ...
  • If You Knew How Dangerous Cleaning Products Were, ...
    They're hiding under your sink, deep in the basement and out in your garage. They seem to be multiplying and most of them are green, for gosh sakes!Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Flores del jardín I (3 fotografías en alta resoluc ...
    Desde hace mucho tiempo, una de las especialidades del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, son las fotografías de flores. Prueba de ello, es la hermosa colección que hoy tenemos para todos ustedes totalmente gratis.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK s ...
  • Del crepúsculo al amanecer III (6 imágenes precios ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1][2][3]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografí ...
  • Dibujos vectoriales, trazados e ilustraciones I
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3n3s. ...
  • Paisajes nevados I (territorios muy fríos)
    Esta es una bonita colección con 5 fotografías de paisajes nevados. Un verdadero encuentro visual con la nieve, las montañas y el sol. Descubra estos fascinantes lugares y tómelos en cuenta para su próxima escapada. Un saludo muy especial para todos nuestros suscriptores que ya reciben nuestras imág ...
  • Trenes y locomotoras I (enormes caballos de hierro ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3n3s ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

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

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • [ePalestine] Ha’aretz: Economic prison zones (By S ...
    [ePalestine] Ha’aretz: Economic prison zones (By Sam Bahour) � Israel Palestine Blogs The notion that political differences can be solved through job creation is fundamentally flawed and will not change the reality that our economy is micromanaged by a foreign military. By Sam Bahour When a pro ...
  • Joan Rodriguez: Another open letter to PRESIDENT O ...
    another open letter to PRESIDENT OBAMA on joan rodriguez's TwitWall Dear President Obama, URGENT!!!!!! Leonard Peltier is desperately ill and receiving virtually no medical treatment from his “home” in the Federal Prison @ Lewisburg. Leonard’s situation is very serious; YOU MUST INTERVENE NOW to g ...
  • Leonard Peltier: The Day of Mourning
    Greetings, my relatives. It seems another year has gone by since the last time we gathered like this. I say we, although I am not there with you in body, my spirit certainly is. We have coined this day, a day of mourning, as opposed to a day of thanksgiving. It’s a shame that for the most part ...
  • Last Week In Police Shootings... | Mother Jones
    Last Week In Police Shootings... | Mother Jones By now, you've probably read Charlie LeDuff's stellar article in the November/December issue of Mother Jones about Aiyana Stanley-Jones, the seven-year-old shot by Detroit SWAT officers in her home during the filming of an A&E reality TV show. You've ...
  • Former FBI Agent, “Peltier was Wrongfully Convicte ...
    Former FBI Agent, “Peltier was Wrongfully Convicted” #FreePeltier #COINTELPRO #corruption - ElyssaD's Posterous A Native comrade on Facebook put me onto this. Thanks go out to him. M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agents Expose (Available on Amazon.com ): Former FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Don’t be a tosser
    Recycle (directory/categories/Recycling), recycle, recycle! We can’t say it enough. City councils offer bins and facilities to help your separate your waste. So don’t be a tosser! Recycle! Photo by: Manja Louman  
  • Surfing Green
    Being one with the waves! Such an amazing feeling… Make sure you keep our oceans and beaches beautiful! So you can enjoy being one with nature. Surfing is also a great way to exercise without feeling that you are exercising. And surf brands are helping in protecting the environment, read our articl ...
  • Environmental News 26/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 25/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • YikeBike
        Grant Ryan – the inventor – gives a presentation at a TED: Ideas Worth Spreading event about maybe the coolest bike you’ve ever seen! The YikeBike is an electric bike (glossary/categories/technology/electric-bike.html) which you can easily fold up. It’s safe, fast and you can ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Court asked to order probe of Guantanamo psycholog ...
    ShareThisCourt asked to order probe of Guantanamo psychologist 24 Nov 2010 A court was asked Wednesday to force an investigation into whether an Army psychologist [John Leso] developed abusive interrogation torture techniques for detainees prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and should be stripped of his li ...
  • 80 from Guard company in St. Cloud heading to Iraq
    ShareThis80 from Guard company in St. Cloud heading to Iraq 26 Nov 2010 Several dozen Minnesota National Guard members based in St. Cloud will be shipped out this weekend as part of Operation New Dawn, which is the winding down [?!?] of U.S. military operations in Iraq. The 80 soldiers of Company B, ...
  • 'Dummy' explosive supplied by FBI operatives to US ...
    ShareThis'Dummy' explosive supplied by FBI operatives to US terrorist --FBI thwarts terrorist their own bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree lighting, authorities say 26 Nov 2010 The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city's annual tree ...
  • US teenager held in Oregon over Christmas 'bomb pl ...
    ShareThisUS teenager held in Oregon over Christmas 'bomb plot' --Fake supplied by FBI agents 27 Nov 2010 A teenager has been arrested in the US state of Oregon after allegedly plotting to carry out a car bomb attack at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was ar ...
  • MI6 paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to Taliba ...
    ShareThisMI6 paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to Taliban impostor: Report 26 Nov 2010 A senior Afghan official has blamed the British secret service for bringing a Taliban impostor to sensitive, high-level peace talks with the Afghan government, newspapers reported Friday. The fake Taliban comma ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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. ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s defense analyst on the looming US-Israel ...
    Read this one in full. Alex Fishman is Yediot’s veteran defense analyst. Besides providing a detailed post-mortem of the latest fiasco in US-Israeli diplomacy, he makes a very blunt allegation: Netanyahu is selling out the IDF’s self-defined strategic interests and the good will of the US administra ...
  • What the Oslo Accords were about, from the mouths ...
    The second season of the Israeli version of the reality show Beauty and the Geek is an even bigger hit than the first. Not least because the producers constantly prove that, in Israel 2010, reality outdoes satire. In the second episode, broadcast Tuesday evening, the girls are quizzed in the Channel ...
  • Israeli media provides a glimpse of how spin drive ...
    On the front page of this morning’s Maariv, senior columnist Ben Caspit reports [full translation at the bottom of the post; Hebrew original here]: At least three top Likud figures who were briefed recently by officials very close to Netanyahu on the talks with the Americans, on the letter that has ...
  • Danny Ayalon to Norway: Why can’t you keep your ar ...
    The Israeli government reaction to the homegrown cultural boycott of the West Bank settlement of Ariel was forceful and blunt: Threaten funding, establish a “Zionist Art Prize” and de-legitimize whoever takes part as fifth-columnists. This should not have been a surprise, coming from a government th ...
  • Lieberman says Israel’s borders “imperialist” and ...
    “Anti-Zionism” can be found in surprising places. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was up in the Golan Heights on Thursday. The settlement of Katzrin awarded him “honorary citizenship of the city.” The Israeli media provided superficial reporting of Lieberman’s acceptance speech, with only gene ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Apocalypse Soon
    From Verity Jones digging in the clay  — Guest post by EDMH We definitely need more so if anyone has something, let me know.   Jeff ————– I have been reading a book which is crucially interesting and which sadly bode ill for the future, particularly for our children and our childrenâs children. â ...
  • UEA boys Busted Again
    What would a climate scientist do with data they don’t like? Delete it. Muir Russel report caught red handed deleting evidence of climate scientists being caught red handed manipulating the game. Read the truth at Bishop Hill because you ain’t gonna get it from the main-stream climate propagandists. ...
  • How a Scientific Integrity Act Could Shift the Glo ...
    This is the first guest post I received.  It looks like several others have volunteered over the next few days.  My thanks to everyone planning to help out. Jeff ——– By Sean M O’Brien Up until now, peer review has been held up as the gold standard in scientific discourse. Recent developments in th ...
  • No time at all
    As you may have noticed, there haven’t been a lot of posts lately.  Over the past several weeks, I’ve become more and more busy with work.  Now I’m working every night and weekend at home, the result of course is that I’m way too busy to play around with technical blogging. You may have noticed [. ...
  • Climategate Anniversary
    By John Pittman On 11/28/2009, JeffID graciously posted an article of mine http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/context-2/#more-6449 . Now that the anniversary is approaching, I wanted to go back and look at some items of interest including a couple of predictions I made. I started the articl ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Lamebook, Egypt, Syria, Israel, ...
    Facebook Backtracks on Lamebook Dispute – Lamebook, a parody of Facebook content which we wrote about here, sued Facebook so the social network wouldnât sue them first for copyright infringement for using âbook.â Then, Facebook blocked Lamebookâs fan Page, disallowed outbound links to Lamebook and d ...
  • Add a Friend Without Knowing Their Name with Faceb ...
    Facebook has changed the interface for its Find Friends Browser, switching to checkboxes for filtering, adding infinite scroll, and making the Add as Friend buttons constantly visible. The friend suggestion tool has been refocused to help you find other users that share profile traits with your frie ...
  • Facebook Pages Can Have All Their Admins Removed, ...
    Facebook Page admins recently received the ability to remove all existing administrators including themselves from a Page, preventing anyone from editing or posting as that Page. Admins previously saw a warning explaining “If you remove yourself as the last admin, this page will be deleted”. This pr ...
  • Connect Rises on This Week’s List of Emerging Face ...
    One might have guessed that the top app on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps would be one commemorating Thanksgiving. It’s true that an occasions-related app is at the top, but the American holiday seems to have passed the app world by; the top app is Birthday Greeting Cards, by Soc ...
  • A Quick Look at This Year’s Black Friday Marketing ...
    Since the point of Thanksgiving is being thankful for what you already have, the holiday doesn’t lend itself to marketing as easily as most others. The day after is a different story. A quick look around Facebook this week shows that big brands, as well as small businesses, are taking advantage of t ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • Working Man’s Death
    Some days I hate my job. However I am thankful for it and for the lifestyle and security it provides for me and my family. I appreciate it even more when I watch documentaries like this 4-part series on Aljazeera called “Working Man’s Death”. It provides a glimpse of the harsh realities of the ph ...
  • “Kudos Jammeh shall you live up to your word ...
    Many things have been said and written about Gambian strong man Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Diliu Jammeh. He was listed among the horrid and stinking dictators Africa has ever had. He’s renown for his iron fist when it comes to manning a tiny west African country. So too, he likes honours, bragg ...
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  • Interview With Aristide
    Aristide Speaks from South Africa.   “…The picture is that in Haiti, we have the same people who organized the invasion of 2004 after kidnapping me to put me in Africa. They are still there. That means there is a kind of neo-colonial occupation of 8,900 UN soldiers with 4,400 policemen spending, mor ...
  • “Kanye West Apologizes for Calling Bush a Ra ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  It may be too little and too late, but Kanye West is finally apologizing for calling George W. Bush a racist. Nonetheless, his realization could be a lesson for us all. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, celebrities offered their support to the affect ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • China on Edge - Trade War with China Looms
    When times were good, it was easy for America to overlook the effects of China’s currency manipulation. U.S. unemployment hovered around 5 percent, and growth averaged about the same. Even though U.S. jobs got shipped overseas, cheap Chinese imports flooded the markets and softened the impact of dec ...
  • Edge on Energy - Energy Independence for America i ...
    Unlike Europe, which is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas for its electricity generation, the U.S. is essentially energy independent when it comes to its power supply. It does not need to import coal and natural gas, chief sources of electricity generation, and no foreign nation can turn off ...
  • The Genetic Edge - Icelandic DNA study Shows Evide ...
    When Christopher Columbus returned from his first voyage to the Americas, he shanghaied ten to twenty-five of the native peoples he encountered on the Caribbean islands he explored. Of these, only 6 were to be presented to the court of Spain's Catholic�monarchs when he returned�to the Iberian Penins ...
  • Film Review - Client 9: The Fall of Eliot Spitzer ...
    Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Director: Alex Gibney. Length: 117 minutes.Alex Gibney’s Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer begins with a portentous saying about how mankind occupies the middle ground between angel and animal. This is the movie’s way of suggesting that its su ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Tracking the Pakistani Origins ...
    Indian Maoist militants, known as Naxalites, have been meeting with members of the outlawed Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), according to the director-general of police for India’s Chhattisgarh state. Based on information from a police source, state police chief Vishwa Ranjan said Nov ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

  • Volvo Equipment Enabling Torture, Facilitating Occ ...
    By David CroninVolvo prides itself on being a byword for sturdiness, safety and reliability. After a careful examination of the vehicle-makers investment in Israel, perhaps it should also become synonymous with enabling torture
  • Sarah Palin And The Missing F Word
    By Alan Hart Sarah Palin (or her publisher) chose a title for her latest book with three F words -America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and the Flag. But surely theres something missing. Another F word. One with four letters. What could it be? (My answer in a moment)
  • UN Issues Severe Climate Warning Ahead Of Summit
    By Michael McCarthyThe world is now firmly on the path for dangerous climate change in the coming century, a major new assessment reveals today on the eve of the forthcoming UN climate conference which opens next week in Mexico
  • The IEAs New Peak
    By Tom Whipple As a document, WEO 2010 breaks some significant new ground both in calling the peak of conventional oil and the attention it focuses on the impact of carbon emissions. At the same time it offers succor to those who insist on denying the reality of the 21st century
  • Its Official: The Economy Is Set To Starve
    By Chris Martenson The IEA has known about looming Peak Oil issues for more than a decade and is only now explicitly recognizing the idea in their public documents. People inside and outside of the IEA say that the organization has downplayed both the timing and potential severity of Peak Oil. Peak ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • On Thanksgiving, Turkey Is Eating Up U.S. Interest ...
    By Barry Rubin It should be�getting pretty hard even for Western leaders to ignore the Turkish regime's growing alliance with their enemies. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo�an's visit to Lebanon�included a very dangerous statement that must not go unnoticed. Lebanon, of course, ...
  • New "ACORN" Names--- Same Old Jail Terms
    In the past we reported that ACORN changed its name in poorly masked attempt to shake off the "bad image" it earned through the embezzlement stories, the voter fraud and of course the amazing efforts of the Team of Hannah Giles/James O'Keefe. ACORN�s announcement of �bringing its operations to ...
  • Moonbats Claim That Global Warming is About To Rui ...
    Usually its your drunk brother-in-law,� the cousin who starts spewing homages to the Obamessiah, or your team's quarterback throwing a last minute interception that is returned for a last-minute interception that ruins your Thanksgiving. In the future it will be global warming, at least that's what ...
  • Why American Airport Security Is Really So Horrend ...
    Over the past few days you have read my take on the TSA mess, now read the take of Barry Rubin, my friend and teacher: By Barry Rubin Suddenly, and partly due to changes in procedure, security checks at American airports have become the most controversial topic in the United States. ...
  • CBO Says Effect Of Stimulus Plan Waning (There an ...
    If you are looking for help from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) commonly known as the Porkulus plan you may be a bit too late.� The CBO released a report on the effect of ARRA on Employment and economic output from July 2010- September 2010 and found the effects of Porkulus on out ...

The Real Agenda

  • Germany Hears and Feels the Rumble of Debt
    The Telegraph Image: dailymail.co.uk Credit default swaps (CDS) measuring risk on German, French and Dutch bonds have surged over recent days, rising significantly above the levels of non-EMU states in Scandinavia. “Germany cannot keep paying for bail-outs without going bankrupt itself,” said Profes ...
  • Capitalismo, falso Ambientalismo y el modelo Neo-f ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda Opinión Dados recientes comentarios en medios de comunicación al respecto de lo malo que es el Capitalismo, me siento en la obligación de decir que la mayoría de los comentarios son basados en fraudulentos aspectos de la historia contemporánea y no en los hechos reales que se han ...
  • In the U.S., Government wants to kill Fourth Amend ...
    Obama Administration working on legislation to hold suspects indefinitely without trial. Now we know what those ‘non-existent’ FEMA Camps are for. NPR It is starting to look like the president who campaigned on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay may end up doing something wholly different: signing ...
  • U.N. Official: Climate Issue is for Wealth Redistr ...
    During an interview with Germany’s NZZ Online Sunday, UN official Ottmar Edenhofer declared, “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”
  • Chicago Climate Exchange Closed
    by Bob Adelmann On Election Day 2010, Reuters noted briefly that Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) was “shedding some 40 employees from its … Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) by the end of the year, with further cuts [expected] in 2011.” In its curt announcement, Reuters said that all trading on th ...

Wind Watch

  • Urbana council, residents hit UI over wind turbine ...
    URBANA â Some city council members on Monday night said they were frustrated that a University of Illinois wind turbine project is moving along without consulting city officials or adhering to a new zoning ordinance. Diane Marlin, D-7, said the UI’s plans for up to three 400-foot wind turbines in un ...
  • Windmill noise plan raises stir
    Neighbors of wind farm developments planned in Tippecanoe County are unhappy that officials are considering relaxing the sound limits previously set. After months of wrangling, the county commissioners approved a final wind energy ordinance in August. But the board is now revisiting the document and ...
  • Eastern Oregon residents near wind farms express h ...
    LA GRANDE — If there’s anything that worries Linda Bond, it’s the prospect of living in the shadow of hundreds of wind turbines with their noise and blinking lights. “I am really concerned about their proximity to the schools,” said Bond, a 59-year-old retired Oregon City teacher who now lives in Un ...
  • Changes complicate wind farm approval; Route of po ...
    A proposal to build a 48-megawatt wind farm in Groton is headed down to the wire after a week of hearings on the project concluded with several lingering questions. The state Site Evaluation Committee, which oversaw this week’s hearings, has until Dec. 22 to decide whether to allow a local arm of Sp ...
  • Developers behind failed Greenvale Township wind f ...
    Once again, two area companies are applying to build wind turbines near Northfield. And once again, nearby property owners are making their angry, sometimes tearful protests heard. During an emotional meeting on Thursday night, residents pleaded, argued and tried to persuade an embattled Rice County ...

Not My Tribe

  • The Law, in its Majestic equality, forbids rich an ...
    At least when it comes to Urban Camping. Seems the “no camping” ordinance didn’t apply at the mall when Greed rather than Need was the motivation to take to the tents. People started camping out early Thanksgiving day to be the first in line for “doorbuster” specials on Black Friday. How about it, D ...
  • Tom DeLay found Guilty of Money Laundering
    Apparently “rigging elections” and other felonies don’t carry as much weight. There’s a potential for a life sentence involved, fat chance. Rich People GET paid for their crimes. Not have to Pay FOR them. Since his crimes have led to large numbers of human deaths including every Iraqi and Afghan who ...
  • TSA and Pentagoons play same lame blame game
    TSA of course saying that people being angry about their Neo-Gestapo (betcha thought I was gonna say “nazi” huh?) thug tactics would cause delays. And not their Thuggish heavy-handed State-Sponsored Terrorism. The people, you see, have no right to resent being treated as criminals with no evidence. ...
  • Petition on Piñon Canyon seizure.
    The Chamber of Commerce both locally and nationally is lobbying to have ranchers evicted from Piñon Canyon. These being the same Chamber of Commerce who fight Health Care on the grounds that the government providing insurance would somehow be seizure of private property without due process. So, the ...
  • US/UK “Liberators” not allowing Afghan ...
    What a surprise. The Puppet Karzhai government, as always echoing what Washington and London (but mainly Wall Street) tell them, is refusing to seat Members of Parliament elected “fraudulently”. This from the most farcical “democracy” in history. Even the French and American puppets in Saigon weren’ ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Mr Irrational
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog made a post today praising these so-called "sensible conclusions" of a blogger calling himself Mr Rational: So how can this notion be applied to the 9/11 truth movement? The following is a common example of special pleading (e.g., How can the govt. continue ...
  • Why doesn't the TSA use dogs trained to sniff out ...
    "a dog can detect dynamite through dirty diapers, or C4 through smelly socks. Whether providing explosives sweeps for a large venue or a smaller security detail, bomb dogs are more economical and effective than other methods of searching. Here are several reasons:"(link to source article is bel ...
  • The neverending incredulity of JREFers
    After watching Jon Cole's excellent presentation "The Great Thermate Debate", I decided to visit the wretched hive of scum and villiany that is the JREF forum and read the responses from the people who believe that well placed, accurately timed, 4500 degree thermite reactions are unable to bring dow ...
  • Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/1 ...
    You've heard about the passenger who opted out of a full-body scan (a.k.a. "a virtual strip search") and was subjected to an intrusive and humiliating pat down. "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," passenger John Tyner told Transportation Security Administration workers in San Diego. Wel ...
  • Airport Body Scanners Safe, Experts Say (Ignore th ...
    Airport Body Scanners Safe, Experts Say http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=646395 ... Yeh ... I heard Corexit is safe too ... and depleted uranium ... and the swine flu vaccine ... and the 9/18/2001 ground zero air ... Of course, one body scan isn't gonna kill you ... it's a cum ...

Fooducate

  • Happy Thanksgiving!
    Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate
  • Cooking With Kids on Thanksgiving (Bonus: 2 recipe ...
    This is a guest blog post by Julie Negrin. It was originally published on Civil Eats. Many people consider Thanksgiving a marathon. For my large family who entertains all year long for the Jewish holidays, it’s more of a brief jog around the block. When I was a kid, my family of six often [...]
  • In Less than 10 years, Either You or Your Spouse W ...
    …or have prediabetes. This, according to a study by health insurer United Health, and as reported by Reuters. Some additional stark figures: By 2020, 50% of Americans will be afflicted by diabetes. The cost to America will be $3.35 TRILLION !!! The direct medical bills, today at $11,700 per diabeti ...
  • Monster Cookies
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Snack Girl has a problem she wants to share. She loves cookies. Not just sorta kinda loves them – LOVES them. So, when she goes to a local cafe she wants to buy one with her coffee for an afternoon treat. As she looks into [...]
  • The Great Fat Debate
    We recently participated in the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE),  organized by the American Dietetic Association. Ten thousand dietitians swarmed the Boston Convention Center for an endless number of education sessions and “healthy” food tastings. One of the most popular sessi ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

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

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Age of Autism

  • Win 1001 Tips for the Parents of Autistic Boys and ...
    It pays to have friends in high places! Tony Lyons, Publisher at Skyhorse is also the father of a daughter with autism and an author. His colleague Ken Siri has a boy with autism. They teamed up to parents around...
  • Andrew Wakefield Speaks at Parliament on Autism
    After reading the best-selling book Callous Disregard, Autism and Vaccines: the Truth Behind a Tragedy, Member of the European Parliament Marta Andreasen invited Andy Wakefield to present at the Parliament’s HQ in Brussels on the causation of autism. View the...
  • NAA NY Metro Chapter Announces the Helping Hand Gr ...
    The NAA NY Metro Chapter is pleased to announce that it will be awarding eight "Helping Hand Grants" of up to $500 each to families in need. A Helping Hand Grant provides a family with financial assistance to obtain necessary...
  • Leigh Attaway Wilcox Interviews Lyn Redwood on the ...
    Leigh Attaway Wilcox writes for the Dallas News MomsBlog. She interviewed Lyn Redwood about the SafeMinds PSA campaign designed to inform Americans of their choice in requesting mercury free flu shot for their loved ones. Please read the full post...
  • 8 Safety Questions To Ask When Vaccinating and Wha ...
    From our friends at National Vaccine Info Center: Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, over $2 billion has been awarded to children and adults for whom the risks of vaccine injury were 100%. Vaccines are pharmaceutical products...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Gallery: Happy Genetically Modified Thanksgiving
    Even if you harvested your own heirloom vegetables, used stevia as a sugar substitute and cooked with peanut oil, odds are that your Thanksgiving meal was still genetically altered -Read Article
  • Holiday cheer: Congress set to let jobless benefit ...
    McClatchy Newspapers â Voters clearly want lawmakers to ease the nation’s unemployment pain, but a sharply divided Congress is still balking at extending jobless benefits for those out of work a long time. Unless Congress acts by Nov. 30, an estimated 2 million people slated to receive extended bene ...
  • London Student protests: Met under fire for chargi ...
    Guardian – Scotland Yard is under pressure after video footage emerged of police officers on horseback charging a crowd of protesters during a demonstration against increases in university tuition fees, 24 hours after they denied that horses charged the crowd. Footage posted on YouTube showed mounte ...
  • Dmitry Medvedev to launch ‘de-Stalinisation& ...
    Daily Telegraph – Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, will launch a new “de-Stalinisation” drive by reminding Russians of the crimes ordered by the Soviet dictator, according to reports. Stalin’s role in Russia’s history will be addressed in January when Mr Medvedev meets with his new human righ ...
  • Archbishop charged with sexual assault
    CBC – Archbishop Kenneth William Storheim, who has held positions in a number of Canadian communities with the Orthodox Church in America, has been arrested and charged in Winnipeg with two counts of sexual assault. Storheim, 64, turned himself in to Winnipeg police at about 9:30 a.m. CT on Wednesda ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Foes of GE salmon raise specter of 'Trojan gene' e ...
    The Food and Drug Administration's public comment period for labeling requirements for a genetically engineered salmon ended not so quietly, with a flurry of press releases leading up to Monday’s deadline. They included an announcement by a group of lawmakers...
  • Strawberry pesticide targeted by environmentalists ...
    A coalition of environmental and farmworker groups is urging California's Gov.-elect Jerry Brown to cancel the imminent approval of a controversial agricultural pesticide after he takes office, citing evidence that it is linked to cancer. The San-Francisco-based Californians for Pesticide...
  • Obama administration moves to protect polar bear
    The Obama administration is setting aside 187,000 square miles in Alaska as a "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could restrict future offshore drilling for oil and gas. The total, which includes large areas of sea ice off...
  • 'The World in 2050' : The Arctic and everything be ...
    Everyone wants to predict the future, but Laurence Smith actually does so in his new book, “The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Our Civilization’s Northern Future” (Dutton, 2010). Smith, a UCLA professor and geographer, traveled the Arctic region after...
  • Greywater Report looks at wastewater's potential
    About 50% of the water used inside U.S. homes can be reused to irrigate landscapes and flush toilets, according to a gray water report released by the Pacific Institute last week. The Overview of Greywater Reuse examined the application of...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Sarah Palin Tells Fox News She Wants to Clean Up J ...
    : "I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of democracySubmitted by Quincannon Tex to World �|� �No ...
  • For killing 9 on the flotilla, Israel should apolo ...
    They are really concerned, all the time, with what's best for Israel. Amid all the discussion at the event about making a deal with the Palestinians for the sake of regional peace, there was not one reference to Palestinian human rights. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note ...
  • BDS update: Anti-apartheid Hagues
    Despite the stranglehold Israel lobbies have on Euro-parliaments and politicians, there have been some surprisingly plucky official moves to protest illegal Israeli settlements recently.Submitted by Eric Walberg to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • HAITI RELIEF -- Spend the Money!!!
    The leadership of the major disaster relief and aid organizations operating in Haiti allowed cholera to become a threat because they did not do their jobs. Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'Evidence links Hizbullah to 2005 Hariri assassina ...
    Canadian Broadcasting Corp. publishes details of previously unreported phone records that allegedly link the group to murder.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Canada Recognizes The Right to Health Among Indige ...
    The International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169 (1991) Article 3 states that indigenous peoples must fully enjoy fundamental human rights without obstacles or discrimination.
  • Danes Embrace Hinduism
    'One example is yoga, which is a complex system of exercises designated as a disciplinary process of the ego, and in a wider perspective the reunion of the self and the universe. Especially, the physical exercises of yoga have won approval among th
  • Serbia and Croatia Agree to Resolve Refugee and Re ...
    Serbia has been host to one of the largest populations of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe, according to the agency.
  • Inter-Korean Dialogue to Resolve Asylum-Seekers ...
    The Special Rapporteur said he also heard the desire on the part of the Government and people of ROK to address the situation of abductees and look at the issue of human rights in the DPRK, and learned of initiatives being undertaken by some parliam
  • 3,000 Nepalese Child Soldiers to Be Discharged Fro ...
    Chairmen of political youth wings agreed to work with the UN to find ways to end the use of children below the age of 18 in potentially violent political activities and to exclude schools, school children and school personnel from strikes and other

Historical Notes

libcom

  • France, autumn 2010: The blockade of the economy a ...
    Here is the very rough and draft translation of GCI-ICG's text about the recent class struggles in France. The translation isn't yet finished but we will update it as soon as possible (every two or three days, or even less). It can be directly downloaded in PD ...
  • Today we are the lions! Student protests in Italy
    venezia.jpg Student protests literally exploded all over Italy to block the approval of the new infamous Gelmini reform, which aims at privatising the university and turning it into a profit-making machi ...
  • Berlin Austerity Protest
    Berlin -- On Friday, November 26, 2010 a demonstration against the austerity package of the federal government was held by the coalition, "We're not Paying for Your Crisis!", composed of trade unions, the Left Party, students organizations and left groups. The ...
  • LSE students occupy Simon Hughes' office
    3a1t3r.jpeg Around twenty students from the London School of Economics have occupied the office of Simon Hughes, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, following yesterdays nationwide protests and occup ...
  • Interview with Edinburgh University students under ...
    IMG_0611.JPG After a march on the Lib Dem HQ, around 100 students occupied Appleton Tower at the University of Edinburgh last night as part of a wave of actions opposing cuts to education funding and a r ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • How to Save Money on Your Winter Heating Bills
    On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Did the first Snow of the Year catch you unprepared for winter? Is there enough insulation in your attic, walls, or floor? Do you feel cold air drafts … Continue reading →
  • Seeking Web Site Sponsors
    If you would like to Sponsor / Advertise on a Green and Eco Friendly Website. StLouisRenewableEnergy.blogspot.com is accepting Website Sponsors for the next Quarter. Your Sponsor Advertisement will include Top Placement on the Page with Triple coverage. 1: Top of … Continue reading →
  • Happy Thanksgiving-2010
    On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Scott’s Contracting Scotts Contracting, Green Builder for St Louis Renewable Energy wishes Everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving. My best to you and yours Build Green, Scotty
  • Shocking News on Global Warming by China-Climate C ...
    China says climate compromise needed at Cancun Nov 23, 2010 Associated Press Online By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Nov. 23, 2010 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) — BEIJING — Participants in next week’s U.N. climate conference in Mexico need to agree on … Continue reading →
  • Thankful
    On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Nov 22, 2010 Energy Savers Blog This past weekend, my wifeâs family came to town to help us celebrate Thanksgiving a little early. It gave me a chance … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Will Pentagon Be Exempt From Budget Cuts?
    With pressure to slash the 1.3 trillion-dollar federal deficit rising sharply, the public debate over whether to exempt the Pentagon from such cuts is moving rapidly toward centre-stage.
  • The New War Congress: An Obama-Republican War Alli ...
    To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been during the past four years and then measure the ways in which things are li ...
  • Pivotal Election in Okinawa
    Okinawans are going to the polls to register their opposition to a military base plan supported by both Tokyo and Washington.
  • Turning Stuxnet to More Constructive Ends
    A more legitimate target for the computer worm than Iran's nuclear program may have arisen.
  • China: Already on Top?
    Like Sarah Palin, China is suddenly everywhere.

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Hariri visits Iran to lobby for stability
    Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri visits Iran on Saturday, seeking its help to prevent political tensions turning violent if a U.N.-backed tribunal indicts Hezbollah members for killing his father. Western diplomats have said that the tribunal could indict members of Hezbollah, which is backed ...
  • Enabling Bullies
    Enabling Bulliesread more
  • آموزش وبلاگ‌نویسی به ۱۵ هزار بسیجی
    آفتاب: فرمانده سپاه سیدالشهدای استان تهران از اتمام آموزش وبلاگ‌نویسی به ۱۵ هزار بسیجی خبر داد. read more
  • نیجریه یک 'عضو سپاه پاسداران' ایران را رسما متهم ک ...
    خبرگزاری های بین المللی امروز پنجشنبه ۴ آذر (۲۵ نوامبر) از آبیجا، پایتخت نیجریه گزارش دادند که عظیم آقاجانی، شخصی که در اسناد دادگاه از او به عنوان تاجر و عضو سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ایران یاد شده است، به همراه یک شهروند نیجریه به وارد کردن سلاح غیرقانونی به این کشور متهم شده است. read more
  • فرمانده کل بسیج:حکم ولایت همان حکم خداوند و«اِن ال ...
    جرس: فرمانده کل بسیج معتقد است "بسیجی ها در مقابله با فتنه نشان دادند كه شاگردان خوبی در مكتب ولایت بوده‌اند و درس های بصیرتی را به خوبی فرا گرفته‌اند" و خطاب به رهبر جمهوری اسلامی گفت "امروز اگر قطعه قطعه مان كنند هر سلولمان فریاد برآورد لبیك یا علی."read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Going Local
    One of the community organizations I belong to, the Taranaki Sustainable Living Fair, hosted regional fairs in 2008 and 2009 to bring local residents up to speed regarding all the alternative, non-corporate products, skills and concepts out there to assist people in adopting a more sustainable lifes ...
  • Dubya Not Welcome In Ireland
    The Mayor of London has warned George Bush he may face arrest as a war criminal if he brings his book tour to London. Link to MSNBC below: http://dprogram.net/2010/11/22/mayor-of-london-warns-george-bush-he-might-face-arrest-as-a-war-criminal/ Share and Enjoy:
  • Dubya Not Welcome in London
    The Mayor of London has warned George Bush he may face arrest as a war criminal if he brings his book tour to London. Link to MSNBC below: http://dprogram.net/2010/11/22/mayor-of-london-warns-george-bush-he-might-face-arrest-as-a-war-criminal/ �
  • Update on Ireland
    The news from Ireland this week is that the prime minister has caved in and agreed to accept $84 billion dollars in bail-outs from the IMF and European Union after all. The Irish people protesting daily outside the Irish parliament don’t really believe this. They contend Prime Minister Brian Cowen i ...
  • Buy Nothing Day – Nov 26th
    I’ve just been to the Adbusters site to set up a Buy-Nothing meet-up November 26th  (to make December a buy nothing month – the ultimate act of political resistance.) Using Meetup, Facebook and Twitter, this was a cinch – requiring exactly 3 clicks. People can go to http://www.adbusters.org ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Should the USA Nuke North Korea?
    A commenter recently suggested that the obvious solution to the North Korean “problem” would be to simply nuke them out of existence. Well, maybe not those exact words, but the basic suggestion was to attack North Korea using nuclear weapons. The North has a huge well dug-in conventional military, w ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    It’s been a rough week, what can I say. First, the Veterans Day hangover. Being a veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write [...]
  • It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ...
    On Monday evening a helicopter near Los Angeles filmed what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch some 35 miles west of Los Angeles. The government immediately denied any knowledge of a missile launch, and after much speculation in the media and on the Internet, a few days later the case was sol ...
  • The Forgotten War, the 1956 Israeli Invasion of Eg ...
    Also known as the Suez Crisis or the Tripartite Aggression. This was a lovely little war, brilliant in its simplicity. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal early in 1956, so Britain, France, and Israel came up with a wonderful plan. Israel would invade Egypt, drive the Egyptian army out of the Sina ...
  • Palestinian Dreams
    I’ve been doing some posting in a  discussion group, and like watching the main stream media news, I have been astonished at what I see. For one thing, it really is true, there are people that literally believe that every word uttered on Fox News is the truth. I have a hard time understanding that, ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Taxpayer Subsidized Ethanol Exports May Bite Indus ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Ulterior Motives Behind the Ethanol Pipeline? Ethanol producers in the Midwest have lobbied for support to build a pipeline to ship their ethanol to the East Coast. As I have argued, given that the market for ethanol is nowhere close to being saturated in the ...
  • Addressing the Ethanol Rhetoric Over the Expiring ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Ethanol Rhetoric Ramps Up It has been interesting to watch the flurry of ethanol rhetoric since the recent elections. With the $0.45 per gallon subsidy (called the VEETC) and the ethanol tariffs both set to expire at the end of next month, both sides feel ...
  • Inside Shell’s Bintulu GTL Plant
    Robert Rapier writes about his recent tour of Shell's gas-to-liquids plant in Malaysia.
  • Cleantech, Globalization and Energy Independence
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Kevin P. Kane. Kevin is an Oil & Gas analyst and cleantech business consultant living in South Korea. Kevin previously published two widely circulated essays: American Freedom from Oil: A Bipartisan Pipedream and Energy Security ...
  • The Stroke of a Pen
    Bob Dinneen wants Congress to extend ethanol tax credits with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Manufacturing Christmas Presents at Home
    There was a time when making a gift at home meant knitting a sweater for a loved one. You can still do that if you wish, but in five years, you could quite painlessly manufacture all kinds of presents like toys, bowls, and lamps at home. How? By using a special printer in which you can print almost ...
  • Environmental Defense Fund Pursues a New Path Forw ...
    As the new Congress takes office, great opportunity exists both for innovations in climate change-related policy proposals and in public engagement about the problem.� Yet it's been very discouraging to see most of the discussion, focus, and organizing centered on the perceived need to "defend ...Re ...
  • Sarah Palin Would Win the Google Vote
    If search traffic were votes, Sarah Palin would be the runaway Republican presidential nominee. Palin, as Nate Silver reports, is the subject of far more Google searches than any other likely republican candidate. As Silver says, Palin’s search traffic is roughly 14 times larger than Newt Gingrich’s ...
  • Worst headline of 2010? The Sun may have nailed it ...
    Recovering from making all the Thanksgiving food (and now trying to avoid any and all stores) ... so only one thing today: Dear readers, have fun with this from the Sun (UK). I know I did. Try and see if you can figure out what is actually going on. The Sun sure didn't. Enjoy the weekend!Read ...
  • Big Think Video Interviews on Green Jobs and Econo ...
    Big Think has done a number of video interviews with green job advocates over the past several years.� You can view a summary of these interviews here. I found these clips from interviews with former Obama administration official Van Jones and with environmental justice student activist Kari Fulto ...

Information Liberation

  • Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism | Llewel ...
    Lecture presented by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. at the Mises Circle in Seattle: "Capitalism the Creator." Sponsored by Curt and Allora Doolittle. Recorded 17 May 2008. __ I'm sure that you have had this experience before, or something similar to...
  • A Tale of Two Colonies
    At Thanksgiving, Americans recall their blessings around bountiful meals, with imagery going back to the Pilgrims, especially Plymouth Colony's 1623 Thanksgiving. But little attention is paid to what allows that bounty to be created * capitalism * th...
  • The TSA's False Tradeoff
    The national furor over the TSA's new procedures * culminating in yesterday's "Opt Out Day" * has elicited the typical response from the bureaucracy and its apologists. Why, these invasive scans and "enhanced pat-downs" are only for your good, in ord...
  • Despite Opposition, Lack of Threats, TSA Presses O ...
    Opposition to the TSA*s heavy-handed (and also grabby-handed) screen procedures did not deter the agency from continuing its policies on one of the busiest traveling days of the year, despite admissions from officials that there is no actual threat t...
  • Chris Matthews Asks: Why Would Having Your Daughte ...
    Airing Date Nov.23, 2010 Starting At Around 02:40 Into the video Chris Matthews Asks Man Why Would Having His 3 Year Old Daughter Naked Body Scanned Bother You? Matthews is scum. He asks Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner why having hi...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Six science books for the holiday season
    Six science books for the holiday season subjects as diverse as molecular biology pioneer Sydney Brenner, the question of antimatter, how scientists can better explain their research to non-scientists, a history of the chemical elements, scientific feuds and how innovators exploit business and techn ...
  • More thoughts on science from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates Low-allergy wine, true blood, boronic butterflies – The Alchemist learns of low-allergy wines could one day be possible thanks to the discovery of glycoproteins in the tipple that seem to trigger the sniffles and headaches in susceptible drinkers. In analytical news tr ...
  • Pharma industry could thrive in open
    The pharmaceutical industry is facing tough times. The patents for many of the billion-dollar blockbuster drugs have expired, generics have taken market share. Health insurance companies and national health services are under increasing pressure to cut costs. Manufacturers and governments in the dev ...
  • More thoughts on science from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates Alternative medicine and the law – The science, history, politics, religion, and culture that mean it is legal to sell quackery in many parts of the world. NHS.uk allowing Google, Facebook, and others to track you – The UK's National Health Service has implemented vari ...
  • Science sightings from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates First stem cell trial in stroke patient, how did the media do – In its regular assessment and critique of reporting on medical happenings, NHS Choices looked at the recent early test of stem cell therapy for a stroke victim and reports (amazingly) that "In general, the ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

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

RAWA News

  • Afghan Children Face Everyday Deprivations
    The Guardian: Mark Sedwill's claim that children in Kabul are better off than those in many western cities (Children safer in Kabul than in Glasgow, says Nato spokesman, 22 November) deserves attention, not because it is accurate (which it is not) but because it illustrates a shocking disregard by s ...
  • Karzai govt accused of vote interference
    AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government came under withering attack Friday, accused of trying to manipulate parliamentary election results by the political opposition and a senior vote official. The accusations threaten to ignite nationwide anger over the second Afghan parliamentary election ...
  • Fake Taliban makes mockery of talks
    The Economic Times: The secret talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban to end the conflict in the country—that were “showing promise”—seem to have hit a dead end, with a revelation that the militant leader at the other end of the table was an imposter.
  • Analysis: In pursuit of justice in Afghanistan
    IRIN: The International Criminal Court (ICC) should start investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by various warring groups in Afghanistan since 2002 to help end a culture of impunity, says Sima Samar, chairwoman of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).
  • Using terrorism as a threat
    The Tribune Democrat: Our present wars are not against terrorists. Iraq was clearly not a terrorist threat (or any threat to the United States), although the Bush administration tried to confuse us on this. Initiating a war against the then-ruling Taliban in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks was ...

frogblog

  • General debate, November 27, 2010
  • 43 Genetically modified foods in our food supply
    I have just come across the latest Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) report. The report casually mentions that six new Genetically Engineered foods were approved last year.
  • Welfare reports worlds apart
    In the past two days, two significant reports have come out about welfare. I'd like to say that together they provide a comprehensive picture of the welfare debate and the options for reform, but sadly that's not the case.
  • Auckland CBD rail loop business case stacks up
    The long awaited Business Case for the CBD Rail Link was finally released on Wednesday this week, and it makes a compelling case for central government investment in the project. Just through traditional analysis of transport benefits, which usually underestimate the long term benef ...
  • White Ribbon Race goes Green
    Yesterday was White Ribbon Day. The White Ribbon Race is New Zealand menâs chance to help make a difference in the battle against violence toward women. We thought we’d enter a team to support such an awesome cause. Running can be a challenge at the best of times but running with ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Volt and You
    The EPA has released its official mileage ratings for the Chevy Volt, and Dodd is unimpressed: The woefully limited 35-mile range on battery and mere 37 MPG on gas leaves one wondering what all that hype was really about. I don't actually care about the Volt all that much, but this is a really com ...
  • GOP Symbolism
    A few weeks ago I suggested that House Republicans would mostly try to buy off their deficit-hating tea party supporters with a series of meaningless symbolic votes. Little did I know just how literally that would come true. Ripping a page from the Newt Gingrich playbook, it appears that they're all ...
  • Black Friday
    Michael D'Antonio and John Gerzema take to the LA Times today to propose yet another origin story for the term "Black Friday": The day was originally nicknamed Black Friday by police officers who dreaded the traffic jams, bumper thumping and misdemeanors that arise when so many people converge on s ...
  • Thanksgiving Cat Blogging
    For the cats, it's time to start snoozing so they'll have the energy to beg for turkey bits when the time comes. For me, it's time to stop blogging and start the cooking and football watching. Have a nice Thanksgiving, everyone! Comments | Post Comment����
  • Democrats and Liberalism
    Matt Yglesias argues that, contrary to the notion that Democrats have some kind of chronic messaging problem, they haven't really done too badly over the past few decades, winning the House, Senate, and popular vote for the presidency about half the time What’s more, you need some kind of baselin ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Methane release undermines CO2 emissions slowdown
    Despite a 1.3 percent CO2 drop from 2008 to 2009, atmospheric greenhouse gas levels reach a record thanks in part to natural methane release, likely from warming in the Arctic.
  • Pick the best Simple Climate change explanation
    So far this year 26 scientists have provided Simple Climate with straightforward explanations of climate change situation. Help choose the best of seven explanations of the underlying physics in the first stage of the poll that will select a reader's favourite by the end of the year.
  • Extra satellite records settle tropospheric warmin ...
    Additional sets of data have been vital in correcting the initial measurements of the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth, which showed no warming trend, to match other records demonstrating climate change. That's according to a review of 40 years of tropospheric temperature research by a t ...
  • When climate becomes a problem too far
    Vivid images are important for understanding global warming, says University of New South Wales psychologist Ben Newell, but go too far and people can react with despair that prevents them doing anything to stop it.
  • Air-stilling temperatures create heat, wind power ...
    Climate change won't cause more hurricanes but will place human bodies under more heat stress, Nat Johnson and Steven Sherwood tell Simple Climate, and will reduce the power generated from wind turbines according to Diandong Ren.

e!Science News

  • A high BMI in childhood linked to greater heart di ...
    Children who have a high body mass index (BMI) between 9 and 12 years of age are more likely to have high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood insulin levels (all risk factors for developing heart disease) by the time they reach adolescence, according to a study published on bmj.com today. read mo ...
  • Google -- an engine of knowledge creation?
    Search engines like Google have become part of everyday life, not least in the academic context. But if knowledge is power, then search engines themselves are gaining ground as power nodes in their own right. Academic users need to raise their awareness of exactly how search engines operate, to ensu ...
  • Experts question whether patients will use perform ...
    Expectations are high that the public will use performance data to choose their health providers and so drive improvements in quality. But in a paper published on bmj.com today, two experts question whether this is realistic. read more
  • Biologists report more bad news for polar bears
    Will polar bears survive in a warmer world? UCLA life scientists present new evidence that their numbers are likely to dwindle. read more
  • New guidance issued for first responders collectin ...
    Suspicious packages and powders have triggered more than 30,000 responses by U.S. law enforcement agencies across the country since 2001. These events are expensive, time-consuming and potentially dangerous. To help first responders at all levels of government deal safely and more effectively with s ...

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Bras Provide Support for the Environ ...
    Wi-Fi radiation may be making trees sick. Photo courtesy of sxc.hu, Auro Queiroz California's chemicals law gets tangled in toxic debate With toxic chemicals regulations set to go into effect in January, manufacturers and a ...
  • Costa Rica Bans Open-Pit Metal Mining
    Bellavista open-pit mine, Costa Rica In a bold and precedent-setting move, Costa Rica has prohibited all future open-pit metal mining! Environmentalists are celebrating the passage of the new law, which—approved unanimously b ...
  • "The Danger of Cosmic Genius"
    Freeman Dyson My friend Ken Brower has a fascinating piece in The Atlantic Monthly for December on the visionary astrophysicist Freeman Dyson. Ken has known Dyson for years and wrote a wonderful joint profile of Freeman and h ...
  • A Video Toast To The World of Earthjustice
    Today, in the midst of Thanksgiving, we invite you to spend a minute and 17 seconds with us as we honor the many Earthjustice supporters responsible for significant achievements this year on behalf of people, wildlife and the wi ...
  • Friday Finds: California Says No To The Brazilian
    California recently adopted a law that requires cleaning companies to reduce their smoggy ingredients. Plastic looks not so fantastic in parody rap video On the heels of LA's new law banning single-use plastic bags, spirit ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • [ePalestine] Ha’aretz: Economic prison zones (By S ...
    [ePalestine] Ha’aretz: Economic prison zones (By Sam Bahour) � Israel Palestine Blogs The notion that political differences can be solved through job creation is fundamentally flawed and will not change the reality that our economy is micromanaged by a foreign military. By Sam Bahour When a pro ...
  • Joan Rodriguez: Another open letter to PRESIDENT O ...
    another open letter to PRESIDENT OBAMA on joan rodriguez's TwitWall Dear President Obama, URGENT!!!!!! Leonard Peltier is desperately ill and receiving virtually no medical treatment from his “home” in the Federal Prison @ Lewisburg. Leonard’s situation is very serious; YOU MUST INTERVENE NOW to g ...
  • Leonard Peltier: The Day of Mourning
    Greetings, my relatives. It seems another year has gone by since the last time we gathered like this. I say we, although I am not there with you in body, my spirit certainly is. We have coined this day, a day of mourning, as opposed to a day of thanksgiving. It’s a shame that for the most part ...
  • Last Week In Police Shootings... | Mother Jones
    Last Week In Police Shootings... | Mother Jones By now, you've probably read Charlie LeDuff's stellar article in the November/December issue of Mother Jones about Aiyana Stanley-Jones, the seven-year-old shot by Detroit SWAT officers in her home during the filming of an A&E reality TV show. You've ...
  • Former FBI Agent, “Peltier was Wrongfully Convicte ...
    Former FBI Agent, “Peltier was Wrongfully Convicted” #FreePeltier #COINTELPRO #corruption - ElyssaD's Posterous A Native comrade on Facebook put me onto this. Thanks go out to him. M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agents Expose (Available on Amazon.com ): Former FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • High Frequency Terrorism: How the Big Banks and Fe ...
    By David DeGraw & Max Keiser The stock market plunge on May 6th was an act of domestic financial terrorism in America. A day that will live in infamy.
  • The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s ...
    Democracy is devolving into fascism before our eyes, the "iron law of oligarchy" is once again asserting itself. You cannot have a concentration of vast wealth and Democracy at the same time, and we currently have the greatest concentration of wealth in history...
  • Take Action! How We Can Save OUR Economy
    AmpedStatus has joined a new coalition to fight for economic justice. We are sick of reporting upon the crimes of Wall Street and watching our future go up in flames without any accountability or measures being taken to defend against blatant criminality. The Wall Street Elite have controlled our po ...
  • Financial Reform Report Card: Banksters 37, People ...
    The financial reform process is providing definitive proof as to what the true priorities are for each Senator. 10 Senators have emerged as American heroes, 37 Senators have revealed themselves as puppets of the Financial Oligarchy.
  • How the Business Roundtable and Chamber of Commerc ...
    A "shadow bank lobby" has played a prominent role in shaping the financial reform process, pushing amendments that will weaken consumer protections, water down regulation of the Wall Street casino, and increase the likelihood of continuing fraud and future bailouts.

+972

  • Yediot’s defense analyst on the looming US-I ...
    Read this one in full. Alex Fishman is Yediot’s veteran defense analyst. Besides providing a detailed post-mortem of the latest fiasco in US-Israeli diplomacy, he makes a very blunt allegation: Netanyahu is selling out the IDF’s self-defined strategic interests and the good will of the US administra ...
  • FAQ on Zionism and Racism
    Many in Israel and abroad have equated Zionism with racism – but is it justified? By Jerry Haber Is Zionism inherently racist? No. Zionism was never based on theories of racial or even cultural superiority. Zionism, was and is a movement to achieve Jewish self-determination (there are other elements ...
  • Israeli Forces Demolish Mosque in a wave of West B ...
    Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley and the South Hebron Hills today in what seems as a wave of demolitions following yesterday’s demolitions all across the West Bank. Non-violent leaders from Beit Ummar have also been arrested in night raids. Grassroots organizers M ...
  • Who is “right-wing” and what is &#8220 ...
    Labels attached to news pieces frame stories in the readers’ minds and ultimately, shape political views. Haaretz as a case study by Mairav Zonszein In Haaretzâs recent expose âHow the state helped right-wing groups settle East Jerusalem,â the use of the term âright-wingâ is both superfluous and di ...
  • The unique ethical dilemma posed by Elliott Abrams ...
    Here’s an ethical dilemma: 25 years ago, an accountant was convicted of cooperating with a client in sophisticated embezzlement scheme. What kind of jobs should he or she be barred from doing today. Can he go into business? Yes. Teach? Depends on what, but generally yes. Hold a government position? ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Irrigation infrastructure efficiency grants progr ...
    South Australian River Murray irrigation operators are invited to apply for Australian Government funding to improve water efficiency and return water to rivers and wetlands.
  • Television recycling free of charge
    People in regional South Australia and Broken Hill will be able to drop off their broken and obsolete TVs free of charge under an initiative sponsored by the Australian, South Australian and New South Wales Governments.
  • 1800 new affordable homes for Victorian communiti ...
    Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments.
  • Boost to Snowy River flows
    Environmental flows in the iconic Snowy River will start ramping up next week after the finalisation of a deal between the NSW, Victorian and Australian Governments to provide an additional 24 billion litres of water this year.
  • Australia’s biodiversity conservation strategy se ...
    Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, today released Australia’s new strategy for biodiversity conservation on behalf of the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • One More Time – The Order The Banks Don&#821 ...
    This Order was first published on my site on October 3, 2010, just before the Stephan affidavit fiasco broke nationwide and just before GMAC announced that it was suspending foreclosures in 23 states.  (Read the Post Here) Importantly, read the full Order below.  The banks were desperately trying ...
  • Today I’m Thankful For…Soldiers Who Fi ...
    Last year, on January 4, 2010, I set off with a handful of other swimmers for a little swim across Tampa Bay.  The event was staged almost overnight by a group of Navy Seals who wanted to raise money for a fallen warrior and to raise awareness about the job our men and women in [...]
  • CONGRESS CORRUPTING TO BASIC AMERICAN PROPERTY RIG ...
    America is being taken over and Congress is not doing anything to stop it. DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • The First Amendment Is Under Attack
    We are at war.  The banks, the institutions, the centers of power that created much of the financial chaos we’re all suffering under and who continue to pocket billions in the midst of this crisis do not want you to continue to have access to the type of information that is posted on this website [ ...
  • The Defense of Homeowners In Foreclosure is Our Pr ...
    Does The Defense of Homeowners in Foreclosure Border on The Unethical? Thatâs not a question  I need to ask myself, I know in my heart and deep within my professional soul, that defending foreclosures is not only ethical, it is the highest calling of my profession at this moment in our countryâs hi ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • It’s A Crime
    Normally, I wouldn’t weigh in on a by-election, opting to let democracy run its course. Trouble is, the current political slugfest underway in Vaughn, Ontario has some remarkably undemocratic aspects to it. Julian Fantino is the star candidate for the Conservatives in the contest, but for most campa ...
  • Keeping A Stiff Upper Lip
    My kids won’t kiss me.  Neither will my wife. I can still taste morsels from lunch hours after I’ve eaten. Man, the things I do for Jack Layton! Joking, of course. This is “Movember” and some 80 MPs have grown moustaches for the month in order to bring awareness to prostate cancer and to raise [... ...
  • A Bad Climate For Democracy
    I don’t have too much to say on why the Senate opted to turn down Bill 311 – the Climate Change Bill that was passed through the House and sent to Senate for analysis and ratification. There are numerous enough stories in the media about how the Conservative-dominated Senate harshly struck it down. ...
  • Ottawa Correspondence
    Filed under: Personal, Politics
  • Nap Time
    The Great Depression of the 1930s produced some odd effects. The study of sleep habits was in its infancy during that decade, but even still the researchers in the United States noted a troubling trend: the worse the economic conditions, the more people wanted to sleep but couldn’t. Stress levels fr ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: Feed ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation being organized by the Ri ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heated pr ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But on my initial ...
  • Spiders, silk and a transgenic goat – the complex ...
    Last week while at the NISE Net network-wide meeting, I was fortunate enough to see a preview of part of NOVA’s forthcoming series Making Stuff. The series focuses on the wonders of modern materials science. But rather than coming away enthralled by the ingenuity of scientists, I found myself breaki ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Most of this last week was spent in San Francisco, at the NISE Net (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network) network-wide meeting – possibly my favorite meeting of the year (I might have mentioned that before).  This year I had the additional pleasure of ...
  • What happens when you cross a spider with a goat? ...
    Complete the following: Setting: A well known and sometimes off-beat technology commentator explores new breakthroughs on a popular TV science and tech show. Story: Spiders’ silk is incredibly strong, but in short supply (ever tried harvesting silk from a spider?). So why not take the gene responsib ...

Reader Supported News

  • New WikiLeaks Documents May Be Diplomatically Sens ...
    Excerpt: "It quoted US Ambassador to Norway Barry White saying that, while he could not vouch for the authenticity of the documents, he expected them to contain US officials' candid assessments of political leaders and political movements in other countries. He said diplomats had to be able to have ...
  • Administration Is Bracing for Court Setbacks to He ...
    The report begins: "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, in the worst case for the White House, halt its enforcement until higher ...
  • Elizabeth Warren Convinced Obama to Veto Foreclosu ...
    "Elizabeth Warren was the first senior Obama administration official to recognize the potentially incendiary impact of a bill that would have made it significantly easier for mortgage companies to foreclose on homes, and her subsequent warnings played a crucial role in persuading the President to ve ...
  • Pat-Downs Hit Middle America Where It Counts
    David Coleman: "The recent outrage expressed by white males and females over intrusive airport pat-downs may have an upside. At least at the nation's airports, non-minority airline passengers who seek to board an airplane are being sensitized to the indignities that are a routine part of the lives o ...
  • Economic Data Reveals a Hint of Consumer Merriness
    "All told, government data released the day before Thanksgiving suggests an improving economic picture. But it is increasingly dependent on the consumer, even with US companies having reported record profits in the July-September quarter." Daisy Espiritu talks on the phone while waiting for frien ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

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

Consumerist

  • For Kids Who Celebrate Their First Thanksgiving At ...
    Maybe your kid slept through his first Thanksgiving. Maybe you adopted him from another country. Or maybe he chose not to observe the holiday last year as some sort of protest, latching on to an activist movement in his youth, only to see the error of his ways and join in the turkey-munching fun t ...
  • Best Buy Sells Overpriced HDMI Cable For More Than ...
    We've seen many an overpriced HDMI cable in our time, especially in places such as Best Buy, so it takes a lot to make us do a double take. Never to be underestimated, Best Buy has come through with a (crack) smoking deal on a cable that costs more than many of the retailer's Black Friday TV deals. ...
  • Yesterday Was The New Black Friday
    If it seemed as though the Black Friday hysteria wasn't as outrageous this morning as it has been in years' past, maybe that's because so many people had the chance to get a jump on the shopping season yesterday. KCTV 5 Kansas City posted a story about retailers that were open for at least part of ...
  • Morning Deals
    ClothingLane Bryant: [Apparel] Buy One Get One Free on Any Items w/ Coupon 006955779Metrostyle: [Apparel] 50% Off Entire Purchase of 2+ Items w/ Coupon MSBLACK50The Limited: [Apparel] 40% Off Already Marked Down Prices Event[Blank Label Shirts]: [Clothing] [Design your own dress shirts and get $18 ...
  • Top Posts Of The Week And Black Friday Open Thread
    This Open Thread is up early so you can share your bargain-hunting victories... or smug assertions of your moral superiority for staying home and not buying anything. Either way. I Can't Play My Video Game, Nor Can I Return It (Updated) What $200,000 In Student Loan Debt Looks Like I've Got $555 ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Sarah Palin’s Presidential Strategy, and the Econo ...
    by Robert Reich Monday night, Sarah Palin watched from the audience as daughter Bristol danced on ABC. Twenty-three million other Americans joined her from their homes. Tuesday, the former vice-presidential candidate started a 13-state book tour for her new book, “America By Heart,” which has a firs ...
  • Green Matters: Eagles Stadium ~ A Cornucopia of Su ...
    By Theodora Filis Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Other than the traditional Thanksgiving Day feast, Americans celebrate this day by watching football. Although the Philadelphia Eagles will not be playing today, Eagles Stadium has multiple sustainable initiatives for the 21st century ...
  • Banks Modifying Tiny Percentage of Mortgages in Ne ...
    by Paul Kiel, ProPublica The government’s mortgage modification program has fallen short on any number of counts. Here’s yet another: It’s failed to boost the number of modifications relative to the need. Every month, we post a graphic rundown of the new numbers from the administration’s program.  ...
  • Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC)(!) Attacks GOP on Climate C ...
    Amazing bit of testimony from the one courageous Republican in the US Senate!
  • Remembering Trans Heroine Rita Hester
    Rev. Irene Monroe This weekend is the 12th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR,) and many of us across the nation will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of their gender identities or gender expressions. The purpose of TDOR is to raise public awareness of hate crimes aga ...

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