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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, November 7, 2010

7 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

RSS Feed Results from Opit's LinkFest! at  My Opera

Blacklisted News

  • C-4 seized in Colorado in Navy SEAL smuggling case
    Federal agents seized five pounds of C-4 military explosives from the Colorado home of a man accused with a Navy SEAL and a Las Vegas associate of smuggling machine guns from Iraq into the U.S. for sale and shipment to Mexico, authorities said Thursday.
  • Federal Reserve Risks Ruining Reserve Currency
    The Federal Reserve is expected to announce today whether or not to unleash a second round of quantitative easing. It may be one of the most important decisions in its history. Will the Fed sacrifice the dollar, and risk losing reserve currency status in an attempt to stimulate the economy and “pain ...
  • Bill Gates Funds Approval of GM Mosquitoes to Comb ...
    There has been much debate about the pending FDA approval of genetically modified salmon that grows to maturity twice as fast as a natural salmon. �Its many detractors have labeled it "Frankenfish" and say it will spoil the natural marine environment, as well as being potentially harmful for human c ...
  • Bill Gates Funds Approval of GM Mosquitoes to Comb ...
    There has been much debate about the pending FDA approval of genetically modified salmon that grows to maturity twice as fast as a natural salmon. �Its many detractors have labeled it "Frankenfish" and say it will spoil the natural marine environment, as well as being potentially harmful for human c ...
  • “Internet of Things” is on the way
    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.” 

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Time for Obama to call his opponents' bluff on Ira ...
    Summary: Obama In failing to establish any alternative criteria for progress on the Iran issue other than pressure, the administration risks continuing to perpetuate the Bush paradigm on Iran and accepting a measurement for success that, regardless of reality, only plays into the hands of Obama' ...
  • Fake anti-war activism. The “humanitarian road” to ...
    Summary: While the danger of an all out war on Iran is a matter of concern, it is by no means a priority for the US, Canadian and European antiwar movements. In the US, there are very few antiwar events focussing on US-Israeli threats directed against Iran. Many in the antiwar movement, while ...
  • U.S. REVERSES COURSE AND DESIGNATES ANTI-IRANIAN J ...
    Summary: Zahedan bus bomb In a notable turn-around, the U.S. Department of State today designated Jundallah as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). In early 2009, shortly after President Obama came into office, the United States considered designating Jundallah as a FTO, as a conciliatory me ...
  • Israel in, Iran out
    Summary: The AKP's refusal to regard Iran as a security threat has already caused tensions with Turkey's erstwhile Western allies. In June, the AKP infuriated both the US and the EU by trying to prevent additional UN sanctions against Tehran over its uranium enrichment programme. source: Al-A ...
  • The Human Cost of Sanctions on Iran
    Summary: In a 1996 interview with 60 Minutes, Madeline Albright, then Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, was asked about the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iraq. Implemented in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the sanctions had crippled Iraq’s economy and devastated its civilian p ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Neutrino Discovery May Explain Why Universe is ...
    "The result seems to violate the 'charge-parity symmetry' of the universe, which asserts that the laws of physics apply in the same ways to particles and their counterpart antiparticles. Violations of this symmetry have been seen in some rare decays,...
  • Image of the Day: The Mystical Beauty of a Starbur ...
    The center of the starburst rings in this active galaxy is what astronomers refer to as a Seyfert nucleus. That means a supermassive black hole probably is swallowing the surrounding gas and dust. The Circinus Dwarf Galaxy is 13 million...
  • The Daily Debate: Robotic or Manned Space Explorat ...
    What is not commonly known is that many of NASA's leading scientists also champion human exploration as a worthy goal in its own right and as a critically important part of space science in the 21st century. In a past...
  • 'Daily Galaxy' Fans: Win a Free $500 Amazon Gift C ...
    Use it to Purchase a Kindle, Android X Smartphone, Apple iPod Touch, Garmin Portable GPS Navigator, Toshiba HDTV With Net TV or Hundreds of Other Products and Accessories. Users of Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg are invited to discover, review and...
  • NASA Deep Impact Spacecraft Survives Rendezvous wi ...
    The NASA Deep Impact spacecraft survived a rendezvous with a small comet today, beaming pictures back to Earth that gave scientists a rare close-up view of its center. NASA JPL Mission controllers burst into applause upon seeing images from the...

Natural News

  • Statin drugs cause liver damage, kidney failure an ...
    (NaturalNews) Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person's risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal .The study also confirmed that the drugs lower the risk of heart disease and esophageal canc ...
  • Scientists discover new value in wisdom teeth that ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry reveals an interesting new medical fact about wisdom teeth. Far from being a useless annoyance, wisdom teeth actually hold valuable tissues inside them that are capable of creating therapeutic stem cells. In the event that a ...
  • Protect artery health with blueberries
    (NaturalNews) Blueberries are a "superfruit" rich in powerful antioxidants that fight and prevent disease. And a new study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) adds to the growing list of the blueberry's known benefits, revealing that the fruit helps stop the lesions and plaques that ...
  • A loaf of wheat bread may soon cost $23 due to sky ...
    (NaturalNews) Within a decade, a loaf of wheat bread may cost $23 in a grocery store in the United States, and a 32-oz package of sugar might run $62. A 64-oz container of Minute Maid Orange Juice, meanwhile, could set you back $45.71. This is all according to a new report released Friday by the Nat ...
  • Global sugar prices soar as Brazilian crop impacte ...
    (NaturalNews) The price of sugar is nearing an all-time high as heavy rains in Brazil, the world's biggest producer of sugar, have caused a significant reduction in crop yields. According to a recent Bloomberg report, sugar production in Brazil's Center South, the most productive sugar region in the ...

Threat Level

  • Cooks Source Copyright Infringement Becomes an Int ...
    An internet firestorm is brewing over a small New England magazine accused of publishing recipes and articles lifted from the web without permission. The dust-up began when food blogger Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source had published a 6-year-old online article she wrote about apple pie, ...
  • Report: Banking Apps for Android, iPhone Expose Se ...
    A number of wireless banking applications for iPhone and Android phone users contain privacy and security flaws that cause the phones to store sensitive information in cleartext that could be gleaned by hackers, according to a report. The applications distributed by such top banks and financial ins ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Cowardly Republicans Now Hiding Behind Deficit Com ...
    This week, Republicans swept to power by promising to cut, in the words of Indiana's Mike Pence, " runaway federal spending ." But when it comes to putting taxpayers' money where their mouths are, Pence, incoming Speaker John Boehner, future Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Michele Bachmann and much of ...
  • White House Raising White Flag on Bush Tax Cuts?
    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 ...
  • Turnout Woes Provided Final Nail in Democrats' Cof ...
    As Election Day approached, it was clear that Democrats were facing the perfect storm of a dismal economy, a media-driven backlash movement and President Obama's quixotic - and counterproductive - quest for bipartisanship. But even with the loss of independent voters, the Democrats mid-term beat do ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Weak Left Led to Democratic Defeat
    The American Left's lack of messaging to average Americans set the stage for the Republican comeback, says Lawrence Davidson. November 6, 2010
  • Can Dems Reenergize the Youth Vote?
    The youth vote, which helped elect President Obama, was demoralized by Democratic spinelessness, observes William John Cox. November 6, 2010
  • Zenyatta Races for History
    The six-year-old mare Zenyatta puts her historic 19-race winning streak on the line in the Breeder's Cup, notes Lisa Pease. November 6, 2010
  • Taking America Back to the Gilded Age
    Republicans wax nostalgic about the economics of the early 20th Century, but William Loren Katz recalls that harsh reality. November 5, 2010
  • America, Losing Hearts and Minds
    The long US war in Afghanistan is devolving into a death-squad campaign against ill-definded Bad Guys, warns Jada Thacker. November 5, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Victoria follows EPA Greenhouse Gas rules even if ...
    In today’s Victoria Advocate, Victoria Environmental Programs Coordinator Marie Lester said that they will be in compliance with the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations. Lester said Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions meet all of the new requirements set by the EPA. The new emission rules are set to go ...
  • Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a beh ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a behind-closed-door negotiation b/w NRG, CPS Energy, and Chairman Barry Smitherman
  • Energy Efficiency: Bulbs to Use and Books to Read
    We use more electricity now than ever, and since 2007 our energy usage in Texas is outpacing population growth.  How many of us charge our cell phones or laptops all night so they’re ready for use in the morning?  Or perhaps run the AC 24 hours a day during the blazing Texas summers?   Several years ...
  • Public Citizen’s website or Tom Delay on trial yes ...
    As the Tom Delay trial got underway, the State’s first two witnesses were Craig McDonald, a former Public Citizen Texas director and now the executive director for Texans for Public Justice, and Austin attorney Fred Lewis, both of whom the defense characterized as being from the left end of the poli ...
  • Texas last holdout on issuing greenhouse gas permi ...
    With states scrambling to align their own rules with U.S. EPA‘s new regulations, which are set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2011 and require regulators to start issuing Clean Air Act permits next year for large stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions, Texas is now the lone holdout, according to ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • King Tut suffered massive chest injury
    A new study of the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun has revealed new clues as to what killed him. Previous X-Rays and CT scans showed his heart and chest...
  • Current to the brain "boosts maths skills"
    Applying an electrical current to the brain can improve your ability to learn mathematics. Targeting the parietal lobe scientists found that applying ...
  • Snake gives birth to fatherless offspring
    Scientists have identified the first case of a boa snake having a "virgin birth". The female boa gave birth to 22 baby snakes but without ever having ...
  • Deep Impact flies by small comet
    The Deep Impact spacecraft flew by a small comet on Thursday some 13 million miles from Earth. Its only the fifth time the core of a comet has been vi...
  • Ancient Egyptians had "passport" spells
    The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead was essentially a passport to paradise for the deceased. The Egyptians had strong beliefs about life after death...

Grassroots

  • Indigenous Youth Find Opportunity at Home
    pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Launches in New Orlea ...
    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • BSR 2010: Water Reporting's Rising Tide
    As water rises to the top of some companies' agendas, there's a flurry of activity taking place: companies taking stock of their water impacts, the various places it flows through their operations or supply chains, and even taking on efficiency measures. But how do you measure all this -- and repo ...
  • 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.
  • Levi's New Jeans Design Cuts Water Use by 96 Perce ...
    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.
  • 10 Programs That Spurred Companies and Customers t ...
    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.

Reuters Global

  • A review of Christian-Muslim conflict and a modest ...
    At a Christian-Muslim conference in Geneva this week, participants agreed to build a network for "peace teams" to intervene in crises where religious differences are invoked as the cause of the dispute.
  • McCain sees India, U.S. teaming up against “ ...
    As President Obama begins his visit to India, his erstwhile rival John McCain is voicing hope that Washington and New Delhi will tighten up their military cooperation in the face of China's "troubling" assertiveness.
  • “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
    It's one of the biggest weeks in U.S. politics, with the mid-term elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives, and it may well eventually impact the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, even though it's not been a campaign issue.

Booman Tribune

  • What Goes on in the Dark Mind of a Conservative?
    It's nice of Andrew Ferguson to admit that conservatives like to prattle on about 'American Exceptionalism,' at least in part, because it irritates liberals and it polls well. But he still doesn't really explain why he thinks it's true. Obviously, it has something to do with personal liberty and f ...
  • Sick F**k's Rule Our Discourse
    One more day, one more damning, murderous racist blast from Glen Beck "fantasizing" about the death of people not like him. In this case, President Obama: God forbid anything bad happen to the people I so love to hate. That was the theme of Glenn Beck's Thursday radio broadcast, in which he s ...
  • Sad Ironies
    I find it amusing that Bush thinks less of McCain as a man because he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. Set aside that Bush selected someone who shot someone in the face and never even bothered to apologize. Set aside that Bush didn't have the balls to replace Cheney even after he lied to hi ...
  • Happy Thought on a Saturday Morning
    We here in the blogosphere are like meat inspectors who watch sausage being made into legislation. We're very informed. We're ultra informed. If our goal is to be happy, we're too informed. But there is another way of looking at things, and Ezra Klein and William Saletan are kind enough to offer ...
  • Crooks, Cranks, Kooks, and Clowns
    I thought the Republicans were crazy to keep McConnell and Boehner as leaders after their record of failure was seemingly cemented in 2008. So, I don't know why Allahpundit is so certain that Pelosi won't be able to lead a comeback. Every time there is a wave election a bunch of clowns get elected ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • For Veterans, Some Mental Illnesses Bring Greater ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Continual reports on PTSD and suicide within the military have engendered long-delayed awareness of the psychological needs of those who serve. Veterans who have been diagnosed with a mental illness are particularly prone to suicidal thoughts and actions, and statisti ...
  • Exploring the Psychology of Anger and Motivation
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study published in Psychological Science links anger to increased motivation for reward, a feature that some might associate with more positive emotions. Interestingly, this study doesn’t just link anger in general with motivation in general: instead, people act ...
  • Addressing Psychological “Burnout” Among Skilled S ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Earlier this fall, we wrote about work-related stresses specific to teachers. Now, a new report highlights psychological strains specific to another profession: medical surgery.  The combination of multiple nights on call and long hours in each shift means that many s ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Another Big Bank Turns Away from Mountaintop Remov ...
    Another Big Bank Turns Away from Mountaintop Removal ! It's Getting Hot In Here I'm saying 'Thank you' this week to PNC bank � which has just released its public position on Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. ... Lift up your eyes... Daily Kos all 2 news articles��
  • Lift up your eyes... - Daily Kos
    Lift up your eyes... Daily Kos Mountaintop removal is not needed. Even if not one power plant in America changes its fuel, mountaintop removal provides only a tiny fraction of the coal we ...
  • 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 ...
    EPA Official: Reject Permit for Mountaintop Removal Mine in WV Democracy Now The Obama administration has moved a step closer to retroactively revoking the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history. ... Let's Keep the Tops on Our Mountains Huffington Post (blog) Mountain mi ...
  • 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��

Memeorandum

  • While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales ...
    Michael Moss / New York Times : While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales   —  Domino's Pizza was hurting early last year.  Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies.  —  Then help arrived from an organization call ...
  • Would we be better off under a President Hillary C ...
    Dana Milbank / Washington Post : Would we be better off under a President Hillary Clinton?   —  As I sat in the East Room last week watching a forlorn President Obama account for his shellacking, I listened with concern as he described the presidency as a “growth process” and suggested that the mid ...
  • West says racism allegations against Tea Party by ...
    Kevin Cullum / The Hill : West says racism allegations against Tea Party by liberals didn't work   —  Florida's first black Republican congressman credited the Tea Party with standing up against allegations of racism from the left in supporting his successful candidacy.  —  “So I think that the …
  • Obama to use teleprompter for Hindi speech (Hindus ...
    Hindustan Times : Obama to use teleprompter for Hindi speech   —  Namaste India!  In all likelihood that will be silver-tongued Barack Obama's opening line when he addresses the Indian parliament next week.  But to help him pronounce Hindi words correctly will be a teleprompter which the US preside ...
  • Exporting Our Way to Stability - AS the United Sta ...
    Barack Obama / New York Times : Exporting Our Way to Stability   —  AS the United States recovers from this recession, the biggest mistake we could make would be to rebuild our economy on the same pile of debt or the paper profits of financial speculation.  We need to rebuild on a new, stronger fo ...

Energy & Environment News

  • Vermont Nuclear Plant Up for Sale
    The company is apparently selling the Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon, Vt., because it does not expect to win crucial state approvals to operate it for 20 more years.
  • Green Column: Plenty of Hype — and Question ...
    Companies involved in the introduction of electric vehicles readily acknowledge that it is hard to predict how people will use their new cars.
  • When a Rig Moves in Next Door
    In states accustomed to its risks, drilling for natural gas is seen as an economic lifeline. But in the Northeast, some residents fear the long-term environmental impact.
  • Green: Coral Die-Off Took Scientist by Surprise
    Charles Fisher, the chief scientist on an expedition studying coral colonies in the Gulf of Mexico, expected to see some subtle effects from the oil spill. Instead, he found an ecosystem in collapse.
  • General Motors Can Fly Again for Stock Sale
    The federal government has approved the use of chartered aircraft to ferry managers on a “road show” for a public stock offering.

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.6, Masbate region, Philippines
    Friday, November 5, 2010 16:40:41 UTC Saturday, November 6, 2010 12:40:41 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.50 km (22.06 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Thursday, November 4, 2010 15:57:03 UTC Friday, November 5, 2010 02:57:03 AM at epicenter Depth : 75.50 km (46.91 mi)
  • M 5.2, Vanuatu
    Thursday, November 4, 2010 03:48:48 UTC Thursday, November 4, 2010 02:48:48 PM at epicenter Depth : 206.10 km (128.06 mi)
  • M 5.1, western Turkey
    Wednesday, November 3, 2010 02:51:27 UTC Wednesday, November 3, 2010 04:51:27 AM at epicenter Depth : 9.60 km (5.97 mi)
  • M 5.3, Serbia
    Wednesday, November 3, 2010 00:56:56 UTC Wednesday, November 3, 2010 01:56:56 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • A structural problem
    Like many global cities, Hong Kong could radically cut its carbon emissions by making its buildings greener – but a regulatory black hole is hampering progress, writes Ina Pozon .In densely stacked Hong Kong, where seven million residents live on top of each other within a space of approximately 1 ...
  • 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, ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Cooks Source Copyright Infringement Becomes an Int ...
    An internet firestorm is brewing over a small New England magazine accused of publishing recipes and articles lifted from the web without permission. The dust-up began when food blogger Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source had published a 6-year-old online article she wrote about apple pie, ...
  • Report: Banking Apps for Android, iPhone Expose Se ...
    A number of wireless banking applications for iPhone and Android phone users contain privacy and security flaws that cause the phones to store sensitive information in cleartext that could be gleaned by hackers, according to a report. The applications distributed by such top banks and financial ins ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama pushes India to talk to Pakistan
    MUMBAI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on India on Sunday to bolster peace efforts with Pakistan, a country that he said was not acting quickly enough to deal with militancy within its borders.
  • Erupting Indonesian volcano threatens Obama visit
    JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano belched ash and toxic fumes into the atmosphere on Sunday, but authorities played down the threat to aircraft just two days before U.S. President Barack Obama was due to fly in.
  • Obama sees potential for tax cut compromise
    WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says a Republican proposal to extend tax cuts to wealthier Americans for two years represents a "basis for conversation" and he sees a potential for compromise heading into negotiations.
  • Smith blames himself for Zenyatta defeat
    LOUISVILLE (Reuters) - The crowd at chilly Churchill Downs was ready hail the queen in the Sport of Kings but a gritty colt named Blame, largely unknown to the general public, spoiled the party.
  • U.S. military moves in Asia not aimed at China: Ga ...
    MELBOURNE (Reuters) - U.S. military efforts to strengthen its presence in Asia are not aimed at countering China, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday, ahead of talks on deepening defense ties with regional ally Australia.

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

  • Open Season on Muslims in America
    Open Season on Muslims in America - by Stephen Lendman More than ever today, Muslims are public enemy number one. Post-9/11, they've been ruthlessly vilified and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence and activism. As a result, innocent men and women have been spuriously called terrorists ...
  • One Place to Cut Spending: Kidnapping and Torture
    By David Swanson I know it seems like more of a noble sacrifice to cut spending on things people less fortunate than ourselves need, but can somebody explain to me why it wouldn't be at least that noble to eliminate the budget of the CIA, which serves no one? The Washington Post and the Obama admini ...
  • Okay Mister Boehner, Lets See Some Real Cuts in th ...
    By John Grant<.em> This huge and confusing thing we call the United States of America is in the midst of a major epochal reality check, not your usual, garden-variety recession. The roots of today’s crises go back at least 60 years or more. Politics in such a crisis state is naturally volatile, swin ...
  • 'Britain's Abu Ghraib'
    Interrogation techniques at 'Britain's Abu Ghraib' revealed Video showing brutal mistreatment is submitted during high court proceedings brought by former Iraqi inmates 5 November 2010 - Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation cen ...
  • VFP Maine Peace Walk
    VFP Peace Walk � November 5th 2010 - Maine Veterans for Peace kicked off their Maine Walk for Peace, Human Needs, and Veterans Care in Farmington on Tuesday. Today, they made a stop in Bangor. � The VFP says the goal of their walk through the state is to bring light to the amount of money Mainers h ...

Grist - News

  • Big exciting news about building codes. No, really
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Since nothing much happened this week, I thought I'd write about something really exciting: building codes! Building officials from around the U.S. voted to beef up the energy efficiency standard in the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code by a tidy 30 percent for new ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Party leadership fights threaten to snub Bachmann, ...
    It’s a Friday afternoon, but there’s no shortage of palace intrigue filtering through the ranks of both Democrats and Republicans as members announce their candidacies for party leadership. On the Democratic side, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has announced her desire to be Minority Leader and Rep. J ...
  • What environmentalists fear about Obama’s ne ...
    Environmentalists have never been too keen about President Obama’s support for nuclear power and natural gas. But those positions got less attention amid the cap-and-trade debate. With cap-and-trade all but dead, President Obama has decided to focus on energy provisions that can garner Republican su ...
  • Report: Workers, visa system exploited by employer ...
    Via the Kansas City Star, a government report released this week found that foreign workers are at times abused and exploited under the H-2B visa program, which allows companies to hire foreign workers for temporary jobs they can’t fill with Americans. The Government Accountability Office found that ...
  • Will a last-ditch vote on the DISCLOSE Act make it ...
    Momentum is building for Democrats to try one last time to pass a version of the DISCLOSE Act once Congress resumes, this time without the extraneous (and some say, onerous) prohibitions on campaign spending by federal contractors or companies with partial foreign-ownership. The New York Times and P ...
  • At press conference, Pawlenty addresses possibilit ...
    In a piece published today, TWI detailed how a recount in the gubernatorial race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer might play out. Dayton holds a significant lead, just shy of 9,000 votes, a margin that is still close enough to trigger an automatic recount unless the Democrat ope ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Monsanto and the Hellraiser Clan of the Damned
    By Les Visible Last night, in the beginning I dreamed of a powerful vampire clan. For some reason, although they were dangerous in the extreme, there was an understanding that existed in which I was in no danger from them. I had done, or was doing something, that affected all of this. For the rest [ ...
  • Quote of the Day – Today’s scientists ...
    Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla  
  • Video – Global Warming: The Cause of All Thi ...
  • THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Scientific American Poll: 81% ...
    ‘Scientific’ American may regret taking their recent opinion poll on the state of Climate Science given the eye-opening results cast by their “scientifically literate” readership. With a total of 5190 respondents, a consensus of 81.3% think the IPCC is “a corrupt organization, prone to group-think, ...
  • Is the world falling apart?
    Harbor collapses into the sea in Chibatão, Brazil. Harbour collapses into the sea in Chibatão

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

  • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
    Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Vote for Your Favorite Cute Kids’ Green Halloween ...
    Are you fan of the little green frog or do you have a penchant for the cute iPhone fan? This year we received a number seriously inventive and painfully adorable kid and toddler costumes in our Inhabitots Green Halloween Costume Contest. Now that we’ve managed to narrow down the entries to just a ha ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Win This Cozy Alpaca Set Knit Set From A ...
    Summer is long gone, and if you’re like us, you’re already feeling the unforgiving chills of the impending winter. So to start the season in a warm and snuggly way, this week we’ve partnered with Annie O. Boutique to give one lucky reader a cozy alpaca wool set featuring a velvety charcoal Yuli al ...
  • INTERVIEW: Kimberley Graham Nye Co-founder of gDia ...
    Moms today are no shrinking violets when it comes to multi-tasking – and we donât just mean in the home. There are a growing number of enterprising women who are making a splash in the business world, drawing on the skills theyâve learned through motherhood, and transforming them into profitable, gr ...
  • Giant Pink Recycled Plastic Snails Will Invade Mia ...
    These eight-foot pink snails will claim Miami November 19th – not because they want to take over the Earth, but because they’re a commissioned installation by the Cracking Art Group. These giant snails will appear at key entrance points into Miami as well as the Art Deco Welcome Center over [ ...
  • Foster + Partners’ Unveils New Eco Winery in Spain
    Read the rest of Foster + Partners’ Unveils New Eco Winery in Spainhttp://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: "sustainable architecture", Eco ...

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

  • Video: Hubble Helps Fast-Forward the Motion of Sta ...
    To human eyes, stars seem like some of the most unmoving objects in the universe. From the perspective of thousands of years, however, they swarm like bees, as shown in this video based on Hubble observations.
  • Cassini Camera Stops Shooting Snaps
    NASA’s Cassini orbiter, the powerhouse producer of mind-blowing Saturn photos, unexpectedly put itself into “safe mode” at 7 pm EDT on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Engineers still don’t know why. The craft automatically triggers its safe mode settings whenever something happens that requires attention from mis ...
  • Poll: Should Geoengineering Go Forward?
    Over the last few years, intentionally manipulating Earth’s climate on a planetary scale has gone from a fringe idea to a possibility debated by mainstream scientists. That’s worried a lot of people, and last week the practice was informally placed off-limits by 193 nations. The moratorium, enacted ...
  • Food Bacteria Can Hijack Sexual Behavior of Flies
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica People tend to focus on Darwin’s ideas about natural selection, but he also spent a portion of The Origin of Species discussing another powerful evolutionary force: sexual selection. If a species prefers to mate with members that have a specific trait — bright plumag ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Obama’s Message to India: Proliferation Violations ...
    Today in Mumbai, President Barack Obama told U.S.-Indian business leaders that he would seek India’s entry into the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG)–the nuclear technology control organization established in 1975 in response to India’s first nuclear weapon test blast, which used plutonium produced with ...
  • A Progressive–Tea Party Foreign Policy Coalition? ...
    For those of us who wearied of the “rejection of progressivism” storyline tailing the midterm election results before even the first votes were counted, a new and potentially more interesting sort of speculation has emerged as a welcome, if ultimately unconvincing, distraction. Over at Foreign Po ...
  • Understanding the Strategic Context for New Nuclea ...
    As the world looks toward a possible resumption of talks with Iran regarding its nuclear activities, we are pleased to bring to our readers’ attention this interview with Kayhan Barzegar, an outstanding Iranian scholar and analyst of strategic affairs.  We have previously featured Kayhan’s work on ...
  • Time for Foreign Policy to Get Small
      Time to downsize our foreign policy aims, apparently. But wait, Greg Scoblete sees a problematic contradiction with the Obama administration's core principles: Unfortunately, the administration can't "go small" (in Miller's words) if it continues to endorse the idea that only America stands be ...
  • The Potential Bright Side of Burma/Myanmar’s Sham ...
    On November 7, parties aligned with Burma’s military junta will likely claim victory in a bogus election. Chances are, the United States and Western Europe will reject the results. Meanwhile, China and much of the ASEAN countries will use the election as a pretext to deepen their engagement. So wi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Are We Still Going to Investigate ...
    Kevin Drum looks through some exit polls and finds that the largest demographic swing to the Republicans this year came from people who didn't vote in the 2008 election, although "the actual number of people in this category is small enough that it's not especially important." I would guess these a ...
  • The Little Picture: Higher Authority.
    (Flickr/ dbking ) The Supreme Court. Today, the Log Cabin Republicans appealed the Ninth Circuit's reinstatement of "don't ask, don't tell" to Justice Anthony Kennedy, who will decide whether the court will hear the emergency request.
  • Shock and Awe.
    Maybe I'm wrong to laugh at naked prejudice, but I found this Washington Times op-ed to be completely hilarious: The Hawkeye State's judicial elections rarely generate much controversy or interest, with most judges generally enjoying approval levels of around 75 percent. That changed with the high ...
  • Happy Meals and Choice.
    A few days ago, the San Francisco board of supervisors voted to prohibit companies from offering free toys in unhealthy meals for kids, and set up guidelines for what makes a meal healthy enough to add a free toy to it. That's led, unsurprisingly, to cries that the city is creating a nanny state, an ...
  • History!
    When Republicans gained at least 60 seats in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, it was the largest Republican gain since 1946, when Republicans gained 55 seats during the first mid-term election of Harry Truman's presidency; the vote was largely seen as a rejection of the president. Two years ...

Buzzflash

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Gerson and Colson Urge Religious Right Activists t ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH Michael Gerson, President Bush's former speechwriter, and Chuck Colson, former Watergate felon and currently a respected leader on the Religious Right, are both urging conservative evangelical Christians to stay actively involved in politics. Gerson suggests they do pol ...
  • Fallout From The 2010 Mid-Term Elections
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Get set for two more years of partisan shrieking After many Democrats were rudely shown out And then --- after nothing but pure gridlock --- The bums who got tossed in will get thrown out. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/pl_nm/us_usa_elections read more

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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

  • Ruling Offers Polar Bears New Chance at Full Prote ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC and Greenpeace A federal judge today ordered the Department of the Interior to reconsider its 2008 decision not to provide polar bears the most complete protection possible under the Endangered Species Act. The ruling came ...
  • EPA Rejects Ban on Toxic Lead Fishing Gear
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity and American Bird Conservancy Ignoring long-established science on the dangers of lead poisoning in the wild, the Environmental Protection Agency today denied a petition to ban toxic lead fishing sinkers that frequently kill loon ...
  • Cameroon: Same-Sex Relations Bring Attacks, Arrest ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2010 International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) Cameroonians are attacked by police, politicians, the media, and even their own communities if they are suspected of having sexual relations with a person of the same sex, four human rights organiza ...
  • New Report Refutes Industry Argument that Genetica ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2010 Food & Water Watch Europe Food & Water Europe released a report today outlining why the genetically engineered (GE) salmon currently being considered by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval as a human food will not alleviate global hunger. GE ...
  • New Polling: Voters Want Urgent Action To Reduce S ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2010 Common Cause Voters want urgent action to reduce the influence of big money in our elections, their concern about the influence of donors remains unabated, and there is bipartisan support for legislation to reduce the influence of big money in U.S. House and Se ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • After the Campaign Cash, the Backlash
    by Brooke Jarvis "With the recent Supreme Court ruling, we are in a position to be able to take corporate positions that were not previously available in allowing our voices to be heard." So wrote Roger Nicholson, senior vice president and general counsel of the International Coal Group, a mining ...
  • Guantánamo, Exception or Rule?
    by Chase Madar When I was down in Guantánamo a few months ago, a veteran German journalist let it slip that she didn't much care for the place.  " This ," she confided in me, and many of the other journalists there as well, "is the  worst  place I have  ever  visited in my  entire   career ." read ...
  • From Uprising to Hostile Takeover... and Back Agai ...
    by David Sirota Death Panels. Witchcraft. Birthers. Islamophobes. Tea Partiers. Obama text messages. Palin robo-calls. TV commercial after TV commercial after TV commercial. And now, at the end of this $4 billion We-Didn't-Start-the-Fire-worthy vaudeville known as the 2010 election, what do we ha ...
  • Cheap Money Won’t Fix This Economy
    by Robert Kuttner The Federal Reserve is responding to the stubborn economic slump by creating more money. The central bank will purchase $600 billion in Treasury bonds, in an attempt to drive interest rates even lower. Is this a good idea? Alas, it's the only tool readily available. But even suppor ...
  • Midterm Election Results a Setback for Peace
    by Tom Hayden The November election was a setback for the peace movement, not only because of the defeat of Sen. Russ Feingold but for deeper reasons. Both parties collaborated in keeping Afghanistan out of the national election debate and media coverage - while during the period June-November al ...

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

  • Southwest Montana Snapshots
    Documentary on water wars shown Tuesday at library
  • 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.

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Saudi Arabia halts Afghan mediation
    Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has said that Riyadh has halted mediation efforts between the Afghan government and the Taliban because the fundamentalist movement has refused to break ties with al-Qaida.
  • Five civilians killed in Afghan blast
    At least five civilians were killed and six others were injured by a roadside bomb Sunday morning in southern Afghanistan, a local government official said.
  • Afghan Security Detains Three Over October Attack ...
    Afghan security forces have detained three insurgents for helping organize a suicide attack on a UN compound in Herat last month. Sayed Ansari, a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Se...
  • Bodies of 5 Afghan policemen found in east
    KABUL, Afghanistan The bodies of five Afghan policemen have been found in eastern Afghanistan nearly a week after the men went missing during an attack by Taliban fighters on a local governmen...
  • Afghan soldier may have killed 2 U.S. troops
    A soldier from the U.S.-trained Afghan army apparently turned his weapon on U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan, killing at least two U.S. soldiers, NATO officials said Saturday.

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

  • Team Rogue's Latest Comic: Great Moments in Acquis ...
    One of my favorite things about the well-written, edited and produced Defense AT&L magazine (AT&L stands for acquisition, technology and logistics) are articles and comics produced by a group of Air Force officers who dub themselves "Team Rogue." Here's their...
  • Morning Smoke: White House Issues New Executive Or ...
    A Simpler Label For Not-So-Secret Information by Charlie Savage [The New York Times] [See POGO's press release on the White House's new executive order.] A New Policy on Controlled Unclassified Info by Steven Aftergood [Secrecy News] New House Judiciary Chairman...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Nova Scotians are generous people, Couple gives aw ...
    There are a lot of good reasons to live in Nova Scotia. Lakefront hideaways, waves crashing against the craggy shores, tall ships cruising into the harbour, all make for an idealic scene.
  • Addictive drugs like valium (diazepam) may also sh ...
    Once regarded as wonder drugs against anxiety, depression and other undesirable mental states, these medicines are under scrutiny now that a 30- year-old, leaked study shows that risks and dangers were known early on, yet the drugs were prescribed anyway.
  • Hidden gems at Toronto's National Women's Show
    Women's shows are often a great way of finding the latest products and services in your area. This weekend Toronto is hosting the National Women's Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
  • Caution urged as storm approaches Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotians are being urged to exercise caution and monitor local weather forecasts as a storm tracks closer to the province. The storm, which will began Thursday evening, is expected to bring heavy rain and high winds to the area over the weekend.
  • UK's only polar bear to get a new playmate today
    Mercedes, Britain's only polar bear, will get a new playmate today when a 23-month-old cub called Walker joins her from a zoo in Holland.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Haiti's Homeless Told to Move Before Tropical Stor ...
    As Tropical Storm Tomas nears Haiti, more than a million people in Port-au-Prince who are still homeless from January's earthquake are being told to seek shelter . Well, if they could, they would. Some have nothing except a tarp to protect them. Civil protection official Nadia Lochard told the AP, " ...
  • 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' ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • The case of Omar Khadr: Divided opinions
    After being detained for eight years, Omar Khadr was sentenced last week to a symbolic forty years in prison after pleading guilty to murder, attempted murder, supporting terrorism, spying, and conspiracy. The sentence was symbolic, however, as a pre-trial deal had already capped Khadr’s sentence a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • The Tea Party is tapping into legitimate grievance ...
    Noam Chomsky writes: The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats are in power, they bear the brunt of the revulsion over our current socioeconomic and political situation. More than half ...
  • Caliphate on the range? The shariah precedent in A ...
    Asma Uddin writes: Judging by how Oklahoma voted in the recent election, one might conclude that despite its tiny Muslim population, Oklahoma was on the verge of becoming an Islamic caliphate in Middle America. The reality is of course far different. Oklahoma State Question 755, which passed, asked ...
  • Pentagon’s Cyber Command seeks authority to expand ...
    A defense official quote in this report from the Washington Post says: “Al Qaeda is everywhere.” That’s the same as saying that anyone who has a blog is “everywhere” — presence on the web is by its nature global. Still, it’s a dubious claim when coming out of the mouth of a US government official b ...
  • Beware the white Obama
    Pepe Escobar writes: The American right’s “road map” for these past two years has been to declare Obama an abysmal failure since January 20, 2008, and to do absolutely zilch to help the country out of its political/economic/cultural quagmire. Now – at least in theory – their bluff has been called b ...
  • YouTube bows to political pressure and removes Awl ...
    On Wednesday, The Guardian reported: Hundreds of videos inciting violence, including some linked to the suspected al-Qaida mastermind of the cargo plane bomb plot, were removed from YouTube today. The videos were highlighted after the conviction of Roshonara Choudhry for attempting to kill the for ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Why Mitigation Should Not Be the Climate Change Po ...
    AMS [American Meteorological Society] Policy Statement on Inadvertent Weather Modification Illustrates Fuzzy and Flawed Thinking on Public Policy By Indur M. Goklany The AMS has a new policy statement on Inadvertent Weather Modification (H/T to Prof. Roger Pielke, Sr., 11/4/2010). … Continue reading ...
  • Another letter from Hal Lewis to the American Phys ...
    Dr. Harold Lewis sent this today via email with a request to make it public here. I’m happy to oblige. Read the letter to understand the movie poster.- Anthony Date: Saturday, November 06, 2010 2:32 PM To: Curt_Callen Cc: Kate … Continue reading →
  • Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 1 of 3)
    Written by Geraldo Luís Lino, special to Climate Change Dispatch – reposted here at WUWT by request – Note: the opinion of this author is not necessarily the same as mine. I provide this for discussion by CCD’s request. – … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week: Soylent Green Earth ...
    Ecotretas writes in with another stranger than fiction idea, now coming to PC near you: I’ve put up a post regarding a game that is being launched: Fate of the World. A SimCity like strategy game, but now with worldwide … Continue reading →
  • Diminishing returns on climate models
    Diminishing Returns From Multi-Decadal Global Climate Model Simulations By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. I have posted that the NSF is funding grants which as part of (or all) of their focus is to provide multi-decadal global and regional climate model projections; i.e. see … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Remember, Remember by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox November 7, 2010 âWords offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruel ...
  • Michael Sullivan: In Pursuit of World Hegemony, in ...
    by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 6 November, 2010 Michael Sullivan discusses his book, the American Adventurism Abroad, on how the United States, over the past 60 years, encompassing both the Cold War and the “war on ter ...
  • 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 ...
  • An Open Letter to Michael Moore by Philip A. Farru ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 3, 2010 This note is not just for you Michael. It is also for the progressive minded pundits that you rub elbows with. It is time to LET GO OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! I sat last night and watched you and John Nichols with Laura Flanders a ...

Your New Reality

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    David Foster Wallace : "Human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle ...
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    IraqBodyCount on the Chilcot Inquiry : "Throughout the inquiry most of the attention has remained firmly fixed, fixated even, upon the interplay between political and military actors here and in the USA, and the ramifications of the war as felt by them, while the subject that is of greatest conce ...
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    FTW : F..k The War By Darryl Mason It's been a bit quiet around here for the past few weeks or so because I've been finishing off a movie. It's a documentary/hostage thriller set during the Sydney Student Protests against the Iraq War in early 2003. The basic plot : The prime minister is givi ...
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    John Gray reviews Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism : ...free market policies rarely make poor countries richer; global companies without national roots belong in the realm of myth; the US does not have the highest living standards in the world; the washing machine ch ...

Wired - Science

  • Video: Hubble Helps Fast-Forward the Motion of Sta ...
    To human eyes, stars seem like some of the most unmoving objects in the universe. From the perspective of thousands of years, however, they swarm like bees, as shown in this video based on Hubble observations.
  • Cassini Camera Stops Shooting Snaps
    NASA’s Cassini orbiter, the powerhouse producer of mind-blowing Saturn photos, unexpectedly put itself into “safe mode” at 7 pm EDT on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Engineers still don’t know why. The craft automatically triggers its safe mode settings whenever something happens that requires attention from mis ...
  • Poll: Should Geoengineering Go Forward?
    Over the last few years, intentionally manipulating Earth’s climate on a planetary scale has gone from a fringe idea to a possibility debated by mainstream scientists. That’s worried a lot of people, and last week the practice was informally placed off-limits by 193 nations. The moratorium, enacted ...
  • Food Bacteria Can Hijack Sexual Behavior of Flies
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica People tend to focus on Darwin’s ideas about natural selection, but he also spent a portion of The Origin of Species discussing another powerful evolutionary force: sexual selection. If a species prefers to mate with members that have a specific trait — bright plumag ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Haaretz exposé: Israeli government gave East Jerus ...
    The Israel Lands Administration is transferring properties in the Silwan neighborhood and the Old City of Jerusalem to right-wing groups Elad and Ateret Cohanim for low prices, without issuing a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Researchers Reshape Basic Understanding of Cell Di ...
    By tracking the flow of information in a cell preparing to split, Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a protein mechanism that coordinates and regulates the dynamics of shape change necessary for division of a single cell into two daughter cells.
  • "Consumer Choice" Award Goes to the Johns Hopkins ...
    For the 15th straight year, the National Research Corporation (NRC) has given The Johns Hopkins Hospital its Consumer Choice Award for the Baltimore region. For 2010-2011, Hopkins also was rated as the top choice by consumers in the Bethesda, Md., area. The award is based on ratings from health car ...
  • The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, Cold FX ...
    There are few things as Canadian as road hockey, but Don Cherry and a cold beer would certainly qualify! The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, with the outstanding support of COLD FX, has unveiled a promotion that marries road hockey, The Beer Store and Don Cherry for an exciting once-in-a-life ...
  • The Jefferson Department of Otolaryngology - Head ...
    The Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) and Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University recently welcomed three new physicians to its ranks.
  • Dr. Darren B. Schneider Assumes Top Vascular Surge ...
    One of only a handful of physicians with formal training in both vascular surgery and interventional radiology, Dr. Darren B. Schneider has been appointed chief of vascular and endovascular surgery and director of the Center for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weil ...

Natural Health News

  • Two Cats on a Treadmill
    These kitties are getting their daily exercise in.
  • What are Differences between Conventional and Alte ...
    A new study recently compared patient-physician relationships and relief of symptoms between complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional primary care (COM). The study was part of a Swiss evaluation of complementary and alternative medicine. Researchers looked at more than 6,000 p ...
  • Who's Sicker: Older Americans or English?
    People 65 or older are likelier to be healthy if they live in England rather than the U.S.� However, in the U.S., they�re likelier to live longer. A new study shows that chronic diseases are more common in older Americans than older Brits. But Americans tend not to die as soon.� The reason may be t ...
  • Consequences of the BP Oil Spill
    The BP oil disaster might end up shifting the entire global energy paradigm -- IF the public is aware of the situation and its consequences. ��Here are some of the long term effects of the disaster.
  • 27 Signs That the Standard of Living for America's ...
    Every month, hundreds of thousands of Americans are falling out of the middle class and into poverty.� Pakalert Press has uncovered 27 signals that things are likely to get worse before they get better.� They include: Residents of New York state just experienced their first full-year decline ...

Antemedius

  • New York Times Poll Reveals Voter Schizophrenia
    This is the most troubling of election seasons. A New York Times Poll released this week underscores this tragic fact. At a time when the Republicans are beset by Tea Party candidates whose serious behavior overwhelms the most conscious satire efforts constructed by writers of Saturday Night Live, ...
  • Obama's Power to Produce Progressive Legislation M ...
    It now appears that in all likelihood republicans will win a congressional majority this coming Tuesday. Nate Silver's projections of Friday October 29... ...found Republicans gaining an average of 53 seats, which would bring them to 232 total. Democrats are given a 16 percent chance of holding the ...
  • CIA Requires Secrecy To Cover Up Crimes That Kille ...
    If the CIA routinely lies to the American people, maybe that's because its got so much to lie about, like killing millions of innocent human beings around the world. As far back as December, 1968, the CIA's own Covert Operations Study Group gave a secret report to president-elect Richard Nixon that ...
  • No Appetite for Prosecution: In Memoir, Bush Admit ...
    Originally published at www.andyworthington.co.uk With just days to go before George W. Bush�s memoir, Decision Points , hits bookstores (on November 9), and with reports on the book�s contents doing the rounds after review copies were made available to the New York Times and Reuters , it will be i ...
  • Congressional Progressive Caucus Increases Plurali ...
    As David Swanson noted on Wednesday: You may have heard that our center-right nation got enthusiastic, formed a grassroots movement called a tea party, and overwhelmingly voted in a more rightwing party , sending hordes of nasty socialists packing as a result of their overly progressive performance ...

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

  • Kevin’s Traveling Roadshow
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am heading to Europe on Wednesday for a couple of weeks.  I will be in Salzburg from November 13-19, participating in an amazing project on the intersection of international and Islamic Law that is sponsored by the International Bar Association and the Sa ...
  • U.S. Takes Its Lumps at the U.N. Human Rights Coun ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I understand the rationale behind the Obama Administration’s policy of engagement with the U.N. Human Rights Council.  So I understand why U.S. delegates subjected themselves to sharp and sometimes ridiculous criticism by other states during a session yesterday on Unite ...
  • Annual Duke-Harvard Foreign Relations Law Workshop
    by Duncan Hollis Duke Law is hosting the annual Duke-Harvard Foreign Relations Law Workshop tomorrow, and, as usual offers a stellar line-up.  This year's topic is The Political Economy of Foreign Relations Law.  For those interested in knowing more, the line-up is after the jump.
  • Suing to Block Oklahoma’s Constitutional Amendment
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis A few days ago, Roger (and others) discussed the possibility of legal challenges to Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment prohibiting its judges from considering international and Sharia law.  I have my own questions about the amendment under the Supremacy Clause ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • TGIF EDITION: More new leads in Swedes case
    SIgn up to our Facebook or Twitter feeds for regular TGIF alerts..but the full digital newspaper can be accessed from the link in the middle of the following page: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1358
  • 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....

My Care2 Picks

  • Bush Makes Clear He Approved Torture
    In a memoir due out Tuesday, Bush makes clear that he personally approved the use of TORTURE* against alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an admission the human rights experts say could one day have legal consequences for him. ( # lawyers ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Go ...
  • 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

Angry Indian News

  • Ivory Coast withdraws ambassador from Senegal over ...
    Ivory Coast withdraws ambassador from Senegal over allegations of political interference | StarTribune.com: "DAKAR, Senegal - Senegal says Ivory Coast is recalling its ambassador over allegations... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pope warns Spain against anti-clericalism | The Au ...
    Pope warns Spain against anti-clericalism | The Australian: "POPE Benedict XVI has warned of the return of a 1930s-style 'aggressive' anti-clericism in Spain, and has called on Europe to rediscover... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Republican Senator urges Obama to support war with ...
    Republican Senator urges Obama to support war with Iran, ‘confrontation’ with China | Raw Story: "The United States faces a possible war with Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions and a 'period of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Banks spying on your bills, rent payments, paychec ...
    Banks spying on your bills, rent payments, paychecks: report | Raw Story: "The age of the plain old credit score is gone, says a report at the Wall Street Journal, and it's been replaced by ever more... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Clinton calls Myanmar elections sign of repression ...
    Clinton calls Myanmar elections sign of repression - SignOnSanDiego.com: "MELBOURNE, Australia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hit out Sunday at Myanmar's military rulers, calling... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio Show this Sunday – New 2 Hour Fo ...
    S510 still waits like a vulture to land on family and independent farmers and ranchers. Not only will we lose our right to clean affordable food, we will be consigned to eating chemically laden food-like products, causing disease and creating a nation of sick people.
  • Gulf seafood is safe to eat and BP was not respons ...
    Reality check! These people do not care if we are poisoned. In fact, it is to their advantage if we are. Big Pharma has to make money too, and there are far too many people on the planet to worry about an insignificant and quite convenient “accident” such as the BP oil “spill” that will boost med sa ...
  • Geo-Engineering In the Crosshairs!
    The tenth CONFERENCE OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY held in Japan on October 18-29, 2010, was a roaring success for Global Warming enthusiasts as well as NWO globalists in general.
  • Don’t Tread On Me. The State Sovereignty Movement ...
    Don't Tread On Me. The State Sovereignty Movement comes to Republic Defiance Radio. This week's guest: Former Tennessee State Representative Susan Lynn.
  • Truth Squad Radio Show this Sunday with Paul Griep ...
    This Sunday Paul Griepentrog will be joining us as we discuss how NAIS and Premises ID are being implemented on a statewide basis.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. agencies were forewarned about suspect in 200 ...
    ShareThis U.S. agencies were forewarned about suspect in 2008 Mumbai bombings [Hell, he was likely on the CIA payroll.] 05 Nov 2010 A review being conducted for the director of national intelligence has found at least five cases in which U.S. agencies were warned that David Coleman Headley, who beca ...
  • US-led airstrike kills Afghan civilian
    ShareThis US-led airstrike kills Afghan civilian 07 Nov 2010 A fresh US-led airstrike has left one civilian dead in Afghanistan's southern Ghazni province. According to Afghan authorities, several houses were destroyed in the air raid on Sunday.�
  • US senator calls for major Iran attack
    ShareThis US senator calls for major Iran attack 07 Nov 2010 A veteran senator says the US should not be satisfied with stopping Iran's nuclear program but should also destroy its military capabilities and deliver a major blow to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. Influential Republican Senator Li ...
  • Iraqi prisoners were abused at 'UK's Abu Ghraib', ...
    ShareThis Iraqi prisoners were abused at 'UK's Abu Ghraib', court hears --Detainees were starved, deprived of sleep and threatened with execution at JFIT facilities near Basra, high court told 06 Nov 2010 Evidence of the alleged systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret Briti ...
  • Secret British military video of interrogation tec ...
    ShareThis Secret British military video of interrogation techniques in Iraq --Clip submitted during high court proceedings shows a prisoner threatened, intimidated, subjected to sensory deprivation and complaining of starvation 05 Nov 2010 (Video)

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • TGIF EDITION: More new leads in Swedes case
    SIgn up to our Facebook or Twitter feeds for regular TGIF alerts..but the full digital newspaper can be accessed from the link in the middle of the following page: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1358
  • 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....

Mondoweiss

  • Jewish Federations acknowledge Israel’s &#82 ...
    I like to say the fat is in the fire, and the fat is in the fire. This week the Jewish Federations, the leading civic Jewish organizations in American cities, are holding their General Assembly in New Orleans and the big theme of the event looks to be fighting the boycott movement, or Israel's "dele ...
  • The settlements have been a project of main street ...
    The ironic part about this Al Jazeera video is that, because it's Al Jazeera, they have to frame their story as "going undercover" to expose sales in the settlement of Efrat by real estate giant�Anglo-Saxon�(motto: �have a foothold in Israel�). And yet, there's nothing secret about the very mundane ...
  • It’s time to dismantle the PA
    Salam Fayyad is surviving on borrowed time - or money. By now everyone's aware that the Netanyahu-engineered "economic miracle" is the predictable result of periodic cash injections into a closed economic space. Pretending that Palestinian growth in the West Bank is viable is like pretending a six-y ...
  • My breakfast with Zizek
    After very nearly liberating Palestine at the Church of St. Paul and creating worldwide brotherhood and peace between the three religions, we invited Mustafa and Miriam over to brunch on our Brooklyn porch, to discuss why and whether the word “communism” should be dragged back into international dis ...
  • ‘Let us out of the box’
    On Thursday, Palestinian chief negotiatior Saeb Erakat sat down for an hour and half “conversation” with former peace processor Aaron David Miller at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC. They spoke in a cozy theater on the sixth floor, a setting perfect for peace process theater. Erakat is a decent and ...

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

  • Volcano-Stimulated Rebound Of 2010 Salmon Run Chal ...
    Panoramic view of Fraser River, BC Canada. Image credit: Wikipedia (excerpted) It's probably true, as Sami observed in today's post, that some, perhaps many, self-identified greens simply "don't want to believe" that technological solutions can be a net benefit for people and the environment. ...
  • Bear Chases Bison Down Road in Yellowstone (Video)
    Image: Screenshot via CNN It's been a long week, what with the seemingly never-ending 2010 elections bearing seriously bad news for green . But it's Friday, which means I get a brief reprieve from thinking about all that unpleasant stuff. Instead, I shall devote my attention to the finer things ...
  • Today on Planet 100: Voting Green Out of the House ...
  • Sublime Sofas With Soul: Recycled Textile Seating ...
    Images: Casamento How can we get away from the soullessness of most mass-produced sofas? For some, it may be marrying two unexpected partners (like the surprising Fridgecouch ), or for others it could be making it multifunctional, transformer-style . But for the designers of South African fur ...
  • How Climate Denial Becomes Fact in Right-Wing Medi ...
    Image: Worsted Witch Do you ever wonder why roughly half the citizens of United States believe that climate change isn't being caused by humans, or that it isn't real at all? Despite the fact that carbon dioxide has long been established to be the dominant heat-trapping gas in the earth's atmos ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal appeals court rules death row inmate must ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] rejected a petition [ruling, PDF] from Troy Anthony Davis [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] on Friday for a certificate of appealability (COA), ruling that Davis must appeal his case directly to the US Supreme Court [ ...
  • Taiwan ex-president Chen acquitted in bank merger ...
    [JURIST] Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and 21 co-defendants, including his wife and other relatives, were acquitted on Friday of charges of money laundering, breach of trust and insider trading. Taipei District Court [official website, in Chinese] Judge ...
  • Rights group asks Supreme Court to suspend 'Don't ...
    [JURIST] The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) [advocacy website] on Friday filed a petition [text] asking the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] to rescind the stay preventing the suspension of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive] policy. ...
  • Peru judge reinstates parole for US woman held for ...
    [JURIST] A Peruvian judge on Saturday reinstated the parole of Lori Berenson [advocacy website], a US citizen held since 1995 for collaboration with a Marxist rebel organization. Berenson has served three-quarters of a 20-year sentence, making her eligible for parole [AFP report]. She must now remai ...
  • DC Circuit orders further review of Guantanamo det ...
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday ordered further review [opinion, PDF] of a lower court decision to release Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mohamedou Olud Slahi [NYT materials], allegedly linked t ...

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

  • Israel’s Kristallnacht: Police Demolish Bedouin Mo ...
    Saturday night was the Bedouin town of Rahat’s version of Kristallnacht.  And if that historical analogy offends you, let’s just call this an episode out of the Crusades in which the invaders sacked mosques on their way to claim the Holy Land for their own.  It was the day 5,000 Israeli police inv ...
  • Israeli Cultural Figures Appeal to Actors to Boyco ...
    With only a few days remaining before the first theatrical performance at the new Ariel cultural center, leading Israeli intellectuals, artists and cultural figures have renewed their appeal (and in English) to Israeli theater actors to boycott the settlement. Among those leading the campaign are s ...
  • IDF Kashers Checkpoints, Replacing Arabic With Heb ...
    Not content with having razed thousands of Palestinian villages during the Nakba, converting the names of thousands of places from Arabic to Hebrew names, and now Judaizing Palestinian East Jerusalem, the incoming deputy chief of staff, Yair Naveh (whose security lapses allowed Anat Kamm to reproduc ...
  • Curse Like a Settler
    Back in the 1980s there was a catchy girl band hit, Walk Like an Egyptian.  Today, Yediot Achronot reports the Hilltop Youth are teaching Israel to curse like a settler, strongly but cleanly, and even in code.  Instead of “Nazi scum,” you can now expect to hear the mellifluous “son of perverse reb ...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.

Ode Magazine

  • Freedom through Kundalini yoga
    By: EllenJefferds I just finished editing a book titled Depth Over Time , by my spiritual teacher Swami Khecaranatha ("Nathaji"). He is the head of Sacred Space Yoga Sanctuary (at Rudramandir) in Berkeley, California. When Nathaji asked me to serve as the ed ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Open Season on Muslims in America
    Innocent Muslims are ruthlessly persecuted
  • Solutions to US economic controlled demolition are ...
    A lot has happened in the economic crisis of the last two years, but few reforms have been enacted. It doesn't have to be this way; there are trillions in unspent government funds; ways to repay our national debt, end poverty, and build a more prosperous & just future, as attested to by numerous acc ...
  • Dead Political Party Walking
    The Democratic party as a viable political power force is finished for at least the next election cycle. Stick a fork in it, it's done. We see no scenario of possible recovery from this. It's over. The only reason they did not lose back the Senate in round one is because only a third of the seats we ...
  • Of Irony and Implosion
    Yet another awful week in the life and near-death of the republic. How many more of these can we stand?
  • Raw Story: Ex-Clinton strategist: Obama needs eve ...
    Appearing on television recently, former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser and current public relations executive Mark Penn suggested that President Obama needs a moment "similar" to the tragic terrorist attack on the Oklahoma City federal building, in order to "reconnect" with voters.

Switchboard

  • Industry Carbon Lawsuits Suffer "Wardrobe Malfunct ...
    Yesterday I wrote about the Texas’s flimsy legal challenge to EPA’s initial steps to curb carbon pollution.  Today let’s look at the lawsuits brought against EPA by Texas’s industry partners.  The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is leading a who’s who of American trade ass ...
  • The U.S.-India Green Partnership: One Year Later
    Tomorrow and during Diwali celebrations, President Barack Obama will travel to India to further build cooperation between our two democracies. The President’s visit provides an opportunity to enhance the initial successes made over the past year on the Green Partnership , the clean ene ...
  • Proposition 26 will not stop AB 32
    California voters gave AB 32 and clean energy a strong vote of confidence last Tuesday by resoundingly rejecting Proposition 23 . Close to 4.5 million people voted against Proposition 23 – more than voted for or against any other item on the ballot.  No on 23 got more votes than the wi ...
  • Re-Envisioning the Chicago River: Carp and courts ...
    For most of my life, the Chicago River has been treated as an open sewer. With rare exceptions, public officials have seemed content to accept that the River is fated to be one of the dirtiest waterways in America. Given its reputation, cemented in Sinclair Lewis’s The Jungle , the pub ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
    Chile: While HidroAysén delivered its Environmental Impact Assessment last week ( La Tercera , 10/28/10) protests were held in Coyhaique against the dam project . ( El Divisadero , 11/2/10) However residents weren’t the only ones opposing the project, an Italian delegation of NGO lead ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Bill Maher: Sanity Rally Should Have Sided With th ...
    Now, I do disagree with, oh, about 30% of what he says, and those of you who have followed my thoughts on this subject can probably guess which 30%. But he also makes a range of cogent and highly reasonable points and most importantly, is as usual really really witty. Related posts:No Surprise H ...
  • Huskies at Autzen
    This isn’t really a rivalry as much as an annual public execution, so it’s probably time to stop playing this video: Greatest moment of my life, with the official exceptions of my wedding and the birth of my daughters. Maybe I’ll stop playing it next year… Related posts:Running Up The Score Civi ...
  • The Retrospective Perfection of Great Democratic P ...
    One commenter in the third party thread argues that people arguing against implausible heighten-the-contradictions arguments have their own, similar problem: the even-handed liberal in me must point out that the alternative is just as unbounded across the middle. 1. Vote for Democrats, who will alw ...
  • Olbermann suspended for making campaign contributi ...
    This story seems odd on a number of levels. First, NBC’s rules, which apparently require journalists to get permission from their bosses before contributing to or otherwise participating in political campaigns, are pretty ridiculous. (News organizations have a wide variety of policies regarding thi ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    “I still like the Democrats.” Related posts:Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Related posts: Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging

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

  • Water Flowing Through Ice Sheets Accelerates Effec ...
    Meltwater that flows into the crevasses and fractures of ice sheets speeds up the warming of these ice sheets more rapidly than current models suggest, according to a new study. In fact, the movement of warmer water, as if through a network of pipes, can accelerate warming of massive ice formations ...
  • 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 ...
  • South Korea to Build Massive Offshore Wind Farm
    The South Korean government will help fund construction of a massive offshore wind farm that proponents say would generate about 2,500 megawatts of electricity and give the Asian nation a foothold in the emerging renewable energy industry. The 9.2 trillion won project ($8.2 billion), which proponent ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fed’s Inflation Promise Pushes up Stock Mar ...
    “The Federal Reserve’s aggressive action this week to boost the economy sent stocks soaring Thursday to their highest level in two years as investors expressed renewed confidence that someone in Washington was finally giving the sluggish recovery a lift.” (Washington Post) They fall for it every tim ...
  • ACLU Sues Philadelphia over Police “Stop and Frisk ...
    “Civil rights attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Thursday arguing that Philadelphia police illegally stop pedestrians based on race and question them with little or no justification. The lawsuit accuses the department of crossing a line with its aggressive ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy, instituted in 2008 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The South's new political landsca ...
    Number of seats the Republican Party gained in the U.S. Senate in the mid-term elections: 6 Number of those seats that are in the South: 1 Number of seats the Republican Party gained in the U.S. House: at least 60 Number of those seats that are in the South: 16 Percent by which the Blue ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
  • Rebellions of 1837
    The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In LOWER CANADA the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent FRENCH CANADIAN NATIONALISM . The French Canadian majority constituted the
  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle window envelopes?
    We’ve talked about envelopes in general and special types of envelopes – liked padded ones and plastic mailing bags – but I wondered if there are any reuses that take advantage of the see-through bit of window envelopes. Different places have different policies on whether or not they can be includin ...
  • Recycling plastic bottles, drink cans & cardboard ...
    When we were talking about making jewellery from drinks cans a couple of months ago, Mary Anne Enriquez sent me links to some relevant Flickr groups which then got buried in my inbox – sorry for that Mary Anne! Anyway, Mary Anne thought Recycle This readers may be interested in the following Flickr ...
  • 5 fantastic reuses: the best recipes for using up ...
    It’s all to easy to cook too much rice but thankfully there are lots of ways to use it up. Food safety warning: bacteria, specifically Bacillus cereus, loves cooked rice – and it can quickly grow to dangerous levels. Minimise it’s growth by cooling it quickly, put it in the fridge as soon as possibl ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a moneybox/pig ...
    A couple of weeks ago on The Really Good Life, I was umming and ahhing about whether or not to buy an automatic chicken coop door. There were several reasons arguments for it but we don’t *need* one, it would just be a convenience – and I didn’t know whether convenience is worth £100. The [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle baby stair gates and pl ...
    We’ve had an email from Karen: How can I recycle a baby cot, stair gate and play pen?? Cant bear to throw them away but seems difficult to give away!! It doesn’t have to be difficult to give them away – join your local Freecycle/Freegle group, post an “offer” message and chances are someone will [.. ...

Mondoweiss

  • Jewish Federations acknowledge Israel’s &#82 ...
    I like to say the fat is in the fire, and the fat is in the fire. This week the Jewish Federations, the leading civic Jewish organizations in American cities, are holding their General Assembly in New Orleans and the big theme of the event looks to be fighting the boycott movement, or Israel's "dele ...
  • The settlements have been a project of main street ...
    The ironic part about this Al Jazeera video is that, because it's Al Jazeera, they have to frame their story as "going undercover" to expose sales in the settlement of Efrat by real estate giant�Anglo-Saxon�(motto: �have a foothold in Israel�). And yet, there's nothing secret about the very mundane ...
  • It’s time to dismantle the PA
    Salam Fayyad is surviving on borrowed time - or money. By now everyone's aware that the Netanyahu-engineered "economic miracle" is the predictable result of periodic cash injections into a closed economic space. Pretending that Palestinian growth in the West Bank is viable is like pretending a six-y ...
  • My breakfast with Zizek
    After very nearly liberating Palestine at the Church of St. Paul and creating worldwide brotherhood and peace between the three religions, we invited Mustafa and Miriam over to brunch on our Brooklyn porch, to discuss why and whether the word “communism” should be dragged back into international dis ...
  • ‘Let us out of the box’
    On Thursday, Palestinian chief negotiatior Saeb Erakat sat down for an hour and half “conversation” with former peace processor Aaron David Miller at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC. They spoke in a cozy theater on the sixth floor, a setting perfect for peace process theater. Erakat is a decent and ...

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 )

  • Space Shuttle Discovery’s final mission delayed
    Discovery’s final mission, already tardy, will be deferred once again, this time because of a hydrogen fuel leak. Postponed twice due to bad weather and electrical difficulties, the shuttle must wait until at least 30 November for lift-off. During final inspections, engineers also noticed a 7-i ...
  • Controversial carbon-burial project cancelled
    Shell’s plan to inject 400,000 tonnes of compressed carbon dioxide annually under a shopping mall in Barendrecht, the Netherlands, has been cancelled after years of protest from the town’s residents. The company wanted to use aging natural gas beds a kilometre and a half below the town as a largi ...
  • The new biology on the silver screen
    The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was the place to be yesterday evening for conference-goers at the American Society of Human Genetic meeting in Washington DC. The gene sequencing company Pacific Biosciences had taken over the museum for a premier screening of a documentary film the company had m ...
  • US rebuts plaintiffs in stem cell litigation
    The last scheduled document was filed today before pivotal court arguments next month on the legality of US government funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Attorneys for the US government, in this 26-page brief filed with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, re ...
  • 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 ...

new geography

  • Corn Crop 2010: Food, Fuel, Feed and Folk Art
    The harvest of this year’s U.S. corn crop is about 90 percent complete, and it is going to be a bin-buster. If it surpasses 2009's astonishing 13.1 billion bushels, it could become the largest in U.S. history. American farmers are growing more corn today than at any time in the past, and the trend ...
  • Currency Wars: The Yuan and The Dollar Face Off
    In the currency wars looming between the United States and China, everyone is focused on the decline of the U.S. dollar and the overvaluation of the Chinese renminbi. In the standoff, China maintains a low valuation for the yuan —the unit in which the renminbi is denominated — against the dollar, in ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Financial Manager May Not Face Felony Charges for ...
    Via: Vail Daily: A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday. Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, faces two misdemeanor traffic charges stemming from a July 3 incident when he allegedly hit bicyclist Dr. ...
  • 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.

The Economic Collapse

  • California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May ...
    Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a seemingly endless parade of pop songs about how great life was in California, and millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to the land of sandy beaches and golden sunshine.  But now all of that has changed.  Today, millions of California ...
  • One Piece Of Moderately Good Economic News And 14 ...
    Today the financial world was buzzing with excitement because there was one moderately good piece of news for the U.S. economy.  U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs during the month of October and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%.  This is certainly welcome news, but t ...
  • 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, ...

Desertification

  • UNCCD News issue 2.5
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List UNCCD News issue 2.5 is online September-October 2010 Access whole issue: http://newsbox.unccd.int In this issue EDITORIAL From the Executive Secretary In the build-up to crucial talks on biodiversity conservation and climate change ...
  • USA brings fungus-resistant wheat seed to Afghanis ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=90968 In Brief: USA brings fungus-resistant wheat seed to Afghanistan KABUL, 4 November 2010 (IRIN) – The US Agriculture Department has shipped 150 tons of UG99 fungus-resistant wheat seed from Egypt to Afghanistan âto protect future crops, … Co ...
  • Benefits of Anti-Erosing Matting (Google / Bukisa)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.bukisa.com/videos/388149_benefits-of-anti-erosing-matting Benefits of Anti-Erosing Matting http://www.bukisa.com/videos/388149_benefits-of-anti-erosing-matting
  • How to Save The World? (Care2)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.care2.com/news/member/925280433/2600955 How to Save The World Modern industrial agriculture is destroying the earth: Desertification, water scarcity, toxic cocktails of agricultural chemicals pervading our food chains, ocean ecosystem collapse, soi ...
  • GM is not just about free trade and giant corporat ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.maltabusinessweekly.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=9877 Crucial issues concerning GM crops need addressing by Steven Calascione The unfortunate politicisation of agricultural biotechnology in recent years, most notably in the field of genetically modif ...

The Paper Trail

  • Reform Watch Calendar:  CFTC Tackles Whistleb ...
    A calendar of events, rulemaking deadlines, and meetings to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • White House Sets “CUI” Designation for ...
    President Barack Obama’s new executive order creating a uniform category for federal documents that are sensitive but not classified is an attempt to bring order to an unwieldy hodge-podge of 107 agency-specific terms now used across government for touchy information.
  • 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 ...

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

  • More teens exposing explicit images on Intern ...
    London, Nov 7 (ANI): A report has revealed that teenagers are increasingly posting explicit images of themselves on the Internet, and consequently at danger from paedophile networks.� A report by the Child Exploitation...
  • Environment worries about Mapungubwe Heritage ...
    � Submit your comment COAL of Africa has been under fire over its environmental credentials ever since it was forced to abandon construction in August at the Vele colliery, which lies less than 6km from the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site. In terms of a memorandum of understanding between South ...
  • Broder, Iran and America's War Mobilization M ...
    Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Due to the First and Second World Wars, a strong and powerful myth has developed in regards to how these wars provided employment for millions of Americans and increased America's economic standing around the world. It is unfortunate that s ...
  • Diagnosis of SIDS to be reviewed
    With the goal of educating families and saving babies' lives, North Carolina's new chief medical examiner is going to re-examine how the state diagnoses the unexpected deaths of sleeping infants. Dr. Deborah Radisch says she plans to consult with path ologists statewide about how the medical-ex ...
  • Twitter rolling out ads on social-media clien ...
    0 Get Quote Symbol Lookup Twitter Inc. began expanding its Promoted Tweets advertising program to include ads dropped into the timelines of some Twitter members. The San Francisco microblogging service said it is rolling out the ads to some of the Twitter members who use the third-party social- ...

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Common Dreams

  • Sexual Violence Is Not "Collateral Damage"
    by Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON - On the tenth anniversary of a groundbreaking U.N. resolution, a conference on "Women and War" opened here Wednesday to discuss the disproportionate impact violent conflict has on women and possible ways to prevent these atrocities. "I'm often told sexual violence in ...
  • US Sues to Close Safety Law-Violating Massey Mine ...
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The US Department of Labor filed an unprecedented federal lawsuit yesterday seeking to close a mine operated by troubled coal producer Massey Energy Co. for continually violating safety laws. The Labor Department has never sought an injunction to protect coal miners before, but i ...
  • Cholera-Hit Haiti Braces for Looming Storm
    PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti reeled from a spike in cholera deaths as authorities planned mass evacuations from squalid tent cities ahead of a major storm set to lash the Americas' poorest nation beginning Thursday. Tropical Storm Tomas was barreling toward Haiti, threatening a direct hit early Friday as ...
  • Alberta’s Dirty Oil Image Cleaned by U.S. Midterms
    by Mike Blanchfield OTTAWA—The historic Republican gains in the U.S. midterm elections appear set to clean up Alberta’s American image as a producer of dirty oil. ...
  • 'Smoking Gun': Scientists Find Damage to Coral Nea ...
    by Cain Burdeau NEW ORLEANS -- For the first time, federal scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several miles from the blown-out BP well - a strong indication that damage from the spill could be significantly greater than officials had previo ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Guest Post by Brad Johnson: GOP climate deniers vi ...
    The House energy committee is seeing an intense leadership fight, as four different Republicans are vying to become take over the influential post from Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who shepherded progressive climate legislation to the House floor in 2009, before it foundered in the U.S. ...
  • Greenpeace Press Release About Gorleben Natural Ga ...
    Greenpeace recently issued a press release warning about a potential hazard associated with putting nuclear waste containers in a salt formation at Gorleben. The author of the press release and the gullible reporters who faithfully reported the concern without any questions or fact checking neglecte ...
  • Industry Carbon Lawsuits Suffer "Wardrobe Malfunct ...
    Yesterday I wrote about the Texas�s flimsy legal challenge to EPA�s initial steps to curb carbon pollution.� Today let�s look at the lawsuits brought against EPA by Texas�s industry partners.�
  • Native Americans Sue Solar Project Over Endangered ...
    On Nov. 4, the Quechan Native American tribe filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, to block the Imperial Valley Solar Project.
  • The Stroke of a Pen
    Bob Dinneen says it's too late to debate the ethanol tax credits and Congress should therefore extend it with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."

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 the Raptu ...
    By Elizabeth Young The controversy surrounding the Large Rube Goldberg Hadron Atom smashing Collider (RLHGC) from CERN got me thinking: What’s all the fuss about? [1] So I followed the money to find out who really benefits, Cui bono. There is only one grass roots organization big enough to come u ...
  • FORECLOSUREGATE COULD FORCE BANK NATIONALIZATION
    Ellen Brown For two years, politicians have danced around the nationalization issue, but ForeclosureGate may be the last straw. The megabanks are too big to fail, but they aren’t too big to reorganize as federal institutions serving the public interest. In January 2009, only a week into Obama’s p ...
  • Israeli Settlers Threaten Sheikh Jarrah
    by Stephen Lendman Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, including Fourth Geneva's Article 49 stating: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any othe ...
  • 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: sjlendman.blogspot.com This article discusses a new Association f ...
  • The Arabs and the West: How Wrong Thinking and Wic ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. Leaders create leaders. There are no “people-oriented” proactive leaders at the global theatre of politics sensitive to humanitarian thinking and actions and striving to make rational policies and decisions to lead the besieged humanity out of the man-made catastrophic wa ...

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

  • Coral Damage Due To BP Spill
    Scientists find damage to coral near BP well | Physorg.com This undated photo provided by the Lophelia II 2010 research group, shows coral, several miles from the site of the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, apparently covered with brown material. For the first time, federal scientists say t ...
  • Obama: Save The Middle Class!
    Obama to GOP: Let’s extend middle-class tax cuts | AP President Barack Obama is appealing to victorious Republicans to go along with his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, saying the election is over and it’s time to down to business. But it’s not fair, he says, to make permanent the Bush ...
  • HOW DO WE HELP OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES: TO THINE OW ...
    WWH welcomes Earland Lilly back. We missed you! I just watched a most incredible old Black and White French film, “MONSIEUR VINCENT.” Pierre Fresney turns in a magnificent performance as St. Vincent De Paul. It is a Reverent but Realistic French Biopic. Set during mid 17th Century Plague Ridden F ...
  • Hippie.TV
    Early-morning DJ also works as a Late-night detective. Solves crimes, then talks about them. Stephanie Powers guest-stars.
  • Happy Carl Sagan Day!!!
    Centered around what would have been his 76th birthday (November 9), this year we celebrate Carl Sagan Day on November 6. This is the second year that people have organized activities surrounding this holiday. Inspired by the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, Carl Sagan’s curiosity about the natural wo ...

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

  • Obama asks GOP to work on tax cuts
    President Barack Obama is appealing to victorious Republicans to go along with his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, saying the election is over and it's time to down to business.
  • Lawrence O'Donnell vehemently denies his own words
    On Friday morning, I had a somewhat contentious discussion on Morning Joe with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell regarding the criticism I wrote of his election-night comments .� Salon posted the video last night -- it's here for those who haven't seen it -- and there has been extensive commentary about ...
  • This week in crazy: George W. Bush
    George W. Bush cared a great deal about one particular black person: Kanye West.
  • Another Democratic Congress? It could be awhile
    To everyone's surprise, Nancy Pelosi wants to return as the Democrats' leader in the next Congress. But if she's hoping for a big Democratic year in 2012 that would give her the speaker's gavel back, she might want to look closer at Tuesday's results: Based on the breadth and scope of their losse ...
  • Greenwald vs. O'Donnell on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

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

Energy Collective

  • Guest Post by Brad Johnson: GOP climate deniers vi ...
    The House energy committee is seeing an intense leadership fight, as four different Republicans are vying to become take over the influential post from Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who shepherded progressive climate legislation to the House floor in 2009, before it foundered in the U.S. ...
  • Greenpeace Press Release About Gorleben Natural Ga ...
    Greenpeace recently issued a press release warning about a potential hazard associated with putting nuclear waste containers in a salt formation at Gorleben. The author of the press release and the gullible reporters who faithfully reported the concern without any questions or fact checking neglecte ...
  • Industry Carbon Lawsuits Suffer "Wardrobe Malfunct ...
    Yesterday I wrote about the Texas�s flimsy legal challenge to EPA�s initial steps to curb carbon pollution.� Today let�s look at the lawsuits brought against EPA by Texas�s industry partners.�
  • Native Americans Sue Solar Project Over Endangered ...
    On Nov. 4, the Quechan Native American tribe filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, to block the Imperial Valley Solar Project.
  • The Stroke of a Pen
    Bob Dinneen says it's too late to debate the ethanol tax credits and Congress should therefore extend it with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."

EU Times

  • Sweden Democrats fear Islamic revolution
    An Islamic revolution akin to the one that swept through Iran in 1979 could easily take place in Sweden, claims the second highest ranking member of the far-right Sweden Democrats. “It can happen really fast,” said Sweden Democrat party secretary Björn Söder to the TT news agency. Söder is number tw ...
  • Fears of anti-immigration alliance as Berlusconi l ...
    Italy’s conservative premier Silvio Berlusconi has given his full support to France’s controversial decision to forcibly repatriate thousands of Roma people to Eastern Europe. And in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, he appeared keen to exploit the row by calling for tougher EU-wide ...
  • Cuba offers 19 ways Obama can loosen US embargo
    Cuba is offering a series of small but specific steps the administration of President Barack Obama can take to soften the United States’ 48-year-old trade embargo, including expanding flights and establishing ferry service between both countries and dropping bank bans that keep U.S. credit cards fro ...
  • 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 ...

Stonecipher News

  • When Should a Teen Get Her First Pap Smear?
    According to Kristie Leong, MD : "The guidelines for PAP smear testing have recently changed. Find out at what age a teen should get her first PAP smear – and how often women in their young adult years need this test. Pap smears are a vital screening tool for diagnosing cervical cancer – and it’s i ...
  • How to Sleep with a Snorer
    According to Ellie McGrath, Good Housekeeping, "Love can be blind and, for a while, even deaf. I was somewhat aware that my husband-to-be had a snoring problem, but I didn't realize the extent until a friend he had traveled with presented us with an unusual wedding present: a black collar studded wi ...
  • History of The Pacific Northwest and Land Rights
    From my Triond page : Over the course of our history in the Pacific Northwest, there have been various cultural expectations that have influence the encounters between various groups of northwest people. The Mexican born Spanish people, British and Native American people have encountered each others ...
  • Six Healthy Foods That Can Pack on Extra Calories
    According to Chan Lee Peng : You may think these foods are healthier, but if you are not careful to check out their nutritional facts prior to serving, you could actually gain more weight than what you aim to reach for instead. If you are not careful of the food you consume, you may be adding excess ...
  • Raw Food Recipe - Zucchini Pasta with Marinara Sau ...
    My wife Jeanette has been on the Raw Food Diet since June 1, 2010 and as of today she has lost 28 pounds. She says that eating raw has changed her life. Her back is now pain free and she has more energy. In fact, she even gave up drinking coffee and all other caffeinated drinks. There are so many ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Dubai dubious of al Qaeda UPS crash claim
    Image via Wikipedia CNN: No evidence has surfaced of an explosion aboard a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai last September, officials in the United Arab Emirates said Saturday. But UAE authorities are seriously looking into a claim by a militant group that it was responsible for bringing the p ...
  • [COLUMN] Obama's Radical Agenda Dead, For Now
    Supporters of fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and smaller government have something to celebrate after Tuesday's GOP landslide. Republicans, who all too often do not fall into the above category, should start worrying. The American people have spoken loud and clear, again, that they want politic ...
  • The Day In Israel: Sun Nov 7th, 2010
    Bye bye Ghajar ? Israel intends to withdraw from the northern part of Ghajar village located by the Lebanese border, Israeli officials announced overnight Saturday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to inform United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of this plan, when the two men me ...
  • Russia's Military Officers Are Not Happy With Refo ...
    Photo: Natalia Kolesnikova, Getty Images. Russia's Military Reform Leaves Officers Behind -- Washington Post MOSCOW -- When one-time furniture salesman Anatoly Serdyukov was suddenly named Russia's defense minister, many career military officers smirked. Now after tens of thousands have lost their ...
  • The Slow Demise Of Nato -- A Commentary
    Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussesaid the Lisbon summit could see Nato and Russia deepening cooperation on Afghanistan. Photo by Reuters NATO Death Watch -- J. E. Dyer, Commentary Magazine Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in an interview with the New York Times this week, declined to n ...

Groklaw

  • Lessig Calls For WIPO To Lead Overhaul Of Copyrigh ...
    A functioning copyright system must provide the incentives needed for creative professionals, but must also protect the freedoms necessary for scientific research and amateur creativity flourish. In the digital environment, copyright has failed at both, said Lessig. "And its failure is not an ac ...
  • Jury awards $1.5 million in Jammie Thomas case
    In the damages retrial in Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset , which concluded yesterday, after the Judge refused to instruct the jurors that the amount of the award was required to bear a reasonable relationship to the actual damages sustained by plaintiffs, the jury returned a verdict of $62,500 per ...
  • Why David Boies Left Cravath, as told to Diane Br ...
    The hardest decisions are knowing what to take on. Most clients expect some participation from me, and I'm careful in choosing what to do. There are a few factors: my availability, the nature and importance of the case, the significance of the client to the firm, and chemistry. If I'm going to spend ...
  • Appointed vs. Elected Justices: States' High Court ...
    Post-Citizens United, the mood surrounding the issue of electing high state court justices shifted for many from increasing concern to full-blown dread. Many judicial authorities have stood up and denounced state judicial elections flat out. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is ...
  • FTC Names Edward W. Felten as Agency's Chief Techn ...
    Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today announced the appointment of Edward W. Felten as the agency's first Chief Technologist. In his new position, Dr. Felten will advise the agency on evolving technology and policy issues. Dr. Felten is a professor of computer science and public aff ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans
    My cousin Dan sells lithographs and merchandise related to the Revolutionary War, French & Indian War, and Mountain Man fur trade period as a side business at Mountain Gull Trading. This lithograph, War Dance by Robert Griffing, has always fascinated me. Who would have thought Scottish Highlanders a ...
  • The New Borg. Google, Facebook, Apple
    Searchengineland Back in 1996, the now defunct Boardwatch Magazine had a classic cover depicting Microsoft and CEO Bill Gates as the Borg. For 2010, we’d like to submit some more modern candidates: Google, Facebook and Apple.
  • Obama Administration “tone-deaf” say Florida Democ ...
    Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink, in a Politico interview. She lost by 1%. “They got a huge wake-up call two days ago, but unfortunately they took a lot of Democrats down with them. They just need to be better listeners and be better at reaching out to people who are on the ground ...
  • New smartphone interface for Polizeros
    If you view Polizeros on a smartphone, you’ll now get a very fast loading, intuitive interface, via the WPtouch Pro plugin. Let me know how it looks in your smartphone.
  • Gulf Cartel leader killed. Drug wars continue
    That’s Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, alias “Tony Tormenta” on the billboard. He was killed by Mexican Marines after the billboard in the US with a price of $5 million on his head appeared, but this was probably coincidence. From Borderland Beat. I don’t know enough to say whether this is accurate but ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Revealing interview with Khaled Meshaal
    The enterprising, Bucharest-based researcher Manuela Paraipan published an interesting, revealing interview with Khaled Meshaal in Open Democracy last week. I'm sorry I don't have time to analyze it very thoroughly right now-- things are really hopping in the publishing business, with two JWB title ...
  • 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- ...

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

  • Why "Media Democracy" isn't Enough
    Yesterday I had the chance to go to the annual Media Democracy Day event in Vancouver. As usual, it was a nice chance to see lots of folks I don't get to have face time with all that often, as well as to interact with many new people. That sa ...
  • No Room in the Warehouse: Canada's prison system i ...
    Prisons expand despite drop in crime rate; federal "punishment agenda" the real culprit: activists and academics Overcrowded federal prisons are becoming "warehouses for bodies" that make criminals more likely to re-offend when they are releas ...
  • High Spirits & Commitment Help Keep Co-operative ' ...
    Workers' Co-ops Conference in Vancouver Mulls the Alternatives Attending the events of the Canadian Workers’ Co-operative Federation (CWCF) conference, what most struck me, was how much of a climb there is for co-operative culture. Or as Andre ...
  • Colombian Atrocity, Canadian Complicity
    Government of Canada, Honourable Trade Comissioners, Caucus, Liberal Party of Canada, Caucus, Conservative Party of Canada, On Thursday, October 14, three siblings, Jenny, age 14, Jimmy, age 9, and Jeferson, age 6, were found tortured, strangled and beheaded in a ditch near their home in Caño Tem ...
  • Fighting Chemical Valley
    Healing Sarnia and Aamjiwnaang In this interview, Zak Nicholls shares his experiences with struggles and impacts around Sarnia's chemical valley. Zak speaks about his role in campaigning alongside others in Sarnia , and Aamjiwnaang . He also t ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Tea Party: Nixon's chickens come home to roost
    David Seaton's News Links The political climate in America is toxic and it has been ever since Richard Nixon launched his Southern Strategy and caused Republicans to pause from their golf and stock coupon clipping long enough to plunge into neofascist populism and charismatic religion. The fiscal co ...
  • What makes the Kochs and the neocons nervous enoug ...
    David Seaton's News Links If you study the following two clippings from the UK's Guardian and from Germany's Der Spiegel you can why the Kochs, libertarians of every stripe, AIPAC and the neocons, have every reason to have (as the British would put it) their knickers in a twist. Speculation that go ...
  • American fascism and musical chairs
    David Seaton's News Links I've had a few comments on my last post from people who didn't really see any similarities between today's America and Germany and Italy of the 1920s and 30s. I'm sorry if my previous� post on American fascism wasn't as clear as I would have wished. When I talk about fas ...
  • Fascism is coming to the USA... Literally (no kidd ...
    David Seaton's News Links I thought twice before using the word "fascism" in the title of this post, because by now the word "fascism" and "fascist" have become degraded into simply all purpose terms of abuse without any concrete meaning, except disaproval: so perhaps it might be a good thing to go ...
  • Why I truly miss George W. Bush
    "I prefer bad people to stupid people, because bad people sometimes give it a rest" José Ortega y Gasset The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." George W. Bush "Do you have blacks in Brazil, too?" George W. Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso "Rare ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Urgent: Please, Do This NOW to Protect Your Child' ...
    Are You: TIRED of being bullied by your pediatrician into giving your child ALL 69 doses of 16 vaccines that public health doctors insist your child must take? WORRIED about the huge explosion of chronically ill and disabled children in America today and suspect it has something to do ...
  • After Mercury Removal -- What is the Best Materia ...
    By Dr. Lina Garcia, DDS, DMD For decades, it's been known that mercury is dangerous to human health because it accumulates in the body and damages its cells. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can cause memory loss, headaches, loss of coordination, weakness, kidney damage, respiratory damage, ...
  • What Will Hyperinflation in the U.S. Look Like?
    In this audio interview , John Embry, chief investment strategist for Sprott Asset Management, tells King World News why he believes hyperinflation is a certainty. Blogger Gonzalo Lira has also published a disturbing piece detailing what the effects of hyperinflation in the U.S. would be. He used ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A divided Congress must find a way to work
    Awash with "free-floating anger," U.S. voters tried again Tuesday to bring change to their struggling country. But they demonstrated vividly that they are deeply divided about just what sort of change they want. And so their new Congress might prove to be even more potent an instrument of de ...
  • Ottawa should allow potash deal
    Brad Wall, the premier of Saskatchewan, wants Ottawa to ban an Australian-based company's bid to buy Potash Corp., which operates in Saskatchewan. Industry minister Tony Clement and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are expected to say by today if Ottawa will allow the sale. We hope they do.
  • Not a hill worth dying on
    We knew a manager, years ago, who would put up with almost anything except a threat to quit. "Good luck in your next endeavour," he would say, looking the blustering subordinate in the eye. They usually fell back into line; a few talked themselves out the door.
  • 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.
  • Damaged youth need better resources
    Quebec's child-protection workers have always known that many of the troubled youngsters they care for are damaged. But just how badly damaged became clearer to all of us in a study published last week. Several hundred Quebec youngsters -average age 15 -talked to researchers from the Institu ...

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

  • California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May ...
    Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a seemingly endless parade of pop songs about how great life was in California, and millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to the land of sandy beaches and golden sunshine.  But now all of that has changed.  Today, millions of California ...
  • One Piece Of Moderately Good Economic News And 14 ...
    Today the financial world was buzzing with excitement because there was one moderately good piece of news for the U.S. economy.  U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs during the month of October and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%.  This is certainly welcome news, but t ...
  • 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, ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 7th November 2010
    Our glorious leader, Nigel Farage, is popping up in the most unpredicted of places - and in a positive light, too. That the positivity should have stretched to the Independent on Sunday caught this blogger completely off guard, but there Nigel is, in all his newly re-elected glory in an opinion piec ...
  • Conservatives to ban EU-sceptics from supermarkets ...
    ...well, not quite. However, while I appreciate that it's somewhat distasteful of me to invoke Pastor Martin Niemöller in order to defend the BNP, it seems that such ironies might be lost on Education Secretary Michael Gove who seems to think he's been elected as part of the totalitarian Labour G ...
  • Quote of the Day: 2nd November 2010
    "When he launched the Democracy Taskforce, a couple of years back, David Cameron seemed keen to reform Crown Prerogative, so that government could not make treaties without okaying it with Parliament first. In May 2009, he said “We should also limit the use of the Royal Prerogative, so Parliament i ...
  • An open invitation to Conservative Party members a ...
    These are interesting times for the people of the United Kingdom. For a nation that is home to the Mother of All Parliaments, the shameful state of our democracy is a source of national discomfort and mounting anger. Our supposed representatives all too often toe the line of party whips rather ...
  • Zut alors!
    "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?" takes on a whole new meaning. Who's the cheese eating surrender monkey now, Dave? The Bilderberg Group must be proud. UPDATE: A great many of the comments on the Daily Mail website from members of the public mention the word 'treason'. Bravo everyone. ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The South's new political landsca ...
    Number of seats the Republican Party gained in the U.S. Senate in the mid-term elections: 6 Number of those seats that are in the South: 1 Number of seats the Republican Party gained in the U.S. House: at least 60 Number of those seats that are in the South: 16 Percent by which the Blue ...
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Memoir, Bush Says He Personally Approved Waterboarding KSM In âDecision Points,â Pres. Bushâs memoir due out Tuesday, Bush writes that he personally approved the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to the Washington Post. According to the report, âBush … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 13 Beautiful Inkscape Tutorials for Creating Stunn ...
    Inkscape is an open source SVG graphics editor released under GNU General Public License. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. Here are some useful tutorials for creating amazing vector graphics using Inkscape. Also see beautiful ...
  • Adoption of Unity is the Most Significant Change E ...
    It's going to be Unity all the way for Ubuntu's next major release codenamed Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty�Narwhal". During Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at Florida, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that the Unity shell will become Ubuntu's default interface not just for netbook editions, but also f ...
  • Top 12 Most Popular Posts for October 2010
    Nautilus Elementary in Ubuntu Maverick, A Quick Review Nautilus Elementary is probably the best thing happened to Gnome's very own file browser in a long time. I gave it a go in the just released Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" and I was quite taken aback by the amount of improvements with the new ...
  • Microsoft Open Sources F#
    Microsoft's Don Syme has announced the release of the F# compiler source code as a code drop under Apache 2.0 license. Microsoft Open Sources F# Don Syme, a Principal Researcher for Microsoft and currently involved in designing and implementing F#, has announced the release of the F# compi ...
  • A Faster, Sleeker Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile is Rel ...
    Even though a bit late, Mozilla is making steady progress with the mobile phone version of its popular web browser, Firefox. The latest Firefox 4 beta for mobile brings in a lot of speed enhancements and it is much lighter as well. What's new in the latest Firefox 4 beta for mobile? Reduce ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Germany’s government faces biggest ever demo ...
    The transport of radioactive waste to a nuclear facility in northern Germany has become another flashpoint — along with the Stuttgart 21 railway project — for peopleâs anger at a government perceived to be run by the banks and corporations  for their profit and with blatant disdain for the wellbe ...
  • Protest over nuclear ‘train from hell’
    Greenpeace has staged protests against a nuclear waste convoy which it claimed was “the most radioactive shipment in history” amounting to the radioactive equivalent of 11 Chernobyl disasters. By Henry Samuel in Paris Published: 5:16PM GMT 05 Nov 2010 The Telegraph The “Train from Hell” carrying 123 ...
  • NIA Warns Of Food Crisis, “Societal Collapse” In R ...
    Wheelbarrows to Wal-Mart: National Inflation Association warns that you’ll be paying $23 dollars upwards for a loaf of bread Image: Mauropm Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, November 5, 2010 The National Inflation Association is warning of a food crisis in America as soon as next year and ...
  • German Finance Minister’s daughter to take u ...
    The daughter of the German Fiannce Minister and Bilderberg member Wolfgang Schäuble is a frontrunner to be appointed to a leading pisition at Germany’s Südwestrundfunk (SWR), a government-run broadcasting company in southwest Germany, which covers the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland ...
  • Local elections in Greece could spark snap nationa ...
    Crisis-hit Greece votes under threat of snap poll (AP) ATHENS, Greece (AP) â In a major test of support for austerity measures, voters in crisis-hit Greece will cast ballots in local elections Sunday that could force the Socialist government to call a snap general election. The vote pits Prime Minis ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Monsanto and the Hellraiser Clan of the Damned
    By Les Visible Last night, in the beginning I dreamed of a powerful vampire clan. For some reason, although they were dangerous in the extreme, there was an understanding that existed in which I was in no danger from them. I had done, or was doing something, that affected all of this. For the rest [ ...
  • Quote of the Day – Today’s scientists ...
    Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla  
  • Video – Global Warming: The Cause of All Thi ...
  • THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Scientific American Poll: 81% ...
    ‘Scientific’ American may regret taking their recent opinion poll on the state of Climate Science given the eye-opening results cast by their “scientifically literate” readership. With a total of 5190 respondents, a consensus of 81.3% think the IPCC is “a corrupt organization, prone to group-think, ...
  • Is the world falling apart?
    Harbor collapses into the sea in Chibatão, Brazil. Harbour collapses into the sea in Chibatão

Veterans Today

  • AFGHANISTAN IED TO 9-11 AND BACK
    Improvised Explosive Devices are powerful weapons used by hostile forces in Afghanistan Calculate the Force required for different problem Sets.
  • First Iraq War Vet elected to Congress loses seat
    This article relates to the loss of Veteran friendly members of Congress and the potential impact on Veterans benefits with a focus on the Post 911 GI Bill
  • COL EUGENE KHRUSHCHEV: THE LORD OF THE DRUGS
    THE LORD OF THE DRUGS By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor With great gusto Karzai used to ‘play US like a fiddle’. Unabashed, he’ll continue to treat Uncle Sam as a sugar daddy – until the White House has the guts to face this worst kept secret fairly & squarely. US Administration ...
  • Iraq veteran, Hero for veterans
    In keeping with the message of healing, I cannot think of a better way to put it than the way this Iraq veteran did. He’s a hero in my book along with many other veterans trying to make things better for others. The end of September, I was speaking at the Point Man Ministries conference [...]
  • GORDON DUFF: YEMEN: AL QAEDA PRESENCE NOT CREDIBL ...
    “AL QAEDA” CALL FOR ATTACKS ON AMERICA, NOT ISRAEL, UNDER SUSPICION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The people of Yemen simply don’t believe in Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and for good reason.  When Abdullah al-Faqih, professor of political science at Sana University told the New York Ti ...

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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