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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

3 November - RSS SnapShot Pt 1

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CHINA: ‘Why Not A Baby Girl?' Urban Parents ...
    Although Li Xiaoxue and her husband, Dai Chunlin, are already happy parents to a young boy, they plan to skirt China's one- child policy by having another baby. And like a growing number of affluent, urban Chinese, their fingers are crossed for a baby girl.
  • BANGLADESH: Dose of Vigilance Helps Manage HIV, AI ...
    It is one of the poorest countries in the world, has a low literacy rate, and is next door to at least two countries that have a considerable portion of their respective populations with HIV and AIDS. Yet even having a large migrant population has not made Bangladesh a hot spot for HIV and ...
  • Zimbabwe Women Make Themselves Heard on Draft Cons ...
    A parliamentary select committee has begun compiling comments on a new constitution, gathered at 4,000 meetings held across Zimbabwe over the past three months. Gender activists are confident that women's views have been expressed; it will be up to the eventual drafters of the new constitution to ...
  • Honduras Has Much to Explain in Human Rights Exam
    Honduras must answer to the United Nations Human Rights Council this week with respect to the numerous complaints of human rights violations committed before, during and after the Jun. 28, 2009 coup d'état that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.
  • HAITI: Quake Refugees Seek Moratorium on Evictions
    The children standing at the tent beside the filthy pool of water put their needs simply when asked what they wish for: "À manger; l'école," they said, practically in unison. In English, "We want to eat; we want to go to school."

Scoop - NZ

  • Hobbit folk grovel to feudal movie lords
    The Hobbit is about a bunch of peasants living simple feudal lives. The way we're behaving, where else but New Zealand could it be filmed? Rather than being a First-World country, New Zealand was "teetering" on Third-World status, prepared to "basically lie back and prostitute oursel ...
  • Best. Batman Costume. Ever.
    No idea where this came from; attribution welcome. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Private Prison Helps Draft Imprisonment Law
    NPR on how the prison companies help draft the Arizona immigration bill. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • US airport security 'useless'
    European air officials accused the United States of imposing useless and overly intrusive travel security measures, calling for the Obama administration to reexamine policies ranging from online security checks to X-raying shoes. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • When Drones Come Home to Roost
    The eventual equalization of technological capability will mean the use of drones and robots to strike at targets in the United States. There will be no need to hijack planes or plant car bombs. Drones, some as small as a suitcase, will be launchable from offshore or just outside U.S. borders. These ...

Independent - London

  • Iran condemned over death sentence woman
    An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder today, a human rights group said.
  • Death toll in Baghdad bombings rises
    The death toll from a series of bomb blasts in mainly Shi'ite areas of Baghdad yesterday has reached 64 with 360 wounded, Iraq's health minister said.
  • Obama retains narrow senate majority
    Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada survived a fierce challenge from a candidate backed by the ultra-conservative tea party movement, but was left with a greatly diminished majority.
  • Obama humbled by conservative wave
    A conservative wave roared across the American political landscape last night, humbling President Barack Obama and instantly redrawing the landscape in Washington with a new place on the high perches of power for the flag-bearers of the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement.
  • Guy Adams: Tea Party express comes off the rails i ...
    If there was to be a crumb of comfort for the Democrats in this bruising election night, then it could probably be found at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, where Sharron Angle, darling of the Tea-Party movement and one of Sarah Palin’s most prominent “Mamma Grizzlies” saw her bid for the US Senat ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Bridge Building
    You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...
  • Better infrastructure, better results
    In 2001, when the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) opened on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), CRI researchers knew where many of its students would have to go to conduct experiments and analyze their findings — elsewhere.While the CRI was theoretically a 21st-century effort to mea ...
  • Crime and rehabilitation
    When Hugh Brody embarked on an experiment to interview aboriginal youth in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in 2005, spending three years in prison was the last thing he expected to do. But that all changed when he met Angela George, a member of the Chehalis First Nation near Chilliwack, who was wor ...
  • Sheer treasure
    Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...
  • Clean Green Electric Machine
    A small Jeep-like truck that runs entirely on an electric battery may soon offer a cleaner alternative to the diesel vehicles currently used to transport people and tools deep into Canada’s mines.The four-passenger vehicle, which can hold up to 225 kilograms of cargo, was recently developed with the ...

Signs of the times

  • Oklahoma voters ban shariah law
    The central US state of Oklahoma is to become the first state in the US to ban Islamic sharia law. That's the result of a voter initiative in the state that passed by a heavy majority in the midterm election on Tuesday night. State Question 755 amends the Oklahoma constitution to forbid courts in Ok ...
  • Whatever happened to the mysterious disease known ...
    In 2004, Sue Laws began to itch. She found tiny red fibers all over her back. Within weeks, her skin broke out in lesions. She felt bugs crawling under her skin, and one day, she said, she pulled a worm out of her eyeball and coughed up a springtail fly. "That's when I thought, 'I'm really going to ...
  • A rare view of Egyptian Book of the Dead
    The British Museum's major autumn exhibition this year examines ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death. Journey through the afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead will show off the museum's collection of papyri, a rare and very fragile collection of spells which were designed to guid ...
  • The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising (Recut MaxKei ...
    This video is a musical remix of highlights from David DeGraw's TV interviews. He exposes the financial terrorism network that has looted the global economy and calls for a 99% movement to restore the rule of law. As DeGraw has said, "Republicans and Democrats have failed us. Both parties have been ...
  • Airport screeners go for the groin
    Security theater pat-down cock-up US airline security staff have introduced a new pat-down technique that might be familiar to folks who request "extras" in a massage parlour. Punters - i.e., passengers and civil liberties groups - are far from ecstatic over these new moves, variously describi ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Canada tightens sanctions on the moon...
    Or the foreign policy ninjas in our government might as well have for all the impact they'll have .� Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon announced the new restrictions on Thursday in Ottawa, saying Canada is taking a "principled stand against those who recklessly commit acts of aggression i ...
  • Dear General Natynczyk,
    The individual in the foreground of the photo above is not what he would appear to be. With no other information, that would appear to be a leading seaman in the Canadian Navy. Except that it is actually the member of parliament for Edmonton - St. Albert, one Brent Rathgeber, Conservative Party of C ...
  • Some members of the Royal Canadian Legion...
    ...may want to check the meaning of the word 'denigration'.� I'm trying to see the it in a white poppy campaign calling for peaceful conflict resolution and am coming up nearly empty. Lest we forget that Remembrance Day isn't about glorifying war, or the armed force, or trivialities like the legal o ...
  • Veterans Week
    Murray Brewster : "A trove of leaked internal Veterans Affairs documents suggests bureaucrats knew from the beginning that a new system of benefits would mean less cash for injured soldiers with one analysis projecting savings of up to $40 million per year. Another analysis, contained among 3,500 ...
  • Corruption around the world . . .
    TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL has released its 2010 world corruption index. Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore are the least corrupt, with Finland, Sweden and Canada right behind.  At the other end, there's Somalia and Myanmar.

Media Matters for America

  • "Voice of the opposition": How Fox News won the 20 ...
    During the 2010 election cycle, Fox News, its employees, and its parent company engaged in an unprecedented campaign in support of the Republican Party. The network served as the communications and fundraising wing of the GOP while fervently promoting -- and sometimes creating -- the party's candid ...
  • Limbaugh falsely claimed Democrats are "talking a ...
    Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have a "proposal" to eliminate 401(k)s in favor of a retirement plan administered by the government. In fact, they have not made such a proposal. Rather, the idea of guaranteed retirement accounts -- which was distorted ...
  • The final push: Fox provides forum for GOP candid ...
    Fox spent the final 24 hours before the midterm elections by continuing to relentlessly campaign for Republicans, hosting 13 GOP candidates or campaign officials, and one conservative candidate, while featuring only three Democrats. Fox hosts 14 Republican or conservative candidates and c ...
  • HannityPAC: The GOP's man inside Fox
    In the past few months, Sean Hannity has cheered, defended, and hosted numerous Republican candidates on his Fox News show, effectively turning the nightly hour-long program into a GOP fundraising venue. It's no surprise that Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell said she has Hann ...
  • "Breitbart's role has always been..." (A timeline ...
    ABC has made conflicting statements about discredited blogger Andrew Breitbart's role in its election night coverage and now says that it is "entirely possible" that it will include comments from Breitbart in its television broadcast. Here is a timeline of comments released by -- or attributed to - ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • California's Declaration of Independence
    In February of 2007, I wrote an essay called " The Bear Flag Revolution;California's Experiment in the New Federalism." , based on Justice Brandeis' famous insight. It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laborat ...
  • From Combat to Capitol Hill: The New Vet 27
    Today's election marks the end of an epic, historic campaign season that included witches , rallies for sanity , the Tea Party and a journalist handcuffed by a campaign. From Whitman to Reid to Miller, candidates have spent more than ever, fought more than ever and given us an election cycle of firs ...
  • Bill Maher's Anti-Muslim Fixation
    I know Bill Maher hates religion. But it doesn't take much watching of his show to see that there is only one religion in which he combines his fate for the faith with hate for its adherents: Islam. Long before Islamophobia (actually Islamo-hatred) became the rage during the "Ground Zero Mosqu ...
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  • The Real Center Of American Politics: A Reflection ...
    The true center of American politics isn't found where most of us agree. We fiercely disagree. That's not a problem. Democracy assumes disagreement. The true center is about how we resolve those disagreements. Most of us believe we should work them out respectfully. We don't believe in winning ...

TruthOut

  • Paladino Supporter "Mad as Hell"
    Carl Paladino has admitted defeat in the race for Governor of New York. He also admitted something else regarding his many media gaffes. “Something I learned on this campaign: you don’t want the media to notice you. It’s not pretty,” Paladino told his supporters and a few hecklers at his election n ...
  • Election's Big Result: Expect More Washington Grid ...
    WASHINGTON — America's voters sent strong signals Tuesday that they're tired of Washington's endless partisan bickering, but lawmakers aren't likely to show that they get the message anytime soon. Instead, they're bracing for ugly partisan showdowns over government spending and health care. Republ ...
  • Mad as Hell in Carl Country
    The large banners hanging above the empty bar declare the corner for "Carl Country." Around the corner New York's Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl "Mad as Hell" Paladino waits in a hotel for the polls to close. The streets of downtown Buffalo, home to Paladino and much of his vast real estate ...
  • Free Speech TV: Live Coverage of the Midterm Elect ...
    Starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time tonight, Free Speech TV is broadcasting live coverage of the midterm elections from broadcasting centers in New York, Washington, DC and from their headquarters in Denver. The coverage is scheduled to air on the DISH Network channel 9415, DIRECTV channel 348 and strea ...
  • On a Volatile Election Day, California Supports De ...
    While election results remain tensely in the air for states like Nevada and Alaska, which have received nationwide attention for their high-profile senatorial and governor campaigns, early California voters have come out strong in favor of Democratic candidates. read more

Planetsave

  • Indonesia Volcanoes and Tsunamis
    I wrote last week about the Mount Merapi Volcano in Indonesia shortly before it started erupting. Now that it has been erupting for about a week it has killed a few dozen people. This and a tsunami that has killed hundreds are generating quite the destruction and havoc in the 4th most populated coun ...
  • IBM Uses Computer Hard Drives to Predict Earthquak ...
    IBM has now developed an earthquake- and tsunami-tracking system using the sensors in your computer that could really save lives. This breakthrough could especially help in the case of tsunamis, since the information can travel fast enough to give people time to get out of a dangerous situation, but ...
  • Strongest Melting Since Beginning of Record-Keepin ...
    We recently got a comprehensive update on the Arctic from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and, of course, the message was that the Arctic is warming fast. Another recent study from Denmark shows the same basic thing in Greenland. Here’s coverage of this story from the of ...
  • Stop Fish Exploitation, Fish Massages
    I recently found out that a shopping center in the UK is offering “fish foot massages.” Animal Aid writes: We have been informed that Queensmere Shopping Centre in Slough is offering ‘fish massages’. The fish are kept in small tanks, which people then put their feet into to be ‘massaged’. Please pol ...
  • Why Antarctic Sea Ice is Growing
    Unfortunately, rather than delve into the science, any time a climate change denier sees a statement that seems to go against the massive amount of scientific data and information showing that global weirding is happening, they cling to it with all their might and say, “Look! Look! The climate scien ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Tomas, headed for Haiti, has weakened but it is s ...
    Tomas weakens... temporarily Brian Fortier, Lead Meteorologist The Weather Channel 5:08 p.m. ET 11/2/2010 Hurricane Hunters have found Tomas has weakened but it is still forecast to re-strengthen to a hurricane. Tropical Storm Tomas continues moving west over the waters of the central ...
  • CDC: Haiti cholera matches South Asian strain - Wo ...
    Editor's Note: Finally, Forbes and other corporate media have joined the chorus, reporting on UN responsibility for the genesis of cholera in Haiti. The UN is not bothering to test its own soldiers for cholera and since last Friday has cleaned up the septic tank from which the cholera epidemic sprea ...
  • Interview with WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafns ...
    2 November 2010 On October 22, the web-based whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 internal US military reports that provide damning evidence of war crimes committed by the US government against the people of Iraq. The “Iraq War Logs”—the largest leak of classifi ...
  • Obama prepares to expand military attacks in Yemen ...
    2 November 2010 The Obama administration is preparing to escalate its intervention in Yemen, placing US military units under CIA control to facilitate intensified drone attacks and death squad killings. Citing unnamed government officials, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the admi ...
  • Brazil wins with Dilma Rousseff - World News
    It's not the result Washington wanted, but Dilma's victory creates the chance to consolidate Brazil's social progress under Lula Like the rally led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets of Washington, DC on S ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Still not going back. No way, no how. "A series of apparently co-ordinated blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 63 people, officials say. More than 280 people were wounded in the 10 attacks, which appeared to target Shia areas, officials say. The incident is the first concerted s ...
  • Fuck You, Rand Paul: Out-and-Proud Jim Gray is New ...
    Live-blogging from Media Czech here. The coolest aspect of the many cool aspects of Jim Gray's victory is that his homosexuality was never a major issue. Mayor-elect Jim Gray has been vice-mayor for four years since receiving the most votes in the 2006 at-large city council race. He has been a consi ...
  • LIVE Election Night Coverage with Laura Flanders & ...
    Burned out on corporate media election coverage? Frustrated by ABC's choice of Andrew Breitbart as a commentator? Watch the returns roll in with GRITtv and Free Speech TV instead. November 2nd, from 8PM to 2AM EST , right here on our site or on Free Speech TV on DISH Network and DIRECTv. Laura will ...
  • Separatist GOP aims to advance supremacy of their ...
    If you listen to the pundits, the Republican party is poised to win an overwhelming landslide at a time when its favorability among American voters is at historic lows. Indeed, as the New Republic's Jonathan Chait notes, the party which seems to be in the lead is also the one that has lost legitimac ...
  • GOTV: twelve hours to go
    The polls in Missouri are open. It's twelve hours until the polls close. If you vote today we'll guarantee that all those GOTV phone calls will stop - until September or October 2012.

Care 2

  • How Brain Is Wired for Attention
    University of Utah (U of U) medical researchers have uncovered a wiring diagram that shows how the brain pays attention to visual, cognitive, sensory, and motor cues. The research provides a critical foundation for the study of abnormalities in attention Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �| ...
  • ACTION ALERT : URGENT: Execution of Sakineh Ashti ...
    According to news received from the International Committees against Stoning and Execution, the Islamic Republic is preparing to execute Sakineh Ashtiani in the next few days. Submitted by Simone D. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Justice For MoonShine Murdered by h ...
    Moonshine, a 3-legged Wolf-dog mix apparently suffered a violent death at the hands of his owner, Shane Michael Thompson. On October 20, 2010 Thompson was charged with animal cruelty after veterinarians determined that the dog had died from blunt trauma Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • The Village That Reinvented the World
    Almost four decades ago, Gaviotas was started as a sustainable community in one of the harshest places in South America. It has worked -- largely because of trees. Submitted by Reynard L. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 40 Cool and Surprising Uses for Olive Oil
    Loaded with powerful antioxidants and essential vitamins, olive oil is the perfect product for daily beauty routines and topical treatments. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Get Out The Vote: Why Arguments Against Voting Fai ...
    One of the advantages of getting a master's degree in philosophy is not so much the mastery of anything but the experience of being encouraged to think things through while simultaneously being taught all sorts of nonsense that falls apart when you think it through. One day I was taught that there' ...
  • Ten Reasons Why I'm Spending This Election Day On ...
    I admit it. 2008 was a whole lot more fun. We were riding a wave of change. We had the political momentum. We reached into states and districts we thought we could win and turned them with our energy and commitment. If felt like we just might be launching a period like that of FDR or the peak of the ...
  • Just fake it
    By allowing banks to kick people out of their homes using fraudulent creative paperwork, this kind of fraud is inevitable. A sign in the front of a building on West 39th Street tells visitors that it's the Unicredit Debt Resolution Center in Erie. Once debtors got inside, they were fooled into beli ...
  • Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart's "View From Nowhere ...
    For me -- and I think for a lot of people -- the moment that "sanity" left the building in American discourse came in late 2002 and early 2003, when it became clear that Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Paul Halfwits, and their minions were dead set on invading Iraq. This was a country that had nothing ...
  • "Second Amendment Solutions": Why Everyone MUST Vo ...
    America is concluding the first election in history where the winners could be a Republican Party dominated by goons who beat up political opponents at campaign events, handcuff reporters at public meetings, shout down members of Congress while pointing guns at them at town meetings, dress up like t ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “The Morning After” Open Thread
    I’m still waiting to hear the outcome of the Patty Murray / Dino Rossi race in Washington state, but Murray is leading by a slim margin. My bet is that she’ll hang on. At the time I’m writing this, there are no results in yet from Alaska. The NY Times says it doesn’t [...]
  • Chris Matthews, Total Dick
    I have appeared several times on Chris Matthew’s show, Hard Ball. He is a self-absorbed ass. Totally. So watch what this ass clown did tonight in his interview with Michelle Bachman of Minnesota: I am not a fan nor supporter of Ms. Bachman. But this exchange presents the true side of both. Mich ...
  • More Results Open Thread
    Here’s a little rain on the GOP parade, courtesy of Reason.TV: HelenK, in Monday’s open thread, posted an interesting question and link: “What are YOU specifically going to do tomorrow and then starting November 3rd to make sure the Cocktail Party GOP establishment does NOT continue go-along-to- ...
  • Early Results Open Thread
    Via DRUDGE: Latest Predictions: 50+ HOUSE || 7+ SENATE IL 49-43 Kirk [R]… NV TIED… (Drudge didn’t have RAND PAUL winning in Kentucky) Arkansas: Boozman (R) over Lincoln (D) California: Boxer [D] over Fiorina [R] Florida: Rubio [R] over Crist , Meek [D] Ohio: Portman (R) over Fisher (D) North Dakota: ...
  • Elections Are Messy Business
    The presidential election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was particularly rough. And during the Great Depression, the American people were particularly discouraged and angered by their elected officials. As Will Rogers complained: There ought to be one day — just one — where there ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 6 Eco-Friendly Halloween Costumes
    Fancy a quick, easy and eco-friendly LAST MINUTE Halloween costume?! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Hyper-Realistic Sculptures of Ordinary People
    Hyper-realistic sculpture just does not come better than the incredibly lifelike works of sculptor Marc Sijan. Prepare to be blown away. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How the Helpful Assassin Bug Can Also Spread Harmf ...
    Most assassin bugs are beneficial as they prey on harmful insect pests. A few can kill spiders. Even fewer drink blood and spread disease, even to humans. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Commonly Believed Myths about the Human Body
    Old wives' tales, misconceptions and myths abound about the human body. As amazing as the body is, the real facts behind some of these myths are stranger still. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Incredible Furniture Made from Rusting Soviet Nava ...
    Since WWI, mines and mine shells have littered continents worldwide. Thanks to outstanding artists like Mati Karmin, these dangerous items have a new purpose. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Randy Quaid gangstalked by "Star Whackers" - he na ...
    It's no surprise California is in tough straits – Hollywood ain't a great place, and they can even trap corruption whistleblowing attorneys like Richard Fine in jail easily over there (Fine got tangled in LA's enormous immunized bribery system). But Randy Quaid , of all people, has suddenly turned ...
  • FBI investigated American Trucking Association lin ...
    Wellstone plane crash was super sketchy. There was no icy condition that it was spun as. Fortunately MPR got the Wellstone FBI files, a lot of redacted materials. There is an interesting logical flow - including "justice center" ... Service Transportation Act - expose board members of ATA - DOT t ...
  • Rap News vs the News World Order - gotta see this ...
    Any friend of this site pretty much is required to watch the latest rapnews: Marvelous work! As posted: Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war — the biggest leak of classified military documents in history — sending shockw ...
  • Facebook Twitter HTTP security shown as hosed by t ...
    Sound advice (to the extent anything on the internet is really secure ha): Change your passwords , and logout of everything Do not use open WiFi to login to Facebook, Twitter or anything else Use only a hard-wired connection until this subsides Do not check the “remember my password” ...
  • FedWire and Wachovia / Wells Fargo = Pipeline for ...
    "It would be important for this task force to have access to records of the Federal Reserve and the central banks of cooperating nations to find out which financial institutions are depositing large amounts of American dollars. (If investigators had had such access years ago, it would have been easy ...

Daily Censored

  • The Election and Need to Hold Government Employees ...
    Although to some the “sound and fury” of this November 2010 election is important to getting change, citizens are beginning to realize that to bring meaningful protection for our Republic, they must act to demand that when their respective Congressman/Senator return to the Beltway that there is comp ...
  • Fidel Castro Speaks About Project Censored
    THE EMPIRE AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS Thatâs terrific! I exclaimed when I read down to the last line about the revelations of the famous journalist Seymour Hersh, printed in Democracy Now! and collected as one of the 25 most censored news items in the United States. The material is entitl ...
  • Think Maybe You Won’t Vote?
    The big time mortgage lenders see us little guys as their personal piggy banks and they can’t seem to crack us open fast enough.  The banks are foreclosing hand –over fist. Cherie Thomas, who works for Asta Funding, a debt buyer in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said in a 2007 deposition that she had signe ...
  • Premeditated Deception: Black America and the Demo ...
    Premeditated Deception: Black America and the Democratic Party By: Solomon Comissiong âIt was the black man’s vote that put the present administration in Washington, D.C. Your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration in Washington, D.C., that has seen fit t ...
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    Premeditated Deception: Black America and the Democratic Party By: Solomon Comissiong âIt was the black man’s vote that put the present administration in Washington, D.C. Your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration in Washington, D.C., that has seen fit t ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Glee and the Dems Get in a Funk
    The Glee kids still have the talent, the good intentions, diversity, idealism, tolerance on their side--and so do progressives.
  • Speaker Bachmann?
    Here's a snapshot of three huge stories currently buried by breaking electoral news.
  • Turning Right into a Dead End
    I don't buy the notion that our country is abruptly or eternally shifting rightward.
  • Midterm Miscarriage
    The Obama agenda, instead of coming to term after four years, is suffering a miscarriage halfway through.
  • A Few Thoughts on the Mid-Term Elections
    As we enter a more challenging political landscape, IPS will continue to utilize its inside-outside strategy to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power.

Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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    Don't forget to sign up to our email newsletter to receive quarterly updates about our work and next week's response from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to questions about the Spirit Level analysis.
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • LA’s Sheriff Baca Stirs Fear Against Marijuana Day ...
    by Linda Milazzo ll through the George W. Bush administration, Americans were fed a steady diet of fear, strategically orchestrated by Bush and Cheney to promote their political agenda. Americans were scared into supporting war. They ...
  • Never surrender
    Stem the tide! There is still time. If we give a little more money, if we make a few more phone calls, if we knock on another set of doors, there is still time to protect our ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 10/15/10 – 10/29/10
    GOTV: Tim Carpenter, Mimi Kennedy and I just came off the road from a successful GOTV trip to Arizona and California. Some of the highlights from AZ included: 1) Building a chapter in Tucson. Big thank you to ...
  • Work to defeat every single republican. Every. Sin ...
    By PDA Blog Contributor | Mike Hersh Sadly, some of my friends are saying they’ll sit out this election or else vote for a non-viable spoiler in a close contest. They say there’s no difference between ...
  • Connect the Dots with Lila Garrett: Interview wit ...
    PDA board member Lila Garrett spent the first 15 minutes of her show this past Monday talking with PDA national director Tim Carpenter about the upcoming ...

Marler Blog

  • Stanford bites Raw Milk in the Udder
    The Stanford raw milk lactose intolerance study was touted (and funded) by raw milk proponents in the belief that it would prove a benefit of raw milk over pasteurized milk.� However, that was before the study's results: These results, collected under standardized and controlled conditions, do not ...
  • QA Magazine links Cockroaches to Unsafe Food
    Lisa Lupo of QA Magazine gives the lowdown on the “loathsome cockroach.” • According to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) publication, “Cockroaches have been found to be the cause of Salmonella food poisoning that can be life-threatening.” Noting that other pathogenic bacteria, including Staph ...
  • Outbreaks, illnesses and recalls linked to raw (un ...
    Summary 10 raw dairy outbreaks with 105 illnesses 1 pasteurized dairy outbreak with 23 illnesses 1 queso fresco Mexican-style cheese outbreak with 5 illnesses 3 sporadic illnesses from illegal Mexican-style cheese Recalls 5 raw dairy recalls (3 raw milk, 2 raw cheese) 3 queso fresco cheese rec ...
  • Should the States and/or the FDA (a.k.a Taxpayers) ...
    The firestorm of comments on my blog that have surrounded the recall, quarantine and destruction of cheese at Estrella and Morningland got me thinking once again of the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Organic Pastures in California. I have posted about that outbreak often (some would argue ...
  • Missouri Attorney General seeks destruction of Mor ...
    Attorney General Chris Koster has asked the Howell County Circuit Court to require Morningland Dairy, located in Mountain View, to destroy contaminated cheese products that were produced at the facility between January 1 and August 26, 2010. Morningland Dairy makes cheese products and sells them na ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.03.10
    Study: Chevy Volt's "addressable market" for 2011 is 7%, Nissan Leaf's hits 11% Not who will buy, but who could.. Nissan Leaf vies for Europe's coveted 2011 Car of the Year award Can it beat ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.02.10
    What is EVSE? It's Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, and here's what it's all about. Nissan dishes out specs* for the 2011 Leaf It goes 0-60 in slooow. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.01.10
    Report: GE to order "tens of thousands" of electric vehicles in about a week Talk about a jump start to the whole EV thing. Report: Chevrolet Volt dealer demos not coming until February Cust ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.29.10
    At Witz' End: Observations after driving the Chevy Volt (and getting 26.1 and 81.5 mpg) Not a "pure" EV, but a car with game-changing potential. Tesla SUV coming in 2014, will be called Model X ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.28.10
    Editorial: GM's Chevy Volt advertising might work today, but it's incredibly shortsighted Why GM may want to re-think its PR strategy. Converted Audi A2 claims new electric vehicle distance record: 372 mi ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA at 7pm ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 29 at 7pm EST.
  • War Should Be an Election Issue
    Just days away from crucial midterm elections, WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, unveiled the largest classified military leak in history. Almost 400,000 secret Pentagon documents relating to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq were made available online. The documents, in excruciating de ...
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm ET.
  • When Banks Are the Robbers
    The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys general from all 50 states a ...
  • BREAKING: Pentagon instructing recruiters to accep ...
    In a victory for gay rights advocates, the Pentagon is instructing military recruiters to accept the applications of gay men and lesbians who wish to join the military. See all of our coverage of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell here

Farming Pathogens

  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
  • How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
    Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
    You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
  • The Axis of Viral
    The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and actively ...
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
    Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized

Suzie-Q

  • Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Vic ...
    Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Victim To Apologize To HIM The Huffington Post |  Nick Wing First Posted: 10-27-10 10:30 AM   |   Updated: 10-27-10 11:24 AM Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter behind the white sneaker that notoriously stomped on a MoveOn activist’s head in Ke ...
  • Wikileaks: Top Brass warns of putting troops & civ ...
    Wikileaks recieved excellent coverage on CNN last night, including inteviews with Daniel Elsberg, Pentagon Papers, John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, and Phil Shiner of the U.K.-based Public Interest Lawyers. John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, told reporters that the names ...
  • The Republican Swindle About ‘Obamacare and ...
    If you happen to be a swing voter who’s considering the Republican slate next month, you’re being tricked. That’s not to say you’re an idiot, but the Republicans are doing an excellent job masking over what they really stand for, and millions of Americans seem to be falling for it. The Republican st ...
  • AZ-03: Shocking Democratic Pickup Opportunity
    Daily Kos- by kos Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 11:20:03 AM PDT Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 10/16-17. Likely voters. MoE 3.8% (No trend lines) Ben Quayle (R) 44 Jon Hulburd (D) 46 Yeah, that was a real WTF moment for us in this open seat being vacated by conservative icon John Shadegg. Completely [.. ...
  • The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central T ...
    The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central To Air, Stream D.C. Rallies (VIDEO) Jason Linkins- Huff Post First Posted: 10-13-10 11:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-13-10 12:23 PM On last night’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart announced that the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity would be televised, ...

Solari

  • Election Night 2010: Exit Poll Results
    Most Voters Are Angry and Say No To Health Care Law Fifty-nine percent (59%) of those who voted in today’s elections nationwide favor repeal of the national health care bill passed by congressional Democrats in March, including 48% who Strongly Favor it. Rasmussen Reports telephone surveying nation ...
  • Republicans Fail to Capture Senate
    By Andrew Gully Republicans failed to capture the US Senate but cut deeply into the Democratic majority by picking up at least six seats in the upper chamber after bitterly fought mid-term elections Conservatives could pick up two more spots if a pair of races deemed too close to call early Wednesd ...
  • Why Does Freedom Matter So Little Now?
    By Jon Rappoport When Ayn Rand exploded on the scene with her two massive novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), she was momentarily embraced by the political Right, until the discovery was made that she was an atheist.  Her underlying philosophy of the primacy of the individual ...
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    Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #17. Listen to Solari Report Digest #17 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest pro ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign , challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The problem with America lies in our choice of her ...
    Summary:  We choose our heroes unconsciously, choices which shape our daytime actions.  Our modern heroes serve us poorly, pointing to our weaknesses and away from our historic strengths.  This is the fourth in a series about our struggle to adjust to the new century; links to the other chapters app ...
  • Every day brings new advocacy for war. That’s our  ...
    Summary:  In the tenth year of the Af-Pak war the war has almost disappeared from the American consciousness, as seen its absence from the political campaigns.  Yet morale must be maintained despite any visible results.  The wars’ advocates rise to the challenge, trusting (correctly) that we ...
  • Visit McDonalds to learn all you need to know abou ...
    Summary:  Why don’t we have the leaders we deserve?  Perhaps we do.  America’s institutions, our political machinery, work just fine.  We’re the broken link in the machinery.  Visit McDonald’s for proof. America no longer functions well, but our self-esteem remains untouched.  Therefore the pr ...
  • Polarization and hot rhetoric conceal two similar ...
    Summary:  The second in the series about the American people’s struggle to adjust to the new century.  Here we discuss American politics:  the increasingly hot rhetoric and polarization — and the similarity of policies between parties. In many ways Obama resembles Carter, both unable to functi ...
  • Which is better? Rioting in France and Greece or ...
    Summary:  Riots in France and Greece.  Calm in the United States.  Which shows clearer vision and greater willingness to institute reforms?  As usual, the media coverage gets it backwards.  First in another series about the end of the post-WWII era, and our preparations for it. Rioters in Franc ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Scores die in bomb attacks on Baghdad Shia areas
    The Guardian – Scores of people have been killed and hundreds injured in a series of bombings targeting mainly Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad. At least 15 blasts, many of them caused by car bombs, prompted fears the violence heralded the second phase of an al-Qaida attempt to incite sectarian chaos ...
  • US: Nitty Gritty Numbers Suggest Downward Spiral
    Forbes – Invest by the numbers, not the political rhetoric. Right now the numbers are lousy and downright frightening. In housing, the Case-Shiller home price index fell almost 3% on an annualized basis in August and September, the weakest performance since May of 2009 when the recession still going ...
  • Six killed in Iraq attacks
    Indo-Asian News Service – Six people were killed and 12 injured Monday in a series of attacks in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, security sources said. Three civilians were killed and six injured by a bomb blast targeting a police patrol in the district of Hay el Ba’ath. An elderly man was killed and ...
  • Cancer cream poses little-known risk to pets
    Reuters – Scientific journals usually aren’t the province of puppy pictures, but the October 2010 issue of Archives of Dermatology contains an image of pitiable Ruby, a young Yorkshire Terrier with a tragic medical history: Ruby died of accidental poisoning after gnawing on a tube of her owner’s can ...
  • British: Women will work the rest of the year for ...
    Daily Telegraph – The gender pay gap means that women will effectively work the rest of the year for free, equality campaigners claimed today. A joint report from the Fawcett Society, the TUC, Unison and the Equality and Human Rights Commission called for a complete overhaul of equal pay laws to ens ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • MSH is moving********
    Monkey Smashes Heaven is moving to here: http://llco.org/monkey-smashes-heaven So far, we have the English section up and running. For now, we will continue to post articles in other languages to the English section. In the future, we will set up full operational Leading Light pages is many other la ...
  • Ashamed to be an Amerikkkan?
  • MSH moving
    MSH moving (Leading Light Communist Organization llco.org) Over the next month, MSH will be moving over to the website of the Leading Light Communist Organization (llco.org), which is currently under construction. Eventually, this blog will be shut down. Thank you, MSH Editors
  • Trzy twierdze
    Trzy twierdze -Michał Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) „W przeszłości przejęliśmy władzę polityczną i zmieniliśmy strukturę środków produkcji. To są dwa wielkie zwycięstwa. Jednakże jeśli ograniczymy się do tych dwóch zwycięstw, a nie dokonamy rewolucji w ideologii oraz nie doprowadzimy rewolucj ...
  • Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści – jesteście nacjona ...
    Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści – jesteście nacjonalistami (Leading Light Communist Organization llco.org) “Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza pozycja jest bardzo interesująca. Wasz blog jest nacjonalistyczny, co ukrywacie pod socjalistyczną retoryką. Linia mas nie jest substytutem rewolucyjnego p ...

PakAlert

  • War Is Sold Just Like Soda or Toothpaste
    Of course, the demonization process is catapulted far and wide by the mainstream media. Indeed, the corporate media is instrumental in spreading the lies so as to support war.
  • 50 Unseen World War II Photos
    World War II photos taken in the former USSR during World War II on the occupied territories. These are photos from family archives posted online by grandchildren of those who took part in the war: the authors of most of them remain unknown. Some of the photos belong to the Soviet journalists: Dmitr ...
  • The Next Global Economic Crisis
    Will the world experience a new economic crisis that will be even more serious that the one that we have just been through or enter a period of sustained economic growth?
  • BP Oil In Now IN The Food Chain – LOOK
    This picture just shows that the oil did not disappear but is slowly getting into the food chain. BP and the media are covering this up. This is only the start of chain reaction in the food chain.
  • Video: Secret NASA UFO-ET Transmissions
    This documentary was released in 2000 and has received very little notoriety, considering the sheer quantity of UFO footage that it contains.

Andy Worthington

  • Omar Khadr Jury Hammers the Final Nail into the Co ...
    On Sunday, a military jury at Guantánamo handed down a 40-year sentence to Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan. The decision brought to an end a week of hearings that began when Khadr, now 24, accepted a plea deal giving him ...
  • Is There No End to Republicans’ Abuse of Guantánam ...
    Every now and then I’m forcefully reminded of the extent to which Guantánamo is still used by unscrupulous lawmakers as a political plaything, even though it is a place where, by any objective measure, a small number of terrorist suspects are held alongside insignificant Taliban foot soldiers and ot ...
  • “A Child’s Soul is Sacred”: Omar Khadr’s Touching ...
    Note: A detailed response to the 40-year sentence handed down by Omar Khadr’s military jury on Sunday will be published soon. Although largely symbolic, as Khadr’s plea deal involves an eight-year sentence instead, it nevertheless provided a suitably grim epitaph to a week of events in which the sta ...
  • Great Turnout in Brighton for Discussion on the Fu ...
    On Wednesday evening, an enormous throng of students filled the Red Roaster Coffee Shop in Brighton for a discussion about the future of the media, arranged by The Badger, the University of the Sussex Student Unionâs magazine. The official title of the event — which featured myself, investigative jo ...
  • Torture Is Finally Mentioned on the Last Day of Om ...
    Please support my work! Everything about the last weekâs events at Guantánamo has been deeply disturbing. On Monday, in defiance of international obligations requiring the rehabilitation of child prisoners, the US government — under President Obama — fulfilled the deepest wishes of the Bu ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Veni, Vidi, Voting
    Hey all! Gimlet Eyes just got back from the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, DC (did you see me? I was right in the middle! With a sign!) and now I’m fired up and ready to go. First things first. The rally was incredible. No, it wasn’t partisan. In fact, it really wasn’t political: Stewart ...
  • Warren FTW
    I have been geeking out over yesterday’s big primaries, and the ensuing act of Republican cannibalism that really, really belongs in one of Linda McMahon’s WWE Smackdowns. (I mean seriously: who doesn’t want to see Sarah Palin kick Karl Rove in the crotch, followed up by Rush Limbaugh taking a bite ...
  • Village Idiot Days
    Tomorrow is the annual town get-together, Village Fair Days (Friday and Saturday, July 30 & 31). Local and regional politicos will be there, so make sure to ask them some "real" questions, as the local media doesn't seem to know what those are. Come back and post your findings here - I'd love to hea ...
  • Add hawk
    I’m a regular citizen. I love my town, I love my town’s school system. I hate arbitrarily high taxes, and I hate wasting time and money. Like most people, I have ideas on how things in my town could be improved. But I’m not an elected official, or a personal friend of the mayor, and I don’t have ...
  • Is Walter Bayer a DINO?
    Walter Bayer was at the Republican fundraiser for Probate Judge Martin Landgrebe last night. He appeared to be meeting and greeting like a member of the "R" crowd. And you can sometimes find him tipping back a beverage with Roger Szendy and other "R's" at local watering holes. Considering how eas ...

SPL Center

  • Religious Right Claims Gay Advocates to Blame for ...
    More than a little rhetorical contortionism is required to follow their logic, but according to several better-known leaders of the religious right, responsibility for the recent wave of suicides of gay teens rests largely with⦠gay-rights activists. The argument goes something like this: Young hom ...
  • Racist Novel Glorifying Assassination of SPLC Staf ...
    It should surprise no one that former hate group leader Kyle Bristow has self-published a white nationalist novel that features the graphic assassination of a character based on a prominent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) figure. After all, Bristow has an ax to grind with the SPLC and first attai ...
  • Racist British National Party Relaunches American ...
    A racist organization from Great Britain that once boasted a lively U.S. presence before it was routed eight years ago is back again. The American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP) was once a serious player in white nationalist circles. The group was created in the late 1990s to raise mo ...
  • Racist E-mails Lead to Resignation of a Florida Po ...
    An embattled South Florida police chief â already serving a 30-day unpaid suspension for using city computers to share racist, tasteless Internet jokes with his command staff, including one E-mail suggesting President Obama should have been shot by his own honor guard â resigned late Tuesday. A city ...
  • JDL Leader’s Shooting Trial to Resume Next Month i ...
    Was it road rage or self defense? Or maybe even a politically motivated act of violence? That’s what a jury will decide when the trial of Jewish Defense League organizer Carl Mintz begins on Oct. 14. Mintz, 27, a state chapter organizer for the JDL in Michigan, is charged in the shooting of a 20-yea ...

change: org.

  • Still No Charges in Texas Puppy Mill Cruelty Case
    In July 2009, nearly 500 dogs were seized from Maggic Pets/Heddins Kennel, a puppy mill operating in the North Texas town of Bowie, in Montague County. Authorities took the dogs after complaints that the animals weren't receiving proper veterinary care. That's an understatement. A report from the Hu ...
  • UN Chief Tongue-Tied over Chinese Human Rights
    The Chinese government has for years severely restricted the freedom of movement, speech and religion of its citizens, failed to develop an independent judiciary, done very little to curb discrimination against ethnic minorities and continued to execute more people per year than the rest of the worl ...
  • Republican Coalition Wants to Change the Constitut ...
    This October, a Republican coalition announced their plans to introduce legislation in fifteen states that would, if passed, deny citizenship to babies born in the U.S. if their parents could not prove citizenship. Pretty scary stuff. Of course, such legislation is in diametric opposition to a littl ...
  • Iranian Woman's Execution for Adultery Imminent
    The international hue and cry raised over Iran's decision to stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for the crime of adultery pushed the country into backing off from its preferred mode of killing, but not the execution itself. Oh, okay, you all have a problem with this, we'll just hang her then. Human ri ...
  • Smoke-Free Movies Takes on Film and Tobacco in Ful ...
    It's not unusual to see a movie advertisement in Variety or The Hollywood Reporter . But a health ad? Drawing attention to the close-knit ties between the tobacco and film industries, Smoke-Free Movies , a project of the University of California, San Francisco's Center for Tobacco Control and Resear ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Ted Sorensen, Speechwriter for JFK, Dead at Age 82
    by Bryan Marquard Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, whose prose mingled with the thoughts and words of his close friend John F. Kennedy to create some of the most memorable presidential speeches of the 20th century, died in New York City today, a week after suffering a stroke. He was 82 and despite a strok ...
  • Kyrgyzstan Deals Cloaked in Mystery
    by Andrew Higgins BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN -- When U.S. troops moved into Afghanistan in 2001, Douglas Edelman already had a foothold in Central Asia. He'd opened a bar and hamburger joint here in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the crumbling, outer rim of the former Soviet empire. Today, his fortunes tu ...
  • War-Weary Iraqis Unmoved by Wikileaks
    by Abeer Mohammed Baghdad professor Saadi Kareem’s reaction to the recent Wikileaks release of some 400,000 secret United States war files is typical of that of many of his countrymen. "Iraqis know all about the findings in these documents,” the political science lecturer said. “The brutality o ...
  • UK Troops Face 90 New Claims of Abuse in Iraq
    by Mark Townsend A specialist team appointed by the government to investigate claims of abuse by British troops in Iraq has received 90 complaints involving 128 Iraqi civilians. The files, relating to allegations between March 2003 and July 2009, have been sent to Geoff White, a former head of St ...
  • Obama Environment Agenda Under Threat from Incomin ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg Republican leaders have begun gathering evidence for sweeping investigations of Barack Obama's environmental agenda, from climate science to the BP oil spill, if as expected, they take control of the House of Representatives in the 2 November mid-term elections, the Guardia ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • White Oak citizens seek well testing ahead of land ...
    While Haywood County’s bid for privatizing the White Oak Landfill is still being considered, the site has now drawn the eye and ire of residents on its borders who fear contamination of their wells by its contents.
  • Gov’t infra plan under cloud
    President Benigno Aquino III may struggle to keep his promise to give his country a modern infrastructure, including water and electricity supplies, if its history is anything to go by.
  • Who’s afraid of SC? Not Angat winner…
    Korea Water Resources Development Corp. (K-Water), winning bidder for the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant, is not walking away from the deal because of a Supreme Court-issued temporary restraining order.
  • Korean state water firm still keen on Angat‏ plant
    MANILA, Nov 1 (PNA) -- Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. has reported that Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-Water), Korea's state water utility firm remains interested in acquiring the 218-megawatt (MW) Angat-hydroelectric power plant despite the pending case at the Supreme Court.
  • PSALM: K-Water still wants to buy Angat power plan ...
    Korea Water Resources Corp., the leading water resources and power firm in South Korea, is still interested in buying the Angat hydroelectric power plant in Norzagaray, Bulacan, a government official said this weekend.

Guardian

  • New US political era as Republicans take House
    Democrats pummelled at polls but retain Senate as Tea Party notches string of high-profile victories across US Barack Obama was today facing a harsh new US political reality in the wake of one of the worst Democratic defeats in recent history. In midterm election races across America, Republicans pu ...
  • Schools secretary defends tuition fees rise
    Michael Gove says universities could charge £6,000 to £9,000 a year, adding that schools are the 'real barrier' to higher education Michael Gove, the schools secretary, has denied that students would be discouraged from applying to university after the government allowed higher education institution ...
  • Timms' attacker to be sentenced
    Roshonara Choudhry stabbed MP Stephen Timms for supporting Iraq war after becoming radicalised watching sermons online Police believe a gifted student convicted of attempting to stab to death a former government minister for supporting the Iraq war is the first Briton to have been inspired by al-Qa ...
  • Inquiry into delay in PM's bomb alert
    It took 10 hours to tell David Cameron there was a terrorist alert in Britain. An inquiry is intended to ensure there is not a repeat David Cameron has asked his national security adviser to investigate the handling of events surrounding the discovery of a explosive device at East Midlands airport o ...
  • The election night winners and losers
    The Tea Party sent its first candidates to the Senate and Republicans captured the House of Representatives – but there were some Democratic celebrations, too

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Nature protection - the new road starts here
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: Was it an end, or a beginning? As delegates streamed away from the convention centre here in Nagoya - and stream they did, many of them having delayed flights to make sure no stone they could turn was left unturned - the talk was of a ...
  • Banking on innovation for green shoots
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: � Maybe you thought it was all about the science of losing species and ecosystems, and the ethics of doing something about it. But as the final phase of this meeting is making clear, it's largely about money. Everyone here ag ...
  • Raiders of the lost bark
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: The second Tuesday of this meeting was the day glamour came to town - in good and ugly guises. On the good side, I had the chance to sit down with Harrison Ford - an actor whose oeuvre looms large for anyone of my generation, from Wit ...
  • Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes ri ...
    � From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: It's fair to say there's a deal of concern here that what emerges at the end of this fornight's meeting could amount to less than it was supposed to. � Mind you, it was supposed to amount to quite a bit - a pretty comprehens ...
  • Bushmeat - ending the monkey business
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: Many westerners would view the idea of eating monkeys with deep distaste. But for people raised on bushmeat, in Africa and elsewhere, the equation is different. "Forbidding hunting [bushmeat] is not a solution for the Baka," Mes ...

The Wonk Room

  • Health Care Industry Will Lobby GOP To Strip Payme ...
    Wall Street Journal’s Janet Adamy and Jonathan Weisman offer some specific insights into why health insurers have been so heavily funding Republicans this election cycle and what they’re hoping to buy with the increased contributions: Insurers want to reverse tax increases and loosen restrictions on ...
  • A Look Into Lamar Smith’s Anti-Immigrant Age ...
    If the Republicans win the House of Representatives tonight, as many predict they will, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is set to be the next head of the House Judiciary Committee which oversees all immigration issues. Described as a lawmaker who is “less interested in getting in the spotlight and more inte ...
  • Republican Mortgage Finance Proposals Would Take H ...
    During floor debate over the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, Republicans continually professed outrage that Democrats and the Obama administration pushed remaking the government sponsored mortgage enterprises (GSE’s) — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — to a later date. Delay made sense at the ti ...
  • Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson: GOP Shouldn&# ...
    Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) joined outgoing Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) today in calling on Republicans not to repeal the entirety of the Affordable Care Act. During an appearance on CNBC this morning, Thompson — who also served as President Bush’s Health and Human Services Secretary — i ...
  • Lowered Expectations As Foreign Policy Doctrine
    Anticipating an even less cooperative U.S. Congress after today, former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller warns President Obama against going big on foreign policy: Obama’s real problem is this: Unlike Wilson and other consequential foreign-policy presidents, he lacks ready-made or eve ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • We're the Worst
    From the Toronto Star : OTTAWA—Canadian mining companies are far and away the worst offenders in environmental, human rights and other abuses around the world, according to a global study commissioned by an industry association but never made public. Oh yeah, ... The research surfaced as a long, fie ...
  • Remember Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
    Everyday, Obama comes up with new ways to demonstrate the betrayal of hope. Everyday, the harpercons manage to embarrass themselves (and us) in previously unimagined ways while continuing to drag the country's political culture down into the gutter. Today, Alex Hundert is living under enforced bans ...
  • 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. ...
  • Financialization
    The folks at the Marxist journal Monthly Review have some important things to say about the INEVITABILITY of financialization for a mature capitalist economy. Financialization refers to the growing importance of the financial sector in the economy (a process most exemplified by the USA and UK econom ...
  • Cold Meat and a Missed Opportunity
    I was standing in line at the liquor store when I found myself beside a case of "Moosehead" beer. There was some blurb on the price tag about the malts and hops in it and the awesome flavour and etc., as well as a suggestion to serve it with cold meat. The phrase "cold meat" gave me a bit of a shud ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Opposes Corporate Lobby Attempt to Weaken Whis ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center issued a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opposing recommendations by the “Corporate Lobby,” which threaten the integrity of the whistleblower provisions found in the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposals by the Corporate Lobby are not "use ...
  • NWC comments to OSHA on regs for NTSSA, FRSA, STAA ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three sets of regulations for whistleblower cases. DOL had issued the interim regulations on August 31, 2010. One set of regulations, 29 CFR Part 1982 , covers whistleblower cases from both the ...
  • Boeing's brief claims SOX can never protect disclo ...
    Lawyers for Matt Neumann and Nick Tides are currently finishing their last brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an appeal that will decide if corporate fraud whistleblowers can ever be protected from retaliation when they make disclosures to the media. For the National Whistle ...
  • NWC speaks with ATU Local 689
    Today Lindsey Williams and I spoke with the Executive Board of Local 689, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) .Local 689 represents employees of Washington DC's Metro system. Lindsey is the Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) . We spoke about the National Transit System Securit ...
  • Fair Game is the best movie ever reviewed on this ...
    Fair Game is a new feature movie about the Valerie Plame affair. Naomi Watts plays Valerie Plame. Sean Penn plays her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson. I am having trouble containing how much I appreciate this movie, so let me start with the facts: In the buildup for the Iraq War, the Bush Administr ...

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

  • Many Of The Countries Negotiating ACTA In Secret S ...
    While there are certainly many other factors that go into such rankings, Jamie Love points us to the news that many of the countries negotiating ACTA in secret over the past few years have had their perceived corruption ratings increase . Transparency International famously puts out its Corruption ...
  • Trademark Law (Once Again) Getting In The Way Of F ...
    Rose M. Welch points us to this recent News.com story about how the popular homemade crafts website Etsy has had to balance trademark issues , since many people like to make "fan art" and often would like to sell it on the site. In some ways, it appears to be the same sort of thing that many conten ...
  • Delta Fined For Lying To Passengers About How Much ...
    Consumerist alerts us to the news that the Department of Transportation has fined Delta $100,000 for telling passengers that its liability on lost luggage was capped at very low rates -- well below what the DOT specifically requires. The law says that airlines cannot limit liability to anything low ...
  • USPTO Not At All Happy About Justice Department Sa ...
    Last week, the Justice Department surprised a ton of people by filing an amicus brief saying that isolated genes should not be patentable . The NY Times has an article quoting a bunch of outraged patent attorneys, who are worried about their own jobs more than anything else, but also has some tidbi ...
  • How Is Logistics Changing Your Business?
    If you're unfamiliar with how our Insight Community works, companies use it to get insight and analysis from folks here in the Techdirt community. If you're a registered Techdirt user, then you're also a member of the Insight Community and are free to take part in this discussion. The top results ...

VacTruth

  • 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 ...
  • Letter Alerts Obama to Dangers of HPV Vaccines
    In an extraordinary move to prevent further HPV vaccine casualties, Marian Greene the Chairwomen and Co-Founder of the campaign and action group Truth about Gardasil (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/), has written an open letter to President Obama. Her letter urges the President to take time to resea ...
  • Multiple Deaths Linked to Childhood Vaccines
    New evidence suggesting that forty children have died over the past seven years following a routine childhood vaccination. A Freedom of Information (FOI) data request to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). The FOI data revealed that childhood vaccinations are suspected ...
  • Mind Virus Injected into New Mothers by Pharma and ...
    Through repetition, the "reassuring" voice that many parents crave will soon be injected into the minds of pregnant and new mothers everywhere, thanks to companies with deep financial pockets. The latest trend in building a support system for new parents who may find themselves tired, overwhelmed, ...
  • New Evidence States H1N1 Vaccine Has Elevated Risk ...
    A recent news report suggests that the UK government's position has changed regarding the H1N1 vaccine and related cases of Guillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS).

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Another busy weekend.  Saw Budrus on Friday.  It was excellent.  It’s playing in theaters all over the place.  You should see it, not just if you are interested in Israel/Palestine.  It has some interesting things to ponder for anyone who wants to use direct action for radical change. Went to t ...
  • Food, Water, Air and Care
    Remember Maslow’s hiearchy of needs?  Sure you do. It is usually presented something like this. You start at the bottom with the most basic needs.  As basic needs are met, you go up the pyramid.  I’ve seen a few of these pyramids.  They usually list the same stuff for basic needs – air, water, ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Let me kick things off with this excellent piece by Tony Karon.  You do not speak for me Netanyahu.  Israel is not my homeland. If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my university studies focused primarily on human rights violations related to the drug w ...
  • Solidarity?
    I am really beginning to despise the word solidarity.  I’m constantly hearing calls for solidarity – with women just because they’re women, with anarchists just because they’re anarchists, with workers just because they’re workers. Do you know what I think of when someone asks for solidarity?  I t ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This is going to be a short one, as I just got back from New Orleans and haven’t been reading much the last few days.  Also, tonight is my fourteenth anniversary and I have to get back to the bfriend. While I was in NoLa, I ran into some people who had just visited DC and [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Green Gift Guide: The Health and Wellness Guru (Sl ...
    Why is it that we all need health and wellness help after the holidays? Inspire your friends and family to add small moments of relaxation and peace to their everyday activities with organic skincare treatments, yoga gear, nutrition-rich raw food meals, and more with the holiday gifts on the ...
  • Garden Shed Studio Has Green Walls, Built of Green ...
    Images Credit John Sutton Photography via ASLA It seems like only yesterday that I was wondering if garden sheds would catch on in North America , when Alex at Shedworking tips me off to this lovely little painting studio in a San Francisco garden, by
  • Ten Top Places to Visit According to the Lonely Pl ...
    Photo: amy riolo : Sinai The Lonely Planet travel guide has issued its list of the 10 top regions in the world to visit. Once (or is it still?) thought of as the bible for intrepid travellers, the guide book has chosen some wild and remote places to visit in the search for something new. ...
  • These Candidates are Fighting for Climate Science ...
    Image: Freedom's Lighthouse Even in an ugly election year -- one for which conventional wisdom holds that even mentioning the words 'climate change' can do political damage -- certain candidates are nonetheless betting on sound science. A handful of candidates for governor, senator, and represe ...
  • Delectable Strawberry-Dyed Green Fashion for Sprin ...
    Jai Spring 2011 Collection. Photo: Lou Rouse Jai 's 'playfully regal' spring 2011 collection is as refreshing as a strawberry lemonade on a hot summer day. The New York City-based green fashion label --inspired by the diverse ecosystems of coral reefs and the interactions between community and ...

Biosingularity

  • Decloaking perforin, the protein assassin
    When the immune system identifies a cell that needs to be eliminated, such as a virus-infected cell or cancer cell, natural killer cells descend and puncture the offending cell, injecting toxic enzymes to spell its doom. At the centre of this immune response is a crucial protein called perforin, whi ...
  • Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk
    Following a healthy lifestyle, which means exercising, eating healthfully, keeping the waistline trim, limiting alcohol intake, and avoiding smoking, could reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by 23%, according to a study from Denmark. via Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk.
  • First Human Liver Grown in Lab
    For the first time, human cells have been used to create a lab-grown liver. It’s a milestone on the way to creating a new source of livers for transplant, Wake Forest University (WFU) researchers say. Last June, a different research team reported growing a liver from animal cells. But if the goal is ...
  • New virus ‘jumps’ from monkey to scien ...
    A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have ‘jumped’ from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report. Although it’s an unusual move for that type of virus and does warrant further monitoring, the researcher ...
  • Cancer Drug Zeroes In on a Genetic Mistake
    At some point in Karen Pihl’s life, one of her lung cells made a potentially fatal misstep. As the cell duplicated its DNA in preparation to divide, part of the gene for one protein became erroneously attached to part of the gene for another. The genetic malfunction bestowed the cell with the abilit ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Why are Republicans climate skeptics?
    Maybe because the Republicans mostly come from more rural states that haven̢۪t had any warming -- man-made or otherwise.
  • The slow death of the environmental movement
    The death of environmentalism began with the issue of global warming. It, along with its proposed solutions, have been widely rejected by the public.
  • City farming - pigs in the sky?
    Sky farming is a novel idea that won't work. Construction, lighting, and heating costs make it outrageously expensive. Traditional farming, on the other hand, has made technological advances that make it ever more competitive and efficient.
  • U.S. reduces dependence on foreign cobalt
    Cobalt, a precious metal that has all but disappeared from production in the United States, is on the verge of a big American comeback.
  • Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: 'Inconvenient Terrori ...
    Inconvenient terrorist James Lee who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .More from the WikiLeaks dump: Unvarnished details: American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recen ...
  • State-run Iranian media beats the NY Times on Wiki ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The latest document dump from WikiLeaks would seem to be one of those massive, stop the presses, drop everything and throw all available resources at it stories that dominates news cycles for weeks on end. One of the first revelatio ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .The latest WikiLeaks document dump is remarkable: A man who was detained by Iraqi soldiers in an underground bunker reported that he had been ...
  • Banks created the foreclosure crisis - they should ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Prairie Weather linked to this episode of the Diane Rehm show on the foreclosure crisis. Representing the mortgage industry was Tom Deutsch of the American Securitization Forum, and his oily insincerity positively oozed o ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .Those links came from the Citizens for Legitimate Government daily email. You can sign up by writing Editor-in-Chief Lori Price (signup at l ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • A New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?: The Fossil ...
    This post examines the question of whether some US companies are guilty of a new kind of crime against humanity that the world has yet to classify. This post is not meant to be a polemic but a call for serious engaged reflection about deeply irresponsible corporate-sponsored programs that have poten ...
  • Monsanto’s Superweeds Come Home to Roost
    There's been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides, in what many see as a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Click here to read this article
  • Hazards of GMOs: Agrobacterium-Mediated Transforma ...
    By studying plant-fungi-bacteria interactions at plant wound sites, the team have identified a natural process stimulated by a hormone released by the wounded plant that would allow synthetic genes to move across organisms and out into the wild. Click here to read this article
  • Geoengineering Sparks International Ban, First-Eve ...
    The debate over whether humans should explore ways to manipulate the climate has taken on increased urgency over the past year, as efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming have encountered political roadblocks in the United States and elsewhere. Click here to read this artic ...
  • Dirt First! Reversing Global Warming with Organic ...
    I planted my first organic garden, in the back yard of the first house I rented, in the summer of 1969. This was also my first experience with seriously compacted and depleted soil. The previous tenants of this house had used the back yard as a place to park their cars and burn/dispose of garbage. W ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXI
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLI ...
  • Signos del Zodiaco I by www.FreeAmazingPictures.co ...
    Dedicada especialmente para los más de 12,000 suscriptores y los más de 20,000 visitantes diarios, tenemos una hermosa colección de imágenes fantásticas dedicada a los signos del Zodiaco . Como siempre, esperamos sus comentarios donde nos hagan saber sus verdaderas impresiones. Saludos. Nota: Haz cl ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros parte VII (9 fotos para to ...
    Escoja un número para ver más fotos de yates y veleros | [II] |[III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] 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 orige ...
  • Iglesias, templos, palacios y edificios III (10 fo ...
    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 fot ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XX
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...
  • Meatless Monday Launches at Johns Hopkins Universi ...
    Today marked the launch of Meatless Monday on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.  Elaborate banners of cartoon cows, chickens and pigs that read, “Monday is my day off!” greeted students as they entered JHU Dining Service’s three main dining areas: Levering Food Court, Fresh Food Court and ...
  • No title
    On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) released a draft report that, given their usual alignment with agricultural interests, is surprisingly straightforward in its assessment of the inadequacy of conservation practices in place on farms in t ...
  • Hoop dreams: A Baltimore community farm gets winte ...
    On a recent crisp October weekend, Reservoir Hill community members, friends, farmers, and two bus loads of Johns Hopkins undergraduate students gathered at the Whitelock Community Farm for a modern barn raising. The various volunteer groups, totaling close to 50 people, built an inexpensive but pra ...
  • Better Beef, It’s What’s For Lunch? Kids in Four o ...
    It looks like the “Eat less meat, eat better meat” motto, first coined by sustainable cattle rancher and author Nicolette Hahn Niman, is catching on. According to School Food FOCUS, a national initiative dedicated to helping urban school districts buy healthier, more sustainable and locally sourced ...

Norwegianity

  • I voted, you voted
    Voting: You can be as Tea as you wanna be when you vote in Maricopa County Phones are working again in New Hampshire MN I.D. assholes told to ignore judge’s ruling (didn’t see any at my polling place this morning, but they wouldn’t bother as I live in a DFL stronghold with lots of long-term [...]
  • VOTE
    Vote, goddamnit, vote. �
  • Dear DFL
    Robocalling me with a canned message from Obama didn’t help your cause. I’m seriously thinking about picking a race in which to write in “fuck robocallers.” Otoh, by strenuously insisting over the years that I not be called, I’ve managed to receive only five DFL calls in the last ten days.  
  • The Triumph of the Ratfuckers
    McClatchy: Some angry and some anxious, American voters head into the final hours of a bitter campaign for control of the Congress poised to throw Democrats out of power in at least part of the Capitol and slam the brakes on President Barack Obama’s agenda. The wave building against the Democrats do ...
  • Shiny leather
    The newspapers are burying the Rally to Restore Sanity. The NYTimes put them as far down on their online front page as possible, then joked about attendance without dropping so much as a clue as to actual turnout. This picture is suggestive, but I’m still looking for a definitive crowd shot. The WaP ...

Public News Service

  • 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 ...
  • Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popul ...
    Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popularity Increases Phoenix, AZ – It’s been five years since the first “check-up” on the health and management of the National Landscape Conservation System – which includes the Agua Fria (AH-wah FREE-ah) and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monuments in Arizo ...
  • AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label
    AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label Phoenix, AZ – A national survey last week painted Latino voters as “less motivated” to go to the polls this fall. Arizona Latinos say that may be true elsewhere, but not in the Grand Canyon State. Comments from “One Arizona” spokesperson Tania Marquez (MAR- ...
  • AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disea ...
    AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disease Phoenix, AZ – The annual AIDS Walk Phoenix will be held Sunday morning. One local activist says such events have attracted more mainstream support as understanding of HIV/AIDS has grown. Comments from Barbara McCullough-Jones (muh-CULL-uh Jones), ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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 ...
  • Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban On rBGH-Free L ...
    Relying on evidence of compositional differences between milk from cows treated with rbST/rbGH and milk from untreated cows, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down an Ohio state ban on labels pertaining to the use of artificial hormones in dairy products (IDFA et al v. Boggs, U.S. Cour ...
  • Center for Food Safety Testifies at Congressional ...
    Congress Sharply Critical of USDA’s Biotech Crop Oversight Failures, Calls for New Regulations  Live webcast: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy? (Part II),” at: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov, 2pm EDT. Today the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and G ...
  • Thirty Eight Representatives And Senators Call On ...
    Over Fifty Organizations and Businesses Endorse Congressional Letters;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety applauds the 38 Representatives and Senators for requesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt the approval of the long-shelved AquaBoun ...
  • Federal Court Finds USDA Broke The Law In Allowing ...
    Court To Consider Appropriate Remedy For Industry’s Rush To Plant Monsanto’s Herbicide Resistant Crop Late yesterday, Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, ruled that Plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, a ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Ron Daniels: Blacks and the Republican Party: Rati ...
    Blacks and the Republican Party: Rational Choice or Complicity [finalcall.com] A recent article in the New York Times reported that 32 Blacks are running for Congress as Republicans in this year's mid-term elections, the largest number since the era of Reconstruction. The article attributed the “su ...
  • Junious Ricardo Stanton: The Truth About The Tea P ...
    The Truth About The Tea Party Movement - Harambee Radio and Television Network : A little over a year or so ago I started getting E-mail messages from Dick Armey who was calling for rallies and demonstrations against the policies of Barack Obama. How he got my E-mail address I’ll never kn ...
  • Rebelion. Esterilización forzada y discriminación ...
    Esterilización forzada y discriminación VIH en Chile [rebelion.org] Hace dos años, encontré a Francisca, una joven mujer de un pueblo rural de Chile. Cuando ella cumplió 20 años, recibieron con su marido la muy agradable noticia del nacimiento de su primer niño. Pero ese entusiasmo se trocó rápid ...
  • Rory MacKinnon: Profiteering from Prisons
    werewolf � Profiteering from Prisons : "When National won the 2008 general election by a landslide, the pundits were quick to attribute their popularity to two things: a promise to get tough on crime and an equally fervent promise to cut taxes by reducing government expenditure. But nearly two years ...
  • “The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that ...
    “The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that has been hidden until now” [wsws.org] On October 22, the web-based whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 internal US military reports that provide damning evidence of war crimes committed by the US government against the p ...

Pensieve

  • Terror Averted Before Key Election…Coincidence?
    Photo by Gord McKenna Since Obama’s inauguration, left-leaning intellectuals have been frustrated in his reluctance or inability to implement the more radical elements of their agenda. At fist they saw him as a savior to the left. Now they are mourning the “Death of the Liberal Class”, as they stand ...
  • Honduras: Among the 3 Most Corrupt Nations in the ...
    Transparency international has published its results on its annual survey of perception of government corruption. The format is a zoomable world map with a ranked list below it. Honduras, at 134th place with a score of 2.4 is tied with Nigeria and Bangladesh and 7 others; not a good place to be. In ...
  • CNN Doctoring
    Is it me or did CNN want to soften news of Hugo Chavez expropriating two US-owned businesses in Venezuela? Related posts:Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First? Related posts: Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First?
  • CNN drops the C-bomb
    Photo by BY-YOUR-â It’s not the four letter word. Iâm a bit tired of this topic, but this article seems to need a few comments. After announcing a nuclear cooperation with Russian President Medvedev to build a nuclear plant in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez continues his tour of Asia by visiting Iranian Pre ...
  • Tascon List Documentary
    Those who defend Hugo Chávez need to see this documentary. The Tascón list is a list of all the voters who put their name, their fingerprint, and their social security numbers, in the 2004 recall referendum against Chávez. They were branded as “traitors” and summarily stripped of all government jobs ...

Green Times

  • Blooming Algae, the new Wonder Plant
    Algae, until now, has been considered a nuisance! But these days it’s the new "hot property" in the cleantech / greentech space…
  • Sultan Al-Mutawa
    Read more (contributors/sultan-al-mutawa.html)
  • What's On 1 November 2010
    Another bumper week to go green! This week kicks off with World Vegan Day on 1 November and November is Vegan Month! Also, don’t miss the Eco Baby Expo in Sydney this weekend and the Victorian Election Environment debate in Melbourne on Thursday
  • Delicous Organic Pumpkin Halloween Soup!
    Today is Halloween… such a beautiful day to make a delicious organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) pumpkin soup! Eating healthy and making faces out of pumpkins is a great and fun way to celebrate Halloween. Of course there is a lot more delicious produce to eat this season. Just take ...
  • Less Pollution? I Am In
    Together we have to participate in making the world a better place to live. Less pollution is key! If we all help the environment as much as possible by doing simple things to reduce energy consumption, water use, oil etc the world will become better. Take a look at our article ’10 Ways to Celebrat ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Blast kills one near Gaza police HQ
    ShareThis Blast kills one near Gaza police HQ 03 Nov 2010 A massive explosion near the police force headquarters in the Hamas-controlled and blockaded Gaza Strip has claimed the life of a Palestinian. Another Palestinian was also wounded in the blast, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
  • Bush defends Iraq war, torture in book
    ShareThis Bush defends Iraq war, torture in book 03 Nov 2010 Former US President [sic] George W. Bush has defended his decisions during his eight years in office, including the war he waged on Iraq that has so far killed over a million Iraqis. In a memoir titled "Decision Points," due to be released ...
  • US, 4 others warn of terrorist activity in RP
    ShareThis US, 4 others warn of terrorist activity in RP 03 Nov 2010 The US State Department has warned anew its citizens of terrorist activity in the Philippines due to continuing threats of terrorist and insurgent activities. It was also learned that the governments of Canada and New Zealand releas ...
  • 4 small mail bombs explode in Athens
    ShareThis 4 small mail bombs explode in Athens 03 Nov 2010 A bomb exploded at the Swiss embassy in Athens Tuesday and suspicious packages were detonated by police outside Parliament, the Bulgarian embassy and a courier company, officials said. No injuries or damage were reported from Tuesday's four ...
  • Popularity pays for Manchin; GOP gains House seat
    ShareThis Popularity pays for Manchin; GOP gains House seat 03 Nov 2010 Deep and abiding popularity paid off for Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin, who won the U.S. Senate seat that belonged to the late Robert C. Byrd despite a fierce and well-funded Republican campaign that tried to link him to an unpopu ...

Daily Loaf

  • Election Results in Pinellas County
    Heller noted how Democratic support of President Obama's health care reform and stimulus package have hurt them in Tuesday's elections. But he said that the effects of those initiatives just haven't had enough time to take effect. "You don't really know what healthcare reform is because most of ...
  • Sink addresses crowd at Tampa Marriott Waterside h ...
    At approximately 12:06 a.m., Alex Sink finally came out and spoke to supporters at her downtown Tampa party headquarters. With 91% of precincts in, Sink is just 2% down behind Rick Scott, with votes from lots of Democratic counties still coming in. “There are still hundreds of thousands of votes ...
  • Do It Today: Retro Art Show at Bamboozle, Caribbea ...
    The Retro Art Show steals the spotlight from Bamboozle's tasty rolls; experience the heart and soul Caribbean dance.
  • Riding the Republican wave, Tampa’s Pam Bondi blow ...
    Speaking to CL earlier in the day, Bondi elaborated on why she wants to continue to pursue the lawsuit against the federal health care bill, saying, "I will take it (the lawsuit) to the Supreme Court. I'm proud that Florida has taken the lead."
  • Republicans kick ass in Hillsborough Country
    Congratulations to Debbie Cox-Roush, the chairwoman of the Hillsborough County Republican Party.  She and her minions have worked hard for months, and that hard work â and the general anti-Democratic party sentiment throughout Florida and the nation, saw the GOP put an old-fashioned whoopin’ on th ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Budrus hero calls for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s ...
    By Jesse Bacon I recently had the good fortune to attend a packed Monday night NYC screening sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. One issue raised by the extremely well-informed director was how similar protests in other villages have had difficult ...
  • Terry Fletcher responds to Audrey Farber’s p ...
    In her recent post A true Democracy; if Israel would only let it, Audrey Farber paints a very rosy picture of Palestinian democracy, both present and future. Other commentators and human rights organizations paint a quite different picture, at least of the present. In this New York Review of Books ...
  • Hebrew Lessons at the Learning and Creativity Cent ...
    Guest Post – Yael Arbel âYou must come to see Susiya.â In all truth, I am fascinated by the stories I hear about Susya. I have not been there since the cold, muddy winter of 2002, when we trekked with Taâayush activists to bring blankets for those living there, only to be detained by the army. I don ...
  • Historic BDS debate in Zeek
    By Jesse Bacon Zeek, the artsy hipstery Jewish journal, published two long pieces on BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) for what I assume is the first time. This bold move plants the movement squarely within the more creative portion of the Jewish establishment, at least as a topic of conversat ...
  • New resource in the fight for Israeli Democracy
    By Jesse Bacon Amidst the dispiriting news coming from both American and Israeli democracy, one of the signs of hope has been the people who have continued to resist the downward trend. Association for Civil Rights in Israel is one of those hope-inducing groups, and they recently launched a new engl ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Why money laundering matters
    Bank Info Security “It is easy to forget and/or never really truly understand why this is such an important issue if you only see anti-money laundering as a paperwork detail,” Sullivan says. “Just look at what is going on at the border currently; you have got the drug lords and their gangs who are a ...
  • Why the Democrats lost, for complete idiots
    From Ian Welsh in Canada The Democrats gained control of both Congress and the Presidency. They then pursued ineffective policies which didn’t fix the economy. They increased deportations of Hispanics. They restricted abortion rights for women. They spat on gays repeatedly. They betrayed unions. The ...
  • Creeping Fascism Alert
    Schwarzenegger: Not only can you not use your welfare cards at casinos, you can’t use them at psychics either Even worse, the Governator says you can’t use them at pot dispensaries either.
  • 20 big races to watch
    Neon Tommy has short profiles of the races. I’ll be watching the Connecticut Senate race, where it’s popular Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) v. WWE magnate Linda McMahon (R). If Blumenthal gets into trouble in this heavily Democratic state, then it could be a blow-out for the Republicans nat ...
  • Social Security huge error: Two W2 filers cause $3 ...
    Zero Hedge In what can easily be characterized as the most blatant error in its history (and soon, potentially, fraud), the Social Security Administration announced that as a result of several erroneous W2 filings by two people, amounting to a $32.3 billion “mistake” the entire statistical wage tabl ...

Coteret

  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
  • Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
    Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
  • The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
    This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
  • Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
    Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...

Deadline Live

  • Britain urges US to clamp down on websites hosting ...
    A British government minister has urged the US to order American websites hosting al-Qaida videos to remove them. The security minister Lady Neville-Jones is said to have used a recent visit to Washington to argue that such sites incited “cold-blooded murder” and would be banned in the UK. The move ...
  • Nevada Sen. Harry Reid fends off Sharron Angle
    Democratic Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday bested Republican upstart Sharron Angle to win the U.S. Senate contest in Nevada, a costly, closely watched brawl that pitted one of President Obama‘s top lieutenants against a “tea party” favorite. “Today Nevada chose hope over fear. Nevada chose to move forwar ...
  • Bush considered replacing VP Cheney: Memoir
    WASHINGTON – Former President George W. Bush once considered replacing Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush says in a revealing memoir in which he offers advice on the U.S. economy and admits mistakes on Iraq and Katrina. Bushâs book, âDecision Points,â is full of anecdotes and behind-the-scenes details ...
  • This Day In History – November 3
    1783 â The American Continental Army is disbanded. 1817 â The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec. 1905 â Czar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for political prisoners. 1911 â Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition wi ...
  • Memos Detail TSA Officer’s Cocaine Pranks Wo ...
    NOVEMBER 2–The Transportation Security Administration worker who earlier this year was canned for falsely claiming to have discovered cocaine in the luggage of travelers was a bomb appraisal officer who was supposed to be evaluating new screening equipment at the time he was pranking his unsuspectin ...

The Air Vent

  • Remember When…
    Again I find myself without time for blogging.  We are in an election though and Roy Spencer had a nice post on freedom from oversized, over controlling government yesterday. He lays out exactly what many people are misunderstanding so badly when they vote. I know that most have read the US Declarat ...
  • Wow
    There are far more interesting things going on in the thread below, but this is just way too insane not to publish.  It’s by Steve Goddard, on the algae based biofuel scam.  As Air Vent readers know, algae biofuel is a complete scam.   If you have money in it, plan to get out early.  [...]
  • All Cost, for No Benefit
    As we head into elections, liberals are going ahead with ever more government and ever more regulation as though there is no bottom to the cash they can print.  To solve global warming, they are now proposing regulations on semi trucks to limit fuel usage.  Semi’s already limit fuel usage in an ex ...
  • Weight of Water and Wind, Hurricane Pro’s We ...
    An email from Dr. Kerry Emanuel reproduced with permission from him and George Bryan.  It took a little while to get permission, but this is what I was receiving behind the scenes during the recent wind scuffle.  It sent me down another multi-hour adventure of reading. —- Kerry Emanuel: All:  The ...
  • Remarkable Heretic
    Guest post Dr. Judith Curry.  I asked permission to repost this here in it entirety because it is a perfect description of the current climato-political situation.   There is so much nuance and reality in it I promise that you will be impressed, unless you are TCO. Honesty and reality all balled up ...

Focal Point

  • Stupid is Fearless: Corporate America Supplies a V ...
    The GOP takes the House, brace for a Tsunami of Stupid. [Photo credit: Lindsay Beyerstein ]
  • Get Off Your Ass And Vote!
    Turnout in U.S. midterm elections averages a dismal 40% . The lamest excuse not to vote is that there's no one good to vote for. That's chipper talk. As a hardcore voter, I can tell you that some of the deepest democratic pleasures come with voting against people. Let me tell you, 2010 is a great ye ...
  • Gawker: We Slut-Shamed Christine O'Donnell for for ...
    Give it a rest, Gawker . Don't tell me you slut shamed Delaware Republican senate candidate  Christine O'Donnell for any higher purpose: What's missing from most of the criticism is this essential bit of context: Christine O'Donnell is seeking federal office based in part on her self-generated, ...
  • Cobra and Mongoose Miscellany
    -The Central Park Zoo welcomes baby mongooses . (Yes, that is the correct plural .) -Great moments in occupational health and safety: London, 1852, the Head Keeper in the Serpent Room at the London Zoo handles a cobra in a "less than sensible manner," makes medical history.
  • Rand Paul Supporter Stomps on MoveOn Activist's He ...
    A group of Rand Paul supporters accosted an activist from MoveOn.org before the Conway-Paul senate debate in Kentucky last night. As you can see in the video, some Paul supporters grabbed the victim and forced her to the pavement. A man in a black and white shirt pinned her down while another guy ...

Inside Facebook

  • Amazon Lets Users Send Gift Cards Via Wall Posts, ...
    Amazon has launched a new Facebook integration which allows users to send gift cards to a friend’s wall. It is also running a promotion where users get $5 in free MP3s in exchange for sending gift cards (minimum value of $1) to five Facebook friends. The promotions generate leads for retailers both ...
  • Indonesia Eclipses the UK as Facebook’s Second Lar ...
    [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Indonesia, a Southeast Asian country t ...
  • Facebook Adds “Like this Open Graph Object” Button ...
    Facebook has added the option to instantly Like an Open Graph object to the activity story published when a friend Likes an Open Graph object, such as a website or news article Previously users only had the option to Like (show appreciation for) the story, or visit the object, but not Like the objec ...
  • EA/Playfish Also Signs Five Year Deal to Exclusive ...
    Following CrowdStar, Zynga, Playdom, RockYou and most other social game developers on Facebook, EA’s Playfish has announced that it is entering into a five-year agreement to use Credits as the exclusive virtual currency payment option on Facebook. It was only a matter of time. While many developers ...
  • Facebook Releases Details on the High Resolution P ...
    Facebook has released read and write APIs for its new high-resolution photos, which all users can see and download, but only some can upload. All photos now include a “images” field containing height, width, and source information about all available sizes. Facebook plans on rolling out the ability ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Julie "Sabbath Goy" Burchill: Zionist serpent in o ...
    Gilad Atzmon views the hypocrisy and state of mind behind a recent venomous attack by Zionist pro-war columnist Julie Burchill on peace and human rights activist Lauren Booth for converting to Islam.
  • US attitude to other people's national sovereignty
    Lawrence Davidson considers why so many US officials, some ostensibly intelligent, end up blatantly lying or blindly following murderous orders without question, and why the general public seems to accept this.
  • Is Rupert Murdoch ignorant or an agent of Zionist ...
    Using the testimony of former senior Israeli military and political leaders, Alan Hart debunks News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch’s gross misrepresentation of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the purported "danger" facing Israel and the Jews today. "If I had the opportunity to addre ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: hiding truth behind euphemisms, om ...
    William A. Cook exposes the falseness of Rupert Murdoch’s warped and distorted view of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as summarized in a speech Murdoch gave recently at a dinner hosted by the hate-mongering Israeli mouthpiece, the so-called Anti-Defamation League.
  • Tribal affiliation and intolerance of the "Jewish ...
    Gilad Atzmon takes a close look at the so-called “Jewish left” and argues that their strong exclusivist Jewish tribal affiliation and Stalinist intolerance of divergent views diminishes their claim to universalism and means that, in essence, they subscribe to the same worldview as Zionists.

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

  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s 2012 Platform
    ‘They Made Me Do It!’ The Obama Campaign team has finalized its core message and marketing platform for the 2012 presidential elections. After several months of intense debate and ‘market research,’ the Obama Presidency ‘marketing executives’ have put together yet another simple and short ‘market ca ...
  • Going on Record on Labeling & Labelers
    Censorship Fanatics Come from All Walks of Life It is funny and sad at the same time. In the course of one week I have gone from Anti-Semite to Anti-Muslim. Within a week I have been labeled Filthy Jew-Basher and Fear-Mongering Islamophobic. I find it funny since the logic-free arguments of these fa ...
  • Podcast Show #34
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Tony Hall Tony Hall provides us with an overview of his recently released book Earth into Property, and discusses the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism, beginning with Christopher Columbus’s inception of a Ne ...
  • Did You Know: The King of Madrasas Now Operates Ov ...
    Fethullah Gulen Takes the Great Game a Step Further The Controversial Muslim preacher has now extended his tentacles into schools in the United States, where he controls and operates more than 100 charter schools within a calculatively set up maze of dubious NGOs. Fethullah Gulen, whose organization ...
  • ‘Kosher’ Schakowsky: Still AIPAC’s Number One Darl ...
    Fierce Competition Between Two Jewish Candidates in Chicago According to the latest reports the degree of allegiance to Israel and its lobby has taken center stage in two Chicago election campaigns for a congressional seat. As far as the two candidates, the incumbent Jan Schakowsky and the Republica ...

Afro Spear

  • Election Day 2010
    In anticipation of the significant midterm election loses expected to be suffered by Democrats, I found these comments by David Brooks, a columnist with The New York Times, right on point: Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even th ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • “Is Black Support for Obama Racist?” b ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 With poverty at an all-time high, daunting black unemployment levels and Obamacare threatening black babies, black support for Barack Obama remains surprisingly strong. Why? Blacks are not uniformly as radical as Obama. So why do 91 percent of blacks still support him ...
  • Kiva: A Story of the Poor
    AfroSpear supports microfinancing towards development (read here). October 2010 AfroSpear Initiatives: 1. Kelvin Rutherford 2. Keyembe 3. Vasi Business Center Group 4. God Bless You Group
  • sat’day riddymz

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

  • 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….
  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • George Monbiot on the Fake Biodiversity Agreement
    There is something stirring, and I don’t think it’s just in the air – I think George Monbiot is turning his back on industrial civilization, and about time too. We could do with someone like him in the ranks of the “heretic unbelievers”. Here is his take on the Agreement That Never Was: Everyone agr ...
  • Chevron Spoof Posters: Just The Start
    On the coattails of their Chevron spoof (see here for the full story) the Yes Men have opened up the original graphics from their web sites for public subvertising. Angry and frustrated that oil companies like Chevron think they can ignore their environmental and human rights abuses while cleaning u ...
  • BBC Radio Uses Industry Funded “Expert&#8221 ...
    I like the BBC. It manages to do a very difficult job being the national, public-funded broadcaster of the UK, while at the same time generally refusing to kow-tow to the demands of the state and it’s corporate owners. On the other hand there is a lot to criticise the BBC for, in particular its [... ...
  • After The Yes Men’s Chevron Spoof, What Next ...
    Strike while the iron is hot, or take a breather and think about your next move. The feelings of an Underminer during a hot spoof are often confused, but in some cases a retrospective look is necessary in order to understand what effective action really means. Case in point, the action by the Yes Me ...
  • BHP Billiton: New Chair, Same Old Story
    From the wonderful London Mining Network comes this report of the BHP Billiton. I have emphasised key phrases that demonstrate the hypocrisy of one of the most destructive companies ever to grace planet Earth. At today’s London AGM of the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, new company cha ...

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

  • Blimee Brings Local News, Engagement and Instant O ...
    New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...
  • Retro-Radical Journalism
    New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...
  • Mapnik: The Coolest Mapping Software You've Never ...
    On the MapBox website we describe TileMill — the project we’re working on with our 2010 Knight News Challenge grant — as “a toolkit for rendering map tiles” . To be more specific, it’s essentially a “glue layer.” TileMill is built on top of a cocktail of other open source mapping software projects, ...
  • DocumentCloud Users Make Ballot Design An Election ...
    When we make lists of the kinds of source documents users can upload to DocumentCloud , they can get pretty long. DocumentCloud is court filings, hearing transcripts, testimony, legislation, lab reports, memos, meeting minutes, correspondence. I can say with absolute confidence that in all of our pl ...
  • Journalists Should Play and Discuss Newsgames Like ...
    Evangelizing newsgames is not just about convincing journalists that they should create and use games to express ideas and inform the public. It's also about getting journalists to recognize newsgames that are created outside of professional institutions as works in dialogue with their field. Even i ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Destination Edge - Palm Desert and Indian Wells--O ...
    To most people, deserts are forbidding places hardly suitable for pleasant holidays. That, however, does not describe the kind of desert you will find in the Coachella Valley located some two hours by car east of Los Angeles. There, you will find a golfer’s paradise with nearly two dozen world-class ...
  • Obama Should Grant Pollard Clemency
    The case of Jonathan Pollard is a tragic one both for US-Israeli relations and the American justice system. Pollard was unfairly sentenced to life imprisonment, unfairly prevented from appeal, and his subsequent lawyers have been unfairly prevented from proper access to the secret 46-page memorandum ...
  • The Electoral Edge - Americans for Job Security: H ...
    Long-time GOP operative David Carney is hardly a household name like Karl Rove. But among Republican strategists and fundraisers in Washington D.C., Texas, and other states, Carney is well-known as an aggressive and controversial figure who periodically operates under the radar. Those qualities are ...
  • Ghana on Edge - Sentenced to Witch Camp
    The Halloween season abounds with witches and goblins and ghosts. While many children and adults put on costumes and pretend to be witches, a new book reminds readers that there are still people living in a world haunted by witchcraft. In Spellbound: Inside West Africa’s Witch Camps , Karen Palmer e ...
  • London on Edge - The Mayor of Tower Hamlets
    One of the latest constitutional innovations in Britain is powerful directly elected “executive” mayors for the boroughs. The Mayor will control a large budget, and will serve a 4-year term, during which time the Council cannot remove the Mayor. He or she will be rather like the president of a small ...

High Country News

  • Big rigs and rural roads don't mix
    A plan to let gigantic rigs travel Montana's winding rural roads for the sake of a tar sands project in Alberta, Canada, is insane.
  • Voting at the dump
    In rural Idaho, determined voters head out to a muddy dump to cast their ballots.
  • When voting, listen to the grass
    At the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas, the glory of the short-grass prairie is remembered and celebrated.
  • Solar spree
    New solar energy projects are coming to California and Nevada.
  • Fields of dreams
    "Farmworker Reality Tours" teach citizens about the lives of California's migrant farmworkers.

CounterCurrents

  • God On The Table: Attempting A Useful Discussion O ...
    By Mike Ruppert Mankind is essentially expecting (or demanding) that technology overturn the laws of physics, chemistry and especially thermodynamics/energy. By definition, anything that can overturn natural laws is God. Under this construct, technology is, in fact, a religion
  • Psychological Inoculation For A Century Of Challen ...
    Carolyn Baker Interviews Nicole Foss An exclusive interview with one of the most astute minds in the world of finance whose insights offer crucial preparation for living in a post-industrial world
  • China, Rare Earth Metals And The Need For Industri ...
    By Dr. Peter Custers According to leading Western newspapers, during the second half of 2010 China has reduced its exports of rare earth-metals by 70%. Moreover, China itself has announced that in 2011 it will be forced to further restrict these exports, as part of a policy aimed at securing provis ...
  • Wikileaks Exposures Deepen Political Crisis In Ira ...
    By James Cogan The publication of thousands of US military reports by Wikileaks on October 22 has added to the tensions that underlie the ongoing failure of the main Iraqi political factions to form a new government nearly eight months since the March 7 election
  • Obama Prepares To Expand Military Attacks In Yemen
    By Bill Van Auken The Obama administration is preparing to escalate its intervention in Yemen, placing US military units under CIA control to facilitate intensified drone attacks and death squad killings. Citing unnamed government officials, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the adminis ...

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 Day After The Political Tsunami...What Does it ...
    You know its going to be a good night for the GOP when the pundits on MSNBC are arguing whether its a big win for the Republican Party, or an historic win. According to Keith Olbermann there is no way its an historic win. Honestly, it doesn't really matter what you want to call it. Today the Ed ...
  • Exit Polls Indicate A GOP Night--Some are Saying a ...
    While the Network exit polls cannot predict winners as of yet, the exit polls are indicating that the GOP blowout may be bigger than expected. At this writing only a handful of states have closed. But Turnout nationally seems to be favoring the more conservative candidates. Democrats vs. Republica ...
  • GOP Campaign Source: Delaware Turnout is Low -a Go ...
    This is a VERY Long Shot but there are sources within the Christine O' Donnell campaign predicting that there may be good GOP news at the end of the night. Apparently a low turnout is good news for the Republican and turnout is breaking O'Donnell's way. I was told to keep an eye on the turnout numbe ...
  • The Pundits Wrong Before (like in 1994) So You B ...
    For weeks the pundits have been telling you that there is going to be a conservative revolution today. They right, they may be wrong. In 1994 when the GOP was on the precipice of retaking the House and Senate, � all of the big shots got it wrong : Here are excerpts from a few predictions b ...
  • Cargo Airline Sues George Soros For Fraud
    A bad week for the financier of American progressive politics got a bit worse. A North Carolina-based cargo airline claims George Soros and one of his partners designed "an elaborate shall game intended to defraud," and are using it to duck a $39.4 million judgment. The company, Tradewinds Holdings ...

The Real Agenda

  • Currency Wars and the Dollar Dropping Hegemony
    London Telegraph Image: Daryl Cagle As the US Federal Reserve meets today to decide whether its next blast of quantitative easing should be $1 trillion or a more cautious $500bn, it does so knowing that China and the emerging world view the policy as an attempt to drive down the dollar. The Fed’s “Q ...
  • France and the UK plan Military Cooperation
    Reuters Britain and France will launch a broad defense partnership on Tuesday that includes setting up a joint force and sharing equipment and nuclear missile research centers, a French government source said. Treaties to be signed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David ...
  • Why did an Al-Qaeda Terrorist Leader Dine at the P ...
    Awlaki was also the spiritual leader of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, a fact that didn’t seem to concern Pentagon top brass who invited him to dine with them just months after the September 11 attacks despite the fact that he had personally colluded with the very hijackers who were alleged to have sla ...
  • Girls reaching puberty at nine due to chemicals in ...
    David Gutierrez The average age of puberty in girls is now nine, in a phenomenon increasingly being blamed on rising obesity and exposure to hormone-disrupting pollutants in the food supply. The study was conducted in 2006 by researchers from the world-renowned Department of Growth and Reproduction ...
  • Brazil Elects the Worst of All
    Former Marxist turned globalist sympathizer, Dilma Rousseff, is the first Brazilian woman to hold the presidential seat.  She will most likely continue the policies her Godfather, Luiz Inacio Da Silva implemented to sell the country off to corporations. AP A former Marxist guerrilla who was torture ...

Wind Watch

  • Are wind turbines bad for our health?
    It’s as inevitable as death and taxes â we are going to have more wind farms as the Government strives to meet renewable energy targets. Energy Minister Eamon Ryan recently said Ireland is on target to generate 40% of electricity from renewable sources, with wind being pivotal, by 2020. That is opti ...
  • Wind farm effects were underestimated
    A Manawatu wind farm is facing court action amid lingering doubt it is complying with noise limits. After receiving hundreds of complaints about noise from Te Rere Hau wind farm on the Tararua Range for more than a year, Palmerston North City Council has applied to the Environment Court for stricter ...
  • Oregon Public Health office decides it’s tim ...
    Oregon has boosted wind energy projects with a vengeance in recent years, adopting a renewable power standard and tax breaks that have helped spread wind farms across the state’s northern reaches and into eastern Oregon. Now comes the Oregon Public Health office, which announced Thursday that it’s e ...
  • Massive protest greets wind turbine developers
    FERGUS � A massive protest greeted officials from wpd Canada in Fergus Tuesday evening, and flowed into the renewable energy developer�s open house on the proposed Springwood Wind Project (formerly known as Belwood Wind Farm), a four turbine wind energy system planned for agricultural land in the no ...
  • A new slant on wind farms
    Jerusalem, N.Y. â John Grabski, representing the Jerusalem Preservation Association, brought a seldom explored topic to the subject of wind farms at the Oct. 20 Jerusalem Town Council meeting – economic devaluation. Public discussions on wind farms usually include noise, flicker, dead birds and disc ...

Not My Tribe

  • CIA role in so-called Yemen bomb plot wafts odor o ...
    Everything I need to know about CIA Intelligence I learned in elementary school, 9/11, al-Qaeda. Who smelt it, dealt it. Student in Yemen –allegedly, even to herself– mails a package containing explosives, CIA forwards a tip-off. YOU, think of a number between 1 and 10. Even Ockham’s Razor would not ...
  • GOP Republicorp outsources groveling lackies from ...
    We the electorate have been warned that “REPUBLICORP” will be unveiled as the dreaded merger of the GOP and corporate masters. Unconcatenated into the spiffy boo-word is mention of the Democratic Party, a wholly-powned subsidiary. Sure they’re the voices sounding the alarm, and they will certainly b ...
  • How come Pottery Barn rules don’t apply to H ...
    When Tony posted nearly three years ago (!) about how shocking conditions in Haiti had become, it was a magnet for people saying the starving kids pictures (from Medicins sans frontiers, internationally respected medical aid agency, just not so much here in America) were recycled pictures from Ethio ...
  • Fundamentalists might heed a Catholic, or not
    But some will be swayed by people who only speak English, and that not much goodly, (bad joke and I’d have to go to a seance and ask Shakespeare if it’s actually grammatically correct, which leads to==>>) but will insist that Shakespearean/Jacobite English mistranslates “Thou Shalt Not Kill” when th ...
  • I’m voting early, and I vote NO
    I’ll show you an absentee ballot. As the election nears, so loom the dramatic lights on the Tea Party bogey-persons. Talking heads are harping about how close the polls will be. Now Michael Moore is rationalizing his best, suck it up for the Dems. Medea Benjamin defends activism’s promise, that its ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Amplifying the Sounds of Loud and Clear
    911 EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY - Chemical Engineer Mark Basile Related Info: The Sounds of Loud and Clear
  • What's Up With "Building What?"?
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently asked some questions about the status of the " BuildingWhat? " campaign, he states: Building Wut is still at $88,009. Hasn't budged in about 10 days, and they haven't begged again on Flogger. Wut's up with that ? Who's going on vacation with the B ...
  • There Are No 9/11 Whistleblowers If You Claim They ...
    First a little background from the film Loose Change Final Cut : This story has received new life recently after the Pentagon bought and destroyed 10,000 copies of a book, "Operation Dark Heart," written by Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, prompting an editorial published at Investors Business Daily to ask: " ...
  • A Response from Ryan Owens
    Sorry I've been away for a while everyone. My computer's been broken for about three weeks. But it's fixed now and I'm back to doing what I do best: Debunk the debunkers . A few months back I sent my open letter to debunker Ryan Owens. Within a few weeks he responded back. Here's his full response ...
  • TIME Magazine Fail
    I Know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me With Facts "Global warming is a hoax! Climate change, like autism, is actually caused by vaccines, typically administered by Apollo astronauts who didn't really land on the moon. Oh, and President Obama was born in Kenya. These, at least, are some of the core be ...

Fooducate

  • How to Buy Bread [miniseries part 1]
    Bread, oh bread. For some, an art form. For others, a guilty pleasure. For shoppers in a supermarket, a torturous decision process exacerbated by hundreds of brands, products, labels, health claims, and confusingly long ingredient lists. Here is Fooducate’s attempt to simplify the process. What you ...
  • Japanese Tea Taste Test [Can you say Sokenbicha?]
    Fooducate blog reader and tea lover Julia recently received a sample pack of a new Japanese tea brand called Sokenbicha (âSO-can-BEE-chaâ). It comes in 5 flavors (based on a holistic 5 elements theory – earth,wind, wood, water, and metal): Revive, a crisp Oolong tea blend infused with pomegranate ...
  • 10 Fun and Weird Candy Facts [Happy Halloween!]
    1. Candy became widely available only 130 years ago. Until then, people would make their own fudge or caramel at home. 2. Candy is a health scapegoat – 100 years ago, doctors blamed candy for the spread of polio. In the mid to late 20th century it was blamed for tooth decay. Now it is blamed [...]
  • What Happens When You Mix Pepsi and a Hard Boiled ...
    This is a guest blog post by  Lisa Cain, Ph.D Most of the discussion on drinking soda has focused on high fructose corn syrup and its detrimental effects on blood sugar and weight.  But, what about your teeth? Today, we are taking a page from a kindergarten teacher’s playbook.  This teacher uses ...
  • Oh No! More Industry Sponsored Nutrition Labels
    Earlier this week, the two largest food and beverage trade organizations announced a new industry initiative for Front-of-Package (FOP) nutrition labeling of groceries. The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued a joint press release: America’s leading food ...

Traffikd

  • 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 ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...

Survival International

  • Yanomami report dozens dead in epidemic
    Yanomami mother and child. © Steve Cox/Survival Yanomami Indians in the Venezuelan Amazon say that dozens of their people have died in an epidemic of disease, which may be malaria. âThere are still many, many sick people,â Yanomami health worker Andres Blanco told the Associated Press (AP) ...
  • Celebrities back call to boycott Botswana diamonds
    Survival is calling for a boycott of Botswana diamonds until the Bushmen are allowed water. © Survival Survival will tomorrow call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds over the government’s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen. The tribal peoples’ rights organization is also urging the public to boy ...
  • Survival invokes Nehru in call for India tribal we ...
    Tribes like the Jarawa need to choose their own future. © Salomé/Survival Survival has invoked the words of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in a call for India to put land rights and choice at the heart of tribal welfare. Survival’s director Stephen Corry has written to Prime M ...
  • Boy wounded in ‘attack by uncontacted Indians’
    Shelters built by members of an uncontacted tribe along the Curanja River, south-east Peru. © C Fagan/Round River Conservation Studies A fourteen-year-old Indian boy has been seriously wounded in an apparent attack by uncontacted Indians near his home in Monte Salvado, an indigenous settlement ...
  • Cyberterrorism knocks out tribal rights organizati ...
    Visitors to Survival's website see a temporary message. © Survival Human rights organization Survival International has been targeted by a massive cyberattack, knocking its website offline. Survival believes the attack is likely to originate with the Botswana or Indonesian authorities, or thei ...

Greg Palast

  • 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 ...
  • SarahPAC Candidate "Should Be in Jail"NBC TV airs ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail." Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote comic That's hardly the kind of endorsement a candidate for Congress expects. But that is the conclusion of voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy ...
  • Decision 2010:Tim Griffin and Voter Caging
    Reported by: Melissa Simas, KARK 4 NBC News After two years, and several resignations among Department of Justice staffers, in July, a special prosecutor wrapped up her investigation of the nine U.S. Attorneys fired in 2006. Bud Cummins, a Republican from Arkansas, was one of the U.S. Attorneys f ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today
    The 2010 electoral massacre is over and Democrats are licking their wounds. Let me put it simply, what went wrong went wrong from the very top of the party.  In both political and policy terms, the President of the United States, the head of the Democratic party, created this disaster. Nothing track ...
  • Why Democrats Lost for Complete Idiots
    The Democrats gained control of both Congress and the Presidency in 2008.  They then pursued ineffective policies which didn’t fix the economy. They increased deportations of Hispanics. They restricted abortion rights for women.  They spat on gays repeatedly.  They betrayed unions.  They gutted ...
  • Why Democrats Lost for Complete Idiots
    The Democrats gained control of both Congress and the Presidency in 2008.  They then pursued ineffective policies which didn’t fix the economy. They increased deportations of Hispanics. They restricted abortion rights for women.  They spat on gays repeatedly.  They betrayed unions.  They gutted ...
  • Election Open Thread
    If you feel like talking about the election, feel free to do it here.  In most cases, I don’t care if Dems lose, they deserve it, but a couple likely losses will sadden me: Feingold and Grayson. Update: Grayson has lost.  Blanche Lincoln is also down. Update 2: Feingold down. Digby on Grayson: Reg ...
  • How Appropriate that Acorn should file for bankrup ...
    Dems abandoned Acorn, an organization which had relentlessly registered new voters, based on accusations which were outright lies.  Now Dems lose an election as an organization which had helped them for forty years goes under. Democrats deserve these losses.  That’s not to say that every Dem does ...

Age of Autism

  • Jake Crosby on Having Asperger's and Being a Brand ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Below is Jake Crosby's article from the Brandeis University Magazine, see the original HERE. It’s not easy being a student at Brandeis with Asperger Syndrome — an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In ninth grade, however, aspiring to...
  • Listen to 10/26 Panel Discussion on Omnibus Autism ...
    Omnibus Autism Proceeding Vaccine Program/Office of Special Masters Omnibus Autism Proceeding Panel Discussion on the Omnibus Autism Proceeding - October 26, 2010 at 2:00 pm To listen to this panel remotely, please dial in using the following numbers: phone: 888-684-8852,...
  • Tuning Out to Tune In
    By Cathy Jameson I’m a girl of the 80s, when music and friends were number one on my list. I love that era of one-hit wonders, and I revel in memories of playing outside till dark, roller skating with my...
  • Drink Pink! Join Kim Stagliano for a Book Launch P ...
    All treat, no tricks! The good folks at NAA have graciously allowed me to borrow an hour in their jam packed National Autism Association Conference schedule for a book launch party for All I Can Handle I'm No Mother Teresa....
  • Whisper to a Scream
    By Cathy Jameson A few weekends ago my husband and I were sitting near his shed while the kids played in the backyard. He’d been on a business trip the week prior, so we were catching up on news, bills...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • US: Nitty Gritty Numbers Suggest Downward Spiral
    Forbes – Invest by the numbers, not the political rhetoric. Right now the numbers are lousy and downright frightening. In housing, the Case-Shiller home price index fell almost 3% on an annualized basis in August and September, the weakest performance since May of 2009 when the recession still going ...
  • Six killed in Iraq attacks
    Indo-Asian News Service – Six people were killed and 12 injured Monday in a series of attacks in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, security sources said. Three civilians were killed and six injured by a bomb blast targeting a police patrol in the district of Hay el Ba’ath. An elderly man was killed and ...
  • Cancer cream poses little-known risk to pets
    Reuters – Scientific journals usually aren’t the province of puppy pictures, but the October 2010 issue of Archives of Dermatology contains an image of pitiable Ruby, a young Yorkshire Terrier with a tragic medical history: Ruby died of accidental poisoning after gnawing on a tube of her owner’s can ...
  • British: Women will work the rest of the year for ...
    Daily Telegraph – The gender pay gap means that women will effectively work the rest of the year for free, equality campaigners claimed today. A joint report from the Fawcett Society, the TUC, Unison and the Equality and Human Rights Commission called for a complete overhaul of equal pay laws to ens ...
  • Indonesia volcano forces flight cancellations
    USA Today-Yet again, airlines are facing volcano-related flight disruptions. This time the problem is in Indonesia, where airlines were forced to cancel flights to airports near Indonesia’s Mount Merapi Tuesday. The Associated Press writes “Malaysian budget airline AirAsia and Singapore’s SilkAir re ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Prop. 23 campaign concedes defeat
    Backers of Proposition 23, the ballot initiative to suspend California's ambitious global warming law, conceded defeat, calling the outcome "a victory for Wall Street over Main Street" and vowing to continue their efforts to "save jobs" and curb energy costs....
  • Proposition 23: Backers were outspent, out-organiz ...
    The fight over Proposition 23, the ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, "will definitely be a David versus Goliath battle," Steve Maviglio, spokesman for the opponents told a reporter in September. "Our slingshot versus their oily club." From...
  • Poll: Moderate Republicans reject Prop. 23
    Around the country, global warming has become a flashpoint for Republicans running for election. "Tea party" activists have also focused on climate change legislation as an ideological and economic wedge issue. But in California, moderate and liberal Republicans are rejecting...
  • Global warming, environmental funds, parks feature ...
    Voters in the Golden State headed to the polls Tuesday and faced the usual cluttered politi-prose of ballot initiatives. They can be forgiven if they're tempted to vote "no" across the board, and for environmentalists, that's two-thirds right. Here are...
  • Prop. 26: A new strategy for big oil companies?
    When Chevron, California's largest company, looked at how it could wield influence in this election cycle, it shunned Proposition 23, the high-profile ballot initiative to suspend the state's global-warming law. So did Shell, Conoco Phillips and ExxonMobil. But if many...

water.org

  • An introduction to WaterCredit in India (IndiaMF)
    An Introduction to Water Credit in India (India MicroFinance) – The Water Credit Initiative has been funded by social entrepreneur Gary White and Hollywood Actor Matt Damon through their organisation Water.org which has invested US$ 2.2 million in Water Credit programs. Water credit applies the prin ...
  • Rec.fm – Fundraising by recommendations (Phi ...
    A New Source of Funds for Nonprofits: Product Recommendations! (Philanthropy411 Blog) – Rec.fm, a 2010 SXSW Web Award finalist, is an online service where you can recommend products you love for the causes you care about. It works like this: You love a product (a book, iPad, watch, Coach purse) and ...
  • iReport challenge: #BeAHero for clean water (CNN)
    iReport challenge: #BeAHero for clean water (CNN) – An outbreak of cholera in Haiti has killed more than 250 people and sickened thousands. The culprit: Contaminated drinking water. Worldwide, the water crisis is huge. Nearly a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Thatâs one in eight o ...
  • Credit for water, toilets – the ripple effec ...
    Credit for water and toilets – the ripple effect (Women Economic Empowerment Review) – Over the past couple of years, WaterCredit has enabled Water.org to reach more than twice the number of people with safe access to water and sanitation than a traditional, subsidy-driven approach. By providing sma ...
  • Thursday’s Connector: Matt Damon (CNN)
    Thursday’s Connector: Matt Damon (CNN) – The American actor, philanthropist and screenwriter Matt Damon is known for his roles in a wide range of successful movies as well as his charity work. In addition to his acting career, Damon has been a budding philanthropist since the age of 12, creating cha ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Role Models - Photo Album by Ben Oscarsito
    To lead by example is not an easy thing to do, most of today's leaders don't even have a clue... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The West's Mideast Obsession
    Combine the love for Israel and the hatred of Iran, and you have explanation for the American media's obsession with the entire Middle Eastern region. Most media elsewhere, especially in the West, just follow suit. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'Israel hogging Gaza water sources' - Video
    The Coastal Municipal Water Utility (CMWU) has reported Israel's daily water consumption per capita at around 320 liters while the consumption of Palestinians in Gaza is less than 90 liters. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Child Labour in Jordan Valley Settlements
    While Palestinian industry is handicapped and adults cannot earn a living, children are a solution. By sending them to work in the settlements they may earn a family enough to escape the worst ravages of poverty... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Jewish settlers seize Palestinian home by force
    Citizens appealed to human rights groups to pressure the Israeli occupation authority to bridle the settlers' criminal practices, which escalated recently mainly in stealing olive harvests, burning olive crops and seizing land... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Notes from an FBU picket line
    fire.JPG Joe Thorne reports back from the front lines of the London firefighters strike against mass sackings and shift pattern changes. The FBU has held two eight hour strikes in ...
  • Striking firefighter hospitalised by station manag ...
    One firefighter has been airlifted to hospital and three others injured after a station manager drove his car through a picket line. Tam Ozdemir of Red Watch, Croydon was rushed to hospital with suspected neck and pelvic injuries.
  • Three new traslations in English of leaflets from ...
    Here are three documents we translated in English and that seem to us to be important. We would like to apologize for the mistakes in translations, which sometimes sound as “Frenglish”, but it’s the concern for internationalism that prevails. ...
  • Private Prison Industry Behind Arizona’s New Immig ...
    prison.jpg We now know that Arizona's controversial immigration bill 1070 was written almost word for word with the help of the Corrections Corporation of America- the largest private prison company in ...
  • Obama administration takes strong stance against p ...
    smokin.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. Once again, President Obama’s administration is standing in the way of pro-working class, civil rights legislation. In res ...

Free Range International

  • 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 Going Is Getting Tough
    The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
  • What A Mess
    I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...
  • Meet a Couple of Hero’s
    Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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. ...
  • SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
    ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...
  • IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
    In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...

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

Scotts Contracting

  • How does our need for energy impact our communitie ...
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, KETC / St. Louis Beacon Public Insight Network wrote: View web version | Send this message to a friend … Continue reading →
  • Kitchen Project Photos
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Before and After Kitchens Photos provided by Scotts Contracting. Click Here to Email Scotty for a Free Estimate for your Next Project Green and Eco Friendly Products, Options, … Continue reading →
  • Remember These 12 Facts November 2nd
    On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Sam Parry, Environmental Defense Action Fund wrote: Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the web version.
  • News You Can Use for October 29, 2010
  • Which Kind Of Insulation Is Best?
    On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Labels: Attics and Attic Insulation, Cool Roof, Eco Conscious Roofs, Eco Friendly Roofs, Green Roofs, Radiant Barrier, Roofing Contents: Introduction Why Insulate Your House? How Insulation Works Which … Continue readin ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Midterm Miscarriage
    The Obama agenda, instead of coming to term after four years, is suffering a miscarriage halfway through.
  • START: Arms Affirmation Treaty
    The New START treaty is best called an arms affirmation treaty, since ratification will affirm the continued commitment to maintain and fund our nuclear and non-nuclear weapons programs.
  • Resolving the China-Japan Conflict Over the Senkak ...
    On September 7 Japanese patrol boats intercepted a Chinese fishing trawler near Kubashima, one of the Senkaku [Chinese: Diaoyu] Islands in the East China Sea.
  • Is Obama a Turkey or an Eagle?
    The United States has pursued an "eagle" approach of military intervention overseas for much of its history. Will President Obama change the direction of U.S. foreign policy?
  • If Israel Wants Peace...
    What would it really take for Israel to walk the road to peace?

Law.com

  • Smaller Firms May Soon See More Laterals, Fewer Yo ...
    The flight of big firm laterals to smaller firms has not reached the heights many first predicted. But some in the legal community believe the apex of large-to-small lateral market activity is still on the horizon, along with a shift back to big firms for many young lawyers.
  • Will U.K. Management Trends Influence U.S. Law Fir ...
    As law firms look to retool their business models, some may find themselves adopting trends at U.K. firms such as managing the work of other law firms or outsourcing companies for their clients, or creating a class of professional support lawyers who focus on research and drafting documents.
  • Halliwells Ex-Partners Receive 'Letter of Death' o ...
    Last week, Halliwells' former partners received what they have dubbed the "letter of death" from the U.K. law firm's joint administrators at BDO, which warns that the ex-partners face proceedings on a number of potential claims, including breach of duty and repayment of overdrawings.
  • Former Clifford Chance Associate Sues Firm for Dis ...
    A former Clifford Chance associate has sued the firm for discrimination, claiming the London-based firm targeted women and minorities when it laid off six associates in November 2007. In a complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Karen Ramdhanie said that on the eve of the layoffs, two white male ...
  • Lawyers Can Sue Clients Pro Se and Recover Fees, N ...
    Lawyers can sue deadbeat clients pro se and still recover legal fees under the offer-of-judgment rule, a New Jersey appeals court has held. Solo attorney Philip Vinick Jr.'s clients had tried to rely on a decision last year that denied frivolous-litigation fees to a law firm that sued its ex-client.

Iranian.com

  • اژه‌ای: از دفتر حزب اعتماد ملی رفع پلمب نشده است
    سخنگوی قوه قضاییه در نشستی مطبوعاتی به پرونده سعید مرتضوی و دلیل آزادی علی شکوری‌راد پرداخت. وی از تاخیر در دادگاه کوهنوردان آمریکایی، درخواست عفو خبرنگاران آلمانی و عدم رفع پلمپ دفتر حزب اعتماد ملی نیز خبر داده است. read more
  • اعدام پنهانی ۱۰ زندانی دیگر زندان وکیل آباد مشهد
    بنا بر اطلاعاتی که کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران کسب کرده است در ادامه اجرای احکام اعدام در زندان وکیل آباد مشهد، سه شنبه گذشته چهارم آبان ماه ، حکم اعدام در مورد ۱۰ زندانی دیگر محکوم به اعدام در زندان وکیل آباد مشهد به صورت گروهی و بدون اعلام رسمی مقامات دولت ایران اجرا شد. read more
  • Iran's Ahmadinejad hails Rousseff's victory
    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed on Monday the election of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil's first woman president, saying it would boost the "eye-catching progress" in ties between the two countries. "The relation between Iran and Brazil in recent years has enjoyed eye-catching progress which I am cer ...
  • Iran, Saudi Arabia expected to join new U.N. agenc ...
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  • A brief look at how different neighborhoods in Teh ...
    نامه ایی که هویت تهران را بیاد می آورند read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Support in High Places
    On November 2nd, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales releases his latest book Harmony , which he co-wrote with former Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper: We hear a lot about the royal family here in New Zealand. Most environmental activists here are aware that Prince Charles has been ...
  • How Resource Scarcity Threatens Democracy – ...
    In my last (Oct 27) blog, I discussed a YouTube presentation by Richard Heinberg, based on his book Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World , about the way the ruling elite is likely to manage the inevitable social upheaval stemming from severe resource scarcity. Option I, which I dis ...
  • How Resource Scarcity Threatens Democracy
    If I should suddenly develop a fatal cancer, Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything , is definitely the person I would want to break the news. Heinberg is a soft spoken, gentle, Mahatma Gandhi kind of guy who blows you away by telling you the party is over and there is no soft landing. But in s ...
  • Working Class Culture
    One of the things I like best about living in New Zealand is the strong working class consciousness here. Any American who has entered professional or academic life from a blue collar home will tell you there is a distinct working class culture in the US, as in the rest of the world. Despite the bes ...
  • Working Class Culture
    One of the things I like best about living in New Zealand is the strong working class consciousness here. Any American who has entered professional or academic life from a blue collar home will tell you there is a distinct working class culture in the US, as in the rest of the world. Despit ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Where are we, and what are we doing in this handba ...
    I’ve lately been tripping on just how much the world has changed in the past ten years, or more specifically, how the USA has changed. The “War on Terror” has been going on for nearly ten years now, and it’s reached new heights of transcendental absurdity. Absurd on many levels. Absurd in that the t ...
  • Mars or Bust, Scientists Call for Suicide Mission ...
    Has NASA really put out a call for people who want to volunteer for a one way mission to Mars? Well, not yet, but two scientists did float the idea to test the waters so to speak. And it turns out, which shouldn’t be too surprising, that there are indeed people who would volunteer for [...]
  • Scientists prove that humans can see into the futu ...
    OK, maybe that’s not quite literally what has been discovered, but close enough. A set of careful experiments has shown that the human brain can be influenced by events that haven’t happened yet! Let me repeat that just so it sinks in, scientists have discovered scientific proof that the human brain ...
  • Through Thick and Thin, from UFOs to PC Gay Bashin ...
    Poot, the UFOs didn’t show up as promised. Well, except for some escaped mylar balloons in NYC apparently. Yes, the aliens cleverly disguised their spacecraft to look like balloons, then brainwashed some hapless human into thinking they had lost some balloons. All part of the alien’s diabolical, and ...
  • The Ten Most Influential People in History?
    I saw this question on Yahoo Answers and it got me thinking. So my post about UFOs, Chilean Miners, the American Elections, Robert Gates and gays, and the nightmare in Mexico is going to have to wait. Who are the most influential people in history is a very debatable question, and honestly my knowle ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Palm Oil Conundrum
    Join the forum discussion on this post People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing field (i.e., they don’t require big subsidies or mandates in order to compete). ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part III
    Join the forum discussion on this post This is the concluding installment of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy). Part I discussed the overall goals of the Navy’s biofuel efforts, and in Part II we covered why coal-to-liquids (CTL) is presently off-l ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part II
    Join the forum discussion on this post In Part I of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), we covered the nature of what the Navy is trying to achieve (and why) with respect to incorporating renewable energy into their operations. Part II begins with a ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part I
    Robert Rapier and Sam Avro conducted an interview with the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy) in which the Navy’s investments in biofuels were discussed.
  • Tourism Resorts and Oil Exploration in the Caspian ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ———————- SITUATION: One indirect consequence of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the impact it may have on the financing of the many tourism projects that have sprouted alo ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 7 Surprising Sperm Killers that Could Leave Men Sh ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Sperm killers are everywhere. They saturate you in the shower, seep into your skin in the checkout line, and even ooze into the convenience food you grab on the fly. No matter the point of entry, many everyday chemicals are zapping sperm counts and even silently scrambling D ...
  • TV Time Linked to Psyche Problems in Kids
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Any parent knows the television conundrum: Children’s shows can be entertaining and educational, but the benefits can quickly drop off as kids spend more and more time staring at the screen. A new study expands on the effects of TV on children, revealing that kids who get to ...
  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: 10 Tips for Becoming a Pea ...
    RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—Are you looking for ways to power up your motivation to make positive changes in your life? Knowing how to motivate yourself is critical for success, but it's not always easy. Many of the people I see come for help in achieving a challenging personal goal: “I want to lose 25 ...
  • Mediterranean Diet Cuts Diabetes Risk in Half
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The health effects of the famed Mediterranean diet have been known for years, but findings from a new Spanish study may be the most dramatic proof to date. As published in the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes Care , the researchers tested subjects from the PR ...
  • Gum Disease Linked to Preterm Births
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Pregnant women know the drill—a healthy pregnancy means no smoking, cutting the caffeine, eating right, and getting some exercise. read more

big think

  • Stupid is Fearless: Corporate America Supplies a V ...
    The GOP takes the House, brace for a Tsunami of Stupid. [Photo credit: Lindsay Beyerstein ]Read More
  • Intergalactic "G" Mail?
    Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science.� If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed by Aaron .. ...
  • 10 Top Women in Male-Dominated Fields
    Despite the strides women have made toward equality in the past 50 years, they remain underrepresented in a variety of professions. Today we salute ten female pioneers in traditionally male-dominated fields: 1. Irina Krush (Chess Master): Unlike most competitive pursuits, chess allows women to .. ...
  • Urbee: The World's First 3-D Printed Car
    3-D printing and rapid prototyping have been among the hottest trends in design innovation this year. But Urbee , a two-passenger hybrid vehicle whose entire body has been generated using a 3-D additive manufacturing process, ups the ante on what this technology can offer. A collaboration bet ...
  • What Ted Sorenson Did For Your Country
    In this brief video accompanying their obituary , the New York Times asks Ted Sorenson to discuss his relationship with President Kennedy. It was a relationship without contemporary analog, like Sorenson himself. Remembering his legacy is appropriate today, as so much of America teems with emotion . ...

Information Liberation

  • Is Obama A Keynesian? Rally For Sanity, 10/30/10 ...
    Democracy in action!...
  • Living Beyond Our Means: 3 Charts That Prove That ...
    Do you want to see something truly frightening?* Just check out the 3 charts posted further down in this article.* These charts prove that we are now in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world.* As Americans have enjoyed an incredibly won...
  • Virginia High School Says Barring Students From Do ...
    A few folks have sent over this bizarre and slightly scary story of the the Westfield High School in Fairfax Virginia, which recently sent home a notice of "Expectations of Integrity" for the school's Advanced Placement (AP) World History class, whi...
  • Tax and Crash
    The United States and its co-conspirator governments are prepared to impose a new round of *security* mandates on airlines in response to an alleged discovery of explosives in Yemeni-based flights destined for Chicago. Giovanni Bisignani, the CEO of ...
  • The Madness of Barack Obama
    President Obama is on the campaign trail warning voters about "returning to the very same policies that failed us during the last decade." If he's talking about bailouts, ineffective stimulus packages, and massive government spending, then we wo...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • 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 →
  • MWP – The Warmists’ Retreat Gains Spee ...
    I’m on the road at the moment, so just a brief post today. I was most amused to read the latest article in Watt’s Up With That? concerning a climate conference that occurred a month ago in Portugal, and attended … Continue reading →
  • It’s Started Again – Biodiversity And ...
    We’ve been predicting it, and now it appears to have happened. After Cancún, Anthropogenic Global Warming is generally expected to have oulived (by far) its fifteen minutes of fame, and will be quietly dropped by Western governments; so quietly, in … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • A New Milestone in Intelligence Budget Disclosure
    With last week’s disclosure of the total intelligence budget for 2010, including budget figures for the National Intelligence Program ($53.1 billion) and the Military Intelligence Program ($27 billion), the Obama Administration has provided a new degree of transparency on intelligence spending. The ...
  • Intel Budget Disclosure: What Comes Next?
    The disclosure of the total annual amount of intelligence spending may be seen as the culmination of decades of advocacy and activism.  Budget disclosure will help to normalize the intelligence function of government, to promote a new degree of public accountability, and to combat the obfuscation an ...
  • ODNI Rethinks and Releases 2006 Intel Budget
    Last week, on the same day that the 2010 intelligence budget totals were revealed, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence also released another previously undisclosed intelligence budget figure — the 2006 budget appropriation for the National Intelligence Program. “The aggregate amount ...
  • ODNI Issues New Security Standards for Intel Facil ...
    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued new standards for the construction of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs). SCIFs (pronounced “skiffs”) are rooms, vaults, or even entire buildings that are specially constructed and certified for the handling and stora ...
  • Information Sharing: Feast or Famine
    Sharing of intelligence and other sensitive information within government and with selected private sector entities remains a work in progress.  Depending on one’s perspective, there is too little sharing, or too much, or else the right stuff is not being shared. J. Alan Orlob, the Vice President f ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Shrinking synchrotrons, stink bugs, odour vie
    Shrinking synchrotrons – Details of a tabletop synchrotron device has been revealed by an international team of scientists in the journal Nature Physics. The new device could revolutionise X-ray work and preclude the need for large-scale synchrotrons in many structural studies without compromising r ...
  • Latest science snippets
    Shampoo in your eyes – Botanical extracts added to shampoos almost never do anything at all and are usually  there purely and simply to make the product look more natural.   They are used at very low levels indeed. Expensive shampoo is a waste of money as is the cheap stuff you buy by the gallon. [. ...
  • Olive oil, breast cancer, gigapixel scans
    Olive oil biophenols – Raman reveals all – The first report of Raman spectroscopy being used to look at chemical structures in olive oil has been published. The study establishes Raman as a rapid, non-destructive and reliable analytical technique for identifying bioactive components, such as biophen ...
  • Boiling sun, alchemist, freewill
    The boiling Sun – In case you woke up today feeling important…there's a rather humbling picture that shows the scale of a plume of gas erupting from the surface of the Sun that would literally engulf the whole planet. More to the point, you could fit the Earth into the sun a million times over…and [ ...
  • When is yawning contagious?
    When is yawning contagious? – Apparently, yawns are most contagious at 7:30 pm. But, why? No one knows for sure even why we yawn, let alone why we yawn after seeing someone else yawn or even simply after seeing someone pretend to yawn. (If it were a change in air pressure or CO2 levels in [...] When ...

RFF Library

  • A Realistic Technology and Engineering Assessment ...
    Energy Biosciences Institute / by Tryg Lundquist, Ian Woertz, Nigel Quinn, John Benemann www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/media/AlgaeReportFINAL.pdf [Green Car Congress] Even with necessary advances in biology and process efficiencies, the resource potential of microalgae biofuels will always be m ...
  • Innovation and International Technology Transfer: ...
    CERN/ParisTech, Center for Economics and Industry / by Arnaud de la Tour, Matthieu Glachant, and Yann Ménière http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/49/85/78/PDF/CERNA_WP_2010-12.pdf [Michael Levi's summary] The ratio of hype-to-facts in discussions about the Chinese clean energy sector is remar ...
  • Evaluation of Proposed Tax Changes on the US Oil & ...
    Wood MacKenzie for American Petroleum Institute http://tinyurl.com/2wysrpz [Michael Levi's summary] Fine-grained analysis of how tax changes proposed by the administration would affect production. The administration has argued that since the value of the tax changes is a small fraction of the value ...
  • Trading Carbon for Food: Global Comparison of Carb ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (November 1, 2010) (doi: 10.1073/pnas.101107810) / by Paul C. West, Holly K. Gibbs, Chad Monfreda, John Wagner, Carol C. Barford, Stephen R. Carpenter and Jonathan A. Foley (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/28/1011078107 [ ...
  • Engineering the Climate: Research and Strategies f ...
    US House of Representatives / by Bart Gordon, Committee on Science and Technology http://tinyurl.com/37wgj9f [PEN-e posting] This report…states that climate engineering, also known as geoengineering, can be described as the deliberate large scale modification of the earthâs climate systems for the p ...

Scientific American - News

  • Exposing the Weakest Link: As Airline Passenger Se ...
    The latest terrorism scare, involving a pair of explosive packages bound for Chicago from Yemen, has shed light on a new target for bombers--aircraft traveling to the U.S. whose cargo holds either have not been inspected, or if they have, by x-rays and bomb-sniffing dogs� that are not sensitive enou ...
  • Color Bind: A New Study Finds Wind Turbine Color M ...
    It is clear that wind turbines--the number of which is steadily increasing globally--kill bats. They also kill birds, but studies have consistently shown the Halloween icons to be more prone to death by turbine . The data also indicate that certain species of insectivorous bats, in particular migra ...
  • A Cut-and Dry Forecast: U.S. Southwest's Dry Spell ...
    Lake Mead, the massive reservoir created in the late 1930s by Hoover Dam on the Arizona–Nevada border, has dropped to its lowest level ever, it was reported earlier this month. The lake has been steadily growing shallower since drought began reducing the flow of its source, the Colorado River, start ...
  • Everyday BPA Exposure Decreases Human Semen Qualit ...
    The common industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has been linked to many ills , including reproductive abnormalities, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Much of the evidence for these associations, however, has been drawn from animal or in vitro research and has been somewhat controversial as ...
  • Polio in Retreat: New Cases Nearly Eliminated Wher ...
    The world's largest, most intractable source of polio may be on the brink of elimination. In India the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have produced more polio cases this decade--nearly 5,000--than any other location worldwide that has an active immunization campaign. Nigeria saw a handful more ca ...

RAWA News

  • Any hope I had in the ballot box bringing change i ...
    The Guardian: One year ago Hamid Karzai was declared re-elected as president of Afghanistan, ending an election that had no legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Afghans. The presidential election last year was a fraud, with ballot stuffing, vote buying and massive corruption reported by the world’s me ...
  • New files reveal brutal role of British in Afghani ...
    Socialist Worker: The Ministry of Defence has released detailed reports of British troops’ actions in Afghanistan—and they reveal a lot about the crisis of the occupation. The reports were released in response to a Freedom of Information request made by the Guardian newspaper after Wikileaks reveale ...
  • BETTER IDEA: Bringing home 243 troops could pay fo ...
    Rethink Afghanistan: Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times column shares a shocking statistic that shows the U.S.’s warped priorities in Afghanistan: if we brought home just 243 troops, we’d save enough money to pay for all higher education everywhere in Afghanistan this year.
  • How British forces fired on Afghan civilians
    The Guardian: Leaks of classified war documents by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks accuse British troops of carrying out attacks on Afghan civilians. The Ministry of Defence today disclosed its version of the incidents after a freedom of information request by the Guardian. Although an incomple ...
  • Watchdog: Company botched Afghan police stations
    The Associated Press: n Afghan-owned company bungled the construction of police stations there so badly that the buildings are at risk of collapse, undermining U.S.-led efforts to beef up the country's security forces, a government watchdog says.

frogblog

  • Urgency – Nats go crazy
    There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the Govt’s use of urgency. So I asked the library to do the stats. Which show that the Nats really are using urgency a lot more. Another example of their neo-Muldoonism. Urgency 48th and 49th Parliament (to 2 November 2010)       ...
  • Jeanette says we must keep the coal in the ground
    The Herald ran a very compelling op-ed by Jeanette Fitzsimons yesterday, suggesting that from a climate perspective our priority must be to keep most of the remaining fossil fuel in the ground. For 35 years I have been wrong about how to prevent climate change. It’s time I confessed ...
  • Uneconomic motorways – one thing Brash and I ...
    There aren’t many things that Don Brash and I agree on however one thing we have in common is we both share concerns around the Government’s massive motorway infrastructure projects. In the media statement on the latest 2025 Taskforce report it mentions “Public investment in big pro ...
  • Key in denial about inevitable impact of carbon ch ...
    John Key’s reaction to the distance-based UK departure tax shows just how out of touch he is about our economic future. This Government is deeply in denial. There is no question that climate change and rising fossil fuel prices will change travel patterns, and we should be taking th ...
  • Digital copyright and suspending suspension
    I may be a geek, but not the type that can fix your computer. I love technology, and even though I haven’t had a huge history of looking into tech and copyright issues, I really enjoyed hearing submissions on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. The Bill essential ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • 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 ...
  • Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
    Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Two Lessons From the Election
    I don't have a whole lot to say about tonight's election results, but I will toss out a couple of quick thoughts: Live by the model, die by the model. Lots of Democrats, including me, have been pointing out that structural factors alone predicted a 45-seat loss in the House this year. In other word ...
  • Election Coverage
    I'm not planning to do a lot of heavy election blogging myself, but MoJo has a dedicated election page with tons of updates and coverage of all the major races. If that's what you crave, click here and then check in throughout the night. Comments | Post Comment � � � �
  • Top Ten Lists
    Here's a Twitter conversation from last night: @kdrum: �@ebertchicago's "Why I Loathe Top 10 Film Lists" doesn't actually say a word about why he loathes Top Ten lists. http://ow.ly/323Z8 @RemoteClancy: re: @ebertchicago & Top 10 lists. Not a word, just 900 of them. Re-read his response to 'Best ...
  • Headline of the Year
    A friend passes this along as headline of the year: BP ups Gulf spill cost to $40 billion, still reports profit No comment needed. Comments | Post Comment � � � �
  • Magical Thinking
    Paul Krugman on the notion that Barack Obama blew it by not focusing more on jobs: So when you say Obama should have focused more, what policies are you talking about? A bigger stimulus? As far as I can tell, almost no pundits are saying that. So what other concrete policies do they have in mind? I ...

Insanity Report

  • In Terms of Noise…MSNBC = Fox News
    So at the Rally yesterday, during one of the segments Jon Stewart played a montage of ridiculous over the top rhetoric from both sides (Left & Right) of the mainstream media.  No one around me in the rally at the time seemed to have any problem.  Most actuallylaughed.  But apparently some Liberals d ...
  • The Insanity Reports on The The Rally To Restore S ...
    The irony of me, the owner of this site called The Insanity Report, going to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” is not lost on me. I created the Insanity Report in order to report on all the crazy things going in the world. I wasn’t meaning to be political [...] ...
  • IC 207: Take It Down a Notch
    Topics for the show: The Rally to Restore Sanity The media just doesn’t “get it” Al Qaeda is FedEx’in bombs now Suing a 4 year old? Join the Facebook Group for weekly updates on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Share with your friends:
  • IC 206: Ignorance
    Topics for the show: Ryce brought a 6 pack of beer…awesome Lebron makes a new commercial and kinda wants us to feel sorry for him Baracka Flocka Flame, Wacka Flocka Flame and other ignorance Satire sometimes makes you look dumber than the ones making you dumber than the people you make fun of Democr ...
  • “Just Stop Spending”
    So I’m going through my morning wake up routine of getting pissed off at the world to get my day started by watching Morning Joe when a discussion during one of the segments made me more frustrated than usual.  Joe Scarborough (you know the guy who starts every other sentence with “Back in 94 when [ ...

Simple Climate

  • Arctic warming full ahead
    With both the Northeast and Northwest Passages opening to shipping this year, as the Arctic climate continues to change rapidly, ships actually using them could make matters worse.
  • “Cherry picking” is a rotten accusation
    Choosing which data to include and which to leave out is central to science, argues Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang, even though critics of climate scientists might object to leaving out certain weather stations from their temperature measurements.
  • Climate-driven species creep hangs in the balance
    Competing influences are allowing the equatorial end of some organisms' range to stay in place, while warming allows them to move further polewards, but when the competition breaks down, population decline can be expected, scientists have suggested this week.
  • Rapid climate change poses ecological questions
    Cold-blooded tropical creatures, like lizards, are more affected by global warming than their relatives in colder areas, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang has found. Now, he says that this unexpected result shows just how much ecologists don't know about what the current s ...
  • CO2 dominates Earth’s climate, NASA reveals
    Earth's temperature would fall 35°C in 50 years without CO2, as water vapour condenses into water and ice and the greenhouse effect collapses, show Andrew Lacis and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demonstrating that CO2 alone is the “thermostat” for climate change.

e!Science News

  • Do holes make moles?
    The mysterious origins of Australia's bizarre and secretive marsupial moles have been cast in a whole new and unexpected light with the first discovery in the fossil record of one of their ancestors. read more
  • Fossil finger records key to ancestors' behavior
    Scientists, in collaboration with researchers at the universities of Southampton and Calgary, used finger ratios from fossilised skeletal remains of early apes and extinct hominins, as indicators of the levels of exposure species had to prenatal androgens – a group of hormones that is important in t ...
  • Workers hold key to power in nature's oldest socie ...
    A new study analysing how complex, highly-evolved societies are organised in nature has found that it is workers that play a pivotal role in creating well-ordered societies where conflict is minimised. read more
  • Tamiflu is more effective at relieving flu symptom ...
    In adults with seasonal influenza A virus infection, the combination of the drugs oseltamivir (tamiflu) and zanamivir (relenza) is less effective than oseltamivir monotherapy and not significantly more effective than zanamivir monotherapy. This key finding comes from a randomized, placebo-controlled ...
  • New study re-examines bacterial vaccine studies co ...
    WHAT: Secondary infections with bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, were a major cause of death during the 1918 flu pandemic and may be important in modern pandemics as well, according to a new article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases co-authored by David M. Moren ...

unEarthed

  • Kansas Good Guy Gets The Knife Over His Coal Power ...
    Rod Bremby A pollution issue that made a hero out of a Kansas governor and helped propel her into Obama's cabinet has made a martyr out of the public servant who actually took the courageous action at the heart of the controv ...
  • Monday Reads: The Landscaping Goat Edition
    It’s finally happened. The job outsourcing phenomenon has moved to another level. Forget outsourcing jobs to other countries—now they’re being outsourced to other species . Portland, OR, is just the latest urban area to join the hip (and sensible) species outsourcing trend. Quiet the noisy, gas guz ...
  • Word to Your Mother (Earth)
    The CounterParts Crew does not rap about “popping caps” or “getting hyphy,” and they would likely question the eco-friendliness of anyone “rolling on dubs.” Instead, the hip-hop group is dropping rhymes in the name of today's el ...
  • Industry Flunkies Flunk Econ 101
    Thousands of lives and billions of dollars will be saved every year by new air pollution rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Polluting industries are lining up in opposition to these life-saving controls. In at ...
  • Buying Denial On November 2
    An open pit coal mine on public land in Wyoming. Bureau of Land Management photo. NPR recently ran a story reporting that most Republican candidates for U.S. Senate assert that human activities are not contributing to climate ...

Brave New Climate

  • Two nuclear-solar dialogues in Melbourne next week
    Back in September, I visited UNSW in Sydney and debated Mark Diesendorf on nuclear and solar power. It was a useful night, with quite a few Sydney-based BNC readers attending. I was pleased with the outcome — I just hope the audio becomes available at some point. Now this “Brain Food” event comes to ...
  • Of brains, biceps and baloney
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s recent book Storms of my Grandchildren makes accessible the evidence behind the judgement of m ...
  • Open Thread 7
    Open Thread 6 is getting overly bloated in its old age, at 650 comments, and is taking too much time to load. So it’s time for new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So [...]
  • SNE 2060 – can we build nuclear power plants fast ...
    The nuclear scenario I describe here requires around 10,000 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, to replace most of our current fossil fuel use. (For further justification of this 10 TW target, read this TCASE post.) My next step is to look critically as some of the critical underpinning assumptions — u ...
  • Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor at UC ...
    When I visited California earlier this month, Tom Blees and I paid a visit to Prof Per Peterson and Prof Jasmina Vujic at the Nuclear Engineering Department of UC Berkeley. After chatting over lunch, Per took us on a personal tour of his lab, which was quite an experience. Per’s research focuses on ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Ron Daniels: Blacks and the Republican Party: Rati ...
    Blacks and the Republican Party: Rational Choice or Complicity [finalcall.com] A recent article in the New York Times reported that 32 Blacks are running for Congress as Republicans in this year's mid-term elections, the largest number since the era of Reconstruction. The article attributed the “su ...
  • Junious Ricardo Stanton: The Truth About The Tea P ...
    The Truth About The Tea Party Movement - Harambee Radio and Television Network : A little over a year or so ago I started getting E-mail messages from Dick Armey who was calling for rallies and demonstrations against the policies of Barack Obama. How he got my E-mail address I’ll never kn ...
  • Rebelion. Esterilización forzada y discriminación ...
    Esterilización forzada y discriminación VIH en Chile [rebelion.org] Hace dos años, encontré a Francisca, una joven mujer de un pueblo rural de Chile. Cuando ella cumplió 20 años, recibieron con su marido la muy agradable noticia del nacimiento de su primer niño. Pero ese entusiasmo se trocó rápid ...
  • Rory MacKinnon: Profiteering from Prisons
    werewolf � Profiteering from Prisons : "When National won the 2008 general election by a landslide, the pundits were quick to attribute their popularity to two things: a promise to get tough on crime and an equally fervent promise to cut taxes by reducing government expenditure. But nearly two years ...
  • “The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that ...
    “The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that has been hidden until now” [wsws.org] On October 22, the web-based whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 internal US military reports that provide damning evidence of war crimes committed by the US government against the p ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicans Hate The Troops
    According to this story, 92% of politicians receiving a D, or an F grade are Republicans. Go figure. Raw Story Article
  • Fascism Is Finally Here
    Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...
  • Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
    If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
  • No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
    83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
  • Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
    Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...

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

  • ‘Road Through 2012′ Book Release Moved ...
    I've had two very powerful interests threaten to sue me over the release of my new book. To make matters even worse, a third interest is going to lengths to make my life as difficult as possible...
  • The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising (Video)
    Republicans and Democrats have failed us. Both parties have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99% of the US population no longer has political representation. The US economy, government and tax system are now bla ...
  • The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to ...
    The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War ...
  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
    Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
  • Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
    On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.

+972

  • An Argentinian lawyer who might get things moving ...
    Luis Moreno Ocampo has a big decision to make: should he recognize the Palestinian territories as a state? One of the most important decisions concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the near future could soon be made not by a local leader (not surprising), but by an Argentinian law ...
  • The midterms: an Israeli perspective
    President Barack Obama is not popular in Israel, to say the least. Israelis knew John McCain as their supporters; Obama was a mystery. Early in 2009, the new president’s attempts to approach the Arab world defined him as a pro-Palestinian, at least in the eyes of many Israelis. Minister Limor Livnat ...
  • Preparing public opinion for ethnic cleansing
    Not too long ago, Peter Beinart chastised the American-Jewish establishment for stretching the ostensible bond between liberal values and Zionism ever-closer to breaking point, and serving as enablers for ultra-right trends that would eventually destroy Israel as a democratic state. In particular, ...
  • Israel’s Arab problem, part two (Jerry Haber ...
    Readers: This is a long post, so here it is in a nutshell: I argue that in his recent book, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, implicitly endorses the involuntary expulsion of Israeli Arab citizens in the future as a way to solving what he calls “Israel ...
  • European diplomats join W. Bank demos
    From Bil’in to Beit Ummar, former and current European diplomats joined the weekly unarmed demonstrations this Friday to show support for the growing movement of non-violent civil disobedience against Israel’s occupation and the straggling placement of the separation wall. Norwegian parliament me ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • 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.
  • Gillard government welcomes forestry agreement
    The Australian Government today welcomed the landmark agreement between industry and environmental NGOs in Tasmania on the future of the Tasmanian forestry industry and the future of the state's native forests.
  • Coalition’s hypocrisy on Murray Darling Basin
    For the last two weeks the Coalition has been shouting from the roof tops that they oppose the Guide to the Draft of the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Florida foreclosures fraught with peril
    CBC News | “Canadians scooping up southern vacation properties might be buying legal headaches” “Canadians taking advantage of the U.S. mortgage crisis to pick up cheap vacation properties in Florida could be in for a rude awakening, according to those involved in the legal mess that has entangled t ...
  • BOMBSHELL- The Florida Foreclosure Judge’s B ...
    This may be my most important and most valuable post yet.  I have come into possession of a document which is purported to have been distributed to the judges that are hearing foreclosure cases across the State of Florida. The Foreclosure Bench Book is a very valuable resource that every defense pra ...
  • David Stern Must Stop Progress on All Freddie Mac ...
    The attached bulletin should be part of every litigator’s files.  Every judge should have it and it should be part of every argument if any David J. Stern cases are proceeding. This took far too long, but at least it has finally occurred.  No what about all the families that lost their homes over ...
  • Video: Breaking down the foreclosure problem
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  • A Most Disturbing Report Card- Sickening Really
    Clearing 65,830 Foreclosure Cases is No Accomplishment I’ve been a vocal and persistent critic of the Foreclosure Rocket Docket and frankly of most of the court’s efforts to clear foreclosure cases across the state.  The fundamental basis for my objections is my belief that the current manner in wh ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Where Did All The Money Go?
    Reasons are abundant for why recent civic elections went the way they did.  Some ascribe it to a right-wing leaning electorate, yet in Ontario, as well as Calgary, centrist or left-leaning candidates prevailed in numerous locations. The elites, who can’t stomach the fact that disconsolate masses wo ...
  • John’s Right
    A Nortel pensioner, John Watson, tweeted a response in regards to my post from yesterday, concerning Thomas Hobbes and his worry about a “war of all against all.”  My words vexed him and discouraged him … and he was right.  Let me quote him verbatim:  ”As a Nortel pensioner, I was already totally ...
  • “The Past is Prologue”
    I spent a lot of time at events this weekend and heard repeatedly of various disappointments people felt over losing the Security Council bid.  It was sad and it’s clear that the world now views us in a different fashion than previous.  Whatever the reasons, or whatever the damage, we have to put ...
  • A Darkness At The End Of The Tunnel
    You spend your entire adult lifetime working for a firm that you believed in and the products and image you helped to produce often beat out the competition and provided increased advantage to the lives of people. The benefits were good and the life insurance plan was up-to-date. And then it happene ...
  • The Elephants Are Coming
    My wife and I have been going to Sudan for a lot of years and have three children from that land. One of the realities that always haunted us on every journey was the ominous lack of wildlife.  At certain times during the long running civil war, when the gunfire had died down, days went [...]

Vaccine Awakening

  • 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 ...
  • Politics, Profits & Pandemic Fear Mongering
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Are you grabbing your face mask, stocking up on food and Tamiflu, locking your doors and keeping your TV tuned to the news to find out just how bad the "swine flu pandemic" really is going to get? While Americans are being scared to death, few are noticing how much of their ta ...

2020 Science

  • What happens when you cross a spider with a goat? ...
    Complete the following: Setting: A well known and sometimes off-beat technology commentator explores new breakthroughs on a popular TV science and tech show. Story: Spiders’ silk is incredibly strong, but in short supply (ever tried harvesting silk from a spider?). So why not take the gene responsib ...
  • Beyond the obvious – lessons from the Deepwater Ho ...
    The immediate lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are pretty obvious – we (or at least somebody) messed up!  But what about the less-obvious lessons – especially those concerning technology innovation and how it’s handled?  The Fall 2010 issue of Findings – the University of Michigan Schoo ...
  • I’m A Scientist – where the prize money went
    I love books – the old fashioned kind, printed with ink on paper.  As a kid, books were my source of education, inspiration and entertainment.  As an adult, I still find there’s something oddly satisfying about picking up a sheaf of printed and bound pages and immersing myself in them. So it’s per ...
  • Texas Instruments Graphing calculators – essential ...
    Last September regular readers of 2020 Science will recall that I was somewhat taken aback at having to fork out $100 for a Texas Instruments graphing calculator as my son started 7th grade math. One academic year on, was the purchase worth it? (Yes, despite my shock, we did reluctant acquiesce to t ...
  • ASME launches a new series of nanotechnology podca ...
    ASME – the organization that used to be known as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – has just launched a series of educational podcasts on nanotechnology that are well worth checking out. Between now and next February, the ASME Nanotechnology Institute will be posting new video and/or aud ...

Reader Supported News

  • Iran Stoning Case Woman to Be 'Hanged'
    The report begins: "An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday, a human rights group has said." An image of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani held during a rally in support of her in front of the Iranian ...
  • The War the Election Forgot
    "War sets the rhythm for military spouses like Veda Olechny. But for just about everyone else, it's easy to ignore, and in this turbulent election season there is little mention of Afghanistan or Iraq." Veda Olechny's husband, 1st Sgt. Patrick Olechny, is on his fourth tour of combat duty in Afgh ...
  • Raise Your Vote
    Voting is a fundamental right, and when we make our voices heard we can keep moving our nation forward, building a fairer, stronger and more just America. Find out where you vote here, and the number for the voter protection hotline in case you witness or experience problems at the polls. Patti V ...
  • The War the Election Forgot
    "War sets the rhythm for military spouses like Veda Olechny. But for just about everyone else, it's easy to ignore, and in this turbulent election season there is little mention of Afghanistan or Iraq." Veda Olechny's husband, 1st Sgt. Patrick Olechny, is on his fourth tour of combat duty in Afgh ...
  • Raise Your Vote
    Voting is a fundamental right, and when we make our voices heard we can keep moving our nation forward, building a fairer, stronger and more just America. Find out where you vote here, and the number for the voter protection hotline in case you witness or experience problems at the polls. Patti V ...



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