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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

3 November - RSS SnapShot Pt 2

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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Supreme Leadership Is Not Against Détente with ...
    Summary: Sadegh Kharrazi Iranian Diplomacy’s exclusive interview with Sadegh Kharrazi, who was Iran's Ambassador to France under Khatami government. part II. source: Iranian Diplomacy read more
  • How war with Iran might destroy the United States
    Summary: Juan Cole I can’t think of anything that would be worse for the US economy, or for Obama’s prospects for a second term, than going to a war footing with Iran. And, my own experience is that if you go to a war footing with a country, you have to be prepared for things spinning out of con ...
  • WashPost: War with Iran would rescue economy
    Summary: Washington Post political correspondent David Broder has kind words for President Barack Obama in in his opinion column Sunday, arguing that it isn't the president's fault the economy is stuck in reverse. But the four-decade-plus veteran of Washington politics offers a startling soluti ...
  • An Unnecessary War
    Summary: Afghanistan used to be the central front in the war against terrorism. Now it's a distraction from it. source: Foreign Policy read more
  • The Nuclear Program and Iran-US Mutual Strategic N ...
    Summary: Kayhan Barzegar Kayhan Barzegar is a faculty member at the Science and Research Campus of the Islamic Azad University and director of international affairs at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies. He maintains that the nature of Iran's nuclear program is such that it directs Ira ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • How the 2010 election results will affect health c ...
    (NaturalNews) In what appears to be a broad backlash against Obama-era policies, U.S. voters swept Republicans into office in record numbers in last night's election. As of this writing, Republicans had clearly taken the House but failed to win a majority in the Senate. This effectively ends the Dem ...
  • Amino acids are latest in growing list of nutrient ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers are zeroing in on specific nutrients and natural therapies that not only can prevent and heal disease but promote longevity. For example, as NaturalNews previously reported, a research team from Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc., and LifeGen Technologies found that Cordyceps sinens ...
  • Modern medicine discovers that a strong immune sys ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, have made a fascinating new discovery about the way the body's immune system fights off infections. Contrary to popular belief within mainstream medicine, the body's natural antibodies are capable of fighting o ...
  • Four years after Clinton's victory over sugary dri ...
    (NaturalNews) It was only four years ago that, with much fanfare, former President Bill Clinton announced the Alliance for a Healthier Generation , a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association. This project was supposed to drastically reduce junk food and soda av ...
  • Widespread deficiency leads to massive boost in vi ...
    (NaturalNews) Numerous studies have linked vitamin D deficiency to practically every known malady in the world today -- heart disease, chronic inflammation, arthritis, psoriasis, depression, influenza, asthma, allergies, autoimmune disorders, diabetes, autism, and even cancer. And even though many d ...

Threat Level

  • Malicious RoboCalls Aim at Suppressing Election Da ...
    Minority voters have received fliers and robocalls that would deter them from casting their ballots Tuesday. The fliers and robocalls disseminated misinformation about the date of the election and how voters should cast their ballots. According to the Election Protection Coalition, which has receive ...
  • Group Demands Immediate Halt of Full-Body Airport ...
    A leading privacy group is urging a federal appeals court to suspend the government’s program of introducing full-body imagining machines at airports across the country. The Transportation Security Administration began deploying 450 of them in March to dozens of airports nationwide. “The suspicionle ...
  • Voter Hotline — 866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)
    Just a reminder that voters who experience problems in the election on Tuesday can call a national hotline that is staffed with legal experts to answer questions. The hotline number is 866-OUR-VOTE. The hotline is run by Election Protection, a coalition of lawyers’ groups, such as the Committee for ...
  • EFF Defends Former Prosecutor From Righthaven Copy ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven is facing its second lawsuit from digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing a former federal prosecutor who tracks mysterious murder cases on his website. Thomas DiBiase runs nobodycases.com, a site exclusively dedicated to tracking so-c ...
  • Sealed Courtroom Sought in High-Speed–Trading Code ...
    Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have asked a judge to seal the courtroom in an upcoming corporate-espionage trial to protect the secret of Goldman Sachs’ controversial high-speed trading software. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York asked the judge last week to close the courtroom (.p ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Strong Turnout May Be Democrats' Last, Best Hope
    As voters head to the polls, the conventional wisdom states that red wave will wash over the United States. While political statistician extraordinaire Nate Silver concluded a Republican takeover of the Senate is unlikely, he estimates GOP gains in the House could reach 55 seats. That's in line wi ...
  • Messenger of Jesus Goes on Trial in Texas
    As a police photographer snapped his mug shot back in 2005, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay prayed, "Let people see Christ through me." Now, five years after he was indicted for money laundering, Delay's trial has finally begun in Austin, Texas. And while he may not walk on water, Tom Delay ...
  • GOP Promises Two More Years of No Compromise
    The more things change, the more they stay the same. On the eve of midterms elections that could make him House Speaker, John Boehner announced, "This is not a time for compromise." His lieutenant Mike Pence (R-IN) echoed that line, declaring that with a new Republican majority "there will be no c ...
  • The Triumph of Delusion
    Over this pre-election weekend, CNN will air a special called, " Boiling Point: Inside the Tea Party ." Whether or not its right-wing fury brings a conservative wave to Washington, the network insists, "the Tea Party has earned a place in history." But even more than its decibel level , none-too-t ...
  • Save American Charities. Restore the Estate Tax.
    Last week, Americans learned that the nation's biggest charities suffered a staggering 11% drop in donations last year. That decline in contributions to the 400 largest charitable organizations was the worst in two decades. More than anything else, American charities hoping to refill their coffers ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Tea Party's Misinformation Superhighway Runs T ...
    I met Delaware Tea Party dynamo Christine O'Donnell in the "green room" set up for right-wing bloggers attending Americans for Prosperity's "Right Online" conference at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas in late July. The free-market-loving, climate-change-denying group launched by Kansas oil billionai ...
  • Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Education and Immig ...
    " America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc. are here to stay. And the only way to perceive them is to accept them and their existence as valid. Acceptance, that's real ...
  • Bicentennial Nothing to Celebrate, Say Indigenous ...
    Mexico City, Sep 24, 2010 - "I don't understand why we should celebrate [Independence]. There will be no freedom in Mexico until repression against indigenous peoples is eliminated," says Sadhana, whose name means "moon" in the indigenous Mazahua language. read more
  • Untitled
    Click through to a video interview with the other Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. Scrub through to 6.10, to discover what Nick Cave thinks should happen to me. (Also, a nice plug for the French edition of my novel.)
  • "Waiting for 'Superman'": A simplistic view of edu ...
    In the eyes of some education observers, "Waiting for 'Superman'" oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies an education reform silver bullet for struggling public schools. read more

Consortium News

  • WPost's Blinders on Afghan War
    As boosters for the Afghan War, Washington Post editors ignore the bad news that their own reporters find, notes Robert Parry. October 28, 2010
  • Explaining US Military's Cultural Divide
    The US military's retreat from officer training at elite colleges added to a harmful cultural gap, says ex-CIA officer Paul R. Pillar. October 28, 2010
  • How Wall Street Plans to Party On
    The scandal that took down N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer was a lucky break for Wall Street's own party boys, writes Michael Winship. October 27, 2010
  • Ray McGovern on WikiLeaks Assault
    In a video report, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says the US news media attacks WikiLeaks founder rather than Iraq war crimes. October 27, 2010
  • WPost Downplays Iraq War Crimes
    The Washington Post's editors try to wash blood from their hands by minimizing the WikiLeaks records, notes Robert Parry. October 26, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • California is leaving Texas in the dust in solar e ...
    In spite of its many problems, California is leaving Texas in the dust in solar energy production. The Obama administration has approved the sixth solar venture authorized on federal lands within the last month for a project in the Mojave Desert near Blythe, Calif.  All of the projects are on federa ...
  • You can attend a hearing on redistricting in your ...
    The House Committee on Redistricting, as a function of it’s procedural jurisdiction and as part of the 81st legislature’s interim charges, is conducting public hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will occur during the 82nd Legislature, which begins January 11, 2011.  The committee ...
  • Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a beh ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a behind-closed-door negotiation b/w NRG, CPS Energy, and Chairman Barry Smitherman
  • Victoria follows EPA Greenhouse Gas rules even if ...
    In today’s Victoria Advocate, Victoria Environmental Programs Coordinator Marie Lester said that they will be in compliance with the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations. Lester said Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions meet all of the new requirements set by the EPA. The new emission rules are set to go ...
  • Public Citizen’s website or Tom Delay on trial yes ...
    As the Tom Delay trial got underway, the State’s first two witnesses were Craig McDonald, a former Public Citizen Texas director and now the executive director for Texans for Public Justice, and Austin attorney Fred Lewis, both of whom the defense characterized as being from the left end of the poli ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • The hunt for the Iron Man of the Gorbals
    Paul English recounts a peculiar incident that occured in a Glasgow graveyard 47 years ago. It had been an unusual case of mass hysteria, teams of sch...
  • Street lamps replaced with glowing trees ?
    Taiwanese researchers are working on a way to replace street lamps with glow-in-the-dark trees. The research involves lacing them with gold nanopartic...
  • Potatoes could boost water supplies
    New technology designed to extract water from potatoes could help provide drinking water during droughts. The method is being developed by PepsiCo who...
  • Unicorn video exposed as a hoax
    A video showing what appears to be a unicorn running through the woods has been confirmed to be a hoax. The Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Canada ...
  • Will man merge with machines in the future ?
    As technology gets more and more sophisticated will we one day become one with machines ? From augmented vision to improved artificial limbs, as our t...

Grassroots

  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Launches in New Orlea ...
    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...
  • Insights - Fall 2010
    An important victory is unfolding: the US Food Sovereignty Alliance is officially being launched on World Food Day, October 16. More than three years in the making, this event represents not only a first for the US, but a much awaited step forward for the food sovereignty movement worldwide. Read mo ...

Climate

  • Voters Keep California's Global Warming Law Intact
    Source:� LA Times California voters defeated a ballot measure Tuesday that would have suspended the state's climate change law until the unemployment fell below 5.5 percent for a year.
  • GOP Wins House in Huge Swing
    Source:� WSJ Republicans leaders won control of the House and Democrats managed to retain their majority in the Senate following months of voter discontent over the economy and government policy.
  • Republicans Make Gains in Governorships
    Source:� Washington Post Republicans seized control of a majority of the nation's governorships Tuesday, recapturing conservative states and displacing Democratic governors. read more
  • GOP Seizes Control of Key State Legislatures
    Source:� AP Republicans seized control of about a dozen state legislative chambers Tuesday night, delivering a major blow to Democrats and picking up key redistricting powers along the way.
  • S.Korea to Build 8.2 Billion-Dollar Offshore Wind ...
    Source:� AFP South Korea said Tuesday it would build a massive offshore wind farm off the west coast by 2019 to develop new sources of renewable energy and help wind turbine exporters.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Liu who? UN’s Ban silent on rights during Ch ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is gearing up for a campaign to retain his seat as the United Nations' top official for another five years, U.N. diplomats say. This, rights advocates suggest, may be the reason he sidestepped the issue of human rights during his latest visit to China, his fourth in as ...
  • U.S. mid-terms and the Afghan war
    It's one of the biggest weeks in U.S. politics, with the mid-term elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives, and it may well eventually impact the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, even though it's not been a campaign issue.
  • Will Obama refer to Kashmir in public in India?
    Will Obama say the word "Kashmir" in public in India?
  • Green energy aspirations for Obama’s India v ...
    When Barack Obama heads for India next month, he'll be carrying a heavy policy agenda. Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel Peace laureate who heads the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hopes the U.S. president has time to focus on clean energy too.
  • Clinton sees diplomats of the future in cargo pant ...
    Hillary Clinton has urged Congress to finance a major new U.S. push on overseas development aid, arguing that only by building up a global middle class will the United States increase its own national security.

Booman Tribune

  • Some Idle Thoughts
    It's a bloodbath in the House. However, that is not yet been proven to be the case in the Senate. It's still too early to say. Ohio looks pitiful in the House and Senate, but pretty good in the governor's race, which is the most important. My initial assessment is that we're getting killed in th ...
  • Election Night Thread
    CNN and MSNBC waited zero seconds to call Kentucky for Rand Paul and Indiana for Dan Coats. Imagine it in your mind: Senator Rand Paul. Aqua Buddha!! Discuss
  • Some Great News on a Bad Day
    Good news. My friends Mr. and Mrs. Noz have succeeded on appeal and will be bringing home a wonderful baby boy from Kazakhstan. Another couple (friends of ours) finally saw a heartbeat on their ultrasound today after many sad setbacks and frustrations. So, this day may not turn out so badly afte ...
  • What's Going On in Your Community?
    Election day is the worst day for blogging. People should be making calls and knocking on doors instead of blogging. I'm scheduled for a 4-8 shift and, if I can work the logistics with the little guy, I'll be in the field. If not, I'll use the OFA tool to make some phone calls. I voted this ...
  • I Got Exit Polled - What Was I Asked?
    I voted many times but this was the first time I've ever seen an exit poll outside my polling place. It was also the first time I was chosen to participate in an exit poll. Apparently AP, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN and one other so-called news organization (Fox) have joined their collective forces to ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • From Sexual Abuse to PTSD: What Lies In Between?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary It is well-documented that sexual abuse, especially during childhood, is one of the traumatic life experiences that make a person far more likely to suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder later down the line. Psychotherapists and counselors regularly work wi ...
  • Are You Stuck in a Woman’s Role?
    By Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT, Women’s Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darlene and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Women assume many roles throughout their lives â as daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, and grandmothers. Womenâs roles have been largely determined by the rules a ...
  • Understanding Sexual Anorexia
    By GoodTherapy.org Member Caroline Frost, MA, MFTI & Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT Click here to contact Caroline and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Recent interest in sexual addiction has drawn attention to a variation called Sexual Anorexia.  Also called sexual “acting in,” sexual anorexia is ...
  • Will You Do “What it Takes”?
    By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile It’s world series time—the Fall Classic!  Even if you are not a sports fan, I think you’ll appreciate my connecting sports and relationships. I was listening to some post-gam ...
  • For Rosalynn Carter, Mental Illness Advocacy Remai ...
    Rosalynn Carter has been passionate about mental illness for more than four decades, since meeting the hard-working mother of a woman with mental illness while her husband was campaigning for Governor of Georgia. Addressing an international conference for women’s mental health in Pennsylvania last w ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Reflecting the demise of natural resources - Humbo ...
    Reflecting the demise of natural resources Humboldt Beacon When a mountaintop-removal coal mine encroaches on their community, the two find themselves on opposing sides of a debate dividing their community and the ...
  • House Democrats Speak Out Against Mountain Top Rem ...
    New York Times (blog) House Democrats Speak Out Against Mountain Top Removal Care2.com (blog) In April, the EPA announced a set of actions to further clarify and strengthen environmental permitting requirements for Appalachian mountaintop removal and ... EPA Takes Historic Step Toward Stopping Mega ...
  • EPA seeks to combine mining lawsuits - Charleston ...
    EPA seeks to combine mining lawsuits Charleston Gazette EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced her agency's actions in response to a growing body of science that shows mountaintop removal is causing ... and more��
  • Group plants trees in mountaintop-removal protest ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Group plants trees in mountaintop-removal protest Charleston Gazette John Johnson, one of the leaders of Sunday's demonstration against mountaintop removal mining at Kayford Mountain, shows a crowd of protesters how to plant ... Risking Arrest to Plant Trees on a Mountaint ...
  • Contracts show mountain coal sources - The Daily T ...
    Contracts show mountain coal sources The Daily Tar Heel Surface mining, which also includes mountaintop removal , is mining that results in the destruction of the mined area's surface. ...

Memeorandum

  • Prop. 19 headed to defeat, exit polls show (Anthon ...
    Anthony York / PolitiCal : Prop. 19 headed to defeat, exit polls show   —  California voters appear to have rejected Prop.  19, an effort to legalize marijuana and allow local governments to tax the sale of the drug.  —  Prop. 19 received national attention, but relatively little money was spent o ...
  • The big tech pedigree doesn't help: Whitman and Fi ...
    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : The big tech pedigree doesn't help: Whitman and Fiorina go down in flames   —  Perhaps tonight's elections in California should be a lesson for technology executives at big tech companies.  The pedigree of being an executive at a major tech company isn't necessarily ...
  • Exit Polls: the surprise in Delaware (Gschwarzcnn/ ...
    Gschwarzcnn / CNN : Exit Polls: the surprise in Delaware   —  (CNN) - The thing about Delaware is: it's no Kentucky.  —  The Tea Party's first Senate loss of the night may be no big surprise - the only question heading into tonight's been how big a victory margin Chris Coons would capture over Chri ...
  • G.O.P. Captures House, but Not Senate (Jeff Zeleny ...
    Jeff Zeleny / New York Times : G.O.P. Captures House, but Not Senate   —  Republicans captured control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and expanded their voice in the Senate, riding a wave of voter discontent as they dealt a setback to President Obama just two years after his triumphal ...
  • A Victorious Paul Vows to Stick to Message (Campbe ...
    Campbell Robertson / New York Times : A Victorious Paul Vows to Stick to Message   —  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — From the earliest days of his campaign, even before his Republican primary victory that shook up the Kentucky political establishment, Rand Paul has pledged not to compromise.  And that was t ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Flickering beacon
    California’s environmental policies have signalled to China that – despite stalemate in Washington – Americans are interested in green progress. After a turbulent year, that message will fade without support from voters, writes Linden Ellis on US polling day. In 2005, a unique partnership between th ...
  • Cap and gamble
    As prospects for a comprehensive climate-change plan fade in the United States, the world’s oldest voluntary carbon market is struggling to prove its relevance. Xie Yanmei reports. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), once hailed as a model of the market-driven approach to solving climate change, ...
  • “It’s not colonialism” (2)
    In the conclusion of Ning Er’s interview with Li Anshan, the international-relations professor argues that opposition to China’s role in Africa is a hangover from western imperialism – and should be ignored. Ning Er: Dambisa Moyo takes the view that western aid has massively increased the incidences ...
  • “It’s not colonialism” (1)
    Peking University academic Li Anshan is an expert in Sino-African relations. Here, he hits back at criticism of Chinese investors abroad, telling Ning Er his country is succeeding where western aid has failed. Chinese investment in Africa has been the subject of heavy criticism: Chinese aid increase ...
  • The clamour for African coal
    Tete, in Mozambique, sits above one of the world’s largest reserves of high-quality coal. Money is pouring in and the mood is upbeat, writes Richard Lapper, but getting the product to market won’t be easy. Since the workers from Vale , Brazil’s giant mining company, started to drink at his bar, fort ...

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Threat Level

  • Malicious RoboCalls Aim at Suppressing Election Da ...
    Minority voters have received fliers and robocalls that would deter them from casting their ballots Tuesday. The fliers and robocalls disseminated misinformation about the date of the election and how voters should cast their ballots. According to the Election Protection Coalition, which has receive ...
  • Group Demands Immediate Halt of Full-Body Airport ...
    A leading privacy group is urging a federal appeals court to suspend the government’s program of introducing full-body imagining machines at airports across the country. The Transportation Security Administration began deploying 450 of them in March to dozens of airports nationwide. “The suspicionle ...
  • Voter Hotline — 866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)
    Just a reminder that voters who experience problems in the election on Tuesday can call a national hotline that is staffed with legal experts to answer questions. The hotline number is 866-OUR-VOTE. The hotline is run by Election Protection, a coalition of lawyers’ groups, such as the Committee for ...
  • EFF Defends Former Prosecutor From Righthaven Copy ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven is facing its second lawsuit from digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing a former federal prosecutor who tracks mysterious murder cases on his website. Thomas DiBiase runs nobodycases.com, a site exclusively dedicated to tracking so-c ...
  • Sealed Courtroom Sought in High-Speed–Trading Code ...
    Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have asked a judge to seal the courtroom in an upcoming corporate-espionage trial to protect the secret of Goldman Sachs’ controversial high-speed trading software. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York asked the judge last week to close the courtroom (.p ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #448
    Russian intel source threatens WikiLeaks. UK female spy gave rare interview about WWII exploits. Lebanon sentences 3 to death for spying for Israel. Continue reading →
  • US considering CIA targeted killings in Yemen
    The White House is considering an unprecedented expansion of operations by the Central Intelligence Agency in Yemen, following last weekâs foiled toner cartridge bomb plot. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #447
    UK MI6 chief speaks publicly for the first time. WikiLeaks to release secret Russia, China logs. Renegade CIA agent's papers acquired by NYU. Continue reading →
  • WikiLeaks documents reveal CIA’s role in Iraq
    Along with unprecedented inside information on American military operations in Iraq, the 400,000 US military reports recently released by whistleblower site WikiLeaks provide several interesting snippets of the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in that ongoing conflict. Continue reading →
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    American pleads guilty to spying for China. Obama widens CIA operations in Pakistan. US spy balloons blew towards Iran. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Some early exit polls
    Connecticut Blumenthal +8 Florida Rubio +21 Missouri Blunt +10 California Boxer +8 IL 49-43 Kirk KY 55-44 Paul NV 47_47 3 none of above C0 49 47 bennet Pa 52 48 toomey Wa 52-46 murray Wv 52 45 manchin Wi 52 47 johnson TX Gov: Perry +6 CA Gov: Brown +6 OH Gov: Tied read ...
  • Any hope I had in the ballot box bringing change i ...
    If Karzai's re-election was a fraud, Obama's surge of troops brought just more violence. For Afghans he's the 'second Bush' Thus writes Malalai Joya at the Guardian .
  • WAR! (don't look!)
    The face of war (don't look!) Nov 2, 2010 - A new isolationism is metastasizing in the American body politic. At its heart lies not an urge to avoid war, but an urge to avoid contemplating the costs and realities of war. It sees war as having analgesic qualities - as lessening a collective feeling o ...
  • 111th Congress put policy before politics
    And the 110th and 111th put Veterans and Military personal and their families above War, catching up to What Wasn't Done, and moving further even for us older vets, just previous in the 108th and 109th as they waged Wars of Choice {Afghanistan stopped being about 9/11 as soon as the drums beat at Ir ...
  • Afghanistan War Weekly: November 1, 2010
    The propaganda campaign that falsely claimed serious discussions with the Taliban were going on makes me wonder whether the White House and the military/Petraeus were on the same page. Anonymous “sources” denied that negotiations were going on almost as soon as the New York Times announced its scoo ...

Grist - News

  • Oregon to help Iraqi universities build green engi ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. For all the hand-wringing about America's waning influence around the world, it still wields a lot of influence around the world (profound, huh?). The forms of 21st-century living pioneered here aren't just about fixing the U.S., they're about providing models that other cou ...
  • Nissan sells out of electric Leaf before it hits U ...
    by Agence France-Presse. DETROIT -- U.S. consumers looking to get Nissan's all-electric Leaf will have to wait another year, after dealers sold this year's entire shipment before the zippy sedan even hit showrooms, the Japanese automaker said Monday. Nissan dealers have collected more than 20,0 ...
  • BP sees Gulf oil-spill costs soar to $40 billion
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- The devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill is set to cost BP $40 billion, the British energy giant revealed on Tuesday, after ramping up its estimate by almost a quarter. But the British oil giant also reported a net profit of $1.785 billion for the third quarter ...
  • ‘20 is Plenty’ campaign takes crazy st ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Hoboken, N.J., launched a "Twenty is Plenty" campaign to ask drivers to voluntarily slow down to 20 mph where the limit is 25. (New York is also trying this out in certain places.) It's a safety thing. Crashes between autos and pedestrians have a 40 percent risk of fatality i ...
  • Evangelical climate hawk learns hard knocks in Hou ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Ben Lowe is a 25-year-old first-time candidate getting whomped in a suburban Chicago congressional race. He's being outspent 16-to-one by Republican incumbent Peter Roskam. The biggest publicity the campaign drew came when Lowe, who is half-Chinese, claimed racial profiling ...

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  • Can You Keep the Government Out of Your Amazon Acc ...
    A federal court has ruled that the state of North Carolina cannot get records on what Amazon shoppers purchased, but more needs to be done to protect online privacy
  • Climate: Don't Ban Research on Geoengineering
    Although most of the attention on the end of last week's meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya focused on the modest agreement made to reduce biodiversity loss, that wasn't the only outcome of the two week-long summit.
  • U.S. Goods Are the Top Draw at Afghanistan's Black ...
    The black market in U.S. goods -- both consumer and military -- is thriving in the Afghan capital and outside the biggest NATO base in the country
  • A Ban on Geoengineering Research: Bad Idea
    Member nations at Nagoya agreed on a possible moratorium on research into the practice of geoengineering -- activities that would seek to directly reduce global warming by artificially cooling the Earth

Washington Independent

  • Tancredo, Angle, Whitman Lose After Anti-Illegal I ...
    A few pieces of good news for supporters of a more inclusive immigration policy: Harry Reid beat out Sharron Angle (R), who ran a campaign that relied heavily on anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, and immigration hawk Tom Tancredo lost the race for Colorado governor. Angle posed a serious threat to ...
  • House Immigration Policy Now in the Hands of GOP a ...
    Of all the possible changes to come out of the election, the biggest potential shift in immigration policy will probably come from which party controls the House. Now that change is official: Republicans will lead the House, meaning immigration legislation will be in the hands of likely Speaker John ...
  • As GOP Rides Wave to House Majority, Dems Set to H ...
    On a night of celebration for Republicans, there was also a lingering question: Did Tea Party challenges prevent the GOP from taking the Senate?
  • What’s Next for the Energy and Commerce Comm ...
    Now that it’s more or less official that Republicans will take over the House, key Republicans are working to position themselves to take over the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the most senior Republican on the committee, made it known tonight that he wants the spot ...
  • Boxer, Head of Senate Environment Panel, Wins Re-E ...
    Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is projected to keep her Senate seat, besting her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina, the Associated Press reports. That means that Boxer will stay on as the chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Here’s what I had to say about Boxer in my midte ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Minister Katz: Israel on bomb alert since Thursday ...
    Interestingly, the folks in Britain only discovered the “bomb” on Friday morning.  It seems that the Israelis seem to know about these “terrorist” threats but never find it necessary to let anyone else know.  This was true on 9/11, 7/7 and now, in the case of the non-explosive toner cartridge.  C ...
  • Did Obama Order British Authorities To Find Non-Ex ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, November 1, 2010 After having examined the suspicious ink toner device for six hours and found it to be a dud, bomb experts at East Midlands Airport only reversed their decision after being ordered to re-inspect the package by US authorities following Pre ...
  • ‘Dark-skinned’ soldiers denied entry t ...
    By Goel Beno Published: 10.31.10, 11:22 / Israel News   “Dark-skinned” soldiers belonging to a special Golani Brigade unit were denied entry to a nightclub in the Sharon region, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.   The soldiers arrived at the “Shmuah” nightclub on Thursday to celebrate the completion ...
  • More people skipping flu shot this year
    By Jonathan Benson Americans seem to be wising up about the flu shot scam, according to a new study in Consumer Reports indicating that fewer people than last year are planning to, or have already gotten, the flu shot this year. Thirty-one percent of respondents indicated they are unsure if they wil ...
  • Diabetes rises 1% among U.S. children and teens fo ...
    By Mike Adams Diabetes rose 1% among U.S. children and teens yesterday as tens of millions of households handed out literally thousands of tons of candies made with refined white sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). The event, of course, is called “Halloween,” and each year it subjects tens of ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
    Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...
  • Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedian ...
    Jokes on us. Those blokes from across the pond sure do give their all for a joke! View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partier ...
  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (sc ...
  • Here Comes Trouble (cartoon)
    Recent news of the habitable planet that circles a star called Gliese 581, and the ensuing article in the Huffington Post, by James Napoli inspired this little cartoon. The news is also reminiscent of one of my favorite children’s books Wump World, by Bill Peet. Look out Wumps! Here we come! New ...
  • Republican Clouds (cartoon)
    Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way. White House gets into 10/10/10 spirit with solar-panel plan Obama: âNo industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energyâ Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery ...

Inhabitat

  • Indonesian Bamboo Restaurant Is a Striking Open-Ai ...
    This extraordinary Japanese noodle restaurant located in Jakarta, Indonesia needed to be disassembled easily, so design firm DSA+s made the bold decision to build it entirely out of bamboo. The result is a richly textured, light-filled environment that is impermanent yet robust. The designers rethou ...
  • Freitag Launches Backpacks Made From Recycled Truc ...
    Freitag bags are made from truck tarpaulins, seat belts, bicycle inner tubes torn beyond repair and old car airbags to create durable repurposed pieces.
  • Clay Birdhouse Shingles Turn Your Roof Into a Roos ...
    Don’t have cash for rooftop solar panels but still want a green roof? Dutch designer Klaas Kuiken has a solution: rooftop tile birdhouses. Kuiken explains, “Nowadays birds are not welcome under roof tiles anymore, so they lost a beautiful nest place. Placing a house on top of a roof tile [creates] a ...
  • Woven Recycled Denim Cot is a Modern Take on the C ...
    Too many guests crashing at your pad, but too few couches? Here’s a Recycled Denim Challenge finalist that offers a brilliant solution. Designed by Siddharth Hirwani, this comfy cot is a modern take on the Indian charpai that uses recycled strips of denim instead of nylon. Fashioned from three-inch ...
  • Chicago Fieldhouse Hits a Home Run for Green Desig ...
    The Chicago Park District called on architectural firm Booth Hansen to prototype a sustainable and innovative space for fitness, and the result is this beautiful modern fieldhouse. Many eco-minded construction techniques were implemented in the project including the use of pre-cast concrete panels, ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Quick Fixes for Windows Phone 7
    A couple of simple fixes for the things that Microsoft Windows Phone 7 software didn't quite get to.
  • A Love Letter to a Camera
    David Pogue describes his affection for what he says is the best pocket camera on the market, the Canon Powershot S95.
  • Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement
    Office 2011 for Mac is a big step backward. The new Outlook is the biggest disappointment.
  • Farewell, GOOG-411
    On Nov. 12, Google will turn off its free, voice-activated directory-assistance service forever. There are several options for those intending to soldier on in the post-GOOG-411 world.
  • Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars
    Making an appointment in one time zone does not mean your calendar will remind you at the right time if you travel to another time zone-unless you adjust a setting.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Rare Dead Quasar Found in Nearby Galaxy
    One of the universe’s brightest lights, a black hole-driven quasar in a nearby galaxy, recently shut off like a snuffed candle. New observations of a bizarre cloud of glowing gas, and a nearby galaxy that illuminates it, show that the galaxy’s central light went dim sometime in the last 70,000 year ...
  • High Oxygen Levels Spawn Monster Dragonflies
    Biologists have grown super-size dragonflies that are 15 percent larger than normal by raising the insects, from start to finish, in chambers emulating Earth’s oxygen conditions 300 million years ago. The research, presented Nov. 1 at the Geophysical Society of America’s annual meeting in Denver, C ...
  • Arctic Lake Yields Planet’s Most Continuous Record ...
    DENVER — It took the better part of a decade, $10 million, and help from the guys who build ice roads for Canadian truckers. But scientists now have the most continuous record of ancient climate ever extracted from the terrestrial Arctic. What’s more, the record — cored through sediment layers ...
  • Cutest Book Ever: ZooBorns Internet Craze Moves to ...
  • Baby Dolphin Survival Depends on Mom’s Friends
    For dolphin mothers, successful parenting is as much a matter of having good friends as it is good genes. The findings underscore the importance of community to dolphin life, and perhaps to animals in general — something that’s intuitively appreciated, but hasn’t been directly compared to genetic f ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Les Gelb on the Importance of the Economy for Amer ...
    Les Gelb has a great piece in the new issue of Foreign Affairs. It makes a case that should be obvious to policymakers, one that was obvious up until about Ronald Reagan: that the strength of the U.S. economy underpins American power. Gelb takes that one step further even and says GDP is now more im ...
  • Obama in India: Expectations and Opportunities
    President Obama will be making his first visit to India next week.  There is no question that the President’s trip is important as a symbol of the growing prominence of India’s role in the global economy, and its strategic importance in regional stability.  The upcoming meetings, especially when jux ...
  • How Globally Minded Will the New US Congress Be?
    It is fair to say that today’s election is not, exactly, going to turn on foreign policy.  Still, the group of lawmakers voted into office today will have a set of global issues vying for their attention. There may be key votes on treaties like START, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the ...
  • Russia's Return to Afghanistan
    The participation of four Russian counter-narcotics agents in a US/ISAF raid on four heroin labs in Afghanistan has left many pundits wondering whether the war in Afghanistan as well as US/NATO/ISAF--Russian relations are entering a new phase. �However, before one can speculate, there are a few misc ...
  • The Exception to Every Defense Budget Rule
    There is a new talking point coming from military leaders, and the Navy got the memo . The Navy's second-highest-ranking officer signaled Monday that troubled weapons programs will fall victim to the budgetary ax as the service tries to spend its money more wisely. During a speech at the Center for ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Requiem for a 'Magnificent Pain in the Ass.'
    Predictably, but still depressingly, the Wisconsin Senate race has been called for Ron Johnson . I can't beat Jon Cohn 's tribute to Russ Feingold : As a general rule, I think, the media and the public put too high a premium on political independence. Politicians who loudly defy their parties ...
  • Boston's Comeback Kid.
    Returns are still coming in, but Josh Kraushaar tweets that NBC has called the Massachusetts gubernatorial race for Deval Patrick , after a tough three-way race against Republican Charlie Baker and Independent Tim Cahill . With his approval ratings in the low thirties, Patrick was considered a lo ...
  • You'll Always Have the Senate, Democrats.
    With the Associated Press calling West Virginia for Governor Joe Manchi n and Connecticut for Attorney General Richard Blumenthal , we can safely say that Democrats will maintain their hold on the Senate. Nate Silver gives the GOP a 2 percent chance of winning a Senate majority, which sounds about ...
  • Perriello Upended.
    Rep. Tom Perriello , whose career we have chronicled here at the Prospect from his first campaign , to his first days in office , to his final days of campaigning last week, appears to have lost to his Republican opponent, State Sen. Robert Hurt . Perriello's mentor in the House, long-serving Virgi ...
  • Rand Paul, A Winner Is You.
    NBC News -- in a complete non-surprise -- has declared Republican Rand Paul the winner in the Kentucky Senate race, beating out Jack Conway with a projected 52 percent of the vote. Conway's bid was always a long shot; Rand Paul might have had stomp-happy followers, but Kentucky is a conservative ...

Buzzflash

  • Can Everyone be Like Juan Williams? Get Fired and ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I'm down with this because Juan Williams Was born in Panama --- not here in the U.S. If he loves America, why isn't his name John? Let's waterboard him and make him confess. We invaded Panama back in '89 The victory was sweet and swell; But how do we know Williams isn't I ...
  • Who's Addicted Us to Big Oil? Big Oil!
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH My editor, Mark Karlin at Buzzflash , wrote a succinct introductory comment on President Obama's screw the environment decision to lift the Gulf moratorium on deepwater drilling.  Salazar, his pro-oil Interior Secretary, released a phony condition that deepwater ri ...
  • Sharron Has All the Angles of Ignorance Covered
    http://www.truth-out.org/joe-conason-thugs-right64402 A telling quote from Sharron Angle that reveals more than she wants you to know---"Angle said, 'We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer, so that they report the news the way we want it reported.'"  Don't think that's all of  "the wa ...
  • Thank you Sarah and Sharon, and all Tea Party cand ...
    KEN SHILLING FOR BUZZFLASH This morning's big winners are Sarah Palin and Sharon Angle, and they'll reward the Tea Candidates with campaign appearances in 2112, and shout-outs from the TV studios of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. My sympathies go out, not to Democrats, because soon, the American p ...
  • French Lessons for U.S. Workers
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH The world watches as France once again erupts in protests, demonstrations, and strikes. So much is at stake. If France's corporate-dominated government is able to increase the retirement age, other governments will be empowered to follow through with their plans to ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Swift Implementation of Cluster Munition Ban Saves ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 1, 2010 Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor The destruction of millions of stockpiled cluster submunitions years before deadlines mandated under the Convention on Cluster Munitions—a legally-binding treaty banning the weapon which entered into force on 1 August 2010— ...
  • New Report Says Biofuels Industry Spent $22 Millio ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 1, 2010 Friends of the Earth A report released today by Friends of the Earth demonstrates the ways in which the biofuels industry influences legislation through lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions. The report , entitled “Buying Bills: How the Biofuels In ...
  • United States to Undergo First-Ever Universal Peri ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 1, 2010 ACLU The U.S. will undergo the first-ever Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights record before the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday, November 5 in Geneva, Switzerland. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is in Geneva to observe the p ...
  • Taxpayers Should Have The Right To Challenge Gover ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2010 Americans United for Separation of Church and State The right of taxpayers to challenge public funding of religious education must be preserved, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has told the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court tomorrow will he ...
  • Hundreds of Amnesty International Activists to Mar ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Approximately 200 Amnesty International activists march and rally in solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Myanmar this Friday, November 5, starting at 5:30 p.m. Held on the eve of the historic November 7 elections in My ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Surprise! The People Speak
    by Jim Hightower Michael Duke is the Big Wally of Walmart. As CEO of the low-wage behemoth, he siphons some $19 million a year in personal pay from the global retailer. How much is $19 million? Let's break it down in terms that Duke's own workforce can appreciate. While Big Wally's workers averag ...
  • When Nurses Unite, Health Care Wins
    by Brian Tierney In June, President Obama told a meeting of delegates of the American Nurses Association that "Nurses are the beating heart of our healthcare system." Unfortunately, when it comes to working conditions and cuts, nurses across the country have more and more become the bleeding heart o ...
  • Yemen: Let the Drones Begin
    by Marcy Wheeler Fresh off exempting Yemen from any sanctions for its use of child soldiers and partly in response to this week’s attempted package bombings, the government appears to be ready to let the CIA start operating drones in Yemen. read more
  • The Giddens Paradox: Understanding Climate Change ...
    by Madeleine Bunting Ten years ago, I ended up on the mud flats of the Nile delta with a water engineer. He explained how everything we could see around us would be under water if sea levels rose as they are predicted to do - the nearby city of Alexandria is one of the most vulnerable to climate cha ...
  • Polite Laughter on the Mall
    by Raj Patel Hundreds of thousands came. Theresa Floyd, a 19 year old student and poet, flew from California to try to make the world "marginally better". Wassim Shazad, a 36 year old brick shithouse of a former-Marine drove four hours from North Carolina, to take aim at racial stereotypes of Mu ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • USS Make Shit Up goes to Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us 'Cause if we find we're in a bind we're totally screwed but nevermind We'll pull something out of our behinds, ...
  • When We Wonder About Afghan Corruption
    By Steve Hynd Let's try to remember that creating a situation where pots of cash are washing about with no accountability, no oversight and no record-keeping is always going to create a culture of corruption. The US government has spent about $55bn on rebuilding in Afghanistan since 2001 but cannot ...
  • Gorby on Afghanistan: Victory is Impossible
    By Steve Hynd The man who withdrew his nation's troops from Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev, is pessimistic about America's adventure there, telling the BBC that a US victory "is impossible there". He added that the mess is, to a great extent, America's own fault. "We had hoped America would abide by ...
  • Taliban Talks: After The Hype, The Pullback
    By Steve Hynd Last week, the media was full of stenography of the official narrative that the awesomely Saintly General Petareus and his surge(tm) were forcing the Taliban to the negotiating table and the insurgency was in its last throes, with success just around the corner etc. etc. That was until ...
  • A One Trick Pony
    By Steve Hynd Andrew Exum, known as Abu Muqawama, is a fellow at the neoliberal, interventionist mothership - the Center for a new American Security. As such, he's a fairly influential voice within the D.C. "serious people" foreign policy set. So you'd think he could do better than his summary of th ...

Water Wars

  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Dreaming of dancing around the world
    After years of training, the traditional Canaan Dabke dance troupe has a name renowned throughout Gaza, and uniforms to match.
  • Tough questions for Hamas
    Has Hamas been able to actually build on its high level of commitment and sacrifice, not only on the part of the movement but of Palestinians in general? Haidar Eid comment ...
  • Education in Palestine in world spotlight
    The behind-the-scenes work of Palestinian unions, Palestinian and international BDS groups, video conferences bridging Palestine to the outside world, and the struggle of P ...
  • Israeli colonies expand, Palestinians face home de ...
    Bulldozers, backed by Israeli soldiers and police forces, razed a Bedouin Palestinian encampment in Isawiya, a village northeast of Jerusalem on Wednesday, 27 October. Isra ...
  • Video: "No justice, no chickpeas!" activists tell ...
    Shoppers and employees at the Fresh Grocer's flagship store at 40th and Walnut Street in Philadelphia were surprised last month by a choreographed flash dance performed in ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan Government falling short of filling key Kan ...
    The Afghan government has failed to fill dozens of key positions in Kandahar, leaving an ineffectual local administration that U.S. officials fear will cripple the battlefield progress the military says it is making in the Taliban stronghold.
  • Fourth Afghan conference begins in Turkey
    Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday that there was no other remedy than regional cooperation in coping with problems in Afghanistan. Ahmet Davutoglu said a democratic and rich Afghanistan ...
  • Probe launched into Afghan election body
    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's deputy attorney general said on Wednesday an investigation has been started into allegations by candidates that the country's election commission was involved i...
  • UNHCR worried about growing number of conflict IDP ...
    Shah Wali, a father of five, forced by fighting to leave Helmand Province and come to Kabul KABUL, 3 November 2010 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says it is concerned about the growing number ...
  • Moscow holds NATO Afghanistan talks
    NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has arrived in Moscow for talks on boosting Russian assistance for the war in Afghanistan.Moscow has offered only lukewarm support for the war and has limited itself t...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Why Is the TSA Keeping Air Marshal Employment Disp ...
    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants a federal air marshal's employment case to be kept under a veil of secrecy. In an October 13 court filing, the TSA claims that fired federal air marshal Manuel V. Alcaraz’s case involves Sensitive...
  • Morning Smoke: More Delays, More Costs for Joint S ...
    Pentagon May See Higher F-35 Costs, Delays Up to Three Years by Tony Capaccio [Bloomberg] Additional Costs Expected for Lockheed’s F-35 Fighter by Christopher Drew [The New York Times] Defense agency raises bar for reviewing contractor cost proposals by Robert...
  • On Delegitimizing the Classification System
    A reader writes: Did POGO see Jack Goldsmith's Op-Ed in The Washington Post about classification? "Yet even if the giant disclosures of classified information have no legal consequences, they still harm national security by delegitimizing the presidential classification system." No!...
  • Morning Smoke: A New Approach at the House Oversig ...
    House Oversight committee set for major re-emergence by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] Letter to the editor: Congress's crucial oversight role by Sharon Bradford Franklin [The Washington Post] Big firms seek shield against whistleblowers by Kaja Whitehouse [New York Post] SEC...
  • Declining DCAA Role in Oversight of Tens of Billio ...
    POGO has obtained a Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) memo showing that the Pentagon has radically reduced oversight of tens of billions of contract dollars. From our press release today: According to the memo, contracting guidance “now limits contracting officer...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Fame No Guarantee of Fortune for Homeless Artists
    Being mentioned by President George H.W. Bush in a 1999 letter to the Main Street Association of Breckenridge, Texas would be heady stuff for anyone. But for friends Billy Ines, now 54, and Angel Valencia, 64, it was the highlight of their rise from homelessness to local household names. Fame doesn' ...
  • Living in Storage Units Beats Life on the Streets, ...
    What if instead of an economical way to clear clutter from your home, inexpensive storage units offered an alternative to living on the streets? For many people who are without a home, renting a public storage unit can provide them with a relatively safe, private and affordable shelter , especially ...
  • Tent City Tries to Prove Its No Haunted House
    Although the city of Seattle has mapped out  seven potential permanent sites for the self-sustaining tent city of Nickelsville , residents, or "Nickelodeons," are very well aware of the discrimination that local homeless people face every day. Fear tends to be the emotion expressed the loudest, as n ...
  • A Plywood Cabin Is Not a Home, But It's a Start
    Rather than do nothing about the rising homeless population in Kitsap County, Washington,  Bremerton Rescue Mission is moving ahead with plans to construct a series of temporary heated plywood cabins on 2.5 acres of land in the city of Bremerton. Initially the group intends to construct six 12' x 12 ...
  • Getting a Positive I.D. at the Shelter ... or the ...
    Well, Washington, D.C. will soon join the ranks of cities who like to make the homeless someone else's problem. Local government, trying to mitigate a $175 million budget shortfall , has determined that about 10 percent of those who apply for shelter and other homeless services in the city are from ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Happy talk watch: More momentum moments
    More official word on who’s got the Big Mo in Afghanistan: âWe now have the initiative. We have created momentum.â Major-General Nick Carter, commander of NATO coalition forces in southern Afghanistan (Carlotta Gall, “NATO coalition pushes Taliban into retreat in southern Afghanistan,” Globe and Mai ...
  • F-35 protest outside Aerospace Industries Associat ...
    Last week saw the first Canadian street protest over the planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The protest took place on Tuesday, October 26th outside of the Westin Ottawa hotel, where the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada was meeting. Shown above, the Raging Grannies, supporte ...
  • Schwarzenegger calls for New START ratification
    California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called in his inimitable style for the quick ratification of the New START treaty to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons (Governor Delivers Remarks at USRBC Annual Meeting, 21 October 2010): Well, let me just tell you that the most excited I’m about ...
  • Auditor-General: F-35 purchase poses “risks”
    Auditor-General Sheila Fraser’s latest report describes the acquisition of Cyclone and Chinook helicopters as “troubling”, and details how government agencies presented the purchases as simple and low risk while continuously lowballing estimated costs in order have them approved.  This resulted in ...
  • New poll shows Canadians committed to peacekeeping
    A new Nanos research poll conducted for the Globe and Mail indicates that Canadians think peacekeeping is more important than combat missions (Campbell Clark, ”Canadians pick peacekeeping over combat,” Globe and Mail, 25 October 2010). According to the poll, Canadians are strongly opposed to sending ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • ‘Sleeping On A Problem’ May Be The Best Way To Sol ...
    November 2nd, 2010 BioScholar A research has suggested that the best way to solve a complicated problem is to distract yourself for a few minutes with something else or sleep on it overnight. Those who consciously struggle with a difficult question are more likely to get the wrong answer, compared w ...
  • Pfizer Earnings Fall 70%
    November 2nd, 2010 The Wall Street Journal By: Thomas Gryta Pfizer Inc.’s third-quarter profit dropped 70%, weighed by merger-related and asbestos charges. Revenue jumped 39% because of last year’s $68 billion purchase of Wyeth and despite a double-digit percentage drop in Lipitor sales. Pfizer, the ...
  • Virus Breakthrough Raises Hope Over Ending Common ...
    November 2nd, 2010 BBC Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold. Until now experts had thought that antibodies could only tackle viral infections by blocking or attacking viruses outside cells. But work done by t ...
  • Killer Protein Find May Be Cancer Breakthrough
    November 2nd, 2010 The Sydney Morning Herald A protein called perforin that kills rogue cells in the human body may a breakthrough in the fight against cancer and diabetes, researchers say. A team of Melbourne and London researchers have shown perforin punches holes in, and kills, rogue cells in our ...
  • Google Sues Government
    November 2nd, 2010 Yahoo! News By: Iain Thomson Google has launched a legal case against the US government for excluding it from bidding for cloud application contracts. The suit cites the decision by the Department of the Interior (DOI) to exclude its Apps for Government services from bidding on a ...

Pambazuka News

  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...

War in Context

  • ‘We don’t want to be Iraq’
    Steven Sotloff writes: Though the foiled plot to mail packages filled with bombs to synagogues in Chicago has bumped congressional midterm elections as the top story in the United States, here in Yemen it has caused barely a ripple. While Washington focuses on combating the regional al-Qaeda affili ...
  • World order
  • The phantom left
    Chris Hedges writes: The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify its complacency and lethargy. It diverts attention from corporate power. It perpetuates the myth of a democratic system that is influe ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: Pentagon lovers and welfare queens
    The most dispiriting election of a lifetime (Mine) By Tom Engelhardt By the time you read this, I’ll already have voted — the single most reflexive political act of my life — in the single most dispiriting election I can remember.  As I haven’t missed a midterm or presidential election since my fi ...
  • Bill Maher’s fear of Muslims
    Upon learning that in the UK last year, Mohammed (including its variant spellings) was the most popular name for baby boys, this was the reaction of comedian Bill Maher: Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that? Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Prop 23 “suspend global warming law” f ...
    The Secretary of State’s website is overloaded, this according to the LA Times, with 3.5 million votes counted statewide: source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/election/#props Oh, and Jerry Brown. Ah, moonbeams and business exodus, the combo that killed the golden state goose. Strangely, the ...
  • New video: Global Warming’s effects, A to Z
    I’m sure many of you have heard of the “complete list of things caused by global warming” Dr. John Brignell, a retired professor of industrial instrumentation at the University of Southampton in Britain, compiled an impressive list of alarmist claims … Continue reading →
  • The full Tamino
    Here’s what you get to see at Open Mind sHx | November 2, 2010 at 9:26 am You know, Tamino, you shouldnât be so shy about asking Anthony Watts to place a permanent link to your blog at WUWT. Real … Continue reading →
  • New atmospheric model says tail wags dog
    From the AGU Highlights on Eurekalert, how to make models do what you want by removing important portions of the natural system: Atmospheric dynamics, not ocean, could drive El Niño features Scientists generally believe that ocean dynamics are the primary … Continue reading →
  • The Atlantic Ocean via the AMO drives the apparent ...
    By Joseph DâAleo, CCM The North Atlantic undergoes a multidecadal oscillation appropriately called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or AMO. It is officially the mean sea surface temperature anomaly from the equator to 70 degrees North. It went above the longer … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Confessions of a Reluctant Republican Shill, Fifth ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net November 1, 2010 My name is Robert, and I am some sort of Republican Shill. It’s uncanny and unsettling: nigh over 20 years, for every gorgeous phrase I lovingly fashion to advance the left, the right grows stronger and nastier, it ...
  • Rove’s Vote Trickster: Caging Explained by G ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 1 November, 2010 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 ste ...
  • A corporation is not a person by Jerry Mazza
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com Nov. 1, 2010 In reality, a corporation is a legal, chartered apparatus that allows a group of persons to organize a profit or not-for-profit business, outlining its products or services to be offered, its ...
  • The Reality of The Insanity by Philip A. Farruggio
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 1, 2010 Another election cycle is upon us . We have the Twiddle Ds ( Democrats ) , the Twiddle Dumbs ( Republicans ) and the new Tea Wind Bags all running like lemmings to ‘Get out the vote‘ . Duh, like it really will make a [...]
  • Graphic: Cost of the Afghanistan War
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.onlineschooling.net/afghanistan-war-cost A new graphic compares the cost to previous wars – and to domestic needs that could have been funded instead. Huge size: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorri37/5126949269/sizes/o/ h/t: Just Foreign Policy News see Killin ...

Your New Reality

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    Republicans Finally Outdo Nazis For War Propaganda The 'Ground Zero Mosque' is actually one floor of an office tower, blocks away from the still empty World Trade Centre site, and the Republicans know it. But this is a religious war, after all. Note that the ad clearly states that the entire Mus ...
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    Life under occupation :
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    If you've found your way here after listening to my 'Weird & Unusual News' spot on ABC Newcastle today, here are links to the two main stories that were discussed : 'Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Spiritual Day Of Reckoning On August 15' 'Five Human Senses? Actually, We Have More Than 2 ...
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    Creating new realities? It's the CIA's main mission, isn't it?
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    This is as close to a video of an actual nightmare as I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny : What Chris Cunningham has been working on lately : "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines. "For yea ...

Wired - Science

  • Rare Dead Quasar Found in Nearby Galaxy
    One of the universe’s brightest lights, a black hole-driven quasar in a nearby galaxy, recently shut off like a snuffed candle. New observations of a bizarre cloud of glowing gas, and a nearby galaxy that illuminates it, show that the galaxy’s central light went dim sometime in the last 70,000 year ...
  • High Oxygen Levels Spawn Monster Dragonflies
    Biologists have grown super-size dragonflies that are 15 percent larger than normal by raising the insects, from start to finish, in chambers emulating Earth’s oxygen conditions 300 million years ago. The research, presented Nov. 1 at the Geophysical Society of America’s annual meeting in Denver, C ...
  • Arctic Lake Yields Planet’s Most Continuous Record ...
    DENVER — It took the better part of a decade, $10 million, and help from the guys who build ice roads for Canadian truckers. But scientists now have the most continuous record of ancient climate ever extracted from the terrestrial Arctic. What’s more, the record — cored through sediment layers ...
  • Cutest Book Ever: ZooBorns Internet Craze Moves to ...
  • Baby Dolphin Survival Depends on Mom’s Friends
    For dolphin mothers, successful parenting is as much a matter of having good friends as it is good genes. The findings underscore the importance of community to dolphin life, and perhaps to animals in general — something that’s intuitively appreciated, but hasn’t been directly compared to genetic f ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • HaMoked, B’Tselem: Kept in the Dark – Palestinians ...
    A new joint report exposes routine ill-treatment of Palestinians in interrogations: The treatment of detainees ... is consistent with an interrogation doctrine that seeks to break the spirit of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Israel’s Deputy PM Meridor cancels London visit fo ...
    Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister reportedly faced charges linked to his role in the IDF raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more... ...
  • Haneen Zoabi: “Israeli society doesn’t feel the ne ...
    Haneen Zoabi: "We are struggling for a normal state, which is a state for all of its citizens, [in] which the Palestinians and the Israeli Jews can have full equality. I recognize religious, cultural... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Zvi Bar’el: South Africa is already here
    Israel's apartheid movement is coming out of the woodwork and is taking on a formal, legal shape. It is moving from voluntary apartheid, which hides its ugliness through justifications of "cultural... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Shas spiritual leader may back ban on renting to A ...
    Former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef cites centuries-old interpretation of halakhic ruling barring the sale of land to non-Jews. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Girl Power: No Male? No Problem for Female Boa Con ...
    In a finding that upends decades of scientific theory on reptile reproduction, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that female boa constrictors can squeeze out babies without mating.
  • Jefferson Radiation Oncologist to be Given ASTRO A ...
    For his work in defining how a type of head and neck cancer should be studied in clinical trials and ultimately be treated, Robert Den, M.D., a radiation oncologist at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, has been selected as the clinical winner of the Poster Discussion Recognition Award at the Am ...
  • Baylor University Hosts Dale P. Jones Business Eth ...
    The 2010 Dale P. Jones Business Ethics Forum will take place in Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business Nov. 3-12. This year's theme, "Marketing: Reputations, Rights, Responsibilities," aims to help participants explore ethical issues related to leadership and marketing practices affecting p ...
  • Political Scientists Available for Post-Election A ...
    University at Buffalo political scientists James Campbell, PhD, Joshua Dyck, PhD and James Coleman Battista, PhD, will be available to the media on Wednesday, November 3 for post-election commentary and analysis.
  • Geriatrician Advocates for Improvements to Primary ...
    Researchers call for key improvements to primary care in order to improve the health of the nations' most costly patients--older adults with multiple chronic conditions based on evaluation of studies of new primary care models to determine the best way to improve care and outcomes for the more than ...

Natural Health News

  • Taste Buds in Lungs Could Lead to New Asthma Treat ...
    It turns out that taste buds don�t only reside on your tongue -- they�re also in your lungs. And when you lungs' taste receptors encounter bitter substances, your airways open up and aid in breathing. � This discovery could lead to new treatments for asthma sufferers. � AOL Health reports: � � ...
  • Do Cortisone Shots Actually Make Things Worse?
    The steroid cortisone has long been considered a safe, reliable means to treat the pain and inflammation associated with sports injuries. Cortisone shots are one of the preferred treatments for overuse injuries of tendons. � But a major new review article, after examining the results of nearly fou ...
  • Blood Pressure Treatment on Rise in Younger Adults
    According to a new report from the CDC, although the percentage of Americans who have high blood pressure has remained steady over the past decade, the number of younger adults on medication for high blood pressure has significantly increased.� Their numbers rose from 27.6 percent in 1999 to 2000 to ...
  • Cute Cats Playing with Their Paws
    Once they learn how to play patty-cake, they’ll never stop.
  • Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
    This video explains how the Law of Attraction works to manifest reality from your thoughts

Antemedius

  • 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 ...
  • Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Los ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com You can�t turn on the TV news or pick up a paper these days without stumbling across the latest political poll and the pros explaining how to parse it, or some set of commentators, pundits, and reporters placing their bets on the midterm elections.� The media, ...
  • WikiLeaks and War Spending: "That Big Sucking Soun ...
    "That's the war spending that's getting away with murder..." Laura Flanders at GritTV Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 - 2 minutes of 'real' reality: Last week we spoke to Ethan McCord , who featured prominently in the first bombshell release from WikiLeaks . On Friday there came another massive revelation ...
  • US Debt Default - A Tea Party Promise
    There are a lot of bat-crap crazy things that the Republicans and especially the Tea Party supported Republican candidates have been saying this year. So it is not unexpected that some of their wing-nuttery goes by without a lot of remark. After all when you have head-stomping county coordinators in ...
  • Election Results - People Are Collateral Damage
    Thomas Ferguson is Political Science Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a contributing editor of The Nation, and author of "Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political System". Back in April 2009 Ferguson was interviewed by Real N ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • The U.S. Midterm Elections and International Law
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku What does the change of power in the U.S. Congress (at least in the House) mean for U.S. attitudes toward international law and foreign policy?  Not much, I think, since I think foreign policy is one of the few areas where we can imagine the new more conservative Republi ...
  • Dave Glazier on Khadr’s Sentence
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have bumped Dave’s comment to the main page, because it’s worth a read — and not just because it supports my claim that Khadr will serve no more than two years in a Canadian prison… I have now heard back from the Canadian attorney quoted by the New York ...
  • Extraterritorial Regulation of Human Rights and th ...
    by Roger Alford One of the most significant questions under GATT Article XX is whether States can violate WTO rules in order to protect against foreign harms. It is an issue that has plagued the GATT/WTO for almost twenty years, most famously in the Tuna-Dolphin and US--Shrimp cases. If, for exa ...
  • Khadr Admitted to Being a Murderer — But Did He Me ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr accepted a plea deal yesterday that called for him to plead guilty to all of the charges against him in exchange for serving one more year at Gitmo and then being repatriated to Canada to serve another seven years in prison.  Predictably, the gov ...
  • It’s Over: Khadr Gets “Eight Years”
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to AP: The sentence was handed down Sunday under a plea bargain in which the young Canadian admitted to five war crimes charges, including killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Under the deal, the judge was limited to the eight-year sente ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Investigate returns favour to Police, releases cen ...
    Investigate magazine has released part of its file on Heidi Paakkonen in response to a request via the news media from Police Superintendent Win van der Velde. However, Investigate editor Ian Wishart has blanked out portions of the documents, including...
  • Crewe murders book: new review
    From the Southland Times, 30 October 2010: ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS: THE INSIDE STORY by Ian Wishart, reviewed by Chris Chilton "Undeniably...when Wishart hits he hits big. Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story is a book two generations of New Zealanders...
  • A response to NZ Herald’s errors on Crewe book
    A week might be a long time in politics, but a month is an eternity in publishing. Since last month's editorial the new book Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story has finally hit the streets to a storm of controversy....
  • Something every driver should be forced to read
    This is the victim impact statement that New Zealand father Duncan Woods read out to a Christchurch court this week as a judge weighed up sentencing for Ashley David Austin, whose vehicle lost control and slammed into a mother and...
  • New lead in Swedish tourists cold case
    Latest Investigate magazine, on sale this morning...Missing Swedish tourist Heidi Paakkonen was last seen alive on Kawau Island in Auckland's Hauraki gulf, in the company of a man who was not David Wayne Tamihere...

My Care2 Picks

  • US Launched Financial War on World and They're Fig ...
    US banks and corps are aggressively leveraging themsleves into other countries' economies, but other coutnries are starting to fight back. Long article and a complicated story, but well worth the read for those concerned about intl banks taking over. Submitted by Mac R. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • A TV Channel Dedicated to Social Good - Halogen
    If your TV provider doesn't offer Halogen, demand it! Halogen was created as a platform for social good where people can connect with their purpose and with each other. Submitted by Brian Reilly to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Killing Reconciliation: Military Raids, Backing of ...
    The Obama administration says it is backing a strategy of reconciliation with the Taliban.Night raids by US Special Operations are killing the reconciliation the administration CLAIMS to support ( so...that's NOT what the strategy is for ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note- ...
  • Iran's Ahmadinejad, Information Pariah
    This is how a 'western' story about Ahmadinejad was received at the Iranian Comments show the WSJ article for the nonsense it is Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • To the Disabled People of Great Britain
    HT Ten Percent.org.uk Changes announced by George Osborne in Wednesday's comprehensive spending review caused a shockwave of terror through 10 million people who have disabilities living in Great Britain. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • 'White boys' comment spurs look at judicial bias
    'White boys' comment spurs look at judicial bias(NNPA) - Allegheny County Pennsylvania District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala said he would investigate concerns of racial bias raised after Common Pleas... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • GOP and the deepening divide | Jordan Times
    GOP and the deepening divide | Jordan Times: "By James J. ZogbyThe partisan divide on issues related to Arabs and Muslims has become disturbingly wide. For example, when, in a recent poll, we asked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • U.S. Prepares China As Next Global Villain
    U.S. Prepares China As Next Global Villain [globalresearch.ca] Pre-election ad campaigns in America are targeting China as the global “bad guy”.The economic power of China, which is currently the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 3 Amazon Indigenous Villages Wiped Out with Deadly ...
    3 Amazon Indigenous Villages Wiped Out with Deadly Epidemic : TreeHugger: "A large part of protecting the Amazon Rainforest and its rich biodiversity lies within protecting its inhabitants--the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 3 small parcel bombs explode in Athens | Raw Story
    3 small parcel bombs explode in Athens | Raw Story: "String of parcel bombs explode at Parliament, embassies in Athens, no injuriesGreek police say they have detonated a suspicious package outside... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Investigate returns favour to Police, releases cen ...
    Investigate magazine has released part of its file on Heidi Paakkonen in response to a request via the news media from Police Superintendent Win van der Velde. However, Investigate editor Ian Wishart has blanked out portions of the documents, including...
  • Crewe murders book: new review
    From the Southland Times, 30 October 2010: ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS: THE INSIDE STORY by Ian Wishart, reviewed by Chris Chilton "Undeniably...when Wishart hits he hits big. Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story is a book two generations of New Zealanders...
  • A response to NZ Herald’s errors on Crewe book
    A week might be a long time in politics, but a month is an eternity in publishing. Since last month's editorial the new book Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story has finally hit the streets to a storm of controversy....
  • Something every driver should be forced to read
    This is the victim impact statement that New Zealand father Duncan Woods read out to a Christchurch court this week as a judge weighed up sentencing for Ashley David Austin, whose vehicle lost control and slammed into a mother and...
  • New lead in Swedish tourists cold case
    Latest Investigate magazine, on sale this morning...Missing Swedish tourist Heidi Paakkonen was last seen alive on Kawau Island in Auckland's Hauraki gulf, in the company of a man who was not David Wayne Tamihere...

Mondoweiss

  • Israeli state violence and the value of Palestinia ...
    Disregard for Palestinian life has characterized the attitudes of Israeli authorities towards its Arab citizens since the establishment of the state. The Palestinians constitute what the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls homo sacer, according to which the laws of humanity do not apply to the ...
  • Ten years later, Palestinian citizens of Israel ar ...
    A decade has elapsed since the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa uprising, and yet the killers remain free and at large. Perhaps some of us thought, naively, that the killers would receive due retribution. Such naivety was reflected in the actions of many of our people on October 1st, 2000. They took to the str ...
  • If a stranger spews hateful rhetoric in the woods ...
    Back in September,�I wrote an op-ed that was published in the Portland Press Herald�(my home-away-from-home local paper) describing my thoughts on the futility of the impending negotiations between Netanyahu and Abbas.�These "negotiations" are happening only to appease and pacify the international c ...
  • UNRWA tells the story of Palestinian refugees in t ...
    The video above is from the new series produced by UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) called Peace Starts Here. UNRWA is the UN agency established in December, 1949 to work with Palestinian refugee communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the ...
  • B’Tselem documents cruel treatment of Palest ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Carwash Demolished in Jerusalem, Bulldozing Resumes in Karm Etsur Settlement Hebron – PNN - Israeli forces demolished a carwash in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, saying it ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
    On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
    GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
  • VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
    VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...
  • VRM: Former Pharmaceutical Representative Gwen Ols ...
    “The Pharmaceutical Industry is in the business of disease maintenance & symptom management. They are not in the business to cure Cancer, to cure Alzheimer’s, to cure heart disease, because if they were they would be in the business of putting themselves out of business; and that in fact doesn’t mak ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell: "We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan docume ...
  • Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
    Published: 17 Oct 2010 Click here to view entire document. {loadposition user8}
  • Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
    I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
  • The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
    Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...
  • To Follow these Steps
    I first met Steve Shaulis about 27 years ago during Special Forces training.� We�ve been friends ever since and have traveled many places together. Back in 2001, six months before the 9/11 attacks, we were at his U.S. home in Vero Beach, Florida.� We were preparing to swim out into the night in ...

The Killing Train

  • Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
    An interview with Pedro Cayuqueo Justin Podur and Manuel Rozental October 20, 2010 read more
  • Isabel McDonald and Lou Dobbs!
    My friend Isabel did a fantastic story for the Nation about the anti-immigration pundit Lou Dobbs who had undocumented workers caring for his horses and grounds , and she had the chance to talk to Lou Dobbs about it on MSNBC. Check it out. read more
  • Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
    I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
  • The Rwandan Election
    Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
  • The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
    An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Google sues US government for favoring Microsoft f ...
    [JURIST] Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Interior (DOI) [official website] alleging that the DOI arbitrarily decided only to allow Microsoft [corporate website] to compete for a contract to overhaul its e-mail system. According to the ...
  • Supreme Court hears arguments on violent video gam ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on whether the First Amendment [text] permits any limits on offens ...
  • France court gives Rwanda ex-president's widow ext ...
    [JURIST] The Administrative Tribunal of Versailles [official website, in French] on Tuesday cancelled an order refusing a residency permit to Agathe Habyarimana, widow of assasinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana [Britannica profile], ordering that her application be reconsidered. The recons ...
  • Khodorkovsky gives closing statement in money laun ...
    [JURIST] Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] linked the fate of Russia with the outcome of his trial in his closing statements [text, PDF] on Tuesday in his trial for money laundering and embezzlement [JURIST report]. Prosecutors allege that Khod ...
  • UN rights expert: racism, xenophobia increasing
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on racism and human rights lawyer Githu Muigai said Monday that racism is increasing [press release] as a result of xenophobic teachings and violence. Delivering two reports to the UN General Assembly, Maugai said that states must enforce internationally recognized sta ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Humility
    In 2008, a New Orleans funeral procession cling-clanged through Studio 47 here at CBS. The Republican Party was dead. It would take at least several cycles before it returned. Obama had won a mandate, and we were pretty sure that people would endorse a more activist government. After all, that's wha ...
  • No title
    So if the Republican "wave" becomes something of a current, what's the reason? Is it that the Republican Party brand remains one of neoconservatives and President Bush, and the corruption in Congress in the last decade?  There are a lot of folks associated with this era of Republicanism who are ITCH ...
  • No title
    Maybe this stat defines the night: 56% of the electorate thinks the government is doing things better left to businesses and individuals. 80% of these people voted Republican.  38% of the electorate thinks the government needs to do more, and 80% of these people voted Democratic.  ...
  • They're Old, They're Here, And They're Not Going A ...
    Older voters -- aged 65+ comprised 25% of the national electorate this cycle, up several percentage points from 2006. They're going Republican 60 to 40. 
  • The Blame Game
    Who's to blame for the economy? Bankers (34%), Bush (29%), Obama (24%).  Of those who blame bankers, Republicans hold an 11 point advantage.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • IDF’s Gaza Siege Provides Hamas Showcase
    Yesterday, I interviewed the director of the Israeli NGO, Gisha, Sari Bashi, about conditions in Gaza.  Bashi, a graduate of Yale University and Law School and an international human rights lawyer, clerked for an Israeli Supreme Court justice.  To top it all off, she’d just completed an ultra-mara ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • Israeli Deputy PM, Dan Meridor, Cancels London Tri ...
    Israel’s deputy prime minister, Dan Meridor, cancelled a planned trip to London today when he discovered an arrest warrant had been filed against him for his role during Operation Cast Lead.  He had been scheduled as tonight’s keynote speaker at the annual Bicom, pro-Israel advocacy conference in t ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...

Ode Magazine

  • How understanding yields peace
    By: PeaceCorso My friend Masado Nakata told me about The Understanding Campaign . Here’s what their home page says: "The Understanding Campaign wants everyone in the world to read just one word of Arabic: the word Fhm (fuh-hem'), which literally means und ...
  • How plastic could be part of energy solutions
    By: Anne Thomas The environmental crisis is indeed alarming, but it is also an opportunity to bring visualization skills, teamwork, and creativity to the fore. In Japan rubbish bins for paper, plastic bottles and tin cans are ubiquitously lined up in front of supermarkets, convenie ...
  • Change starts small
    By: povertycurtain I came across something in the blogosphere today that seems really inspiring. It's a book called Small acts of resistance: How courage, tenacity and ingenuity can change the world . The book has its own website where you can also submit your own ...
  • How "She's Next" helps women flourish
    By: Miranda Mager Motivational words from one woman to another have a big impact, especially when we're feeling unsure about our goals or place in the world. What if any woman anywhere could receive that knowledge and encouragement from influential women who have a ...
  • Peace is a process, a sum of many acts
    By: PeaceCorso In 1963, president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, gave the commencement address at American University. Part of that address appears below: "I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of universal peace and good will of ...

OpEd News

  • Haiti's Cholera Outbreak: A Disease of Poverty
    Victimized Haitians remain vulnerable to the worst ahead, cholera one of many problems.
  • The New American Credo: Might Is Right
    The Republican takeover was completed by an infusion of corporate money into NPR. Today the station has as many advertisements for corporate donors as a commercial station. It still pretends to be financed by listeners, but NPR is now part of the corporate media and sounds like the voice of Israel.
  • Election Day Blues
    I sat and watched MSNBC and watched them make their assessments about why the Democrats lost so badly. Well the fact that the President didn't do anything but reward his campaign contributors with a massive deficit causing bail-out while turning its back on the manufacturing sector wasn't a real vot ...
  • Now What?
    In the aftermath of the tsunami, what do we do? What's going to happen? Thoughts, predictions, observations? Ideas? Suggestions?
  • Americans to be Pummeled by Yet Another "Sky-Is-Fa ...
    "We're not expecting anything even close to the truth when these pro-meatpacker groups unveil their self-serving study, and based on the history of the consulting firm they've used and the hype they're trying to generate, we'd better be prepared for a spectacular deception,"

Switchboard

  • Greenbuild and USGBC's Affordable Housing Summit
    On November 16th-17th, Greenbuild is convening for their Annual International Conference and Expo in Chicago, Illinois; during this time, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) will hold an Affordable Housing Summit (AHS). General Colin L. Powell will keynote the Greenbuild O ...
  • Investor Report Scrutinizes Water Supply Reliabili ...
    The investor site 24/7 Wall St. has posted this article , with a list of the American cities that they believe face the most significant long-term water supply uncertainty.  Or as they put it, “The Ten Biggest American Cities that are Running out of Water.”  The report is based in part ...
  • What Does Climate Change in Yellowstone Look Like? ...
    I recently flew over a chunk of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in a small helicopter.  It was a wild, stunning, heartbreaking flight.  I had a golden eagle’s view of the dead and dying whitebark pine forests in the Greater Yellowstone.  To see the devastation of high-elevation fore ...
  • No Need to Get Water from the Moon: We Can Use It ...
    Scientists announced recently that there is more water on the moon than previously thought.  In the floor of one crater, they found up to a billion gallons of frozen water—enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools. This is interesting to anyone trying to understand our universe ...
  • John Adams shares NRDC's powerful story; Environme ...
    Last Monday on The Bob Edwards Show , John Adams   and Patricia Adams  spoke about their new book,  A Force for Nature: The Story of NRDC and the Fight to Save Our Planet … John Adams also was interviewed on Public Radio International’s program Living on Earth where he talked about his ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • All Hail the Tea Party!
    O’Donnell and Angle may well have been decisive in allowing the Dems to keep the Senate. And while at least Delaware is a blue state available for personal reasons, it’s amazing that any Republican could lose a reddish purple state with 14% unemployment. For a clue as to how it could [...] Rel ...
  • Election ‘10: A Fifth of Bourbon and an Open ...
    Discuss the atrocities. Remember, not very Republican will be able to party like he or she is Carl Paladino. Take Carl Paladino, for instance. Please! …see Kilgore’s useful guide. …ack, MSNBC calls Feingold loss. Related posts:New Hampshire Open Thread Sexist Wanker of the Day Potomac Tu ...
  • Your Moment of Broder Bobo
    Shorter David Brooks:  “The fact that the new Republican House will totally be run by pragmatic, reasonable moderates interested in cutting deals with Democrats rather than mere obstruction gives me a Boehner.” My very favorite part of this classic in the being-a-dutiful-stenographer-for-politician ...
  • That’ll Solve All Your Problems
    Yeah, maybe they could have him back up Rex Grossman.   Is Ryan Leaf available?   If not, I’m guessing Joey Harrington is finding selling life insurance a little dull. I’d recommend that any Democrat who’s also a Redskins fan be put on a suicide watch. Related posts:That’ll Solve All Your Prob ...
  • The Final Data
    Silver has it. I’ll say GOP +61 in the House, GOP +7 in the Senate (Dems upset in Colorado, GOP wins the other leaners/sure things, Rubio wins FLA.) Related posts:Final Four Update Good Prevails The Massacre of 2010 Related posts: Final Four Update Good Prevails The Massacre of 2010

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
    DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
  • DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
    DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
  • DRI Researcher Authors New Book
    William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
  • The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
    The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
  • Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
    The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • ANTITRUST: A SPECIAL REPORT: Antitrust enforcement ...
    The challenge for businesses is to navigate in, among and between antitrust regimes throughout the world, a number of which have different policy goals and agendas.
  • IP LAW: School seeks to protect color schemes in s ...
    11th Circuit to weigh trademark infringement case brought by University of Alabama against visual artist.
  • Tropicana goes on the offense against Pom Wonderfu ...
    Tropicana mounted an aggressive defense on Tuesday against Lanham Act claims by Pom Wonderful over the companies' competing pomegranate juice drinks. Pom's product contains mostly water and in some cases other fruit juices, neither of which is disclosed to consumers on its bottles, a lawyer for Trop ...
  • At the Court, a day of Mortal Kombat
    Torture, maiming, decapitating and urinating on human beings are rare topics in Supreme Court arguments. But the justices on Tuesday heard all of them as they entered the world of video gaming in a First Amendment challenge to a California law.
  • 1st Circuit considers habeas appeal over denial of ...
    Did a district court improperly deny a convicted defendant's habeas petition requesting access to DNA evidence for testing? That was the issue at oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Donald v. Spencer on Nov. 2.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...
  • The Right to Know!
    Do you know how to file a “Right to Know” request? Do you know why you might want to know how to do this? Since the gas drilling in Pennsylvania has taken off at full speed many people are finding the “Open Records Law” , also known as the “Right to Know Law”, a necessary [...]
  • Ya’ll Get Together Now, Ya Hear?
    Today I attended the Conservation PA event in Camp Hill, PA. I was sitting in the conference room among the other 100 or so attendees and trying to remember when I had first heard of the Marcellus Shale, or the term fracking. When I couldn’t dig up a memory of the beginning of my relationship [...]
  • Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Computer Game Simulates Challenges of Global W ...
    A British company has developed a new computer game that allows players to save the planet from the effects of global warming — at least in a simulated setting. “ Fate of the World ,” produced by the gaming company Red Redemption, places players at the head of a global environmental organization — a ...
  • Numerous Food Companies Are Ending Use of BPA, Rep ...
    Several major food companies are phasing out the use of the controversial chemical bisphenol-A , or BPA, as concerns rise that the chemical used in thousands of everyday plastics might be harmful to humans. Nestlé, the world’s biggest food manufacturer, will stop using BPA in its U.S. products withi ...
  • Hydrofracturing for Gas Also Releases Uranium from ...
    Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a controversial practice used to drill for natural gas, also causes uranium trapped inside shale formations to be released , according to a new study. After mapping Marcellus shale concentrations in Western New York and Pennsylvania, researchers from the Universi ...
  • China Takes First Steps In the Fight Against Acid ...
    Amid China’s seemingly boundless emissions of industrial pollutants, there are signs of hope. Discharges of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, have actually decreased, offering some evidence that China is starting to establish a culture of pollution monitoring and control. BY CHRISTINA LARSON
  • Interview: In the California Desert, Solar-Thermal ...
    Federal and state officials gathered in California’s Mojave Desert last week to officially break ground on BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which will become the world’s largest solar thermal power plant and the first sizeable BrightSource John Woolard one to be built ...

Red Ice Creations

  • WikiLeaks: A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in I ...
    The reports in the archive disclosed by WikiLeaks offer an incomplete, yet startlingly graphic portrait of one of the most contentious issues in the Iraq war - how many Iraqi civilians have been killed and by whom. WikiLeaks proved at least one thing through its release of nearly 400,000 U.S. milita ...
  • ’Former Reds’ Behind Red Mud
    As the Hungarian government continues its efforts to limit the consequences of a tragic toxic leak last week, it has also used the opportunity to attack a supposed former communist-turned capitalist oligarchy that allegedly runs the country’s economy.
  • Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf ...
    The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.
  • The Grasdorf Pictogram Plates
    Farmer Werner Harenberg woke up early in the morning of July 23, 1991 to discover Germany’s first spectacular crop circle near the village of Grasdorf, Lower Saxony in the historic Teutoburger Wald Area, not far from Hannover. This location is not far from the prehistoric site of Externsteine, part ...
  • Randy Quaid and wife fear Hollywood "Star Whackers ...
    The couple told the immigration adjudicator they’re being persecuted in the United States. Evi Quaid said friends such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she’s worried something will happen to her husband. "We feel our lives are in dang ...

Russia Today

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • Adam Gorightly on the Paracast
    Esoteric writer of all things cultural and Fortean Adam Gorightly gives a good interview on this past Sunday’s (10/31) Paracast discussing astral travel, vivid dreaming, alien abductions and psychedelic drugs. Oh yeah! Adam Gorightly Interview on the Paracast
  • “Phantastic” Halloween Solar Photos
    Yeah, I know the spelling catcher and these pictures have been viral on the ‘Net all this past weekend, but I can’t resist posting these from a relative “neighbor” of mine who lives in Buffalo, NY and photographed from the same. Enjoy! … … [...] “On Oct. 20, Friedman hooked his telescope to a hydrog ...
  • Terror Threats and Human Time Machines
    Lately I’ve been haunting the STARpod site picking up on odd bits of psychic stuff that Gary Bekkum says filters through the aether. Today was no different and I scanned this little article that caught my interest since it mentions quantum theory and multiple universes: Multiple sources and declassi ...
  • Zecharia Sitchin Passes
    From Sitchin.com: We regret to inform you that Zecharia Sitchin passed away on the morning of October 9th. A small, private family funeral was held the next day. The family asks that you respect its privacy during this difficult time and refrain from contacting family members directly. Instead, to o ...
  • FermiLab to prove Third Dimension an Illusion
    It has been postulated in the past few years that our reality, i.e., the “Third Dimension” is an illusion and thusly could be manipulated and it would be proven once and for all that we live in a multi-dimensional multi-verse. Now scientists at the FermiLab high energy research facility are building ...

Tippers News

  • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Feared D ...
    On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist - ...
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Doing Daily Internet Activism for Supporting Causes of Change. Talking about: Armchair Activism for Oil-Spill Animals. Submitted by Edward Janus to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Campaign and Mission is Fighting for Persons with Disabilities. Making Our Voices Heard. Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action posted by: Kristina Chew Submitted by Edward Janus to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
    In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high] Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �N ...

The Freeman

  • Economy on Voters’ Minds
    “Voters heading to the polls Tuesday have watched ads warning them about the threat of China and the dangers of illegal immigration. They have heard candidates rail against the stimulus bill, the new health-care law and the federal deficit. They have received phone calls at dinner time reminding the ...
  • Fed to Create New Money to Jumpstart Economy
    “The Federal Reserve may be underestimating the inflation outlook for the second time in less than a decade as it prepares to pump more money into the U.S. economy. The Fed today will probably restart purchases of bonds to spur the economy even as growth is likely to accelerate at a 2.6 percent annu ...
  • Voting, Accountability, and the Rise of Executive ...
    Assuming the Republicans take over the U.S. House of Representatives – or even the Senate – next January, I ask a larger question: Does Congress matter these days?
  • Airport Frisking Kicked Up a Notch
    “The government’s aggressive new pat-down searches at airports are raising privacy concerns and dividing frequent fliers. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screeners last week began more aggressively patting down airline passengers as a matter of policy across the country.” (USA ...
  • AIG to Repay Rescue Money
    “AIG said Monday that it has raised nearly $37 billion from the sale of two foreign insurance units and will use that money to repay a taxpayer bailout.” (USA Today) This doesnât change the fact that creditors were saved by the government. FEE Timely Classic “Too Big to Succeed” by Less Antman

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Best advice for Soundslides
    I was asking around recently, among my friends at other j-schools who teach photojournalism. Yes, they are still teaching Soundslides. The No. 1 reason is almost unanimous: It’s a great transition from making stills to making video. I think it also helps — a lot — with teaching storytelling. Right ...
  • Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
    Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
  • Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
    Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
  • Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
    I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post ( A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again ) has se ...
  • Contents of a journalist’s backpack
    Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...

Facing South

  • Voter fraud fizzle
    After weeks of hysteria about "voter fraud" leading into today's elections, what kind of dastardly deeds have been turned up? Today, Facing South has been monitoring dozens of Twitter feeds, websites, reports from state officials, tips to Facing South and other sources for information about cases o ...
  • The GOP operative behind the fake Morgan Freeman c ...
    It turns out that actor Morgan Freeman didn't make a campaign ad for a Republican congressional challenger in North Carolina after all. But the controversy over the spot, which was made by a major Republican and Tea Party power broker, shows the kind of misleading tactics voters have been subject to ...
  • Where the Justice Department is monitoring electio ...
    The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division will deploy more than 400 federal observers and department personnel to 30 places in 18 states to monitor today's election. Federal observers will be watching at polling places in 16 jurisdictions, including six across the South: Autauga Co ...
  • Why the 'voter fraud' myth won't die
    Most serious political experts know that real, documented voter fraud is an extremely small problem. When the Department of Justice under President Bush launched a crackdown on fraud in 2002, five years later it only had 86 convictions to show for the effort. That's .00007 percent of the 122 milli ...
  • The 'voter fraud' myth on WBAI NY 99.5 today
    "Voter fraud" hysteria has reached a fever pitch, despite there being little evidence that it's a problem. Why is Fox News doing "all voter fraud, all the time?" Who's backing the anti-"voter fraud" crusade? I'll be on WBAI 99.5 New York's "Wake Up" show this morning at 6:50 am EST to talk about th ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
  • Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
    I believe that the senators dont know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.
  • World Cup Crime in South Africa
    While South Africa boasts understandable pride and excitement to be hosting the World Cup, its citizens are fearful. An already disordered country will see crime escalate substantially when the crowds arrive.
  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    Zimbabwean diamonds mined with complete disregard for basic human rights are currently being sold in jewelry stores with
  • Women's Modern Plight
    With all the progress that has been made to advance women's position in the world, their standing still ranges from disadvantaged in developed countries to brutalized in developing ones.

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Rebellions of 1837
    The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In LOWER CANADA the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent FRENCH CANADIAN NATIONALISM . The French Canadian majority constituted the
  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the
  • Native People: Northwest Coast
    The Canadian portion of the Northwest Coast is a region of extremes in topography, from wide beaches to deep fjords and snowcapped mountains. Temperatures are moderate, the January mean above freezing and July less than 18�

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic tablecloths?
    After last month’s straw placemats and coasters post, I got thinking about plastic “disposable” tablecloths – the type people buy as a cheap way to decorate their table for children’s (and other) parties. They’re usually thin sheets of plastic, either brightly coloured or covered with character pict ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic biscuit wrappin ...
    I am a fan of biscuits (aka cookies). I have written of my love of biscuits. I am eating a biscuit while writing this. I do try to make my own biscuits but we eat store-bought ones too – and that obviously means packaging waste. My favourite shop-bought ones are McVitie’s dark choc digestives so [.. ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle conkers?
    Well, this isn’t so much as “reuse or recycle” question as saying “instead from leaving them there to rot, can conkers be used for anything fun or practical?” It is kinda a “reduce this” question too – can I reduce my use of something else by using conkers instead? I picked up some conkers on [...]
  • Green Halloween: How can I reuse or recycle pumpki ...
    Continuing in our Green Halloween series ahead of the spooky day on Sunday… If you’re carving your own jack-o-lantern this weekend, you’ll end up with a whole load of pumpkin seeds. While there are varieties of pumpkin that both taste pretty good and grow to a lantern-friendly size, most shop-bought ...
  • Pencil stub insects, apple core cider, snow globe ...
    They’re been some really great suggestions on Recycle This recently so I thought I’d highlight a few in case you’ve missed them. Scott Bedford popped by our conveniently timed post about how to reuse or recycle pencil stubs to tell us about the little insects he’s been making out of the ends of penc ...

Mondoweiss

  • Israeli state violence and the value of Palestinia ...
    Disregard for Palestinian life has characterized the attitudes of Israeli authorities towards its Arab citizens since the establishment of the state. The Palestinians constitute what the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls homo sacer, according to which the laws of humanity do not apply to the ...
  • Ten years later, Palestinian citizens of Israel ar ...
    A decade has elapsed since the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa uprising, and yet the killers remain free and at large. Perhaps some of us thought, naively, that the killers would receive due retribution. Such naivety was reflected in the actions of many of our people on October 1st, 2000. They took to the str ...
  • If a stranger spews hateful rhetoric in the woods ...
    Back in September,�I wrote an op-ed that was published in the Portland Press Herald�(my home-away-from-home local paper) describing my thoughts on the futility of the impending negotiations between Netanyahu and Abbas.�These "negotiations" are happening only to appease and pacify the international c ...
  • UNRWA tells the story of Palestinian refugees in t ...
    The video above is from the new series produced by UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) called Peace Starts Here. UNRWA is the UN agency established in December, 1949 to work with Palestinian refugee communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the ...
  • B’Tselem documents cruel treatment of Palest ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Carwash Demolished in Jerusalem, Bulldozing Resumes in Karm Etsur Settlement Hebron – PNN - Israeli forces demolished a carwash in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, saying it ...

Media Consortium

  • The Newsonomics of membership " Nieman Journalism ...
    New journalism is hungry for new business models. Beyond millions in foundation start-up support, what will sustain these enterprises? One answer: membership. The notion is borrowed from NPR (née National Public Radio), which we must remind ourselves is no “experiment.” While the daily press is te ...
  • Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring | paidC ...
    One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to their e-editions, a broad category that includes digital replicas, online-only subscriptions, Kindle subscriptions, and products like Times Reader. Leading th ...
  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    t the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, w ...
  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    At the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. The new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, without ever having to leave a publisher’s gam ...
  • When people are willing to pay for “almost nothing ...
    I want to point out a couple tweets of Marco’s that might tell us a little something about the paywalls we’ll see news organizations start erecting in greater quantities soon. Arment recently decided to start offering a paid model for Instapaper’s web service. He calls it an Instapaper Subscription, ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Balance of power shifts after US midterm elections
    Angry, disillusioned, frustrated – all words used to describe the state of the American electorate going into last night’s US midterm elections. The combination proved to be the undoing of congressional Democrats, who were trounced at the polls, losing their majority control of the US House Repre ...
  • NIH to launch genetic testing registry next spring
    A public, online registry providing information on the hundreds of available genetic tests is set to launch this coming spring, US National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials said at a public meeting in Washington DC this afternoon. But many of the details – such as what information it will includ ...
  • Space Shuttle Discovery’s greatest hits
    With final repairs complete, NASA has cleared Space Shuttle Discovery for its 39th and final launch on 3 November. If all goes according to plan, mission STS-133 will begin when the shuttle lifts off the launch pad at 3:52 PM. Though all five shuttle orbiters have flow signature missions, NASA p ...
  • Oxygen boost helps dragonflies go large
    Posted on behalf of Amanda Mascarelli Back in the Permo-Carboniferous era, some 250-300 million years ago, our atmosphere was much richer in oxygen. There were also some monster insects on the prowl, and it's long been hypothesised that the enriched air was a vital prerequisite for their survival ...
  • Britain and France join in unprecedented nuclear c ...
    The newspapers here in Britain are rammed with stories about an unprecedented defence pact between the UK and France. Given that the agreement is supposed to last for about half as long as the hundred years war between the two countries, the whole thing is bound to raise eyebrows . But the nucle ...

new geography

  • “Redneck” Calgary Elects Liberal Muslim Academic M ...
    Calgary municipal politics rarely makes news outside of the city. Going into this year’s municipal election, I had reason to believe this would change. I came to Calgary to manage the campaign of the runner up from the last election. He is a Muslim (specifically Ishmaili), and an outsider to the ...
  • New Index Estimates New House Cost Impact of Land ...
    In recent decades, an unprecedented variation has developed in the price of new tract housing on the fringe of US metropolitan markets. Nearly all of this difference is in costs other than site preparation and construction, which indicates rising land and regulation costs. Our first annual Demograp ...
  • The Real OC: Diverse, Dynamic and — Dare I Say — P ...
    I recently returned to Orange County after a decade’s absence, fully aware that a stereotype of all-white, card-carrying-John Birchers still exists among many who remain unfamiliar with facts on the ground here. I never bought that old saw in the first place. And now, on a second venture into OC, ...
  • Help Mexico: Legalize Pot
    Mexico is disintegrating. Bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, and shootings are now common. Recently, the mayor of Tancitaro Mexico was stoned to death. Mexican corruption is so rampant that United States law enforcement officials are reluctant to work with their Mexican counterparts out, fear ...
  • The Privatization-Industrial Complex
    “I think this is just the latest way for people to make money off state and local governments. This is the new way the investment banks, their lawyers, and consultants squeeze the taxpayers....They’re going around making these deals, and it’s very lucrative. It’s like a circus coming to town.” - Cli ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • British Innovation: New Speed Camera Can Catch Dri ...
    Via: Guardian: A speed camera designed to catch motorists committing up to five offences at the same time could be heading to Britain’s roads. As well as catching speeding motorists, the Asset camera should be able to pick out drivers who are not wearing seatbelts and accurately measure distances be ...
  • Is a Federal Nordic State on the Cards?
    Via: Guardian: Today the leaders of the five Nordic states are meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a Nordic federal state. Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523 ...
  • Back to the Scene of the Crime: A Return to Jekyll ...
    See: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. Via: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: This special conference marks the centenary of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that resulted in draft legislation for the creation of a U.S. central bank. Parts of this draft (the Aldrich plan) were incor ...
  • Canada: Tories Reintroduce ISP Intercept Bill
    Via: CBC: The federal Conservatives have reintroduced legislation that would allow police and intelligence officials to intercept online communications and get personal information from internet service providers (ISPs) about their subscribers without first obtaining a warrant.
  • Sarkozy: “Britain and France have pooled the ...
    Via: Guardian: Britain and France today signed a landmark 50-year treaty on defence and security that envisages the joint use of aircraft carriers, a 10,000-strong joint expeditionary force and unprecedented new levels of co-operation over nuclear missiles. … Cameron disclosed that the two treaties ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Federal Reserve Is Holding A Conference On Jek ...
    The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve.  The title of this conference is "A Return to Jekyll Island: ...
  • Living Beyond Our Means: 3 Charts That Prove That ...
    Do you want to see something truly frightening?  Just check out the 3 charts posted further down in this article.  These charts prove that we are now in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world.  As Americans have enjoyed an incredibly wonderful standard of living over th ...
  • The Biggest Bank Robbery In History? More Quantita ...
    The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting ready to conduct another gigantic bailout of the big banks, but this time virtually nobody in the mainstream media will use the term "bailout" and the American people are going to get a lot less upset about it.  You see, one lesson that was learne ...
  • The Calm Before The Storm
    An eerie calm has descended upon world financial markets as they await perhaps the two most important financial events of the year this week.  On Tuesday, investors will be eagerly awaiting the results of one of the most anticipated midterm elections in U.S. history.  On Wednesday, ...
  • The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper A ...
    Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage.  America has not yet reached that point, but we are certainly well on our way.  In 20 ...

Desertification

  • Network to ensure protective irrigation of rain-fe ...
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/60167/2010/10/2-104242-1.htm Indian farmers pool groundwater to protect against drought Written by: AlertNet correspondent By Manipadma Jena HYDERABAD, India (AlertNet) – Until 10 years ago, the six acres of land Dappu Pulya owns wit ...
  • Water from potatoes could be used during droughts ...
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://green.blorge.com/2010/11/water-from-potatoes-could-be-used-during-droughts/ Water from potatoes could be used during droughts November 2, 2010 by Susan Wilson   Hereâs a new twist on water conservation, draining potatoes. PepsiCo, who owns the potato chip manu ...
  • WHO SENDS ME A CACTUS PADDLE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICA ...
      A spineless Opuntia cactus simply put on top of some potting soil and rooting on a flower pot (Photo WVC) The spineless prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica var. inermis) should get the title of âBEST PLANTâ to combat desertification … Continue reading →
  • Growing food, fodder and oil seeds on saline soils ...
    Introduction Salty, crunchy, succulent, fleshy, twig-like, bushy plants of the genus Salicornia, belonging to the family Chenopodiaceae, deserve full interest for agricultural production in saline coastal areas, providing food, fodder and oil or biofuel without using fresh irrigation water.  They … ...
  • An invitation to 5 billion non-hungry people on ea ...
    INTRODUCTION Many people are looking for success stories of organic family gardening or farming in rural and in urban areas. Don’t search anymore: here is a splendid testimony of the results booked in Argentina, in a number of other South … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Reform Reading:  Whistling to the SEC
    A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • The Final Countdown
    If the story of this election is the rise of outside spending, the lesson we at You Report Election 2010 learned is that following the money is next to impossible.
  • Lawyer Tries Again to Get U.S. Supreme Court to He ...
    A lawyer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time to hear a case related to a federal block on Holocaust victims’ families suing European insurance companies for unpaid claims on policies bought before World War II.
  • Rating Agencies Fight (and Lobby) for Survival
    In recent months, the credit rating agencies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to delay new restrictions under the Dodd-Frank Act, part of an unabated outflow of cash that the rating agencies have funneled to lobbyists since the debate over financial reform began. They have some surprising ...
  • Text Messages, Google Ads Target Virginia Democrat ...
    Not all independent expenditures come in the form of a slick television ad. Two small independent groups are using relatively inexpensive cell phone text messages and a Google ad to attack Virginia Democratic incumbents.

backofthebook.ca

  • Dear Kanye: Keep your junk in its trunk
    By Rachel Krueger Attention, gentlemen of the world: a picture of your dong is not a dozen roses.  It is not a fun evening out, or even a quick back rub.  It is not, in short, something the object of your admiration is going to be delighted to receive.    When rumors of ...
  • Blekko me
    By Mark Evans After a lot of hype and venture capital, Blekko launched today. For those of you not familiar with Blekko, it’s a new search engine that, like most of the search start-ups in recent years, has been billed as a new threat to Google. While I haven’t had much of ...
  • It’s called protest, Mr. Rathgeber
    By Alison@Creekside Finished with the G20? Not even close. And partly because of the wanker to the left. At Wednesday's Public Safety and Security Committee meeting into the G20 fiasco, we heard testimony from two very well-spoken students from Montreal who were arrested in their pajamas at ...
  • Homeland insecurity
    By Alison@Creekside The same party that thought the Canadian government collecting info about Canadians via the mandatory census was an egregious violation of privacy and civil liberties is apparently just fine with having info about Canadians collected by the U.S. Homeland Security. Funny old Co ...
  • “Lay Off Officer Bubbles”: the video
    By Frank Moher Last week we reported on the ongoing saga of Officer Bubbles, the Toronto cop who became infamous during the G20 for threatening to bust a bubble-blowing protestor. Constable Bubbles, you will recall (or maybe not), has launched a 1.2 million dollar lawsuit against YouTube for host ...

Worldnews

  • Food prices climbing as consumers face even h ...
    Food prices have climbed at the fastest rate for more than a year due to a sharp spike in the cost of wheat and corn, new figures have shown. Experts warned of even higher increases of food prices in the New Year with many consumers facing higher supermarket bills. Photo: ALAMY Prices rose by 4 ...
  • Fast-rising food prices feed inflation fears ...
    British Retail Consortium/Nielsen price survey finds shoppers paying more for bread and meat after sharp increases in wheat and corn prices Further increases in food inflation are in prospect following recent rises in global commodity prices. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Fresh evidence of ...
  • Broker's Notes: Gold inches down even as doll ...
    Gold Gold inched down on Wednesday despite a weaker dollar as investors stayed on the sidelines before an expected US Federal Reserve decision to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the sluggish economy. The outcome of the Fed meeting would be bullish for assets such as gold if the centra ...
  • Barbara Boxer defeats Carly Fiorina in Senate ...
    0 Dino Vournas / AP Images View All Images (4) (11-02) 23:56 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- In a race Republicans needed to win to take over the U.S. Senate, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer fought off a fierce challenge from former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and defeated the Republican first-time of ...
  • Nancy Pelosi out as speaker - GOP controls Ho ...
    0 Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 02: House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at an election-night rally held by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on November 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. Congressional Democrats were expected to suffer big losses inthe mid ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Progress in the Elimination of the Stigma of Menta ...
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  • Parental infertility and cerebral palsy in childre ...
    Doctors have known for some time that children born after some fertility treatments are at increased risk of cerebral palsy. However, it was not known whether this risk was due to the treatment itself, the higher frequency of preterm or multiple births, o
  • New algebraic model of DNA hybridization to measur ...
    Researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have developed a novel algebraic model of DNA "hybridization," a process central to most biotechnology devices that monitor changes in cell's gene expression or characterize a cell's genome.
  • Infertility: No Link to Cerebral Palsy Risk
    Infertility has been ruled out as a potential cause of cerebral palsy among children conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) or by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), according to a study.
  • Multiple Sclerosis Will Become A Controlled Diseas ...
    The complexity of the immune system and nervous system turn Neuroimmunology into one of the most exciting fields of modern biomedicine. Between October 26th and 30th takes place in Sitges (Barcelona, Spain) the X International Congress of Neuroimmunology of the International Society of Neuroimmunolo ...

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • Californians reject effort to suspend climate law
    In a key test for U.S. environmental policy, Californians voted Tuesday in favor of the state's landmark climate change law, defeating a ballot measure backed by Texas-based oil companies that would have suspended it.
  • Global warming may bring giant crabs to Antartica
    Changing ocean temperatures may allow giant, voracious, predatory crabs to enter the unique continental-shelf ecosystems of Antarctica, reports USA TODAY colleague Elizabeth Weise.
  • Ten programs show how to prod people to save energ ...
    How can consumers and companies be motivated to save energy? They need to know how much energy they use, set measurable goals and be given incentives as well as feedback, says a new report that looks at 10 large successful programs.
  • Museum: George Washington Carver was green pioneer
    Plant-based fuels and household products may seem like modern developments, but they have a long history. This Saturday in Dearborn, Mich., the Henry Ford Museum opens an exhibit on a U.S. trailblazer -- George Washington Carver.
  • New energy-efficient light bulb, ESL, enters marke ...
    Still trying to get used to the curly-Q compact fluorescent light bulb? Haven't yet tried the LED (light emitting diode)? Well, you may be falling behind, because there's yet another, energy-efficient light bulb entering the market -- known as the ESL.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT: F-35 STEALTH FIGHTER SPY ...
    By Gordon Duff F-35 Joint Strike Fighter worthless? “WIKI” STYLE ESPIONAGE LANDS $300 BILLION DOLLAR SUPER-PLANE PLANS “Another spy disaster like Pollard, shoved under the rug too long due to pressure from the powerful Israeli lobby.” On April 21, 2009, the Department of Defense announced the t ...
  • JULIE SABBATH GOY BURCHILL
    Gilad Atzmon Julie Burchill In her desperate attempt to smear Lauren Booth,Independent writer Julie Burchill, a devout Zionist, proves how deceiving British multiculturalism is. Indeed the Zionification of this Kingdom has left this country in a disastrous ethical limbo. “Last year I took the f ...
  • French Worker Struggles for Justice
    by Stephen Lendman Since early October, France resembles May 1968, at least in part, predatory capitalism again on trial. More on that below. Today it's over austerity moves, not for raising the retirement age to 62 as misreported. It's much more, as Diana Johnstone explained in her article titled ...
  • David Broder: Symbol of Major Media Depravity
    by Stephen Lendman Currently writing a twice-weekly Washington Post column, Broder is called America's "dean" of political journalists, having covered every presidential campaign since Kennedy-Nixon. At age 81 (ironically born September 11, 1929), his bio lists an array of awards as well as accol ...
  • The party of thugs
    Mary Shaw On October 25, a defenseless female MoveOn.org volunteer was assaulted outside the site of a Kentucky Senatorial debate. While engaged in street theater trying to get Rand Paul's attention, Lauren Valle was pushed to the ground by some of Paul's supporters, and then one of them stomped on ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA 30th anniversary conference and gala dinner N ...
    For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been giving voice to progressive ideas. In an era of shrinking progressive think tanks and growing right-wing think tanks, we’d like to celebrate our three decades of accomplishments. We hope you will be part of the celebration. On No ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik in Regina
    ================================== Please join us on November 18th for the Regina leg of Abousfian Abdelrazik's Western Canada speaking tour. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on a visit to Sudan in 2003. The Federal Court of Canada later concluded that this arrest likely took place at th ...
  • Partner Pre-Budget Submissions
    Every year as part of the federal government's budget process, the budget committee asks for "pre-budget submissions." �Essentially these documents are ideas that any person or group can put forward about what they would like to see in the upcoming federal budget. �The goal is to have the ideas find ...
  • Did you know that poverty costs Nova Scotia at lea ...
    A new report released by the CCPA-NS puts numbers to the cost of poverty in Nova Scotia for the very first time. The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia , written by Angella MacEwan and Christine Saulnier, reveals that the cost of poverty in Nova Scotia is an estimated 5-7% of GDP, or $1400 to $1700 for ...
  • The power of taxes
    When you think about taxes, do you think about the $10,000 having a baby could cost if you lived in the U.S. and didn't have health insurance? Do you think about an education system that allows even the children of poor families to become doctors, teachers, or engineers? Government inspectors who ...

World Wide Hippies

  • And in the morning, she wept
    Just watched a couple of videos on CNN. Rand Paul winning and Christine O’Donnell losing. Rand Paul was boring to the last degree, and Christine was so unrelenting that you would have thought she had won. Her’s was the better to watch. Christine’s speech was no consolation… in fact it was rude. She ...
  • Who Won What?
    Rand Paul is in, but Christine O’Donnell is out. And Cuomo beat that racist guy. And they took the House. Here’s what else is going on: The Ultimate Hour-by-Hour, District-by-District Election Guide Weâre gearing up for what is certain to be a very exciting and â given that there are a number of cru ...
  • In Case You Missed It: Your Town Free Press &#8211 ...
    To contact Phil or find out more: check out his website and blog For a copy of HUNGA DUNGA Eleven years in the writing and a lifetime in the living, Hunga Dunga is the text book of hippiedom. Real, raw and rebellious, this epic book recounts all the days and years of an “unapologetic hippie” [... ...
  • What The $#%@ Has Obama Done So Far?
    ⢠Signed the Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids — 4 million of whom were previously uninsured. ⢠Repealed Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research ⢠Issued executive order to close the prison at Guantanam ...
  • Vote or Die!
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Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 'I Remember'
  • 9/11 Families Call for Immediate Acknowledgement o ...
    NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civ ...
  • 'A Crime Beyond Denunciation'
    This appears in a new article in the New York Observer : "The first thing that needs to happen, I think, is to get these people out of their homes," a man wearing a bespoke blue-striped shirt, a Hermés tie patterned with elephants and Ferragamo loafers said recently. "Correct! I'll explain," the ...
  • The “I” Word ...by Cindy Sheehan
    Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: “Mama, so-and-so, said the ‘K’ word.” I don’t remember which one of my children was the tattler, or which one was the tattlee, but I remember the “k” word. I could never figure out what the “k” word was, because neither of the ...
  • Impeachment Marcher Reaches Washington – “Hello Ma ...
    John Nirenberg, who has spent the last forty days and nights walking south on Route 1 from Boston to Washington D.C., has reached the outskirts of his goal, Nancy Pelosi’s office. And rather than the last stumbling steps of exhaustion, or steps glad to be finishing up and moving on, the final ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Panda visit: Who will pay for it?
    The proposed visit of two pandas to Toronto would give a welcome boost to our zoo and to the local economy, by attracting more tourists. “There’s millions of dollars to be made,” boasts Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, head of the Toronto Zoo board’s ...
  • Transit strikes: Time to declare TTC essential
    We disagree with mayor-elect Rob Ford on most issues, but he has our support on at least one front — declaring the TTC an essential service, with labour disputes to be settled by binding arbitration. The Star believes that the TTC is so vital to ou ...
  • Open courts: Public’s right to know
    Canada’s “open court” system is a hallmark of our democracy. And the Ontario Court of Appeal has just reminded the lower of that, in a forceful and welcome ruling that can only serve to strengthen the public’s understanding of how justice is done. ...
  • Minorities on council: Making progress slowly
    Despite some strong visible minority contenders for municipal office, only five of them won a place on Toronto’s 45-member city council last week. While that is one more than before, it means the city’s visible minority population — close to half t ...
  • Indian Act: New approach needed
    Everyone seems to agree that the Indian Act is obsolete. Then why is it still on the books?

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Obama Asks Thug Nations To Judge America
    Does America engage in massive and widespread violations of human rights? The Obama administration thinks so. That’s the takeaway of the “Report of the United States of America Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.” The introduction says it “gives a partial snapshot of the curren ...
  • Tea Party comes to Australia
    An anti-tax, anti-government Tea Party has set up shop in Australia, inspired by the US-based movement that has turned the Republican Party upside down. The Australian T.E.A. Party (an acronym for Taxed Enough Already) will be targeting pre-selections across the country and heavily promotes its link ...
  • Pelosi sees no justification for high-end tax cuts
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday there is “no justification” for extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, firing the latest salvo in a brewing battle over taxes. The leading Democrat and Republican in the House dug in their heels on Thursday, but it will likely be the Senate that ...
  • Le Pen’s daughter looks likely to lead from ...
    Marine Le Pen was late back from lunch. This is a common condition among French politicians but unusual for Le Pen. She is known for being on time and being polite, charming and, unlike her father, difficult to dislike. She arrived “only” 20 minutes late. The National Front, she says, is not a racis ...
  • Ohio Town Won’t Allow Tea Party to Celebrate U.S. ...
    Local officials in Ohio’s Andover Township have denied the use of their public square for a celebration of Constitution Day because of the “political affiliation” of its organizers. Several residents of the small central Ohio town formed The Andover Tea Party in May 2010, and in that same month, the ...

Stonecipher News

  • A map of the 12 districts of the United States...Image via WikipediaStudies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
    According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
  • Access Fire Protection Services
    Contact Shannongail Chernoff for all your fire protection needs which includes FM200 installations for computer rooms and paint booth fire suppression installations services. Commercial Kitchen Fire Suppression Systems UL 300 upgrades, Installation Service & Confidence Testing, Repiping, Nozzles Ins ...
  • What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
    According to Wright & Wright (2006): The definition of “least restrictive environment” did not change in IDEA 2004. Schools are required to educated children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Judicial decisions about “mainstreaming” and “least restrictive environment” (LRE) var ...
  • Rx - Nutritious Food and Some Important Tips for H ...
    I was surfing the net for alternative health articles when I came across my friend Ron Siojo's Factoidz page . "For centuries, bitter melon has been used therapeutically in China, India, Africa and the southeastern part of the US. It is useful in medicine as an anti-tumor, antiviral and anti-diabeti ...
  • PlayStation®Move
    This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of PlayStation MOVE . All opinions are 100% mine. Recently a little genie appeared to me one night while sleeping and gave my family the PlayStation®Move. Move Since I started using PlayStation®Move, my family and I have lost weight and spent more q ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Finding Your Signature Scent: A How-To Guide
    Picking out your home's new visceral vibe is not as easy as it used to be. There are a lot of overly perfumed fresheners out there. Luckily, Febreze is here to help you pick the most appealing aroma for your room. The new Febreze Flameless Luminary scents can outfit your home with... Tags: febreze f ...
  • What won and what lost for the 'tea party' ?
    The messages which could be construed as social conservative/right wing ALL LOST last night, for the tea party candidates. The messages which honed in on the Constitution and fiscal responsibility ALL WON. Losers were anti-masturbatory, 'semi' witch related, home schooling, do... Tags: civil rights ...
  • ASUS Lamborghini VX6 12″ Eee PC Notebook Shipping
    Taking styling cues from one of the most recognizable sports cars and putting them in a notebook without looking cheesy is a tough thing to do, but with the ASUS Lamborghini VX6 Eee PC, ASUS has succeeded in creating a beautiful looking notebook that carries some of the... Tags: hdmi lamborghini asu ...
  • Kirk Wins Big on Obama’s Turf
    In a night full of House victories and GOP celebration, it was a moderate Republican in Illinois who delivered THE statement win of the evening.  Mark Kirk, a Republican, will be the next Senator from Illinois.  Given the political demographics associated with the state, this... Tags: illinois dekal ...
  • Wall Goes Double-Double, Leads Wiz To First Victor ...
    A view of the Verizon Center prior to the game. (photo by Patrick Pho) The Wizards fans arrived to the Verizon Center for their home opener eager for a win. After starting the season with losses to Orlando and Atlanta, the crowd was ready for 2010’s first overall pick John Wall to... Tags: pts phila ...

Groklaw

  • EMI Trial Judge Slams Lawyers for Hands - Boies Sc ...
    Mr. Baughman continued questioning Mr. Loveridge, who said that Terra Firma's lawyers drafted the declaration for him. Soon after, outside the presence of the jury, Judge Rakoff again took over with sharp questions for two Boies, Schiller & Flexner lawyers, Christopher Duffy and Jonathan Sherman. Th ...
  • Juror removed in plot twist in EMI case
    David Boies, lead counsel for Mr Hands, argued before the judge's decision that the court had found no conflicts when it first selected the jurors. "Everybody knows banks and financial institutions, including private equity firms like my client, are controversial," he added. - FT
  • Stormy Peters leaves GNOME: Joins Mozilla
    Stormy Peters is stepping down as GNOME's executive director and heading to Mozilla to work on developer engagement. In a post on her personal blog today, Peters announced the decision to leave the GNOME Foundation to join Mozilla and work on "pushing freedom on the Web as much as we've pushed for ...
  • Oracle, SAP duel over damages in opening arguments
    Lawyers for Oracle and SAP made their opening arguments Tuesday in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, with each side giving a very different story to the jury about how damages in the case should be calculated. - James Niccolai, ComputerWorld
  • SAP Says Oracle's Damage Request Too High
    The jurors also saw a video deposition of John Ritchie, a former TomorrowNow employee. In the video, Ritchie testified that he was hired to work on a "web scraper" designed to extract data from websites. The web scraper pulled documents off of Oracle's website, he said. Ritchie said he repeatedly r ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Yesterday's Taksim Square bomb
    Thanks to everyone who's expressed concern for my wellbeing after yesterday's bomb in Taksim Square. In the incident, a suicide bomber detonated himself at the entrance to a police bus. He killed himself and injured 15 police officers and 17 members of the public. Te indications seem to be it was ...
  • D. Broder and the war fever in Washington
    Just how serious the current, rising epidemic of war fever is in Washington DC is indicated by a column in today's WaPo in which veteran pundit David Broder argues quite clearly that for Pres. Obama, "orchestrating a showdown" with the regime in Iran in 2011 and 2012 will be a successful policy at b ...
  • More impressions, Istanbul
    So many conversations, so many amazing meals, so much history. One major thing that has emerged from the conversations, for me, is a much more robust sense that what we are seeing in Turkey today is not a function just of the actions and policies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), b ...
  • Istanbul, for all that ails you
    Today, I feel like maybe I died and went to heaven. I am sitting in an apartment that is perched on the heights of Istanbul's Cehangir neighborhood right across the Golden Horn from the Topkapi Palace. I stare out of the picture windows at the confluence of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus. Ferry- ...
  • How can I not blog when (#2)--
    ... Britain's $1.6 billion-worth of brand-new nuclear submarine runs aground off the coast of Scotland while testing its sonar! Just put this $1.6 billion figure together together with the sad facts of what I just blogged about Haiti , and you'll see how totally askew the priorities of the so-calle ...

First Truths

  • Police Abuse is the Rule, Not the Exception
    By giving the state the exclusive right to use force and provide defense services within a designated area, we provide the inducement for the criminals in police forces to intimidate and tyrannize peaceful people. For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that we should withdraw from the state ...
  • The State Never Sleeps
    Oliver Stone's new film,� Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , his interpretation of the collapse of the financial system, functions as a digest of the libertarian anarchist critique of state capitalism's banking element. In a piece issued by the Center for a Stateless Society , I argue that the suprem ...
  • Obamacare Feeds Insurance Oligarchs
    In a commentary piece, I argue that Obamacare, the result of Big Insurance lobbying efforts to insulate their bottom lines from competition, squeezes consumers and raises costs.
  • WikiLeaks Removes the Cloak
    My latest commentary lauds WikiLeaks for exposing the full scope of the Iraq war's horrors.
  • What It Means to be Anti-War
    Libertarianism is described variously as the philosophy of liberty, as individualism, and as anti-collectivism, and while all of those designations are accurate I want to suggest that libertarianism is at first anti-war. Even after explaining that mine is a social philosophy that makes the complet ...

Media Co-Op

  • END:CIV
    END:CIV examines our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epide ...
  • Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet, issue 22
    Remember the dead, fight for the living! The November 1-15 issue looks at an elite backed plan to privatize reserve lands, checks in with the Sinixt Nation Slhu7kin protection camp, hits up Leah Henderson for an interview about the G-20 conspi ...
  • Justice for First Nations Deaths in Police Custody
    Vancouver Rally in Support of the Public Inquiry into the Death of Frank Paul Two days before the continuation of a� public inquiry into the death of an indigenous man while in police custody, two dozen people attended a lively demonstration o ...
  • Dressing Up
    Kids shake it up in Halifax's North End HALIFAX—Eleven-year-old Craig Cain eagerly shakes bottles of Hope Blooms salad dressing and pours them into dishes for a potential customer to taste. He tells the customer his favourite flavour is Creamy ...
  • Support the Toronto Media Co-op
    Announcing our November Membership Drive In less than one year, the  Toronto Media Co-op  (TMC)  has established itself as a hub for the sort of critical news coverage that our city needs.  I'm writing to invite you to become a part of buildin ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Tea Party, the "dream vacuum" and the souring of A ...
    Real disaster: the Potato Famine Memorial in Dublin, Ireland Disaster as masochistic fantasy: my favorite doomster, Dimitri Orlov From 1836 to 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States. - Wikipedia When I got to America on a college scholarship, I realized that the real American ...
  • Wikileaks: has anybody given a thought about Iraq ...
    David Seaton's News Links In all the comments on Wikileak's Iraq revelations I've read, I haven't seen much of anything about their effect on Iraq and the Iraqis.� This seems strange to me, because from beginning to end the real victims of everything we've done are the Iraqis themselves and it isn't ...
  • Julian Assange and Wikileaks, a warning: How to hi ...
    The reports make it clear that the lethal contest between Iranian-backed militias and American forces continued after President Obama sought to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran�s leaders� New York Times It seems to me that the most significant revelations from the massive WikiLeaks document du ...
  • China’s next president: Xi Jinping
    China�s next president: Xi Jinping Xi is China's heir-apparent, in line to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012 as China's top leader. This 56-year-old "princeling"�his father was former Vice-Premier Xi Zhongxun�earned a doctorate in Marxist theory from Tsinghua University but now has a reputation as a support ...
  • The "Big Lie"... How it works and what it is for
    The big lie kicks in: before and after Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing campaign funded in part by the energy billionaires the Koch brothers, is working with the Tea Party movement to increase its impact through the use of new media and social networking. The Guardian Rupert Murdoch has decla ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go into ...
  • Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the impacts that chemical exposures hav ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Not a hill worth dying on
    We knew a manager, years ago, who would put up with almost anything except a threat to quit. "Good luck in your next endeavour," he would say, looking the blustering subordinate in the eye. They usually fell back into line; a few talked themselves out the door.
  • Ottawa should allow potash deal
    Ottawa has jurisdiction to kill major foreign investments by deeming them to be not in the public interest, but the provinces have jurisdiction over natural resources, including potash, naturally occurring potassium salts used principally as fertilizer.
  • Construction industry still reeks
    So far Operation Marteau has netted only some small fish, while reports and rumours of shady behaviour continue to swirl. Six weeks ago, for example, Francoise David and Amir Khadir, of Quebec solidaire, gave Operation Marteau documents about an alleged $400,000 in contributions to the Liber ...
  • One insurance policy that's not worth the price
    In the past few weeks Drainville, MNA for the south-shore riding of Marie Victorin, has told anyone who will listen that the prospect of independence is the "best insurance policy" the province has ever had. A provincial party that stops brandishing the prospect of sovereignty, Drainville sa ...
  • Jail is no place for the mentally ill
    As the Conservative government in Ottawa pushes ahead with plans to expand the country's prisons to make room for more convicts serving longer sentences, the head of the federal prison system has made an admission that should shock and alarm us all:

Food World Order

  • alcohol more harmful to your health than heroin & ...
    from natural news : Scientists from Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) recently released a study that assessed which drugs cause the most overall harm to both users and society . According to their analysis, alcohol is the most harmful drug, scoring higher on the list than bo ...
  • 10/7 binge & purge: sick, soda, studies
    study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick * politics of food in the pacific northwest * coffee prices rise as futures hit 13yr high * 3-course meal in stick of chewing gum now a possibility * new york seeks food-stamp ban on soda * study shows drop in retail food prices ...
  • food scandals prompt organic growth in china
    from food safety news : Food safety scandals have helped propel rapid growth in the the organic food sector of China's economy , according to the Telegraph. " Interest has been promoted by a series of scares including toxic beans, contaminated milk and pork, pesticide-laced dumplings, chemicall ...
  • gates foundation ties with monsanto under fire
    from seattle times : For two years, local activists on a shoestring budget have been trying to document connections between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Monsanto , the company vilified by some for its heavy involvement in genetic engineering of crops. Try as they might, their work got lit ...
  • portland dines a la cart; 'street food' movement e ...
    from suntimes : With more than 500 colorful food carts adorning Portland neighborhoods, the “City of Roses” continues to blossom as Food Cart capital of the world . Earlier this summer, Budget Travel magazine ranked Portland first on its list of the world’s best street food . You’ll see tricked-out ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
    Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02
  • Robert Green, Hollie and Ann Greig at The ‘C ...
    Robert Green, Hollie and Anne Greig have confirmed they will be appearing at the Child Snatching By The State conference being held on April 10th in Stafford, UK. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in media reports concerning Mothers and Fathers, Grandparents and Families reporting t ...
  • COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with Dav ...
    COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. links to ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Federal Reserve Is Holding A Conference On Jek ...
    The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve.  The title of this conference is "A Return to Jekyll Island: ...
  • Living Beyond Our Means: 3 Charts That Prove That ...
    Do you want to see something truly frightening?  Just check out the 3 charts posted further down in this article.  These charts prove that we are now in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world.  As Americans have enjoyed an incredibly wonderful standard of living over th ...
  • The Biggest Bank Robbery In History? More Quantita ...
    The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting ready to conduct another gigantic bailout of the big banks, but this time virtually nobody in the mainstream media will use the term "bailout" and the American people are going to get a lot less upset about it.  You see, one lesson that was learne ...
  • The Calm Before The Storm
    An eerie calm has descended upon world financial markets as they await perhaps the two most important financial events of the year this week.  On Tuesday, investors will be eagerly awaiting the results of one of the most anticipated midterm elections in U.S. history.  On Wednesday, ...
  • The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper A ...
    Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage.  America has not yet reached that point, but we are certainly well on our way.  In 20 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • A totally gratuitous p***-take of the Leftist Tori ...
    I do apologise all round for the following p***-take. It's just that I was trying to fathom what on earth happened to the party that, until Dave, was the Conservative Party. The starting point was to recall what their election literature and imagery was like. And, from memory, it was less l ...
  • Patriots: Why wait for politicians? Why not just d ...
    You know, as members of the public who love our country, we sit around and we whinge and moan about the undemocratic nature of the European Empire. We whinge and moan, saying that we want our country back. We wait for the Conservative Party backbenchers (who, apart from the noble Douglas Carswell ...
  • UKIP: At civil war over leadership... or are we?
    Those of you who are keen web surfers might already be aware of an apparent row within UKIP. For those who are not, here's the story so far. A communication, apparently from Mike Nattrass MEP, has appeared on the internet. Apparently originating as an email, we could not tell you who the em ...
  • 24 Hours in Summary: The Image
    Nuff said. No more words required.
  • U.S. Mid-Terms: Quick notes
    Huge congratulations from The Talking Clock to Rand Paul - son of Ron Paul - who is a projected HUGE winner for the Kentucky senate race. Fox News is reporting that the Republicans are projected to enjoy the biggest pick-up since 1948. In some cases, the 'Republican' wins come in the form of ' ...

Facing South

  • Voter fraud fizzle
    After weeks of hysteria about "voter fraud" leading into today's elections, what kind of dastardly deeds have been turned up? Today, Facing South has been monitoring dozens of Twitter feeds, websites, reports from state officials, tips to Facing South and other sources for information about cases o ...
  • The GOP operative behind the fake Morgan Freeman c ...
    It turns out that actor Morgan Freeman didn't make a campaign ad for a Republican congressional challenger in North Carolina after all. But the controversy over the spot, which was made by a major Republican and Tea Party power broker, shows the kind of misleading tactics voters have been subject to ...
  • Where the Justice Department is monitoring electio ...
    The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division will deploy more than 400 federal observers and department personnel to 30 places in 18 states to monitor today's election. Federal observers will be watching at polling places in 16 jurisdictions, including six across the South: Autauga Co ...
  • Why the 'voter fraud' myth won't die
    Most serious political experts know that real, documented voter fraud is an extremely small problem. When the Department of Justice under President Bush launched a crackdown on fraud in 2002, five years later it only had 86 convictions to show for the effort. That's .00007 percent of the 122 milli ...
  • The 'voter fraud' myth on WBAI NY 99.5 today
    "Voter fraud" hysteria has reached a fever pitch, despite there being little evidence that it's a problem. Why is Fox News doing "all voter fraud, all the time?" Who's backing the anti-"voter fraud" crusade? I'll be on WBAI 99.5 New York's "Wake Up" show this morning at 6:50 am EST to talk about th ...

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  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Letter Bombs Target Foreign Embassies in Athens A day after a package bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy in Athens exploded, injuring a delivery worker, similar bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies Tuesday, part of a wave of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Reports: Bomb Plot Tip Came From Former Gitmo Detainee Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi national and former Guantanamo detainee who turned himself in to Saudi authorities last month, is reportedly the source of the tip that led to the discovery of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Package Bombs Were Designed to Detonate ‘In Flight’, Says Brennan; Al-Asiri Emerges as Suspect The discovery of two package bombs intercepted in Britain and Dubai on U.S.-bound cargo planes set off a global panic Friday, and al Qaeda in the … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Soldier’s Widow Testifies at Khadr Hearing; Khadr Tells Her He’s ‘Sorry’ Tabitha Speer, the widow of U.S. Special Forces medic Chris Speer, who was killed in 2002 by a grenade thrown by Omar Khadr in Afghanistan, provided emotional testimony Thursday … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Man Charged with Plot to Bomb DC-Area Metro Stations A Pakistani-American man living in Northern Virginia was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to bomb DC-area Metro stations. Farooque Ahmed, 34, reportedly âcame to officials’ attention when he was seeking … Continue reading →

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  • Making of Sintel Open Movie - Documentary Video
    Sintel Open Movie was released last month and it was an instant hit among developers and movie lovers alike. Now it's time for some real learning. If those awesome blender tutorials were not enough for you, may be you should watch this making of Sintel Open Movie documentary video as a first step. ...
  • Split - Beautiful New Theme from Bisigi
    Bisgi themes have always been a cut above the rest and they have already released nearly 14 beautiful themes for Ubuntu/Gnome until now. Split is the brand new theme introduced by Bisigi and from the looks of it, Split is definitely worth a try. Introduction of split theme takes the total count of B ...
  • 9 Things I Did After Installing Brand New Ubuntu 1 ...
    The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is here with a ton of improvements . I think, it's time to stop talking about the great strides Ubuntu 10.10 has made on the usability fronts and lets just concentrate on the things you need to do and you could do with the new Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick ...
  • The Perfect 10 is Here and It's a Job Well Done
    Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" is finally released and it's clearly is a job well done. We have been covering different aspects of this Ubuntu release for the past few months and we are more than happy to inform that, Ubuntu 10.10 has surpassed our expectations. Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerk ...
  • Nokia to Focus on Qt for Its MeeGo and Symbian Mob ...
    Nokia in a recent blog post have announced that, they are planning for a major shift in strategy by focusing on Qt framework for its MeeGo and Symbian mobile phone operating systems instead of the already old symbian development platform. Nokia's Focus on Qt Development Framework Qt is a c ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Ron Paul Can Beat Obama In 2012
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com November 2, 2010 When even uber-leftist Chris Matthews slams the President for being elitist and distant from the American people, you know that the cult of Obama is finished for good, and that Barry’s political career may not even survive long enough for him to run a ...
  • The Media Cult Of Obama Crashes And Burns
    The hope has gone, the change never came – now people are just pissed off Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Monday, Nov 1st, 2010 The image of one man begging on his knees as Obama’s convoy pulls away from a restaurant in Chicago yesterday speaks volumes about how far the man’s status has fallen in the ...
  • Cost of Ireland’s debt hits new highs; Irela ...
    The cost of Ireland’s government debt hit a new high yesterday, and figures show Ireland is increasingly relying on its own banks and insurers to fund government borrowing. The yield on Irish government debt has hit 7.19pc, the highest ever since Ireland entered the eurozone. The Irish government ha ...
  • First Goldman Sachs, now JP Morgan to be investiga ...
    JPMorgan Is Said to Be Investigated Over Disclosures in Subprime CDO Deals By Joshua Gallu and Dawn Kopecki – Nov 2, 2010 5:00 AM GMT+0100 JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the subject of an investigation to determine if it failed to tell investors in a financial product linked to subprime mortgages that hedg ...
  • Ohio AG: Wells’ “business model design ...
    Ohio AG: Wells’ “business model designed on fraud” Sacramento Business Journal Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 3:21pm PDT Accusing Wells Fargo & Co. of âa business model designed on fraud,â Ohioâs attorney general said the San Francisco-based bank will be the focal point of his stateâs investigati ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Minister Katz: Israel on bomb alert since Thursday ...
    Interestingly, the folks in Britain only discovered the “bomb” on Friday morning.  It seems that the Israelis seem to know about these “terrorist” threats but never find it necessary to let anyone else know.  This was true on 9/11, 7/7 and now, in the case of the non-explosive toner cartridge.  C ...
  • Did Obama Order British Authorities To Find Non-Ex ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, November 1, 2010 After having examined the suspicious ink toner device for six hours and found it to be a dud, bomb experts at East Midlands Airport only reversed their decision after being ordered to re-inspect the package by US authorities following Pre ...
  • ‘Dark-skinned’ soldiers denied entry t ...
    By Goel Beno Published: 10.31.10, 11:22 / Israel News   “Dark-skinned” soldiers belonging to a special Golani Brigade unit were denied entry to a nightclub in the Sharon region, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.   The soldiers arrived at the “Shmuah” nightclub on Thursday to celebrate the completion ...
  • More people skipping flu shot this year
    By Jonathan Benson Americans seem to be wising up about the flu shot scam, according to a new study in Consumer Reports indicating that fewer people than last year are planning to, or have already gotten, the flu shot this year. Thirty-one percent of respondents indicated they are unsure if they wil ...
  • Diabetes rises 1% among U.S. children and teens fo ...
    By Mike Adams Diabetes rose 1% among U.S. children and teens yesterday as tens of millions of households handed out literally thousands of tons of candies made with refined white sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). The event, of course, is called “Halloween,” and each year it subjects tens of ...

Veterans Today

  • GOP Stands to Be Exposed as Dems Regroup
    -  So, now that the Republicans have the House, what will they do? Beholden to the special corporate interests who poured millions into races across the country, they are pledging to shrink the size of government and cut spending. But more than that, their mandate is to stop Obama from doing anythin ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
    From the VA: 1.      VA Researcher Finds Fish Oil Supplements Do Not Slow Alzheimer’s. USA Today (11/3, Marcus, 1.83M) reports, “Fish oil supplements don’t slow the progress of dementia, a study in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association finds. Patients with mild to moderate Al ...
  • Veterans Have Options for Health Care Coverage
    WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — The nation pauses to honor its veterans on November 11 for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. Naturally, we want our veterans to be taken care of, especially when it comes to their health. ...
  • President proclaims November as Military Family Mo ...
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2010 — President Barack Obama has signed a proclamation designating this month as Military Family Month. We owe each day of security and freedom that we enjoy to the members of our Armed Forces and their families. Behind our brave service men and women, there are family members a ...
  • November is National Family Caregivers Month
    November is National Family Caregivers Month, a chance to honor the 65 million selfless family caregivers who assist and support chronically ill, disabled or aged family members or friends. Among these devoted men and women are those who ensure that Veterans have emotional and physical support, acce ...

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  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...
  • Óχi Euro
    Until fairly recently the Greek debt crisis wasn't so much in the news. Now, it's roiling markets and a lot of commentators are wringing their hands over the possibility that it could precipitate another world-wide financial crash. That's probably a baseless fear. Greece is mainly a Eurozone proble ...
  • Folk History
    To talk culture I turned to the award winning writer Luc Sante . Because Luc is Belgian, and therefore doubly an expert, I seized this opportunity to also talk about Tin-Tin comics, which I grew up on as a kid in the Belgian Congo and in Brussels. Among other topics we cover Luc's latest book, Folk ...
  • The F-35 Boondoggle
    A trillion dollar gold-plated warplane that can't do anything very well. But it looks slick. Brilliant! I'll have a dozen, please. If Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates were serious about containing Pentagon costs they'd cancel the F-35. If Congress were serious about budget deficits they'd stop funding it. I ...
  • A Political Marathoner
    If he'd won the presidency in 1988, today the U.S. would be a very different place. But Governor Michael S. Dukakis was too nice, too decent a guy, to grind George H. W. Bush into the dirt. And instead of cashing in after leaving politics, like most of them do, he's become an academic. More power t ...

 

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Announced by First Minister Alex Salmond as an industry event in Glasgow, the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund aims to strengthen port and ...
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About Global Ecology Corporation Through its extensive network, Global Ecology Corporation (GEC) has obtained licensing rights to several EPA-approved ...
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Decision by Ecology leads BG to scrap sewer facility
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- Nov 02, 2010
By Marissa Harshman The city of Battle Ground is shelving its plans to construct a water reclamation facility after the Department of Ecology recently nixed ...
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Generators OK'd at Microsoft data center in Quincy
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The state Ecology Department granted Microsoft a permit to install 13 backup power generators for the expansion of its data center in Quincy in central ...
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CSU gets 5-year, $2.75M grant for doctoral program in water issues
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- Nov 03, 2010
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State water regulators are extending California's ocean water testing program for another year. The State Water Resources Control Board voted Tuesday to ...
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- Nov 03, 2010
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The Contra Costa Water District is providing an update on the water main breaks throughout CLAYCORD that we first reported on just before 3am this morning. ...
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Neo-Nazi trailing in SoCal water district race
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- Nov 03, 2010
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A neo-Nazi is trailing in his bid for a seat on a Southern California water district. Jeff Hall, a regional leader in the Nationalist Socialist Movement, ...
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- Nov 03, 2010
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