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Thomas Paine

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Friday, November 5, 2010

5 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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War in Context

Torture and terrorism

by Paul Woodward on October 23, 2010
One of the strange aspects relating to conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 is that they unwittingly obscure something even worse: that the US government foments terrorism not by design but by neglect; that its policies have had a direct and instrumental role in creating terrorists not simply by providing individuals and groups with an ideological pretext for engaging in terrorism but much more specifically by creating the conditions an individual’s political opposition to America’s actions would shift to unrestrained violent opposition.
The key which often unlocks the terrorist’s capacity for violence is his experience of being subject to violence through torture.
Chris Zambelis writes:
There is ample evidence that a number of prominent militants — including al-Qaeda deputy commander Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and the late al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — endured systematic torture at the hands of the Egyptian and Jordanian authorities, respectively. Many observers believe that their turn toward extreme radicalism represented as much an attempt to exact revenge against their tormentors and, by extension, the United States, as it was about fulfilling an ideology. Those who knew Zawahiri and can relate to his experience believe that his behavior today is greatly influenced by his pursuit of personal redemption to compensate for divulging information about his associates after breaking down amid brutal torture sessions during his imprisonment in the early 1980s. For radical Islamists and their sympathizers, U.S. economic, military, and diplomatic support for regimes that engage in this kind of activity against their own citizens vindicates al-Qaeda’s claims of the existence of a U.S.-led plot to attack Muslims and undermine Islam. In al-Qaeda’s view, these circumstances require that Muslims organize and take up arms in self-defense against the United States and its allies in the region.
( Easy to miss, isn't it ? Now the article purports to speak for al Qaeda...a seemingly ridiculous proposition...unless one realizes it is a standard fiction of disinformation as surely as reports of the 'Indian Wars' in the American West focused on 'The Troops' while the budget for military procurement was ravaged by fraud... and views of the disparate groups speaking different languages totally unimportant to the 'business at hand.' And you wonder why Mark Twain's satires on news revisionism of reality to enable murder are topical today. )


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    In case many of you have been doing more important things than paying attention to the latest techno-apocalypitc developments, such as growing your own food, or stocking up on supplies, you may not have heard of the “Internet of Things.” 
  • McDonald’s furious after San Francisco bans Happy ...
    Fast food giant McDonald's said Wednesday it was "extremely disappointed" at a ruling by San Francisco authorities banning high-calorie Happy Meals, which entice children to eat with free toys.

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Natural News

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    A suburban Oregon police department is paying a local man $4,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit in which he claimed he was pulled over for flipping off the cops in traffic. Twice he saluted with his middle finger while driving, and was pulled over each time by a Clackamas County patrol officer, r ...
  • Jury Dings File Sharer $1.5 Million for 24 Songs
    Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file sharer to take a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit to a jury trial, was dinged late Wednesday $62,500 for each of 24 songs she pilfered on Kazaa — $1.5 million in all. The result is the third verdict by a Minnesota jury in a case that has morphed ...
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    Civil liberties advocates lost a Senate stalwart Tuesday night when Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) was defeated by Ron Johnson, a little-known plastics manufacturer whose shibboleths against health care reform and government spending tapped into populist anger. For years, Feingold was one of the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

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    Emerging from his midterm beat down, President Obama today instructed his cabinet to make a "sincere and consistent" effort to engage with Republican leaders instead promising " no compromise ." But if the President is looking for an issue to dig in his heels, it's ending the budget-busting, Bush t ...
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  • The End of the Tea Party
    As a quick look back at any McCain-Palin rally in the fall of 2008 will confirm, the Tea Party movement hardly began with the inauguration of Barack Obama. But for all intents and purposes, it ended yesterday. As it turns out, the Tea Party's looming demise stems not from its failure at the polls, ...
  • Strong Turnout May Be Democrats' Last, Best Hope
    As voters head to the polls, the conventional wisdom states that red wave will wash over the United States. While political statistician extraordinaire Nate Silver concluded a Republican takeover of the Senate is unlikely, he estimates GOP gains in the House could reach 55 seats. That's in line wi ...
  • Messenger of Jesus Goes on Trial in Texas
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  • Untitled
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Consortium News

  • US Voters Drink Reaganism's Kool-Aid
    Election 2010 refills the vat with Ronald Reagan's poisonous "government is the problem" brew, writes Robert Parry. November 3, 2010
  • Darker Economic Days Likely Ahead
    The US elections mean President Obama has little ability to respond to joblessness even inadequately, says Danny Schechter. November 3, 2010
  • Jon Stewart's Movement for Sanity
    Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" drew a massive crowd but does it signify some lasting change, asks Michael Winship. November 2, 2010
  • Putting a Brake on Unwise US Wars
    Is there a way to discourage foreign wars by making the decision more politically difficult for presidents, asks Ivan Eland. November 2, 2010
  • Taking a Stand for Sanity
    Jon Stewart's rally drew a massive crowd in support of "sanity," but the US news media closed its eyes, reports Robert Parry. November 1, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Scientists grow monster dragonflies
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    3D holograms such as that seen in Star Wars are one step closer to becoming a reality. Previous attempts at producing a real-time hologram have suffer...
  • Woman collapses 100 times a day
    A woman with a rare neurological condition collapses every time she laughs. 35-year-old Claire Allen suffers from a rare form of the sleeping disorder...
  • Revisiting the Moon life conspiracy
    Lee Speigel investigates the idea that the truth about life on the Moon is being covered up. From alien ruins to UFOs conspiracy theorists have assert...
  • Sphinx protective wall unearthed
    Sections of mudbrick wall that would have protected the Sphinx from desert winds have been uncovered. The discovery was made by a team of Egyptian arc...

Grassroots

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  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
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    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...

Climate

  • Clean-Energy Action Shifts to States Post-Election
    Source:� Greentech Media Clean-energy industry professionals say that state-level efforts to encourage green technology and efficiency are more important in the wake of national elections.
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    Source:� BusinessGreen President Obama yesterday singled out energy policy as one area where the administration can work with the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives. ��
  • India's Demand for Fossil Fuels to Rise 40% in Ten ...
    Source:� Autoblog Green Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh predicted India's future demand for hydrocarbon fuels� will rise 40 percent over the next ten years.
  • Climate Cues From the Next House Speaker
    Source:� New York Times Any legislative progress on climate change will depend on the cooperation of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the incoming majority leader, John Boehner of Ohio.
  • Regional Carbon Markets Survive Elections
    Source:� Reuters Regional U.S. carbon markets got a boost from Tuesday's mid-term elections but their backers have a lot of work to do before they notch significant environmental gains.

GreenBiz

  • Facebook's Latest Green Efforts Focus on Industry, ...
    In joining two industry energy-efficiency associations and launching a green-centric page on its website, the social network is promoting green behaviors both within the company and throughout its vast membership.
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    By making simple changes to the jeans finishing process, Levi's has been able to dramatically reduce the water needed to produce each pair of jeans.
  • UNC Chapel Hill, Sears, JCPenney Named Biggest Kil ...
    A residence hall at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Sears store in Maryland and a JCPenney in California took first, second and third place respectively in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's contest to find the biggest kilowatt loser in the country.
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    Programs by Alcoa and Dow Chemical Company are among the 10 profiled by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy in a study of the successful use of social science in energy efficiency and conservation initiatives.
  • Visible and Concrete Energy Savings
    What does it take to make people save energy? This new study by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy profiles 10 programs that successfully combine consumption data and social science concepts in energy efficiency and conservation programs. �

Reuters Global

  • “Collateral damage” grows in Mexico&#8 ...
    Rising civilian deaths at the hands of Mexico's military in the country's drug war put pressure on the government to reform corrupt police and prevent more tragedies.
  • Liu who? UN’s Ban silent on rights during Ch ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is gearing up for a campaign to retain his seat as the United Nations' top official for another five years, U.N. diplomats say. This, rights advocates suggest, may be the reason he sidestepped the issue of human rights during his latest visit to China, his fourth in as ...
  • U.S. mid-terms and the Afghan war
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  • Will Obama refer to Kashmir in public in India?
    Will Obama say the word "Kashmir" in public in India?
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    When Barack Obama heads for India next month, he'll be carrying a heavy policy agenda. Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel Peace laureate who heads the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hopes the U.S. president has time to focus on clean energy too.

Booman Tribune

  • New Leadership
    I'm not an unreserved supporter of Nancy Pelosi, but I think she was the best Speaker of the House in my lifetime. If she wants to stay on as Minority Leader then I will definitely support her. I think her biggest mistake was forcing her caucus to vote on Cap & Trade when it had zero chance of pas ...
  • Some Advice for the President
    Greg Sargent : Can we please bag this idea that it's somehow a "compromise" in any meaningful sense if we temporarily extend all the Bush tax cuts, including the ones for the rich? Come on. It's really capitulation. Temporary capitulation, perhaps, but capitulation all the same... ...There is ...
  • Bad Faith in Plain Sight
    What are the Republicans' top priorities ? Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will say Thursday that defeating President Obama is Republicans' "only way" to truly halt his agenda. McConnell's comments are a doubling-down on his remark last week that Republicans' top priority during ...
  • To Live (or Life after the Deluge)
    What is the ultimate defeat? Trust me, it is not losing an election to a bunch of ignorant right wing Tea Party know nothings. It is not a nation descending into political madness and gridlock. It is not even death. No, the ultimate defeat is never to have lived. It is easy in the face of o ...
  • Stupid Questions about Gridlock
    I wonder how the Wall Street Journal defines the public mood: John Boehner is no Newt Gingrich, which suits the current public mood. Americans have had their fill of triumphalism and revolution in a House Speaker. But Barack Obama is also no Bill Clinton, a President with a gift for tactical poli ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Addressing Psychological “Burnout” Among Skilled S ...
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  • With Age Comes Emotional Stability, Says New Stanf ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Previous studies have found that older people tend to be happier, but these studies failed to follow individuals from old age to young: their results didn’t clarify whether aging made the participants happier, or whether they were just part of a happier generation to ...
  • Anxiety and How to Cope
    By Jeffrey S. Gallup, MA, LPC, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeffrey and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Many children experience anxiety about a variety of situations, going to school, a new and different environment, a change in routine, just about any ...
  • When Chronic Illness Enters Your Marriage
    By Helena Madsen, MA Chronic Illness/Disability Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Helena and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Remember standing at the altar on your wedding day reciting your marriage vows?  To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, ...
  • “Psychology Myths”: Replacing Misconceptions about ...
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Mountaintop Removal

  • Broken promises: University wrongly uses contour m ...
    Broken promises: University wrongly uses contour mining The Daily Tar Heel Stuart Boss, president of UNC's Sierra Student Coalition, stated there is little difference between mountaintop removal , a very destructive method of mining ...
  • EPA Official: Reject Permit for Mountaintop Remova ...
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  • Lawsuit on Controversial WV Surface Mine Put on Ho ...
    Lawsuit on Controversial WV Surface Mine Put on Hold WHSV The US Environmental Protection Agency is getting more time to decide whether to reject a permit for the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West ... and more��
  • West Virginia Sues Feds Over Mountain Top Removal ...
    Reuters West Virginia Sues Feds Over Mountain Top Removal Permits Care2.com (blog) Mountaintop removal , in which hundreds of feet are blasted off hills to gain access to coal seams, has become a major mining method in West Virginia, ... WV Senate candidate calls Democrat, Republican rivals on supp ...
  • What path will Rep. Nick J. Rahall take now? - Cha ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) What path will Rep. Nick J. Rahall take now? Charleston Gazette (blog) But back home, Rahall has now made himself among the Faces of Coal — among the faces of those who support mountaintop removal . ...

Memeorandum

  • Exit Polling Shows Gay Voters Played Important Rol ...
    goproud.org : Exit Polling Shows Gay Voters Played Important Role in Republican Victories in the U.S. House   —  For Immediate Release  —  GOP Captures almost 1/3 of Gay Vote in House Races  —  (Washington, D.C.) - Exit polling reveals that gay and lesbian voters played a critical role …
  • Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan ...
    New York Times : Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan   —  The PowerPoint slides presented to House Republicans in January 2009 seemed incongruously optimistic at a time when the very word “hope” belonged to the newly ascendant Democrats and their incoming president, Barack Obama.
  • Sen. Patty Murray wins fourth term (Jim Brunner/Se ...
    Jim Brunner / Seattle Times : Sen. Patty Murray wins fourth term   —  Democrat Patty Murray has won a fourth term to the U.S. Senate.  Her Republican challenger, Dino Rossi, conceded the race Thursday evening after new vote totals showed Murray widening her lead.  —  Sen. Patty Murray has won a fou ...
  • BREAKING in Illinois: CNN projects Democratic Gov. ...
    Fhardingj / CNN : BREAKING in Illinois: CNN projects Democratic Gov. win   —  (CNN) - Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has narrowly won his bid for a full term in Illinois, CNN projects.  He defeated Republican challenger Bill Brady and three other minor candidates.  Quinn was lieutenant governor in 2009 ...
  • Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not ...
    Ian Katz / Bloomberg : Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs   —  In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China's currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy — with comedian Jon Stewart.  —  Geithner and Stewart, ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • A lot to lose
    Hong Kong’s economic success story could be swiftly undone if the government fails to respond to growing flood risks, argue Faith Chan, Adrian MacDonald and Gordon Mitchell. In July, a torrential rainstorm linked to Typhoon Chanthu slammed into Hong Kong. More than 150 millimetres of hammering rain ...
  • From sham to reality
    China’s existing “low-carbon cities” are mostly fakes, energy researcher Jiang Kejun tells Liu Jianqiang. For the sake of future economic strength, the government must give meaning to this slogan. Jiang Kejun, senior researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission’s Energy Research Inst ...
  • Flickering beacon
    California’s environmental policies have signalled to China that – despite stalemate in Washington – Americans are interested in green progress. After a turbulent year, that message will fade without support from voters, writes Linden Ellis on US polling day. In 2005, a unique partnership between th ...
  • Cap and gamble
    As prospects for a comprehensive climate-change plan fade in the United States, the world’s oldest voluntary carbon market is struggling to prove its relevance. Xie Yanmei reports. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), once hailed as a model of the market-driven approach to solving climate change, ...
  • “It’s not colonialism” (2)
    In the conclusion of Ning Er’s interview with Li Anshan, the international-relations professor argues that opposition to China’s role in Africa is a hangover from western imperialism – and should be ignored. Ning Er: Dambisa Moyo takes the view that western aid has massively increased the incidences ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • White House Orders Standard Practices on Unclassif ...
    The White House released an executive order Thursday that aims to standardize how agencies handle unclassified information that carries statutory protections against dissemination. Such information — designated “controlled unclassified information,” or CUI — is currently handled in an ad hoc manne ...
  • Cops Pay $4,000 to Man Who Flipped Them Off
    A suburban Oregon police department is paying a local man $4,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit in which he claimed he was pulled over for flipping off the cops in traffic. Twice he saluted with his middle finger while driving, and was pulled over each time by a Clackamas County patrol officer, r ...
  • Jury Dings File Sharer $1.5 Million for 24 Songs
    Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file sharer to take a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit to a jury trial, was dinged late Wednesday $62,500 for each of 24 songs she pilfered on Kazaa — $1.5 million in all. The result is the third verdict by a Minnesota jury in a case that has morphed ...
  • Analysis: Bigger Twitter, Facebook Flock Boosts El ...
    The gubernatorial candidate with the most Twitter followers won Tuesday’s election in 22 of 34 declared races across the country, according to a Wired.com analysis. The results showed 65 percent of the candidates with a bigger Twitter following won the chief executive’s post in their respective stat ...
  • Civil Liberties Watchdog Feingold Loses Senate Sea ...
    Civil liberties advocates lost a Senate stalwart Tuesday night when Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) was defeated by Ron Johnson, a little-known plastics manufacturer whose shibboleths against health care reform and government spending tapped into populist anger. For years, Feingold was one of the ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • White House signals compromise on tax cuts
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conciliatory White House said on Thursday it was willing to negotiate with Republicans on tax cut extensions, but Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against compromises with President Barack Obama in a new Congress.
  • Death toll from Indonesia volcano doubles overnigh ...
    SLEMAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted with renewed ferocity on Friday, killing another 39 people and blanketing the surrounding area with ash.
  • Ron Paul vows renewed Fed audit push next year
    WASHINGTON (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 that oversees the central bank as expected in January.
  • Obesity rates will reach 42 percent: study
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Americans will keep growing fatter until 42 percent of the nation is considered obese, and having fat friends is part of the problem, researchers said on Thursday.
  • FACTBOX-Cuban air crashes often involve Russian pl ...
    Nov 4 (Reuters) - An ATR-72-212 plane belonging to Cuba's state-owned Aero Caribbean airlines crashed in central Cuba after issuing an emergency call, state-run media said on Thursday.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #449
    Damning report on CIA attack on missionary plane. Israeli legislators call on US to release Jewish spy. Analysis: Britain's MI6 operates a bit differently than CIA. Continue reading →
  • Taiwan grapples with ‘largest military spy scandal ...
    Two Taiwanese double agents have been arrested in Taipei, in connection with what one newspaper editorial described as the most serious case of military espionage to hit the country in two decades. Continue reading →
  • Israel intel chief hints at role in Syrian nuclear ...
    Israelâs outgoing senior military intelligence chief has implied that Israel had a role in a mystery 2007 bombing of an undisclosed Syrian government facility, which is widely believed to have been a nuclear reactor. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #448
    Russian intel source threatens WikiLeaks. UK female spy gave rare interview about WWII exploits. Lebanon sentences 3 to death for spying for Israel. Continue reading →
  • US considering CIA targeted killings in Yemen
    The White House is considering an unprecedented expansion of operations by the Central Intelligence Agency in Yemen, following last weekâs foiled toner cartridge bomb plot. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Eroding Conditions for Israeli Arabs: Part II
    Eroding Conditions for Israeli Arabs: Part II - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article reviewed the April Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel report titled, "One Year for Israel's New Government and the Arab Minority in Israel," accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.bl ...
  • Midterm Election Further Demonstrates Need for Rev ...
    By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus -- The Obama referendum came in and he got what he deserved. When you run on change and leave the same criminals in positions of power and don’t hold anyone accountable for obvious crimes, and allow them to continue to commit those crimes, you deserve to lose your power. ...
  • Video: Corporate Democrats vs. Teabaggers
  • Time For 'Accountability', NOW!!
    So this is the game they want to keep playin, just heard on the News they're going to try and do a Clinton on this Administration investigative hearings every week!! OK Now's the time for the DoJ to open up criminal investigations into the crimes of the bush administration and the republican congres ...
  • The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT)
    Staffordshire detective to lead Iraq abuse inquiry November 02, 2010 - INVESTIGATIONS into allegations of abuse by British troops in Iraq will be led by a retired detective from Staffordshire. The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) is expected to take two years to investigate dozens of allegation ...

Grist - News

  • Obama lukewarm on using EPA authority to rein in c ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The Republicans' victory in Tuesday's elections has all but doomed prospects for a national plan to battle climate change, but President Barack Obama voiced hope Wednesday of finding areas of cooperation. Leaders of the Republican Party, which swept back in ...
  • Climate change and consumerism are biggest threats ...
    by Agence France-Presse. UNITED NATIONS -- The warming Earth and the globalized consumer society are becoming the biggest threats to future wealth and happiness, the United Nations said Thursday. Rich countries "need to blaze the trail" on making economic growth less dependent on fossil fuels ...
  • Oregon to help Iraqi universities build green engi ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. For all the hand-wringing about America's waning influence around the world, it still wields a lot of influence around the world (profound, huh?). The forms of 21st-century living pioneered here aren't just about fixing the U.S., they're about providing models that other cou ...
  • Nissan sells out of electric Leaf before it hits U ...
    by Agence France-Presse. DETROIT -- U.S. consumers looking to get Nissan's all-electric Leaf will have to wait another year, after dealers sold this year's entire shipment before the zippy sedan even hit showrooms, the Japanese automaker said Monday. Nissan dealers have collected more than 20,0 ...
  • BP sees Gulf oil-spill costs soar to $40 billion
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- The devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill is set to cost BP $40 billion, the British energy giant revealed on Tuesday, after ramping up its estimate by almost a quarter. But the British oil giant also reported a net profit of $1.785 billion for the third quarter ...

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Washington Independent

  • Looming recount may allow Pawlenty to position him ...
    The Minnesota governor's race appears headed for a recount. Republicans, who won the legislature on Tuesday, may seek to draw it out so they can work with Gov. Tim Pawlenty to pass conservative legislation. In the background looms the specter of the 2008 Senate recount.
  • What does Kirk’s early Senate entry mean for ...
    Mark Kirk, the Republican senator-elect from Illinois, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 29 due to special circumstances regarding his seat, which used to belong to President Obama but was handed over to Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) when Obama took office. Kirk will serve in the lame-duck session in ...
  • Campaign finance advocates worry GOP Congress may ...
    Campaign finance reform advocates are still hoping that Congress will pass a bill that sheds light on the $126 million in undisclosed cash that was spent attacking candidates in the last election cycle, but they’re also starting to play defense when it comes to House Republicans proposals once they ...
  • Upton, Possible Energy Panel Chair, to Target Brow ...
    Staff for Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who is positioning himself to become chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent reporters a Nov. 1 column today written by the congressman that suggests he will investigate White House climate and energy policy coordinator Carol Browner. The Nov. 1 ...
  • Murkowski calls for EPA climate preemption
    Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), amid the post-election hubbub of her tight re-election bid, renewed her call to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. In a statement from her office, Murkowski outlined ways to reduce greenhouse gases without a cap-and-tra ...

Digg Green

  • Countdown to Extinction: Brown bats may soon ...
    Little brown bats, an ecologically essential eaters of pestilent insects, may be extinct in the Northeast within 16 years, researchers predict. The bats, found throughout North America, are dying from the mysterious white-nose syndrome, which has been annihilating bat populations in the northea ...
  • NASA Deep Impact Probe Grabs Amazing Images o ...
    After a cosmic chase lasting months and covering millions of miles, a comet-hunting spacecraft finally caught its icy quarry Thursday.
  • Microchip Implant Creates 1,500-Pixel Image f ...
    The microchip is only approximately 3 millimeters by 3 millimeters in size, but is loaded with 1,500 light detectors that send a grid of electrical impulses through a patient's nerves to generate a 1,500-pixel image. The device is implanted under the retina, the inner lining of the eye unlike o ...
  • Cell Membranes Behave Like Cornstarch and Wat ...
    Surprising discovery by physicists at the University of Oregon overturns a long-held belief, and raises fresh new scientific questions about the biology that regulates lipid and protein mobility.
  • How Science Saved My Soul [video]
    In the following video, Youtube user philhellenes explains how science came to save his soul. This is one of the most beautiful and eloquent presentation I’ve had the chance to see on the subject. If you only have a little time today, be sure to take the 15 minutes required to go through this. ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Dumb, Dumber and Dead
    By Les Visible Just as there may be no boundaries to wisdom and understanding and just as the key to their treasures may be found in the magic phrase, “I don’t know”, stupidity and greed seem to have no boundaries either and the password is, “I know”. Not a day passes when I am not [...]
  • Did Harry Reid Steal Nevada?
    Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Wednesday, November 3, 2010 A serious investigation into potential vote fraud needs to be launched immediately in Nevada, after incumbent Harry Reid beat Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle by a clear five points, despite pre-election polls showing Angle four points ahe ...
  • Segregation of Jews and Arabs in 2010 Israel is al ...
    By Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu Under the guise of the deceptively mundane name “Amendment to the Cooperative Associations Bill,” the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee this week finalized a bill intended to bypass previous rulings of the High Court of Justice. If indeed this legislation i ...
  • Climategate: peak oil, the CRU and the Oman connec ...
    So there we have it, a campaign of fear, based on non-science emanating from a few leaders that ultimately drive the followers to do something that would just not have been possible after Three Mile Island. They are marching in the streets of Copenhagen in support of nuclear power. They do not know ...
  • Man Buys Police Department’s Domain Name Aft ...
    However, after receiving a $90 speeding ticket in Bluff City, Tennessee, Brian McCrary discovered a third option. The Bluff City Police Department had forgotten to renew their domain name, BluffCityPD.com, and let it expire. McCrary bought the domain name for $80 and posted his side of the story wit ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Lookotels Seeks to Roll Out Prefabricated Capsule ...
    Capsule hotels are all the rage in Japan, and now Lookotels is aiming to bring the of prefabricated modular building trend to Spain. The company has envisioned a 100-room hotel composed of factory-built capsules that could be constructed in less than 6 months. Lookotels coined the term “lowxurious” ...
  • URBAN TREE: Floating Solar Mega Cubes in the Sky
    Read the rest of URBAN TREE: Floating Solar Mega Cubes in the Skyhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags:
  • LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Recycled Den ...
    The Recycled Denim Challenge closes tonight at midnight! Heads up DIY design fans! Ecouterre’s Recycled Denim Challenge is currently showcasing 45 incredible recycled denim designs, and today is your last chance to vote for your favorite! The grand prize winner will receive a $200 Gap gift certific ...
  • Topeak Bikamper is a Tent That Attaches Right to Y ...
    The Topeak Bikamper is a personal shelter that needs no hard to set up poles because it uses your bikes’s handlebars for support. It can be used with 26″ mountain or 700C road bikes, and is perfect for long bike trips. It’s lightweight and made of waterproof ripstop nylon, and while small in size, i ...
  • UK Solar Plant Will Power 1,000 Dorset County Home ...
    British company Eco Sustainable Solutions has put forward a plan to construct a major solar power plant in the county of Dorset that will have the ability to power 1,000 local homes. The project is to be developed in partnership with the Dorset Country Council and Natural England, and will see 30,00 ...

Pogue's Posts

  • New Mac Airs: Beautiful and Usable
    Small, light and chic commands a price premium. But at least with the new 13-inch Mac Air, you're not also paying a speed penalty. Think of the 11-incher as an iPad with a keyboard.
  • Quick Fixes for Windows Phone 7
    A couple of simple fixes for the things that Microsoft Windows Phone 7 software didn't quite get to.
  • A Love Letter to a Camera
    David Pogue describes his affection for what he says is the best pocket camera on the market, the Canon Powershot S95.
  • Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement
    Office 2011 for Mac is a big step backward. The new Outlook is the biggest disappointment.
  • Farewell, GOOG-411
    On Nov. 12, Google will turn off its free, voice-activated directory-assistance service forever. There are several options for those intending to soldier on in the post-GOOG-411 world.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Protein-Template Typos Confront Core Idea of Genet ...
    WASHINGTON — Text messagers and computer gamers aren’t alone in the willful misspelling department. RNA molecules do it, too. RNA molecules aren’t always faithful reproductions of the genetic instructions contained within DNA, a new study shows. The finding seems to violate a tenet of genetics so ...
  • Photo Gallery: Best Space Station Cupola Views
    See Also: Photo: Looking Back at the Space Station From Earth What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find Out Photo: Docked Space Shuttle and Station Cross the Sun Space Station Narrowly Misses Collision With Space Debris Video: Huge Hurricanes Seen From Space Follow us on Twitter @davemosher ...
  • New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby
    Five brand new close-ups of comet 103P/Hartley 2 arrived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab amid cheers and applause at 8:02 Pacific time this morning. The Deep Impact probe (now on a mission called EPOXI) passed by comet Hartley 2 at 7:01 a.m. PDT, the fifth time in history that a spacecraft has been cl ...
  • LHC Switches to Smashing Lead Ions
    After seven months of obliterating protons, the 17-mile-around Large Hadron Collider paused this morning to switch over to smashing lead ions (atoms of lead stripped down to their dense cores). The goal is to recreate the energy of the universe back to just millionths of a second after the Big Bang ...
  • 9 Great Invasive Species Worth Admiring
    See Also: Global Shipping Industry Makes World Flat — Biologically Giant Invasive Snakes Threaten U.S. Wildlife, People Climate Change Blurs Definition of Native Species Brandon’s Twitter stream,

The Progressive Realist

  • Jordanian Democracy: Mostly a Sham or Completely a ...
    The Economist discusses the upcoming non-event on November 9th that is Jordan's parliamentary elections. While the campaign for seats in the 120-member lower house has been relatively active, most Jordanians seem -- not surprisingly -- relatively nonplussed about the vote. As I mentioned the other d ...
  • Elections Shouldn’t Impact START Ratification
    There has been a lot of idle speculation over how the outcome of the congressional elections affect the ratification of the New START treaty. Frankly, the elections should change almost nothing. The path to the 67 votes needed to ratify the treaty remains basically unchanged for the lame duck sessio ...
  • Burma's Border Security
    Burma's border security is increasingly an issue of concern for its neighbors , with armed rebel groups reportedly mobilizing in Burmese border regions. In an e-mail interview, Nicholas Farrelly , an associate investigator in the Center of Excellence in Policing at the Australian Nationa ...
  • Torture: Not a Choice
    As everyone knows, the roll out of the George W. Bush memoir, Decisions Points , has begun. The Post reports this morning on one part of the book: Bush recounts being asked by the CIA whether it could proceed with waterboarding [Khalid Sheik] Mohammed, who Bush said was suspected of knowing about st ...
  • Neocon ECI Lies About Accusations of Israeli "War ...
    Commentary’s Jennifer Rubin passes along a press release from former Commentary blogger Noah Pollak, now the executive director of the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI): Last night was a good night for the US-Israel relationship, with supporters of a strong alliance prevailing over a number of in ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: It's Only a Mandate When Republic ...
    Yesterday's election apparently installed Mitch McConnell as lord and master of these United States, because I can't look anywhere without seeing him making some prophetic or commanding statement. My favorite : "Every one of the 23 Democrats up [for re-election] in the next cycle has a clear unders ...
  • Traveling Without Moving.
    Net neutrality didn't fare very well in Tuesday's elections : Before Tuesday's midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content. All of them lost ...
  • The Way Forward on Climate-Change Legislation.
    With the House now in Republican hands and major losses for candidates backed by environmental groups, the only way forward in the fight to curb carbon emissions lies with the regulatory powers held by federal agencies. But as Grist notes , Obama seems pretty lukewarm on that idea. A cap-and-trade ...
  • It's Never Too Early to Plan for 2012.
    One of the odd things about this year's election was how much attention was garnered by what turned out to be some some rather unimportant candidates, like Christine O'Donnell and that Nazi re-enactor guy. In truth, there was a wide variety among even those identified as Tea Party candidates -- some ...
  • Few Wins for Wealthy Candidates.
    Today's Washington Post has an interesting piece on the failure of wealthy and self-funded candidates to win their elections on Tuesday: The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that out of 58 candidates who used $500,000 or more of their money on federal races in 2010, fewer than one in five ...

Buzzflash

  • Is Glenn Beck Just Trying to Increase His Body Cou ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN   According to CBS News , the Jon Stewart "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" drew an estimated crowd of 215,000 on Saturday, while Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" event in August had 87,000 in attendance. But don't count on Beck to dampen down his incendi ...
  • Ex-Girlfriend Of Clarence Thomas: He Was A Mean Dr ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH He’s unfit to be on the Supreme Court But each & every allegation Proves that he’s ready for the GOP’s 2012 presidential nomination. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101022/pl_yblog_upshot/ex-girlfriend-dishes-dirt-on-clarence-thomas In addition to Verse-Case Sc ...
  • Thom Hartmann's Book Review Exclusively for Trutho ...
    THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH FOR TRUTHOUT/BUZZFLASH: October 2010 Each month or so, BuzzFlash is privileged to have nationally syndicated progressive talk show host and author Thom Hartmann review a progressive book or DVD exclusively for BuzzFlash/Truthout.  See ...
  • A Question Heard Quite A Lot Lately --- Is Sarah P ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The White House at this current point in time Is an exclusively man'a club; She even lacks credentials to be the president Of a Sarah Palin fan club. read more
  • With All The Ginned Up Anti-Obama Fervor, The Repu ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The Senate was theirs for their taking --- If they did that, they'd really be bragging But they let it slip through their fingers & Can blame it all on too much tea bagging. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101103/el_yblog_upshot/tea-party-offers-gop-a-mixed-bag ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • "We have no intention of ceding America’s future t ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2010 Sierra Club Today Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement regarding Tuesday’s midterm election results and an important victory against Proposition 23 in California. Statement of Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune ...
  • Winning Candidates Rode a Wave of Spending by Outs ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2010 Public Citizen Outside groups put their money behind the winners in 58 of the 74 races in which power changed hands Tuesday,  according to a new Public Citizen analysis .  In only 14 contests did the loser benefit more from spending by outside groups, said the ...
  • Election 2010: Gains and Losses on Key Contests Im ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Election 2010 results are proving to be a mixed bag for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. Republicans regained control of the U.S. House, which will pose challenges for advancing progressive legislation ...
  • Possible Republican Leadership Represents $38 Mill ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2010 Public Campaign The six members of Congress now vying for Republican leadership in the House—Reps. John Boehner (R-Ohio), Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Kevin McCarthy (R-Ohio), Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), and Tom Price (R-Ga.)—represent roug ...
  • Statement on Secret Ballot Amendments
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2010 American Rights at Work The votes have been counted, and Republicans have taken the House. There’s no denying that the political landscape in this country is about to shift dramatically. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s wildly unpopular Citizens United dec ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Missing: A Vision of Economic Possibility
    by David Korten 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. read more
  • Obama's Cheerleaders Fall on their Faces
    by John Stauber 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 ...
  • Is Climate Science Disinformation a Crime Against ...
    by Donald Brown Although there is an important role for scepticism in science, for almost 30 years some corporations have supported a disinformation campaign about climate change science. While it may be reasonable to be somewhat sceptical about climate change models, these untruths are not based up ...
  • Pundit Sloth: Blaming the Left
    by Glenn Greenwald Ten minutes was the absolute maximum I could endure of any one television news outlet last night without having to switch channels in the futile search for something more bearable, but almost every time I had MNSBC on, there was Lawrence O'Donnell trying to blame "the Left" an ...
  • The Tragedy of Under-Reaching
    by Norman Solomon We need to build a grassroots progressive movement -- wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party. The stakes are too high and crises too extreme to accept "moderate" accommodation to unending war, regressive taxati ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

  • First Friday Films presents 'Blue Gold'
    Today, Nov. 5, "First Friday Films" at the American Memorial Park will present Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a film about the conflicts arising from the world's dwindling freshwater supply. Screening will be held at the Visitors Center at 6:30pm.
  • First Friday Films presents 'Blue Gold'
    Today, Nov. 5, "First Friday Films" at the American Memorial Park will present Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a film about the conflicts arising from the world's dwindling freshwater supply. Screening will be held at the Visitors Center at 6:30pm.
  • Fest film on 'water wars' a fund-raiser for local ...
    One of the films being shown as part of the ongoing Cape Ann Film Festival this holiday weekend will serve as a fund-raiser for a local activist group as well. Sam Bozzo's documentary, "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," will be screened as part of the festival on Columbus Day, Monday, at 2:30 p.m. at Ca ...
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • New Podcast: Private Security Contracting, Oversig ...
    A new podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. Tune in to hear POGO staffers consider the findings of the latest report issued by the State Department's Inspector General, as well as the larger role of private security contractors...
  • Pentagon IG Casts Light on Problems at DCAA
    The Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) recently released two reports that expose more about the depth of the problems that plagued, and in some cases continue to frustrate, the effectiveness of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). The...
  • Calling Congressional Investigators--Will New Inte ...
    Yesterday Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Interior's plans to establish an Ocean Energy Safety Institute in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf. Among the first orders of business for Congress's oversight, energy, and natural resources committees—as well...
  • Morning Smoke: A Look at the Business Ties of New ...
    The Chairmen: New House Leaders Have Familiar Ties to Business, Revolving Door by Josh Israel [Center for Public Integrity] What Midterm Elections Mean (Or Don't Mean) for Defense Spending by Kristin Majcher [Ares] Pentagon awards jet fuel contract to secretive...
  • The Case of the Missing Inspector General Reports
    Inspector General (IG) investigations expose some of the most egregious examples of misconduct by federal officials—everything from whistleblower retaliation to the abuse of taxpayer dollars—and the public has every right to see the (non-classified, non-redacted) results of these investigations. Yet ...

Digital Journal

  • SFU students discuss sexy Halloween costumes
    Students at British Columbia's Simon Fraser University have been discussing how people should be dressed on Halloween(October 31).
  • BC: Campbell resignation no surprise
    Today's resignation by British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell did not take most British Columbians by surprise. In fact a lot of them have been asking for it for quite some time now.
  • Smiling, weeping Virgin Mary statue attracts hundr ...
    A small Windsor, Ontario home is gathering the attention of praying Catholics, city officials and worldwide media. A statue of the Virgin Mary reportedly smiles during the day but weeps healing oil at night.
  • Toronto mayoral candidates in the red, Smitherman ...
    The Toronto municipal election is over, Rob Ford is the mayor-elect and fresh faces are heading to City Hall. But what about all that money spent to become the next mayor? Numbers show that only one mayoral candidate broke even.
  • Inside Canada's political parties: The Online Part ...
    The Online Party of Canada is the latest political party to join the field of opposition to the current system and attempt to bring their general ideas to the forefront of the Canadian political establishment.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Make Sure Ending Veteran Homelessness Is on the Ag ...
    The nation's Department of Veterans Affairs serves about 92,000 homeless veterans. Veteran homelessness is a difficult task to tackle, and the VA is no doubt making a commendable effort, no matter how short the scope of its assistance may fall of the ideal. Unfortunately, there are still another 15, ...
  • Sitting Is Now Illegal in San Francisco. Next up: ...
    Don't just sit there! Why? Because it's now illegal in San Francisco. On the ballot yesterday was the controversial Proposition L, better known as the sit-lie ordinance , designed to ban sitting on city sidewalks between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. Supporters, especially businesspeople in the Ha ...
  • From $125,000 a Year to Homeless
    I met Terry on a rainy day in Nashville. He told me he once owned a landscaping business and made over $125,000 a year. But then he went through a horrible divorce. You can tell by the character of his face that Terry has been on the streets for some time. After getting out of the Marines after thre ...
  • Fame No Guarantee of Fortune for Homeless Artists
    Being mentioned by President George H.W. Bush in a 1999 letter to the Main Street Association of Breckenridge, Texas would be heady stuff for anyone. But for friends Billy Ines, now 54, and Angel Valencia, 64, it was the highlight of their rise from homelessness to local household names. Fame doesn' ...
  • Living in Storage Units Beats Life on the Streets, ...
    What if instead of an economical way to clear clutter from your home, inexpensive storage units offered an alternative to living on the streets? For many people who are without a home, renting a public storage unit can provide them with a relatively safe, private and affordable shelter , especially ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Britain and France sign military cooperation treat ...
    Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy have signed two new military cooperation treaties. One of the treaties focuses on nuclear weapons cooperation.  Under the agreement, a British-French centre at the British nuclear weapon research and development establish ...
  • Ignatieff on Canada’s lost Security Council seat: ...
    Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has laid out his vision for “rebuilding Canada’s leadership on the world stage” in the wake of the Harper government’s failed bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council. Speaking to Le Conseil des Relations Internationales de Montréal on November 2nd, Ignatieff con ...
  • Happy talk watch: More momentum moments
    More official word on who’s got the Big Mo in Afghanistan: âWe now have the initiative. We have created momentum.â Major-General Nick Carter, commander of NATO coalition forces in southern Afghanistan (Carlotta Gall, “NATO coalition pushes Taliban into retreat in southern Afghanistan,” Globe and Mai ...
  • F-35 protest outside Aerospace Industries Associat ...
    Last week saw the first Canadian street protest over the planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The protest took place on Tuesday, October 26th outside of the Westin Ottawa hotel, where the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada was meeting. Shown above, the Raging Grannies, supporte ...
  • Schwarzenegger calls for New START ratification
    California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called in his inimitable style for the quick ratification of the New START treaty to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons (Governor Delivers Remarks at USRBC Annual Meeting, 21 October 2010): Well, let me just tell you that the most excited I’m about ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Avoid Getting A Cold The Natural Way
    November 2nd, 2010 The Telegraph By: Stephen Adams They discovered that people who exercised for at least five days a week and felt fit cut the chances of having a cold by almost half (43 to 46 per cent). Taking regular exercise also cut the severity of symptoms, according to the study, published to ...
  • Alcohol More Harmful Than Crack or Heroin
    November 2nd, 2010 Time: Healthland By: Catherine Mayer How often does life really imitate art? Let’s imagine that a writer has been commissioned to develop a comedic screenplay about the deeply serious business of how to classify and control drugs. The plot is likely to feature that staple slapstic ...
  • Pfizer Recalls Lipitor For Third Time Since August ...
    November 2nd, 2010 WalletPop By: Gergana Koleva For the third time in as many months, Pfizer has issued a recall of its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor in response to consumer complaints of unusual moldy odor. The drug giant said the smell poses minimal health risk to patients, but it is recall ...
  • Dems May Suffer Worst Losses in 60 Years
    November 2nd, 2010 The Telegraph By: Jon Swaine The party looked all but certain to lose control of the House of Representatives and to have their majority in the Senate severely cut. A nationwide poll by Gallup found 55 per cent of likely voters planned to vote for a Republican, compared to 40 per ...
  • Big Brother Is Watching You In California
    November 2nd, 2010 AOL News By: Richard C. Paddock Drive a car into this affluent town on San Francisco Bay and you will be noticed. At least your license plate will. The small community of Tiburon has begun photographing and recording the license plate of every vehicle that enters or leaves town. T ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Reading al Qaeda’s signals from Yemen — and Pakist ...
    David Ignatius writes: Behind the latest terrorism plots is an al-Qaeda leadership that is getting battered in Pakistan but that is determined to strike back wherever it can – using a dispersed network and new tactics that are harder to detect. The package bombs sent last week from Yemen are one f ...
  • Bill Clinton’s prayer for peace
    Less than two weeks ago, while observers gathered around the fetid corpse of the Middle East peace process, once again looking to see whether it might miraculously spring back to life, Laura Rozen reported: [T]he New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons said he is convinced that the man who can help ...
  • Obama is through with Middle East peacemaking — at ...
    Larry Derfner writes: Whatever the Obama administration may say, it is through with Middle East peacemaking, at least for this term. It has zero leverage over Israel’s right-wing government because the roaring Republicans love this government and especially its prime minister. The Republicans love ...
  • Tea Party going to Israel
    Ynet reports: First they took Washington, now they’ll take Jerusalem? With victory in the congressional elections less than a day old, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (Rep.) who considers himself a ‘Tea Party’ member, is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday. Rubio’s visit so soon after the election win is ...
  • Israel lobby claims election victory
    Whatever the outcome of yesterday’s election had been, the Israel lobby had good reason to claim victory. Josh Rogin writes: One prominent pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington is already praising the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives as a net benefit for Israel. “While Democrats are ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Indonesian Volcano eruptions increasing
    Indonesia Volcanoâs Eruptions Stump Scientists By Lauren Frayer, AOL News Eruptions from Indonesiaâs ferocious Mount Merapi keep getting worse, prompting more villagers to run for their lives and puzzling scientists trying to decipher Mother Natureâs plans. Hot ash clouds are … Continue reading →
  • Water and ice, slip sliding away
    From the University of Colorado at Boulder Water flowing through ice sheets accelerates warming, could speed up ice flow Caption: Standing melt water in Greenland crevasses can carry warmth to the ice sheet’s interior, accelerating the thermal response of the … Continue reading →
  • RSS global temperature anomaly takes a dive
    I haven’t covered the RSS dataset much lately, since not a lot of interesting things have been happening with it. October 2010 though is a different story. There’s been quit a significant drop in the RSS temperature data. Here’s the … Continue reading →
  • Carbon Shoe Size Comparisons
    Who Really Worries About Carbon Emissions? Carbon Footprints - Source:  SPPI The data below is from various carbon footprint calculators scattered about the web and largely based on EPA emissions estimates and conversations.  Of all the agitators and propagandists lecturing … Continue reading →
  • Desperation: Robotic Twitter Bot spoofs “Cli ...
    From Technology Review, a case of desperation. “Let the robot handle it”. I have to chuckle though, since the article cites John Cook’s “Skeptical Science” as an “appropriate scientific source”. Also amusing is “the rejoinders are culled from a university … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Kucinich Calls on the ‘Fed’ to Focus on Jobs, Not ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Nov 4, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) responded to the Federal Reserve’s announcement yesterday of an initiative to purchase up to $600 billion of Treasury securities. The Fed’s injection of money into the econo ...
  • “Not For Nothing…!” Understandin ...
    by Eileen Coles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 5, 2010 A newly published World War I diary is considered to be one of the most accurate depictions of the horrors of war. Ernst Jünger, the German diarist, served for 3 years in the trenches on the Western Front. He was wounded 7 times. That ...
  • Election Day Blues By Timothy V. Gatto
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Nov. 3, 2010 It’s almost midnight on Election Day. Yes, I went to the polls and voted, even though I didn’t want to. This happens every election day, I vow to opt out, but the guilt makes me go. This Election Day was no diff ...
  • Anti-communism 101: Hijacking history by William B ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 2 November, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report Jon Stewart and the left The left in America is desperate; desperate for someone who can inspire them, if not lead them to a better world; or at least make them laugh. TV star Jon Stewart is s ...
  • 2010 Election: Live Election Results
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ washingtonpost.com Nov. 2, 2010 2010 Election: Live Election Results Maps for House, Senate and Governors Races via 2010 Election: Live Election Results Maps for House, Senate and Governors Races washingtonpost.com *** For your state election results go to your S ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Protein-Template Typos Confront Core Idea of Genet ...
    WASHINGTON — Text messagers and computer gamers aren’t alone in the willful misspelling department. RNA molecules do it, too. RNA molecules aren’t always faithful reproductions of the genetic instructions contained within DNA, a new study shows. The finding seems to violate a tenet of genetics so ...
  • Photo Gallery: Best Space Station Cupola Views
    See Also: Photo: Looking Back at the Space Station From Earth What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find Out Photo: Docked Space Shuttle and Station Cross the Sun Space Station Narrowly Misses Collision With Space Debris Video: Huge Hurricanes Seen From Space Follow us on Twitter @davemosher ...
  • New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby
    Five brand new close-ups of comet 103P/Hartley 2 arrived at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab amid cheers and applause at 8:02 Pacific time this morning. The Deep Impact probe (now on a mission called EPOXI) passed by comet Hartley 2 at 7:01 a.m. PDT, the fifth time in history that a spacecraft has been cl ...
  • LHC Switches to Smashing Lead Ions
    After seven months of obliterating protons, the 17-mile-around Large Hadron Collider paused this morning to switch over to smashing lead ions (atoms of lead stripped down to their dense cores). The goal is to recreate the energy of the universe back to just millionths of a second after the Big Bang ...
  • 9 Great Invasive Species Worth Admiring
    See Also: Global Shipping Industry Makes World Flat — Biologically Giant Invasive Snakes Threaten U.S. Wildlife, People Climate Change Blurs Definition of Native Species Brandon’s Twitter stream,

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • The Arabs and the Holocaust – the Arab Israeli war ...
    New York event: A discussion with Gilbert Achcar and Amira Hass, moderated by Rashid Khalidi, at the International Affairs building, Columbia University - Tuesday, 9 Nov, 6:00 - 8:00pm. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Israel ambushes UK’s Hague over arrest warrants
    Israel and Britain moved last night to limit the damage of an Israeli diplomatic ambush that threatened to overshadow the first official visit to the Middle East by William Hague, the Foreign... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • In major boycott movement success, Africa Israel s ...
    Africa Israel, the flagship company of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, announced this week that it is no longer involved in Israeli settlement projects and that it has no plans for future settlement... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Phantom Left
    The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify its complacency and lethargy. It diverts attention from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Safed man harassed for renting apartment to Bedoui ...
    Safed was plastered with posters ... denouncing a long-time resident for renting an apartment to three Bedouin studying at the local college. The posters are the latest episode in an ongoing campaign... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Health Registry Could Transform Chronic Kidney Dis ...
    A registry of health care information on patients with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) could help physicians improve care for affected individuals, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results sugges ...
  • We've Come a Long Way, Researchers: How a Decade o ...
    Today, individuals with lupus nephritis benefit from better treatments than a decade ago, according to a review appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The article suggests that patients with the disease can now live full lives without suffering from ...
  • Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine Targets Two T ...
    A $16-million, five-year grant by the National Cancer Institute's nanomedicine initiative blends the expertise of five research institutions to focus an array of innovative nanotechnologies on improving the outcome of patients with ovarian or pancreatic cancers.
  • Researchers Identify Protein that Regulates Magnes ...
    New research shows how a specific protein controls the body's ability to regulate magnesium. Though it is vital to more than 300 biochemical reaction in the body, the molecular mechanism for controlling magnesium were not previously understood.
  • First Group of Community Dental Health Coordinator ...
    The University of Oklahoma recently celebrated the completion of coursework by the first group of students in a pilot program created by the American Dental Association (ADA) to improve oral health in underserved communities.

Natural Health News

  • More Signs of Failing U.S. Economy -- Get Ready fo ...
    Price increases are beginning to hit America's supermarkets and restaurants. Foods such as milk, beef, coffee, cocoa and sugar have all experienced sharp increases in cost in recent months.� Meanwhile, food makers and retailers are planning to make their customers take on more of the higher costs fo ...
  • Extraordinary Life
    Here’s a little something to inspire your week.
  • Life is Like a Cup of Coffee
    Take a look at this wise lesson about life and stress.
  • Scientists Unlock How Trans Fats Harm Your Arterie ...
    Scientists have discovered the method by which dietary trans fats cause hardening of the arteries.� A study on mice suggests that high levels of trans fats cause atherosclerosis by reducing the responsiveness of a key protein, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, that controls growth and different ...
  • Chlorella Helps You to Excrete More Mercury
    Chlorella is a form of single-celled green algae.� For many years, it has been used as a nutritional supplement. New research investigated the use of Chlorella for mercury detoxification.� Researchers examined the absorption and excretion of mercury in mice.� Female mice were divided into groups an ...

Antemedius

  • Heckuva Job, Mr. Obama...
    This past Wednesday " Barack Obama was a guest on The Daily Show , thereby becoming the first sitting president to appear as Jon Stewart's guest. (In July, Obama became the first sitting president ever to appear on The View.) In the half-hour-long interview, Stewart quizzed his grizzled guest about ...
  • NCAR Predicts Extreme Drought In Next Decades
    They say in the Mountain West that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. This simple saying shows how little water there really is and how critical it is a semi-arid environment like Colorado. There are more law practices that deal with water rights here than anywhere else in the United ...
  • Perriello and the President
    When Tom Perriello replaced Virgil Goode as our representative in the Fifth District of Virginia, I was glad to see an outspoken bigot thrown out of office. Heck, I'm glad to see almost anyone thrown out of office. When one quarter of the races being in play makes for an extraordinary election year, ...
  • "The Debate Is Over": Human Driven Climate Change
    Global warming 'unquestionably' due to humans: France AFP, Thursday, October 28th, 2010 PARIS (AFP) - Global warming exists and is unquestionably due to human activity , the French Academy of Science said in a report published Thursday and written by 120 scientists from France and abroad. "Several ...
  • Austerity & The Coming Lost Decade
    Rob Johnson is the Director of the Economic Policy Initiative at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and is a regular contributor to the Institute’s blog NewDeal2.0. He serves on the UN Commission of Experts on Finance and International Monetary Reform. Previously, Dr. Johnson was a Managin ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Bush Admits Authorizing Waterboarding
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of weeks ago, New Stream Dream accused me of never believing individuals who — like Khadr and Lynne Stewart — confess to committing crimes.  Well, I believe this confession: In his book, titled “Decision Points,” Bush recounts being asked by the ...
  • Congratulations to Vicki Jackson
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I spent the day at Georgetown University Law Center, at a seminar put on by Georgetown and the Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, on Professor Vicki Jackson’s splendid new book, Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era.  Fabulous small discu ...
  • There is a There, There: The Political Geography o ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen William Gibson (appropriating Gertrude Stein’s bon mot about Oakland, California) said of cyberspace: “there is no there, there.”  While this captured the feeling of Gibson’s fictional cyberpunk protagonists, it obscures all the physical “theres” that make cybers ...
  • Treaties and Custom in Trade and Investment
    by Roger Alford Last week I had the privilege to attend an investment arbitration conference and FDI moot court competition at Pepperdine. Kudos to Murdoch University of Australia for winning the competition and my alma mater NYU for winning the highest overall ranking. There was much to ponde ...
  • David Glazier on a New Piracy Decision, U.S. v. Ha ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by David Glazier, an Associate Professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. As Opinio Juris readers likely recall, there are two ongoing federal prosecutions in Norfolk, Virginia before different judges of Somali pirates who ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BREAKING: More new evidence in the Heidi Paakkonen ...
    There's more damning evidence tonight that the police case against David Wayne Tamihere over the Swedish tourist murders in 1989 may have been a fabrication, and that in doing so police allowed the real killer to escape, possibly with Heidi...
  • Investigate returns favour to Police, releases cen ...
    Investigate magazine has released part of its file on Heidi Paakkonen in response to a request via the news media from Police Superintendent Win van der Velde. However, Investigate editor Ian Wishart has blanked out portions of the documents, including...
  • Crewe murders book: new review
    From the Southland Times, 30 October 2010: ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS: THE INSIDE STORY by Ian Wishart, reviewed by Chris Chilton "Undeniably...when Wishart hits he hits big. Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story is a book two generations of New Zealanders...
  • A response to NZ Herald’s errors on Crewe book
    A week might be a long time in politics, but a month is an eternity in publishing. Since last month's editorial the new book Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story has finally hit the streets to a storm of controversy....
  • Something every driver should be forced to read
    This is the victim impact statement that New Zealand father Duncan Woods read out to a Christchurch court this week as a judge weighed up sentencing for Ashley David Austin, whose vehicle lost control and slammed into a mother and...

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

  • Russians Fear 'Fifth Column' Of Jihadi Terrorists ...
    Russians Fear 'Fifth Column' Of Jihadi Terrorists Among Gastarbeiters:[eurasiareview.com] "Moscow is seeking to impose tighter control over labor migration from CIS countries in general and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • U.S. Supports Japan, Confronts China And Russia Ov ...
    U.S. Supports Japan, Confronts China And Russia Over Island Disputes: [eurasiareview.com] "In a six-day span the U.S. State Department has bluntly affirmed unequivocal backing for Japanese... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US embassy accused of spying in Norway, Oslo deman ...
    US embassy accused of spying in Norway, Oslo demands answers | Raw Story: "OSLO — Norway has demanded an explanation from the United States after a television documentary said its embassy had... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sri Lanka prez calls off Britain trip fearing arre ...
    Sri Lanka prez calls off Britain trip fearing arrest - The Times of India: "LONDON: In an embarrassing turn of events, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse has been forced to cancel his proposed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Fiji - ID cards – against what threat?
    Fijigirl’s Weblog So the dictator believes that we all need to carry ID cards in the interest of national security. Under this regime we are prohibited from asking the obvious questions, but this IS... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • BREAKING: More new evidence in the Heidi Paakkonen ...
    There's more damning evidence tonight that the police case against David Wayne Tamihere over the Swedish tourist murders in 1989 may have been a fabrication, and that in doing so police allowed the real killer to escape, possibly with Heidi...
  • Investigate returns favour to Police, releases cen ...
    Investigate magazine has released part of its file on Heidi Paakkonen in response to a request via the news media from Police Superintendent Win van der Velde. However, Investigate editor Ian Wishart has blanked out portions of the documents, including...
  • Crewe murders book: new review
    From the Southland Times, 30 October 2010: ARTHUR ALLAN THOMAS: THE INSIDE STORY by Ian Wishart, reviewed by Chris Chilton "Undeniably...when Wishart hits he hits big. Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story is a book two generations of New Zealanders...
  • A response to NZ Herald’s errors on Crewe book
    A week might be a long time in politics, but a month is an eternity in publishing. Since last month's editorial the new book Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story has finally hit the streets to a storm of controversy....
  • Something every driver should be forced to read
    This is the victim impact statement that New Zealand father Duncan Woods read out to a Christchurch court this week as a judge weighed up sentencing for Ashley David Austin, whose vehicle lost control and slammed into a mother and...

Mondoweiss

  • Burston on the Jewishness of Israel
    Yesterday I did a post on the crisis of liberal Zionists, and quoted visiting Israeli journalist Bradley Burston, Haaretz columnist, who spoke at Richard Silverstein's synagogue in Seattle. Burston then sent a note to Silverstein and copied me. Here tis: I certainly appreciate what you said about no ...
  • Yes Feingold was fantastic and courageous and inde ...
    Matthew Rothschild at Progressive is crushed by Russ Feingold's defeat. So am I. I always loved Feingold. But. Now Feingold leaves with his dignity and his principles intact. I didn't agree with Russ Feingold on everything. He was too much of a deficit hawk for me. [...]
  • A tale of two ghettos
    var docstoc_docid="59555963";var docstoc_title="truthbombsissue92";var docstoc_urltitle="truthbombsissue92";truthbombsissue92 The images above are raising some hackles, especially the comparison between the Warsaw ghetto and Gaza today. They are from the current issue of Adbusters magazine, which ha ...
  • The real Yitzhak Rabin
    Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of when former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist for Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords with Yasir Arafat. With the anniversary comes the obligatory mourning of Rabin as a “man of peace,” as the Israeli lea ...
  • Neocons didn’t gain traction with Jewish vot ...
    Eli Clifton at Lobelog says that Bill Kristol and his neocon outfit, the Emergency Committee for Israel, had little traction in the midterm election; and that Jews continue to vote Democratic, and Iran and Israel are not big issues for them:Hawkish astroturf groups such as the Emergency Committee fo ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Mt. Everest
    Published: 04 November 2010 Nepal Before returning for third time to Afghanistan this year, have made another trip to the Himalaya.� I made this image of Mt. Everest about a week ago.� You are welcome to download a copy for personal use. Please also buy a copy of my upcoming photobook, "Inside the ...
  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell: "We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan docume ...
  • Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
    Published: 17 Oct 2010 Click here to view entire document. {loadposition user8}
  • Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
    I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
  • The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
    Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • ICTY delays Karadzic trial for one month
    [JURIST] The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Wednesday suspended [press release] the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [case materials; JURIST news archive] for a month. The postponement allows Karadzic to ...
  • UK PM announces review of intellectual property la ...
    [JURIST] UK Prime Minister David Cameron [official website] announced Thursday that Britain's intellectual property laws will undergo a review with an eye towards modernization, in an effort to encourage innovation and small business. Cameron suggested that the law may be reformed [BBC report] in or ...
  • Federal prosecutors charge 3 men with funding Soma ...
    [JURIST] The US District Court Eastern District of Missouri [official website] on Wednesday unsealed an indictment [text, PDF] charging three men with providing material support to Somali-based Islamic terrorist organization al Shabaab [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The October 21 indictme ...
  • Federal judge dismisses claims challenging drillin ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] on Wednesday dismissed claims challenging the Obama Administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, which was enacted following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archiv ...
  • Afghanistan AG opens voter fraud investigation
    [JURIST] Afghanistan's Attorney General's (AG) office announced Wednesday it will investigate possible voter fraud committed by the country's election commission after the parliamentary election [IEC backgrounder] held in September. A deputy attorney general said that the office has received complai ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Billy Joel Explains the Election
    What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown , caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. T ...
  • Obama Considers Staff Changes, Ever So Carefully
    Despite urgent pleas from Democrats that he shake up his White House staff, President Obama will proceed with a plan he put in place before the election, one that calls for a careful review the structure of his office before making changes.  Chief of Staff Peter Rouse is leading the review, and Obam ...
  • 2012! It's Never Too Early for Mitt-Chif
    Item: Someone has set up this website:  http://mittromneyflipflops.com/ Item: An advertisement for displaying Romney's congratulations to Michigan's governor elect, Rick Synder, shows up on people's Facebook page.  This is odd because Romney never endorsed Snyder; he endorsed Rep. Pete Hoekstra in t ...
  • On Election Night, What You Might Have Missed
    Some elections, President Obama said today, are "exhilarating." Others are "humbling."  Last night's was chalk full of news -- so much news that you might have missed some of it. ** The Three Iowa judges who ruled that same-sex marriage was legal were all roundly defeated, thanks to a blizzard of ad ...
  • No Immediate White House Shake-Up Seen
    It doesn't look like President Obama will borrow a page from President Bush's post-midterm playbook. Senior administration officials have not been briefed on any plans for the President to announce a staff shake-up at his 1 pm news conference today. They said they do not expect him to make any immed ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • IDF Implies, Then Retracts That U.S. Approved Gaza ...
    The IDF teamed up with the Shin Bet to execute a Gaza militant, Mohammed al-Nimnim (or Nemnem), thought to be a leader of a shadowy group Army of Islam.  The group has engaged in activities like kidnapping which haven’t always sat well with the Hamas rulers of the enclave.  Army of Islam played a ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • British Foreign Secretary Calls Anti-Wall Protests ...
    I just published a post slamming Britain’s foreign secretrary, William Hague and I’m afraid I’m going to have to take most of it back.  Eyal Clyne just sent me a link to an amazing Haaretz story reporting on Hague’s address to Palestinian anti-Wall activists.  It’s worth translating significant po ...
  • In Fit of Pique, Israel Cancels Strategic Dialogue ...
    In yet another sign that Israel is feeling the pain of war crimes accountability, it announced during the middle of a visit by new British foreign minister William Hague that it was suspending a “strategic dialogue” with that country.  The dialogue had earlier been suspended anyway so I’m not sure ...
  • Happy Halloween!
    Miriam Adin Halloween costumes Yes, I know, a wee bit late.  Better late than… Adin was a racecar driver and Miriam a mermaid princess for Halloween. Jonah–well, it’s a bit complicated. He cut out a round cardboard head meant to be a pumpkin. He attached a headband and wore it around his head. He t ...

Ode Magazine

  • The miracle of microfinance in Kenya
    By: Lisa73 We walked through the slums of Nairobi expecting to find the downtrodden - human beings without hope, children crying and begging. Instead to our surprise we found smiles and laughter and pride. Children were serenading us in their high pitched voices, " ...
  • How understanding yields peace
    By: PeaceCorso My friend Masado Nakata told me about The Understanding Campaign . Here’s what their home page says: "The Understanding Campaign wants everyone in the world to read just one word of Arabic: the word Fhm (fuh-hem'), which literally means und ...
  • How plastic could be part of energy solutions
    By: Anne Thomas The environmental crisis is indeed alarming, but it is also an opportunity to bring visualization skills, teamwork, and creativity to the fore. In Japan rubbish bins for paper, plastic bottles and tin cans are ubiquitously lined up in front of supermarkets, convenie ...
  • Change starts small
    By: povertycurtain I came across something in the blogosphere today that seems really inspiring. It's a book called Small acts of resistance: How courage, tenacity and ingenuity can change the world . The book has its own website where you can also submit your own ...
  • How "She's Next" helps women flourish
    By: Miranda Mager Motivational words from one woman to another have a big impact, especially when we're feeling unsure about our goals or place in the world. What if any woman anywhere could receive that knowledge and encouragement from influential women who have a ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • New toxic air data from oil and gas operations, th ...
    Recent air sampling from the Four Corners region in New Mexico and Colorado has found harmful levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the region’s air. The air sampling was conducted by neighbors of natural gas development operations who formed a "Bucket Brigade" of citizen scientists ta ...
  • India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Oct ...
    Climate Change Climate Change: India to Host 48-Nation Talks “India has once again taken an initiative to break the impasse on climate change. Ahead of the Cancun meet, it will host ‘informal’ talks between ministers from 48 nations to build a consensus on the contentious global mech ...
  • Hottest, Wettest, and Most Vulnerable - Why Presid ...
    Heat waves and flooding in India are unlike anything most of us have experienced in the United States.  More than an issue of discomfort and inconvenience for the people of India, it is a matter of life and death, with infectious disease outbreaks, and failing crops.  In his visit to I ...
  • The Alone Star State
    Texas, together with a slew of industry associations and right-wing groups, has brought a blizzard of lawsuits to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s initial steps to reduce the dangerous pollution that is driving global warming.  As President Obama said yesterday, EPA is carr ...
  • India in Action: Obama trip a chance for India to ...
    President Obama will travel to India this weekend and - we hope - will strengthen a growing cooperation between the United States and India on climate change and clean energy. As NRDC and TERI noted in a letter to the President and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , bilateral collaboratio ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “He’s Dead, Jim.”
    Post-Halloween Friday Daddy Blogging… Miriam and Elisha Related posts:Friday Daddy Blogging Related posts: Friday Daddy Blogging
  • Torturer-in-Chief
    And he’s proud of it! At least the pretense that the GOP actually opposed arbitrary and illegal torture is over… Related posts:The Torturer In Chief Pro-Torture Buffoonery in the National Journal Filibustering for Torture Related posts: The Torturer In Chief Pro-Torture Buffoonery in the Nation ...
  • Can The Democratic Party Problem Be Solved?
    The midterms have essentially ended any prospect for substantial progressive legislation for at least two years and probably longer, so progressive infighting will only intensify. Many critiques of Obama from the left — especially on his civil liberties record and his glacially paced and timorous ...
  • Sparky Anderson
    RIP Sparky. Not a surprise given reports yesterday about Anderson being placed in hospice care. Sparky’s passing will be mourned in both Cincinnati and Detroit. Has any other player ever received as many as 527 plate appearances in his rookie season, and never played in another major league game? ...
  • They’re Both Right!
    No need to be fighting like this: With tea party-backed candidates going down in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada, depriving Republicans of what would have been a 50-50 Senate, a bloc of prominent senators and operatives said party purists like Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had foolishly pus ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...
  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...
  • The Right to Know!
    Do you know how to file a “Right to Know” request? Do you know why you might want to know how to do this? Since the gas drilling in Pennsylvania has taken off at full speed many people are finding the “Open Records Law” , also known as the “Right to Know Law”, a necessary [...]
  • Ya’ll Get Together Now, Ya Hear?
    Today I attended the Conservation PA event in Camp Hill, PA. I was sitting in the conference room among the other 100 or so attendees and trying to remember when I had first heard of the Marcellus Shale, or the term fracking. When I couldn’t dig up a memory of the beginning of my relationship [...]

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Shifts in Asian Rainfall Tied to Major Volcanic Er ...
    Over the past 800 years, large volcanic eruptions have led to significant shifts in Asian monsoons, altering rainfall patterns in ways that were the opposite of what many climate models have predicted , according to a study by Columbia University scientists. Using tree ring data from 300 sites acros ...
  • In War-Scarred Landscape, Vietnam Replants Its For ...
    With large swaths of forest destroyed by wartime defoliants, and even larger areas lost to post-war logging, Vietnam has set an ambitious goal for regenerating its woodlands. But proponents of reintroducing native tree species face resistance from a timber industry that favors fast-growing exotics l ...
  • California Voters Reject Initiative to Suspend Cli ...
    On a day when supporters of climate legislation were defeated in races across the U.S., California voters soundly rejected a measure that would have suspended an ambitious state law to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The ballot initiative, known as Proposition 23, was funded largely by oil companies ...
  • Expansion of Cropland is Stretching Earth’s Abilit ...
    The conversion of the planet’s ecosystems into cropland — particularly in tropical rainforests — is stretching the Earth’s ability to store carbon , according to a new study. The demand for new agricultural land is growing most rapidly in the tropics, due to growing populations, changing diets, foo ...
  • Numerous Food Companies Are Ending Use of BPA, Rep ...
    Several major food companies are phasing out the use of the controversial chemical bisphenol-A , or BPA, as concerns rise that the chemical used in thousands of everyday plastics might be harmful to humans. Nestlé, the world’s biggest food manufacturer, will stop using BPA in its U.S. products withi ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Who's the Conspiracy Theorist Now? Gov't Scaring t ...
    Pandemics, Aliens, and Asteroids -- Oh My! It appears that the corporate-government-media has recently become the number one propagator of conspiracy theories. That is, of course, as long as the fear campaign pushes the right buttons for the agenda. The dumbed-down public will always be led by fear ...
  • Earth Passing Into the Cosmic "Energy Cloud"
    On Christmas Eve, 2009, the startling hypothesis that our Solar System, the Sun and all its planets, are moving into a potentially dangerous and destabilizing interstellar energy cloud, was resoundingly sustained. In their research paper, "A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the ...
  • Communication With 50 Nuke Missiles Dropped in ICB ...
    The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn’t reliably communicate or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles. Gulp. Backup security and communications systems, lo ...
  • Massive Solar Flare Storm Warnings for the Next Fe ...
    According to a new report, the United States is in danger of a massive space storm that could knock out power to much of the nation. It may sound like the premise for the next Michael Bay, big-budget action extravaganza -- but scientists say a storm from space could change life on Earth as we know i ...
  • No warning because tsunami alert system had been v ...
    Planes and helicopters packed with rescue workers and supplies landed yesterday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 3m tsunami, as a news report said Indonesia's tsunami warning system had been vandalised and so failed to warn the islanders. Two buoys off the Mentawai islands were va ...

Russia Today

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

  • NASA’s EPOXI Hartley 2 Encounter
    Yesterday NASA’s recycled spacecraft EPOXI (which was the second part of the spacecraft that released the probe that collided with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005) encountered it’s second comet (Hartley 2) on a close fly-by, thus saving money by reusing expensive space-probes. Even though no collisio ...
  • Adam Gorightly on the Paracast
    Esoteric writer of all things cultural and Fortean Adam Gorightly gives a good interview on this past Sunday’s (10/31) Paracast discussing astral travel, vivid dreaming, alien abductions and psychedelic drugs. Oh yeah! Adam Gorightly Interview on the Paracast
  • “Phantastic” Halloween Solar Photos
    Yeah, I know the spelling catcher and these pictures have been viral on the ‘Net all this past weekend, but I can’t resist posting these from a relative “neighbor” of mine who lives in Buffalo, NY and photographed from the same. Enjoy! … … [...] “On Oct. 20, Friedman hooked his telescope to a hydrog ...
  • Terror Threats and Human Time Machines
    Lately I’ve been haunting the STARpod site picking up on odd bits of psychic stuff that Gary Bekkum says filters through the aether. Today was no different and I scanned this little article that caught my interest since it mentions quantum theory and multiple universes: Multiple sources and declassi ...
  • Zecharia Sitchin Passes
    From Sitchin.com: We regret to inform you that Zecharia Sitchin passed away on the morning of October 9th. A small, private family funeral was held the next day. The family asks that you respect its privacy during this difficult time and refrain from contacting family members directly. Instead, to o ...

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are f Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Budget Mice
    If the opposition manages to cut all discretionary spending – which of course it does not promise to do -- the deficit would still be a whopping $747 billion.
  • Fed to Create $600 Billion for Bond Buy
    “The Federal Reserve, getting ahead of the battles that will dominate national politics over the next two years, moved Wednesday to jolt the economy into recovery with a bold but risky plan to pump $600 billion into the banking system.” (New York Times) So thatâs why thereâs no recovery: too little ...
  • Lawmaker to Address Internet Privacy
    “A key Republican lawmaker indicated Wednesday that Internet privacy could be a legislative priority in the next Congress, as a growing number of data breaches draw increased attention from federal regulators.” (Washington Post) He doesnât mean government surveillance, which is apparently okay. FEE ...
  • Gridlock and Regime Uncertainty
    The world of divided government is no utopia, but it is probably the best we can hope for in a world of ever-growing State power.
  • Economy on Voters’ Minds
    “Voters heading to the polls Tuesday have watched ads warning them about the threat of China and the dangers of illegal immigration. They have heard candidates rail against the stimulus bill, the new health-care law and the federal deficit. They have received phone calls at dinner time reminding the ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Art Pope's Big Day: Millionaire's money key to his ...
    The Republican takeover of North Carolina's state legislature in 2010 -- the first time since Reconstruction -- caught many by surprise, but perhaps none more than state senator John Snow . A three-term Democrat in the senate's western-most district in the mountains, Snow largely avoided c ...
  • Meet the likely House committee chairs who promise ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica Earlier this week, we highlighted a few ways that midterm elections could affect some of the issues we've dogged in the past few months -- the foreclosure scandal, financial reform, healthcare reform, among others. Impending Republican control of the House means ther ...
  • Latino firewall helped save Senate for Democrats
    By Elena Shore, New America Media Latino voters may have saved the Senate for the Democrats, even as Latino candidates gained a record number of congressional seats on the Republican ticket. Political observers say these seemingly contradictory outcomes make one thing clear: Latinos -- as candi ...
  • Will the Tea Party go nuclear?
    Among the special interests that see the outcome of this week's mid-term elections as a win for themselves is the U.S. nuclear power industry. NRG Energy, the New Jersey-based power company that's seeking federal subsidies in the form of Department of Energy loan guarantees to build two ...
  • 3 big election stories in the South
    2010 shaped up to be the big election year everyone promised it would be. Here are some of the top election stories coming out of Southern states: A TEA PARTY PARTY: Whether it's an organized movement, a vague anti-government sentiment, or just a faddish media label (think "soccer moms") for en ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
    Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
  • Interview with Kumi Naidoo
    The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
  • Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
    I believe that the senators dont know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.
  • World War II
    Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such
  • War of 1812
    On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict ( see NAPOLEONIC WARS ), the US declared war on Great Britain and struck at the only British possession on the continent: Canada. Most of the battles that followed
  • Winnipeg General Strike
    The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Green Halloween: How can I reuse or recycle Hallow ...
    With Halloween at the weekend, the shops are full masks and costumes at the moment. To keep this blog reasonably rant free, I shalln’t go into my feelings for a) the sudden importing of Halloween as a large scale holiday and b) the rise of shop-bought fancy dress outfits and costumes (isn’t half the ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle straw coasters & placem ...
    We’ve had an email from Katy: Cleaning out my mum’s cupboards I’ve found some tatty straw tablemats and a set of coasters that must be as old as me! Can I compost them? Maybe. A cautious composter might want to leave them out – you don’t know if the straw has been treated with anything [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a chair?
    We’ve had an email from Adele: For my Product Design A2 level I am aiming to create a chair made from recycled materials. Iâve got to be able to collect them in a fairly short time, and of course it would be very helpful if the items were free…Iâve got an open mind about it, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle aluminium foil/tin foil ...
    Every now and then I search for something on Recycle This and am floored when I find we’ve not covered it. The most recent example: tin foil. We’ve talked about possibly recycling aluminium foil for charity and about related items such as easter egg/chocolate wrapping foil, foil trays for pet food o ...
  • How can I improve my greywater system?
    We’ve had an email from Su: I do like to tax the minds of all who read these sites, not intentionally, but in a ‘why don’t I know how to do that’ sort of way. Here goes, I collect all the water from my washing machine, and use it to flush the loo. However, hauling [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Burston on the Jewishness of Israel
    Yesterday I did a post on the crisis of liberal Zionists, and quoted visiting Israeli journalist Bradley Burston, Haaretz columnist, who spoke at Richard Silverstein's synagogue in Seattle. Burston then sent a note to Silverstein and copied me. Here tis: I certainly appreciate what you said about no ...
  • Yes Feingold was fantastic and courageous and inde ...
    Matthew Rothschild at Progressive is crushed by Russ Feingold's defeat. So am I. I always loved Feingold. But. Now Feingold leaves with his dignity and his principles intact. I didn't agree with Russ Feingold on everything. He was too much of a deficit hawk for me. [...]
  • A tale of two ghettos
    var docstoc_docid="59555963";var docstoc_title="truthbombsissue92";var docstoc_urltitle="truthbombsissue92";truthbombsissue92 The images above are raising some hackles, especially the comparison between the Warsaw ghetto and Gaza today. They are from the current issue of Adbusters magazine, which ha ...
  • The real Yitzhak Rabin
    Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of when former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist for Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords with Yasir Arafat. With the anniversary comes the obligatory mourning of Rabin as a “man of peace,” as the Israeli lea ...
  • Neocons didn’t gain traction with Jewish vot ...
    Eli Clifton at Lobelog says that Bill Kristol and his neocon outfit, the Emergency Committee for Israel, had little traction in the midterm election; and that Jews continue to vote Democratic, and Iran and Israel are not big issues for them:Hawkish astroturf groups such as the Emergency Committee fo ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Ocean pH dropping faster than expected
    Thanks to rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels, some Arctic waters are already experiencing pH dips that could be harmful to sea life. What’s more, this acidification seems to be happening more rapidly than models have predicted. This sobering conclusion was reached by researchers who met on Wedne ...
  • EPOXI has a close encounter with comet Hartley 2
    Cheers broke out today at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's mission control in Pasadena, California as pictures appeared from the EPOXI spacecraft’s closest approach to comet Hartley 2. “These images are absolutely fantastic,” says Lori Feaga, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in College ...
  • LHC run reaches smashing conclusion
    The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has successfully concluded its proton smashing for 2010. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, wrapped up its 2010 run this morning. The LHC smashed particles together at 7TeV, about seven times what its closest r ...
  • Train your brain…or simply electrocute it?
    Earlier this year, a large-scale study of ‘brain training’ games debunked the idea that they can improve general cognitive abilities in healthy young people. But now a new study suggests that at least one such game can improve cognitive abilities and can even transfer improvements to real-world skil ...
  • Why so many rare variants?
    Unsurprisingly, this year is about the 1000 Genomes Project, the eagerly awaited pilot data for which was published last week . One of the main take-home messages from the analysis has been the huge number of rare variants the study has turned up so far. In a talk earlier today, Andy Clark , a p ...

new geography

  • The Post Election Deconstructors
    Mid-term Election Accelerates Federal Deconstruction The mid-term election of 2010 has already been labeled a political earthquake. It was more like a shift of tectonic plates than a mere earthquake, and its results may be felt for decades. The landmark election signaled the beginning of deconstruc ...
  • The Smackdown Of The Creative Class
    Two years ago I hailed Barack Obama’s election as “the triumph of the creative class.” Yesterday everything reversed, as middle-class Americans smacked down their putative new ruling class of highly educated urbanistas and college town denizens. More than anything, this election marked a shift in A ...
  • “Redneck” Calgary Elects Liberal Muslim Academic M ...
    Calgary municipal politics rarely makes news outside of the city. Going into this year’s municipal election, I had reason to believe this would change. I came to Calgary to manage the campaign of the runner up from the last election. He is a Muslim (specifically Ishmaili), and an outsider to the ...
  • New Index Estimates New House Cost Impact of Land ...
    In recent decades, an unprecedented variation has developed in the price of new tract housing on the fringe of US metropolitan markets. Nearly all of this difference is in costs other than site preparation and construction, which indicates rising land and regulation costs. Our first annual Demograp ...
  • The Real OC: Diverse, Dynamic and — Dare I Say — P ...
    I recently returned to Orange County after a decade’s absence, fully aware that a stereotype of all-white, card-carrying-John Birchers still exists among many who remain unfamiliar with facts on the ground here. I never bought that old saw in the first place. And now, on a second venture into OC, ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Man in Disguise Boards International Flight
    What do you make of this one? Definitely click through to see the picture. Via: CNN: Canadian authorities are investigating an “unbelievable” incident in which a passenger boarded an Air Canada flight disguised as an elderly man, according to a confidential alert obtained by CNN. The incident occurr ...
  • Oil Could Be On Brink Of Terrifying Break Higher
    Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy sell or hold any financial instrument. A bit over a week ago, I wrote, “Either that USDX support I’ve been mentioning holds, or we could see oil back over $100 in a few weeks.” That support is, as of now, fully breached to the downside. And you [...]
  • In U.S., 14% Rely on Food Stamps
    Via: Wall Street Journal: A huge number of American households are still relying on government assistance to buy food as the recession continues to batter families. Food stamp recipients ticked up in August, children consumed millions of free lunches and nearly five million low-income mothers tapped ...
  • Gold: New Record High; Intraday Break Out of Previ ...
    New high: $1394.20.
  • Applications for Jobless Benefits Rise Sharply
    Via: AP: The number of people seeking jobless benefits jumped sharply last week, after two straight weeks of declines. The increase undermines hopes that unemployment claims, after falling four times in the previous five weeks, were on a sustained downward trend. That would signal layoffs were slowi ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elit ...
    The American people are experiencing financial death by a thousand cuts and most of them don't even realize it.  The U.S. government, state governments, local governments and the financial elite are draining us financially in dozens upon dozens of different ways, and yet we have bec ...
  • Caught In A Lie: Bernanke Promised Congress The Fe ...
    On June 3rd, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised the U.S. Congress that the Federal Reserve would not monetize the debt of the U.S. government.  On November 3rd, 2010 the Federal Reserve announced a massive quantitative easing plan which will involve the purchase of ...
  • The Big Wall Street Banks Have Found A New Way To ...
    It turns out that the big Wall Street banks have found a dirty new way to make loads of cash from U.S. homeowners, and they really, really don't want to talk about it.  So what is this dirty new business?  America's biggest financial institutions have become property tax collectors, ...
  • 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 Rubicon" by announcing another w ...
  • Unfair Trade: 10 Questions About Our Globalized Ec ...
    Most Americans still seem to be convinced that "free trade" is "fair trade" and that to be against current U.S. trade policies and globalization means that you are anti-business, anti-free enterprise and anti-American.  In the mainstream media, any unfair trade practices that are br ...

Desertification

  • Orchid flower buds (Phalaenopsis) – (Willem ...
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden. I like to share these with … Continue reading →
  • Nature’s capacity to store carbon is steadil ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101101151722.htm Expanding Croplands Chipping Away at World’s Carbon Stocks ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2010) â Nature’s capacity to store carbon, the element at the heart of global climate woes, is steadily eroding as the world’s farmers expand cropl ...
  • Christmas project reaches out to marginalized comm ...
    Read at : WeForest Newsletter November 2010 A global campaign for Christmas Getting ready for a Green Christmas? We are launching this global campaign per email to our business contacts, you might be interested in supporting and promoting this campaing … Continue reading →
  • Project to plant 79 ha of a variety of trees and 1 ...
    Read at : WeForest Newsletter November 2010   Our new project in Zambia The Kamfinsa Prison, located in the Copper Belt, is seeking to affect a paradigm shift toward self sustainability in Correctional Facilities in Zambia through an innovative Permaculture … Continue reading →
  • Project to increase forest cover and help local co ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=90956 UGANDA: One million trees for Mt Elgon region MBALE, 3 November 2010 (IRIN) – A three-year project to increase forest cover and help local communities in eastern Uganda adapt to climate change has been launched. “The … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Republicans Must Choose Panel Chief Tough Enough T ...
    Two experienced Republican lawmakers are vying for the chairmanship of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee and the chance to try to derail or weaken the financial regulation reform law.
  • Stimulated Hypocrisy? A Mixed Bag for Profiled Can ...
    Two weeks ago, The Center for Public Integrity released an investigative story looking at Congressional lawmakers who publicly denounced the 2009 economic stimulus bill, then privately wrote letters requesting funds for pet projects. Then last week, we teamed up with our friends at the Huffington P ...
  • WaMu Examiner Sheds New Light on Bankruptcy, Criti ...
    Joshua Hochberg's report on the fall of Washington Mutual discloses no Lehman-like allegations of accounting chicanery, nor does it establish that government regulators acted improperly in seizing the bank, then quickly selling it to JP Morgan Chase. But it does contribute an important new chapter t ...
  • Reform Reading:  Volcker Rule Deadline Tomorr ...
    A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • New Chief of House Financial Services Takes Aim At ...
    Spencer Bachus, the Alabama Republican expected to become the next chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says he wants to tinker with the derivatives regulation required by the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.

backofthebook.ca

  • The G20: Bill Blair and “preventive detentio ...
    By Alison@Creekside At the Public Safety Committee yesterday, Toronto Chief Bill Blair lobbed the following statement about "preventive detention" at the G20 into the proceedings [just before the 4 minute mark]: "I think you are all familiar with images of members of that group who were smashing ...
  • Potash and trout bring out the best in the Cons
    By Frank Moher Perhaps Alison, the regular blogger in this space, will disagree, but it seems to me the Conservatives have actually done two things right in the last two days. That's two things in a row. Significantly, both are liable to prove unpopular with their business base in the West, ...
  • Dear Kanye: Keep your junk in its trunk
    By Rachel Krueger Attention, gentlemen of the world: a picture of your dong is not a dozen roses.  It is not a fun evening out, or even a quick back rub.  It is not, in short, something the object of your admiration is going to be delighted to receive.    When rumors of ...
  • Blekko me
    By Mark Evans After a lot of hype and venture capital, Blekko launched today. For those of you not familiar with Blekko, it’s a new search engine that, like most of the search start-ups in recent years, has been billed as a new threat to Google. While I haven’t had much of ...
  • It’s called protest, Mr. Rathgeber
    By Alison@Creekside Finished with the G20? Not even close. And partly because of the wanker to the left. At Wednesday's Public Safety and Security Committee meeting into the G20 fiasco, we heard testimony from two very well-spoken students from Montreal who were arrested in their pajamas at ...

Worldnews

  • Oil painting of Sean Connery naked found in u ...
    An oil painting of Sean Connery naked has been discovered in a Scottish Borders artist's unseen collection. The painting said to depict Sir Sean Connery posing for an art class wearing only a thong Photo: PA It was painted in 1951 when the aspiring actor was working as an unknown nude model for ...
  • Brad Pitt`s kids `want their daddy to be Spid ...
    Brad Pitt's brood would like to see their dad take on the role of Spider-Man. Angelina Joile and Brad Pitt on set of a movie Angelina is directing. They sign...
  • Review: Megamind
    Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell, right) holds reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey, left) captive in a scene from the animated comedy Megamind. (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount Pictures) In a system as large, complex and prone to glitches as Hollywood’s film industry, there’s bound to be some redu ...
  • Review: Due Date
    Robert Downey Jr., left, teams with Zach Galifianakis for the road-trip comedy Due Date. (Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros.) reunites breakout star, Zach Galifianakis, with director Todd Phillips for a sort-of update of John Hughes’s 1980s road-trip comedy . Here, Robert Downey Jr. takes on the S ...
  • Starbucks will save cash, not renovate 900 ou ...
    0 Paul Sakuma / Associated Press Images View Larger Images Get Quote Symbol Lookup Number of the day 900 That's about how many aging Starbucks outlets will forgo renovation next year, part of the company's plan to save money. The coffee chain typically gives its stores a face-lift every five ye ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • AZACTAM (Aztreonam) Injection, Solution [E.R. Squi ...
    Updated Date: Nov 4, 2010 EST
  • High-Risk Insurance Pools Are Attracting Few
    While 375,000 people with pre-existing conditions were expected to enroll in the pools, only 8,011 have done so.
  • [Editorial] The day of diabetes: coming soon to a ...
    World Diabetes Day happens every year on Nov 14. It marks the birthday of Frederick Banting, who, along with Charles Best, had the idea that the pancreas' internal secretion, which regulates blood sugar, might hold the key to the treatment of diabetes. They were right, and insulin was discovered in ...
  • [Editorial] Addressing mental health in the UK
    Mental illness is the largest single source of disease burden in the UK. The cost to the National Health Service is £10·4 billion a year (equivalent to almost 11% of its annual budget). The current estimate is that about 11 million people of working age experience mental health problems and about ...
  • How Some Brain Cells Hook Up Surprises Researchers
    Immune cells known as microglia, long thought to be activated in the brain only when fighting infection or injury, are constantly active and likely play a central role in one of the most basic, central phenomena in the brain - the creation and elimination of synapses...

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): What is China's T ...
    The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known: 35 Million Americans on Food Stamps, and that’s before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending. ...
  • America: Land of Police State Persecution
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed America's violent culture, accessed through the following link: sjlendman.blogspot.com Its opening comments are expanded below: What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war ever ...
  • Murdoch drums up “war” where propagand ...
    Stuart Littlewood In his recent pep-talk to the Anti-Defamation League, media magnate Rupert Murdoch complains about "an ongoing war against the Jews" commentarymagazine.com . He seems desperate to divert attention from the mounting resentment around the world towards Israel. But his threadbare a ...
  • US Elections: America's Right Turn
    by Stephen Lendman Since the 1980s, neoliberalism dominated US politics under Democrats and Republicans. Bush I continued Reagan policies. Clinton hardened them. Bush II much more, and Obama so far matched Star Trek, going where no administration went before. Count the ways. They're manyfold, favor ...
  • Haiti's Cholera Outbreak: A Disease of Poverty
    by Stephen Lendman On October 22, Reuters confirmed Haiti's cholera outbreak, saying efforts were being made to prevent an epidemic that so far "killed nearly 200 people and sickened more than 2,000," official reports understating the threat. On the same day, New York Times writer Donald McNe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA 30th anniversary conference and gala dinner N ...
    For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been giving voice to progressive ideas. In an era of shrinking progressive think tanks and growing right-wing think tanks, we’d like to celebrate our three decades of accomplishments. We hope you will be part of the celebration. On No ...
  • Still Open for Business: Potash Decision
    Now that Investment Canada has rejected BHP Billiton's hostile takeover bid and the sky has not�fallen, perhaps we can finally dispense with the tired argument that restrictions on foreign investment will leave Canada no longer "open for business." In fact, virtually every OECD country has more str ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik in Regina
    ================================== Please join us on November 18th for the Regina leg of Abousfian Abdelrazik's Western Canada speaking tour. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on a visit to Sudan in 2003. The Federal Court of Canada later concluded that this arrest likely took place at th ...
  • Partner Pre-Budget Submissions
    Every year as part of the federal government's budget process, the budget committee asks for "pre-budget submissions." �Essentially these documents are ideas that any person or group can put forward about what they would like to see in the upcoming federal budget. �The goal is to have the ideas find ...
  • Did you know that poverty costs Nova Scotia at lea ...
    A new report released by the CCPA-NS puts numbers to the cost of poverty in Nova Scotia for the very first time. The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia , written by Angella MacEwan and Christine Saulnier, reveals that the cost of poverty in Nova Scotia is an estimated 5-7% of GDP, or $1400 to $1700 for ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Remember, Remember The Fifth of November…
    Guy Fawkes Night | Wikipedia Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night, is an annual celebration, primarily in Great Britain, traditionally and usually held on the evening of 5 November. Festivities are centred on the use of fireworks and the lighting of bonfires. It is also celebrated in former ...
  • Tropical Storm Tomas likely to hit Haiti
    Tropical Storm Tomas likely to hit Haiti, bringing more hardship for quake-devastated country | Daily News Haiti’s nightmare year may get even worse. A potential hurricane is expected to pass the Caribbean nation devastated by a massive earthquake in January, prompting officials to call for voluntar ...
  • “Welcome to the Plutocracy!”
    by: Bill Moyers, t r u t h o u t | Speech Bill Moyers speech at Boston University on October 29, 2010, as a part of the Howard Zinn Lecture Series. I was honored when you asked me to join in celebrating Howard Zinn’s life and legacy. I was also surprised. I am a journalist, [...]
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    YOU AIN’T SEEN NUTH’N YET! Yes, it’s me here and I’m up and ready to fight on. Oh, I was angry, sad, disgusted and a few more of the 7 dwarfs last night but today is a new day and I’m a fighter. I’ve been knocked down and kicked around a lot in my life but [...]
  • Threat to Obama’s Life Narrowly Averted
    Coconuts removed in India ahead of Obama visit | BBC Officials in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have taken extraordinary measures to protect US President Barack Obama ahead of his visit. In their effort to provide maximum security in the run-up to his visit on Friday, they have removed coconuts ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • What's Mike Up To?
    What's Mike Up To?
  • 'I Remember'
  • 9/11 Families Call for Immediate Acknowledgement o ...
    NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civ ...
  • 'A Crime Beyond Denunciation'
    This appears in a new article in the New York Observer : "The first thing that needs to happen, I think, is to get these people out of their homes," a man wearing a bespoke blue-striped shirt, a Hermés tie patterned with elephants and Ferragamo loafers said recently. "Correct! I'll explain," the ...
  • The “I” Word ...by Cindy Sheehan
    Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: “Mama, so-and-so, said the ‘K’ word.” I don’t remember which one of my children was the tattler, or which one was the tattlee, but I remember the “k” word. I could never figure out what the “k” word was, because neither of the ...

Salon

  • Mitch McConnell: Tea Party hostage
    Let's be clear why Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican leader, decided less than 48 hours after the midterm results were announced to deliver a speech to a right-wing organization reiterating his previous statement that the GOP's top priority should be President Obama's defeat in 2012: He's ...
  • Progressives, Obama and the Democratic Party
    Earlier today I�posted video of a Civil Liberties and Terrorism speech I gave last night at the University of Wisconsin, along with some notices of events and media appearances tomorrow, but I wanted to separately post this 13-minute discussion I had on MSNBC this afternoon with Dylan Ratigan and ...
  • Muslim group challenges Oklahoma sharia law ban
    An update on that Oklahoma ballot initiative that (preemptively) bars state courts from considering sharia law (as well as international law): the Council on American-Islamic Relations is announcing a lawsuit challenging the measure, which passed overwhelmingly and amends the state's constitution ...
  • Trucks outsell cars by widest margin in five years
    Trucks outsold cars by the highest margin in nearly five years in October, a small sign that the economy may be starting to improve.
  • Election nearly wipes out white Southern Democrats
    The white Southern Democrat -- endangered since the 1960s civil rights era -- is sliding nearer to extinction.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Brain injuries: Wake-up call for hockey
    Study on concussions requires rule changes by organized hockey.
  • Two premiers: Campbell and McGuinty
    The resignation of the B.C. premier invites comparisons to Dalton McGuinty.
  • Global warming: News is both good and bad
    California voted down a bid to junk its global warming laws, but U.S. politicians who supported global warming measures were decimated at the polls.
  • Potash takeover: Doing ‘the right thing’
    Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper shrugged off the impending foreign takeover of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan. “As members know, this is a proposal for an American-controlled company to be taken over by an Australian-controlled company,” ...
  • U.S. elections: Republicans on the spot
    A chastened U.S. President Barack Obama has taken ownership of the message angry voters delivered Tuesday when they gave his Democrats a “shellacking,” and handed Republicans control of the House of Representatives in a stunning, if expected, rebuf ...

Energy Collective

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

  • Autism Problems Explained in Reseach
    ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2005) — New research from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute helps to explain why children with autism spectrum disorders (autism) have problem-solving difficulties. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology (fMRI) the Florey scientists have shown that children ...
  • Does Eating Sugar Cause Diabetes?
    According to Dr. Kristie Leong , "Type 2 diabetes is a growing problem in this country – fueled by a poor diet, lack of exercise, and the ever expanding rate of obesity. For obvious reasons, most people would like to prevent this disease and its many complications. Since blood sugars are high in peo ...
  • Jessica's Early Years With Autism
    In my last article, The Day I Saw My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , I discussed how Jesus helped my wife and I get through a difficult time with Jessica hospitalized as an infant with meningitis and was on life support for more than a month. With this article will be the first in a series that gives ...
  • The Governing Body for Special Education and Its H ...
    "IDEA mandates that each state be responsible for policy development of a "free and appropriate education for all children with disabilities by local agencies." Although this article is locally written, special education secondary transition funding transcends nationally due to federal policies that ...
  • Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
    According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Fringe — Episode 5 (Season 3): “Amber 31422”
    A decent episode of Fringe , which — while it had a clever plot — was really more about setting future events in motion. The Plot: In the alternate universe, a pair of criminals breaks into one of the amber quarantine zones and are able to successfully remove and resuscitate one... Tags: neurontin u ...
  • Final: Kings 1, Tampa Bay 0
    Drew Doughty made it a personal mission Thursday to shut down Steven Stamkos , Tampa Bay’s talented center and a fellow member of the 2008 NHL draft class. It was a tall order. Stamkos entered the game as the NHL’s top scorer, Tampa Bay was the top-ranked team in the Eastern... Tags: tampa bay drew ...
  • Just Thinkin' updated
    Kirk M Blanchard Ah yes, that would be me now wouldn’t it? Alright, here we go… There were three reasons that I started blogging. The first is simple enough...I love to write. The second reason had to do with my past career and hobby which was computer technology. From the late... Tags: seo operatin ...
  • Nicolas Hunt?Globetrotter, Student and Entrepreneu ...
    Revisiting June 2009, I can distinctly draw out Nicolas Hunt’s face from our group at Peking University. I noticed the undeniably sharp, ambitious air about him, and I immediately knew he was someone worth being around. Since then, he has continued to prove the potent accuracy of... Tags: beijing pe ...
  • 8 Indian States have 421 million dirt poor
    Image via Wikipedia Eight Indian States are home to 421 million multidimensionally poor people, more than the figure of 410 million in 26 poorest African countries. The Multidimensional Poverty Index — which identifies serious simultaneous deprivations in health, education and... Tags: education sou ...

Groklaw

  • Next post Jury Dings File Sharer $1.5 Million for ...
    The third trial involved the jury assuming the woman's liability, while affixing a new damages figure. Because of the posture of the case, the parties could not directly appeal the judge's earlier decision lowering the jury's verdict. Assuming the judge reduces the damages again, or leaves it intact ...
  • UK copyright laws to be reviewed, announces Camero ...
    Britain's intellectual property laws are to be reviewed to "make them fit for the internet age," Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. He said the law could be relaxed to allow greater use of copyright material without the owner's permission. - BBC News
  • Shocking: Did the W3C Sell Out to Microsoft?
    So, my question would be: How can you compare the (old) stable versions of Opera (10.60) and Safari (5.0.7) against the beta versions of Chrome (7.0) and Firefox (4.0 Beta 6) - and against the developer version of IE9 (PP6)? I am scratching my head over this one as developer versions have been avail ...
  • Feds Surprise Biotech Industry With Gene Patent Ru ...
    But what about consumers who might benefit from the next generation of genetic tests? Myriad isn't required to let other companies use its patented genes. But Richard Marsh at the company says don't worry. "We clearly appreciate and agree it would be very inappropriate to have a patent on a given t ...
  • Open vs closed source software: The quest for bala ...
    Furthermore, von Engelhardt and Maurer (2010) provide an important clue to choosing this mix. They point out that the existence of CSS code increases OSS output and vice versa. To see why, consider an all-OSS world in which each company offers consumers exactly the same shared code as every other co ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

First Truths

  • QE2: The Fed's Latest Scam
    Like the Bailouts, the new quantitative easement plan that will see the Federal Reserve�buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds is a gift to the big banks at our expense. My commentary is here .
  • Getting to Gridlock
    Political gridlock, contrary to the whines of state idolators, would be enormously beneficial to society, but, also contrary to conventional wisdom, the results of yesterday's election will bring no such thing. More on this here .
  • Police Abuse is the Rule, Not the Exception
    By giving the state the exclusive right to use force and provide defense services within a designated area, we provide the inducement for the criminals in police forces to intimidate and tyrannize peaceful people. For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that we should withdraw from the state ...
  • The State Never Sleeps
    Oliver Stone's new film,� Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , his interpretation of the collapse of the financial system, functions as a digest of the libertarian anarchist critique of state capitalism's banking element. In a piece issued by the Center for a Stateless Society , I argue that the suprem ...
  • Obamacare Feeds Insurance Oligarchs
    In a commentary piece, I argue that Obamacare, the result of Big Insurance lobbying efforts to insulate their bottom lines from competition, squeezes consumers and raises costs.

Media Co-Op

  • Metal Mining Effluent Regulation (Schedule 2) stil ...
    News Release November 3, 2010 Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (CSTC) is pleased with the Federal Government Decision not to approve the Prosperity Gold and Copper mine which would have destroyed Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) in the Tsilhqot'in and Northern Secwepmec traditional territory. However, the app ...
  • Greenpeace enlists Cree of Waswanipi in its work a ...
    After signing an agreement with the Forest Products Association of Canada to not criticize it publicly and endorse its products as green in the international market, Greenpeace is going after non-FPAC members -- in this case, EACOM on Cree la ...
  • END:CIV
    END:CIV examines our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epide ...
  • Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet, issue 22
    Remember the dead, fight for the living! The November 1-15 issue looks at an elite backed plan to privatize reserve lands, checks in with the Sinixt Nation Slhu7kin protection camp, hits up Leah Henderson for an interview about the G-20 conspi ...
  • Justice for First Nations Deaths in Police Custody
    Vancouver Rally in Support of the Public Inquiry into the Death of Frank Paul Two days before the continuation of a� public inquiry into the death of an indigenous man while in police custody, two dozen people attended a lively demonstration o ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Quote of the day
    "In today's world five times more money is being spent on drugs for male virility and on silicone implants for women than is being invested in research for a cure to Alzheimer's disease. This means that in a few years the world is going to be full of old women with big tits and old men with stiff co ...
  • Glenn Beck done by a duck
    It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me – Glenn Beck David Seaton's News Links Here is a marvelous video by Jonathan McIntosh of Rebellious Pixels that explains the Tea Party, Beck and Fox better than ...
  • Lenny Bruce, Picasso, Christine O’Donnell and the ...
    Picasso: (Children don't try this at home) Lenny Bruce: (Children don't try this at home) Once upon a time a� proud samurai of legendary ferocity approached an elderly zen master famous for his wisdom and asked him if heaven and hell existed. The ancient monk looked at the warrior with withering ...
  • The Rick Sanchez affair
    David Seaton's News Links One of the best comments I have seen on the Rick Sanchez affair comes from one Snuffysmith over at Talking Points Memo, I quote: Sanchez: Jews control the media Jews: No we don�t. BTW, you�re fired. LOL I think that sums the whole thing up pretty well. I'd like to make cle ...
  • Life can be very simple...
    David Seaton's News Links Sometimes the most important things in life are so simple that people hardly ever think about them. Human beings get out of bed and before they are even half awake they take a pee and a drink of water and rarely think that if there were no water to drink, there sho ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go into ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Don't Give This to Your Daughter - Despite What Yo ...
    It's been four years since Gardasil debuted as a blockbuster vaccine with sales that rocketed to over $1.1 billion in its first nine months. Touted as a wonder vaccine that would end cervical cancer, it was supposed to be the savior of both mankind and Merck's Vioxx-damaged bottom line. But now, ...
  • How Scientific Is Modern Medicine Really?
    John Ioannidis is one of the world's most important experts on the credibility of medical research. He and his team of researchers have repeatedly shown that many of the conclusions biomedical researchers arrive at in their published studies are exaggerated or flat-out wrong. However, these studies ...
  • Operation Migration
  • Blood on Their Hands: The World’s Slickest Con Job ...
    In the early 1950s, the United States administered four vaccines -- diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. Children received 13 doses of four vaccines by the time they were two years old and not more than three vaccines in a single visit. ...
  • Shockingly Impressive Jump Rope Cheerleading Routi ...
    You’ve never seen anyone jump rope like this!

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Levy on private cars is an unfair tax grab
    All Montrealers -and West Islanders in particular -no doubt believe the island's mass-transit system needs improving, But that's not quite the same as not caring how the city and province pay for improvements.
  • An unjustified intrusion into personal life
    Beyond that, however, the court's decision -to order up legislation giving common-law partners the same right to petition for alimony as married spouses -was hopelessly wrong-headed. It pretty much requires Quebec's lawmakers to force the equivalent of marriage on hundreds of thousands of co ...
  • Let Omar Khadr get on with his life
    The conclusion of Omar Khadr's trial was of a piece with his arrest at age 15 and subsequent imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay: an Alice-in-Wonderland process in which fair play, and possibly even the facts, seemed to stand no chance against political expediency.
  • Defeat of mining bill was disappointing
    It does not reflect well on Parliament that Bill C-300 didn't survive Wednesday's vote, for which Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, among others, was noticeably absent. The private member's bill would have been a sensible first step toward ensuring that Canadian mining companies operating ab ...
  • Too high a price for a fleeting thrill
    Almost every night, young people jump over concrete barriers to get to the walls under the Turcot Interchange. Spray cans in hand, they stand on train tracks, painting their tags so that commuters coming through the next morning can see them.

Food World Order

  • 11/4 binge & purge: frowny fries & waterwars
    san fran passes law banning toys in happy meals * democrat monsanto-lobbyist supported gop candidate * how the 2010 election results will affect health care & freedom * election unlikely to change s510 fate in senate * what the green movement got wrong: a 'turncoat' explains * world b ...
  • monsanto has no magic cure for its woes as company ...
    from digital journal : Monsanto is under the gun on a number of different issues, and the company has no magic elixir or engineered fix to halt the corporation's plummet from its recent position as Forbe's Company of the Year . Major cracks have formed in the Monsanto facade this past year. Dropping ...
  • alcohol more harmful to your health than heroin & ...
    from natural news : Scientists from Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) recently released a study that assessed which drugs cause the most overall harm to both users and society . According to their analysis, alcohol is the most harmful drug, scoring higher on the list than bo ...
  • 10/7 binge & purge: sick, soda, studies
    study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick * politics of food in the pacific northwest * coffee prices rise as futures hit 13yr high * 3-course meal in stick of chewing gum now a possibility * new york seeks food-stamp ban on soda * study shows drop in retail food prices ...
  • food scandals prompt organic growth in china
    from food safety news : Food safety scandals have helped propel rapid growth in the the organic food sector of China's economy , according to the Telegraph. " Interest has been promoted by a series of scares including toxic beans, contaminated milk and pork, pesticide-laced dumplings, chemicall ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Iceland President Accuses England, Holland of Fina ...
  • Berlusconi Pushing for Israeli Membership of the E ...
    Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel’s settlement policy as an impediment to peace. “My greatest desire, as long as I am a protagonist in politics, is to bring Israel into membership of the European Union,” said Si ...
  • .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
    Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
  • Child Rapists Protected By The State
    In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elit ...
    The American people are experiencing financial death by a thousand cuts and most of them don't even realize it.  The U.S. government, state governments, local governments and the financial elite are draining us financially in dozens upon dozens of different ways, and yet we have bec ...
  • Caught In A Lie: Bernanke Promised Congress The Fe ...
    On June 3rd, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised the U.S. Congress that the Federal Reserve would not monetize the debt of the U.S. government.  On November 3rd, 2010 the Federal Reserve announced a massive quantitative easing plan which will involve the purchase of ...
  • The Big Wall Street Banks Have Found A New Way To ...
    It turns out that the big Wall Street banks have found a dirty new way to make loads of cash from U.S. homeowners, and they really, really don't want to talk about it.  So what is this dirty new business?  America's biggest financial institutions have become property tax collectors, ...
  • 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 Rubicon" by announcing another w ...
  • Unfair Trade: 10 Questions About Our Globalized Ec ...
    Most Americans still seem to be convinced that "free trade" is "fair trade" and that to be against current U.S. trade policies and globalization means that you are anti-business, anti-free enterprise and anti-American.  In the mainstream media, any unfair trade practices that are br ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • A bad day for Britain; an awful day for Cameron's ...
    On the day we learn that even the House of Commons library now admits - even by their vague estimations - that "up to half of British laws come from Europe", those of us living here must survey the bad news that a weak Prime Minister - high on rhetoric and low on delivery - looks set to leave our fi ...
  • Remember, remember, the fifth of November... I see ...
    It is four hundred and five years since Guido Fawkes and his conspirators entered our Parliament in a bid to blow it up. Bonfire night has evolved from events intended to remind people of punishments that are handed out to those guilty of treason. Sadly, the Parliament which Guido Fawkes sough ...
  • BBC 'This Week'... get that woman off my telly!
    Did just sit down to watch the BBC show This Week. And found that Jacqui Smith was the female sofa pundit. I loathe and despise that woman for everything that she did to disrespect our freedoms and liberties while the most authoritarian Home Secretary in British political history - with a nice ...
  • Quote of the Day: 4th November 2010
    We don't mean to keep telegraphing bits from the Daily Mail, but this is worth reading: "Voting rights for prisoners are indeed ludicrous. But not as absurd as voting for politicians who supinely give away their power to govern — thus doubly betraying all those who fought and died for the right t ...
  • The MSM starts following the blogosphere rather th ...
    It's not too often I praise the corporate mainstream media. While attracting critics, the Daily Express - bravely - did a fantastic job campaigning for justice for Diana, Princess of Wales. Recently, many of the newspapers have raised questions about the strange death of Dr. David Kelly. Bu ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope's Big Day: Millionaire's money key to his ...
    The Republican takeover of North Carolina's state legislature in 2010 -- the first time since Reconstruction -- caught many by surprise, but perhaps none more than state senator John Snow . A three-term Democrat in the senate's western-most district in the mountains, Snow largely avoided c ...
  • Meet the likely House committee chairs who promise ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica Earlier this week, we highlighted a few ways that midterm elections could affect some of the issues we've dogged in the past few months -- the foreclosure scandal, financial reform, healthcare reform, among others. Impending Republican control of the House means ther ...
  • Latino firewall helped save Senate for Democrats
    By Elena Shore, New America Media Latino voters may have saved the Senate for the Democrats, even as Latino candidates gained a record number of congressional seats on the Republican ticket. Political observers say these seemingly contradictory outcomes make one thing clear: Latinos -- as candi ...
  • Will the Tea Party go nuclear?
    Among the special interests that see the outcome of this week's mid-term elections as a win for themselves is the U.S. nuclear power industry. NRG Energy, the New Jersey-based power company that's seeking federal subsidies in the form of Department of Energy loan guarantees to build two ...
  • 3 big election stories in the South
    2010 shaped up to be the big election year everyone promised it would be. Here are some of the top election stories coming out of Southern states: A TEA PARTY PARTY: Whether it's an organized movement, a vague anti-government sentiment, or just a faddish media label (think "soccer moms") for en ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Ghailani Trial, Prosecution and Defense Rest An earlier than expected end came Wednesday to the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, accused of participating in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, with the prosecution and defense both resting … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Letter Bombs Target Foreign Embassies in Athens A day after a package bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy in Athens exploded, injuring a delivery worker, similar bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies Tuesday, part of a wave of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Reports: Bomb Plot Tip Came From Former Gitmo Detainee Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi national and former Guantanamo detainee who turned himself in to Saudi authorities last month, is reportedly the source of the tip that led to the discovery of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Package Bombs Were Designed to Detonate ‘In Flight’, Says Brennan; Al-Asiri Emerges as Suspect The discovery of two package bombs intercepted in Britain and Dubai on U.S.-bound cargo planes set off a global panic Friday, and al Qaeda in the … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Soldier’s Widow Testifies at Khadr Hearing; Khadr Tells Her He’s ‘Sorry’ Tabitha Speer, the widow of U.S. Special Forces medic Chris Speer, who was killed in 2002 by a grenade thrown by Omar Khadr in Afghanistan, provided emotional testimony Thursday … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Russia to Spend $4.9 Million to Develop Linux Base ...
    Russia will earmark $4.9 million to build a new operating system based entirely on Linux to reduce its dependence on Windows based solutions. The new OS will be deployed across government departments. [image via linux wallpapaers ]Russia to Create 'Windows Rival' The Russian state plans to re ...
  • LibreOffice, Firefox 4, Banshee - New Default Appl ...
    Ubuntu Developer Summit(UDS) is finally over and one of the major decisions taken was the adoption of Unity for both desktop and netbook interfaces of Ubuntu for the future. Default applications for next major Ubuntu release has also been chosen. [image via canonical ]Ubuntu 11.04 Natty�Narwhal ...
  • Making of Sintel Open Movie - Documentary Video
    Sintel Open Movie was released last month and it was an instant hit among developers and movie lovers alike. Now it's time for some real learning. If those awesome blender tutorials were not enough for you, may be you should watch this making of Sintel Open Movie documentary video as a first step. ...
  • Split - Beautiful New Theme from Bisigi
    Bisgi themes have always been a cut above the rest and they have already released nearly 14 beautiful themes for Ubuntu/Gnome until now. Split is the brand new theme introduced by Bisigi and from the looks of it, Split is definitely worth a try. Introduction of split theme takes the total count of B ...
  • 9 Things I Did After Installing Brand New Ubuntu 1 ...
    The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is here with a ton of improvements . I think, it's time to stop talking about the great strides Ubuntu 10.10 has made on the usability fronts and lets just concentrate on the things you need to do and you could do with the new Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • US children given 39 vaccines up to the age of six ...
    CHILDREN IN THE USA ARE BEING GIVEN MORE THAN 39 VACCINES “HOW MUCH LONGER WILL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC CONTINUE TO TOLERATE THE EPIDEMICS OF CHRONIC DISEASES?” ASKS A US VACCINE CRITIC By Ulla Danielsen The US government nowadays recommends that children be inoculated with no less than 39 vaccines from ...
  • EU Commissioner admits banks run EU financial poli ...
    Barnier to end domination of bank lobby in EU advisory groups http://euobserver.com/9/31186 LEIGH PHILLIPS 03.11.2010 @ 09:25 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier has said he is to move against the domination of the financial sector in “expert groups” that advis ...
  • Alex Jones on RT: “The second American Revolution”
    Alex Jones talks on Russia Today about the way politics in the USA will change to reflect authentic political concerns following the Tea Party Movement’s victory in mid-term elections, and also about the need to deal with the privately-owned Federal Reserve and mega banks who run the political part ...
  • Questions Loom Over Harry Reid Victory as ‘Steal N ...
    Aaron Dykes Infowars.com November 3, 2010 Questions remain over whether Harry Reid and his cronies may have manipulated the vote in Nevada, as his 5-point victory remains suspiciously inconsistent with pre-election polls showing Sharron Angle with a 4-point lead. ‘Steal Nevada’ reached number #1 on ...
  • The Fed No Longer Cares About Hiding The Fact It I ...
    Steve Watson Infowars.com November 4, 2010 A number of prominent figures within the financial world are warning that a second round of quantitative easing, expected to be announced today by the Federal Reserve, will have disastrous consequences for the US dollar and the global economy. The Fed will ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Dumb, Dumber and Dead
    By Les Visible Just as there may be no boundaries to wisdom and understanding and just as the key to their treasures may be found in the magic phrase, “I don’t know”, stupidity and greed seem to have no boundaries either and the password is, “I know”. Not a day passes when I am not [...]
  • Did Harry Reid Steal Nevada?
    Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Wednesday, November 3, 2010 A serious investigation into potential vote fraud needs to be launched immediately in Nevada, after incumbent Harry Reid beat Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle by a clear five points, despite pre-election polls showing Angle four points ahe ...
  • Segregation of Jews and Arabs in 2010 Israel is al ...
    By Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu Under the guise of the deceptively mundane name “Amendment to the Cooperative Associations Bill,” the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee this week finalized a bill intended to bypass previous rulings of the High Court of Justice. If indeed this legislation i ...
  • Climategate: peak oil, the CRU and the Oman connec ...
    So there we have it, a campaign of fear, based on non-science emanating from a few leaders that ultimately drive the followers to do something that would just not have been possible after Three Mile Island. They are marching in the streets of Copenhagen in support of nuclear power. They do not know ...
  • Man Buys Police Department’s Domain Name Aft ...
    However, after receiving a $90 speeding ticket in Bluff City, Tennessee, Brian McCrary discovered a third option. The Bluff City Police Department had forgotten to renew their domain name, BluffCityPD.com, and let it expire. McCrary bought the domain name for $80 and posted his side of the story wit ...

Veterans Today

  • Alienation from the Real World –Aloof works ...
    One would think that Barrack Obama would have had more than enough exposure to the real world to be fully grounded in it. Instead, his abstract and post ironic approach to everything has resulted in where we are at the moment.
  • Obama’s Fall
    By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal: The US foreign policy needs a U-turn; domestically, a growing class of poor and disempowered have nothing bright on the horizon and this leads to deep fractures. But to open their eyes, the US politicians from both side of the divide need something much greater than a politica ...
  • THE PALESTINIAN THIRD WAY
    By Aditi Bhaduri  — Palestine Monitor “We want social justice for all” Mustafa Barghouti, MD: He is articulate, courteous, handsome and suave. A medical doctor by profession he is also a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and was candidate for the Presidency of Palestinian Authority in 20 ...
  • TEARS OF GAZA
    People in Gaza don’t fear death anymore. They don’t fear the Israelis…this is the final cut of the documentary and of the real life …the Israelis are the ones left in fear of the future and of their crimes…for no crime is left without punishment.
  • WHO HAS THE CRYSTAL BALL?
    “…But thatâs America.  The people simply cannot put two and two together.  Thinking is not an activity of the American public. Indeed, Americans are incapable of thought on any subject. “ By Paul Craig Roberts  (Global Research) My conservative and Republican acquaintances believe that the âlibe ...

electric politics

  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...
  • Óχi Euro
    Until fairly recently the Greek debt crisis wasn't so much in the news. Now, it's roiling markets and a lot of commentators are wringing their hands over the possibility that it could precipitate another world-wide financial crash. That's probably a baseless fear. Greece is mainly a Eurozone proble ...
  • Folk History
    To talk culture I turned to the award winning writer Luc Sante . Because Luc is Belgian, and therefore doubly an expert, I seized this opportunity to also talk about Tin-Tin comics, which I grew up on as a kid in the Belgian Congo and in Brussels. Among other topics we cover Luc's latest book, Folk ...
  • The F-35 Boondoggle
    A trillion dollar gold-plated warplane that can't do anything very well. But it looks slick. Brilliant! I'll have a dozen, please. If Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates were serious about containing Pentagon costs they'd cancel the F-35. If Congress were serious about budget deficits they'd stop funding it. I ...
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