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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, November 5, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Cancer Treatment Out of Reach for Ugandan Women
    Josephine Adongo's heart leapt when she heard that two doctors from Kampala were offering free medical exams in Soroti. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer at a regional hospital more than a year previously, but unable to afford to travel to the capital for treatment.
  • Congo Leaves Locals Out of Conservation Plans
    "Today, I'm ashamed to have signed the documents creating this park, because I didn't know that we would die of hunger in the middle of the forest." Mpaka-Mbouiti is a leader in the village of Loussala, in the Conkouati-Douli National Park.
  • Developing World Scores on Health, Wealth and Educ ...
    When the Human Development Report (HDR) was introduced back in 1990, it broke new ground, arguing that national development should be measured not simply by income alone but also by life expectancy and literacy.
  • The Diaspora Gaining a Political Voice
    Pablo Rodríguez, a Mexican migrant living in the United States, is a congressman in the Zacatecas state government in central Mexico, thanks to years of hard work by migrants' organisations to recover the political rights people lose when they cross the border.
  • The G20 in Seoul - Summit or Abyss?
    On Nov. 11, the Group of 20 (G20), representing the interests of countries who collectively produce over 85 percent of global wealth, will gather in Seoul, South Korea for its fifth summit.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

  • Scores killed in Cuba plane crash
    Cuban authorities said a state airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital Havana crashed in a mountainous area after declaring an emergency, killing all 68 people aboard, including 28 foreigners.
  • Homes burn after fresh Indonesia eruption
    Blistering gas from Indonesia's most volatile volcano spewed farther than expected today, incinerating houses at the edge of the danger zone, triggering chaotic evacuations and pushing the death toll in more than a week to nearly 100.
  • 'I'll close down Twitter', says ridiculed ANC yout ...
    A score of of new Twitter accounts lampooning Julius Malema are popping up online after the firebrand leader of the youth league of South Africa's ruling ANC called for the micro-blogging service to be closed.
  • 'I'll close down Twitter', says ridiculed ANC yout ...
    A score of of new Twitter accounts lampooning Julius Malema are popping up online after the firebrand leader of the youth league of South Africa's ruling ANC called for the micro-blogging service to be closed.
  • Future of EMI in doubt as Hands loses legal fight
    Guy Hands, one of Britain's richest private equity barons, was last night facing the prospect of losing more than half his wealth, after a New York court rejected his claim that he had been tricked into buying EMI, the disaster-stricken record company.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Deep space COMET FLYBY: First PICS
    Empty NASA space bomber in recce pass against 2nd target NASA's former Deep Impact comet-bomber space probe, since renamed EPOXI* and reassigned to rendezvous with a second space snowball, has made a successful close pass by the comet Hartley 2.
  • US Cyber Command becomes 'fully operational'
    Now witness the firepower The US military's new Cyber Command has formally "achieved full operational capability", according to the Department of Defense (DoD). "I am confident in the great service members and civilians we have here at US Cyber Command. Cyberspace is essential to our way of life a ...
  • American Food 2010
    Organic food for optimal health has been our mantra for many years. Indeed, lord science has confirmed that certified organically grown fruits and vegetables are higher in antioxidants, vitamins, fiber and other beneficial substances. Today the "organic" label is being usurped and manipulated by c ...
  • Gulf oil spill: Dead deep-sea corals found near BP ...
    Scientists on a research cruise have found dead and dying deep-sea corals near the site of the massive BP oil leak. Federal officials reported the discovery Thursday, saying that until laboratory tests were conducted on coral and sediment samples, they could not be sure what is killing the corals. ...
  • Cascading volcanic ash sets homes ablaze
    Mount Merapi, Indonesia - A deadly surge of blistering gases cascaded down the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano Friday, torching houses in one mountainside village. At least 48 people were killed in the latest inferno and scores of others injured. Men with ash-covered faces streamed ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • When the conservative party figures one thing out. ...
    There will have to be a change. Are they a real Canadian political party or are they simply a life support system for Stephen Harper? Are they in government, marginally though it may be, because the majority of the voting public approves of them or are they there because of a punishment vote after ...
  • Feeling comfortable? Here. Lose your lunch.
    Sue J has one helluva point . Watching the US elections it makes one wonder what people are thinking. Everyone wants to see the economy improve and for governments to stop spending money they don't have. Easy answer to that? Stop going off and engaging in conquer projects that will ultimately resu ...
  • The Sea to Sky highway, the 2010 Olympics and the ...
    Ever wonder why there are no tolls put on the Olympic legacy known as the Sea to Sky highway? There are tolls. Campbell promised them to his big business buddies. And we're paying them. But what you may not know is that at least one journalist reported back in the early days of the Sea to Sky proje ...
  • 40 years
    For admitting to killing an invading soldier in a firefight. As a child soldier. From Ian Welsh : Others have covered this more than I have, but to me the initial charges were always absurd.� He killed a soldier in a firefight in a country that the US invaded.� The idea that doing so qualifies ...
  • Propensities . . .
    THE CHRONICAL REVIEW has a thoughtful article by Michael Nelson, "Warrior Nation". Many writers have decried the militaristic nature of the American republic, but Michael Nelson has some observations worthy of your attention in his commentary on Andrew J. Bacevich's new book, Washington Rules: Ameri ...

Media Matters for America

  • Beck isn't sure about phony cost of Obam ...
    On his radio and Fox News shows, Glenn Beck promoted the false claim that the Obama administration plans to spend $2 billion on a ten-day presidential trip to Asia, before eventually acknowledging that he doesn't know if that figure is accurate. The White House says the reported figure is "wildly i ...
  • Fox 2012 Primary: Palin vs. Rove
    An October 31 Politico article reported that Fox News contributor Karl Rove seems to be among GOP leaders who are on a "mission" to "halt" Fox News contributor Sarah Palin's "momentum and credibility," viewing her potential 2012 presidential nomination as a "disaster in waiting." Indeed, Rove a ...
  • "Voice of the opposition": How Fox News won the 20 ...
    During the 2010 election cycle, Fox News, its employees, and its parent company engaged in an unprecedented campaign in support of the Republican Party. The network served as the communications and fundraising wing of the GOP while fervently promoting -- and sometimes creating -- the party's candid ...
  • Limbaugh falsely claimed Democrats are "talking a ...
    Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have a "proposal" to eliminate 401(k)s in favor of a retirement plan administered by the government. In fact, they have not made such a proposal. Rather, the idea of guaranteed retirement accounts -- which was distorted ...
  • The final push: Fox provides forum for GOP candid ...
    Fox spent the final 24 hours before the midterm elections by continuing to relentlessly campaign for Republicans, hosting 13 GOP candidates or campaign officials, and one conservative candidate, while featuring only three Democrats. Fox hosts 14 Republican or conservative candidates and c ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Jewish Vote Sticks With Dems (Israel Not An Issue)
    They said it couldn't be done.  They said that no matter how well the Republicans run with other groups, they would not be able to make a dent into the consistently liberal Jewish vote. Well, they were right. According to polling , a whopping 31% of American Jews voted for Republican congre ...
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  • Will Republican Gains Pump Up the Pentagon?
    On first blush, it would appear that Republican gains in yesterday's elections would be good news for the Pentagon -- and for big contractors like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. For example, Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), who is likely to chair the House Armed Services Committee, has said th ...
  • "On November 3rd, No one's gonna Care about" Meg W ...
    Meg Whitman predicted nobody was going to care about her former housekeeper Niki Diaz on November 3rd. It looks like she was projecting, in more ways than one.� Meg Whitman covers Regina Spektor's hit "Fidelity" ("It Breaks my Heart") as she describes why the undocumented housekeeper with three k ...
  • The 2010 Election: Bill Clinton is the New "One"
    President Obama's team -- heck, even Hillary Clinton's presidential team -- saw former President Bill Clinton as a problem, as unpredictable, as off his game and a potential major liability. But as Terry McAuliffe pointed out the other night at a fundraiser for the Tomorrow's Youth Organization w ...

TruthOut

  • Zach Carter | Tea Party Vows to Block Campaign Fin ...
    Anonymous millionaires just helped elect dozens of ultraconservative congressional candidates, by pumping millions of dollars into national Tea Party organizations. And guess what's at the top of the legislative to-do list for those same Tea Party groups? Blocking campaign finance reform legislation ...
  • News in Brief: Feds Support Ruling Against Biotech ...
    Surprise - Feds Support Ruling Against Biotech Gene Patents read more
  • Missing: A Vision of Economic Possibility
    It is now the morning after. Republicans, as expected, are celebrating a sweeping victory. Democrats are licking their wounds. Meanwhile, record numbers of people are still contending with the hardships of unemployment and foreclosure with no relief in sight. And the nation braces for deepening poli ...
  • When China Exports, Everyone Pays
    Recently, many commentators have equated recent European complaints about the weak American dollar with American complaints about the undervalued Chinese renminbi. Take, for example, commentary published Oct. 14 in the Financial Times examining how expected quantitative easing by the United States ...
  • How House Committees Will Change Under GOP Rule
    Washington - The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives will mean a new lineup of powerful committee chairmen devoted to tough fiscal discipline, dramatic changes in health care and immigration laws, and investigations into White House controversies. While some battles for top spots ha ...

Planetsave

  • Use Eco-Friendly Furniture (Going Green Tip #12)
    The task seems so big that it would be easy for everyone to throw up their hands and proclaim their inability to change the environmental problems that are currently ongoing. These include the depletion of forests and other natural habitats, the pollution of the air with greenhouse gases, the poison ...
  • Modern Humans Emerged in East Asia Much Earlier th ...
    A recently completed analysis of a 2007 discovery of human remains in Zhirendong (Zhiren Cave), South China, has revealed that modern humans (the first true homo sapiens) emerged outside of Africa far earlier than was previously thought. In fact, 60, 000 years earlier! The fossil finds were rather m ...
  • Go Micro-Wind (Going Green Tip #11)
    So, we’ve covered solar energy and microhydro energy in this Going Green Tips series. Here’s one more small-scale energy option: micro-wind. Like microhydro, micro-wind isn’t an option many people think of or look into when they are thinking of ways to green their energy supply. But it is a real opt ...
  • Thanksgiving Love :: Remember Native Americans wit ...
    Sadly, many Native American Communities inside the United States are living in poverty and this Thanksgiving they truly need our love. However poor, Native Americans have always maintained a wealth of wisdom on how to heal and revive themselves, now let’s honor and nourish them and their rich cultur ...
  • Joe Miller’s Private Security Team “Ar ...
    Talk about ridiculous. After asking Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller a tough question at a press conference, the candidate’s private security guards handcuffed and “arrested” a progressive blogger, editor of the website Alaska Dispatch. The Anchorage Daily News, reporting on the incident, wrot ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Peace and Love - Music and Entertainment
    A beautiful collection of flowers... Nature brings goods to me  - beautiful energies of Love. A world of daydreams more real than the physical world in which one lives. Each flower brings to us its message of peace, love and Divine Mother vibrations. - Namaste, Jean Michel...
  • Hurricane threatens Haiti as cholera epidemic surg ...
    5 November 2010 Some 1.5 million Haitians, still homeless after last January’s devastating earthquake, are facing the combined deadly threats of an approaching hurricane and a rapidly spreading cholera epidemic. Tropical Storm Tomas was set to hit Haiti with torrential rains and high winds by ...
  • US Federal Reserve stokes global currency war - Ec ...
    5 November 2010 The Federal Reserve Board’s announcement Wednesday of a second round of “quantitative easing”—the printing of hundreds of billions of US dollars—is an aggressive and unilateralist move, widely—and legitimately—perceived by America’s economic rivals as a hostile act. The US cen ...
  • Americans Bravely Go To Polls Despite Threat Of El ...
    November 2, 2010  WASHINGTON—Despite the very real threat of electing the 112th Congress, millions of courageous Americans lined up at their polling places today and put their right to vote above the awful possibility of sending a politician to represent them in Washington. "I was afraid the moment ...
  • An Interstate Bicycling System - World News
    “People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.” When U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood made this announcement at the National Bike Summit last ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Where We Go From Here: Part Two
    Here's your choice: give up and let the barbarians burn the country to the ground, or double-down on your participation. Reject the losers' whine that they can't do anything now that the rethuglicans have the House and 47 seats in the Senate. �Congressional Democrats and the president pissed away th ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    If we don't have filibuster reform, the Senate is the Sejm - Google it Senators and even the President have acknowledged that the republicans have abused the rules of the Senate and they must be changed or the republic is, quite literally, doomed. Tom Udall is saying such things out loud. May many m ...
  • Reject the Bullshit Narratives
    Don't play their game. Don't accept their premise. Don't cut them an inch of slack. They - and I mean the whole worthless Village, plus the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC and traitorous apologists like Harold Ford as well as the rethuglicans themselves - are the enemy. They are shameless liars and a clear ...
  • Take This Fight to the Enemy
    The only thing worse than President Obama and Congressional Democrats actually believing that the rethuglicans will do anything that does not lead directly to impeachment and summary execution of all Democrats is President Obama and Congressional Democrats realizing what the rethuglicans have in sto ...
  • "Not Working 9 point 5" perfect song for 2010 elec ...
    Every election needs a good song. During the bleak Great Depression years Franklin Roosevelt tried to buck up American spirits with "Happy Days are Here Again." His successor tried to win us over with the "Missouri Waltz." John Kennedy promised "High Hopes." � And much later, Bill and Hillory Clinto ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Dying bear forced to drink cola in ...
    Shocking footage has appeared showing a dying mountain bear being held captive in a filthy cage drinking from a Coca-Cola bottle for the amusement of customers in an Azerbaijan cafe. The cruel spectacle has been branded �a disgrace� Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Locals fighting an Alaskan wilderness mine
    The vast majority of Bristol Bay residents, joined by the Alaskan commercial and sport fishing industries, are strongly opposed to the proposed open-pit copper and gold mine project in the headwaters of the bay � spawning grounds for the largest and most Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment � ...
  • For refugees in Egypt, escape is deadly
    Egypt's shoot-to-kill policy along its border with Israel is questioned. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Stop the Meat Trade of Dogs and Cats ! PLEASE TAKE ...
    "What is fundamental to the practice of dog and cat eating is that the cruelty is often deliberate and slaughter methods are designed to intensify and prolong the suffering in the misguided belief that torture equals taste. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Rafik Hariri murder probe hinders progress on Leba ...
    Rafik Hariri murder probe hinders progress on Lebanon-Syria ties Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Day Before Friday Open Thread
    Joe Scarborough goes off on Sarah Palin, and it’s great (imho) … Wow! A hot new movie reveals the truth about the downfall of Eliot Spitzer … Oh lordy. CAIR is challenging Oklahoma’s new no-sharia law … Christine O’Donnell calls the GOP cannibals, and gains more respect from me … Jon Stewart makes g ...
  • Dear Nancy
    In response to this message From Nancy Why does the sun go on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don’t they know it’s the end of the world, Cause you don’t love me anymore? It ended when I lost your love. We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an ...
  • “Ending The ‘Hot Or Not’ Factor” In Journalism **U ...
    Bumped Up || Update Below The Fold I came across an article recently that confirmed what many of us have suspected: the media helps shape opinions on female political candidates. Anyone who has heard the stories about Nikki Haley’s alleged affairs (proven false as her released emails demonstrate, t ...
  • MacDuff Rising
      A Nation Divided, by John Batchelor   The 2010 midterm results resemble a fantastic scene of King Solomon ordering the child cut in half, except in this modern interpretation the warring parties of the Democrats and the GOP raise their fists and scream, “Cut!” The overwhelming victory of the ...
  • The Evening After Open Thread
    What a night that was, eh? … How about those races yet to be determined? … Keith Olbermann reminds us what an uncouth idiot he can be when he made fun of John Boehner’s tears, and Rachel Maddow behaves like the “mean girl” in high school (with video) … Olbermann also has a truly bizarre [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Incredible Past and Future of the Airship
    Dirigibles, once the leader in commercial air travel (no pollution), are seen as substitute vessels for commuter flights and may even be replacing cars. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Armies of Trash People Invade the World's Cities
    HA Schult's "Trash People" rank worldwide among the first environmental artworks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Unsolved Ciphers of the Zodiac Killer
    For years, the case of the Zodiac Killer has become the subject of debate and controversy. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Little Known Prehistoric Monsters
    You might think that the T-Rex ruled the roost in the days of the dinosaurs, but less well-known carnivores also had their time! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is the UN Ban on Geo-Engineering a Good Idea?
    The world is confronted with global environmental issues such as global warming and biodiversity decline. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Louisiana Rethinks Its Sand Berms
    Some $100 million intended for the construction of sand berms to block oil along the gulf coast will be repurposed for coastal restoration.
  • A High-Speed Derailment
    Republican governors-elect in several states plan to kill proposed high-speed rail projects that received federal stimulus funds.
  • Offshore Drilling Ban Lawsuit Dismissed
    The lifting of the Obama administration's deepwater drilling moratorium last month makes a judge's ban moot.
  • Soft Jeans ->Water Waste?
    The finishing process for a new line of Levi's jeans will consume far less water, the company says.
  • Woman Loses Bid to Lead Navajos
    Lynda Lovejoy and her running mate, an environmental campaigner, had emphasized the need to embrace green energy and reduce the Navajos' reliance on coal.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • British Lord James of Blackheath sez "Foundation X ...
    For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the ...
  • Randy Quaid gangstalked by "Star Whackers" - he na ...
    It's no surprise California is in tough straits – Hollywood ain't a great place, and they can even trap corruption whistleblowing attorneys like Richard Fine in jail easily over there (Fine got tangled in LA's enormous immunized bribery system). But Randy Quaid , of all people, has suddenly turned ...
  • FBI investigated American Trucking Association lin ...
    Wellstone plane crash was super sketchy. There was no icy condition that it was spun as. Fortunately MPR got the Wellstone FBI files, a lot of redacted materials. There is an interesting logical flow - including "justice center" ... Service Transportation Act - expose board members of ATA - DOT t ...
  • Rap News vs the News World Order - gotta see this ...
    Any friend of this site pretty much is required to watch the latest rapnews: Marvelous work! As posted: Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war — the biggest leak of classified military documents in history — sending shockw ...
  • Facebook Twitter HTTP security shown as hosed by t ...
    Sound advice (to the extent anything on the internet is really secure ha): Change your passwords , and logout of everything Do not use open WiFi to login to Facebook, Twitter or anything else Use only a hard-wired connection until this subsides Do not check the “remember my password” ...

Daily Censored

  • An open letter to Reverend Eric Lee in response to ...
    These gentlemen wrote me, I believe in response to a recent article I penned called Discussing School Privatization, Propositions 25 and 24 with Inglewood residents From: elee@sclclosangeles.org Subject: Re: Meeting request Date: November 03, 2010 19:02:11 PDT To: kwtulloss@aol.com Cc: rdsathene@sbc ...
  • Our Debate Culture—Someone Wins, but Never the Tru ...
    Recently, a colleague asked a few other professors and me to participate in a student debate as part of his first year seminar. Our role in the debate was to evaluate the debate, and of course, choose a winning side. During the debate, I came to recognize something about the debate itself, the colle ...
  • The Election and Need to Hold Government Employees ...
    Although to some the “sound and fury” of this November 2010 election is important to getting change, citizens are beginning to realize that to bring meaningful protection for our Republic, they must act to demand that when their respective Congressman/Senator return to the Beltway that there is comp ...
  • Fidel Castro Speaks About Project Censored
    THE EMPIRE AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS Thatâs terrific! I exclaimed when I read down to the last line about the revelations of the famous journalist Seymour Hersh, printed in Democracy Now! and collected as one of the 25 most censored news items in the United States. The material is entitl ...
  • Think Maybe You Won’t Vote?
    The big time mortgage lenders see us little guys as their personal piggy banks and they can’t seem to crack us open fast enough.  The banks are foreclosing hand –over fist. Cherie Thomas, who works for Asta Funding, a debt buyer in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said in a 2007 deposition that she had signe ...

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Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Real News: Election Repudiated Corporate ...
    From the Real News Network Bio Jeff Cohen is the director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, and he was the founder of the media watchdog FAIR. He joins us from Ithaca, New ...
  • LA’s Sheriff Baca Stirs Fear Against Marijuana Day ...
    by Linda Milazzo ll through the George W. Bush administration, Americans were fed a steady diet of fear, strategically orchestrated by Bush and Cheney to promote their political agenda. Americans were scared into supporting war. They ...
  • Never surrender
    Stem the tide! There is still time. If we give a little more money, if we make a few more phone calls, if we knock on another set of doors, there is still time to protect our ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 10/15/10 – 10/29/10
    GOTV: Tim Carpenter, Mimi Kennedy and I just came off the road from a successful GOTV trip to Arizona and California. Some of the highlights from AZ included: 1) Building a chapter in Tucson. Big thank you to ...
  • Work to defeat every single republican. Every. Sin ...
    By PDA Blog Contributor | Mike Hersh Sadly, some of my friends are saying they’ll sit out this election or else vote for a non-viable spoiler in a close contest. They say there’s no difference between ...

Marler Blog

  • Costco, say it isn't so - The E. coli - tainted Br ...
    According to the FDA and CDC, as of Thursday, November 4, 2010, 25 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from five states since mid-October. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AZ (11), CA (1), CO (8), NM (3) an ...
  • Baugher's Unpasteurized Apple Cider Linked to E. c ...
    Maryland public health officials said a Westminster company has voluntarily recalled call of its apple cider because of its potential to contain the E. coli bacteria . The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Thursday that it was investigating a cluster of seven E. coli infections; ...
  • Costco Recalls Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda Chees ...
    FDA, CDC, and Costco warn consumers to avoid Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese * Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese, (Costco item 40654) offered for sale and in cheese sampling events at Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) locations is preliminarily linked with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 ...
  • Costco "Cheese Road Show" Linked to Dozens of E. c ...
    FDA, CDC, and Costco is warning consumers to avoid Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese due to possible E. coli contamination. According to breaking press reports, Arizona has confirmed 11 E. coli cases likely tied to cheese sold or tasted at Costco stores in October. Overall, more than two dozen c ...
  • FDA 483 Inspection Report Sinks SanGar - Multiple ...
    For a Company that sells (or used to sell) vegetables to our kids and grandparents, the below is not a good FDA 483 Inspection Report .  This of course also follows positive Listeria tests within the plant and the linking of SanGar celery to nearly a dozen illnesses and as many as five deaths. Obse ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.04.10
    SEMA 2010: Chevrolet shows off Z-Spec treatment for Volt, Cruze, Spark All official, all theoretical. Stratasys prints out Urbee plug-in hybrid concept with cool 3D tech Unusual doesn't begi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.03.10
    Study: Chevy Volt's "addressable market" for 2011 is 7%, Nissan Leaf's hits 11% Not who will buy, but who could.. Nissan Leaf vies for Europe's coveted 2011 Car of the Year award Can it beat ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.02.10
    What is EVSE? It's Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, and here's what it's all about. Nissan dishes out specs* for the 2011 Leaf It goes 0-60 in slooow. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.01.10
    Report: GE to order "tens of thousands" of electric vehicles in about a week Talk about a jump start to the whole EV thing. Report: Chevrolet Volt dealer demos not coming until February Cust ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.29.10
    At Witz' End: Observations after driving the Chevy Volt (and getting 26.1 and 81.5 mpg) Not a "pure" EV, but a car with game-changing potential. Tesla SUV coming in 2014, will be called Model X ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy
    As the 2010 elections come to a close, the biggest winner of all remains undeclared: the broadcasters. The biggest loser: democracy. These were the most expensive midterm elections in U.S. history, costing close to $4 billion, $3 billion of which went to advertising. What if ad time were free? We h ...
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA at 7pm ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 29 at 7pm EST.
  • War Should Be an Election Issue
    Just days away from crucial midterm elections, WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, unveiled the largest classified military leak in history. Almost 400,000 secret Pentagon documents relating to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq were made available online. The documents, in excruciating de ...
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm ET.
  • When Banks Are the Robbers
    The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys general from all 50 states a ...

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investiga ...
    There are a variety of explanations for the frustratingly backwards outcome of yesterday’s election. Clearly Americans were dissatisfied with the objective reality that the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats actually made things better by cutting the deficit by an historic $122 bil ...
  • It’s a normal day
    Business as usual election results, it’s a normal day, world war three blues, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch
  • Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Vic ...
    Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Victim To Apologize To HIM The Huffington Post |  Nick Wing First Posted: 10-27-10 10:30 AM   |   Updated: 10-27-10 11:24 AM Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter behind the white sneaker that notoriously stomped on a MoveOn activist’s head in Ke ...
  • Wikileaks: Top Brass warns of putting troops & civ ...
    Wikileaks recieved excellent coverage on CNN last night, including inteviews with Daniel Elsberg, Pentagon Papers, John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, and Phil Shiner of the U.K.-based Public Interest Lawyers. John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, told reporters that the names ...
  • The Republican Swindle About ‘Obamacare and ...
    If you happen to be a swing voter who’s considering the Republican slate next month, you’re being tricked. That’s not to say you’re an idiot, but the Republicans are doing an excellent job masking over what they really stand for, and millions of Americans seem to be falling for it. The Republican st ...

Solari

  • The American Industries Where Layoffs Are Still Ac ...
    By Joe Weisenthal The chart, put together by David Rosenberg, reveals which industries which have announced the most layoffs relative to last year? So a smaller number is better. Continue reading the article . . .
  • State Bailouts? They’ve Already Begun
    Bond subsidies and transfers have allowed states to avoid making tough decisions. It won’t last. By Meredith Whitney The threat posed by the state fiscal crisis in the U.S. is vastly underestimated and under-appreciatedâbecause even today too few people understand how states have been managing their ...
  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 11.04.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, November 4, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency c ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you” ~Wayne Dyer Related reading: Wayne Dyer Wikipedia
  • Austerity Is Challenged
    By Joe Weisenthal Continue reading the article . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Bernanke leads us down the hole to wonderland! (m ...
    Summary:  Historians will laugh at our response to QE, for the reasons discussed here.  We’re enjoying our days in Wonderland.  We may find the hangover less entertaining.  This is a follow-up to Important things to know about QE2 (forewarned is forearmed). Our response to the Federal Reserve’ ...
  • Bin Laden wins by using the “Tactics of Mist ...
    Summary:  In Gordon Dickson’s book “The Tactics of Mistake” he describes how Bin Laden has manipulated America so that we drive the jihadist movement from an irrelevant sideshow to a major and vital aspect of modern Islam. History contains a few eery examples of fiction predating fact.  Not just ...
  • The winners and losers from this election, hidden ...
    Summary:  The Reagan Revolution moved the US from a center-left to a center-neutral political balance.  The Clinton years were a time-out in the drift toward conservationism.  This election completes the Bush Jr years’ transformation of the US to a center-right nation.  This post considers some ...
  • The problem with America lies in our choice of her ...
    Summary:  We choose our heroes unconsciously, choices which shape our daytime actions.  Our modern heroes serve us poorly, pointing to our weaknesses and away from our historic strengths.  This is the fourth in a series about our struggle to adjust to the new century; links to the other chapters app ...
  • Every day brings new advocacy for war. That’s our  ...
    Summary:  In the tenth year of the Af-Pak war the war has almost disappeared from the American consciousness, as seen its absence from the political campaigns.  Yet morale must be maintained despite any visible results.  The wars’ advocates rise to the challenge, trusting (correctly) that we ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Coffee May Rise 10% as Rain, Fungus Cap Supply, Ka ...
    Bloomberg – Coffee may extend a rally to $2.15 a pound by the end of this month as supply from Colombia, the second-largest producer of arabica beans, may be smaller than forecast, said Japanese trading company Kanematsu Corp. âWe had expected Colombian production to recover to 10.5 million bags nex ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Historic and projected a ...
    The projected increase in atmospheric CO2 is likely to be brought forward if Chinese economic expansion continues in the next 10 years at the same rate that it has demonstrated over the previous 10 years. Chinese emissions overtook US emissions in 2007. Per capita emissions by the 3 countries will b ...
  • Iran nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri ‘heading home ...
    BBC – An Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted by CIA agents last year and taken to the US is on his way back to Tehran, Iran says.Foreign Ministry officials, who claim they have evidence Shahram Amiri was kidnapped, told state media he had now left the US.The US state department has ...
  • Death toll from Indonesia volcano doubles overnigh ...
    Reuters – Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupted with renewed ferocity on Friday, killing another 39 people and blanketing the surrounding area with ash. Ten days of eruptions have now killed more than 80 people and forced the evacuation of more than 75,000 people. Mount Merapi, on the outskirts o ...
  • Long Hours Put Surgeons, Patients at Risk, Study S ...
    HealthDay News — Surgeons who work long hours can suffer burnout and depression, which can lead to patient safety issues and increased risk of personal problems such as addiction and suicide, a new study suggests. Among surgeons who reported working more than 80 hours a week, 50 percent met the crit ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

  • Video: Military build-ups around the world – USA L ...
    Over the last decade, Washington has doubled its military budget, fuelling massive military build-ups around the world, from the emerging powers in the South China Seas to the multi-billion-dollar arms deals in the Middle East, begging the question where and when this vicious cycle of rising militar ...
  • WASHPOST: WAR WITH IRAN WOULD RESCUE ECONOMY
    Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear power, he can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him ...
  • War Is Sold Just Like Soda or Toothpaste
    Of course, the demonization process is catapulted far and wide by the mainstream media. Indeed, the corporate media is instrumental in spreading the lies so as to support war.
  • 50 Unseen World War II Photos
    World War II photos taken in the former USSR during World War II on the occupied territories. These are photos from family archives posted online by grandchildren of those who took part in the war: the authors of most of them remain unknown. Some of the photos belong to the Soviet journalists: Dmitr ...
  • The Next Global Economic Crisis
    Will the world experience a new economic crisis that will be even more serious that the one that we have just been through or enter a period of sustained economic growth?

Andy Worthington

  • US Mid-Term Elections: The Death of Hope and Chang ...
    To be brutally honest, those of us concerned with “national security” issues (indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and elsewhere, trials by Military Commission and accountability for the Bush administration’s torturers) and foreign policy (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) coul ...
  • UK Government Faces Major Rebellion on Control Ord ...
    Since the General Election in May, when the Liberal Democrats formed an unlikely alliance with the Tories, cracks in the coalition have been kept to a minimum, although this, hopefully, is about to change. The battleground is not, sadly, the all-out and ill-conceived assault on the poor unleashed in ...
  • Omar Khadr Jury Hammers the Final Nail into the Co ...
    On Sunday, a military jury at Guantánamo handed down a 40-year sentence to Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan. The decision brought to an end a week of hearings that began when Khadr, now 24, accepted a plea deal giving him ...
  • Is There No End to Republicans’ Abuse of Guantánam ...
    Every now and then I’m forcefully reminded of the extent to which Guantánamo is still used by unscrupulous lawmakers as a political plaything, even though it is a place where, by any objective measure, a small number of terrorist suspects are held alongside insignificant Taliban foot soldiers and ot ...
  • “A Child’s Soul is Sacred”: Omar Khadr’s Touching ...
    Note: A detailed response to the 40-year sentence handed down by Omar Khadr’s military jury on Sunday will be published soon. Although largely symbolic, as Khadr’s plea deal involves an eight-year sentence instead, it nevertheless provided a suitably grim epitaph to a week of events in which the sta ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is – Sq ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked up se ...
  • Veni, Vidi, Voting
    Hey all! Gimlet Eyes just got back from the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, DC (did you see me? I was right in the middle! With a sign!) and now I’m fired up and ready to go. First things first. The rally was incredible. No, it wasn’t partisan. In fact, it really wasn’t political: Stewart ...
  • Warren FTW
    I have been geeking out over yesterday’s big primaries, and the ensuing act of Republican cannibalism that really, really belongs in one of Linda McMahon’s WWE Smackdowns. (I mean seriously: who doesn’t want to see Sarah Palin kick Karl Rove in the crotch, followed up by Rush Limbaugh taking a bite ...
  • Village Idiot Days
    Tomorrow is the annual town get-together, Village Fair Days (Friday and Saturday, July 30 & 31). Local and regional politicos will be there, so make sure to ask them some "real" questions, as the local media doesn't seem to know what those are. Come back and post your findings here - I'd love to hea ...
  • Add hawk
    I’m a regular citizen. I love my town, I love my town’s school system. I hate arbitrarily high taxes, and I hate wasting time and money. Like most people, I have ideas on how things in my town could be improved. But I’m not an elected official, or a personal friend of the mayor, and I don’t have ...

SPL Center

  • Antigovernment Dad, Son Blame Each Other in Bank-B ...
    The trial of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge begins its sixth day of testimony in a Salem, Ore., courtroom today, where the father and son face nearly 20 counts ranging from aggravated murder to assault stemming from a December 2008 bank bombing that killed two police officers and seriously injured two ot ...
  • Right Wingers Take on ‘Liar in Chief’
    MIAMI, Fla. — To many of the far-right speakers and people attending the three-day “Taking America Back” conference here, President Obama doesn’t just espouse policies and ideology they loathe. They’re convinced he’s a Muslim, a communist or both. Not only is Obama a communist, but the Democratic Pa ...
  • Alabama Supreme Court Justice Compares “Libe ...
    Like mentor, like protégé. Newly reelected Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker raised a few eyebrows even in that conservative state with his release last week of a radio campaign advertisement in which he said âliberal activist judgesâ like U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips should be lis ...
  • White Supremacist Group Backs Private Academies in ...
    Old times certainly are not forgotten in some parts of the South. Two private Mississippi academies, set up in the 1950s for white children facing the unacceptable (to their parents) prospect of sharing their classrooms with African Americans, are still being enthusiastically funded by white suprema ...
  • League of the South Slammed by Former Board Member
    Ray McBerry, the longtime head of the Georgia chapter of the racist and secessionist League of the South (LOS), turned in his resignation this past Friday after being asked to quit the group’s board. In a long letter where he described loyally serving the league for 15 years, McBerry, sounding hurt, ...

change: org.

  • McDonald's Hosts 'Nutrition' Workshop for Elementa ...
    It might be a health-conscious parent's worst nightmare: McDonald's, home of the 740-calorie Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, teaching their child about nutrition. But the nightmare is really happening. The fast-food giant recently hosted a workshop to teach six-graders from Stratford, CT about t ...
  • Jewelers Choose Salmon Over Gold
    It seems strange that major jewelry retailers like Tiffany's, Zales, and Fortunoff would refuse to buy gold. Selling precious metals and gems is, after all, how these corporations make their millions. Many jewelers are forgoing gold in favor of another valuable resource — wild sockeye salmon . More ...
  • GLSEN Safe Space Campaign Fights Anti-Gay Bullying
    As a response to the epidemic of LGBT bullying, and bullying that directly contributes to suicide, individuals and organizations are feverishly stepping up efforts to reach out to LGBT youth. Recently, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) launched their Safe Space Campaign , an ef ...
  • Where There Is No Dentist
    There's do-it-yourself building, do-it-yourself home repair and do-it-yourself guides to everything from photography and guitar playing to gardening, bike mechanics and sailing. Getting a dental filling, though, is something many would prefer to avoid doing themselves. But most folks on earth don't ...
  • Animal Control Kills Puppies and Kittens as the Ru ...
    Baby kittens who end up at Anne Arundel County Animal Control don't stand a chance. In fact, an Animal Control officer who allows them to live could face "immediate and progressive disciplinary measures," according to a memo issued on June 23, 2009. The rule is to automatically euthanize impounded k ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Climate Law Survives Prop 23 Challenge at Californ ...
    One of the world's most ambitious laws to combat global warming survived a challenge on Tuesday as California voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have put the state's plans for more renewable energy and a market to curb greenhouse gases on ice. read more
  • Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy
    by Greg Kaufmann On this Election Day, when Democrats stand to suffer at the polls, and fewer voters have registered than in previous midterm elections, it seems sadly ironic that ACORN has declared bankruptcy .read more
  • With All Eyes on the Gulf, BP Alaska Facilities Ar ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica The extensive pipeline system that moves oil, gas and waste throughout BP's operations in Alaska is plagued by severe corrosion, according to an internal maintenance report generated four weeks ago. read more
  • Republicans Deal Stinging Rebuke to Obama
    WASHINGTON - US voters handed Republicans a share of power and dealt a severe rebuke to President Barack Obama, as fear over the anemic economy crushed the hope of his historic election win two years ago. Resurgent Republicans, led by the ultra-conservative Tea Party insurgency, steamrolled Democrat ...
  • Scores Die in Bomb Attacks on Baghdad Shia Areas
    by Martin Chulov in Baghdad Scores of people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of bombings targeting mainly Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad today. At least 15 blasts, many of them caused by car bombs, prompted fears the violence heralded the second phase of an al-Qaida attempt to incite se ...

Lifehacker

  • VTChromizer Brings VirusTotal Link Scanning to Chr ...
    Chrome: VTChromizer makes it a snap to scan suspicious sites, files, URLs, and more from within Chrome using the powerful VirusTotal web-based virus and malware scanner. More��
  • Windroplr Shares Files in Super-Simple Fashion fro ...
    Windows only: Find some files, drag them onto a button, click to copy the URL. That's how simple Windroplr makes file sharing, through its free Windows app, free online storage, and easy setup and sharing—just like Droplr on Mac . More » ...
  • Google Instant Mobile Searches that Make Sense [Vi ...
    Google Instant is rolling out to iPhones and Androids . But why use Google.com mobile instead of your built-in search? Because it's really helpful for a few different quick look-ups. More��
  • NudgeMail Redelivers Email When You Need It, No Si ...
    We sometimes get email too early to stick in our memory, but important enough that a reminder would be great. If you don't trust, or just want to augment, your to-do/calendar/reminder system, NudgeMail redelivers your messages whenever you mos ...
  • Chrome Toolbox Enhances Chrome for New Adopters [D ...
    Chrome: Chrome Toolbox is a Chrome extension from Google that enhances the Chrome experience, especially for new adopters, by offering side-by-side comparisons between Chrome and other browser's shortcuts, enhanced video and image interaction, ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Qantas: jet design may have caused engine problem
    Material failure another possibility, says airline boss as Airbus asks all owners of superjumbo to check Rolls-Royce engines A design flaw might have caused the engine failure that forced the emergency landing of a Qantas-owned A380 in Singapore, the Australian airline said this morning. Its chief e ...
  • Georgia holds 13 in 'Russian spy ring'
    �� Four Russians and nine Georgians on charges of espionage �� Tbilisi claims secrets passed to Russian military in 2008 war Georgia has detained four Russian citizens and nine Georgians on charges of espionage in a move likely to trigger a new crisis in relations between the two countries. The inte ...
  • 'An involving, intelligent, compassionate drama'
    Mike Leigh offers us yet another intimate ensemble drama about ordinary people � with richly rewarding results, writes Peter Bradshaw Like Monet with another clump of water�lilies, Mike Leigh has returned with a new family-and-friends group portrait, a movie in which the distant sob or throb of sadn ...
  • The military rehabilitation centre
    As the number of amputee soldiers returning from Afghanistan rises, Amelia Gentleman visits the centre where their shattered bodies � and lives � are put back together The patients taking part in the complex trauma unit's 9am training session at the Waterloo Gym illustrate � with a starkness absent ...
  • Environmentalists respond to C4
    George Monbiot, Tim Flannery, Adam Werbach and other leading green figures respond to Channel 4's documentary last night about GM food and nuclear power �� George Monbiot: Channel 4's convenient green fictions ��  John Crace's TV review of What the Green Movement Got Wrong Adam Werbach, former Sier ...

McClatchey

  • Chilean miner to run New York City Marathon
    Chilean miner Edison Pe�a ran mile after mile wearing his boots and headlamp. He ran up and down pitch-black tunnels. He ran to forget that he and 32 coworkers were trapped half a mile underground. He ran to convince himself he would survive.
  • Jerry Brown promises bipartisanship to fix Califor ...
    Twenty-seven years after leaving the Governor's Office and two days after winning election to a historic third term, Gov.-elect Jerry Brown returned to the Capitol on Thursday, calling the state budget crisis "daunting" and pledging a bipartisan effort to resolve it.
  • Former British PM Blair touts green energy tech in ...
    GRATON, Calif. — The global economic downturn should not curtail the U.S. government's commitment to addressing the problem of climate change, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday.
  • Mining boom boosts Alaska's economy
    Alaska's mining industry is entering a new golden age.
  • Republican plan: No compromise with the Democrats
    WASHINGTON — Republicans on Thursday began plotting strategy for the next Congress by vowing to be unified and relentless in their insistence that this year's health care overhaul be repealed and that most domestic spending be frozen or cut drastically.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • What Are Lobbyists Telling Republicans About Healt ...
    Following Tuesday’s midterm elections, both parties have indicated that they wanted to re-visit the Affordable Care Act, but the skeptic in me doesn’t think that they’ll agree on anything beyond the 1099-reporting requirement and even that holds its own difficulties. Assuming of course, that repeal ...
  • Incoming Budget And Education Committee Chairmen M ...
    The House Republicans’ much-ballyhooed Pledge to America includes a commitment to reduce non-defense discretionary spending to the level at which it was in 2008. This would mean — among many other things — that funding for Pell Grants would be reduced by $9 billion, even though demand is likely to g ...
  • How Republicans Can Weaken The Health Care Bill By ...
    I’ve chronicled the GOP’s early hints of dismantling the Affordable Care Act by challenging the law’s regulations, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reference to the tactic in today’s address solidifies this as a serious GOP repeal strategy, and as such it deserves some additional conside ...
  • Midterms: Green Power Helps Colorado Buck the Nati ...
    Our guest blogger is Tom Kenworthy, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Colorado Republicans are going to need a bigger wave if they ever hope to wash away progressive gains and an entrenched commitment to clean energy in the Rocky Mountain state. Victories by Democrats ...
  • Administration Doesn’t List DADT Repeal As A ...
    For the second day in a row, President Obama and administration officials failed to commit to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the lame duck session of the Senate, which many advocates believe is the best chance for lifting the ban this year. Before the election, Obama had told AmericaBlog’s Joe S ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • That Lion is Crazy
    I've actually got a big post to respond to the important reality of the bankruptcy of corporate liberalism and how we have to work hard to ensure that right-wing populism isn't going to always be the default option, ... but all of real life's obligations get in the way. So, here's a post to prove t ...
  • Yves Engler on Canada's UN Humiliation
    Yves Engler is one of the most principled and courageous activists against Canada's detestable, corporate-directed foreign policy today. Therefore, even while other things have pushed it off the news cycle, I thought it a good idea to present his comprehensive take on harper's failures and the way t ...
  • Bill Maher on Islam
    Now Bill Maher is an okay guy so far as US-American liberals go. I don't agree with everything he says by any stretch, but for such a backward, indoctrinated political culture he's done a good job of establishing an independent viewpoint. I don't even take much issue with most of what he says in th ...
  • We're the Worst
    From the Toronto Star : OTTAWA—Canadian mining companies are far and away the worst offenders in environmental, human rights and other abuses around the world, according to a global study commissioned by an industry association but never made public. Oh yeah, ... The research surfaced as a long, fie ...
  • Remember Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
    Everyday, Obama comes up with new ways to demonstrate the betrayal of hope. Everyday, the harpercons manage to embarrass themselves (and us) in previously unimagined ways while continuing to drag the country's political culture down into the gutter. Today, Alex Hundert is living under enforced bans ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Supreme Court hears argument on employer liability ...
    Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Staub v. Proctor Hospital .� I don't know why I could not find an article about it in this morning's newspaper. U.S. Army Reserve First Sergeant Vincent Staub worked as an angiography technician for the Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois, f ...
  • NWC Opposes Corporate Lobby Attempt to Weaken Whis ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center issued a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opposing recommendations by the “Corporate Lobby,” which threaten the integrity of the whistleblower provisions found in the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposals by the Corporate Lobby are not "use ...
  • NWC comments to OSHA on regs for NTSSA, FRSA, STAA ...
    Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) on three sets of regulations for whistleblower cases. DOL had issued the interim regulations on August 31, 2010. One set of regulations, 29 CFR Part 1982 , covers whistleblower cases from both the ...
  • Boeing's brief claims SOX can never protect disclo ...
    Lawyers for Matt Neumann and Nick Tides are currently finishing their last brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an appeal that will decide if corporate fraud whistleblowers can ever be protected from retaliation when they make disclosures to the media. For the National Whistle ...
  • NWC speaks with ATU Local 689
    Today Lindsey Williams and I spoke with the Executive Board of Local 689, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) .Local 689 represents employees of Washington DC's Metro system. Lindsey is the Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) . We spoke about the National Transit System Securit ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Jury Finds Terra Firma Just Made A Bad Deal In Buy ...
    Way back when private equity firm Terra Firma bought record label EMI, we actually had some hope that by putting in place some folks with a different viewpoint, they might actually help EMI make the transition to the new world that the other record labels were unwilling to do, since they were too ti ...
  • Ministry Of Sound Ditches File Sharing Lawsuits Af ...
    Music label Ministry of Sound, who had recently joined the self-destructive mass "pay up or we'll sue you for infringement" shakedown business, has apparently abandoned those plans . Why? Because BT actually followed through with protecting its users' privacy in accordance with data retention rule ...
  • Surprising, But Good, News: FTC Appoints Ed Felten ...
    This is a surprise, but really excellent news. Princeton Computer Science professor Ed Felten -- one of the few folks out there who seems to really understand various tech issues having to do with e-voting, DRM, net neutrality, copyright and other issues has been appointed as the first ever CTO of ...
  • Colleges Experimenting With Bulk-Buying E-Textbook ...
    We've pointed out in the past how the college textbook market is ripe for disruption . You have a market where books are ridiculously overpriced by publishers, knowing that students are often compelled to purchase the product. As book prices have continued to rise, apparently some universities are ...
  • How Cooks Source Magazine Learned That Reputation ...
    One of the key points we've made over the years is that reputation is a scarce good , and doing something bad can be quite costly. In fact, in showing how social mores can often be much more effective than copyright laws in dealing with actions where someone is "wronged" by having their work copied ...

VacTruth

  • Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
    Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
  • Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
    In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...
  • Letter Alerts Obama to Dangers of HPV Vaccines
    In an extraordinary move to prevent further HPV vaccine casualties, Marian Greene the Chairwomen and Co-Founder of the campaign and action group Truth about Gardasil (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/), has written an open letter to President Obama. Her letter urges the President to take time to resea ...
  • Multiple Deaths Linked to Childhood Vaccines
    New evidence suggesting that forty children have died over the past seven years following a routine childhood vaccination. A Freedom of Information (FOI) data request to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). The FOI data revealed that childhood vaccinations are suspected ...
  • Mind Virus Injected into New Mothers by Pharma and ...
    Through repetition, the "reassuring" voice that many parents crave will soon be injected into the minds of pregnant and new mothers everywhere, thanks to companies with deep financial pockets. The latest trend in building a support system for new parents who may find themselves tired, overwhelmed, ...

BroadSnark

  • The Power of Principle
    So I got into a little twitter spat a few weeks ago.  One of the people I follow made the following statement: Some bloggers feel it’s better to be principled than in power. Naturally, I objected. The conversation turned into one of those us v. them tropes.  Us, in the case of this twitterer, bein ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Another busy weekend.  Saw Budrus on Friday.  It was excellent.  It’s playing in theaters all over the place.  You should see it, not just if you are interested in Israel/Palestine.  It has some interesting things to ponder for anyone who wants to use direct action for radical change. Went to t ...
  • Food, Water, Air and Care
    Remember Maslow’s hiearchy of needs?  Sure you do. It is usually presented something like this. You start at the bottom with the most basic needs.  As basic needs are met, you go up the pyramid.  I’ve seen a few of these pyramids.  They usually list the same stuff for basic needs – air, water, ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Let me kick things off with this excellent piece by Tony Karon.  You do not speak for me Netanyahu.  Israel is not my homeland. If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my university studies focused primarily on human rights violations related to the drug w ...
  • Solidarity?
    I am really beginning to despise the word solidarity.  I’m constantly hearing calls for solidarity – with women just because they’re women, with anarchists just because they’re anarchists, with workers just because they’re workers. Do you know what I think of when someone asks for solidarity?  I t ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

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treehugger

  • Today on Planet 100: California Kills Prop 23 (Vid ...
  • Library Built From Diseased Wood Hauled Out By Hor ...
    Images credit Justin Maconochie for inForm Studios Among the many Chinese imports in North America is the Emerald Ash Borer, which has killed a hundred million ash trees so far and may eventually get them all. The larvae eat the inner bark and "girdle" the tree, killing it in two years. But the ...
  • South-Korea to Invest $8.2B In Massive Offshore Wi ...
    Image: Creative Commons You Don't Need a Weatherman... If there's one thing that South-Korea has a lot of, it's coastlines. Offshore wind power is a great fit for the country, which is probably why the government and private companies have decided to invest 9.2 trillion won ($8.2 billion) in o ...
  • Water Scarcity Spares Just Two Arab Nations by 201 ...
    photo: Lanscricae /Creative Commons We've covered the growing issue of water scarcity around the globe a number of times (including pointing out some interactive maps on the subject). A new report coming from the
  • Panasonic Buys a 2% Stake in Tesla Motors for $30M
    Images: Panasonic and Tesla Motors logos The Two of Us Will Go Far (at Least 244 Miles Per Charge) Panasonic, which suppliers lithium-ion cells to electric car maker Tesla Motors, has decided to make the business relationship a bit more serious. The Japanese giant has bought about 2% of the Ca ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers map functional connections between ret ...
    By comparing a clearly defined visual input with the electrical output of the retina, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies were able to trace for the first time the neuronal circuitry that connects individual photoreceptors with retinal ganglion cells, the neurons that carry visu ...
  • HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
    Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
  • Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
    People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • No more double standards
    Can we afford to continue having double standards that let government officials violate basic standards of honesty and accountability that they apply to citizens and companies? Why should legislators, regulators and investigators be exempt from rules they devise and impose on everyone else?
  • Dead Aid: Is foreign aid killing Africa?
    Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, demonstrates an inverse relationship between receipt of foreign aid and economic growth and prosperity. She proposes alternative paths to economic growth for African nations that include freer trade, foreign direct investment, and the infusion of private capital.
  • Land war in the West heats up
    Uintah County in Utah is suing the Interior Department, alleging that the federal government is illegally withholding federal lands in the county from oil and gas exploration. The land is within the boundary of a proposed wilderness area that has never been approved by Congress.
  • Greens shackle national security - and renewable e ...
    Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they̢۪ve been locking up for decades. China currently produces fully 97% of the world̢۪s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials needed for a variety of defense and high-tech applications.
  • Federal government's land grab faces growing resis ...
    Fearful that the federal government̢۪s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.

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Pruning Shears

  • The fetishization of efficiency
    In the wake of the Republican victories Tuesday there will probably be a renewed emphasis on neoliberal economics - at least as imagined by conservatives. Of course, “pure” neoliberal economics is one of those wonderful belief systems, like communism, that postulates an ideal end state. The world it ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .More from the WikiLeaks dump: Unvarnished details: American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recen ...
  • State-run Iranian media beats the NY Times on Wiki ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The latest document dump from WikiLeaks would seem to be one of those massive, stop the presses, drop everything and throw all available resources at it stories that dominates news cycles for weeks on end. One of the first revelatio ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .The latest WikiLeaks document dump is remarkable: A man who was detained by Iraqi soldiers in an underground bunker reported that he had been ...
  • Banks created the foreclosure crisis - they should ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Prairie Weather linked to this episode of the Diane Rehm show on the foreclosure crisis. Representing the mortgage industry was Tom Deutsch of the American Securitization Forum, and his oily insincerity positively oozed o ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • An Interview with Vandana Shiva, Winner of the Syd ...
    Dr Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, feminist and author who has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize after defending the developing world against the free-market system for more than three decades. Click here to read this article
  • Michael Moore on Midterm Elections and the Future ...
    For the past 20 years, renowned filmmaker, author and activist Michael Moore has been one of the most politically active, provocative and successful documentary filmmakers in the business. Moore came to our studio last night for our special live Election Night broadcast to discuss the midterm electi ...
  • Obama's Cheerleaders Fall on their Faces
    The electoral debacle suffered by the Obama Administration and its Democratic Party will be blamed on many things, especially the secret wealth behind the myriad of coordinated campaign front groups dominating TV advertising in the wake of the Supreme Court's horrific decision in the Citizen United ...
  • Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Pr ...
    Don't let the media frame this as a defeat of progressives. Had Obama embraced and fought for a progressive agenda, even if he had passed none of it, he would have entered the 2010 elections as the champion of the huge idealism of the American people that was elicited in 2008 and which would have le ...
  • We've Been Conned. The Deal to Save the Natural Wo ...
    'Countries join forces to save life on Earth", the front page of the Independent told us. "Historic", "a landmark", a "much-needed morale booster", the other papers chorused. The declaration agreed last week at the summit in Japan to protect the world's wild species and places was proclaimed by almo ...

fotoFrontera

  • Iglesias, templos, palacios y edificios IV (10 fot ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1] [2] [3] [4] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea má ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte X (10 paisajes marítimos ...
    Si usted lo desea, puede escoger un número para ver nuestras entregas anteriores sobre la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. ¡Cada día, tenemos más! [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] [VIII] [IX] [X] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen s ...
  • Ciudades en la oscuridad II (luces de la noche) 9 ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1] [2] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotogra ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXI
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLI ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Unsubbing, cont.
    Home again from Rochester. They took Dad at 8:30, put him under at 9:30, and sometime between then and 4:30 they moved some veins around, put in a new aortic valve, sewed him back up and we finally got to see him about 6:30. He should be “waking up” about now but isn’t likely to [...]
  • Unsubbing
    This took a while, but I no longer have RSS subscriptions to: Crooks and Liars OurFuture.org Talking Points Memo TPM Muckraker 44 Congress Matters The Plum Line Paul Krugman Glenn Greenwald Floyd Norris Mother Jones Think Progress The Immoral Minority The Mudflats And no, I didn’t read any of them a ...
  • Enough
    It’s either 1928 or 1934. I don’t really care which. I’m done with politics, and not just because I owe Swiftee $10 on an election bet. This isn’t my country anymore, just the place I’m living in. They killed ACORN and with it, democracy. In less than fifteen years Fox News has taken us from [...]
  • I voted, you voted
    Voting: You can be as Tea as you wanna be when you vote in Maricopa County Phones are working again in New Hampshire MN I.D. assholes told to ignore judge’s ruling (didn’t see any at my polling place this morning, but they wouldn’t bother as I live in a DFL stronghold with lots of long-term [...]
  • VOTE
    Vote, goddamnit, vote. �

Public News Service

  • Birth Control: "Preventive" Health Care or Not?
    Birth Control: "Preventive" Health Care or Not? Phoenix, AZ – The Institute of Medicine has just initiated a year-long study to determine if prescription birth control methods should be covered by health insurance, as part of preventive care under the health reform law. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood ...
  • AZ Voters Polled On Importance Of Social Security
    AZ Voters Polled On Importance Of Social Security A new survey of over-40 registered voters in Arizona and nationwide has found Social Security among their top-two issues of personal importance. The research by AARP and the Rockefeller Foundation is being released as President Obama’s bipartisan Com ...
  • Report: Border Security Not Harmed by Wild Lands P ...
    Report: Border Security Not Harmed by Wild Lands Protection Tucson, AZ – A new report disputes the idea that security along the Mexican border is being compromised by laws protecting fragile public lands. The report cites numerous examples of cooperation among the Border Patrol and federal land mana ...
  • Halloween: Too Much Sugar Not so Sweet for Your H ...
    Halloween: Too Much Sugar Not so Sweet for Your Health Phoenix, AZ – Helping your kids make good choices on Halloween can go a long way toward keeping them healthy. A couple days with a few extra treats won't do permanent damage, but nutritionists say you should be careful of too much added sugar ...
  • "Don't Vote" Message Mobilizes Latinos...to Vote
    "Don't Vote" Message Mobilizes Latinos...to Vote Phoenix, AZ – Charges of voter suppression have been leveled against an out-of-state company airing radio ads in Nevada that advise Latino voters not to cast ballots this year. The ads have been canceled, but the fallout continues, with plenty of vote ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • US Conservatives: Gangsters or Politicians?
    Tom Marino's Free Pass | Mother Jones How big of a scandal does it take to make a congressional candidate unelectable? This year, if you're a Republican, it has to be pretty darn big. Take GOP House candidate Tom Marino in Pennsylvania's Tenth District, located in the northeast corner of the state. ...
  • Independence!
    Corruption-free Anguilla: Independence! The airwaves and the local newspapers this past week have been filled with talk of the need for Anguilla to seek independence from the United Kingdom. Anguillians have always been the most independent-minded West Indians, so the discussion is a healthy one. Fr ...
  • Another Day, Another 850 Afghan Children Dead
    Another Day, Another 850 Afghan Children Dead | War Is A Crime .org Bamiyan Diaries – Day Five By David Smith-Ferri “Is This Normal?” In a small storage shed at the edge of town, we watched as fourteen-year-old Sayed Qarim signed a simple contract agreeing to borrow and repay a no-interest, 25,000 ...
  • The Black Biker Experience
  • Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
    Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons [informationclearinghouse.info] By Deborah Davies They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It’s ter ...

Pensieve

  • Flying Dancers of Papantla
    This week, Monterrey is celebrating Mexico’s 200 years of independence from Spain, and 100 years since the Mexican revolution. The city’s largest park, built in the grounds of the steel factory that was once her strongest company, is hosting a fair. I shot this video while I was there last Sunday. A ...
  • Terror Averted Before Key Election…Coincidence?
    Photo by Gord McKenna Since Obama’s inauguration, left-leaning intellectuals have been frustrated in his reluctance or inability to implement the more radical elements of their agenda. At fist they saw him as a savior to the left. Now they are mourning the “Death of the Liberal Class”, as they stand ...
  • Honduras: Among the 3 Most Corrupt Nations in the ...
    Transparency international has published its results on its annual survey of perception of government corruption. The format is a zoomable world map with a ranked list below it. Honduras, at 134th place with a score of 2.4 is tied with Nigeria and Bangladesh and 7 others; not a good place to be. In ...
  • CNN Doctoring
    Is it me or did CNN want to soften news of Hugo Chavez expropriating two US-owned businesses in Venezuela? Related posts:Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First? Related posts: Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First?
  • CNN drops the C-bomb
    Photo by BY-YOUR-â It’s not the four letter word. Iâm a bit tired of this topic, but this article seems to need a few comments. After announcing a nuclear cooperation with Russian President Medvedev to build a nuclear plant in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez continues his tour of Asia by visiting Iranian Pre ...

Green Times

  • The Koala, an Australian Icon
    The Koala is an Australian icon. We have to be careful with these animals and take good care of their habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html). In particular, Climate change (glossary/categories/climate-change/climate-change-impact-2.html) influences their natural environment a lot. Read this inspir ...
  • Fair Trade Organic Chocolate
    Chocolate is one of those things that the majority of us love. Just make sure you eat fair trade chocolate (glossary/food-drink/fair-trade-chocolate.html). So you feel even better when you eat it! If you want to know where you can buy all kind of fair trade food have a look at the Green Times direc ...
  • Environmental News 05/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Locavore
    1. DEFINITION: "locavore" Locavores are people who make an effort to eat food that is locally produced and not transported through long distances. The locavores may grow their own food in their own home gardens or eat produce from local commercial groups, who are interested in keeping the environ ...
  • Blooming Algae, the new Wonder Plant
    Algae, until now, has been considered a nuisance! But these days it’s the new "hot property" in the cleantech / greentech space…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Bridgeport vote goes to Malloy
    ShareThis Bridgeport vote goes to Malloy --Total should make Malloy governor 05 Nov 2010 After an all-nighter of counting ballots, Bridgeport voters appear to have put Democrat Dan Malloy over the top and into the governor's office in Connecticut. Speaking at an early morning news conference, Mayor ...
  • US Elections 2010: Patty Murray wins Washington st ...
    ShareThis US Elections 2010: Patty Murray wins Washington state 04 Nov 2010 Democratic Senator Patty Murray has won the close race for the US Senate seat in Washington state. With final votes still being counted, Republican challenger Dino Rossi said he had called Ms Murray to "offer my congratulati ...
  • Greek authorities charge two mail bomb suspects wi ...
    ShareThis Greek authorities charge two mail bomb suspects with multiple terrorism-related offenses 04 Nov 2010 Two suspected members of a Greek militant group, who were arrested earlier this week in connection with incidents involving mail bombs, have been charged with membership of a terrorist grou ...
  • 'US targets civilians in Kandahar'
    ShareThis 'US targets civilians in Kandahar' --US-led NATO forces have used aerial bombings, hidden booby traps and mines in private homes . 05 Nov 2010 US-led foreign forces have once again been criticized for military operations that have led to death and destruction in war-ravaged Afghanistan. A ...
  • Republicans want troops in Afghanistan to stay
    ShareThis Republicans want troops in Afghanistan to stay 05 Nov 2010 Republican lawmakers who now control the US House of Representatives said on Thursday that they would try to prevent President Barack Obama from withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan as he [allegedly] planned. Congressman Bu ...

Daily Loaf

  • GOP tsunami dies out in California
    But not all hippie dreams came true however, as proposition 19, the initiative that would have legalized small amounts of marijuana, by a 54%-46% margin.
  • The new GOP House shows its muscle early – Rep. Jo ...
    When asked to comment on Mica's comments, Congresswoman Kathy Castor said, "“The state of Florida deserves what other communities across the country have gotten – a fair share of transportation dollars. I remain committed to developing a successful high-speed rail line that creates jobs and connect ...
  • ShadoCon Offers Gaming, Dancing and Anime This Wee ...
    If you’re a fan of anime, video games or comic books (or all three), you might already know about the convention this weekend. But in case you weren’t aware, ShadoCon will take over the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 10221 Princess Palm Ave., today through Sunday with an assortment of exhibitions, art, panels ...
  • Tampa Bay Lightning fall to Kings 1-0
    The Tampa Bay Lightning continued their western road swing Thursday night when they traveled to Los Angeles to take on the Kings. It was a match up that saw the two best teams in the NHL face off against each other. The Lightning were hoping to get off to a quick start after a sluggish [...]
  • Local artist to be chosen for community project in ...
    The Public Art Committee also introduced the idea of collaborating with Prodigy, an after-school prevention/diversion program for at-risk children from ages seven to 17. A

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Chevy Volt. 10 million lines of code and an IP add ...
    IBM provided the tools to design, test, and debug the software that runs the Chevy Volt, which plugs into a standard wall outlet.
  • Foundation X is offering £75bn to UK, no strings, ...
    Previous reports had it at a paltry £17bn but that’s only the first installment, says Lord James, who insists he’s not a doddering old coot who fell victim to a scam. He’s says it can’t be tainted money because has experience money laundering cash from criminal groups and knows what the deal is. (H ...
  • Nobel economists: prosecute fraud or economy won’t ...
    As economists such as William Black and James Galbraith have repeatedly said, we cannot solve the economic crisis unless we throw the criminals who committed fraud in jail. And Nobel prize winning economist George Akerlof has demonstrated that failure to punish white collar criminals – and instead b ...
  • Epic Nigeria scams, and laundering money for the B ...
    From a reader, on Lord James of the House of Lords saying ‘Foundation X’ wants to give £17 billion to the UK government. Dear Lord James: Could you please consider helping me to relocate some huge amount of money to your country. My name is Dr. Abraham Zongo, Foreign Remittance Director of the Payi ...
  • What if the drug cartels tried to buy your governm ...
    A mysterious Foundation X offered to fund the UK government with £17 billion, according to a speech by Lord James in the British Parliament, said Polizeros contributor Wood yesterday, adding that their motives could hardly be altruistic. The story has gotten enough traction that Reuters is now mocki ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – November 5
    1605 – Gunpowder Plot: A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords. 1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary [...]
  • Star Wackers? Not as crazy as it sounds…
    “Whoever Controls The Media, Controls The Mind” – Jim Morrison Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder DEAD SILENCE OF THE BRAIN
  • The World’s Most Dangerous Animal, a Lame Du ...
    There are many dangerous animals in the world. What would you say was the most dangerous? Some kind of carnivore? Perhaps a tiger, with its large size, its quickness, and its sharp teeth and claws? Perhaps a bear, with its great strength? Maybe you would think a poisonous snake of some type with its ...
  • Ron Paul says Rand and I will introduce legislatio ...
  • 34 warships sent from US for Obama visit
    New Delhi: The White House will, of course, stay in Washington but the heart of the famous building will move to India when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday. Communications set-up, nuclear button, a fleet of limousines and majority of the White House staff will be in India accompan ...

The Air Vent

  • Tax the rich
    Tax the rich, is the common phrase heard from Democrats today.  They describe how much extending the Bush tax cuts will ‘cost’ the government.  The balance between letting them all expire and keeping the majority of the hapless voters cajoled is to increase tax on a minority of the population whic ...
  • Second order
    Judith Curry has a new blog post which has inspired me to write on Libertarians and climate.  She has written a couple of times with negative commentary toward libertarians and environmental causes.  While she never actually attacks the Libertarian philosophy herself, her points are widely believed. ...
  • Newthink
    Andrew Montford linked to another self exoneration article by Michael Mann published in ‘New Scientist’, a magazine which may need to consider a less progressive title.  As we have learned when Mann writes, his language is full of half truths and intentionally misleading statements which do no good ...
  • Remember When…
    Again I find myself without time for blogging.  We are in an election though and Roy Spencer had a nice post on freedom from oversized, over controlling government yesterday. He lays out exactly what many people are misunderstanding so badly when they vote. I know that most have read the US Declarat ...
  • Wow
    There are far more interesting things going on in the thread below, but this is just way too insane not to publish.  It’s by Steve Goddard, on the algae based biofuel scam.  As Air Vent readers know, algae biofuel is a complete scam.   If you have money in it, plan to get out early.  [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Still Shy of 2 Million Users, Facebook Quadruples ...
    [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Can Facebook succeed where Google has ...
  • Facebook, Other Companies, Promote Green Efforts o ...
    Today, Facebook announced the launch of its Green on Facebook Page, a place the company hopes to highlight environmentally-focused efforts. The Page currently has about 9,000 Likes and information about Facebook’s corporate green and energy efficiency programs, as well as links to its green partners ...
  • ISA 2011: How Will Small and Medium Social Game an ...
    January 25th | San Francisco A few big social game developers, like Zynga and Playfish, might seem to be the big winners on the Facebook Platform so far. But there is both a range of successful smaller gaming companies and a healthy group of non-gaming applications doing well alongside the biggest p ...
  • The Facebook Global Monitor, November 2010 Edition ...
    We’ve just released the November 2010 edition of the Facebook Global Monitor through Inside Facebook Gold. The Facebook Global Monitor is our data report tracking Facebookâs audience growth around the world, and now includes an expanded leaderboard and country profiles for over 60 new country market ...
  • Facebook Wins Another News Feed Patent
    Facebook has won a patent for creating a personalized feed of stories for its users, giving the company its seventh this year. It’s the second news feed related patent the company has been awarded so far. The patent covers how Facebook presents status updates with multiple friends involved (see the ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Thought crimes in Israel
    Neve Gordon looks at a raft of draft laws making their way through the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, which if passed will seal Israel's transformation into a fully fascist state that persecutes and marginalizes everyone who does not subscribe to the official racially-oriented ideology
  • Murdoch drums up "war" where propaganda collides w ...
    Stuart Littlewood analyses Rupert Murdoch’s speech to the US Zionist hate peddling "Anti-Defamation League", in which the media magnate regurgitated Israel’s propaganda lines. He argues that Murdoch’s imaginary "war against the Jews" is "merely the flashpoint where propaganda lies finally collide wi ...
  • Murdoch: a warmonger and a fear monger
    Paul J. Balles views the deception and fear mongering employed by News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch at a gathering of the venomous US "Anti-Defamation League" to rally support for Israel.
  • Julie "Sabbath Goy" Burchill: Zionist serpent in o ...
    Gilad Atzmon views the hypocrisy and state of mind behind a recent venomous attack by Zionist pro-war columnist Julie Burchill on peace and human rights activist Lauren Booth for converting to Islam.
  • US attitude to other people's national sovereignty
    Lawrence Davidson considers why so many US officials, some ostensibly intelligent, end up blatantly lying or blindly following murderous orders without question, and why the general public seems to accept this.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Chris Floyd’s ‘The Good Corporal’
    ‘To the Exposers of Power & the Troublers of Dreams’ Yesterday one of our readers e-mailed me a link to a recent work by Chris Floyd dedicated to truth tellers who are commonly labeled as whistleblowers, but aptly referred by him as the Exposers of Power and the Troublers of Dreams. About three year ...
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s 2012 Platform
    ‘They Made Me Do It!’ The Obama Campaign team has finalized its core message and marketing platform for the 2012 presidential elections. After several months of intense debate and ‘market research,’ the Obama Presidency ‘marketing executives’ have put together yet another simple and short ‘market ca ...
  • Going on Record on Labeling & Labelers
    Censorship Fanatics Come from All Walks of Life It is funny and sad at the same time. In the course of one week I have gone from Anti-Semite to Anti-Muslim. Within a week I have been labeled Filthy Jew-Basher and Fear-Mongering Islamophobic. I find it funny since the logic-free arguments of these fa ...
  • Podcast Show #34
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Tony Hall Tony Hall provides us with an overview of his recently released book Earth into Property, and discusses the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism, beginning with Christopher Columbus’s inception of a Ne ...
  • Did You Know: The King of Madrasas Now Operates Ov ...
    Fethullah Gulen Takes the Great Game a Step Further The Controversial Muslim preacher has now extended his tentacles into schools in the United States, where he controls and operates more than 100 charter schools within a calculatively set up maze of dubious NGOs. Fethullah Gulen, whose organization ...

Afro Spear

  • KKK costume wins first prize at Halloween Party: Y ...
    From CBC news: The Royal Canadian Legion ordered its Campbellford, Ontario chapter to close while police are investigating a complaint that a person in Ku Klux Klan robes led a man in blackface with a rope around his neck and won first prize at its Halloween party. Edward Pigeau, president of the le ...
  • Election Day 2010
    In anticipation of the significant midterm election loses expected to be suffered by Democrats, I found these comments by David Brooks, a columnist with The New York Times, right on point: Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even th ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • “Is Black Support for Obama Racist?” b ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 With poverty at an all-time high, daunting black unemployment levels and Obamacare threatening black babies, black support for Barack Obama remains surprisingly strong. Why? Blacks are not uniformly as radical as Obama. So why do 91 percent of blacks still support him ...
  • Kiva: A Story of the Poor
    AfroSpear supports microfinancing towards development (read here). October 2010 AfroSpear Initiatives: 1. Kelvin Rutherford 2. Keyembe 3. Vasi Business Center Group 4. God Bless You Group

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
  • Truth for Tea Baggers!
    War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….
  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • A Six-Step Process for Managing and Developing Web ...
    After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
  • Citytracking Presents Data on Cities for Maps, Vis ...
    Citytracking, one of this year's Knight News Challenge winners, will present digital data about cities that journalists and the public can easily grasp and use, and provide tools to let them distribute their own conclusions. We will build a series of tools to map and visualize data that is truly Int ...
  • Blimee Brings Local News, Engagement and Instant O ...
    New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...
  • Retro-Radical Journalism
    New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...
  • Mapnik: The Coolest Mapping Software You've Never ...
    On the MapBox website we describe TileMill — the project we’re working on with our 2010 Knight News Challenge grant — as “a toolkit for rendering map tiles” . To be more specific, it’s essentially a “glue layer.” TileMill is built on top of a cocktail of other open source mapping software projects, ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Argentina on Edge - Argentina Shaken by the Sudden ...
    Former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner died Wednesday, October 27 at his home in El Calafate, Argentina after suffering from congestive heart failure. Néstor and his wife, current President Cristina Kirchner, had gone to the Patagonian town of El Calafate in order to be counted for the national ...
  • Travel Safe - Fear of Flying and The Question: Has ...
    In 2008, two Mesa Airlines pilots flew 25 nautical miles past their Hilo, Hawaii, destination while the control tower tried to get their attention. It turned out they were asleep. The captain of the Feb.13, 2008, Mesa Airlines Go! flight told the National Transportation Safety Board that while this ...
  • Book Review - Grant Wood: A Life, is American Goth ...
    Grant Wood: A Life. R. Tripp Evans. Alfred Knopf. 2010. 432 pages. Grant Wood�s �American Gothic� is the most recognizable American painting. Of all the paintings in the world, only the Mona Lisa has been more parodied. As Tripp Evans notes in his groundbreaking new biography of the artist, when it ...
  • Argentina on Edge - Argentina in Mourning As it Fa ...
    Argentina�shows great�uncertainty and heightened emotion following the death of former president Néstor Kirchner on October 27. Analysts in the South American republic opine that the country may now be facing a new chapter in politics. Kirchner�s wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, followed him as ...
  • Mexico's on the Borderline - Mexico's Centrist Pol ...
    Fourteen youths massacred at a house party in Ciudad Juarez. Fourteen men gunned down in a Tijuana drug rehab center. Bodies tossed about the suburbs of Acapulco. Indigenous leader Catarino Torres Pereda assassinated in Oaxaca. Secretly-taped audiotapes and anonymously-posted videos on the Internet ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Australias Hazardous Road To Climate Action
    By Peter Boyer Australia, the nation that gave birth to green politics is also among the planets top carbon polluters on a per capita basis on some measures even ahead of the United States
  • The Deal To Save The Natural World Never Happened
    By George Monbiot The so-called summit in Japan wont stop anyone trashing the planet. Only economic risks seem to make governments act
  • Time To End War Against The Earth
    By Vandana Shiva When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bigger war is the war against the planet. This war has its roots in an economy that fails to respect ecological and ethical limits - limits to inequality, limits to injustice, limits to greed and e ...
  • India: Militarizing Space With U.S. Help
    By Matthew Hoey & Joan Johnson-Freese India is using space development as a way to advance a stronger geostrategic position in the region and globally. The U.S. defense industry is facilitating this military expansion with its aggressive move in to South Asian markets to supplement reductions in t ...
  • Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak- ...
    A prophecy

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Enthusiasm Gap Largest in Swing States Signaling 2 ...
    The months leading leading up to election we kept hearing about "the enthusiasm" gap, a vague figure that was used to predict who was going to vote and who was staying home.� Just like almost every other polling number and every pollster had their own way of determining who was excited about the mid ...
  • Why Do Christians Remain Silent About the Persecut ...
    By Barry Rubin Christians in Iraq have been, and not for the first time, deliberately targeted in a major terrorist attack. Indeed, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Iraq, from the Gaza Strip to Egypt to Sudan to Nigeria, Christians are being assaulted, intimidated, and murdered by militant Mus ...
  • Did Bush Personally Approve Water Boarding? DAMN R ...
    As more leaks come out about former President George Bush's soon to be released book "Decision Points" the stark difference between our former President and today's commander-in-chief becomes even more apparent. One is a true leader that grabs responsibility, the other is someone who looks for a way ...
  • The Fed's $600 Billion Dollar Plan For Economic Su ...
    Its called quantitative easing, which is just banker talk for devaluing the a currency. Today the Fed is about to work some "black magic." They are going to create $600 billion dollars out of nothing. It absolutely no different than a corporation vowing to improve its fiscal performance simply by ...
  • The President's Presser Proves He Doesn't Have a ...
    Yesterday the American People sent Barack Obama a message, unfortunately he wasn't listening. While he looked contrite (actually he looked as if he was passing a kidney stone), clearly he indicated that he wasn't listening last night.� The President says that the country has made progress ove ...

The Real Agenda

  • End the FED: Take Two… The Strength of Two ...
    The globalist elite will have to deal with two Pauls; one in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. Reuters Republican Representative Ron Paul on Thursday said he will push to examine the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions if he takes control of the congressional subcommittee t ...
  • World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate ...
    By Scott Thill Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia, North America, Africa and everywhere else it’s been tried. But don’t tell that to controversial loan-sharks at ...
  • Big Brother Cameras check your Insurance, taxes&#8 ...
    The new “money-making” machine also checks if you are wearing a seatbelt, face gestures and so on. By Luke Salkeld Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside. For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with gizmos that che ...
  • Bisfenol A causa Infertilidad Masculina
    BPA se utiliza extensamente para fabricar plástico más duro y latas herméticas. Se encuentra en la mayoría de las latas de alimentos y bebidas – incluyendo latas de leche para lactantes – envases plásticos de alimentos, los teléfonos móviles y otros aparatos electrónicos. Por Luis R. Miranda ...
  • Crisis de Alimentos es casi Inminente
    A pesar de la abundancia de alimentos se verán precios récord debido a la escasez artificial y el uso de cultivos para producir biocombustibles. Por Luis R. Miranda El aumento en los precios de los alimentos y la escasez podría causar inestabilidad en muchos países si el costo de los mismos alcanza ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm developer cancels meetings
    The developer of a proposed wind farm in St. Cyprien de Napierville cancelled two public meetings scheduled for yesterday, citing the possibility of violence. “We would have preferred to meet the residents and present our project in a fully transparent way, but we have heard that certain people, who ...
  • Road closed after blaze at North Wales windfarm
    A wind turbine burst into flames, shutting a rural road for hours. The blaze at the 25-turbine Tir Mostyn and Foel Goch windfarm in Nantglyn, Denbighshire, lasted for about two hours. Debris left behind by the fire forced North Wales Police to close Drws-y-Buddel, between the site and Pentrellyncyme ...
  • Camden wind prospects blow away
    Opponents to the development of wind turbines atop Ragged Mountain were successful in turning back an attempt to create a three-town committee to explore that prospect when, on Oct. 26, the Camden Select Board decided not to appoint members to the Ragged Mountain Wind Workgroup. The nine-member work ...
  • Wind farm revolts blamed for dramatic fall in plan ...
    Local revolts by British residents against wind farms are to blame for the number of planning approvals hitting record lows, an industry report has warned. More than 230 campaign groups across the country are putting plans to generate more than a quarter of Britain�s electricity in jeopardy, it was ...
  • The great wind debate
    The Tribune reported a number of questions and concerns relating to county Proposals 1 & 2 in the Q&A article, �Wind district questions answered� in the Oct. 9 edition. Since then, the paper�s received requests from both opponents and proponents to address additional issues of the wind energy debate ...

Not My Tribe

  • American sheep vote for being fleeced
    Call it a setback, Obama calls it “humbling,” but the election obviously provided a sweeping mandate, and the president is running with it. The spectacle of Americans unquestioningly casting their vote for worse or worser, is the usual reinvestment of political take-me-for-a-ride capital, to jaw dro ...
  • Another challenge…
    Bob Balink, and any other City/County/State official who made the idiot decision OR WAS IT? to move the West Side polling place from the center of population, 20th and Pikes Peak, into a warehouse district on the far side of the highway from where most people live and as far away from a bus route [. ...
  • Here’s an interesting challenge.
    Since the Republican’t Party is taking their senate still-minority, and running it up as a National Mandate to repeal Health Care, why not have a two-part challenge. For the Democrats, have a lame duck vote and put the public option in to Health Care right where it belonged all along. You’d get back ...
  • Marin Co Sheriffs Tase Elderly Man in Own Home
    In July of last year. The man, Peter McFarland was treated by paramedics at his home after a fall, then, a pair of Sheriff’s Deputies entered the house and insisted that McFarland come to the hospital with them. Since the Sheriff’s Department, as always Defending Their Own Pigs, doesn’t want to disc ...
  • Boehner says “Mandate to Kill the Disabled! ...
    So, what was the first thing the Korporate Kash Klub putting on their agenda today? Destroy any hope of actual Health Care. Why don’t the Republicans take out their 2nd Amendment Specials and just shoot any disabled people they see on the street? It’s not because they don’t want to hurt us. They sho ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Five Bread Ingredients to Avoid [miniseries part 4 ...
    In previous posts we provided general guidelines, discussed whole grains, and showed you a list of the top 20 ingredients used in bread. Here is a list of the ingredients you want to avoid in bread: Partially hydrogenated oils – yes, the evil trans-fat lurk in the bread aisle too. Make sure they don ...
  • The Top 20 Ingredients Used in Bread [miniseries p ...
    In the previous posts we provided general guidelines for choosing bread and discussed whole grains. Today we’ll take a look at the other ingredients in bread. To do this, we analyzed the ingredient lists of over 2,000 breads.  The average list had  20-25 ingredients! That’s 5 times more ingredien ...
  • How to Buy Bread – Whole Grains [miniseries part 2 ...
    In the previous post we kicked off with some general guidelines for choosing bread: The first ingredient should be whole grain. The bread should be 100% whole wheat. The fiber count should be 2 or more grams per ounce. sometimes that’s one slice, but not always. It should have a short ingredient l ...
  • How to Buy Bread [miniseries part 1]
    Bread, oh bread. For some, an art form. For others, a guilty pleasure. For shoppers in a supermarket, a torturous decision process exacerbated by hundreds of brands, products, labels, health claims, and confusingly long ingredient lists. Here is Fooducate’s attempt to simplify the process. What you ...
  • Japanese Tea Taste Test [Can you say Sokenbicha?]
    Fooducate blog reader and tea lover Julia recently received a sample pack of a new Japanese tea brand called Sokenbicha (âSO-can-BEE-chaâ). It comes in 5 flavors (based on a holistic 5 elements theory – earth,wind, wood, water, and metal): Revive, a crisp Oolong tea blend infused with pomegranate ...

Traffikd

  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...

Survival International

  • Obama: Stop funding Indonesian torture of Papuans
    Indonesia has admitted that the torturers in a recent video were its soldiers. © Survival Survival is asking President Obama, who is due to visit Indonesia next week, to suspend US military assistance to Jakarta until its forces stop killing and torturing the people of West Papua . Obama’s vis ...
  • Botswana diamonds boycott launched with protest at ...
    Survival is calling for a boycott of Botswana diamonds until the Bushmen are allowed water. © Survival Survival launched its call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds today, over the government�s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen. The tribal peoples� rights organization held a protest outside D ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Rove's Vote Trickster: Caging Explained
    On Tuesday, Tim Griffin, former chief of research of the Republican National Committee, is on the ballot for Congress to represent Little Rock, Arkansas. He's favored to win. But Griffin is just as happy to win by stealing votes. Here's a clip from the Elections Files, the Palast team's investiga ...
  • The Petroleum Broadcast SystemOwes Us an Apology
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS 'Frontline' investigation of BP, "The Spill." PBS has uncovered a real shocker:  BP neglected safety! Well, no shit, Sherlock! Pluto rolled over on the rug and looked at me as if to say, Don't we already know t ...
  • Was Tim Griffin merely a "Rove-bot"?Did Karl Rove ...
    Special to the Arkansas Times by Greg Palast (New York, London) Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote Comic book voterguide.To learn more click on the image. Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida ("caging"), has communicated with ...
  • SarahPAC Candidate "Should Be in Jail"NBC TV airs ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail." Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote comic That's hardly the kind of endorsement a candidate for Congress expects. But that is the conclusion of voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy ...
  • Decision 2010:Tim Griffin and Voter Caging
    Reported by: Melissa Simas, KARK 4 NBC News After two years, and several resignations among Department of Justice staffers, in July, a special prosecutor wrapped up her investigation of the nine U.S. Attorneys fired in 2006. Bud Cummins, a Republican from Arkansas, was one of the U.S. Attorneys f ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Obama did NOT save the US From a Depression
    Stop saying Obama saved the economy, he did no such thing. The US is in a depression (not a great depression, but a depression). All Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson and Bush did was push the day of reckoning back a bit in order to save the rich, at the cost of trillions of dollars which [...]
  • Democratic margins in a base precinct (2006 v. 201 ...
    I live and vote in a Democratic base precinct.  And my precinct is the story of the election.  Here is the data from 2006 and last night. 2006 2010 2010-2006 Total RV 709 705 -4 Total Voters 360 314 -46 % Voting 50.8 44.6 -6.2 Straight Dem 120 92 -28 Straight GOP 28 36 8 [...]
  • The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today
    The 2010 electoral massacre is over and Democrats are licking their wounds. Let me put it simply, what went wrong went wrong from the very top of the party.  In both political and policy terms, the President of the United States, the head of the Democratic party, created this disaster. Nothing track ...
  • The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today
    The 2010 electoral massacre is over and Democrats are licking their wounds. Let me put it simply, what went wrong went wrong from the very top of the party.  In both political and policy terms, the President of the United States, the head of the Democratic party, created this disaster. Nothing track ...
  • Why Democrats Lost for Complete Idiots
    The Democrats gained control of both Congress and the Presidency in 2008.  They then pursued ineffective policies which didn’t fix the economy. They increased deportations of Hispanics. They restricted abortion rights for women.  They spat on gays repeatedly.  They betrayed unions.  They gutted ...

Age of Autism

  • VOTE!
    Today is election day. Please go out and cast your ballot. Sure our system seems broken beyond repair every day we watch the news, talking heads, pundits. But we in the autism community especially have to watch politics closely. After...
  • Two Winners! Hand Hold Adaptive's Autism Track iAp ...
    Our friends from HandHold Adaptive have kindly offered to give NINE Age of Autism readers a free copy of their newest app, AutismTrack. We have eight six left! Congrats to KDM and Cheryl Connelly. I've sent you each an email....
  • Temple Grandin Voted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame
    View the video from WFAA in Dallas HERE. Temple Grandin inducted into Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth Posted on October 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM She's not a Hollywood star or even a hotshot producer or director, but...
  • Fish Eyes, Mercury and Autism
    By Teresa Conrick [The picture: Quantitative mercury distributions of treated zebrafish. (BR) brain, (EL) eye lens, (LV) liver, (GT) gut, (KT) kidney tubule, (MS) skeletal muscle, (YL) yolk, (SC) spinal cord.] My daughter, Megan, was born with beautiful, vibrant, blue...
  • Mia's Documentary Sheds Light on Autism
    Read the full article in ElPasoTimes. About Mia: Filmmaker parents make documentary detailing daughter's life with autism By Victor R. Martinez / El Paso Times Posted: 10/25/2010 12:00:00 AM MDT In the mind of a 9-year-old, solving the autism problem...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Coffee May Rise 10% as Rain, Fungus Cap Supply, Ka ...
    Bloomberg – Coffee may extend a rally to $2.15 a pound by the end of this month as supply from Colombia, the second-largest producer of arabica beans, may be smaller than forecast, said Japanese trading company Kanematsu Corp. âWe had expected Colombian production to recover to 10.5 million bags nex ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Historic and proje ...
    The projected increase in atmospheric CO2 is likely to be brought forward if Chinese economic expansion continues in the next 10 years at the same rate that it has demonstrated over the previous 10 years. Chinese emissions overtook US emissions in 2007. Per capita emissions by the 3 countries will b ...
  • Iran nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri ‘headin ...
    BBC – An Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted by CIA agents last year and taken to the US is on his way back to Tehran, Iran says.Foreign Ministry officials, who claim they have evidence Shahram Amiri was kidnapped, told state media he had now left the US.The US state department has ...
  • Death toll from Indonesia volcano doubles overnigh ...
    Reuters – Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupted with renewed ferocity on Friday, killing another 39 people and blanketing the surrounding area with ash. Ten days of eruptions have now killed more than 80 people and forced the evacuation of more than 75,000 people. Mount Merapi, on the outskirts o ...
  • Long Hours Put Surgeons, Patients at Risk, Study S ...
    HealthDay News — Surgeons who work long hours can suffer burnout and depression, which can lead to patient safety issues and increased risk of personal problems such as addiction and suicide, a new study suggests. Among surgeons who reported working more than 80 hours a week, 50 percent met the crit ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Southern California freeway pollution: Is monitori ...
    A federal appeals court was asked Thursday to decide what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should do about noxious air pollution along some of Southern California's busiest highways. The case brought against the EPA by the Natural Resources Defense Council...
  • Obama faces tricky decision on polar bear, climate ...
    Just as President Obama faces a Congress that promises to be more skeptical of climate-related environmental regulation, a federal court has tossed a controversial case back in his lap: the polar bear. The bear was the first species to be...
  • Gulf oil spill: Dead deep-sea corals found near BP ...
    Scientists on a research cruise have found dead and dying deep-sea corals near the site of the massive BP oil leak. Federal officials reported the discovery Thursday, saying that until laboratory tests were conducted on coral and sediment samples, they...
  • Genesis solar project in Riverside County gets fed ...
    Call it the season of solar: Yet another sprawling desert project has been approved. On Thursday, it was the Genesis Solar Energy Project’s turn. With the go-ahead from both the federal Bureau of Land Management and the California Energy Commission,...
  • LA DWP will reduce residential solar incentives be ...
    L.A. residents who are considering installing solar panels have an incentive to act before the end of the year: On Tuesday, the city's Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved changes to the Solar Incentive Program that will reduce rebates...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA: Botswana diamonds boycott ...
    Survival launched its call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds today, over the government�s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chicken Manure Helps Power UK Town
    Starting next month, the droppings from thousands of chickens will add their might to a biogas power station serving this Cotsworld market town. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Jeremy Scahill: The U.S. Is Losing in Afghanistan
    Journalist Jeremy Scahill talks with Laura Flanders about the U.S.'s failed efforts in Afghanistan. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israeli state violence and the value of Palestinia ...
    In 2006 he quipped cynically: "It is like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die." Rafael Eytan, a former Israeli chief of staff, referred to the Palestinians as "cockroaches in a bottle." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Police refuse permit for secular student protest i ...
    Just a few days ago, residents and police clashed violently in Umm al-Fahm after police gave far-right activists permission to march in the predominantly Arab city. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

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

Free Range International

  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
  • Inchon
    Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...
  • The Going Is Getting Tough
    The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
  • What A Mess
    I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...
  • Meet a Couple of Hero’s
    Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
  • Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
    The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...
  • SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
    ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
    She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's our ...
  • Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
    He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.
  • Lyndsay Greene, Author -- encore (Oct 19, 2010)
    Peter talks about planning and preparation for the retirement years with the author of "You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?"
  • Governor General David Johnston (Oct 9, 2010)
    Peter talks about the role of the GG -- plus technology and hockey -- in Johnston's first interview as the Queen's representative in Canada
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat and ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.

Scotts Contracting

  • Earth Dance: Eco Friendly Invitation in St Louis
    EarthDance: Come join us at their party Saturday night! PESTO FESTO! Pesto Festo is EarthDanceâs premier fundraising celebration of the year and includes live music, local food, live art, a silent auction, The EarthDance Mission Awards, and much more. Located … Continue reading →
  • Ecosystems: Understanding Our Place
    On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: When I read this article the Education from growing up on a Cattle Ranch in North Missouri and taking care of the Land was re-enforced–> Specifically how taking … Continue reading →
  • Scotts Contracting Election Poll Results- Issues
    On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Here are the Official Results from the Poll created by Scotts Contracting on what issues that were the most Important to You and Your Family in the Nov … Continue reading →
  • How does our need for energy impact our communitie ...
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, KETC / St. Louis Beacon Public Insight Network wrote: View web version | Send this message to a friend … Continue reading →
  • Kitchen Project Photos
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Before and After Kitchens Photos provided by Scotts Contracting. Click Here to Email Scotty for a Free Estimate for your Next Project Green and Eco Friendly Products, Options, … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • India: Militarizing Space with U.S. Help
    India says that its space program is for peaceful purposes. The United States agrees. They're both wrong.
  • Midterm Miscarriage
    The Obama agenda, instead of coming to term after four years, is suffering a miscarriage halfway through.
  • START: Arms Affirmation Treaty
    The New START treaty is best called an arms affirmation treaty, since ratification will affirm the continued commitment to maintain and fund our nuclear and non-nuclear weapons programs.
  • Resolving the China-Japan Conflict Over the Senkak ...
    On September 7 Japanese patrol boats intercepted a Chinese fishing trawler near Kubashima, one of the Senkaku [Chinese: Diaoyu] Islands in the East China Sea.
  • Is Obama a Turkey or an Eagle?
    The United States has pursued an "eagle" approach of military intervention overseas for much of its history. Will President Obama change the direction of U.S. foreign policy?

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

  • نماینده ایرانیان زرتشتی در نامه اعتراضی به رئیس دا ...
    به دنبال برگزاری نشست  نقد دین زرتشتی در کنار فرقه های انحرافی در دانشگاه آزاد کرج که بدون دعوت از یک اندیشمند یا پژوهشگر زرتشتی انجام شد، نماینده ایرانیان زرتشتی در نامه ای کتبی اعتراض خود را به رئیس این دانشگاه اعلام نمود. read more
  • Iranian's stoning would be 'barbarous': Brazil's n ...
    BRASILIA, November 3, 2010 (AFP) - Brazil's female president-elect, Dilma Rousseff, said Wednesday she was "totally opposed" to the death-by-stoning sentence ordered for an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani. "I am totally opposed to the stoning of the Iranian woman," she told reporters in a ...
  • Iran lashes out at West over Ashtiani stoning outr ...
    IRAN has accused the West of using the case of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery to undermine the Islamic Republic. Responding to a new wave of demands by Western governments that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani be spared, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran accused Europe and the U ...
  • Inviting Enemies of the Press and Human Rights to ...
    On September 27th 2010 the launching ceremony for the Persian-language service of EuroNews was held at the European Parliament in Brussels. Two staff members of the Iranian Embassy in Brussels were invited to attend. With over 40 journalists in prison, Reporters Without Borders calls Iran the "world ...
  • گفتگوی روزنامه آلمانی نویس دویچلند با “ریچارد ولُف ...
    چنین جلوه داده می شود که گویا مسبب پیدایش بحران اقتصادی  امریکا اوباما و حزب دموکرات است، و این موجب می گردد که جمهوریخواهان در انتخابات به آراء بیشتری دست یابند. چرا اینطور است؟

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The 5/11 Truthers
    “Terrorist or Fall Guy” by Chris Trotter (in New Zealand we write the day before the month – today is 5/11/10 – Guy Fawkes Day) An excellent account of one of the earliest recorded (1605) “false flag” operations. http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2010/11/terrorist-or-fall-guy.html Share and Enjoy ...
  • The Prison Industrial Complex
    I first became concerned about America’s growing prison industrial complex as a private practice psychiatrist in California and Washington between 1978 and 2002. What I witnessed, in essence was closure of most US mental hospitals in the late seventies and early eighties, with the ultimate transfer ...
  • Support in High Places
    On November 2nd, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales releases his latest book Harmony , which he co-wrote with former Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper: We hear a lot about the royal family here in New Zealand. Most environmental activists here are aware that Prince Charles has been ...
  • How Resource Scarcity Threatens Democracy – ...
    In my last (Oct 27) blog, I discussed a YouTube presentation by Richard Heinberg, based on his book Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World , about the way the ruling elite is likely to manage the inevitable social upheaval stemming from severe resource scarcity. Option I, which I dis ...
  • How Resource Scarcity Threatens Democracy
    If I should suddenly develop a fatal cancer, Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything , is definitely the person I would want to break the news. Heinberg is a soft spoken, gentle, Mahatma Gandhi kind of guy who blows you away by telling you the party is over and there is no soft landing. But in s ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Gloria Ramirez and the Riverside Miasma, a Medical ...
    At 8:15pm on February 19, 1994, one Gloria Ramirez arrived at the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. She was extremely confused, and suffering from problems with her breathing and heartbeat. All pretty normal ER fare so far. The ER st ...
  • Where are we, and what are we doing in this handba ...
    I’ve lately been tripping on just how much the world has changed in the past ten years, or more specifically, how the USA has changed. The “War on Terror” has been going on for nearly ten years now, and it’s reached new heights of transcendental absurdity. Absurd on many levels. Absurd in that the t ...
  • Mars or Bust, Scientists Call for Suicide Mission ...
    Has NASA really put out a call for people who want to volunteer for a one way mission to Mars? Well, not yet, but two scientists did float the idea to test the waters so to speak. And it turns out, which shouldn’t be too surprising, that there are indeed people who would volunteer for [...]
  • Scientists prove that humans can see into the futu ...
    OK, maybe that’s not quite literally what has been discovered, but close enough. A set of careful experiments has shown that the human brain can be influenced by events that haven’t happened yet! Let me repeat that just so it sinks in, scientists have discovered scientific proof that the human brain ...
  • Through Thick and Thin, from UFOs to PC Gay Bashin ...
    Poot, the UFOs didn’t show up as promised. Well, except for some escaped mylar balloons in NYC apparently. Yes, the aliens cleverly disguised their spacecraft to look like balloons, then brainwashed some hapless human into thinking they had lost some balloons. All part of the alien’s diabolical, and ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Tainted Turkey? Toxic Chemical Found in Familiar F ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A chemical recently dubbed "toxic" by the Canadian government may infiltrate your Thanksgiving dinner—or tonight's dinner, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology . Researchers from the University of Texas found detectable levels ...
  • Stop Crime! Save Money! Sell Your House! Plant a T ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The benefits of trees are as numerous as the acorns falling from a grand oak tree—they help keep our climate in check, reduce flooding, cut energy bills by providing shade, and act as the most eye-appealing air filters on earth. A recent study found trees clean up pollution ...
  • Colonoscopies Miss Some Cancers, Study Shows
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—According to the National Cancer Institute, there will be nearly 150,000 cases of colon and rectal cancer combined this year in the United States. read more
  • Pesticide Maker Pays Farmers to Use Competitors' P ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Talk about irony. Monsanto, the huge corporation that pushed farmers to plant its genetically modified (GMO) seeds—which need to be used in conjunction with the company's Roundup pesticide—is now "incentivizing" farmers to use its competitors' chemical weed killers. You see, ...
  • Attention Body Spray Users: You Stink!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There are few things more worrisome to an insecure teenager than how he or she smells. So it shouldn't be very surprising that new deodorant body spray introductions have increased 43 percent this year over last, according to market researcher Mintel. It also shouldn't come ...

big think

  • Give a Minute: Crowdsourcing Civic Innovation
    Crowdsourcing has become a hotly contested innovation paradigm in recent months, drawing highly polarized opinions. While its creative merit in design has been publicly decried in the recent GAP logogate scandal , platforms like Ushahidi , PatientsLikeMe and even Wikipedia are consistently affirming ...
  • Gloria Steinem: "We Need to Eroticize Equality"
    There isn't really such thing as a "masculine" and a "feminine," says feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Because we've been so deeply propagandized with the notions about what it means to be male or female, we don't even know what the differences between these groups truly are. What we do know is that .. ...
  • Are Dolphins Trying to Communicate Across the Spec ...
    Every time I see a row of seaside lampposts, each with a single seagull perched on it, I wonder: Do those birds think we built the highway system for them? I suspect the answer's yes. Each species of animal (like people, most of the time) seems to see the world as if it were made for them alone ... ...
  • Merapi Update #2 for 11/4/2010 - Pyroclastic flows ...
    I've been trying to update on the evolving situation at Merapi all day, but the news is just too fast and too tragic to keep up.�I'll try to keep updating here as I find out more, but I can only hope that the situations doesn't get much worse for the people around Merapi. Here is a summary of what ...
  • Colorado's Personhood Amendment Was Defeated, But ...
    In the final guest post on Colorado’s defeated Amendment 62, a "personhood" initiative that would have given full legal rights to fertilized human eggs, Trina Stout examines the effect of such extreme views on national politics. --Matthew Nisbet   Amendment 62 failed 73-21% margin last night ...

Information Liberation

  • The Problem With Voting
    A poster in my previous article asked " What do you suppose we do other than vote?" He said "Not voting is a extremely good way to ensure that only statists and socialists get elected, because they rally their troops to vote, union members are requi...
  • 9 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Is Bad For The U ...
    Buckle up and hold on - a new*round of quantitative easing is here and things could*start getting very*ugly in the financial world over*the coming months.* The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is "crossing the...
  • QE2: The Fed's Latest Scam
    In a press release yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced plans to undertake quantitative easing measures, "purchas[ing] * $600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011, a pace of about $75 billion per mon...
  • Goldman: QE2 Will Continue Into 2012, Will Be Over ...
    Goldman: "In practice, QE2 is likely to continue well beyond June 2011*at least well into 2012*if our forecasts for unemployment and inflation are close to the mark. We believe that purchases could ultimately cumulate to around $2 trillion...Under...
  • Driver gets false 'revenge' ticket for telling-off ...
    DENVER - A Denver parking enforcement officer took revenge on a driver who called him a "meter maid" by asking a co-worker to write the driver a false parking ticket, 9Wants to Know has learned. The parking officers then mailed the $150 handicappe...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
    Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
    G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
  • Stealing Democracy?
    G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →
  • MWP – The Warmists’ Retreat Gains Spee ...
    I’m on the road at the moment, so just a brief post today. I was most amused to read the latest article in Watt’s Up With That? concerning a climate conference that occurred a month ago in Portugal, and attended … Continue reading →
  • It’s Started Again – Biodiversity And ...
    We’ve been predicting it, and now it appears to have happened. After Cancún, Anthropogenic Global Warming is generally expected to have oulived (by far) its fifteen minutes of fame, and will be quietly dropped by Western governments; so quietly, in … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • A New Policy on Controlled Unclassified Info
    The White House today issued an executive order to establish a uniform policy for handling “controlled unclassified information” (CUI), which is information that is restricted from disclosure because it involves personal privacy, proprietary data, law enforcement investigations, or for certain other ...
  • Army Weapon Systems Handbook 2011
    The U.S. Army has published its 2011 Weapon Systems handbook, a catalog of current weapon programs that are in various phases of the acquisition process.  A copy was obtained by Secrecy News. Many of the programs are mature and familiar; others are less so.  In each case, the program’s purpose and ...
  • CRS on India-U.S. Relations
    In advance of President Obama’s visit to India this weekend, the Congressional Research Service has prepared an updated assessment of “India-U.S. Relations” (pdf), dated October 27, 2010.
  • A Step Towards Intelligence Budget Reform
    Now that regular publication of the intelligence budget total has been accepted as the new norm, it is becoming possible to dismantle the related structures of budget secrecy that no longer serve any purpose.  In particular, the prospect of establishing a stand-alone intelligence budget that is inde ...
  • Surveillance Court Issues New Rules of Procedure
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews government applications for domestic intelligence surveillance, issued new rules (pdf) on Monday to govern its proceedings.  The new rules differ only slightly from the draft rules (pdf) that were issued for public comment in late August (“ ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Airbus A380 engine failure
    A380 engine failure – Qantas flight 32 en route to Sydney, Australia, forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failure. Qantas has grounded all of its Airbus A380 “superjumobo” fleet as a result. There are 20 other A380s around the globe that have the same Rolls Royce engines as Qantas fl ...
  • It’s a bug’s life
    I briefly review Daniel Marlos’ latest book, Curious World of Bugs, in Six Sexy Science Books. But, I wanted to know more about the book and so offered Marlos a few questions on which he might wax lyrical. What makes bugs such a fascinating subject? Bugs make such a fascinating subject because they ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Investing in Clean Energy: How to Maximize Clean E ...
    Center for American Progress , Global Climate Network http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/11/investing_clean_energy.html In this new report, the Global Climate Network (GCN) explores how much clean energy can be deployed in four developing countries using international funding. In order to m ...
  • Earthquake Insurance and Disaster Assistance: The ...
    Rand Corp. / by Tom LaTourrette, James N. Dertouzos, Christina E. Steiner, Noreen Clancy http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR896/index.html In an effort to increase the availability and affordability of insurance for catastrophic events, the Catastrophe Obligation Guarantee Act was introduc ...
  • Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Contingent Valuatio ...
    RTI International / by William H. Desvousges, F. Reed Johnson, Richard W. Dunford, Kevin J. Boyle, Sarah P. Hudson, and K. Nicole Wilson http://www.rti.org/publications/abstract.cfm?pub=15303 [Website] This second edition of Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Conjoint Valuation is essentially a reprint ...
  • 2011 Fuel Economy Guide
    US Dept of Energy and EPA http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ View the 2011 fuel economy leaders within each class and the lowest fuel economy models: http://www.epa.gov/fueleconomy/basicinformation.htm [Press release] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) today r ...
  • Online Database: Business: Transportation: Transit ...
    Center for Transit Oriented Development http://toddata.cnt.org/ Note: The following database is accessible for free but registration (very simple and fast) is required. From the Database Home Page: The National TOD Database is a project of the Center for Transit-Oriented Development. Intended as a t ...

Scientific American - News

  • The Heat Was On: Atmospheric CO 2 Triggered a Glo ...
    Atmospheric CO 2 was the primary driver of a 400,000-year global warming event, known as the middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO), according to a new study. The finding, which could help climatologists better understand the precise relationship between CO 2 concentration and climate change today, ...
  • U.S. Jaguar Habitat Designation Delayed
    Jaguars , which once roamed much of the southern U.S. but are now endangered--if not extinct--here, were slated to get a new so-called critical habitat to encourage their repatriation. [More]
  • Architects Vie to Design the City of the Future--O ...
    BOSTON--The moon has long loomed large as the next logical site for human expansion, a frontier land still lightly explored but visible to all throughout human history. With the recent discovery of a significant volume of water on the lunar surface, the idea of the moon as a livable habitat has beco ...
  • California Cuts Carbon in Bid to Spur Clean Techno ...
    SAN FRANCISCO--Voters have turned back an effort to suspend California's efforts to tackle climate change, a wide-reaching program ranging from a cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gas emissions to energy efficiency standards for televisions. [More]
  • Exposing the Weakest Link: As Airline Passenger Se ...
    The latest terrorism scare, involving a pair of explosive packages bound for Chicago from Yemen, has shed light on a new target for bombers--aircraft traveling to the U.S. whose cargo holds either have not been inspected, or if they have, by x-rays and bomb-sniffing dogs� that are not sensitive enou ...

RAWA News

  • Afghans See Karzai, Iran Hands in Poll
    The Wall Street Journal: Afghanistan's election authorities are being pressured by President Hamid Karzai and by Iran to alter the preliminary results of September's parliamentary races, adding new controversy to a fraud-marred election, officials and candidates say.
  • Malali Joya: “Bravest woman in Afghanistan&# ...
    Rupee News: In Afghanistan ruling politicians have publicly called Malalai Joya a”prostitute,” “infidel,” “traitor” and “communist.” But overseas, the tiny 31-year-old political activist and formerschool teacher has been hailed as “the bravest woman in Afghanistan”and compared to Burma’s jailed demo ...
  • Billions in Afghan aid fail to beat medieval disea ...
    AFP: Mossa lives on the top of an Afghan mountain four hours' walk from the nearest road in one of the poorest parts of the world and cannot remember the last time he washed. A creeping pattern that looks like a fossilised fern decorates his right forearm -- the tell-tale sign that he has leprosy.
  • Despite advances, troops face long recovery after ...
    USA Today: Army Spc. Daus Hempker, 22, sits listlessly on the edge of a hospital bed, still shaken and ashen-faced three days after a buried explosive detonated a few feet away from him during a foot patrol. He looks physically unharmed. But the symptoms Hempker describes — a momentary loss of consc ...
  • Afghan watchdog voices concern over poll turnout
    Reuters: Afghanistan’s main independent poll watchdog questioned on Thursday an unexplained increase of a million votes from initial turnout estimates after parliamentary elections last month that were marred by fraud and violence. Afghan election officials have hailed the poll a success despite thr ...

frogblog

  • Way less than 10% Pure New Zealand marine environm ...
    Kiwis love our ocean. Oceans cover 70% of our planet and represent over 95% of the biosphere and in New Zealand our waters are particularly special. You may not have noticed (I didn’t see anything in the papers about it) that last week a big conservation meeting wrapped up in Nagoya ...
  • Neo-Muldoonism with a smile
    I’ve posted before about the way this government is turning increasingly Muldoonist. The ECAN Act, the billion dollar infrastructure projects without any cost benefit analysis (Holiday Highway), the unlawful failure to answer OIA requests in time, the extensive use of urgency and ...
  • Removing ‘claim of right’ dangerous
    The government is a poor loser. It didn’t bother to appeal after it lost the ‘intentional damage’ case against the three men who pricked a dome at the Waihopai spybase. But it hasn’t let the matter rest. Last month it laid a $1 million damages claim against the men. To add insult to ...
  • It’s business time at the Green Economics Co ...
    I’m looking forward to the conference on sustainable economics that we’re hosting in Wellington next week. The conference will include speakers from across the political spectrum, as well as business people, academics, and keynote speaker, Dr David Suzuki. My small part of the day w ...
  • Urgency – Nats go crazy
    There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the Govt’s use of urgency. So I asked the library to do the stats. Which show that the Nats really are using urgency a lot more. Another example of their neo-Muldoonism. Urgency 48th and 49th Parliament (to 2 November 2010)       ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
  • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
    Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
  • Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
    Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Weird Findings From 2010's Exit Poll Data
    It's time for my biannual look at the exit polls. This won't explain everything about Tuesday's election. It's not intended to. What it is intended to do is provide a baseline that shows where Democrats did better and where they did worse than they did in the last midterm election. First things fir ...
  • The Fed and You
    Felix Salmon explains the mechanics of quantitative easing: The way that QE works is that the Fed will publish a schedule of how many Treasury bonds it intends to buy and when....What that means is that the New York Fed has a direct line to the biggest banks in the world (Goldman Sachs, Morgan St ...
  • Budget Deficit Arithmetic
    Folk wisdom suggests that budget deficits cause trade deficits, but in reality this isn't quite true. Dean Baker explains the reality: However, there is a relevent accounting identity which is always true. The trade surplus is equal to net national savings....The implication of a large trade defi ...
  • Headline of the Year
    A friend passes this along as headline of the year: BP ups Gulf spill cost to $40 billion, still reports profit No comment needed. Comments | Post Comment � � � �
  • Magical Thinking
    Paul Krugman on the notion that Barack Obama blew it by not focusing more on jobs: So when you say Obama should have focused more, what policies are you talking about? A bigger stimulus? As far as I can tell, almost no pundits are saying that. So what other concrete policies do they have in mind? ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 208: Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Bush People
    Topics for the show: Woman in West Virginia utters words you never thought would be in a Police Report The NFL and bad coaching Mike Shanahan makes a good excuse for why parents should beat their kids Weezy’s free The McRib is back San Fran bans the Happy Meal The Midterm Elections Kanye West vs [.. ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: San Francisco Bans Happy Me ...
    I know, it’s the day after the election and you’re probably expecting me to have a “FacePalm of the Week” for all the idiots (yes idiots), proud they didn’t vote.  Well, I’m here to surprise you.  No those people don’t get a facepalm.  No those people get something else from me:  A Kriss ‘Fuck You’. ...
  • In Terms of Noise…MSNBC = Fox News
    So at the Rally yesterday, during one of the segments Jon Stewart played a montage of ridiculous over the top rhetoric from both sides (Left & Right) of the mainstream media.  No one around me in the rally at the time seemed to have any problem.  Most actuallylaughed.  But apparently some Liberals d ...
  • The Insanity Reports on The The Rally To Restore S ...
    The irony of me, the owner of this site called The Insanity Report, going to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” is not lost on me. I created the Insanity Report in order to report on all the crazy things going in the world. I wasn’t meaning to be political [...] ...
  • IC 207: Take It Down a Notch
    Topics for the show: The Rally to Restore Sanity The media just doesn’t “get it” Al Qaeda is FedEx’in bombs now Suing a 4 year old? Join the Facebook Group for weekly updates on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Extracting urine in the name of climate research
    50,000-year old animal toilets are in fact sensitive measures of prehistoric climate, says Brian Chase, from the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, France.
  • Arctic warming full ahead
    With both the Northeast and Northwest Passages opening to shipping this year, as the Arctic climate continues to change rapidly, ships actually using them could make matters worse.
  • “Cherry picking” is a rotten accusation
    Choosing which data to include and which to leave out is central to science, argues Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang, even though critics of climate scientists might object to leaving out certain weather stations from their temperature measurements.
  • Climate-driven species creep hangs in the balance
    Competing influences are allowing the equatorial end of some organisms' range to stay in place, while warming allows them to move further polewards, but when the competition breaks down, population decline can be expected, scientists have suggested this week.
  • Rapid climate change poses ecological questions
    Cold-blooded tropical creatures, like lizards, are more affected by global warming than their relatives in colder areas, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang has found. Now, he says that this unexpected result shows just how much ecologists don't know about what the current s ...

e!Science News

  • MU grad student simulates 100 years of farming to ...
    Estimating the long-term impact of agriculture on land is tricky when you don't have much information about what a field was like before it was farmed. Some fields in Missouri started producing crops more than a century ago—long before anyone kept detailed records about the physical and chemical pro ...
  • Discovery shows promise against severe side effect ...
    A team of scientists has found a way to eliminate a debilitating side effect associated with one of the main chemotherapy drugs used for treating colon cancer. The strategy used in their preclinical research—inhibiting an enzyme in bacteria of the digestive tract—could allow patients to receive high ...
  • Obesity rate will reach at least 42 percent, say m ...
    Researchers at Harvard University say America's obesity epidemic won't plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data. read more
  • Small protein changes may make big difference in n ...
    Tiny variants in a protein that alerts the immune system to the presence of infection may underlie the rare ability of some individuals to control HIV infection without the need for medications. In a report that will appear in Science and is receiving early online release, an international research ...
  • Polar bears can't eat geese into extinction
    As the Arctic warms, a new cache of resources—snow goose eggs—may help sustain the polar bear population for the foreseeable future. In a new study published in an early online edition of Oikos , researchers affiliated with the Museum show that even large numbers of hungry bears repeatedly raiding n ...

unEarthed

  • Election Stalls Progress Towards A Healthier Plane ...
    There is no reason to beat around the bush: Tuesday's election results are a setback in our progress towards a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable planet. At a time when the world desperately needs leadership from the United States, voters have installed in the House of Representatives those who h ...
  • What Pairs Well With a Glass of 190g CO2 Sauvignon ...
    It’s not uncommon in our technology-obsessed society for common sense to be tossed aside in favor of robotic gadgetry and whiz-bang statistics that look impressive but don’t really convey relevant information. Case in point: win ...
  • Election: It's About The Economy, Stupid (Not Cli ...
    There's been so much talk about the dirty words of "cap 'n trade" the last few weeks that one could really start to believe the spin. That is, the argument put forward by a few candidates and pundits, and some misguided reporter ...
  • CA to TX Oil: Get Your Dirty Hands Off Our Clean E ...
    A day after the San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers in the World Series, California voters showed up at polling places around the state and sent this message loud and clear: We're not going to let some Texas Big Oil corp ...
  • Californians to Big TX Oil: Get Your Dirty-Pollute ...
    A day after the San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers in the World Series, California voters showed up at polling places around the state and sent this message loud and clear: We're not going to let some Texas Big Oil corp ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • US Conservatives: Gangsters or Politicians?
    Tom Marino's Free Pass | Mother Jones How big of a scandal does it take to make a congressional candidate unelectable? This year, if you're a Republican, it has to be pretty darn big. Take GOP House candidate Tom Marino in Pennsylvania's Tenth District, located in the northeast corner of the state. ...
  • Independence!
    Corruption-free Anguilla: Independence! The airwaves and the local newspapers this past week have been filled with talk of the need for Anguilla to seek independence from the United Kingdom. Anguillians have always been the most independent-minded West Indians, so the discussion is a healthy one. Fr ...
  • Another Day, Another 850 Afghan Children Dead
    Another Day, Another 850 Afghan Children Dead | War Is A Crime .org Bamiyan Diaries – Day Five By David Smith-Ferri “Is This Normal?” In a small storage shed at the edge of town, we watched as fourteen-year-old Sayed Qarim signed a simple contract agreeing to borrow and repay a no-interest, 25,000 ...
  • The Black Biker Experience
  • Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
    Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons [informationclearinghouse.info] By Deborah Davies They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It’s ter ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • The Teabaggers Will Be Let Down In 3, 2, 1…
    Imagine. People so stupid that they thought the corporate controlled frauds they voted for would do anything but hand out more corporate welfare goodies….. Amazing.
  • Republicans Hate The Troops
    According to this story, 92% of politicians receiving a D, or an F grade are Republicans. Go figure. Raw Story Article
  • Fascism Is Finally Here
    Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...
  • Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
    If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
  • No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
    83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Midterm Election Further Demonstrates Need for Rev ...
    Yes, I sound extreme, but these are extreme times. Most Americans have only a vague understanding of the collapse that we have been set up for. I’m not going to sit quietly as our future is ripped out from under us. I see the path we are on and I intend to change it!
  • ‘Road Through 2012′ Book Release Moved ...
    I've had two very powerful interests threaten to sue me over the release of my new book. To make matters even worse, a third interest is going to lengths to make my life as difficult as possible...
  • The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising (Video)
    Republicans and Democrats have failed us. Both parties have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99% of the US population no longer has political representation. The US economy, government and tax system are now bla ...
  • The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to ...
    The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War ...
  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
    Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.

+972

  • Tablet calling Israel “A Liberal’s Paradise& ...
    This is one of the most bizarre pieces I’ve seen this year. It comes from Tablet’s blog editor, Marc Tracy: Israel, A Liberalâs Paradise Are you a liberal upset over Tuesdayâs results? Then have we got a country for you! Starting next week, non-Jewish or -affiliated same-sex couples will be able to ...
  • Nov 4: Labor Strongmen going after Ehud Barak
    972 magazine’s daily media roundup: an insiders’ attack on defense minister Ehud Barak; Pro-Netanyahu tabloid celebrating the Democratic defeat in the midterms Ahabal (××××): Slang (org. Arabic) for a fool, an idiot. It’s time to learn a new word: Ahabal. That’s the term union leader and Labor str ...
  • Danny Ayalon and UNESCO: Lies or Incompetence?
    Twitter and Facebook messages announcing Israel’s suspension of its contacts with UNESCO were released by the Deputy Foreign Minister hours after issuing a formal denial that blamed his spokeswoman for the original announcement Last night (Wed.) the Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, announced ...
  • Nov 3: Intelligence chief expects regional conflic ...
    The Headlines: Bad for Israel > Israel’s outgoing chief of Military Intelligence (and future head of Mossad?), Maj Gen Amos Yadlin, warns Israelis not be fooled by the “unprecedented” security they have enjoyed recently. The IDF’s own Jeremiah predicts that the “next military conflict” will happen o ...
  • The road to Ramallah: toward a dead end (Issa E. B ...
    For many years I have attended the annual memorial ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin. I planned to attend this year, too, particularly after hearing that it might be the last one to be held in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, which was called Kings of Israel Square when the late prime minister was assassinated the ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Service of Process Fraud- The Next Boot To Drop in ...
    The press is starting to pick up on what will be an unavoidable and unresolvable conflict in foreclosure cases….fraud in service of process. Forget about Jeffrey Stephan and the other “technical” problems with foreclosure files, because when you don’t have good service of process, you don’t have jur ...
  • FANNIE MAE/FREDDIE MAC DIASTER WILL COST BAJILLION ...
    The Wall Street Journal today estimated that it will cost $685 billion to overhaul Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  The reality is no one has any idea how much it will cost to try and bring some stability to the US mortgage and housing markets because all the talking heads and “leaders” refuse to ackno ...
  • The New Yorker on FraudclosureGate
    The New Yorker is a weighty intellectual magazine…and this substantive publication has published an interesting commentary on FraudclosureGate. In my opinion, the article misses several key facts that argue against the ultimate conclusion…that things will not end as badly as I am predicting, but God ...
  • Who Owns Property? Who Cares? What Does It Matter ...
    The banks and their law firms are playing fast and loose, and sometimes they’re committing outright fraud with the title and ownership of tens of thousands of properties all across the country.  The title to real property in this country will be soiled for decades. One of the key pleading defects t ...
  • New Attorneys General- The Investigations Will Con ...
    A real question after the nationwide elections was how the 50 state attorney general investigations into Fraudclosuregate will continue–Read the New York Times For More. Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • On Politics As Entertainment
    Like many of you, I take a tour though media stories before heading off to work in the morning. One of my favourite reads has always been the Globe and Mail’s entertainment writer John Doyle. I don’t watch TV much, but his comments are frequently cheeky, insightful and just a plain good read. But in ...
  • I’m Grateful
    To all of you, Happy Thanksgiving. Filed under: Faith, Personal, Politics, The New Internationalism
  • Peace On The Cheap
    In Ottawa these days we are increasingly hearing of the “peace dividend” – the resources that will be freed up once our commitment to Afghanistan is terminated early next year.  But it’s something of a misnomer, since we’ll be departing a country and region seemingly in a state of constant conflict. ...
  • A Super Hornet’s Nest
    I recently encountered a high-ranking Canadian military officer in the Toronto airport.  We sat by the departure gate and he noticed I was reading Getting Back in the Game � a foreign policy manual by Paul Heinbecker, past Canadian ambassador to the United Nations. � � It was only after the discussi ...
  • Maple Syrup Diplomacy
    Tough times.  Canada’s delegation entered the UN General Assembly this morning under obvious tension.  Rumors behind the scenes were confirming that this country’s much sought-after seat on the UN Security Council was, in fact, in jeopardy.  Canadian representatives raced around to each table, handi ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
  • Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
    By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...
  • Doctor-Heroes Standing For Better Vaccine Science
    by Barbara Loe Fisher The cry that was heard around the world in the early 1980's, when mothers and fathers realized an old, crude pertussis vaccine was killing and damaging the brains of their children, is being echoed today by new generations of parents struggling to raise vaccine injured childre ...
  • Politics, Profits & Pandemic Fear Mongering
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Are you grabbing your face mask, stocking up on food and Tamiflu, locking your doors and keeping your TV tuned to the news to find out just how bad the "swine flu pandemic" really is going to get? While Americans are being scared to death, few are noticing how much of their ta ...

2020 Science

  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnolog ...
    Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation!  In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [...] ...
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