29 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

The Wonk Room

• McCain Dismisses Gates’ Letter On DADT, Atta ...
  Several weeks ago, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) refused to accept the findings of the Pentagonâs Working Group review of the Donât Ask, Donât Tell policy and insisted that the Department of Defense conduct an entirely new study on âthe effects on morale and battle effectiveness.â This morning, CNN’s Cand ...
• Tim Phillips On Climate Policy: ‘If We Win T ...
  At an October blogger briefing at the Heritage Foundation, Americans For Prosperity president Tim Phillips explained his organization’s plans for defending global warming pollution. A day after his policy director, Phil Kerpen, claimed the organization did not question the science of climate change ...
• The Washington Post On Getting ‘Pushed Aroun ...
  While I share the frustration of the Washington Post’s editors at Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s rejection of President Obama’s call for international observers for Egypt’s imminent elections, I really had to marvel at the claim that “Mr. Mubarak’s rude dismissal of what have been gentle U.S. ca ...
• 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Surveillance Society
  Alison at Creekside sent me this link in my comments section a couple of days ago. All I could say was "holy shit." Yes, the RCMP public relations guy is a joke. The RCMP has been disgracing itself for years, because it has been tolerating steroid-damaged apes like that Desmond Sandboe, and those f ...
• Catholics n' Canadians [Haiti and Afghanistan]
  The thing about accountability is that you know who is responsible. When you know who is responsible, you have to hold them accountable. It's pretty circular thinking I'll admit, but I can't think of any other way to say it this morning. The Pope is the big Roman Catholic cheese. He's da man. He's ...
• Haiti, Cholera, and Canada
  What's the connection? Well, just like Canada along with the rest of NATO, wasn't able to meet the relatively modest demands of the Afghan people for a decent government, because our elites simply don't care about these people but only want to plunder them, so too, is our second-biggest internationa ...
• 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.

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

• The LaRouche Show, November 27, 2010
  Sovereignty and the NAWAPA Approach
• The LaRouche Show, November 20, 2010
  The Dope on Dope, Inc.: Defeating the Inter-Alpha War Against the World
• Schiller Institute Brings NAWAPA Approach to Chad
  By Our Special Correspondent Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 44
• Fed's Bernanke Unleashes Hyperinflationary Chaos
  By EIR Staff Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 12, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 44
• The LaRouche Show, November 13, 2010
  LaRouche: Flank the Bastards! Target Rand Paul!

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

• Iceland on My Cake, Please
  Photo: Megan Herbert You could make your regular morning cappucino (skimmed milk, please) like you always do. Or you could get a little espresso powder, shake it over a Megan Herbert stencil and sip your foam through a woodland scene. Or sift some chocolate through one the stencils onto a c ...
• Will California Rush to Mine Gold Again?
  photo: goldrushfieldtrips.com California has a history rich in gold, but despite sky high prices, the gold mining industry doesn't seem positioned for a revival in the state. The price of gold is more than $1363 an ounce, causing some folks in areas near historic lodes to clamor for a renewed m ...
• The Sun Rises on a Solar-Powered Mosque in Turkey
  The village mosque in Büyükeceli is now powered by solar panels. Photo: Alper Tunga Çatal for Greenpeace. When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power ...
• EU Bans BPA in Baby Bottles
  Image: Abigail Batchelder via flickr Barely a week after the U.S. Senate failed, because of industry influence, to ban BPA in baby bottles and limit its use in other children's products, the EU passed a very similar ban that will go into effect next year....Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
• London's Comprehensive Electric Vehicle Plan Takes ...
  Image credit: Source London From city-wide charging at Sainsbury's supermarkets to individual borough councils opening electric vehicle charging stations at an impressive rate, London has already seen its fair share of pro-electric car initiatives. But when Mayor Boris Johnson announced that ev ...

Biosingularity

• What Happens When You Breathe In Nanoparticles
  Scientists have tracked the flow of nanoparticles from the lungs to the bloodstream for the first time. The work could lead to the development of new drugs and help researchers understand how pollution can cause respiratory problems Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harva ...
• Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
  The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
• Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
  A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
• Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
  For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...
• New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ ...
  Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also represen ...

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

• Twelve moments of poet Alexander Blok’s life
  Soviet writer Konstantin Paustovsky said: “The poetry and life of Alexander Blok are one of the most beautiful and rather unexplained phenomena of the Russian reality.”
• India not concerned over Wikileaks revelations
• Russian tycoon Prokhorov to present hybrid car pro ...
• New customs rules force Russian airline to remove ...
  Avianova, Russia's low-cost airline, will have to modify the layout of its aircraft and reduce the number of seats from 180 to 159 to comply with new customs regulations on imported aircraft.
• Medvedev criticizes Russian migration rules
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he was stunned by a migration rule that limits foreigners' business travel around the country to 10 days per year.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Ariane-5 puts into orbit 2 communication satellite ...
  The Ariane 5 carrier rocket launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana late on Friday delivered its dual-satellite payload into orbit, the Arianespace satellite launch firm said.
• Soyuz spacecraft to deliver New Year gifts to ISS
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft will bring New Year presents to the International Space Station (ISS), commander Dmitry Kondratyev said on Friday.
• Russia's Binnopharm and GSK to cooperate in vaccin ...
  Russian pharmaceutical company Binnopharm and GlaxoSmithKline will sign an agreement on Friday on transferring technologies and antigen supplies to produce innovative vaccines in Russia, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said.
• Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan
  The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with a crew of three landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday morning, the Mission Control Center said.
• Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocks from ISS
  The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with a crew of three undocked from the International Space Station in the automated mode on Friday, the Mission Control Center said.

Pruning Shears

• 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.Also see Jim White on the strange dance of Pakistan officially insisting none of this is going on. Corrosively cynical comment omitted.Combat ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Canada's Transgenic Enviropig Coming at Us After G ...
  But these are Enviropigs. The transgenic creations of university researchers, they are the world's most controversial environmentally sensitive swine, and they're not legally fit to eat. At least, not yet. Click here to read this article
• Cities, States Start to Adopt Climate Change Survi ...
  As it becomes ever more clear that Congress has retreated from climate change legislation faster than a Greenland glacier, cities and states are starting to focus on adapting to the inevitable.Click here to read this article
• World 'Dangerously Close' to Food Crisis, U.N. Say ...
  Global grain production will tumble by 63 million metric tons this year, or 2 percent over all, mainly because of weather-related calamities like the Russian heat wave and the floods in Pakistan, the United Nations estimates in its most recent report on the world food supply. The United Nations had ...
• A Warning by Key Researcher On Risks of BPA Plasti ...
  The synthetic chemical, BPA — found in everything from plastic bottles to cash register receipts — is a potent, estrogen-mimicking compound. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, biologist Frederick vom Saal harshly criticizes U.S. corporations and government regulators for covering up — or ign ...
• Giving Thanks to Citizens and Grassroots Progressi ...
  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

• Post turkeytude
  Fleeing early proved wise. I missed the nasty ice storm and it was all salted away before I got home. I tried my best to spread joy and happiness wherever I traveled. In Wilmot that meant zipping through an awesome $70 Three Floyds assortment (Broo Doo, Dreadnaught, Arctic Panzer Wolf) on Wednesday ...
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Congress May be Next to Tell AZ Kids “Go Out ...
  Congress May be Next to Tell AZ Kids “Go Outside and Play” Phoenix, AZ – Children today spend less time outdoors than any other generation in history. That's the impetus for legislation newly-introduced in Congress - the Moving Outdoors in Nature Act - which would encourage Arizona, and all states, ...
• Holiday Season a Critical Time for AZ Food Banks
  Holiday Season a Critical Time for AZ Food Banks Phoenix, AZ – With Arizona’s continuing high levels of unemployment, poverty and “food insecurity” this holiday season, the state’s food banks are counting more than ever on contributions of money, groceries and volunteer time. Comments from Terry Sha ...
• Gaping Holes Appearing in AZ Abuse Victim Safety N ...
  Gaping Holes Appearing in AZ Abuse Victim Safety Net Tucson, AZ – The impact of state budget cuts on programs targeting abuse victims is now becoming apparent at emergency shelters. These havens of last resort for women and children are increasingly operating at or above capacity. Comments from Susi ...
• Group Shines a Light on Money in Politics
  Group Shines a Light on Money in Politics Phoenix, AZ – It is now possible to see who the biggest donors are to members of Congress. A nonpartisan research group has designed a new “widget” with NASCAR like logos so that voters can track the money that is flowing to their legislators. Comments from ...
• Study: Beware of Junk Science on Education Reform
  Study: Beware of Junk Science on Education Reform Phoenix, AZ – When Arizona, and the rest of the nation, make decisions on how to improve the education system, a Midwest research group is warning policymakers against using what they have discovered is "biased information." Comments from Teri Battag ...

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

• Bill Clinton: Haiti’s Neo-Colonial Overlord
  by Ashley Smith Black Agenda Report November 11, 2010 The corporate media portrays former President Bill Clinton as a great humanitarian friend of Haiti. The truth could not be more different. He has always supported policies in the interests of multinational corporations and the Haitian ruling ...
• Robert Fisk: An American Bribe That Stinks of Appe ...
  The Independent November 20, 2010 In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else's property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars' worth of fighter bombers i ...
• Do we live in a dictatorship? � DPAC
  Do we live in a dictatorship? � DPAC: "I always understood that one of the most important characteristics of a liberal democratic state was that it’s government ruled with the consent of its citizens, and without such consent it became a dictatorship. In recent weeks there have …been successive prot ...
• Viola Wilkins: Max Watts 1928-2010
  Max Watts 1928-2010 by jessie boylan Max Watts, who became a well-known personality on the left in Australia, particularly in Sydney, died on November 23. Max was a left-wing freelance journalist, and a solidarity activist with many national liberation struggles including those of Palestine, Ka ...
• Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize ...
  Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Digitized by Hoover Archives | Hoover Institution The sound recordings of Rigoberta Menchú that formed the basis of her autobiographical book, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (London: Verso, 1983), compiled by Elisabeth B ...

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

• Quality fruits and veges
  Colourful, tasteful and healthy! We can’t say it enough: fruits and vegetables are great! Grow your own fruits and veges or buy them at an organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html ) shop or market, from farmers that don’t use pesticides (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html). Find businesses tha ...
• The look and smell of roses
  Roses are beautiful flowers and you can find them in many colours. Enjoy the look and the smell – decorate your living room or use rose leaves in your closet for a nice scent. Further, essential oil (lifestyle/pure-essential-oils.html) from roses can be used in different ways, from scenting your ro ...
• Seaweed delight
  Be open-minded and try new food and drinks like seaweed, wheatgrass or herbal tea (directory/categories/Food%20 %20Drink/Beverages/Tea%20 %20Coffee). Visit the Food Drink section (directory/categories/Food%20 %20Drink/ ) of the Green Times Directory to find businesses that sell (organic (glossary ...
• Museum visit
  Looking for something to do in the weekend? Think about experiencing instead of going shopping! Take your friends or family members to a festival, park or museum, instead of buying stuff (climate-change/the-story-of-stuff.html). It will be fun and you will have great memories afterwards. Photo by: ...
• Vegan dips
  The last day of November is the last day of World Vegan Month (whats-on-this-week/whats-on-29-november-2010.html)! So if you didn’t try a nice vegan meal yet, here’s your chance! Try some new vegetable dips, like humous (chickpeas), babaganoush (eggplant) and tahini (sesame). And make sure it’s org ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• WikiLeaks: Saudi King: Use Force to Surgically Imp ...
  ShareThis'Horses don't have good lawyers.' WikiLeaks: Saudi King: Use Force to Surgically Implant Microchips in Guantanamo Detainees 28 Nov 2010 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told a senior White House official to consider surgically implanting homing devices under Guantanamo Bay detainees’ skin. Tha ...
• Graham says he has the votes to keep KSM terror tr ...
  ShareThisGraham says he has the votes to keep KSM terror trial at Guantanamo Bay 28 Nov 2010 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that he believes he has the votes to keep professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from being tried in a U.S. civilian court. The senator said on "Fox News Su ...
• Blast 'kills top Iran nuclear scientist,' Israel b ...
  ShareThisBlast 'kills top Iran nuclear scientist,' Israel blamed 29 Nov 2010 Twin blasts in Iran's capital killed a prominent nuclear scientist and wounded another on Monday, said state media reports that promptly accused Israeli agents on motorbikes of attaching the bombs to their cars. "In a crimi ...
• Parishes get BP money for tourism, seafood
  ShareThisParishes get BP money for tourism, seafood 26 Nov 2010 State officials have finalized a plan with BP to distribute $78 million to pay for seafood testing, tourism and seafood marketing after the Gulf oil spill. The parish governments of Terrebonne and Lafourche will receive $10 million each ...
• Over 100,000 police searches in UK lead to zero te ...
  ShareThisOver 100,000 police searches in UK lead to zero terror arrests 26 Nov 2010 More than 100,000 people were stopped and searched by British police under counter-terrorism powers last year but none were arrested for terrorism-related offences, according to the latest Home Office figures. The st ...

Daily Loaf

• TED for teens: Highlights from the TEDx Youth Tamp ...
  Video highlights from the TEDx Youth Tampa Bay event.
• Swinger facts you didn’t know, but should
  2. Some swingers lie...
• A couple of Tampa mayoral candidates sound off on ...
  Happy post-Thanksgiving holiday weekend to you all.  Hope it was positive for all of you out there on this Cyber Monday (in which people have money apparently to buy lots of stuff during the recession, but still aren’t ready to spend money on the Tampa Bay Bucs). The big news locally is the antic ...
• “Spider-Man” debut dubbed “epic flop” by one NYC t ...
  The show lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes, including a 40-minute intermission.
• AltDotPop: Miley turns 18, Taylor Swift and Jake G ...
  Thanksgiving happened, but more importantly, Miley Cyrus turned 18. She’s legal, and if this outfit she is rocking is any indication, she is also starring in the reboot of the cinematic classic, Coyote Ugly. Remember when you didn’t have an opinion on David Arquette? He was just Officer Dewey from ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Wave of Israeli demolitions culminates in destroyi ...
  Here is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank). Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though in practise, all of the Palestinian territor ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Wikileaks tidbits
  The Guardian Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government, with one cable allegin ...
• Following Hungary and Ireland, France to seize pen ...
  They are stealing from pensioners to pay short-term debt owed to banksters who knowingly made risky private loans. This is corruption. No other word applies. Don’t be surprised when Geithener tries to grab 401(k) pensions here. Oh, the Irish made sure that senior bondholders got paid back at 100% on ...
• DNS benchmark from Gibson Research
  The always amazing Gibson Research has a free program, DNS Benchmark, which checks your Domain Name Servers then recommends how to optimize them. If you have no idea what that means, the Conclusions tab on DNS Benchmark tells you exactly what to do in understandable terms. Gibson Research is also th ...
• Ireland should default, and force the banksters to ...
  The problem is not debt incurred by the government but rather that the banksters, who knowingly bought garbage bonds and made flaky loans, are demanding to be paid back at 100% on the dollar by the government and that the Irish taxpayers foot the bill for banker’s plunder, greed, and recklessness. T ...
• It’s hard to watch the rape of Ireland
  31 billion euros for Irish bank capital capital aid … Out of 31.5 billion euros total tax revenue for the year! Leaving 0.5 billion euros for the rest of the government. And please note that 31 billion is a *voluntary* contribution to the banks by the government. … Mortgaging the people of Ireland f ...

Coteret

• Maariv: Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-P ...
  The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul. The full translation of his report is at the bottom of the post, a ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – November 29
  1777 â San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California. 1830 â An armed rebellion against Russia’s rule in Poland begins. 1864 â Sand Creek Massacre â Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massac ...
• The Matrix Runs On Windows XP
• NO, I WILL NOT COMPLY!
• BP OIL SPILL: Kindra Arnesen Talks About B.P.&#821 ...
  PT#1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VvYg6dkyM PT#2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ds6UQmSjdo PT#3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE1w1qGa3PU
• WikiLeaks website hit with ‘mass distributed ...
  Hours before the potentially explosive WikiLeaks publication of thousands of secret State Department cables, the website reported that it was under attack. “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,” the shadowy WikiLeaks owners tweeted before noon Sunday. It was not clear ...

The Air Vent

• Cancun’s Anti-Xmas
  Cancun, the UN political scientists will take yet another shot to scam the public into solving climate change through limitation of usage.  Again, the fact that no evidence for man made climate change has reached any degree of certainty but worse yet they will again ignore the only option which can ...
• Frank’s view – find the decline
  Frank whomever on another thread wrote this: “So after you go around calling the CRU âa bunch of liars and scam artistsâ â based on nothing but innuendo â you have the temerity to lecture me on âcalling namesâ?” Actually I said they look like a bunch of liars and scam artists to me, but [...]
• 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 ...

Focal Point

• Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Ordered Diplomats to Sp ...
  I hope this puts to rest the notion that we would live in a liberal paradise had Hillary Clinton become president instead of Barack Obama...not to mention the notion that we already live in a liberal paradise because Barack Obama won.� Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show that Secretary of ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, November 22nd, 2010 DNA Games Finds New Ways to Make Nightlife Fun With Bar World on Facebook Two Developers Dominate This Wee ...
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
  We recently launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Meteor Games, Lolapps, Tencent America (QQ Ga ...
• 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 ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, ...
  truthout: Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, Politics and Power http://bit.ly/dK8sET #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Grasslands Preserve the Lonely Prairie h ...
  truthout: Grasslands Preserve the Lonely Prairie http://bit.ly/ihLriV #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Israeli Government Documents Show Delibe ...
  truthout: Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Policy to Restrict Food to Gaza http://bit.ly/eMOjK2 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: US Officials: New WikiLeaks Release Will ...
  truthout: US Officials: New WikiLeaks Release Will Do Most Harm Yet http://bit.ly/hEQrEI #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Economic Boom Worsened De-industrializat ...
  truthout: Economic Boom Worsened De-industrialization of Least Developed Countries http://bit.ly/gLmrj8 #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• Will the Palestinian Authority declare an independ ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that without strategic communications and public relations plans and competent professionals to implement them, the Palestinians stand little chance of exploiting the few opportunities that might present themselves in 2011.
• On reality and its alternates: Glenn Beck vs. Juli ...
  Lawrence Davidson compares US ultra-conservative commentator Glenn Beck with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – Beck "a charlatan who preaches an alternate reality that affirms the untested, ahistorical and prejudicial assumptions and feelings of millions of Americans", while Assange "a real truth t ...
• A distorted revolution: Tea Party stooges of Israe ...
  Paul J. Balles argues that if the present Tea Party in the USA were true to the ideals of the Boston Tea Party after which it is named, it would have questioned Washington's unconditional support for, and the billions of US taxpayers' dollars spent on, the criminal state of Israel.
• 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 ...

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

• “Give Conservatism a Chance” by Jimmie ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 In his book “Itâs OK To Leave The Plantation”, C. Mason Weaver said the next logical step for the civil rights movement is the rise of a black conservative movement. Weaver, a black conservative, former congressional candidate and public speaker, says that hysteria, an ...
• Quote(s) of the Day
              “Just because you cook eggs in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits.”   “The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.” Malcolm [...]
• Rejuvenated Purpose? AfroSpear 2.0
  A few days ago a member of the AfroSpear Google Group asked this question: “It appears that the Afrosphere Google Group has died a slow and unfortunate death. Is the Afrosphere a group in name only? What should be the next steps, if anything for the Afrosphere Google Group?” First, it’s difficult to ...
• sat’day riddymz
• 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 ...

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

• Wikileaks: Governments Apologising In Advance For ...
  Well, it seems that a few politicians have been saying rude things about each other, and now they are really desperate to cover it all up. I don’t know; we expect “our” representatives to be paragons of virtue and then damn Wikileaks spills the beans. Bad Wikileaks! On the other hand, given the shit ...
• 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 ...

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

• North Korea on the Edge - North Korean Belligerenc ...
  The most frequently heard question in the wake of a North Korean attack on a South Korean island is “why?” Those who have devoted their careers to studying North Korea, one of the world’s most opaque nations, say it is difficult to get a clear answer. One theory ties the artillery attack last week t ...
• Korean Peninsula on Edge - South Korea Gives Cool ...
  Diplomatic efforts are underway in Asia to defuse tension on the Korean peninsula. But South Korea is effectively rejecting China’s call to quickly convene multi-national talks to discuss North Korea. This comes as the United States and South Korea begin four days of naval drills seen as a show of s ...
• Politics on Edge - Charlie Rangel is Only a Sympto ...
  It's hard to conclude that Black Caucus Democrats are being sent back to Washington by large voting margins, year after year, because they are delivering such fine lives to their constituents. New York's Charlie Rangel, convicted of eleven ethics violations -- the most ever found against any member ...
• America on Edge - A Billion Dollar Settlement Mark ...
  The US Senate’s approval of a $1.15 billion settlement for black farmers meant to deal with decades of past discrimination capped a roller-coaster year on the issue for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.Vilsack was in the legislative trenches for much of this year pushing for the settlement’s passag ...
• Blue Fin Endangered because of Appetities and Unsc ...
  Your article Mediterranean Feeding Frenzy on Blue Fin, November 22, 2010 proves that we need to do much more to protect these fish from the likes of predator fishing companies and appetites that do not consider the damage they are doing to this diminishing species. Only when unscrupulous fishing ent ...

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

• The "Soft War" - Iran vs. the West on Social Media ...
  Since the presidential elections in June 2009 and the riots that erupted shortly after, Iran has been sensitive to the war it believes the West is waging against it. As the recent Wikileak documents reveal, Iran is right. America and its allies are indeed occupied with Iran and their sinist ...
• Meet Stuxnet- The Computer Worm That is Screwing U ...
  Little by little scientists are beginning to understand Stuxnet a computer worm developed with the sole purpose of doing what sanctions were not able to do, slow down the Iranian march to nuclear weapons. During the past year, Stuxnet the computer worm with a biblical calling card, not only cripple ...
• Sorry Stevie--Maybe God is Not A Buffalo Bills Fan
  Buffalo Bills WR Steve Johnson dropped what should have been an easy pass for a game-winning touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers today in overtime...instead of being mad at himself, he is mad at God. (if you cannot see video below Click Here) Johnson had a perfect pass in his hands ...
• Obama's Mid East Fail: No Freeze, No Talks, No COM ...
  By Barry Rubin While the outcome still isn�t clear, it seems that a new example of failure and humiliation is unfolding for the Obama Administration�s Middle East policy. It appears increasingly unlikely that the president�s high-profile effort to restart Israel-Palestinian talks will ...
• BREAKING---Twitter "Bombshells" Cause WikiLeaks to ...
  Sometimes even the "leakers" get leaked. Earlier today, a German Twitter user bought a copy of Der Spiegel (cover above)a German news magazine outlining the anticipated document dump from WikiLeak after it was placed on newsstands too early. Badische Bahnhof Basel!" wrote Freelancer_09. " ...

The Real Agenda

• Toxic metals found in cartoon drinking glasses
  Lab tests turn up 1,000 times the allowable amount of lead, plus cadmium, in ongoing probe by the Associated Press. AP Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from “The Wizard of Oz” exceed federal limits for lead in children’s produc ...
• The Market is Rigged Indeed
  "Virtually everyone on the Street believes there are significant improprieties, and I think there is an even more important point for the massive number of investors who are not Wall Street players," says former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
• In U.S. Elderly Medicare Patients Get Less Attenti ...
  Washington Post Want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Easton, Md.? If you’re a senior covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks. How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trahos? Expect to see him every six months: The Alexandria-based doctor has been limiting m ...
• 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 ...

Wind Watch

• Wind resistance: Plans for turbines generate quest ...
  In a time of rising fuel costs, they stand in open fields with blades turning to harvest the wind and turn it into power. But as wind turbines are built, and proposed, in Central Massachusetts, there is growing opposition from some residents who question their value, and worry about possible ill eff ...
• Lawsuit has plans for Winnebago County wind farm o ...
  ROCKFORD � The first wind turbines to be approved by Winnebago County were supposed to rise this summer over farm fields in Seward Township that would produce corn, soybeans and, eventually, electric power. But Navitas Energy Corp. has not submitted plans or maps with Winnebago County identifying wh ...
• Oregon county tells wind farm to quiet down
  HEPPNER, Ore. � An Oregon county is telling the owner of a big wind farm to quiet down so neighbors can sleep at night. The operator of the Willow Creek Energy Center southwest of Boardman objects to the unusual noise enforcement. Another wind farm developer active in the area has reportedly paid ne ...
• Waubra wind farm buys more properties
  Waubra wind farm operator Acciona has confirmed it has now bought out seven property owners. Director of generation Brett Wickham said yesterday two more properties had been recently purchased by the company. Mr Wickham said post-construction noise monitoring was completed in September. This monitor ...
• Deaths of rare eagles rises
  The number of eagles killed by turbine blades at one of Australia’s largest wind farms is climbing, with a rare juvenile wedge-tailed eagle the 22nd to die at Woolnorth in Tasmania’s north-west. The farm is killing two protected species at the rate of about 3.2 eagles a year, according to a count by ...

Not My Tribe

• Woody Guthrie at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Par ...
  Actually, his son Arlo. Now, usually on Thanksgiving we hear Arlo’s “Alices Restaurant”. Which is a good song sung for a good cause, the Alices Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement. Unlike a parade at which he sang the song in 1968, in Chicago, and a parade in Colorado Springs where the music was all m ...
• Speaking of Nicaragua…
  The Artist, formerly known as School of the Americas, THE largest and best funded State-sponsored Terrorist Training Camp in the world, whose alumni include some of Colorado Springs cops, (as I understand, some of the “Homeless Outhrach” officers) used some of the Trainee Terrorists to disperse and ...
• 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. ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• YouTube Shuts Down 'Liarpoliticians' Account
  The YouTube channel liarpoliticians - a channel by a British guy who uploaded lots of high quality news clips recorded from British TV - has been terminated. The channel was the home of the original uploads of the Herman Van Rompuy "Global Governance" clip and the Gordon Brown "World Constitution" ...
• Breaking News: Hell Freezes Over!
  Geraldo Rivera Focuses on WTC 7 John-Michael chiming in here to focus in on this important comment from Jon Gold at 911blogger.com: “BuildingWhat?” Appears on Geraldo At Large on FOX News I Made this movie when the BBC released its debunking documentary about WTC7. I was furious because they referre ...
• Holocaust Denial
  Un-TruTV: Fear vs. Fact on Ventura’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/22/un-trutv-fear-vs-fact-on-venturas-conspiracy-theory/ Funny how the Anti-Defamation League and the SPLC love to associate anything anti-establishment with holocaust denial, yet when you expose future ho ...
• New Action Page at "BuildingWhat?"
  Ask Officials to Investigate Building 7 Related Info: Thank You Mr Curley: "Debunker" PROMOTES the "Building What?" Campaign & Pushes Discredited Material (again) to Discredit Himself. Building What? is up...
• Hitler knows what Nano-Thermite in the WTC dust me ...
  I was looking through the comments on "The Great Thermate Debate" post on 911blogger and came across a hilarious video by Jon Cole that I had never seen before. It has embedding turned off, so here is the link. Hitler knows what Nano-Thermite in the WTC dust means http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbR ...

Fooducate

• PowerBar Energy Bites – Mostly Marketing Sound Bit ...
  Powerbar is a high end brand owned by Nestle Nutrition and sold mostly in sports shops. It positions itself as an athlete’s friend. What started as bars has expanded to gels, protein supplements, and now “Energy Bites”. From PowerBar, here are Energy Bites’ key features: Provide More Energy to Mus ...
• 40% of Shoppers: Healthy Food Tastes Bad
  Earlier this month Catalina Marketing released a consumer insight report demonstrating how difficult it is for consumers to shake old habits and to start buying and preparing healthy foods. Some of the interesting stats from the report: 4 out of 10 shoppers believe that healthy foods does not tast ...
• Focus in on Fibers for the Health of Them
  This is a guest blog post by Hope Warshaw, RD Do you eat enough fibers (yes fibers) each and every day? If you’re not eating those five (or more) servings of fruits and vegetables, making at least half your servings of grains whole (grain and wheat) and sneaking in servings of legumes, then it’s ...
• 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 [...]

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

• A fatal, familiar chain reaction
  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster were both caused by a string of human errors, says Geoffrey Lean.
• We can't avoid another Deepwater disaster
  In the desperate hunt for oil, danger and human error make a deadly cocktail, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Brazil's Libra oil field may be biggest in America ...
  The Libra oil field in Brazil may be the biggest discovered in the Americas for more than 30 years, according to the country's industry regulator.
• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.
• Deepwater lessons
  Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.

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

• Autism From a Flu Shot? The Ominous Clue From Kann ...
  By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Seventy-three years ago, Elizabeth Peabody Trevett, a pediatrician and pioneer in promoting mass vaccination for infants, gave birth to a boy named John who became the seventh child ever diagnosed with autism. She presumably...
• The American Taxpayer and Funding School and Adult ...
  By Anne Dachel ‘Should the Needs of Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few?’ About.com autism blogger Lisa Jo Rudy posed several questions on her blog recently that should have us all concerned. The first one was on November 14,...
• Two IACC Meetings Today
  Two meetings today for IACC. Click links for details on how to participate. http://www.iacc.hhs.gov/events/2010/subcommittee-on-safety-mtg-announcement-nov29.shtml [safety] http://www.iacc.hhs.gov/events/2010/services-subcommittee-mtg-announcement-nov29.shtml [services]
• Chantal Sicile-Kira on Thanksgiving at Huffington ...
  From our friend Chantal Sicile-Kira. Check out the fun slide show there. Please leave a comment at Huffington Post. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live...
• Tell Us Why You're Thankful
  Happy American Thanksgiving. Share your gratitude in our comments, won't you? And pass the gravy! Dan, Mark, Kim and the team at AofA.

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

• Submit meekly to TSA, then mob the nearest store – ...
  People will mob stores and go through police blockades like they are nothing to get the latest deal at stores, yet complain about and are afraid to peacefully stand up and say no to TSA scans because it is inconvenient to insist on their rights, so they willingly submit to irradiation and gropes to ...
• Brussels moves against herbalists
  Daniel Hannan explaining how the vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 24th November, regarding regulations on herbal medicines will put companies out of business.
• Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Associ ...
  Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Association annual meeting to launch Food Freedom Coalition.
• Truth Squad Radio with Randy Cook of NORM!
  This week we will talk with Randy Cook of NORM!
• Confessions of a New World Order Prostitute
  I am a New World Order prostitute, as are we all in some way, shape or form. We prostitute ourselves every day by doing what we are told by those who pay us to do so even if what they tell us to do goes against everything we believe in.

Open Your Eyes News

• Euro falls after Irish Republic 85bn euro bail-out
  BBC – The euro has fallen against the dollar as markets opened a day after European ministers agreed a bail-out for the Irish Republic. Ministers have reached an agreement over a bail-out worth about 85bn euros ($113bn; £72bn). The deal will see 35bn euros go towards propping up the Irish banking s ...
• Egypt holds parliamentary poll
  BBC – Egyptians have been voting in a parliamentary poll after a campaign that saw clashes between the opposition and security forces. The ruling NDP party is expected to win the election easily. Interest centres on whether the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood retains its position as the biggest ...
• Greens in Hamburg end coalition with CDU
  Deutsche Welle – Germany’s first coalition between the conservative CDU and the environmentalist Green party in Hamburg has failed. The Green party has called for new elections in 2011. Germany’s Green party has voted to end its coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in Hamburg, and ...
• UK: Poverty causes more mistrust than race
  Daily Telegraph – People living in deprived areas are significantly more likely to be uneasy about each other than those in more affluent areas, regardless of how they look, a study found. The argument that multiculturalism causes suspicion and malaise between strangers was strongly rejected by the ...
• Saudi king urged U.S. to attack Iran: WikiLeaks
  Reuters – Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear program and China directed cyberattacks on the United States, according to a vast cache of diplomatic cables released on Sunday in an embarrassing leak that undermines U.S. diplomacy. The more than 250,000 ...

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

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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

• Watch: a sole settler deprives an entire community ...
  Although he was outnumbered and couldn�t keep up the fight forever, he knew it was only a matter of time before the soldiers and border police would arrive, declare the area a closed military zone and evacuate us. A victory for him, as he can return laterSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...
• 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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• World War II Airfield Could Become First Solar Par ...
  Rockspring Property Investment Managers LLP has announced plans to construct a solar park on a disused World War II airfield in Buckinghamshire, England. read more
• Sydney Theater Company Installs Largest Rooftop So ...
  In a "switch on" event the Sydney Theater Company (STC) Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton officially turned on Sydney's largest rooftop solar array at its theater, The Wharf. read more
• VideoBoom: Solar Power Meets "Inception"
  This marks the first installment of EnergyBoom's newest weekly feature,�VideoBoom -- videos that highlight clean energy businesses, ideas and creative concepts.� read more
• Endangered Tortoise Stalls 663.5 MW Solar Project ...
  Just weeks after the California Energy Commission approved Tessera Solar's 663.5 megawatt Calico solar project, the commission has temporarily withdrawn it approval. read more
• Boeing Produces the World's Most Efficient Photovo ...
  Solar cell manufacturers are consistently leap-frogging one another in production of the most efficient solar cell. read more

News Blaze

• Band That Sings About End of Israel Declared Natio ...
  A song and dance group that has recently performed hate and violence promotion songs in the PA has been honored and turned into an official Palestinian national band by decree of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
• Hindu's Second 'Free School' Opens Next September ...
  The new school will be named as Krishna-Avanti Primary School. The 'Free School' will reportedly provide 420 places for children aged 4-11 years and there is said to be a growing waiting list already.
• Christian Churches in US Offer Yoga for Total Well ...
  Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Santa Monica(California) offers 'Restorative and Hatha Flow Yoga' class to reduce stress and tension while promoting healing and growth.
• Fatal Blood Clot Genetic Risk Breakthrough Announc ...
  Researchers from Leicester and Cambridge lead discovery of genetic markers that identify people at risk of clot formation and heart attack
• Wreck MMA: Strong and Proud
  Alberta's own Jason 'Dooms' Day will be facing FIT MMA's Craig 'Farmer' Brown in a fight between a pair of Canada's top middleweights.

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
  Tab seemed to migrate to others !
• Castro Speech database

libcom

• My account of the student national day of action - ...
  The mainstream media's accounts of what happened in manchester on wednesday 24th november have been laughably inaccurate. The 3000-strong peaceful demonstration is a work of pure fiction. What follows is my personal account of what really took place. ...
• 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 ...

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

• Frost on Roof or Lack of Frost is a sure sign&#823 ...
  On the Frosty Mornings when you are outside your house scraping your cars windshield to prepare for your drive to work. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Frost or Snow on your Roof is a … Continue reading →
• 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 →

The View From Abroad

• Your Vote Didn’t Count Last Tuesday
  Fed policy decision cancels out the voice of voters.
• Grand Rapids Woman Harassed by Fair Housing Do-Goo ...
  if America is so free why can't you advertise for a "Christian" roommate?
• Statist Policies Cause More Harm Than Good
  A sure fire way to make a situation worse is to involve the government.
• Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
  The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Joint U.S.-South Korean Military Exercises in Yell ...
  Washington has not been very helpful in defusing tensions over the Yeonpyeong Island attack.
• Petraeus Played
  Imposter Taliban negotiator brings out the hubris in Gen. Petraeus.
• 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.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Policy ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight With ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Discus ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ensu ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Internation ...

Iranian.com

• State TV: Bomb kills Iranian nuclear scientist
  TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's state TV says separate but identical bomb attacks have killed a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in the capital, Tehran. The state television website says attackers riding on motorcycles attached bombs to the car windows of the scientists as they were dr ...
• Dagan urged support for Iranian minorities to oust ...
  “Instability in Iran is driven by inflation and tension among ethnic minorities. This, Dagan said, presents unique opportunities, and Israelis and Americans might see a change in Iran in their lifetimes,” the cable read. According to the cable, Dagan referred to supporting student democracy movement ...
• جاه طلب بزرگ دیگران را متهم به جاه طلبی کرد!
  پریشان گوئی عصبی او در این سخنرانی، عملا نشان داد که او طی یکسال و نیم گذشته، با هر دست و پائی که می‌زند، بیشتر در گردابی فرو می‌رود که در آن افتاده است.
• Iran's nuclear plant to go on line by late January
  TEHRAN, Iran – Technicians have finished loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power reactor and aim to start up the facility by late January, the country's nuclear chief said Saturday. The startup of the Bushehr power plant, a project completed with Russian help but beset by years of delays, wi ...
• حمله سنگین مسلحانه به کشتی نفتکش رژیم
  رییس برنامه ریزی شرکت ملی نفتکش گفت: دزدان دریایی سومالی قصد داشتند شب گذشته با حمله به یک کشتی نفتکش جمهوری اسلامی، این کشتی را تصاحب کنند. "عبدالصمد تعقل" در توضیح این حادثه گفت: کشتی 300 هزار تنی هادی در حالی که از خلیج فارس به سمت چین در حرکت بود مورد read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Afghanistan and the Road Runner
  I spent yesterday trying to get my head around what's really happening in Afghanistan. I would strongly discourage other people from trying this. Mainstream coverage of the NATO occupation is full of the type of paradoxical and contradictory messages that are known to cause insanity. In fact the w ...
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars
  Our Real Earth film festival finished yesterday. We saved the best films for last, including Blue Gold: World Water Wars - inspired by the book Blue Gold by Canadian Activists Maud Barlow and Tony Clarke. The film opened my eyes to the reality that water scarcity is a far more serious imminent probl ...
• 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/ �

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

• While the Gulf of Mexico Weeps
  Please do not forget what BP has done to our Gulf in 2010. VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ5yqRhb3ms Nov. 11, 2010
• Florida DEP finds Corexit ingredient in 50 PERCENT ...
• BP's Environmental Disaster: Fishermen Report Loui ...
• Hungaryâs toxic flood could turn into a cancerou ...
  Thousands of Hungarian residents battling to contain the flood of poisonous red sludge have been warned to wear face masks because as the slurry dries it will turn into a toxic dust cloud. The damage so far has come from the mud but with dry, hot weather and strong winds forecast over the next few d ...
• Cracked Hungarian Reservoir Near Collapse

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Addressing Oil Company Subsidies
  Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent essay on the elimination of the VEETC, the major ethanol subsidy in the U.S., some ethanol supporters argued for continuing the subsidies because oil companies receive subsidies. There are many versions of the oil subsidy argument – some of ...
• 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

• December Traditions - Collaborative Project
  Comments:This free project has students sharing their December Traditions. Students will create either a digital or paper/pencil representation of a December tradition their family celebrates. Using a Web 2.0 tool, students can add a verbal component to their drawing and then publish their work to s ...
• Daily Fit Log - Home
  Comments:Website for logging, charting, and monitoring exercise, eating, and healthy trends. - Dean MantzTags: daily, fitness, log, healthy, PE, exercise, eatingby: Dean Mantz
• http://express.smarttech.com
  Comments:SMART now provides web based software to create projects w/o having to be on the same computer. - Dean MantzA way to share SmartNotebook materials with students and others who don't have Smart Notebook - Robin TalkowskiTags: smartboardby: Robin Talkowski
• Understanding Illiteracy Infographic | DegreeScout
  Tags: infographic, illiteracyby: Tim Childers
• The Space Place :: Home
  Comments:From NASA for kids to learn about science. - Dean MantzTags: science, space, NASA, astronomy, teaching, Kids, activities, Gamesby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Despite New Guidelines, Hospitals Favor Cesarean B ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Alison M. Rice, 39, is eight months pregnant with her second child. The Arlington, VA, editor has just one main concern about the birth, and it has nothing to do with pain. She wants to deliver her baby vaginally and avoid another cesarean like the one she had four years ag ...
• Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Five Ways to Focus Your Wa ...
  RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—How much of the time do you spend living in the present moment? If you’re like most of the people who attend my lectures on mindfulness, your mind wanders a lot. The To Do list…What’s for lunch?...Last night’s argument…Pick up the dog at the vet…How’s Mom doing? An endless ...
• Five Easy Recipes that Add Up to Under 2000 calori ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Today’s portion sizes and the abundance of high-calorie, nutrition-poor foods make it easy for people to lose p read more
• 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- ...

big think

• Salman Rushdie: "We Should Drop Nintendos on Iran"
  We should think about terrorism not as a battle between Islam and the West but as a battle within Islam, says author Salman Rushdie. And video games might just be the way to resolve this conflict. "I often think that the best way to liberate Iran is just to drop Nintendo consoles from the air. And . ...
• Joomla Redefines Relationship Between Content And ...
  An introduction to Joomla was my birthday present to myself this year. If I had known the open source content management system was this good, I would have started using it years ago. Aside from servings of too much food and a little holiday camaraderie, I’ve spent most of my time the last few days ...
• Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Ordered Diplomats to Sp ...
  I hope this puts to rest the notion that we would live in a liberal paradise had Hillary Clinton become president instead of Barack Obama...not to mention the notion that we already live in a liberal paradise because Barack Obama won.� Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show that Secretary of ...
• Dan Phillips's Amazing Houses Made of Upcycled Mat ...
  Texas-based designer and builder Dan Phillips builds extraordinary low-cost homes out of reclaimed materials. In his witty and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, he showcases a dozen of his remarkable creations – a testament to the power of creative problem-solving over material restrictions ...Read ...
• Why Do Republicans Want to Stop START?
  Why are Republicans trying to block ratification of the new START? The original START—short for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—was proposed by President Reagan to limit the number of strategic nuclear warheads the U.S. and the Soviet Union could have. It was signed by the first President Bush ...

Information Liberation

• Exclusive: Colorado Lawyer Files Injunction Agains ...
  Colorado lawyer, Gary Fielder, has filed for a Permanent Restraining Order in federal district court against Janet Napolitano, John Pistole, the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA. Attorney Fielder made headlines earlier this year when he ...
• 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...

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

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

frogblog

• Conservation concerns not to blame for tragedy
  We have been supporting the Government’s decision to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate both the immediate causes of the Pike River disaster and wider systemic issues that may also have been contributors, and are particularly pleased that the terms of reference h ...
• Is Waihopai helping the US spy on the UN?
  The latest Wikileaks documents on US spying on the UN are going to make it harder for our government to justify the Waihopai spy station. Waihopai’s main task is to intercept global communications for the US National Security Agency (NSA). The Wikileaks documents inform us that the ...
• Sustainable Business Awards 2010
  I recently attended the Sustainable Business Network national awards for 2010.  It was a great night, lots of very positive stories came out, and our very own Jeanette Fitzsimons was recognised with an achievement award.  Here’s a brief video that highlights and catches some of th ...
• Joyce thinks importing cars, trucks & fuel is good ...
  In today’s Sunday Star Times, Joyce has an unsurprising reply to Rod Oram’s excellent piece last week (which critiqued the NZTA’s dodgy business cases for the Roads of National Party Significance).  It’s a bit ironic because Joyce starts off making the case that we are in debt and ...
• General debate, November 27, 2010

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

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

• Bombing Iran, Part 2
  David Frum asks a question (in a series of 140-character chunks): What do we learn from Wikileaks re Iran? 1) Many more govts than you might think back a US military strike. 2) It's now public knowledge that Iran and North Korea are exchanging deadly military technology. 3) Whole world can see ...
• Bombing Iran
  I have a question. Several people are suggesting that the most interesting/damaging part of the Wikileaks embassy cable dump is the revelation that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has repeatedly asked the United States to bomb Iran. Dave Schuler comments: It isn’t just King Abdullah—the rulers of Jo ...
• Yet More American Secrets No Longer Secret
  The Wikileaks release of 251,000 U.S. embassy cables is, I'm told, a "diplomatic crisis." Hillary Clinton is running point on damage control. Foreign allies are on high alert. Life will never be the same. So what's in those cables? Here's the Guardian's bullet list: Grave fears in Washington and ...
• Paying the Piper
  Bruce Bartlett: A prime reason why we have a budget deficit problem in this country is because Republicans almost universally believe in a nonsensical idea called starve the beast (STB). By this theory, the one and only thing they need to do to be fiscally responsible is to cut taxes. They need n ...
• Our Boring Future
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks the nation state is fated to disappear over the next couple of decades, to be replaced by "city-states and statelings" that rely on a gold standard and can manage their finances properly. Matt Yglesias is skeptical: Maybe so. And yet it seems to me that people have be ...

Insanity Report

• Movie Review: Faster
  Finallyâ¦the Rock has come BACK… to making adult films.  And itâs about time.  Itâs been a while since we saw Dwayne Johnson in a film where he was just some big, mean guy who hurts people.  Johnsonâs last few films have left some of his earlier fans wondering if they would ever see him in [...] ...
• IC 212: The Chitlin Circuit 4Loko Podcast Party P ...
  Topics for the show: We continue with the marathon show talking about all kinds of random things Lebron James as the Kanye West of the NBA The Art of talking shit in Basketball The President goes hard in the paint A Diary of a Tired Black Man and the problem with men who are bitter [...]
• 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 ...

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

• Walking slows progression of Alzheimer's
  Walking may slow cognitive decline in adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease, as well as in healthy adults, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). read more
• New study reports effects of endurance running
  Using a mobile MRI unit, researchers followed runners for two months along a 4,500-kilometer course to study how their bodies responded to the high-stress conditions of an ultra-long-distance race, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North Americ ...
• Emergency departments see substantial increase in ...
  A new study reports that the use of computed tomography (CT) in the nation's emergency departments is growing exponentially. If the growth trend continues, by 2011, nearly 20 percent of all emergency department (ED) visits may involve a CT exam. The results of this study were presented today at the ...
• Light exercise may prevent osteoarthritis
  People at risk for osteoarthritis may be able to delay the onset of the disease or even prevent it with simple changes to their physical activity, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). read more
• Diagnosis uncertainty increases anxiety in patient ...
  Have you ever felt uneasy sitting in a doctor's waiting room or climbed the walls waiting for your test results? That feeling of anxious uncertainty can be more stressful than knowing you have a serious illness, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society o ...

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

• Nuclear is the least-cost, low-carbon, baseload po ...
  This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also [.. ...
• 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 ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Bill Clinton: Haiti’s Neo-Colonial Overlord
  by Ashley Smith Black Agenda Report November 11, 2010 The corporate media portrays former President Bill Clinton as a great humanitarian friend of Haiti. The truth could not be more different. He has always supported policies in the interests of multinational corporations and the Haitian ruling ...
• Robert Fisk: An American Bribe That Stinks of Appe ...
  The Independent November 20, 2010 In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else's property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars' worth of fighter bombers i ...
• Do we live in a dictatorship? � DPAC
  Do we live in a dictatorship? � DPAC: "I always understood that one of the most important characteristics of a liberal democratic state was that it’s government ruled with the consent of its citizens, and without such consent it became a dictatorship. In recent weeks there have …been successive prot ...
• Viola Wilkins: Max Watts 1928-2010
  Max Watts 1928-2010 by jessie boylan Max Watts, who became a well-known personality on the left in Australia, particularly in Sydney, died on November 23. Max was a left-wing freelance journalist, and a solidarity activist with many national liberation struggles including those of Palestine, Ka ...
• Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize ...
  Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Digitized by Hoover Archives | Hoover Institution The sound recordings of Rigoberta Menchú that formed the basis of her autobiographical book, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (London: Verso, 1983), compiled by Elisabeth B ...

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

• Revolution Roundup #2: As Mass Rebellion Spreads T ...
  The Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) rages on... Over the past few days the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria and Portugal have all held massive demonstrations against the Global Banking Cartel.
• 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.

+972

• Israel to peddle message through third parties
  Avigdor Liberman’s Foreign Ministry understand Israel’s brand is poisonous, and acts accordingly Israel’s ambassadors in western Europe received an urgent cable last week (Hebrew), ordering each to immediately recruit at least a thousand people loyal to Israeli positions, in order to deploy them in ...
• Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-Palestini ...
  The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul. The full translation of his report is at the bottom of the post, a ...
• Netanyahu’s self-made problem
  Netanyahu’s habit of being economical with the truth was never more evident than in the building-freeze “deal”. Binyamin Netanyahu has a, shall we say, complex relationship with reality. For starters, he is given to bouts of often embarrassing fantasy, trying to attach himself to famous events. In ...
• 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 ...

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

• Don’t Blame the American Borrower For The Fr ...
  Recently a federal judge implicitly suggested that it might be unethical to defend homeowners in foreclosure.  In response I articulated the reasons why the defense of homeowners in foreclosure is my profession’s highest calling at this moment because the battle is exposing far bigger problems than ...
• The mortgage debacle in the United States has rais ...
  The bigger picture about what we’re all fighting for….Really have to give credit to the Sarasota Tribune for sinking their teeth into this story.  Please forward the link to the story around so the paper get’s the hits for it…. NEW YORK – The mortgage debacle in the United States has raised deep qu ...
• To get a sense of the lawlessness in Florida&#8217 ...
  There, on foreclosure documents open to everyone, is the evidence that at least one law firm’s employees repeatedly broke a state law in a rush to push cases through the courthouse so banks could seize people’s homes. Full Sarasota Tribune Article Here Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Foreclosures- The Florida Judicial System’s ...
  My real advocacy in the foreclosure fight began when we went to Tallahassee to fight attempts by the banking industry to turn foreclosures into a Wild West, non-judicial foreclosure state…which operates like the repossession of a car…except that all of your life’s possessions are in that car….but th ...
• 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 ...

abelard - news

• dexterous prosthetics | science and technology new ...
  Brain-controlled spare limbs now being tested in humans. Now that will make moving easier ^_^.
• spanish national accounts | politics eu news at ab ...
  Accounts massaging - new Spanish practice?
• benefits help change the population selectively | ...
  Rather like Calhoun's rats, when given more food (or the means to obtain food) humans tend to produce more offspring.
• what chance the alternative vote? | politics uk ne ...
  The Coalition's proposal starts to run into the political equivalent of Luddites.
• in the land of entrepreneurs, darwin triumphs agai ...
  After the next contender for this prestigious (?) award proves their worth, abelard gives some wise advice.

The Parallel Parliament

• Carry Protection
  There’s something about Armatec that gets to me. Its talented engineers spend their time designing systems that protect our troops as they are ferried across the rugged terrain of Afghanistan in armoured personnel carriers. They are operating in a niche that, regardless of one’s opinion of the war i ...
• 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

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 Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend a good portion of my “inst ...
• 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 ...

Reader Supported News

• Don't Just Tell Us. Show Us That You Can Foreclose ...
  Excerpt: "The United States Trustee Program, the unit of the Justice Department charged with overseeing the integrity of the nation's bankruptcy courts, is taking a different view. The unit is stepping up its scrutiny of the veracity of banks' claims against borrowers, and its approach is evident in ...
• Don't Just Tell Us. Show Us That You Can Foreclose ...
  Excerpt: "The United States Trustee Program, the unit of the Justice Department charged with overseeing the integrity of the nation's bankruptcy courts, is taking a different view. The unit is stepping up its scrutiny of the veracity of banks' claims against borrowers, and its approach is evident in ...
• BREAKING: WikiLeaks Releases Diplomatic Bombshell
  A small glimpse of the more than 250,000 secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks discloses that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran, and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN's leadership. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, left, with William J. Burns ...
• BREAKING: WikiLeaks Releases Diplomatic Bombshell
  A small glimpse of the more than 250,000 secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks discloses that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran, and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN's leadership. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, left, with William J. Burns ...
• WikiLeaks to Drop Its Biggest-Ever Bombshell
  Excerpt: "WikiLeaks is about to drop its biggest-ever bombshell - some 2.7 million confidential diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world - and, although US credibility is likely to take the worst hit, much of the collateral damage may end up in Moscow." Founder of WikiLeaks, Julian As ...

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

• Albertans & Minister applauded for pulling parks b ...
  Sierra Club Canada 25 Nov 2010 Edmonton & Calgary:  Sierra Club Canada is thanking Albertans for coming to the rescue of their parks and the Minister for, in the nick of time, hearing ...
• Perfect Storm for Alberta’s Caribou: Bill 29, Tar ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 24 Nov 2010 A new Alberta Caribou ‘policy’, which does nothing to protect severely threatened woodland caribou, is one more nail in the coffin for this b ...
• World Heritage Sites in Danger with Alberta’s Prop ...
  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Sierra Club of Canada Nature Canada 23 Nov 2010 Ottawa, ON ...
• Is Tar Sands Development Driving Weaker Parks Legi ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 22 Nov 2010 Albertans have been struggling to understand the reasoning behind Bill 29, the Alberta Parks Act, which is proposing to substantially weaken ...
• Job Opportunity: Office Manager & Program Administ ...
  Position:� Office Manager & Program Administrative Support Organization:� Pembina Institute ...

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

• "Pure Chocolate" Does Not Exist, EU Court Rules
  There's no such thing as "pure chocolate," says a European Union high court, and the phrase cannot appear on the front of candy packages. On one side of the debate, chocolate-making purists, like those in Italy and Belgium, who use only cocoa butter. On the other, countries like Britain and others ...
• The 10 Retailers That Keep Their Employees Happies ...
  Maybe those smiles on Costco employees' faces aren't fake. According to an employer satisfaction survey, Costco is the retailer with the happiest employees. Career Bliss, a site at which workers review and comment on its employers, culled together nearly 100,000 posts and ranked the top 10 compani ...
• Fox Sues Screenwriter With Script Database For $15 ...
  Instead of messing with Wolverine, smarmy Marvel anti-hero Deadpool has his sights set on a Long Island screenwriter. He's called upon his bosses at 20th Century Fox to sue the writer for $15 million because she posted Fox screenplays, including an early copy of the script from his upcoming movie, ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingMacys: [Clothing] Macy's Women's Coats from $13Old Navy: [Clothing] Old Navy Baby Jeans: Regular Fit Dark-Wash, Regular Fit, Boot-Cut, or Dark-Wash Bootcut $10 each or 2 for $9Endless.com: [Shoes] Up to $100 Off Footwear6pm.com: [Apparel] Save up to 85% off on Donald J. Pliner, Seiko, Nine ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Monday Line: KLM, Stork Nests and Other Servic ...
  By Denis G. Campbell GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS: I’ve had it. I am done with KLM/Air France and Sky Team until someone there takes a Singapore Airlines flight and teaches their staff a thing or two about real service vs. constant whingeing over seniority, throwing food at you and hiding behind drawn ...
• Massachusetts Posts Pharma Payments to Health Prov ...
  by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica This week, Massachusetts became the first state to post an online database of payments from drug and medical device companies to the state’s health care providers. Thesearchable database covers reports from more than 280 companies and subsidiaries. The new databa ...
• National US Holiday and Ch-ch-ch-changes Coming He ...
  Quiet here on the newsfront because of the US National Thanksgiving holiday weekend and we are working like busy little bees on the 1st website re-design in nearly two years. Yes, a new-look UK progressive is coming soon with the opportunity to receive a periodic news bulletin delivered to your e-ma ...
• 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 ...

NewsAlert

• The Triumphant Return of Hayek
  Newsweek
• 'The Nation' Editor Apologizes to John Tyner
  LRC Blog
• Saudi King Urged Strike on Iran, Cut Off 'Snake's' ...
  Newsmax reports:King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia repeatedly exhorted the United States to "cut off the head of the snake" by launching military strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear program, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. A copy of the cable dated April 20, 2008, was published in the New York ...
• California's ailing Republicans: A dying breed?
  The Washington Post
• Televangelist Joel Osteen Comes to Miami
  The Miami Herald