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IPS - Inter Press Services

• BURKINA FASO: Cost Major Obstacle to Reducing Mate ...
  Elizabeth Kaboré says she has paid for each of her visits to the clinic, despite a government promise that prenatal check-ups in health centres would be free.
• DEATH PENALTY: Sudan Still Sentencing Minors to De ...
  Four minors are among nine people who have been sentenced to death for a carjacking in Khour Baskawit in South Darfur. The case has raised fresh concerns over protection for children's rights in Sudan.
• PAKISTAN: Even Behind Bars, Music and Art Free Pri ...
  It's an odd group of 30 men, all of different ages, crammed together in one room. There's a man who used to run a computer shop. Another is an ex-car dealer. There's a tailor and beside him is a truck driver.
• IMF Criticised for "Fancy Footwork" over Real Refo ...
  In what the International Monetary Fund is calling a historic moment, the institution approved long-awaited reforms Friday that would shift some decision-making weight to emerging economies. Some NGOs, however, do not see the reform as nearly that momentous.
• US-IRAN: Netanyahu Pounds War Drums
  Less than a week after Republicans made major gains in the U.S. midterm elections, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called on President Barack Obama to "create a credible threat of military action" against Iran.

Scoop - NZ

• Potential health risks of backscatter X-ray airpor ...
  Some University of California San Francisco faculty wrote an open letter on the potential serious health risks of the whole body back scatter X-ray airport security scanners. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• '400,000 will leave in next 15 years' - Business - ...
  New Zealand will lose another 400,000 people to Australia over the next 15 years, based on current projections of the income gap between the two countries, the 2025 taskforce says. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• EARTHQUAKE - Rethinking how we look at our STUFF!
  The recent natural disaster in Canterbury has changed the way many people look at their possessions. Will this effect the retail market? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Goff: Middle Earth, Dystopian England, and Despair
  Hard times are temptations; and World War I was a hard time. Tolkien was simultaneously a devout Catholic and a veteran of the trenches of World War I, which he described as "an animal horror." Tolkien was certainly caught up in the general trauma of the event, but also specifically as a ...
• Grab a Seat TXT service rebrands as SeatSniffer
  Want to grab one of those cheap Air New Zealand Grabaseat tickets but can't get a whiff in? Use Travelscoop's SeatSniffer TXT Alert to help secure selected Grabaseat city-pair connections and flight deals. Seatsniffer also tracks Pacific Blue Happy Hour cheap flights. Set the objectives and trus ...

Independent - London

• British passengers survive cruise ship fire
  Sixteen Britons are among hundreds of passengers who have survived an engine room fire that left a 113,000-tonne cruise ship needing to be towed to port.
• Nuclear waste train reaches plant despite protests
• David Cameron raises human rights issue in China t ...
  David Cameron raised the issue of human rights in talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today, but did not refer specifically to the plight of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks out over marijuana la ...
  Arnold Schwarzenegger today claimed no one cares if people smoke a joint.
• Schwarzenegger speaks out over marijuana law
  Arnold Schwarzenegger today claimed no one cares if people smoke a joint.

Rogue Government.com

• FBI: 69 children, 99 pimps found in national bust
  FBI spokesman Jason Pack said 69 children were removed from prostitution and 99 suspected pimps were arrested in 40 cities across 30 states and the District of Columbia. Authorities arrested 785 other adults on a variety state and local charges, Pack said.
• Gold reverts to record high, breezes past $1,400
  Gold futures turned positive Monday, hitting a fresh record and soaring beyond $1,400 an ounce in the process.
• Illuminati Pop Star Slaves Win Big At MTV Music Eu ...
  Lady Gaga� won three prizes at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday, claiming Best Female, Song, and Pop honors, just a year after taking the plaudits for best new act.
• Zionist Crusader Lindsey Graham: US should launch ...
  Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the United States should use military force to provoke regime change in Iran if economic sanctions do not halt the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
• U.S. drones operating in Yemen, foreign minister s ...
  In a rare public admission, Yemen's Foreign Minister told CNN that U.S. drones are aiding his country in its campaign against al Qaeda.

Innovation Canada

• Talking Fish
  When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...
• Bridge Building
  You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...
• Better infrastructure, better results
  In 2001, when the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) opened on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), CRI researchers knew where many of its students would have to go to conduct experiments and analyze their findings — elsewhere.While the CRI was theoretically a 21st-century effort to mea ...
• Crime and rehabilitation
  When Hugh Brody embarked on an experiment to interview aboriginal youth in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in 2005, spending three years in prison was the last thing he expected to do. But that all changed when he met Angela George, a member of the Chehalis First Nation near Chilliwack, who was wor ...
• Sheer treasure
  Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...

Signs of the times

• India: Widows of Farmers Protest Obama's Visit
  The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday. The protests, held under the banner of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti - a pressure group which has been docum ...
• California: 152 Arrested in Protests Over Police S ...
  Police arrested 152 people in Oakland late on Friday when protests over the sentencing of a former police officer for the shooting death of an unarmed black man turned confrontational. The rally, which came after a Los Angeles judge sentenced Johannes Mehserle to two years in prison for involuntary ...
• Florida: Woman Tried to Sell Grandson for $30,000
  A Florida woman and her boyfriend have been charged with trying to sell her infant grandson for $30,000. Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents arrested 45-year-old Patty Bigbee and 42-year-old Lawrence Works on Friday in Daytona Beach after they met with an agent posing as a buyer. Both were ...
• Nazi War Criminal Michael Seifert, "The Beast of B ...
  Michael Seifert, a former Nazi SS prison guard known as "the beast of Bolzano" for his cruelty, died Saturday in an Italian hospital at age 86, officials said. The Ukrainian-born Seifert was serving a life sentence at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison in southern Italy. He died in the nearby Case ...
• East Africa: Police Officer Kills 10 People in Sho ...
  Nairobi, Kenya - A police officer in a central Kenyan town went on a shooting rampage, killing 10 people in three different bars, officials and a local journalist said Sunday. The shooting spree happened late Saturday in Siakago, 90 miles (150 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Nairobi. Officia ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Told ya so!
  Like Cathie , I'm just shocked! Well, not actually . Because as we , and Cathie have been regularly pointing out, Harper never planned to depart Afghanistan. So... Harper can tell you he didn't really lie. He just had Soudas emerge from his sty and do it for him.
• Future fighters . . .
  In Boeing’s conception, traditional electronics give way to photonics, reducing weight and increasing processing speed.  AS WE WATCH STEVIE STUMBLE over the F-35, it is interesting to note that GIZMODO reports that the Pentagon has initiated design studies for 6th generation replacements for both 5t ...
• No wonder Greg Thompson isn't the minister of vete ...
  It was my intention to shift my focus to the newly appointed Veterans Ombudsman and not dwell on the mandate of Pat Stogran. However, something bubbled up which underscored the fact that Stogran may have had an impossible job under the Harper regime. David Pugliese , in a departing interview with S ...
• What kind of mission?
  Come again ? Up to 750 trainers and at least 200 support staff would work outside the combat zone at a training academy or large training facility for Afghan soldiers and police officers, the CBC's James Cudmore reports. They would remain in Afghanistan until 2014 at the latest. Where did that ...
• Sweet tap-dancing Jeezuz ...
  This explains so much. Now pardon me while I bleach my brain.

Media Matters for America

• Fox attacks Obama for uncontroversial statements ...
  Fox News figures are attacking President Obama for suggesting during a town hall meeting with Indian students that jihad is a tenet of Islam that "has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people." But former President George W. Bush similarly stated that extremists "distort the i ...
• Fox's "brain room" parrots Rand Paul's false talk ...
  Megyn Kelly said Fox's "brain room" had found that "federal workers' average compensation is over twice that of non-government workers," a claim also made by Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) in a video clip she aired moments before. In fact, the statistic Kelly cited is based on a discredited apples ...
• Fox attempts to rewrite health care reform histor ...
  While guest-hosting Fox & Friends , former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino�repeatedly portrayed President Obama and Democrats as unwilling to compromise with Republicans during the health care debate, while also touting GOP health care "ideas." In fact, Democrats attempted to compro ...
• WSJ reports false claim that EPA budget ...
  The Wall Street Journal reported that Rep. Paul Ryan said the Environmental Protection Agency should be targeted for spending cuts and that EPA's budget increased 124 percent under the Obama administration. In fact, Ryan included temporary stimulus spending in that figure. WSJ : Ryan said EPA ...
• Fox News gets subpoena power
  Fox News figures are telling the incoming Republican House majority how to use its investigative authority, compiling a growing list of targets in the Obama administration. Fox News helps GOP target subpoenas Fox Nation highlights "GOP's First 4 Potential Investigations of Obama." Fox Nation trump ...

Global Research.ca

• THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS.
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Lindsey Graham Makes The Case For Strike On Iran
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Greenspan and the Economic Crisis: "Moral Hazard" ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Obama, Gates And Clinton In Asia: U.S. Expands Mil ...
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• Al Qaeda in Yemen is "Western-made"
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Netanyahu Sticks It To Obama....Again
  Is this is a sick joke? While visiting Israel in March, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech that delighted the Israeli right and its followers here. The key passage was this: "When it comes to Israel's security there can be no daylight - no daylight - between Israel and the US." T ...
• America's Two Economies, And Why One Is Recovering ...
  Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet. There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart. The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised o ...
• The Republican Recipe For An Anemic Economy Throug ...
  The real message from voters was "Fix this stinking economy." But Republicans have no intention of doing so. With Republicans in control of the House, forget spending increases or tax cuts to stimulate the economy. Republicans don't believe in stimulating economies. They think markets eventual ...
• Extend The Bush Tax Cut To The Bottom 99 Percent, ...
  Expect the President to be under more pressure to give in to Republican demands that the Bush tax cut be extended to everyone -- not just the bottom 98 percent but also the the top 2 percent, earning over $250K. He should respond by offering this olive branch: Extend the Bush tax cuts to the bott ...
• Why Obama Should Learn The Lesson Of 1936, Not 199 ...
  Which lesson will the President learn -- that of Clinton in 1996, or FDR in 1936? The choice will determine his strategy over the next two years. Hopefully, he'll find 1936 more relevant. Obama shouldn't be fooled into thinking Bill Clinton was reelected in 1996 because he moved to the center. I ...

TruthOut

• The American Electorate
• GOP Leaders with Poor Green Voting Records to Call ...
  Washington - Now that Republicans will be calling the shots in the House, the Democratic duo responsible for crafting the polemical cap-and-trade energy legislation are on their way out of powerful positions. Rep. Henry Waxman of California will lose his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerc ...
• News in Brief: Justices Reject Health Care Review, ...
  Justices Reject Health Care Review read more
• Time for a New Theory of Money
  By understanding that money is simply credit, we unleash it as a powerful tool for our communities. The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception not just of the roles of bankin ...
• Russian Journalist's Beating Signals Looming Medve ...
  Moscow -�Russian journalists are demanding the Kremlin take urgent action after yet another member of the country's beleaguered independent press corps, Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin, was brutally beaten outside his Moscow apartment Saturday morning. While Russian journalists have faced a string ...

Planetsave

• Ratcliffe on Trial Needs You!
  The UK Climate Camp recently included this story and call to action in an email to their list. Looks like something to really get behind and help out with. Here’s the full message: This month will see the start of the month long trial of 20 of the 114 activists arrested in a school in Nottingham,.. ...
• Scientists to Speak Out in Wake of Republican Gain ...
  In the wake of large ground gained by Republicans in the United States Congress, hundreds of scientists are mobilizing to speak out on climate change in an effort to provide the facts about an issue that is a hot topic in the country. “I think it is important for scientists to assure that the public ...
• Storm Threshold and Sea Surface Temperature Linked
  It is a long standing belief that hurricanes and tropical ocean thunderstorms occur when sea surface temperatures rise above a certain level. However, what happens when the ocean temperature rises? Does that storm level keep rising, or does it stay the same and allow an increase in the frequency wit ...
• Wind Turbines Pushed Offshore
  A new collaboration between Risø DTU (Technical University of Denmark) and international partners will be exploring new methods in which to create energy from wind turbines set offshore. The four year project, entitled DeepWind, has a €3 million grant from the European FP7 program for future emergin ...
• All the Oil Became Food
  Ever since the BP oil spill was contained and plugged, people have been asking and wondering where all the oil went, and whether it would have an adverse effect on the marine life in and around the Gulf of Mexico. A new study headed by Dauphin Island Sea Labâs Dr. William “Monty” Graham published Mo ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Invasive plant pull, Stoney Creek Elementary Schoo ...
  New members of Stoney Creek Env. Group are often surprised at the vigorous schedule and meetings. To
• The Water Quality
  In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has allocated all applicative waterw
• Recent News - 8 November 2010
  > Watch the above vid for more green streets meets complete streets – from Portland and Str
• Pesticide Use and Water Quality: Are the Laws Comp ...
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/RL32884/ This report provides background
• The World Dairy Summit and Water
  Auckland’s Sky City Convention Centre is hosting the World Dairy Summit this week, a conferenc

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Rick Rozoff: Global Domination of Resources
  with Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
• Stories My Old Man Told Me by Daniel N. White
  by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 29, 2010 The old man was career military,
• The Road Less Traveled - Solutions To Save America ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 8, 2010 To best understand that we n
• A Recipe For Fascism by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 8, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad A
• Iraq: Toppling a country: From Statue to Legality ...
  Warning This article and links to other websites may contain words/graphics depicting the reality an

Axis of Logic

• Israel plans 1,300 homes in Arab East Jerusalem - ...
  Reuters, 09/11 09:34 CET JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is pushing ahead with plans to build 1,300 new apartments for Jewish families in Arab East Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, despite fierce opposition from Palestinians. The timing of the announcement could prove an ...
• Israel plans 1,300 homes in Arab East Jerusalem - ...
  Reuters, 09/11 09:34 CET JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is pushing ahead with plans to build 1,300 new apartments for Jewish families in Arab East Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, despite fierce opposition from Palestinians. The timing of the announcement could prove an ...
• Explosive! Steal This Film - TRIAL EDITION - Edito ...
  Editor's Note: These people (Pirate Bay) are smart as hell. Their message is good news for all of us on the International Internet. Axis of Logic has followed Pirate Bay concepts and ideology since we first launched our site in May, 2003. But we must remember - they are not...
• Mexico: Federal Police Shoot Student in Ciudad Jua ...
  Mexican Federal Police shot and injured sociology student José Darío Alvarez Orrantia during the 11th Walk Against Death in Ciudad Juarez on Friday, October 29.  Witnesses say that federal police fired at least five shots at Walk participants. Alvarez Orrantia survived surgery and is in grave ...
• Aldo Leopold: Marshland Elegy from the book, A San ...
  Editor’s Comment In “Marshland Elegy” a chapter in his famous book, A Sand County Almanac and sketches here and there, Aldo Leopold tells the story of the noble Crane and of how the crane marsh has been displaced by the short-sighted and wasteful ‘progress’ of human beings. The only beauty... ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Where We Go From Here: Part Six
  Asset: 5. �Sixty freshman rethuglicans in the House each on the record advocating the most extreme, racist, bigoted, homophobic, unconstitutional, anti-American, vicious, violent and dangerous positions ever articulated in an American political campaign. Ooh, this one's gonna be fun. If you have one ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  So we're already dusting off the "deficits don't matter" trope, eh? "He told Fox he would lead a Republican majority that would be "willing" to work with the Democrats and President Obama - on a few limited issues. ... "First and foremost, we're not going to be willing to work with him on the expans ...
• Pouring Salt in the Wound
  Not all democracies are equally bad. Brad Friedman: How terribly quaint. Via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire today... British Election Overturned Because of "False Statements" The Independent reports that former British immigration minister Phil Woolas "lost his seat as an MP today after an election ...
• The GOP: Standing at the corner of Projection Aven ...
  Mental health professionals refer to isolating ones worst qualities, finding them in others and then chastising them for these very qualities as "projection." Let me give you an example. Let's say that John and Mary have been married for a while, have a couple of kids and all the stresses that go al ...
• So much for "truth will out"
  A bit later today, the American Geophysical Union will formally announce that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out about anthropogenic global warming and climate change in an effort to push back against the new House majority of conservatives who see the issue as on of politics rather than our c ...

Care 2

• Vintage Coupons
  Gallery of old coupons from 60'-70's Submitted by Zoran F. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Amazing HDR Photos
  In photography, dynamic range is measured in EV differences between the brightest and darkest parts of the image that show detail. An increase of one EV or one stop is a doubling of the amount of light. Submitted by Bane Djordjevic to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Birth of the universe 're-created': Large Hadron C ...
  Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have created a �mini Big Bang� in an experiment that mimicked conditions a millionth of a second after the birth of the universe.By colliding lead ions � atoms of lead stripped of their electrons � at close ........ Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech � ...
• Why women are best pet owners and men are worst an ...
  Britons like to think of theirselves as animal lovers, but the way that we treat them may depend heavily on our gender, a psychologist claims. Professor Hal Herzog said there are both scientific and cultural reasons why the most enthusiastic pet owners Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� � ...
• The Face of Dogfighting; Chance to Save Other Anim ...
  I need to begin this blog with a strong warning. What you are about to see is a tragedy. Worse, it was a preventable tragedy. It is a story that puts a face on dogfighting. It is a story about one dog named Stallone. This video will Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Smirking Chimp

• Tea Party Palin is Toast, Forfeiting Senate Suprem ...
• Of Irony and Implosion
• Shameless liberal bloggers vote to extend tax cuts ...
• Be Careful What You Wish For
• One Place to Cut Spending: Kidnapping and Torture

Paul Krugman

• Commodity Prices
  They fluctuate, a lot.
• More FREDding
  Core logic, again.
• My Friend FRED
  Charting heaven.
• Barbarous Relic Watch
  More Dark Age economics.
• WWFD? WSWC?
  Just say not to authority figures.

No Quarter

• Vote For Nancy, Early and Often!!
  This is too damn good to pass up. Please sign this Daily Kos sponsored petition to keep Nancy Pelosi on the job. She’s the face of the Democrats that American needs to see (and recoil from) every night. Click here to sign up. Let’s keep Nancy on the job. And if [...]
• Democrats in Denial, Headed to Irrelevancy
  When Dems swept Republicans in 2008 there were immediate predictions that Republicans would be vanquished to the political wilderness for at least a generation, if not more. Well, how did that work out? The Democrats forgot that 40% of the country see themselves as conservative and an additional 3 ...
• Sayonara, Nancy * Open Thread
  The Democrats are imploring Nancy Pelosi to step aside, and Fox News has obtained the proof (!) … Even the New York Times agrees that Nancy needs to go … Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei (not two reporters one thinks of as outside the MSM track) have written a devastating assessment of Obama’s standing i ...
• The Great Cheese Paradox (Or, Your Tax Dollars Goi ...
  We are a fat people. The government warns us that keeping trim is a major way to prevent health problems and reduce health care costs. Why, eating less fat is downright patriotic! Or is it? Seems our government can have it every which way and loose. Writing for the New York Times, Michael Moss r ...
• A Salute To Veterans
  Today is the day we recognize the sacrifices of our men and women who have donned the uniform of our country in her service. Many are gone, those brave souls who fought early in our nation’s history, and in the Great War, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, too. We have lost brave troops in [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Why Biodegrable Snacks Were Pulled for Creating No ...
  What is going on with the new biodegradable and compostable snack food bags? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Nature is the Canvas
  Italian-born Carlotta Brunetti sees environmental art as art in nature. Her installations intensify the viewer's awareness of space. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Light Graffiti Meets Performance Art
  Light art performance photography is the breathtaking use of technology to produce mesmeric art. Lapp-pro a.k.a. Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza are truly brilliant artists. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• 5 Popular Myths About Tigers Debunked
  Catch a tiger myth by the toe and find out what you think you know about these amazing animals. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 5 Scariest Herbivores on Earth
  Wheat is murder. Or at least sometimes herbivores can seem like murderers. Here are five animals that look like they might want to take a bite out of you, but they won't. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Housing Demolition in East Jerusalem
  As a way to maintain its control in East Jerusalem, the Israeli government has been displacing Palestinians through housing demolition orders.
• Metropolitan Diary (Apologies to Times): Military ...
  A vignette from the annual conference of something called the Association of the United States Army.
• Ballot Box Blues: The Most Dispiriting Election of ...
  By the time you read this, I'll already have voted
• 60 Second Expert: Cancun Talks
  There appears to be little hope for meaningful action at the November/December climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico
• Election Was Missed Opportunity to Convince Voters ...
  What if the same demanding standard that was applied to the economy in this election had been applied to the war in Afghanistan?

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Obama arrives in Indonesia
  US president has arrived in the capital Jakarta on second leg of a 10-day South Asian tour aimed at boosting US exports.
• Turkey to host Iran talks 'soon'
  Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, announces resumption of previously failed talks on nuclear programme.
• Voting begins in Jordan elections
  Low voter turnout is expected among Jordanians of Palestinian origin, amid opposition boycotts and fraud allegations.
• Myanmar parties concede poll defeat
  Junta-backed party says it has 80 per cent of seats, while 20,000 people flee fighting on the border with Thailand.
• Second Russian journalist attacked
  Local reporter is beaten up in Moscow two days after a leading journalist was severely injured in a brutal attack.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Caution Ordered as 9/11 Deadline Nears
  A federal judge orders lawyers in cases filed by people who became ill after working at ground zero not to discuss the status of claims with the media, "to avoid confusion and speculation."
• Cyclists Condemn Prosecutor's Decision
  A prosecutor declined to press felony charges against a financial manager who fled the site of a collision with a cyclist.
• Oil Traveled Up the Gulf Food Chain, Scientists Sa ...
  By tracking oil's carbon signature, scientists were able to observe its growing presence in the planktonic food web.
• In the U.S., Sticker Shock in Reverse
  What would happen if gasoline prices in the United States rose to European levels?
• On Our Radar: Texas Battles Climate Regulation
  The state stands alone in refusing to agree to E.P.A. rules governing greenhouse gas emissions at large, newly constructed industrial sites.

Dot Earth News

• Scientists Probe Beak Trouble in Alaskan and North ...
  High rates of bird deformities in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest have biologists worried, and stumped.
• Principles for Managing Climate 'Management'
  What principles should govern research on novel approaches to limiting global warming?
• Report Reveals Forces Destroying Atlantic Bluefin ...
  A detailed investigative report reveals the billion-dollar web of interests behind the devastation of a prized tuna.
• Scientists Join Forces in a Hostile Climate
  Hundreds of scientists volunteer to refute misinformation wielded in fights over global warming.
• Newts in November
  An amphibian encounter in chilly November.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• 1972 CIA memo declares Nixonian resistance to decl ...
  This is it, the droids you're looking for. This memo was published by Wayne Madsen and includes a reference to Alfred McCoy, whose book "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" was the first serious work to break loose the geopolitical underpinnings of state-sanctioned narcotics trafficking. [ Ful ...
• British Lord James of Blackheath sez "Foundation X ...
  For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the ...
• Randy Quaid gangstalked by "Star Whackers" - he na ...
  It's no surprise California is in tough straits – Hollywood ain't a great place, and they can even trap corruption whistleblowing attorneys like Richard Fine in jail easily over there (Fine got tangled in LA's enormous immunized bribery system). But Randy Quaid , of all people, has suddenly turned ...
• FBI investigated American Trucking Association lin ...
  Wellstone plane crash was super sketchy. There was no icy condition that it was spun as. Fortunately MPR got the Wellstone FBI files, a lot of redacted materials. There is an interesting logical flow - including "justice center" ... Service Transportation Act - expose board members of ATA - DOT t ...
• Rap News vs the News World Order - gotta see this ...
  Any friend of this site pretty much is required to watch the latest rapnews: Marvelous work! As posted: Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war — the biggest leak of classified military documents in history — sending shockw ...

Daily Censored

• Bread and Circuses and Baseball: Corporate Media T ...
  What an emotional week for San Francisco. On Wednesday morning, the San Francisco Democratic elite – mayor Gavin Newsom, former mayor Willie Brown and Senator Diane Feinstein –  proudly handed the World Series’ winning Giants the key to the city at the end of their Victory Parade, attended by hundre ...
• The US Needs to Tap into India’s educational marke ...
   As Anil Sadgopal, writer for Tehelka news out of India noted: “It is no mere coincidence that the only school President Obama will be visiting during his Indian trip will be a well-endowed private school in Mumbai. He did not opt to visit any of the 2,000 plus Bombay Municipal Corporation schools. ...
• Americans are getting “Pimped”!
  www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us, Your World News, (Monday November 8 2010 at 7:00 PM EST) for an honest dialogue and non-mainstream analysis of the tangible capitalist destruction of society, US electoral politics and corporate media. (If you cannot listen LIVE today you can alw ...
• If I hear that one more time I’ll scream.
  A guy I do not often read, at the N Y Times, wrote an op-ed piece, The Unready Republicans, about the lack of a Republican plan, despite their claim of wanting to get the reins back for the last four years.  The fact is that they don’t have anything new to offer.  All they have [...]
• Detroit Federation of Teachers: Support Steve Conn ...
  The photo is from inside one of the many destroyed public schools and is due to Rich Gibson of the Rouge Forum.  The following is a brief overview by Rich.  You can see more about Detroit Pubic Schools and the criminal racket that is Eli Broad and Bill Gates by going to Author Posts and [...]

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Indonesia awaits Obama homecoming
• Bush defends legacy in new memoir
• American rebel Lori Berenson leaves Peru prison
• Awlaqi's father mounts legal challenge to CIA 'kil ...
• Pope Gets Preachy About Gays, Abortion in Spain

Institute for Policy Studies

• Who Gives A Rat's Behind that Progressive Lawmaker ...
  Here's why the Congressional Progressive Caucus matters more than a rat's hindquarters.
• The Lineup: Week of November 8-14, 2010
  OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul marvels at the GOP's "magical" gains in the midterm elections and FCNL's Joe Volk urges the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear weapons treaty before the year ends.
• The Congressional Progressive Caucus Maintained Th ...
  IPS Fellow Karen Dolan explains the significance of the largely intact Congressional Progressive Caucus.
• The Lies of Islamophobia
  The persistence of Crusader myths and their transposition into a Cold War framework help explain why the West is saddled with so many misconceptions about Islam.
• Military Force Isn't the Answer in Mexico's Drug W ...
  Calderon's launching of the war against traffickers was like hitting a beehive with a stick--without a plan for what to do next.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• Election Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results
  lection Roundtable: Breaking Down the Results with Laura Flanders of GritTV, The Nation’s Richard Kim & John Nichols, and Journalist David Goodman The midterm elections saw two key Senate victories for the ...
• EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elec ...
  EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Michael Moore on Midterm Elections, the Tea Party, and the Future of the Democratic Party For the past 20 years, renowned filmmaker, author and activist Michael Moore has been one of the most ...
• Living in an Era of Change
  by: C.J. Atkins | politicalaffairs.net The 29th CPUSA Convention was a big success and will hopefully go a long way toward improving the party’s contributions to the democratic movement.  The strategic policy of ...
• Progressive Democrats survive train wreck!
  Don’t mourn. Organize! —Joe Hill The Democratic Party may have taken a huge hit on Tuesday, but progressives fared well, with the exception of Russ Feingold. The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) lost two of its less ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 10/29/10 – 11/5/10
  The fight continues…. Elections: Democrats in general lost big. Progressive Democrats on the other hand did not fare too badly. We lost two progressive champions – Russ Feingold in the Senate and Alan Grayson in the House but ...

Marler Blog

• First E. coli O157:H7 Lawsuit against Bravo Farms
  Maricopa County, Arizona resident Annette Sutfin filed an E. coli lawsuit today against Bravo Farms Cheese, LLC, the cheese manufacturer that produced and distributed Gouda cheese that has been identified as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak among Costco Wholesale customers in the southweste ...
• A Food Safety walk through Shanghai - What would t ...
  I had a long walk through the streets of Shanghai this morning and kept thinking about how I get dozens of comments when I take on raw dairy poisoning people, but seldom get a word when I take on big ag for being responsible for the same - go figure.� Although some of the commentators to my blog are ...
• What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?
  Our new "about" site went live last week about Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS is one disorder in a spectrum of common functional gastrointestinal disorders. The observation that the onset of IBS symptoms can be precipitated by gastrointestinal infection dates to the 1950s. Different studies ...
• E. coli O157:H7 Tests Confirm Bravo Farms Dutch St ...
  CDC is collaborating with public health officials in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to investigate a multistate ...
• Hello from Sunday Morning from Shanghai
  After a bit of a delay from Arkansas to Detroit and Detroit to Shanghai, I landed safely at my hotel, where after a long walk, I am working in my room (with a view) on my speech on food safety to the students at East China University on Monday and then the China Food Safety Conference Wednesday.

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 11.08.10
  Four auto companies named greenest in America, but none are domestics Instead, Toyota wins for "Worldwide Leadership in Hybrid Technology." Shocker. Li-Ion Motors Inizio: a $139K electric supercar that so ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.05.10
  Honda CEO: Looks "like there will be a market for electric vehicles" after all No kidding? David Vespremi: Will the Nissan Leaf's familiarity breed contempt? Why the Leaf is a lot like a TV ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.04.10
  SEMA 2010: Chevrolet shows off Z-Spec treatment for Volt, Cruze, Spark All official, all theoretical. Stratasys prints out Urbee plug-in hybrid concept with cool 3D tech Unusual doesn't begi ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.03.10
  Study: Chevy Volt's "addressable market" for 2011 is 7%, Nissan Leaf's hits 11% Not who will buy, but who could.. Nissan Leaf vies for Europe's coveted 2011 Car of the Year award Can it beat ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.02.10
  What is EVSE? It's Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, and here's what it's all about. Nissan dishes out specs* for the 2011 Leaf It goes 0-60 in slooow. ...

Rafe's Radar

• RockMelt browser is social, but not obnoxiously so
  New browser backed by Mosaic inventor gets a lot right, but do you want all your Web behavior going to Facebook?
• Intellitar avatars a poor substitute for afterlife
  You can now consider bequeathing your avatar to loved ones after you've died. But honestly, it's just creepy.
• Reporters' Roundtable: Getting deep with TiVo
  This week we're covering TiVo in particular, and the set-top box market in general. I have but one guest today, but you're going to want to pay attention, since it's Jim Denney, the TiVo's VP of product strategy. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe: iTunes (MP3) iTunes ...
• Backup service MiMedia leverages U.S. mail
  Who wants to pay for online backup? Nobody. But MiMedia is trying to make you feel good about it.
• Peel me an e-book
  Taiwanese lab invents tech for displays that can be built onto glass, then peeled off. Imagine what it would allow gadget designers to think up. ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• What Role Did Comcast Play In Keith Olbermann&#821 ...
  What Role Did Comcast Play in Keith Olbermann’s Suspension?–UPDATED Crooks and Liars- By karoli November 05, 2010 12:14 PM There is a double standard at work with regard to Keith Olbermann’s suspension, not only between other personalities appearing on MSNBC as commentators, but also at the very top ...
• Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investiga ...
  There are a variety of explanations for the frustratingly backwards outcome of yesterday’s election. Clearly Americans were dissatisfied with the objective reality that the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats actually made things better by cutting the deficit by an historic $122 bil ...
• It’s a normal day
  Business as usual election results, it’s a normal day, world war three blues, Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch
• Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Vic ...
  Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Victim To Apologize To HIM The Huffington Post |  Nick Wing First Posted: 10-27-10 10:30 AM   |   Updated: 10-27-10 11:24 AM Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter behind the white sneaker that notoriously stomped on a MoveOn activist’s head in Ke ...
• Wikileaks: Top Brass warns of putting troops & civ ...
  Wikileaks recieved excellent coverage on CNN last night, including inteviews with Daniel Elsberg, Pentagon Papers, John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, and Phil Shiner of the U.K.-based Public Interest Lawyers. John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, told reporters that the names ...

Solari

• The Purchasing Power Decline of the U.S. Dollar si ...
• Precious Metals Market Report - 11.11.10
  I’ll be driving from San Francisco to Tennessee to join Franklin Sanders at his farm for our Solari Report this Thursday evening. I have had a great time in Silicon Valley and am looking forward to seeing the green hills of home. We have a lot to talk about, including the continued rise in precious ...
• Mortgage Robosigning: Must Watch Deposition
  Curious about what goes on inside an “alleged” robosigning operation? A Florida law firm has posted a video on YouTube that might interest you. Continue reading the article . . .
• Number of the Week: $10.2 Trillion in Global Borro ...
  By Mark Whitehouse Continue reading the article . . .
• Precious Metals - Week of 11.7.10
  Is GLD Overdue To Buy Two Hundred Tons Of Actual Gold? Zero Hedge (8 Nov 10)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Lady Gaga, Superstar: Her Valiant Efforts to Help ...
  The outrageous pop star has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of DADT.
• No One Cares About Child Soldiers if They're in Gu ...
  In many ways, Guantanamo is not the exception, but far closer to the rule of our criminal justice system.
• Major Terror Trial Ruling -- Judge Says Evidence A ...
  A New York judge has ruled that coercively-procured evidence is inadmissible in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first former Guantanamo detainee to be tried in the U.S.
• Creating a Lawless Executive Branch
  Attorney General John Ashcroft allowed Muslims to be detained under fabricated claims. Will the Obama administration and the right-wing high court protect him?
• The Fight to End Slave Labor in Our Fields Is Bear ...
  In Florida alone, the DoJ has prosecuted seven farm slavery operations with over 1,000 captive workers. More than a dozen farm labor supervisors have served time in federal prison.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• The Enigma of American Power
  Summary:  We’ve just held elections with the most serious issues MIA.  Without discussion of our foreign wars or massive spending on military and intelligence (more than the rest of the world combined; many times that of all potential enemies combined).  Without discussion of our decaying infrast ...
• The end of the world. That is, the end of the wor ...
  Summary:  A status report about the end of the post-WWII world.  The great recession has accellerated the process, revealing its weaknesses and showing the people of the rapidly growing emerging nations that they have outgrown it.  The US is almost its lone defender, a futile effort wasting time and ...
• A look at US employment (the big picture)
  Summary:  a look at the US labor force.  The numbers tossed around in the news media give little perspective on the scale of the problem.  This downturn acts as a massive engine concentrating America’s income and wealth in even fewer hands. The extension of the Bush tax cuts, which benefit mostl ...
• Bernanke leads us down the hole to wonderland! (m ...
  Summary:  Historians will laugh at our response to QE, for the reasons discussed here.  We’re enjoying our days in Wonderland.  We may find the hangover less entertaining.  This is a follow-up to Important things to know about QE2 (forewarned is forearmed). Our response to the Federal Reserve’ ...
• Bin Laden wins by using the “Tactics of Mist ...
  Summary:  In Gordon Dickson’s book “The Tactics of Mistake” he describes how Bin Laden has manipulated America so that we drive the jihadist movement from an irrelevant sideshow to a major and vital aspect of modern Islam. History contains a few eery examples of fiction predating fact.  Not just ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Pro-military party ‘wins’ Burmese election
  BBC -Burma’s main military-backed political party says it won about 80% of votes in the first election in 20 years.A Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) official said the party was pleased with the result. The main pro-democracy party, the NLD, boycotted the poll but other opposition group ...
• Three dead as Morocco breaks up Western Sahara cam ...
  BBC – At least three people have been killed in clashes in Western Sahara, after Moroccan security forces broke up a protest camp in the disputed region.The camp, for several thousand people near the territory’s capital, Laayoune, was the biggest protest against Moroccan rule in the 35-year dispute. ...
• Australia: Packer, Murdoch accept seats on Ten boa ...
  ABC – James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch have accepted Ten Network’s offer of board seats, after Mr Packer launched a share raid on the company last month. Mr Packer has ended up with a 17.9 per cent stake in the broadcaster, after initially buying a 15.6 per cent block of the company’s shares off-mar ...
• Israel plans 1,300 East Jerusalem Jewish settler h ...
  BBC – Israel has revealed plans to build nearly 1,300 housing units for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem.Building settlements is illegal under international law and recent efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have stalled over the issue.The announcement comes as Israel’s Prime ...
• Pilots boycott full-body scanners over health fear ...
  News.com.au – The world’s largest pilot’s association has boycotted full-body scanners over health risks but passengers wishing to avoid the devices may instead be faced with “invasive” pat-down searches. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) made the recommendation in a recent letter to its members, ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

• VIDEO: THE TOTAL COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
  There's good news and bad news... Good news is thanks to the massive wealth of information the internet provides, we can now have a glimpse into the near future, so those of us with perception, can adequately prepare for the bad news and the bad news is...there is absolutely no avoiding this unprece ...
• Video: Obama Will Attack Iran In 2012 – Ehud Barak
  Airing Date Nov.06, 2010 in Halifax Canada, Ehud Barak: "iran is a major, major threat to any conceivable world order" Ehud Barak Reacts to Lindsey Graham Comment Of Obama Having To Attack Iran By 2012
• Video: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura – Wall ...
  Jesse Ventura goes inside the secret billionaire's boy's club to find out what caused the financial meltdown and how the group allegedly continues to manipulate and control the stock market and oil, gold and silver prices. From Wall Street to Washington, the governor barges in on the rich and powerf ...
• Alert: Indian Army Ready For War Against China And ...
  India is preparing for a possible `two-front war’ with China and Pakistan, Indian newspaper saying Wednesday. The newspaper said the Indian Army is now revising its five-year-old doctrine to effectively meet the challenges of war with China and Pakistan, deal with asymmetric and fourth-generation wa ...
• Killing India’s Hidden Cold Start Strategy
  India knows that it can never win a conventional warfare with Pakistan because of the Nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). However it still harbors notions of winning a sort of a mini war. India may think it has a Cold Start Strategy, but it may end as a hot nuclear war. Indian Defense planne ...

Andy Worthington

• Video: Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed Discuss US Det ...
  On September 18, I was delighted to be asked to attend “Eid Without Aafia,” and to conduct a live interview with former Guantánamo prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed. The event, in east London, was organized by the Justice for Aafia Coalition to raise awareness about the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiq ...
• Andy Worthington and Gareth Peirce On Guantánamo a ...
  On Saturday November 13, at 9.30 am, Iâll be at Amnesty Internationalâs Human Rights Action Centre in London for a panel discussion, âUnlawful detention — Guantánamo and beyond,â as part of the AIUK Student Conference 2010, which runs from November 12 to 14. Details of all three daysâ events can be ...
• Why I’ll Be Attending the Demonstration Against Un ...
  On Wednesday November 10, a demonstration against the coalition government’s cuts to university funding, “Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts,” organized by the National Union of Students (NUS) and the University and College Union (UCU), is taking place in central London. Assembly is at 11.30 am on ...
• No Appetite for Prosecution: In Memoir, Bush Admit ...
  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 interesting to see how many media outlets allow the fo ...
• Gareth Peirce Discusses Her New Book, “Dispatches ...
  I was in the United States, campaigning against torture as part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week, when a new book of essays by human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice, was published in the UK. In these essays, originally published in ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Polar Bears Turning to Goose Eggs to Survive Warmi ...
  Forced ashore earlier due to global warming, the bears are finding nutritious treats on land in the form of goose eggs, studies say.
• Gulf Oil Plumes Still a Threat?
  Are giant plumes of oil droplets in the Gulf of Mexico, detected by scientists in the months following the BP oil spill, still a threat to the Gulf's marine life? Video.
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• Pictures: Volcano's Biggest Blast Yet Scorches Vil ...
  NoneWarning: graphic images. Thursday night Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano saw its biggest eruption since the mountain's October reawakening.
• Shining Light on the Cost of Solar Energy
  Solar electricity is pricey, but policy may be as important as technology in hastening its path to parity with other fuel sources.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So far, ...
• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems . You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez . You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. You ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is – Sq ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked up se ...
• Veni, Vidi, Voting
  Hey all! Gimlet Eyes just got back from the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington, DC (did you see me? I was right in the middle! With a sign!) and now I’m fired up and ready to go. First things first. The rally was incredible. No, it wasn’t partisan. In fact, it really wasn’t political: Stewart ...
• Warren FTW
  I have been geeking out over yesterday’s big primaries, and the ensuing act of Republican cannibalism that really, really belongs in one of Linda McMahon’s WWE Smackdowns. (I mean seriously: who doesn’t want to see Sarah Palin kick Karl Rove in the crotch, followed up by Rush Limbaugh taking a bite ...

SPL Center

• Jack Kershaw, Stalwart of White Nationalism, Dies
  Jack Kershaw, one of the most iconic American white segregationists of the 20th century and the lawyer who represented James Earl Ray following his conviction for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Nashville at the age of 96. He died on Sept. 7, but his death was not made p ...
• World Net Daily Speakers Defend Tea Parties
  MIAMI, Fla. — Are the Tea Parties racist organizations? No, said three African-American panelists presented with that question at the third and final day of the “Taking America Back” conference here on Saturday. But given the fact that the conference was organized by the far-right World Net Daily (W ...
• Extremist ‘Patriot’ Pastor Videotapes ...
  Radical conservative Pastor Stephen Andersonâs personal antigovernment reality-TV show has unveiled a new episode. Reprising a âroleâ he created and played last year, the firebrand leader of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., once again had a video camera rolling during a routine police t ...
• Anti-Immigrant Groups Continue Greenwashing Campai ...
  Progressives For Immigration Reform (PFIR) held its inaugural conference Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The small, invitation-only, one-day conference was entitled, “The First National Conference on Immigration, Conservation, and the Environment.” The conclave is just another ...
• Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War ...
  Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the “truth” about 9/11 being an inside job , the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to intern dissidents in “death camps,” and the “New World Order” plot to exterminate 80% of the wor ...

change: org.

• A Terrible Tuesday for the Defense of Marriage Act
  Bet the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) wishes it could go back to bed and skip Tuesday altogether. That's because today, two separate organizations in two different states will file legal challenges to DOMA , challenging the federal definition of marriage. Round one goes to Connecticut, where the Ga ...
• Why Is Los Angeles Handing Out More Death Sentence ...
  Almost a week after election day, the California attorney general race is still  too close to call . At present, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley , a Republican, leads San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris , a Democrat, by less than one percent. With an estimated 1.3 million provisional and abs ...
• Pamela Anderson Brings Her "Powers of Seduction" t ...
  Never one to shy away from expressing herself , Pamela Anderson once again made headlines today:  In Israel, Pam Anderson goes straight to Hassid's heads and Pamela Anderson in Israel to Judge DWTS and Seduce Hassidic Jews . Let me translate: Pamela Anderson is making an appearance on Israel's versi ...
• Michigan Activists Call on Governor to Commute Bat ...
  Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) is on her way out of office, but local activists have a suggestion for her before she goes: commute the sentences of battered women prisoners. Many of the women the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project are fighting for have been in prison for decades, while ...
• Thanking the Iowa Politician Who May Save Marriage ...
  Iowa was pretty brutal terrain this past Election Day, at least for LGBT voters. In addition to seeing three Supreme Court Justices booted from the State Supreme Court for their support of marriage equality, the State House and State's Executive Office also changed hands. The result is that Iowa now ...

Common Dreams -News

• Justice Dept. Renews Enforcement of Subpoenas for ...
  We get an update on the fallout from the FBI raids in late September that targeted antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Subpoenas to appear before a grand jury were served on 13 people, but later withdrawn when the activists asserted their right to remain silent. But this week, the U.S. Dep ...
• Iraqi Victims of UK Abuse Want Public Inquiry
  Lawyers of 142 Iraqi civilians, who claim they suffered abuse by British soldiers, are pushing for the UK's High Court to allow a full public inquiry. The allegations include torture, sensory deprivation, forced nakedness and stress positions. The abuse allegedly took place in British-controlled det ...
• UN Report Warns of Threat to Human Progress from C ...
  by Larry Elliott and Mark Tran The United Nations warned today that a continued failure to tackle climate change was putting at risk decades of progress in improving the lives of the world's poorest people. read more
• US Weathers Calls for Torture Probes at UN Rights ...
  by Peter Capella GENEVA - The United States faced a barrage of calls to investigate allegations of torture and shut down Guantanamo Bay detention centre on Friday in its first review by the UN's top human rights assembly. European countries joined appeals for a halt to the death penalty, and there w ...
• Obama Administration Claims Unchecked Authority to ...
  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally determined to pose a threat. Government lawyers made that claim in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Libertie ...

Lifehacker

• Set Up a Writing System that Stays Out of Your Way ...
  It's easy to obsess more about your writing setup than your actual writing, but when inspiration strikes and you actually want to—you know— write something, nothing should stand between you and putting your thoughts on paper, digital or other ...
• Socialize Chrome Without Switching Browsers (aka, ...
  Chromium-based social browser RockMelt drew a lot of attention from tech circles today. But if you want to get social with Chrome without marrying yourself to Facebook, you can do so without switching to an entirely different fork of the popul ...
• Remains of the Day: Google Has Confirmed and Fixed ...
  The Google search app arrives for Windows Phones, iWork 11 may launch with the Mac App Store, and if your Gmail account's been dragging, it may be better now. More��
• I'm Coming Automatically Emails Notifications When ...
  Ever want to let someone know when you're on your way over? I'm Coming is a nifty little iPhone app that alerts designated people when you're approaching their location. More��
• Forget About Perfect Grammar and Just Write Well [ ...
  Learning the rules of language is important, otherwise it can be pretty difficult to communicate effectively. But if you're hung up on perfect form and accuracy you can end up impeding your own creativity and the development of language in g ...

Water Privatization

• Of Debt to Federal Government and Imminent Bail ou ...
  by Dr. Dzul According to the Auditor-General Report 2009, the State of Selangor owes the Federal Government a sum of RM929.86 millions. It must be made known to all that 85% of the debt, an equivalent sum of RM705 millions were incurred as a result of procurement of water assets in the state. In acc ...
• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Films Even ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• Of Debt to Federal Government and Imminent Bail ou ...
  by Dr. Dzul According to the Auditor-General Report 2009, the State of Selangor owes the Federal Government a sum of RM929.86 millions. It must be made known to all that 85% of the debt, an equivalent sum of RM705 millions were incurred as a result of procurement of water assets in the state. In acc ...
• P/$ rate stands at P42.70 to $1
  MANILA, Philippines – The peso exchange rate stands at P42.70 to the US dollar, the closing rate last Friday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx). The weighted average rate stands at P42.647. M.W.C. TO GET N.E.X.I. GUARANTEE FOR $150-M LOAN
• = UPDATE:Abu Dhabi's Adwea Mulls 35M Gallons/Day F ...
  (Adds capacity, detail.) ABU DHABI (Zawya Dow Jones)-- Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority , or Adwea Adwea , is looking at building a 35 million gallons per day reverse osmosis water treatment plant in the emirate of Fujairah, as the state utility loo ...

Guardian

• No 10 rejects claim that waterboarding isn't tortu ...
  No 10 dismisses George Bush's claim in his memoirs that interrogation technique is legal and helped foil attacks on Heathrow and Canary Wharf Downing Street today dismissed George Bush's claim that waterboarding is not torture after the former president used his memoirs to play down the brutality of ...
• PM vows to raise human rights issue
  Prime minister's efforts to double trade with People's Republic receive boost as Rolls-Royce win £740m order from China Eastern Airlines David Cameron today promised he would raise human rights issues in his two days of talks with the Chinese leadership without hectoring or lecturing, but No 10 decl ...
• Labour faces mutiny over Woolas
  Labour's deputy leader reportedly confronted by angry MPs after ruling out a return for former immigration minister before appeal processes have concluded Harriet Harman faced a backbench protest at a Labour meeting last night after signalling that disgraced MP Phil Woolas had no future in the party ...
• Post Office Bank plans scrapped
  �� Proposals too time-consuming and expensive � ministers �� Pensioners' group says decision 'extremely short-sighted' The government has decided against setting up a state-backed Post Office Bank because it would be too time-consuming and expensive, ministers announced today. The news came as the g ...
• Israeli home plans spark US anger
  Palestinians say Israel 'chooses settlements, not peace' in plan for more housebuilding in Ariel Israel today risked provoking fresh US anger when a plan to build 800 homes in the West Bank settlement of Ariel was disclosed hours after the Obama administration expressed "deep disappointment" at appr ...

McClatchey

• Biden to roll out home energy efficiency program
  WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday will unveil a new federal program to make it easier for Americans to make their homes more energy efficient, saying it will help people save money and create new jobs for contractors.
• N.C. Rep. Shuler may challenge Pelosi for minority ...
  WASHINGTON — Will U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina take on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in a showdown for the role of top Democrat next year?
• Out-of-state lobbyists spent big to kill Californi ...
  Out-of-state interests working to defeat a bill to ban plastic bags were among the top spenders on lobbying to influence California legislators' votes this summer.
• Voter ID, Arizona-style immigration law on Texas L ...
  AUSTIN — Conservative lawmakers, empowered by last week's Republican election gains, introduced a host of bills Monday that include an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration and the requirement of a photo ID to vote.
• RNC gives money to N.C. U.S. House candidate Ellme ...
  WASHINGTON — The National Republican Congressional Committee has come through with $10,000 for Renee Ellmers.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

• White House Says It Opposes Attempts To Strip Don& ...
  Moments ago, responding to reports that Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) and Ranking Member Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were considering slimming down the bill to ensure that it passes in the lame duck period, the White House issued a statement clarifying that it opposes any at ...
• Reid Reaffirms Commitment To Ending DADT, But Also ...
  Responding to reports that Democrats are considering stripping the National Defense Authorization Act of the amendment to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Jim Manley — Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) spokesperson — issued the following statement: “Like Defense Secretary Gates, Senator Reid strongly supports t ...
• In New Book, Former Health Insurance Executive Det ...
  In his new book, ‘Deadly Spin‘ out tomorrow from Bloomsbury Press, former Cigna communications head Wendell Potter details how the health insurance industry relies on multi-million dollar public relations campaigns to deceive the public about the nature of the health care crisis and reform itself. F ...
• To Block EPA Regulations, Koch Industries Expands ...
  Koch Industries, the privately owned industrial conglomerate, is using any available method to fight the enforcement of laws to limit its toxic pollution. This summer’s “Regulation Reality Tour,” produced by Koch’s grassroots marketing arm Americans for Prosperity (AFP), featured a “moon bounce in t ...
• As HAMP Struggles, Borrowers Move Into Significant ...
  Last November, Andrew Jakabovics and I reported that Bank of America was siphoning borrowers into its own private mortgage modification program before determining whether those borrowers qualify for the Obama administration’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), in clear violation of the ban ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Peter Kormos on the G-20
  I haven't watched this whole thing. I just thought that I'd post it here to spread it around.
• Condoleeza Rice Coming to Toronto!!
  Yayyy!!! The moron, the scum, the corrupt, lying, stupid sack-of-shit will be gracing our fair nation and this fair city with her noxious presence !!! The Event Group is proud to announce the presentation of Condoleezza Rice on November 2, 2010 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto, Can ...
• Stay in Afghanistan Past 2011? Don't Even Think Ab ...
  Via Politics Re-Spun : Canada is considering NATO and allied requests to keep troops in Afghanistan past 2011 to conduct non-combat training missions, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday. Now, let's remember: Canada's participation in the Afghanistan occupation has seen us handing prisoners ...
• What Alison Says About Librocon Assault on Democra ...
  This is what I've wanted to write about but haven't had the time. I agree with Alison and the blogs she links to.
• Jim Flaherty's Deficits
  Now, one thing the left has got to do is to understand economic reality and then to speak so as to demonstrate this understanding. Case in point is the blanket condemnation of Jim Flaherty's deficits, which, coming as a result of a stimulus program that was forced onto him by the opposition parties ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Challenging BPI's Claims That IP Addresses Alone A ...
  BPI, the equivalent of the RIAA in the UK, is apparently insisting that the evidence it uses to accuse file sharers of infringement is "of an extremely high standard." Of course, the "evidence" is an IP address, which anyone with a basic understanding of technology knows is, by itself, not indicati ...
• Time To Remix Copyright Law: The Hip Hop Case Stud ...
  Michael Scott points us to an interesting paper by a law professor, Tonya Evans, talking about how poorly copyright law is designed to handle a concept like hip hop . Of course, this is an issue that we (and plenty of others) have covered for years -- noting how copyright law has drastically hinder ...
• Ink Toner Banned On Passenger Flights, As Security ...
  It appears that security theater has stepped up a notch. Following the recent bombing attempts that used ink toner cartridges to hide bombs, the US is now banning ink toner on passenger flights . They're also blocking any cargo aircraft flights from Somalia and Yemen. While you can understand why ...
• Belgian Court Rules That Violating Creative Common ...
  There hasn't been too much case law around the legitimacy of Creative Commons licenses, and some have questioned whether or not they're really legitimate. I'll admit that I do have some questions about certain aspects of CC licenses, but over in Belgium a court has pretty clearly claimed that Creat ...
• Bogus Election Net Neutrality Connection Gets More ...
  Apparently the big mainstream reporters don't even bother with basic fact-checking any more. Last week, we wrote about how a bogus story was making the rounds, pretending that this last election was a referendum on net neutrality , after a paid consultant to the broadband industry put up a blog pos ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Liu Xiaobo: The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Another ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 5, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 43
• There's No Good Reason for Anti-Nuclear Hysteria
  By Veit Ringel Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 29, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 42
• Endgame for the Systemic Crisis: What Recovery? Ma ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 29, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 42
• The Choice on Nov. 2: Obama's Ouster or Ungovernab ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 29, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 42
• LPAC Videos Complete LaRouches' Vision of Eurasian ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 29, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 42

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

• By: Gina
  It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...
• By: Elissa
  I am finding it very difficult to grasp how few(no) people are on here discussing this with great concern and passion for changing it. This entire subject has taken me by storm.
• By: Nestlé and the other reasons I support the boy ...
  [...] those jobs typically going to people from outside the community, [...]
• By: Help Getting Organized | Get Organized with Or ...
  [...] Sadly, no drinking water seems to be 100% safe these days, but in the absence of certainty, I plan on sticking with free, public water. In the end, it’s in our interest to insist on clean drinking water, avoid polluting our environment with more plastic and petroleum waste, and support public ...
• By: « Tendance gourde  « Jeune Coalition Française ...
  [...] www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water, [...]

treehugger

• Africa's Agbogbloshie Market is a Computer Graveya ...
  Photo: Yakubu Al Hasan, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana 2009 © Pieter Hugo. Courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town and Yossi Milo, New York. A good documentary photographer takes us to places that we never could imagine and teaches us something at the same time. The Canadian Ed Burtynsky ...
• Is the New X-1 a Bicycle or a Scooter or a Bit of ...
  Photo: Sinclair Research It looks like a cross between a bike and a bubble: it's an eco-scooter with a highly evocative name: the Sinclair X-1 . This new little "electric vehicle" as it is being called can be "driven" for 10 miles at a cost of 10p. (16¢) with some pedal power assistance ...
• Experts Warn of a Looming Chocolate Crisis
  Photo: Muffet / CC In a world that takes for granted the availability of delicious and affordable chocolate , it's easy to forget that the popular product actually comes from trees -- not magical elves or free-flowing cocoa rivers, sadly. But, some experts are predicting that in a m... Read the ...
• Green Festival November 2010: Why The Green Festiv ...
  Green Festival Entrance Sign Photo: Bonnie Hulkower This weekend, San Francisco held the biannual Green Festival, the nation's largest green consumer living event. Thousands of people flocked to the Concourse Exhibition Center, spilling out onto the sidewalks, to see over 300 exhibitors and hea ...
• South African City Wants to Pay Folks to Pee
  Photo: Mahalie / CC One bodily function may soon bring a windfall for residents of Durban, South Africa as their city council mulls over a plan to encourage waterless waste management -- by paying folks for their pee. After the city installed some 90,000 dry toilets in an effort to cut back on . ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• Stockholm temperatures freeze global warming claim ...
  Lessons learned from the Swedish temperature record. In science, observations must be taken much more seriously than theories or computer models.
• How to eliminate salmonella egg recalls
  Electronic pasteurization - hitting eggs and other fresh food with an electron beam - is cheap, quick, and kills virtually all of the food-borne bacteria on your food. It even kills the bacteria that promote rotting, keeping fresh produce fresher for longer.
• An energy solution pulled from thin air?
• Natural resources fuel North Dakota's economic boo ...
  While the rest of the country suffers through unemployment, foreclosures, bank failures, and budget deficits, North Dakota is on a roll - thanks in large part to its abundant resources of oil and natural gas, almost all of which are on private land.
• Environmental injustice en Español
  Liberal Latino pressure groups̢۪ campaign will drive up energy prices, kill jobs and hurt families. Driving up the cost of energy would impair job creation and retention, and virtually ensure brownouts and blackouts in the midst of heat waves and cold snaps.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Finland supports visa-free travel between Russia, ...
  Finland supports the bilateral cancellation of visa requirements between Russia and the European Union, the country's president Tarja Halonen said on Tuesday.
• Russia has more smokers than any other country - W ...
  Russia has more smokers than any other country according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, presented to the Russian health ministry on Tuesday.
• Mass eviction by riot police in Amsterdam
  Dozens of police in riot gear evicted squatters from their homes in Amsterdam before sunrise on Tuesday morning. Police said around 40 squatters protested the evictions on Tuesday and police detained four for throwing missiles.
• Old Winter Palace, one of Egypt’s most exclusive h ...
  The Old Winter Palace was built in Luxor, Egypt, in 1886 in the British Colonial style and has since attained legendary status
• Georgian president hails security services over 'R ...
  Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday thanked security service officers for the recent operation in which 15 suspected Russian spies were arrested.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Large Hadron Collider paints 'Big Bang' picture
  Physicists conducting experiments on the world's largest atom smasher have successfully recreated conditions that existed in the first instants of the Universe's existence by smashing together lead ions.
• Large Hadron Collider
• China launches weather satellite
  China has launched a new meteorological satellite.
• Weather delays final launch of shuttle Discovery
  The final launch of the space shuttle Discovery was delayed on Thursday for at least 24 hours due to weather conditions, NASA said on its website.
• Russia's first nuclear institute to join Skolkovo ...
  Russia's Kurchatov Research Institute has announced plans to open two research centers at the Skolkovo high-tech hub near Moscow.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Abbreviated “blogger fail” edition. For some reason the scratch file I use for accumulating links throughout the week got blanked out late Thursday. Here’s what I was able to recover from memory. Our image in the Muslim world would ...
• The Lilies - Cry when you sleep (the Shoes remix)
  Last year Tahiti Boy And The Palmtree Family topped my music of the year list, so obviously I’m a big fan. Amazingly enough, they teamed up with another artist from that list, Os Mutantes, to form The Lilies. “We Are The Lilies” is available on iTunes in France ; not sure if it can be bought outsi ...
• The fetishization of efficiency
  In the wake of the Republican victories Tuesday there will probably be a renewed emphasis on neoliberal economics - at least as imagined by conservatives. Of course, “pure” neoliberal economics is one of those wonderful belief systems, like communism, that postulates an ideal end state. The world it ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .More from the WikiLeaks dump: Unvarnished details: American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recen ...
• State-run Iranian media beats the NY Times on Wiki ...
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The latest document dump from WikiLeaks would seem to be one of those massive, stop the presses, drop everything and throw all available resources at it stories that dominates news cycles for weeks on end. One of the first revelatio ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Union of Concerned Scientists Survey Finds Corpora ...
  To evaluate how well the government uses science to protect the food supply, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), working with researchers at Iowa State University, sent a 44-question survey to nearly 8,000 food safety employees at the FDA and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which togethe ...
• Van Jones: We Must Prepare for Battle
  In a darkened space bedecked with impressionistic portraits of the progressive movement's great heroes, Van Jones -- community organizer, environmental activist and erstwhile presidential adviser -- steps onto a tiny stage that has just been warmed up by two local teenaged poets and graced by Amy Go ...
• Vandana Shiva: Time to End the War Against the Ear ...
  When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bigger war is the war against the planet. This war has its roots in an economy that fails to respect ecological and ethical limits - limits to inequality, limits to injustice, limits to greed and economic concentrati ...
• Could Bison be the Ethical, Eco-Friendly Beef Alte ...
  Once upon a time, 75 million bison roamed the western plains of North America. This was in the mid-1800s, when they outnumbered the humans 25 to one. Early settlers reported a carpet of bison as far as the eye could see. When Sitting Bull, the great Sioux chief, left Canada to surrender to the U.S. ...
• Help the Planet: Stop Wasting Food
  Let me guess: You're concerned about the environment. You recycle, buy the right light bulbs, drink from a reusable water bottle (preferably one made of metal) and wish you could afford a hybrid. You try to remember your reusable shopping bags when you go to the market and feel guilty when you don't ...

fotoFrontera

• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXIV
  Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen ...
• Wallpapers decorados con fotos de flores (9 imágen ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3 ...
• Vistas aéreas I (10 fotos tomadas desde las altura ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...
• Del crepúsculo al amanecer (10 postales con el sol ...
  HOY Y EN EXCLUSIVA PARA los cada día más suscriptores y visitantes en general del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, tenemos una nueva colección titulada ' Del crepúsculo al amanecer '. Una bonita serie donde el sol, siempre será el principal protagonista. Disfrute y comparta nuestros recursos. Saludos. N ...
• Aviones supersónicos IV (10 imágenes de vértigo)
  Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores. [1] [2] [3] [4] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imág ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
  How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
• Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
  A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...
• What We’re Reading–Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook
  Author Kim O’Donnel recently released The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour, for people that love to eat meat but might also want to eat less of it. In the book’s foreword the Center’s director, Dr. Robert Lawrence, reintroduces the idea to readers that people ...
• Meatless Monday Launches at Johns Hopkins Universi ...
  Today marked the launch of Meatless Monday on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.  Elaborate banners of cartoon cows, chickens and pigs that read, “Monday is my day off!” greeted students as they entered JHU Dining Service’s three main dining areas: Levering Food Court, Fresh Food Court and ...
• No title
  On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) released a draft report that, given their usual alignment with agricultural interests, is surprisingly straightforward in its assessment of the inadequacy of conservation practices in place on farms in t ...

Norwegianity

• The task of Kerstenado
  In case you needed reinforcement on why this is now a politics-free zone, here’s Katherine Kersten’s opening post-election graf: Last week’s historic election repudiated the grandiose, left-wing governance schemes of President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Conservatives are still toas ...
• Wishing
  I was thinking tomorrow was more than early enough for unveiling some changes, but the new mast (Heathianity?) goes so well with this Waxy-found video, I figured I shouldn’t wait. Can you count all the copyright violations in this video? Yes, this may be a blank screen by tomorrow as I expect this o ...
• Dropping bookmarks
  Some, not much, duplication with the RSS feeds. Crooks and Liars The Daily Beast (good riddance, only Mediaite begins to compete with this online rag for flat out whoring/snarking the establishment line) The Raw Story (too juiced, my BP always goes up after checking them out, Glenn Beck ‘fantasizes’ ...
• All I really know
  is that this time it was right out in front of us. Electronic voting didn’t kick our ass. The Supreme Court didn’t steal this one, but they did write permission slips for overt graft. The truth is that if you have your own network, unlimited funding and a desire to win by any means necessary, [...]
• Unsub Friday
  A commenter asked how to manage RSS feeds. Just go to Google and select Google Reader and it will walk you through the process. Here are some more fine blogs I won’t be reading anymore that you might want to subscribe to: TalkLeft (I thought I was going to keep this one but I was [...]

Public News Service

• AZ Cooks Turn to Natural Turkey for Thanksgiving
  AZ Cooks Turn to Natural Turkey for Thanksgiving Phoenix, AZ - Concern over the use of antibiotics in meat has some Arizonans looking for organically grown turkeys for their Thanksgiving meal. The demand is providing a new source of "bread and butter" for the state's organic farmers. Robert Martin, ...
• Birth Control: "Preventive" Health Care or Not?
  Birth Control: "Preventive" Health Care or Not? Phoenix, AZ – The Institute of Medicine has just initiated a year-long study to determine if prescription birth control methods should be covered by health insurance, as part of preventive care under the health reform law. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood ...
• AZ Voters Polled On Importance Of Social Security
  AZ Voters Polled On Importance Of Social Security A new survey of over-40 registered voters in Arizona and nationwide has found Social Security among their top-two issues of personal importance. The research by AARP and the Rockefeller Foundation is being released as President Obama’s bipartisan Com ...
• Report: Border Security Not Harmed by Wild Lands P ...
  Report: Border Security Not Harmed by Wild Lands Protection Tucson, AZ – A new report disputes the idea that security along the Mexican border is being compromised by laws protecting fragile public lands. The report cites numerous examples of cooperation among the Border Patrol and federal land mana ...
• Halloween: Too Much Sugar Not so Sweet for Your H ...
  Halloween: Too Much Sugar Not so Sweet for Your Health Phoenix, AZ – Helping your kids make good choices on Halloween can go a long way toward keeping them healthy. A couple days with a few extra treats won't do permanent damage, but nutritionists say you should be careful of too much added sugar ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Peltier case a stain on US human rights record
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05 November 2010 Contact: Delaney Bruce, Legal Team Liaison, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106, USA; Telephone: 701/235-2206; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info Peltier case a stain on US human rights record Today, the United States submit ...
• Cem: Fake anti-war activism. The "humanitarian roa ...
  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21766 Fake anti-war activism. The "humanitarian road" towards an all out nuclear war? by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 4 November 2010 Some of America's wars are condemned outright, while others are heralded as "humanitarian interve ...
• Iraq : Toppling a Country : From Statue to Legalit ...
  Iraq : Toppling a Country : From Statue to Legality (Part Two.*) :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : "Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the latest, vast cache of documents from Wikileaks, is that anyone was surprised at the revelation ...
• Six Nations Land: A View
  A'nowara'ko:wa: Six Nations Land: A View First the facts: Canada is a settler state located in the northern portion of Turtle Island, formed out of two European colonies established here in the seventeenth century, one by Great Britain and one by France. These colonies were established on the ba ...
• Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term ad ...
  Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term advantage - National - NZ Herald News : "On December 6, 2010 New Zealand will host the fourth meeting of negotiators trying to strike a free trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This proposed mega free-trade treaty currently sp ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• Food, Water and Environment - for Breakfast
  The most essential resource in Australia’s food bowl – our Murray-Darling Basin – is water but there’s a problem…
• Environmental News 04/11/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 03/11/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• CFL
  1. DEFINITION: "CFL" CFL stands for Compact fluorescent light, which is also nicknamed “energy saving light” for its low consumption of electricity. Most importantly CFLs (Compact fluorescent lights) use about 20 to 33 percent of the energy that a typical incandescent lamp uses, which is kinder to ...
• The Meatrix
      November is World Vegan Month (whats-on-this-week/whats-on-1-november-2010.html)! A great time to replace your steak dinner with a vegan meal. These days, there’s so much wrong with the way meat is produced, and this funny but poignant Meatrix video shows you why. While some real- ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Calgary anti-racism activist says violent S.E. hom ...
  ShareThis Calgary anti-racism activist says violent S.E. home invasion work of white supremacists --'If it was a robbery, why did they put holes in the walls?' 08 Nov 2010 A Calgary anti-racism activist said he believes white supremacists were trying to kill him when they burst into his home and bea ...
• Look out, your medicine is watching you
  ShareThis Look out, your medicine is watching you 08 Nov 2010 Novartis AG plans to seek regulatory approval within 18 months for a pioneering tablet containing an embedded microchip, bringing the concept of "smart-pill" technology a step closer. The initial program will use one of the Swiss firm's e ...
• IDF presents: Missile alerts on your cell phone
  ShareThis IDF presents: Missile alerts on your cell phone --Home Front Command to launch new cellular application alerting citizens about missile attacks starting June 2011 . 07 Nov 2010 Israel Defense Forces will announce Monday an NIS 27 million investment in a new cellular system that will alert ...
• Unauthorized US strikes kill 13 Pakistanis
  ShareThis Unauthorized US strikes kill 13 Pakistanis 07 Nov 2010 Two non-UN sanctioned U-S drone attacks have killed at least 13 people in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt, Pakistani security officials say. Security officials said an unmanned American plane fired two missiles at a vehicle in the ...
• Scientists Discover Dying Corals and Creatures Nea ...
  ShareThis Scientists Discover Dying Corals and Creatures Near BP Oil-Spill Site 05 Nov 2010 On a research ship in the Gulf of Mexico on Election Day this week, seven miles south-west of the site of the Deep Water Horizon oil-spill, a team of scientists discovered a community of corals that includes ...

Daily Loaf

• Do It Today: Wolf Parade in O-Town, artist Dan Nam ...
  Wolf Parade plays the Social in Orlando. If you're staying local, celebrate Native American Heritage Month with artist Dan Namingha or commemorate Kristallnacht by seeing Becoming Family at the Palladium.
• Life As We Blow It: The Unburdening, Pt. 1
  There are some things of which I'd like to unburden myself — unanswered questions I can't ask directly, confessions, apologies too long in the offing…
• Theater Review: Sex, violence and beautiful music ...
  Who would have guessed that a drama about four string players could feature rivalry, violence, mental illness and romance?
• Global behemoth goes hyperlocal: Patch AOL is comi ...
  The central question from industry observers is twofold: What’s the quality of the enterprise, and can AOL make any money off of it?
• Fall into a super autumn with a Super Tuscan and C ...
  The Tenuta di Castiglioni from Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi is smooth and warming on the palate with lots of dark flavors. It pairs nicely with a warm pot of Cannellini al Fiasco.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Meir Kahane (of unblessed memory) Comic Strip Hero
  By Jesse Bacon Ma’an News reported last week on a comic book honoring Meir Kahane, the slain Jewish fascist leader whose politics were even too much for the Israeli Supreme Court. His party remains banned. Reading the comic strip, a few things become clear. First of all, the artistic quality is incr ...
• A Lost Decade in Israel-Palestine: Diary Series Ki ...
  This diary opens a collaborative effort to profile the past decade in the life of Israel-Palestine. A Lost Decade in all respects. Far worse than Japan’s âLost Decade.â Unfortunately, the events that set this decade onto its lamentable trajectory happened shortly before the advent of the blogosphere ...
• Budrus hero calls for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s ...
  By Jesse Bacon I recently had the good fortune to attend a packed Monday night NYC screening sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. One issue raised by the extremely well-informed director was how similar protests in other villages have had difficult ...
• Terry Fletcher responds to Audrey Farber’s p ...
  In her recent post A true Democracy; if Israel would only let it, Audrey Farber paints a very rosy picture of Palestinian democracy, both present and future. Other commentators and human rights organizations paint a quite different picture, at least of the present. In this New York Review of Books ...
• Hebrew Lessons at the Learning and Creativity Cent ...
  Guest Post – Yael Arbel âYou must come to see Susiya.â In all truth, I am fascinated by the stories I hear about Susya. I have not been there since the cold, muddy winter of 2002, when we trekked with Taâayush activists to bring blankets for those living there, only to be detained by the army. I don ...

Politics in the Zeros

• How Internet marketers spy on us
  Doc Searls lists the multitude of superb articles from the WSJ on how businesses spy on consumers on the net, and adds worthwhile comments of his own.
• Tiny Cob house, made from clay, sand, and straw
  Tiny House Blog has the details on building a fully-insulated home cheaply from completely local materials (really local, like within 50 feet or so)
• Pacifica management lays off entire staff of KPKA ...
  The purges continue. The lunatics have taken over Pacifica Doug Henwood (his superb show on WBAI was killed last week) The idiots and maniacs who are now running Pacifica have decided to lay off the entire staff of the excellent KPFA Morning Show and to take it off the air: The show is the station’s ...
• South Korea to build 2.5 GW offshore wind farm
  The wind farm will have 500 turbines and is a government-private enterprise joint project. The rest of the world is whizzing past the US on renewable energy while we argue about it.
• Hayes gets death penalty for horrific home invasio ...
  Regardless of your opinions on the death penalty, some people should never be let out of prison. Steven Hayes and his accomplice Joshua Komisarjevsky, who will be sentenced soon, are among them. The inevitable and mandatory appeals process means they will spend many more years in prison before being ...

Coteret

• Maariv: Geert Wilders to express support for &#822 ...
  There’s more to this. Israeli adulation for the Dutch ultra-nationalist is not limited to the National Union: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows at Dore Gold’s neoconservative power-house — The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — has been a leading cheerleader. Dutch reinforceme ...
• Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
  The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
• Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
  Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
• Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
  Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
• The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
  This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...

Deadline Live

• BREAKING NEWS! OOPS! It happened again – TWI ...
  BHO bows to India – and a Kenyan CEO says BHO is Kenyan!
• US’ Only National Carbon Market Shutting Down at t ...
  Seven years after opening, North America’s only national market trading all six greenhouse gases will close its doors at the end of this year. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary but legally binding system where members commit to annual greenhouse gas emission reduction targets will not ...
• Masked man’s lawyers seek Chinese media ban
  VANCOUVER – The detention review for a young Chinese man who fled to Canada disguised as an old Caucasian man turned into a mini-trial for three Chinese-Canadian newspapers Monday. Dan McLeod, lawyer for the asylum-seeker in his 20s, asked Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator Daphne Shaw-Dyck t ...
• Media Was Complicit In Bush’s War Crimes & L ...
  November 08, 2010 MSNBC The ED Show
• This Day In History – November 9
  1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills ...

The Air Vent

• Rain on the blackboard
  Lucia has an interesting post on condensation at the blackboard.  Now that I’m understanding Anastassia’s claims better, I’m not sure this relates at all to her work but that doesn’t stop it from being interesting. Link here if you’re interested.
• He’s a Denier
  Coming up on a year since Climategate and Minnesotans for Global Warming has a new song commemorating the event. The denier mantra doesn’t bother me as much as some, it doesn’t describe skeptics anyway. H/T Brian H.
• Tax the rich
  Tax the rich, is the common phrase heard from Democrats today.  They describe how much extending the Bush tax cuts will ‘cost’ the government.  The balance between letting them all expire and keeping the majority of the hapless voters cajoled is to increase tax on a minority of the population whic ...
• Second order
  Judith Curry has a new blog post which has inspired me to write on Libertarians and climate.  She has written a couple of times with negative commentary toward libertarians and environmental causes.  While she never actually attacks the Libertarian philosophy herself, her points are widely believed. ...
• Newthink
  Andrew Montford linked to another self exoneration article by Michael Mann published in ‘New Scientist’, a magazine which may need to consider a less progressive title.  As we have learned when Mann writes, his language is full of half truths and intentionally misleading statements which do no good ...

Focal Point

• Uncle Sam Wants YOU to Eat More Cheese
  Guess what? Eating cheese isn't just a mindblowing sensual pleasure, it's also a patriotic duty. God bless America! The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending millions of tax dollars to help companies like Domino's Pizza infuse their products with ever-increasing amounts of cheese, according to ...
• Chris Hayes Will Not Sub for Keith Olbermann After ...
  Nation editor Chris Hayes was will not be subbing for Keith Olbermann after all. I posted earlier that he was disinvited but, that was incorrect. Hayes tweeted : "OK: I'm not filling in on Countdown tonight because I didn't feel comfortable doing it given the circumstances."� MSNBC announced that H ...
• Keith Olbermann Suspended for Political Contributi ...
  MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after Politico reported that he made campaign contributions to progressive Democrats: Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday ...
• [Duplicate Plz Delete] Keith Olbermann Suspended f ...
  MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after Politico reported that he made campaign contributions to progressive Democrats: Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday ...
• Stupid is Fearless: Corporate America Supplies a V ...
  The GOP takes the House, brace for a Tsunami of Stupid. [Photo credit: Lindsay Beyerstein ]

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Tests “Find Friends Browser” for Discover ...
  Facebook appears to be testing a Find Friends Browser feature as a new part of its tool for helping people connect with Facebook users they already know in real life. In it, users can select to view friend suggestions of people who share their same location, work, education provider, or who are frie ...
• Early PR Leader Brandee Barker to Depart Facebook
  One of the long-time voices helping to shape Facebook’s public image is leaving to start her own communications consulting practice. Brandee Barker joined Facebook in August of 2006, before the site had 10 million users, and essential features like the News Feed. Over the next few years, she played ...
• RockMelt Offers Social Media Browser for Update an ...
  RockMelt, a web browser designed for consuming social media and other frequently updated content, launched its beta yesterday. The browser keeps a count of fresh news feed content, persistently displays friends for quick contacting, and makes it easy to share webpages you’re viewing. The desktop app ...
• Now Showing: Friends’ Photo Albums Module on the N ...
  Facebook is now showing a right sidebar module called “Friends’ Photo Albums” which displays photos uploaded by the friends a user interacts with most. However, unlike many of Facebook’s modules such as Unread Messages or Photo Memories, Friends’ Photo Albums appears on a user’s news feed, as well a ...
• Phrases Tops 50 Million Users on This Week’s List ...
  Here’s something we couldn’t fit in the headline: Phrases, Facebook’s second-largest app after FarmVille, is now relying solely on countries outside the United States for its traffic. The app has picked up over three million people from around the world to lead this week’s AppData list of fastest-gr ...

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ReDress News

• Can the BBC be trusted to handle its own complaint ...
  Richard Lightbown describes how his complaint to the BBC about the Panorama documentary "Death on the Med" had been "fobbed off with a variety of excuses and imaginative distortions of the facts". He says the BBC can no longer be trusted to regulate itself and must be brought under the control of th ...
• How to anger the pro-Israel lobby
  Stuart Littlewood views what seems to be a lone principled voice among Western churchmen, Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan, whose campaign for justice for the people of Gaza has earned him the wrath of Israel’s stooges in the Anglican Church.
• Rabbis' edict bars renting to Arabs
  Jonathan Cook reports on a wave of anti-Arab racism sweeping through the Upper Galilee and led by rabbis, which aims at ostracizing and ethnically cleansing Israel's own Arab citizens.
• Obama and Jihad and how not to fight terrorism
  Alan Hart reminds Western leaders that the principal cause of "terrorism" is injustice - the injustice that leads communities to tolerate and harbour "extremists" - and that at the core of the injustice that feeds political terror by Muslim and Arab groups is the double standard of Western foreign p ...
• Israel's Netanyahu undoubted winner of US mid-term ...
  Uri Avnery argues that although the Republican win in the US mid-term elections represents a victory for Binyamin Netanyahu, the longer term prospects for the Israeli prime minister and those he represents are much less certain.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• Podcast Show #35
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Sullivan 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 terror,” came to succeed the earlier European imperial powers as arbiter of the interna ...
• Chris Floyd’s ‘The Good Corporal’
  ‘To the Exposers of Power & the Troublers of Dreams’ Yesterday one of our readers e-mailed me a link to a recent work by Chris Floyd dedicated to truth tellers who are commonly labeled as whistleblowers, but aptly referred by him as the Exposers of Power and the Troublers of Dreams. About three year ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s 2012 Platform
  ‘They Made Me Do It!’ The Obama Campaign team has finalized its core message and marketing platform for the 2012 presidential elections. After several months of intense debate and ‘market research,’ the Obama Presidency ‘marketing executives’ have put together yet another simple and short ‘market ca ...
• Going on Record on Labeling & Labelers
  Censorship Fanatics Come from All Walks of Life It is funny and sad at the same time. In the course of one week I have gone from Anti-Semite to Anti-Muslim. Within a week I have been labeled Filthy Jew-Basher and Fear-Mongering Islamophobic. I find it funny since the logic-free arguments of these fa ...

Afro Spear

• “Tanzania, yet again, goes to the dogs!&#822 ...
  Though Tanzania has always wrongly been regarded as a strong and peaceful country in the region, this does no longer hold water thanks to what transpired in the just ended elections. Recent sham and rigged general elections opened everything bare as it told the whole hidden story behind this former ...
• 2 African American Republicans Elected To Congress
  Allan West (left) from Florida and Tim Scott from South Carolina, are the first black Republicans to be elected to the U.S. Congress in over a decade. Both apparently represent the more conservative wing of the party and had received support from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.  Read NYTimes article ...
• sat’day riddymz
• When Voting and Racism Collide
  Meet John Barr; Ypsilanti Township, Mich racist. I met John this past Tuesday (Nov 2) when I went to my polling location to vote. Backstory: Over the last few months, I had been debating how I would vote for Mich governor. I was or torn between voting for a republican whom I felt was competent [...]
• KKK costume wins first prize at Halloween Party: Y ...
  From CBC news: The Royal Canadian Legion ordered its Campbellford, Ontario chapter to close while police are investigating a complaint that a person in Ku Klux Klan robes led a man in blackface with a rope around his neck and won first prize at its Halloween party. Edward Pigeau, president of the le ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• A Six-Step Process for Managing Web Projects
  After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
• A Six-Step Process for Managing and Developing Web ...
  After years of intensive work in the IT industry, I've put together a practical guide to project development that my company uses for 99 percent of our projects. So far we've done amazingly well with this approach. Once you know it, it feels so simple and natural that you don't even know you know it ...
• Citytracking Presents Data on Cities for Maps, Vis ...
  Citytracking, one of this year's Knight News Challenge winners, will present digital data about cities that journalists and the public can easily grasp and use, and provide tools to let them distribute their own conclusions. We will build a series of tools to map and visualize data that is truly Int ...
• Blimee Brings Local News, Engagement and Instant O ...
  New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...
• Retro-Radical Journalism
  New ideas, new ventures, new visions: They never turn out quite the way the entrepreneur expects, and often the path to success comes from walking backwards into a great idea. That's what happened with an innovative digital media journalism venture that emerged from the Knight Center for Digital Med ...

Cutting Edge News

• The EV Edge - Honda is Finally on Board with Plug- ...
  Many people new to the EV world may not understand the importance of Honda’s announcement about the inevitability of EVs. Honda’s new CEO, Takanobu Ito, stated in an interview with Reuters, “It’s starting to look like there will be a market for electric vehicles. We can’t keep shooting down their po ...
• The Economic Edge - Obama Care is Killing Recovery
  Six months ago, the Health Care Reform Act became law. Prior to its passage, Nancy Pelosi condescendingly announced, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” President Obama also assured Americans that health care “reforms … will finally reduce the costs of health care … Fa ...
• Chile on the Edge - President Chinchilla: The “Pup ...
  On May 8th, 2010, Laura Chinchilla was sworn into office as the first female president of Costa Rica, following the second term of fellow National Liberation Party (PLN) candidate Oscar Arias. Chinchilla had been slated as a potential presidential candidate since 2008, when she resigned as Costa Ric ...
• Mideast Peace on Edge - Obama Midway in his Admini ...
  Having reached the midway point of this term, the Obama administration is now at a logical time to evaluate where its effort in Israeli-Palestinian mediation stand, and to look ahead at prospects for the future. The Obama administration inherited challenging conditions in 2009. The Bush administrati ...
• Significant Lives - Why I Still Miss Yitzhak Rabin
  As a journalist, I covered Yitzhak Rabin for the better part of eight years, from 1987 to 1995. During that period, I interviewed him when he was defense minister and in the political opposition, and I covered him when he was prime minister of Israel, during the zenith of the peace process. Fifteen ...

High Country News

• Draining the tub
  Lake Mead has dropped below its record low, and the reservoir's future does not look good.
• Grace behind glass
  An fish ladder on the Columbia River provides a view of unexpected wonders.
• The windhover
  Biologist Travis Booms tracks Alaska's elusive gyrfalcons.
• Trouble in the PRB
  Environmentalists are attacking "the heart of the beast": the coal mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
• Dam removal for dummies
  A how-to guide to free-flowing rivers, with illustrations from Oregon's recently removed Gold Ray Dam.

CounterCurrents

• After The Campaign Cash, The Backlash
  By Brooke Jarvis The 2010 midterm elections, the first since Citizens United opened the floodgates to corporate campaign cash, were the most expensive in history. So what happens next?
• Zombie-Marxism Part II: What Marx Got Right
  By Alex Knight This is part of an essay critiquing the philosophy of Karl Marx for its relevance to 21st century anti-capitalism. The main thrust of the essay is to encourage living common-sense radicalism, as opposed to the automatic reproduction of zombie ideas which have lost connection to curre ...
• Expect Next Phase Of Market Crash And A Large One ...
  By Alexander Ac Interview With Nicole Stoneleigh Foss
• The Peak Oil Crisis: The Leading Edge
  By Tom Whipple Last week an organization in California, The Post Carbon Institute, released a new book, The Post Carbon Reader, which draws a much broader picture of the serious issues facing mankind. The basic proposition of the book is that the world has reached the limits of growth in terms of ...
• Becoming An Empathic Civilization
  A Video

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Palestinian's Still Working To Sabotage "Peace Ta ...
  By Barry Rubin Here are two developments that are important indicators about the Israel-Palestinian situation. First, the current Palestinian Authority (PA) strategy is to stall and avoid negotiations because making a deal with Israel requires giving concessions to get to a compromis ...
• TSA Cleared Illegals Who Overstayed Visa For Fligh ...
  Gee didn't stuff like this get us in trouble almost ten years ago?� Before they hijacked the flights on 9/11 and flew their airplanes into the pentagon and the twin towers, the al Qaeda terrorists who were in the country illegally,� had to learn how to fly. So they went to some of the best flight sc ...
• How Syria Uses Terrorism For Political Gain: Inter ...
  In the complicated realm of the Middle East, Syria plays a central role. Giyus.org sat down with Professor Eyal Zisser, an expert on the modern history of Syria and Lebanon, to get a better understanding of Syria and the way it uses terror to advance its political goals in the region. Prof. Zisser i ...
• Maxine Waters Caught in Brand New Scandal
  Maxine Waters may be facing new ethics charges, at the very least she has gotten involved with something that smell a bit on the "crooked side. According to a report in the Washington Times, a powerful lobbying form paid Waters� banker husband $15,000 in �consulting fees� at the very same time Ms Wa ...
• Defeated Congressional Dems Write Letter To Pelosi ...
  � Not everyone is happy with Nancy Pelosi's intention to run for the Position of house minority leader. The people who object to her new move are called Democrats.� The consensus is that by seeking to stay in power only serves to help the GOP, after all in 2012 the GOP can run against the same thr ...

The Real Agenda

• Spy pill: Novartis seeks approval of tablet with m ...
  "I see the promise as going much beyond that," says Trevor Mundel, global head of development for Novartis.
• El Tabú del Periódico La Nación: La Libertad de Ex ...
  Por Luis R. Miranda El terrorismo es seguramente uno de los temas más discutidos hoy en día, probablemente el más discutido.  Sin embargo para el periódico La Nación de Costa Rica, este es un tema que se deja debajo del tapete; es una patata muy caliente.  El asunto del terrorismo no puede ser abord ...
• Climate Scientists fear Budget cuts and prepare to ...
  Scientists plan campaign against global warming sceptics, continue to warn of doomsday if people do not accept their gospel Los Angeles Times The American Geophysical Union plans to announce that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. Other scientists plan a pushback against congress ...
• G20 Nations Slam Quantitative Easing
  Emerging nations also take measures to avoid currency valuation against the purposely concocted fall of the dollar. Reuters U.S. President Barack Obama defended the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing dollars on Monday after China and Russia stepped up criticism ahead of this week’s Group of 20 mee ...
• Científicos de California Cuestionan uso de Escáne ...
  Por Luis R. Miranda Cientificos y profesores del área científica de la Universidad de California en San Francisco han oficialmente externado su preocupación con el uso de escáneres corporales en los aeropuertos, pues según ellos, estos presentan serios riesgos a la salud de quienes son obligados a s ...

Wind Watch

• Oregon county tells wind farm to quiet down
  HEPPNER, Ore. � An Oregon county is telling the owner of a big wind farm to quiet down so neighbors can sleep at night. The operator of the Willow Creek Energy Center southwest of Boardman objects to the unusual noise enforcement. Another wind farm developer active in the area has reportedly paid ne ...
• Wind farm revolts blamed for dramatic fall in plan ...
  Local revolts by British residents against wind farms are to blame for the number of planning approvals hitting record lows, an industry report has warned. More than 230 campaign groups across the country are putting plans to generate more than a quarter of Britain�s electricity in jeopardy, it was ...
• Massive protest greets wind turbine developers
  FERGUS � A massive protest greeted officials from wpd Canada in Fergus Tuesday evening, and flowed into the renewable energy developer�s open house on the proposed Springwood Wind Project (formerly known as Belwood Wind Farm), a four turbine wind energy system planned for agricultural land in the no ...
• A new slant on wind farms
  Jerusalem, N.Y. â John Grabski, representing the Jerusalem Preservation Association, brought a seldom explored topic to the subject of wind farms at the Oct. 20 Jerusalem Town Council meeting – economic devaluation. Public discussions on wind farms usually include noise, flicker, dead birds and disc ...
• The great wind debate
  The Tribune reported a number of questions and concerns relating to county Proposals 1 & 2 in the Q&A article, �Wind district questions answered� in the Oct. 9 edition. Since then, the paper�s received requests from both opponents and proponents to address additional issues of the wind energy debate ...

Not My Tribe

• Is this perhaps a call to arms?
  We have a far greater right to resist either the Minutemen or the actually Deputized Racists like Sheriff Arpaio or the Border Patrol, with force of deadly arms if necessary, simply because they have already demonstrated their willingness to assault, either through arrest and then beating us (while ...
• 49 million shares of Microsoft sold
  for a total of over a billion, by one seller, the CEO Steve Ballmer. This at a time when certain content-specific software such as Adobe Acrobat and Macromedia Flash were acquired by Microsoft, the largest Internet Service Provider in America, Comcast, own a subsidiary of both NBC and Microsoft, and ...
• How to tweak a headline, right wing style.
  Without being called an extremist, or if anybody does you can call him a paranoid or otherwise mentally ill “conspiracy theorist”. From The Atlanta Examiner: “AARP members bash Obamacare”. This mirrors a similar “Shocking” headline Fox did last year when about 1% of the AARP membership left the orga ...
• Boo-McHaa-McHoo, Kids NOT being McBranded
  McDonalds is upset. Their Corporate “News” McPartners are upset. San Francisco voters ratified a law requiring that toys only be placed in McHappy McMeals that don’t exceed the recommended daily allowance of calories. Which, the vast majority of their food not only exceeds but doubles the recommende ...
• Piñon Canyon slowly being conquered by Imperialist ...
  It’s not just apparent, it’s Elephant-in-the-parlor obvious that the Pentagon assumes they own not only every square centimeter of Foreign lands conquered by their Legion of Doom Imperial Stormtroopers. Every square centimeter in America too. Ed has put together a short collection of videos pointing ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• WTC 7: Simulation vs. Reality - One of These Thing ...
  Can YOU guess which thing is not like the other things? .....
• Debunking Popular Technology.net
  This page is a response to the " Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories " page at Popular Technology.net and to Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog who thinks " it links to lots of terrific sources. " Debunking Penn and Teller's Bullshit! 9-11 episode PharmaWhores: The Showtime Sting of Penn & T ...
• Amplifying the Sounds of Loud and Clear
  911 EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY - Chemical Engineer Mark Basile Related Info: The Sounds of Loud and Clear
• What's Up With "Building What?"?
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently asked some questions about the status of the " BuildingWhat? " campaign, he states: Building Wut is still at $88,009. Hasn't budged in about 10 days, and they haven't begged again on Flogger. Wut's up with that ? Who's going on vacation with the B ...
• There Are No 9/11 Whistleblowers If You Claim They ...
  First a little background from the film Loose Change Final Cut : This story has received new life recently after the Pentagon bought and destroyed 10,000 copies of a book, "Operation Dark Heart," written by Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, prompting an editorial published at Investors Business Daily to ask: " ...

Fooducate

• ADA Launches Kids Eat Right – Shop. Cook. Eat.
  We’re in Boston for the 2010 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE),  organized by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The ADA has just announced a new initiative to get kids eating healthfully – Kids Eat Right. The idea is to get registered dietitians involved in their local communiti ...
• Pictures from an Exhibition
  We’re at the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo, in Boston this year. The event is the years biggest meetup of dietitians, members of the ADA. More than 10,000 dietitians are expected to attend this year (that’s about 15% of the total dietitian population in the US!). Aside from the many ...
• Challenges in Nutrition [from Tufts Friedman Sympo ...
  We’re in Boston this weekend for 2 important nutrition events. Today we participated in Tufts University’s Friedman Symposium, and starting tomorrow we will be at FNCE, the American Dietetic Association’s annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. At the Friedman Symposium, we participated in t ...
• Check Out the New Fooducate iPhone App !
  We’ve recently launched an iPhone app, simply called Fooducate. The app lets shoppers make better, healthier  choices at the supermarket. It empowers you with all the tips and tricks we’ve been writing about on this blog. Here’s a slide show with a brief overview: With the Fooducate iPhone app, ...
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• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
• Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
  Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
• 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
  This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...

Survival International

• Survival protestors target World Travel Market
  Survival's petition has so far gathered more than 15,000 signatures. © Survival Visitors to the World Travel Market will today be greeted by protestors from Survival, calling for a boycott of Botswana tourism. Survival launched its boycott in September over the Botswana government’s continued ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• Brazil's Libra oil field may be biggest in America ...
  The Libra oil field in Brazil may be the biggest discovered in the Americas for more than 30 years, according to the country's industry regulator.
• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.
• Deepwater lessons
  Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.
• Greenpeace claims to have shut down Greenland oil ...
  Greenpeace claims its activists have shut down a ''dangerous'' oil drilling operation by a British energy company in the Arctic.
• BP handout 'saved the summer' in Florida
  Visitor numbers in Florida have risen despite the BP oil spill, thanks to a £20m promotion, reports Richard Luscombe.

Ian Welsh

• Death and Rebirth of a Republic
  (From Formerly T-Bear) First it is “Change election funding” but to do so Law needs be legislated; but the legislature is broken. Then it is “Elect more better™ legislators” but the political process is corrupted; the political parties are broken. Then it is control the government but that is run an ...
• The Life Cycle of a Republic
  (From Formerly T-Bear) First it is “Change election funding” but to do so Law needs be legislated; but the legislature is broken. Then it is “Elect more better™ legislators” but the political process is corrupted; the political parties are broken. Then it is control the government but that is run an ...
• Jobs make break even point
  151,000 jobs were gained last month.  150K is the break-even point given population gain to maintain employment.  This is neither a good nor a bad figure.
• Obama did NOT save the US From a Depression
  Stop saying Obama saved the economy, he did no such thing. The US is in a depression (not a great depression, but a depression). All Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson and Bush did was push the day of reckoning back a bit in order to save the rich, at the cost of trillions of dollars which [...]
• Democratic margins in a base precinct (2006 v. 201 ...
  I live and vote in a Democratic base precinct.  And my precinct is the story of the election.  Here is the data from 2006 and last night. 2006 2010 2010-2006 Total RV 709 705 -4 Total Voters 360 314 -46 % Voting 50.8 44.6 -6.2 Straight Dem 120 92 -28 Straight GOP 28 36 8 [...]

Age of Autism

• Sponsor a SafeMinds Flu Shot Safety Video at Major ...
  Help us spread the word about the danger of flu shots with mercury SafeMinds would like to run the 30-second public service announcement below in select movie theaters around the country during Thanksgiving, the biggest movie attendance week of the...
• Meet The Age of Autism's Mark Blaxill & Dan Olmste ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Mark your calendars for The NAA Conference in St. Pete this weekend to meet Dan and Mark. They'll be in Minnesota in December. See below for details. From their website: A groundbreaking book, THE AGE OF AUTISM...
• Two Winners! Hand Hold Adaptive's Autism Track iAp ...
  Our friends from HandHold Adaptive have kindly offered to give NINE Age of Autism readers a free copy of their newest app, AutismTrack. We have eight six left! Congrats to KDM and Cheryl Connelly. I've sent you each an email....
• Temple Grandin Voted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame
  View the video from WFAA in Dallas HERE. Temple Grandin inducted into Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth Posted on October 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM She's not a Hollywood star or even a hotshot producer or director, but...
• Katie Wright: Why I Love the Department of Defense
  By Katie Wright No, I am not involved in the military, I do not have a family member serving in the military, and in all honestly the Department of Defense rarely crossed my mind. The only time I feel “militaristic”...

Global BDS Movement

• OECD hires services from extremist Jewish settler ...
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• Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on ...
  � Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  � Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more
• Legal Memorandum by Professor Karma Nabulsi on Isr ...
  � Memorandum presented by Dr Karma Nabulsi , University of Oxford, to OECD member-states about their legal obligations during Israel's accession process (May 2010)  � Dr Karma Nabulsi is  Fellow of St Edmund Hall and lecturer at Oxford University � read more
• Eight countries absent from OECD Tourism Conferenc ...
  EIGHT COUNTRIES ABSENT FROM OECD TOURISM CONFERENCE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 October 2010     - Norway, Canada, Ireland, UK, Sweden, Iceland, Turkey and South Africa not present at OECD tourism conference     - Czech Republic only EU country to send political representation to „High-level roundtab ...
• BNC releases Memo and Recommendations for OECD cou ...
  Israel’s accession to OECD: encouraging impunity, rewarding war crimes read more

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.

Open Your Eyes News

• Three dead as Morocco breaks up Western Sahara cam ...
  BBC – At least three people have been killed in clashes in Western Sahara, after Moroccan security forces broke up a protest camp in the disputed region.The camp, for several thousand people near the territory’s capital, Laayoune, was the biggest protest against Moroccan rule in the 35-year dispute. ...
• Australia: Packer, Murdoch accept seats on Ten boa ...
  ABC – James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch have accepted Ten Network’s offer of board seats, after Mr Packer launched a share raid on the company last month. Mr Packer has ended up with a 17.9 per cent stake in the broadcaster, after initially buying a 15.6 per cent block of the company’s shares off-mar ...
• Israel plans 1,300 East Jerusalem Jewish settler h ...
  BBC – Israel has revealed plans to build nearly 1,300 housing units for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem.Building settlements is illegal under international law and recent efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have stalled over the issue.The announcement comes as Israel’s Prime ...
• Pilots boycott full-body scanners over health fear ...
  News.com.au – The world’s largest pilot’s association has boycotted full-body scanners over health risks but passengers wishing to avoid the devices may instead be faced with “invasive” pat-down searches. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) made the recommendation in a recent letter to its members, ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day: Oil price projection with ...
  World oil production went into inherent over supply with the discovery of the giant East Texas field in the 1930’s. Control of the oil market was taken over by OPEC, in particular Saudi Arabia, after the first oil shock of 1973. Inherent oversupply ended in about 2004 with the steep rise in Chinese ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Drinking water crisis: A California town fights ba ...
  More than a million Californians live in places where tap water isn't reliably safe to drink, and about a third of them are in small, mostly Latino towns such as Seville in the San Joaquin Valley. Many residents of those...
• Southern California freeway pollution: Is monitori ...
  A federal appeals court was asked Thursday to decide what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should do about noxious air pollution along some of Southern California's busiest highways. The case brought against the EPA by the Natural Resources Defense Council...
• Obama faces tricky decision on polar bear, climate ...
  Just as President Obama faces a Congress that promises to be more skeptical of climate-related environmental regulation, a federal court has tossed a controversial case back in his lap: the polar bear. The bear was the first species to be...
• Gulf oil spill: Dead deep-sea corals found near BP ...
  Scientists on a research cruise have found dead and dying deep-sea corals near the site of the massive BP oil leak. Federal officials reported the discovery Thursday, saying that until laboratory tests were conducted on coral and sediment samples, they...
• Genesis solar project in Riverside County gets fed ...
  Call it the season of solar: Yet another sprawling desert project has been approved. On Thursday, it was the Genesis Solar Energy Project’s turn. With the go-ahead from both the federal Bureau of Land Management and the California Energy Commission,...

water.org

• Water.org gets ‘Glamour’ous shout out (ONE)
  ONEâs causes get a âGlamourâous shout out (ONE) – At ONE, we never ask for your money â we just ask for your voice as part of our advocacy work around poverty alleviation. But, we have to admit, itâs pretty cool when outside sources encourage donations to some of the effective programs we care deepl ...
• Arts for a Better World for Water.org (Miami Premi ...
  Better World Exhibit Benefits Global Charities during Art Basel (Miami Premier Guide) – Joining Miamiâs December art scene with élan, ARTS FOR A BETTER WORLD (âAFABWâ) is a bold endeavor to unite a large-scale commercial exhibition with the non-profit community. From December 1 to 5, 2010, more tha ...
• Water.org – Gym Video (Miami Ad School)
  Water.org – Gym (Miami Ad School) – Some people don’t need to work out to get thirsty. See video at Cinema 5D.
• Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation (MFF)
  Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation Accelerate Microfinance for Clean Water (Microfinance Focus) – Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation have launched a $3.6 million partnership to bring clean drinking water and sanitation services to people in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next four years. This ...
• An introduction to WaterCredit in India (IndiaMF)
  An Introduction to Water Credit in India (India MicroFinance) – The Water Credit Initiative has been funded by social entrepreneur Gary White and Hollywood Actor Matt Damon through their organisation Water.org which has invested US$ 2.2 million in Water Credit programs. Water credit applies the prin ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• PA: Shin Bet officers met with top Hamas officials ...
  According to the Palestinian sources, the Shin Bet officers visited the four in their homes late at night, were permitted to enter and then explained that they did not intend to arrest the four, but to talk "over a cup of coffee." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
• Here's how Israel can help delegitimize itself
  One of the most severe claims against Israel is that its legal system does not punish criminal soldiers. Whitewashing crimes and granting automatic and sweeping support to every soldier will result in a "zero tolerance" approach by the international commu Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
• Hecklers disrupt Netanyahu's speech at U.S. Jewish ...
  "This is not Tikkun Olam. Oppressing people in refugee camps is not Tikkun Olam. And it is a hypocrisy that I cannot abide." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Iraqi Kids Struggle on Dangerous Edges
  Growing up is hard for Iraqi children in Syria. Since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Syria has registered 260,000 Iraqis - with this year's total just over 150,000. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� � ...
• PA, Hamas use passports as ammo in battle between ...
  Human rights organizations say the PA is punishing Gaza Palestinians affiliated with Hamas by depriving them of travel documents. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• No on Prop 23: California Solar Industry Goes From ...
  With Proposition 23 no longer sitting in the wings the California solar industry can go full speed ahead and continue to benefit from the state's landmark climate legislation AB 32 and incentives, wh read more
• EBOOM CAPITAL: Sizzling E•B Solar Subindex led the ...
  EnergyBoom Solar Subindex (Eâ¢B Solar) led markets November 1-5. EnergyBoom’s E•B Solar subindex increased 5.10 percent last week, beating EnergyBoom’s other four clean se ...
• Los Angeles Moves Forward WIth Plans to Build City ...
  The City of Los Angeles has advanced its plans to build the municipality's largest solar array. The 5-megawatt photovoltaic array would be placed on top of a covered reservoir in Granada Hills.� The US$15.3 million project will see sol ...
• Logitech Releases Solar Powered Keyboard
  Logitech ( NASDAQ:LOGI ) has announced it will release of the company's first solar powered wireless keyboard this month. read more
• EBOOM CAPITAL: Lower VC Investment, Day4 Energy Ac ...
  Day4 Energy solar modules installed at Fischbach, Germany U.S. venture capital investment in cleantech companies in Q3 fell 55 percent in capital invested and 22 percent i ...

News Blaze

• Israel Tortures Prisoners With Hot Irons and Elect ...
  Libelous drawings depicting fictitious 'Israeli torture' are part of the new introduction to a PA TV program for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and their families.
• KCET Names Zach Behrens Editor-in-Chief
  'KCET is expanding its online team as part of a strategic effort to direct additional resources to social media initiatives that will better serve our communities,' said Mazur.
• The United States Deeply Disappointed By The Elect ...
  The United States is deeply disappointed by the elections in Burma. The generals who have ruled the country for the past 22 years missed an opportunity to begin genuine transition toward democratic governance and national reconciliation.
• Secretary Clinton Underscores The Power of Teamwor ...
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited University of Melbourne today to answer issues on the evolving partnership between United States in terms of trade relations, military alliance, and the common generosity to reach out...
• Post-Election Violence in Burma
  The rebels reportedly seized a police station and post office in the border town of Myawaddy. At least 10,000 refugees have fled across the border into Thailand to escape the fighting, according to the Thai military.

Historical Notes

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libcom

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

Free Range International

• Afghanistan Summary
  This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
• On The Border
  The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
• Inchon
  Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...
• The Going Is Getting Tough
  The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
• What A Mess
  I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• Good Energy Policy Makes For Good Economic Policy
  On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Good Energy Policy Makes For Good Economic Policy No Matter Who Is In The Majority Nov 4, 2010 Huffington Post While news outlets around the country continue to … Continue reading →
• Dot Earth: Cities as Hubs of Energy and Climate Ac ...
  On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Nov 6, 2010 New York Times ANDREW C. REVKIN 9:49 p.m. | Updated A pair of energy and development specialists from the mayorsâ offices in New York City … Continue reading →
• Heroes wanted in climate science story
  On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Heroes wanted in climate science story Nov 8, 2010 USA Today Dan Vergano In a house in the woods, somewhere far away, perhaps lives someone who doesn’t love … Continue reading →
• China-diesel shortage, disrupting industry
  On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: China suffers diesel shortage, disrupting industry Nov 8, 2010 Associated Press Online By JOE McDONALD BEIJING, Nov. 8, 2010 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) — Aggravated Chinese truck … Continue reading →
• Wind Energy Debate- Generation Gap Slowing Future ...
  On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Young people are being urged to join the debate on renewable energy after new findings showed older generations are blocking the building of wind farms. - 75 per … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Your Vote Didn’t Count Last Tuesday
  Fed policy decision cancels out the voice of voters.
• Grand Rapids Woman Harassed by Fair Housing Do-Goo ...
  if America is so free why can't you advertise for a "Christian" roommate?
• Statist Policies Cause More Harm Than Good
  A sure fire way to make a situation worse is to involve the government.
• Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
  The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Housing Demolition in East Jerusalem
  As a way to maintain its control in East Jerusalem, the Israeli government has been displacing Palestinians through housing demolition orders.
• Metropolitan Diary (Apologies to Times): Military ...
  A vignette from the annual conference of something called the Association of the United States Army.
• The Pentagon Must Protect Whistleblowers
  Military whistleblowers deserve safe channels to report wrongdoing they find on the ground without the fear of retaliation.
• Operation Flintlock in Niger
  In this interview, Peace Corps volunteer Nathan Dieck provides a rare firsthand account of a U.S. counter-terrorism operation in Africa.
• 60 Second Expert: Japan v. China
  A minor collision between a Chinese fishing boat and Japanese Coast Guard vessel last August continues to resonate in the region.

Law.com

• Decline in law firm diversity blamed on a few 'bad ...
  The ranks of women and minority attorneys at U.S. law firms declined last year, according to a number of recent surveys, but the numbers don't tell the full story.
• EXCLUSIVE: Chevron in Ecuador — More of the ...
  EXCLUSIVE: A judge concludes that the need to depose the U.S. plaintiffs' lawyer in the suit against Chevron in Ecuador is 'extremely great' — and cites newly released outtakes from the documentary Crude. | WATCH EARLIER OUTTAKES | FULL COVERAGE: CHEVRON IN ECUADOR
• Rocket Docket Breakdown: Will borrowers get due pr ...
  Now that a national foreclosure controversy has exposed shoddy and allegedly illegal practices by lenders, services and their law firms, questions have also been raised about the role of the judiciary and Bar groups.
• Waving a Red Flag
  For the past eight years, the Federal Trade Commission has pushed for greater regulation of the legal profession, drawing ire from the American Bar Association and rebukes from federal judges. Now, the agency is back in court trying to salvage rules that would force lawyers to detect, combat and rep ...
• Bankruptcy Judge Olson agrees to drop out of Chapt ...
  U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Olson has dropped out of a Chapter 11 case after attorneys accused him of bias toward his fiance, who is with the trustee's law firm.

Iranian.com

• Iran tries to reduce road accidents.....and rage
  After 40 years a proposal by the traffic management authorities has been forwarded to the parliament for ratification. Iran’s road rage is amongst the world’s worst with 6,000 fatalities in the first five months of the current year. Iran’s road traffic accidents have become a real menace to the soci ...
• Iran's middle class to be hard hit as subsidy prog ...
  TEHRAN - Last year, Tehran's writers, doctors and small-business owners formed the backbone of a grass-roots opposition movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Now these middle-class urbanites feel they're being singled out by a government plan that will soon cut off state subsidies and boo ...
• دو دهه رهبری ویرانگر علی خامنه‌ای
  هنوز چند روز از سفر پرهیاهو علی خامنه‌ای به قم نگذشته است که "رهبر عظیم الشان" باردیگر به دیدار مراجع قم رفت. مسافرت علی خامنه‌ای به قم، نیاز وی به آن همه جنجال تبلیغاتی و صرف هزینه سرسام آور و دستاورد ناچیز این سفر همه نشاندهنده بن بست یک سیاست و پایان یک دوران است.
• Iraq: Deadly car bombing hits Karbala killing at l ...
  A car bomb has exploded in the city of Karbala in central Iraq, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens more, officials say. read more
• Nasrin Sotoudeh's Family Speak Up
  Nasrin Sotoudeh's family talk to Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani about their visit with her inside Evin Prison.

Most Revolutionary Act

• Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
  I am a little surprised by all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the Democrats’ loss of the House on November 2 nd . It’s not like everyone didn’t know it was going to happen. Not only has Obama been an abysmal president, but his administration has lost a substantial portion of his support b ...
• The Prison Industrial Complex – Part II
  As I stressed in my November 3 rd blog, it’s no longer politics and fear of violent crime that are driving America’s phenomenal incarceration rate – now the highest in the world. Statistics show that violent and property crime has been declining steadily since 1990 and that nearly half (one million) ...
• The 5/11 Truthers
  “Terrorist or Fall Guy” by Chris Trotter (in New Zealand we write the day before the month – today is 5/11/10 – Guy Fawkes Day) An excellent account of one of the earliest recorded (1605) “false flag” operations. http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2010/11/terrorist-or-fall-guy.html Share and Enjoy ...
• The Prison Industrial Complex
  I first became concerned about America’s growing prison industrial complex as a private practice psychiatrist in California and Washington between 1978 and 2002. What I witnessed, in essence was closure of most US mental hospitals in the late seventies and early eighties, with the ultimate transfer ...
• Support in High Places
  On November 2nd, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales releases his latest book Harmony , which he co-wrote with former Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper: We hear a lot about the royal family here in New Zealand. Most environmental activists here are aware that Prince Charles has been ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Palestinian Dreams
  I’ve been doing some posting in a  discussion group, and like watching the main stream media news, I have been astonished at what I see. For one thing, it really is true, there are people that literally believe that every word uttered on Fox News is the truth. I have a hard time understanding that, ...
• Gloria Ramirez and the Riverside Miasma, a Medical ...
  At 8:15pm on February 19, 1994, one Gloria Ramirez arrived at the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. She was extremely confused, and suffering from problems with her breathing and heartbeat. All pretty normal ER fare so far. The ER st ...
• Where are we, and what are we doing in this handba ...
  I’ve lately been tripping on just how much the world has changed in the past ten years, or more specifically, how the USA has changed. The “War on Terror” has been going on for nearly ten years now, and it’s reached new heights of transcendental absurdity. Absurd on many levels. Absurd in that the t ...
• Mars or Bust, Scientists Call for Suicide Mission ...
  Has NASA really put out a call for people who want to volunteer for a one way mission to Mars? Well, not yet, but two scientists did float the idea to test the waters so to speak. And it turns out, which shouldn’t be too surprising, that there are indeed people who would volunteer for [...]
• Scientists prove that humans can see into the futu ...
  OK, maybe that’s not quite literally what has been discovered, but close enough. A set of careful experiments has shown that the human brain can be influenced by events that haven’t happened yet! Let me repeat that just so it sinks in, scientists have discovered scientific proof that the human brain ...

FourWinds10

• Florida DEP finds Corexit ingredient in 50 PERCENT ...
• BP's Environmental Disaster: Fishermen Report Loui ...
• Hungaryâs toxic flood could turn into a cancerou ...
  Thousands of Hungarian residents battling to contain the flood of poisonous red sludge have been warned to wear face masks because as the slurry dries it will turn into a toxic dust cloud. The damage so far has come from the mud but with dry, hot weather and strong winds forecast over the next few d ...
• Cracked Hungarian Reservoir Near Collapse
• UPDATE ON THE GULF OIL SPILL CATASTROPHE
  The volumes of oil spilled have been grossly underestimated from the beginning. Corexit 9500 has been a valuable part of the coverup because it binds to oil and carries the oil below the surface of water where it is less visible. The fact that Corexit is so toxic it has been banned in Great Britain ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Stroke of a Pen
  Bob Dinneen wants Congress to extend ethanol tax credits with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."
• The Palm Oil Conundrum
  Join the forum discussion on this post People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing field (i.e., they don’t require big subsidies or mandates in order to compete). ...
• The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part III
  Join the forum discussion on this post This is the concluding installment of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy). Part I discussed the overall goals of the Navy’s biofuel efforts, and in Part II we covered why coal-to-liquids (CTL) is presently off-l ...
• The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part II
  Join the forum discussion on this post In Part I of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), we covered the nature of what the Navy is trying to achieve (and why) with respect to incorporating renewable energy into their operations. Part II begins with a ...
• The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part I
  Robert Rapier and Sam Avro conducted an interview with the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy) in which the Navy’s investments in biofuels were discussed.

Discovery Educator Network

• The map as history : a multimedia atlas of world h ...
  Tags: maps , history , atlas , geography , culture by: Tim Childers
• Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0
  Comments: Tutorials and Resources for Teachers - Clif Mims Tags: IDT7078 , 2.0 , Tutorial , Technology , Web-Apps , Clif-Mims , IDT7061 by: Clif Mims
• Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers: Prog ...
  Tags: google , googleapps , certification , education , apps , GAE by: Dean Mantz
• iear - VPP-Step By Step Instructions
  Comments: Step-by-step process for using Apples Volume Purchasing Program for apps and more. - Dean Mantz Tags: vpp , step , iear , instructions by: Dean Mantz
• HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  Comments: "HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites." - Fred Delventhal Tags: firefox , security , https , privacy , browser , extension , everyw ...

Rodale News

• Salmonella Contamination Triggers Egg Recall...Aga ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA--Salmonella-tainted eggs from an industrial farming operation have set off another large-scale egg recall, less than three months after filthy conditions at two Iowa factory fa read more
• Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Five Tips for Resetting Yo ...
  RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—Yesterday morning, many of us woke up feeling a little more chipper than usual. Turning the clock back to Standard Time brought that delicious extra hour of sleep we look forward to all year. In our sleep-deprived society, most of us cherish that hour of shut-eye like a gif ...
• 5 Natural Energy Boosters for Your Monday Morning
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Today, skip the elevator and take the stairs. This undying health and weight-loss tip is here to stay, and for good reason. read more
• "Hey Doc…Weren't You Supposed to Take Out the LEFT ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You enter a hospital trusting that the medical professionals know what they’re doing. But an analysis of a Colorado malpractice claims database found that even after years of efforts to improve the quality of care, doctors are still making serious mistakes, including operati ...
• Skin Absorbs Toxic Cash-Register-Receipt Chemical, ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Some researchers investigating human exposure to the harmful chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, believe that our biggest source of exposure is from food—probably because the chemical migrates into the food from its packaging or processing. Earlier this month, researchers found it ...

big think

• Can "Complementary" Currencies Save Us From the Ne ...
  In the wake of a global meltdown that exposed the fragility of our financial system, it's understandable that many people are suspicious of the stability of our centralized monetary systems. "We have had 97 major banking crashes over the last 25 years, and we have 178 monetary crashes over tha ...
• What Travels Faster Than the Speed of Light?
  One frequent question I get is whether we can break the light barrier—because unless we can break the light barrier, the distant stars will always be unreachable. Most textbooks say that nothing can go faster than light, but that statement actually should be qualified: The answer is yes, you can . ...
• 488 - Bodyworld: the Artography of Fernando Vicent ...
  The word atlas conjures up two very different ways of perceiving the world. The first one that springs to mind is of a book containing a planet-spanning collection of maps, exhaustively descriptive. And then there's Atlas the Greek titan, condemned to carry the weight of the entire world (1) on his ...
• Merapi Update for 11/8/2010: Death toll climbs as ...
  A quick update on the� ongoing eruption at Merapi �in Indonesia - the� death toll has now reached at least 141 �since the eruption started on October 26th. This number is likely a low estimate as officials in Indonesia think that people are buried in the thick ash and mud deposits from pyroclastic f ...
• Calif. Prop 23: Greens Outspend Big Oil 3-1 in Win ...
  In the wake of the Midterm elections, perhaps overlooked has been the defeat of California's Proposition 23, an oil-industry backed measure that would have overturned the state's legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions.� Environmentalists opposed to Prop. 23 were originally portrayed in news ...

Information Liberation

• TSA Groping Out Of Control
  TSA abuse in airports is completely out of control with more and more cases of security workers groping women, fondling children, abusing naked body scanners, and interrogating passengers emerging every week, and yet the government*s answer to the...
• World's Pilots Reject Naked Body Scanners Over Rad ...
  The largest union of airline pilots in the world is urging its members to boycott body imaging machines currently being rolled out in airports all over the globe, citing dangers of excessive exposure to harmful levels of radiatio...
• Protect Yourself and Your Family Against TSA Tyran ...
  Letter submitted to USA Today on Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM; rejected for publication at 2:35 PM: For those who may still be unfamiliar, please allow me to briefly explain what*s happening in the U.S.A. today. When a law abiding citizen wishes to...
• An Inflationary Death Spiral
  It seems the Fed has given up on the idea that the country can build a viable and stable economy through the conventional means. Instead, our central bank has resorted to once again growing GDP and increasing employment by the creation of asset bubbl...
• Rick Rule on Scarce Commodities, the High Price of ...
  The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Rick Rule. Introduction: Rick Rule began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever sinc...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nationa ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
• Stealing Democracy?
  G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Pandemic flu watch results
  Regular Sciencebase readers may recall that my family and I were recruited and took part in the participation in the 2009/2010 Flu Watch Project. During the whole period of the study we had just one cold or flu-like illness in the family, which was rather unusual for us. Personally, I almost reached ...
• 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. [. ...

RFF Library

• No title
  Congressional Research Service / Linda Luther http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40850_20100927.pdf [Summary] Electronic waste (e-waste) is a term that is used loosely to refer to obsolete, broken, or irreparable electronic devices like televisions, computer central processing units (CPUs), computer mo ...
• Marine Protected Areas: An Overview
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/RL32154/ There continues to be congressional interest in limiting human activity in certain areas of the marine environment, as one response to mounting evidence of declining environmental quality and populations of living resources. The pur ...
• Prospects for Producing Low Carbon Transportation ...
  Tom Kreutz, Princeton University http://tinyurl.com/3x5y3jm [Abstract] The climate implications of technologies that capture CO2 to produce transportation fuels (CCTF) are investigated by studying two examples: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process. Simple performanc ...
• Changes in the Arctic : Background and Issues for ...
  Congressional Research Service http://rfflibrary.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/changes-in-the-arctic-background-and-issues-for-congress/ First update since March 30, 2010 now available. Filed under: Energy and Climate, The Natural World Tagged: Climate Change, Energy Security, Fisheries, International Ag ...
• Pesticide Use and Water Quality: Are the Laws Comp ...
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/RL32884/ This report provides background on the emerging conflict over interpretation and implementation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA). For the more than 30 years since they ...

Scientific American - News

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

RAWA News

• WikiLeaks urges U.S. to fully examine abuses
  Reuters: The founder of WikiLeaks called on the United States on Thursday to fully examine abuses by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and to halt its “aggressive investigation” into his whistle-blowing organization. Julian Assange said WikiLeaks would release thousands of documents this year conc ...
• Mounting evidence of British war crimes
  WSWS: Britain’s armed forces stand accused of torture and murder, perpetrated in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The scale of the abuses involved cannot be attributed to a few “rogue” individuals, or covered up by the routine excuse that Britain simply got “too close” to the United States and is guilty o ...
• Number of sexual assaults is unacceptable, expert ...
  Postmedia News: The figures, reported in the recently released Canadian Forces Provost Marshal 2009 report, show reports of sexual assaults have decreased slightly, from 166 in 2008, but the numbers are still very troubling, said Michel Drapeau, a retired colonel now practising military law.
• AFGHANISTAN: Food Security Outlook, October 2010 t ...
  Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET): Internally displaced households and repatriated Afghan refugees from Pakistan in cereal deficit areas in east, south, and central Afghanistan are expected to be moderately to highly food insecure. There food security condition will worsen as Afghanista ...
• US not tracking spending on Afghan projects, audit ...
  BBC News: The US government has spent about $55bn on rebuilding in Afghanistan since 2001 but cannot easily show how the money was spent, a government watchdog says. The special inspector general's office for Afghanistan reconstruction talked of a “confusing labyrinth” of spending.

frogblog

• Coleman reads wrong speech
  The Govt introduced a new bill tonite – Taxation (International Investment & Remedial Matters) Bill. Unfortunately, Jonathan Coleman, as the Minister introducing the bill, was given the speech notes for a different tax bill – the Taxation (International Taxation and Life Assurance ...
• Flight tax vs oil price
  I have posted earlier about thePM’s short sightedness when it comes to considering the potential impacts of oil price increases on tourism, versus his loud complaining about the potential impacts of flight taxes being imposed by the UK govt. But I wondered if it was possible to quan ...
• Ghost of Melissa Lee haunts Mana by-election
  Public meetings on the Kapiti expressway have been postponed until after the Mana by-election, but Stephen Joyce had nothing to do with it…honest. It is apparently pure coincidence that the NZTA announced the postponement of the public consultation process on 2nd November, the same ...
• Drinkin’ yourself to death
  Alcohol is a pretty cheap commodity in New Zealand. This video shows some of the best ways you can try and drink yourself to death and offers a remedy This of course brings up the question: Why is John Key’s Government not even considering raising the tax on alcohol? Their own advi ...
• Joyce’s road and rail double standard
  The Herald reported today that the business case for the Auckland CBD rail loop will not be released until December. This suggests that the government may be planning not to fund the loop and so they’re holding the news back until the silly season. Dropping a big piece of bad news j ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The GOP's Problem
  Anne Applebaum writes today about the Senate election in Alaska, which pitted a tea partier who refused to endorse actual spending cuts against an old-style pol who bragged about bringing home the bacon. It highlighted the Republican Party's root problem in all its squalid glory, and the winner, as ...
• Our Unbalanced World
  One of the effects of the Fed's new quantitative easing program is that it will weaken the dollar slightly and possibly reduce the U.S. trade deficit a bit. That's a positive thing, but the Wall Street Journal reports that international reaction to the Fed's program is growing increasingly harsh: G ...
• DADT and the Courts
  Responding to my post earlier today about Republicans, not Democrats, being primarily responsible for blocking repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Glenn Greenwald tweeted: DADT was gone - done - and Barack Obama brought it back, probably for years. That's just a fact. Glenn was talking about the fact ...
• No Policy, No Narrative
  So last night Marian suggested that Obama is doomed. The economy is going to improve, Republicans will take all the credit for it, and they'll win in 2012. I don't actually believe that — partly because I'm not sure the economy is going to improve substantially, and partly because if it does I think ...
• The Senior Vote
  Speaking of senior citizens and how they voted this year, why did they suddenly decide to vote en masse for Republicans? Part of the reason is that everyone voted in masse for Republicans this year. Still, seniors switched in even higher numbers than most groups, despite the fact that the economic t ...

Insanity Report

• #FreeKeith…Cause Suspended Rich Guys Need Our Supp ...
  So Keith Olberman survived the world’s shortest suspension and will be back hosting Countdown on Tuesday.  With all apologies to MSNBC’s attempt at “see we  aren’t like Fox News” this whole incident has proven to me once more that Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same problem.  Let’s take the ...
• How The Fuck Does Bill Maher Get Away With This Sh ...
  I’ll be honest.  When the whole Juan Williams/NPR Fiasco went down, I didn’t call Juan a bigot.  I didn’t cry for him being fired because, well, he had no business being on NPR to begin with.  But I wasn’t going to call the man a bigot solely because he had the backbone to admit a [...]
• IC 208: Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Bush People
  Topics for the show: Woman in West Virginia utters words you never thought would be in a Police Report The NFL and bad coaching Mike Shanahan makes a good excuse for why parents should beat their kids Weezy’s free The McRib is back San Fran bans the Happy Meal The Midterm Elections Kanye West vs [.. ...
• FacePalm of the Week: San Francisco Bans Happy Me ...
  I know, it’s the day after the election and you’re probably expecting me to have a “FacePalm of the Week” for all the idiots (yes idiots), proud they didn’t vote.  Well, I’m here to surprise you.  No those people don’t get a facepalm.  No those people get something else from me:  A Kriss ‘Fuck You’. ...
• In Terms of Noise…MSNBC = Fox News
  So at the Rally yesterday, during one of the segments Jon Stewart played a montage of ridiculous over the top rhetoric from both sides (Left & Right) of the mainstream media.  No one around me in the rally at the time seemed to have any problem.  Most actuallylaughed.  But apparently some Liberals d ...

Simple Climate

• Prehistoric CO2 double-up gives warming data
  Measurements from a global warming episode 40 million years ago show that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere increased sea surface temperatures between 2 and 5ºC, Dutch and British scientists find.
• Extracting urine in the name of climate research
  50,000-year old animal toilets are in fact sensitive measures of prehistoric climate, says Brian Chase, from the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, France.
• Arctic warming full ahead
  With both the Northeast and Northwest Passages opening to shipping this year, as the Arctic climate continues to change rapidly, ships actually using them could make matters worse.
• “Cherry picking” is a rotten accusation
  Choosing which data to include and which to leave out is central to science, argues Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang, even though critics of climate scientists might object to leaving out certain weather stations from their temperature measurements.
• Climate-driven species creep hangs in the balance
  Competing influences are allowing the equatorial end of some organisms' range to stay in place, while warming allows them to move further polewards, but when the competition breaks down, population decline can be expected, scientists have suggested this week.

e!Science News

• McMaster scientists turn skin into blood
  In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin. read more
• Soy isoflavones may modify risk of breast cancer
  Increased phytoestrogens commonly found in dietary soy may modify the risk of some types of breast cancer, according to findings presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10, 2010. read more
• Starting dialysis earlier may be harmful for some ...
  Beginning dialysis therapy earlier in the development of advanced kidney disease appears to be associated with a greater risk of death for some patients in the following year, according to a report posted online today that will be published in the March 14 print issue of Archives of Internal Medicin ...
• Bilingualism delays onset of Alzheimer's symptoms
  A Canadian science team has found more dramatic evidence that speaking two languages can help delay the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms by as much as five years. read more
• 3 ORNL researchers receive presidential early care ...
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers Jeremy Busby, De-en Jiang and Sergei Kalinin are among 13 Department of Energy scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE. read more

unEarthed

• Texas' Politics Even Dirtier Than Its Air...
  Martin Lakes, Texas coal-fired power plant Oh, Texas. Why, oh why does Texas have to be the only state in the union refusing to comply with federal greenhouse gas regulations , when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – ...
• Friday Finds: BP Blows Its Alaska Test
  Owls are being targeted by Harry Potter fans in India. Photo courtesy of stock.xchng BP's negligence could prove to be explosive, again Maintenance of BP's Alaska operations is woefully neglected, according to an internal m ...
• Coral Is Dying Near BP's Gulf Oil Spill Site
  Scientists have discovered damage to deep-sea coral that may be caused by BP's huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The findings, in connection with a university study on dispersants, are the first potential evidence of harm being caused to deepwater organisms. Dead and dying coral formations � we ...
• Election Stalls Progress Towards A Healthier Plane ...
  There is no reason to beat around the bush: Tuesday's election results are a setback in our progress towards a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable planet. At a time when the world desperately needs leadership from the United States, voters have installed in the House of Representatives those who h ...
• What Pairs Well With a Glass of 190g CO2 Sauvignon ...
  It’s not uncommon in our technology-obsessed society for common sense to be tossed aside in favor of robotic gadgetry and whiz-bang statistics that look impressive but don’t really convey relevant information. Case in point: win ...

Brave New Climate

• Electricity costs exhibits
  I note that there has been some interesting discussion here on costs of electricity, especial the comparative value of fossil fuels versus nuclear (and renewables). This is a point I will revisit from a number of perspectives over the next few months, because I agree with commenters like Arthur Dent ...
• Two nuclear-solar dialogues in Melbourne next week
  Back in September, I visited UNSW in Sydney and debated Mark Diesendorf on nuclear and solar power. It was a useful night, with quite a few Sydney-based BNC readers attending. I was pleased with the outcome — I just hope the audio becomes available at some point. Now this “Brain Food” event comes to ...
• Of brains, biceps and baloney
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s recent book Storms of my Grandchildren makes accessible the evidence behind the judgement of m ...
• Open Thread 7
  Open Thread 6 is getting overly bloated in its old age, at 650 comments, and is taking too much time to load. So it’s time for new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So [...]
• SNE 2060 – can we build nuclear power plants fast ...
  The nuclear scenario I describe here requires around 10,000 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, to replace most of our current fossil fuel use. (For further justification of this 10 TW target, read this TCASE post.) My next step is to look critically as some of the critical underpinning assumptions — u ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Peltier case a stain on US human rights record
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05 November 2010 Contact: Delaney Bruce, Legal Team Liaison, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106, USA; Telephone: 701/235-2206; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info Peltier case a stain on US human rights record Today, the United States submit ...
• Cem: Fake anti-war activism. The "humanitarian roa ...
  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21766 Fake anti-war activism. The "humanitarian road" towards an all out nuclear war? by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 4 November 2010 Some of America's wars are condemned outright, while others are heralded as "humanitarian interve ...
• Iraq : Toppling a Country : From Statue to Legalit ...
  Iraq : Toppling a Country : From Statue to Legality (Part Two.*) :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : "Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the latest, vast cache of documents from Wikileaks, is that anyone was surprised at the revelation ...
• Six Nations Land: A View
  A'nowara'ko:wa: Six Nations Land: A View First the facts: Canada is a settler state located in the northern portion of Turtle Island, formed out of two European colonies established here in the seventeenth century, one by Great Britain and one by France. These colonies were established on the ba ...
• Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term ad ...
  Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term advantage - National - NZ Herald News : "On December 6, 2010 New Zealand will host the fourth meeting of negotiators trying to strike a free trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This proposed mega free-trade treaty currently sp ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• You gots your O’Donnell, we gots our Gafni
  When one American politician reminds me of a local one Moshe Gafni, the chairman of the oh-so-powerful finance committee reminded me today of Christine O’Donnell. Remember how Bill Maher showed that clip where she said evolution was a myth? Oh, c’mon – you gotta see it: Well, here in Israel we have ...
• Nov 8: Police demolish Bedouin mosque
  The Headlines: Bedouins, Settlements, Terrorists, Iran, and Refugees > A mosque in the Bedouin city of Rahat, built without a permit, was demolished by the Israeli authorities. The regional police commander is immensely satisfied with the brilliant use of the “element of surprise”, and vows to purs ...
• Author calls for rejection of official status as J ...
  [4] And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto [...]
• Geert Wilders to keynote “Jordan is Palestin ...
  There’s more to this. Israeli adulation for the Dutch ultra-nationalist is not limited to the National Union: Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows at Dore Gold’s neoconservative power-house — The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs — has been a leading cheerleader. Dutch reinfor ...
• Peace Now wants to collaborate with Lieberman
  This, at any rate, is the headline of a small story by reporter Itamar Eichner in today’s Yedioth Ahronoth. Translation first, comments second: An extraordinary meeting, the first such meeting of the Lieberman era, took place some days ago at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, when Deputy Foreign ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Australia receives important Dutch maritime colle ...
  The Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell today accepted an extensive consignment of artefacts recovered from four Dutch shipwrecks found off the West Australian coast.
• Irrigation infrastructure efficiency grants progr ...
  South Australian River Murray irrigation operators are invited to apply for Australian Government funding to improve water efficiency and return water to rivers and wetlands.
• Television recycling free of charge
  People in regional South Australia and Broken Hill will be able to drop off their broken and obsolete TVs free of charge under an initiative sponsored by the Australian, South Australian and New South Wales Governments.
• 1800 new affordable homes for Victorian communiti ...
  Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments.
• Boost to Snowy River flows
  Environmental flows in the iconic Snowy River will start ramping up next week after the finalisation of a deal between the NSW, Victorian and Australian Governments to provide an additional 24 billion litres of water this year.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Sarasota Tribune- Foreclosure Rulings May Complica ...
  Excellent article, this is just he beginning. Sarasota Tribune Article Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Is Your Foreclosure Final Judgment Void or Voidabl ...
  When I started defending foreclosures years ago there was no real defense.  The homeowner did not pay, the plaintiff was suing and they were eventually going to win.   My how things have changed in a short period of time.  Today there are widespread and well substantiated allegations of fraud and im ...
• St. Petersburg Sponsored Residential Mortgage Symp ...
  residentialmortgage Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• South Florida’s Daily Business Review NAILS ...
  Click here for one of the best articles on current issues affecting foreclosure in Florida Rocket Docket Breakdown: Will borrowers get due process? Adolfo Pesquera Daily Business Review November 08, 2010 Last October, attorney Josh Bleil was being threatened with fines by a Miami-Dade circuit judge ...
• BOMBSHELL- Video Deposition of National Title Clea ...
  Another Bombshell Deposition from the Foreclosure Warriors at The Forrest Law Firm.  Today’s deposition features the infamous Bryan Bly who we’ve all learned in recent months has been responsible for executing tens of thousands of documents that have been submitted in foreclosure cases across this ...

abelard - news

• indian swing time and jazz! | fun news at abelard. ...
  Wonderful cross-fertilisation of music and dance - West and East. Video.
• the end justifies the means - another marxist is m ...
  In the den of socialist iniquity, there are levels within levels of dishonesty and dishonour. They cannot see their own evil - incredible.
• it takes moron 10 years to build a new nuclear pow ...
  When your own money is being used to run a business, rather than taxpayer's hard-earned wages.
• marxist obama castrated - stock market rises 2% in ...
  And no, it's not because more money has been pumped in. It's business welcoming back the Republicans.
• on pensions | politics/economics news at abelard.o ...
  Why pensions are not something to over-worry about. There are better ways than burying gold (or hard-earned cash) in a hole (or a pension fund).

The Parallel Parliament

• The Lobby and the House
  Here’s something of a private tour of the opposition lobby in Parliament and a tour of the chamber of the House of Commons itself.  You’ll see Conservative Michael Chong in it briefly, whose bill I’m seconding to improve the decorum in Question Period. And you’ll get a close-up of the Speaker’s cha ...
• Hitting A Wall
  True economic conservatives have been all tied up in knots over the decision to deny BHP’s bid for Potash Corp. Free markets are a staple of conservative policy and it was believed that the federal government would refuse to stand in the way of the purchase. The fact it didn’t happen has prompted a ...
• On Politics As Entertainment
  Like many of you, I take a tour though media stories before heading off to work in the morning. One of my favourite reads has always been the Globe and Mail’s entertainment writer John Doyle. I don’t watch TV much, but his comments are frequently cheeky, insightful and just a plain good read. But in ...
• I’m Grateful
  To all of you, Happy Thanksgiving. Filed under: Faith, Personal, Politics, The New Internationalism
• Peace On The Cheap
  In Ottawa these days we are increasingly hearing of the “peace dividend” – the resources that will be freed up once our commitment to Afghanistan is terminated early next year.  But it’s something of a misnomer, since we’ll be departing a country and region seemingly in a state of constant conflict. ...

Vaccine Awakening

• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
• Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
  by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
• Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
• Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
  By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...
• Doctor-Heroes Standing For Better Vaccine Science
  by Barbara Loe Fisher The cry that was heard around the world in the early 1980's, when mothers and fathers realized an old, crude pertussis vaccine was killing and damaging the brains of their children, is being echoed today by new generations of parents struggling to raise vaccine injured childre ...

2020 Science

• Tenure track faculty positions in risk science at ...
  Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  ...
• Lost in the Maize
  A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in airp ...
• International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnolog ...
  Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation!  In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [...] ...
• Spiders, silk and a transgenic goat – the complex ...
  Last week while at the NISE Net network-wide meeting, I was fortunate enough to see a preview of part of NOVA’s forthcoming series Making Stuff. The series focuses on the wonders of modern materials science. But rather than coming away enthralled by the ingenuity of scientists, I found myself breaki ...
• Lost in the Maize
  A weekly reflection on life in academia Most of this last week was spent in San Francisco, at the NISE Net (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network) network-wide meeting – possibly my favorite meeting of the year (I might have mentioned that before).  This year I had the additional pleasure of ...

Reader Supported News

• No We Can't, 2010 Midterms Edition
  Intro: "If you compare the exit polls from last night and the midterm election in 2006 there was clearly a surge in the angry, old fogey vote. Senior citizens carved out a 23 percent share of the electorate, up four points from four years ago." President Barack Obama campaigns with Senate Majorit ...
• Homeowners Say Loan Mods Led Them to Foreclosure
  Excerpt: "Treasury statistics show that only about one-third of the nearly 1.4 million homeowners accepted into the government's payment reduction program over the past year have had their reductions made permanent." A former homeowner's possessions sit in the yard in front of their foreclosed ho ...
• Besides Seats, GOP Wins Sway in 2010 Redistricting
  "Republicans don't just control much of the electoral map. In some cases, they now have the power to redraw it." A voter leaves a polling place in Tampa, Florida, 11/02/08. (photo: Jay Nolan) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Gates: Repeal 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Before GOP Ta ...
  "Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year's end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It's a position shared by his boss, the president." Bronwen Tomb, who was discharged from the US Coast Guard for being gay, speaks at a press conference on Ca ...
• BREAKING: MSNBC Reinstates Olbermann
  200,000 petition signatures in 48 hours speak volumes, literally. Keith Olbermann is back on the air. Keith Olbermann in the MSNBC studio, 07/15/07. (photo: /Mark J. Terrill/AP) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!

War Resisters League

• IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
  Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
• Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
  Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
• International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
  Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...
• March for Justice on October 2!
  What: One Nation Working Together Who: A broad-based national coalition of labor, racial and economic justice groups, community organizations, and antiwar organizations. Where: Washington D.C. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial When: Saturday, October 2 Dear fellow War Resisters, As the U.S. expen ...
• Latino Youth Defines DREAM Act as a DeFacto Milita ...
  By VAMOS Unidos Youth We write this statement to raise our voices as Latino youth working and living in the Bronx, New York in opposition to the DREAM ACT as it stands. We demand that we return to our original DREAM ACT that had a community service option instead of a military one. The military [... ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
  How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
• Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
  A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...
• What We’re Reading–Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook
  Author Kim O’Donnel recently released The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour, for people that love to eat meat but might also want to eat less of it. In the book’s foreword the Center’s director, Dr. Robert Lawrence, reintroduces the idea to readers that people ...
• Meatless Monday Launches at Johns Hopkins Universi ...
  Today marked the launch of Meatless Monday on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.  Elaborate banners of cartoon cows, chickens and pigs that read, “Monday is my day off!” greeted students as they entered JHU Dining Service’s three main dining areas: Levering Food Court, Fresh Food Court and ...
• No title
  On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) released a draft report that, given their usual alignment with agricultural interests, is surprisingly straightforward in its assessment of the inadequacy of conservation practices in place on farms in t ...

 

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Renewable Energy Subsidies Worldwide Reached $57 Billion in 2009, IEA Says

Bloomberg

- Nov 09, 2010

- 3 hours ago

By Alex Morales - Tue Nov 09 14:10:45 GMT 2010 Global subsidies for renewable energy totaled $57 billion in 2009, International Energy Agency Chief ...

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Renewable energy, why not?

VietNamNet Bridge

- Nov 09, 2010

- 1 hour ago

VietNamNet Bridge – Using renewable energy has become a growing tendency in the world, especially when fossil fuel sources are becoming exhausted. ...

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Avago Technologies Unveils Intelligent Power Module Optocoupler Optimized for ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Nov 09, 2010

- 1 hour ago

"Our new ACNV4506 optocoupler not only adds to this IPM portfolio, but also to our gate drive and current sense devices targeting the surging renewable ...

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RWE Says Germans Will End Up Paying More for Renewable Levy Than for Power

Bloomberg

- Nov 09, 2010

- 4 hours ago

By Ben Farey - Tue Nov 09 10:15:32 GMT 2010 RWE AG said the cost to German households of subsidizing renewable energy generation will exceed power costs by ...

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Human Habitat

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Protest of wind farm leads to arrests in Maine

BusinessWeek

- Nov 08, 2010

- 14 hours ago

Jonathan Carter from the Maine Forest Ecology Network told The Associated Press he witnessed four arrests, including an 82-year-old man who's a member of ...

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France to launch offshore wind farm tender-minister

Reuters Africa

- Nov 08, 2010

- 20 hours ago

Junior ecology minister Chantal Jouanno said the first series of requests would be for proposals to provide 3 gigawatts (GW) of capacity as France seeks to ...

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Author Anthony DiMaggio on Elections, the Tea Party, and Punk Rock

Infoshop News

- Nov 08, 2010

- 10 hours ago

... on (among other things) mass media, US foreign policy, education, public housing and segregation, social movements, ecology, and Middle East politics. ...

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Ecologists: Wading from nature to networks

Scientific American (blog)

- Nov 09, 2010

- 5 hours ago

Paine is considered by many to be the founder of experimental ecology. He has produced some of the nation's top marine biologists. ...

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Danone in Talks to Sell Water Unit to Japanese

Wall Street Journal

- Nov 09, 2010

- 1 hour ago

By DANA CIMILLUCA, ANUPREETA DAS And GINA CHON Japanese suitors are circling Groupe Danone SA's sprawling bottled-water business, which includes the iconic ...

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Supreme Court sets Jan. arguments in Montana's water lawsuit against ...

CanadianBusiness.com

- Nov 09, 2010

- 1 hour ago

10 hearing date on Montana's claim that farmers in Wyoming are taking too much of the region's scarce water supply. Montana sued its southern neighbor in ...

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Fire aboard Carnival cruiseliner off Mexico leaves ship dead in water

USA Today

- Nov 09, 2010

- 1 hour ago

... fire on one of Carnival Cruise Lines' biggest ships, the 113000-ton Carnival Splendor, has left the vessel dead in the water off the coast of Mexico. ...

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George Bush: 'Let's talk about water-boarding!' Torture, getting drunk, making ...

Entertainment Weekly

- Nov 08, 2010

- 12 hours ago

It turned out that the water-boarding comment came in the context of Lauer's careful parsing of Bush's justification for using the technique many describe ...

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