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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

RSS SnapShot Pt 1

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • NEPAL: School Initiative Making the Grade
    Four years ago, Ramita Bhujel was a bit reluctant to go back her school after a year's absence. This Grade 4 student of Shree Saraswati Secondary School here had been down with pneumonia, failed to clear her nursery exams and as a consequence stayed at home.
  • BIODIVERSITY: Asia Acts To Pry Tigers From Jaws Of ...
    It is the national animal of several Asian countries, lends its name to brands as varied as budget airlines to alcoholic beverages, and features prominently in Asian mythology, including the Chinese zodiac. But unless there is a dramatic turnaround for the tiger, conservationists say, this ...
  • South Expo Highlights Homegrown Poverty Solutions
    The Third Annual Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) opened Monday in Geneva with more than 400 delegates from over 40 countries gathered to showcase innovative solutions to poverty challenges that have been created in developing countries.
  • /CORRECTED REPEAT*/ETHIOPIA: First Carbon Finance ...
    It has been decades since the people of the Humbo Woreda have been self-sufficient in food. A Clean Development Mechanism project - Ethiopia's first - is restoring the environment and sustaining livelihoods along with it.
  • BRAZIL: Family Farming Matters in South-South Coop ...
    Cooperation between countries of the developing South took another step forward with the recent signing of international agreements in Brazil aimed at stimulating public policies to support small farmers.

Scoop - NZ

  • Millionaires to Obama: Tax us
    Anti-tax activists everywhere have been loudly arguing for an extension of George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the United States.�  Now a group of millionaires is arguing the opposite. More than 40 of the nation's millionaires have joined Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Str ...
  • WSJ: Vast Insider Trading Probe Underway
    Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders and analysts across the nation, according to people familiar with the matter. The criminal and civil probes, which au ...
  • Reality bites Irish economic bubble
    As they defiantly deny that a rescue is under way even as EU and IMF officials fan out across Dublin, the governor has breezily pulled the rug from under their feet. The country will need a "very substantial" package worth "tens of billions" to halt what amounts to a run on the I ...
  • Experts question PRC mine safety record
    International mining experts last night raised concerns about safety issues at Pike River Coal which they say may have led to the huge explosion. An Australian gas drainage engineer who visited the site last year said operating standards were "extremely poor". His comments were backed up ...
  • GEAB49: Critical Threshold of Geopolitical Disloca ...
    As the LEAP/E2020 team anticipated in its open letter to the G20 leaders published in the international edition of the Financial Times of 24 March 2009, on the eve of the London Summit, the question of a fundamental reform of the international monetary system is central to any attempt to solve the c ...

Independent - London

  • North Korea attack 'unforgiveable'
    Japan's top government spokesman said today that North Korea's firing of dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island was "unforgiveable".
  • Irish bailout 'depends on four-year savings plan'
    Ireland's multibillion bailout is only secure if the Government pushes ahead with a drastic four-year savings plan despite calls for a snap election, a senior minister has said.
  • North Korea shells South Korea
    North Korea today fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, killing two soldiers and setting houses ablaze, in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.
  • Death toll rises following Cambodia stampede
    The death toll from a stampede at a Cambodian festival rose to 378 today with hundreds more injured.
  • North and South Korea exchange artillery fire
    North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western border with artillery today, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least one marine after warning the South to halt military drills in the area, South Korean officials said.

Rogue Government.com

  • Pope Benedict endorses condom use — for male prost ...
    Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop the spread of HIV, a stunning comment for a church criticized for its opposition to condoms and for a pontiff who has blamed them for making the AIDS crisis worse.
  • TSA: Travelers Who Refuse Scanning Can’t Leave, Wi ...
    Faced with the prospect of large numbers of people refusing the invasive “screening” measures they’ve implemented this holiday season, the TSA is hoping to fight back with threats of fine and arrest.
  • TSA Pat-Down Leaves Traveler Covered in Urine
    A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
  • New Afghan War Plans Could Cost US Taxpayers an Ex ...
    As leaders at the NATO summit in Lisbon meet this weekend to discuss strategy in Afghanistan, US war planners have been signaling that troop withdrawals set to begin in 2011 will be mostly symbolic and that the handover to Afghan forces in 2014 is “aspirational.”
  • No Security Pat-Downs for Boehner
    Representative John A. Boehner, soon to be the Speaker of the House, has pledged to fly commercial airlines back to his home district in Ohio. But that does not mean that he will be subjected to the hassles of ordinary passengers, including the controversial security pat-downs.

Innovation Canada

  • Blowin’ in the wind
  • Studying sturgeon
    It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • One year on prominent Russian whistleblower Sergei ...
    In an exclusive interview with BBC Newsnight, Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Silchenko, a senior Russian policeman accused of involvement in the mysterious death in jail of prominent Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, has spoken about the claims for the first time. Click here to watch Tim Whewell's ...
  • The Dutch Connection: Sarah Palin's Mystery Resear ...
    Why's an incendiary Dutch journalist on the payroll of the ex-Alaska governor's political action committee? A Mother Jones investigation. In recent months, Sarah Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, has paid thousands of dollars to a mysterious company that's gone to significant lengths ...
  • Plumes On Jupiter
    Astronomers are monitoring a cluster of energetic plumes breaking through the cloudtops of Jupiter. Regard the image below. Each of the bright spots is a massive convection cell rising high above the usual cloud deck: Australian astrophotographer Anthony Wesley took the picture on Nov. 17th using ...
  • Prescriptions: Beware the Seductive Strawberry
    As a child growing up in the 1960s, even middle-class families considered strawberries a pricey, seasonal luxury. In fact, I was happy to have strawberry jam with my peanut butter sandwiches. When I was lucky enough to taste a fresh strawberry, my tastebuds contracted with intense ecstasy and wanted ...
  • Mystery disease kills 13 in Uganda: Health officia ...
    Thirteen people have died in northeastern Uganda from a mysterious disease. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating the outbreak of the disease that appears to be similar to the Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic viruses. Twenty cases of the frightening ill ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Harper is buying a bomb truck for the Canadian air ...
    Not an air superiority fighter and not an interceptor. As MoS points out, the marrying of tactical nukes with the developing F-35 Lightning II, which the Harperites are all orgasmic about, is one of the roles initially intended for the F-35. As his post mentions, it's quite a package. In terms of ...
  • Warrior deathcult transformer Jesus
    Sociological Images draws our attention to a short opinion piece in the American wingnuttery known as Rightly Concerned: But I have noticed a disturbing trend in the awarding of these medals, which few others seem to have recognized. We have feminized the Medal of Honor. According to Bill McGurn ...
  • Things to do about airport pat-downs and scanners
    Well, most of us are now aware of the abysmality around airport pat-downs and groping in the US (so far...). There's a lot of well justified outrage about this, and good for that. But there's an opportunity for the theatrically minded (and very brave) here for novel protest. If they want to view and ...
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    I’m here! I’m here! Let the bells ring out and the banners fly! I’m here!
  • And now for something completely different ...
    Once upon a time there were three sub-lieutenants and a midshipman in HMS Ark Royal. Last night at sea after a long deployment, an OOW notebook filled to the last page and the "last day crazies" start to set in. Why wouldn't you want to join The Andrew after that.

Media Matters for America

  • Beck still doesn't understand net neutrality
    Glenn Beck again claimed that proposed net neutrality rules are "basically a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet" and would allow the government to "control what you see on the Internet." In fact, net neutrality prohibits Internet service providers from controlling access to Internet content, and -- ...
  • Will right wing accuse pope of advocating "what Hi ...
    Pope Benedict XVI's declaration that "health justice should be among the priorities of governments and international institutions" places the pontiff firmly in opposition to many right-wing media figures who have compared state health care to "fascists of the 20's and 30's," "raping the pocketb ...
  • Beck's upcoming "It's a Wonderful Life" stunt bei ...
    Promoting an upcoming special that he claims will highlight a town in Ohio that is "fighting to be Bedford Falls," Glenn Beck falsely claimed that officials in that city have not received "any money from the government." In fact, the city and surrounding county have received more than $6 milli ...
  • Right-wing media at odds with military leaders ov ...
    The right-wing media have been attacking President Obama's New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), claiming it "may harm national security." But the treaty enjoys widespread support among military leaders, who have called its passage a "no-brainer," and have argued that "the treaty ...
  • Fox's Cavuto so wedded to tax cut mythology th ...
    Fox News host Neil Cavuto forcefully accused his guest, Democratic strategist Chris Hahn, of lying when Hahn said of the Bush tax cuts, "For every dollar you spend in tax cuts, you get back 30 cents to the economy." In fact, the figure Hahn cited is both accurate and well documented. Cavuto sho ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Richard Kauffman's Speech
    Richard Kauffman (Professor, Yale School of Management; Former CEO, Good Energies; Former Partner, Goldman Sachs) gave a fantastic speech at the Coalition for Green Capital's "Future of Energy Reform" conference last week, I've included the text of the speech below. Visit www.coalitionforgreencapita ...
  • The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson
    Next week, Foreign Policy magazine and its editor-in-chief Susan Glasser will be releasing its 2nd annual roster of the world's greatest thinkers and doers in foreign policy. I have seen the list -- and it's impressively creative and eclectic. There is one name that is not on the FP100 who shoul ...
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  • The Kids Are All Right
    If you need to replenish your optimism about America's future, then you need to talk to high school students. I spent last Wednesday with students from across Eastern Pennsylvania and Western Ohio, and it did me a world of good. The occasion was the 40th annual World Affairs Institute of the Pittsbu ...
  • Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My ...
    In recent days several center-left blogger/columnists have suggested that progressives should be happy to cut a deal now on Social Security and other issues related to the budget. The argument is that the cuts being put forward by the commissions are not that onerous, they don't involve privatizatio ...

TruthOut

  • Eugene Robinson | Why Granny Gets Searched
    Washington - It's hard to love the Transportation Security Administration, especially now that airport personnel seem so intent on touching people's junk. But the TSA's job isn't to be adorable, it's to be infallible -- and also, apparently, to suffer being unfairly maligned.read more
  • Debt Commission
  • Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts
    You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. - Andrew Jackson When I was in Denmark in 2008 doing my radio show for a week from the Danish Radio studios and interviewing many of that nation’s leading politicians, economists, energy experts, and newspaper publishers, one of my gu ...
  • McCaskill Questions Government Agencies' PR Spendi ...
    Washington - Sen. Claire McCaskill wants to know how many federal agencies have used tax dollars to hire public relations consultants to "spin" their images — and why. What piqued the Missouri Democrat's interest was a $234,000 contract the General Services Administration gave to a Kansas City fir ...
  • UN Troops in Haiti - Timetable for Withdrawal?
    This week, there have been several days of protests in Haiti against the presence of United Nations troops in the country. The immediate catalyst has been the widespread belief among Haitians that UN troops are responsible for the outbreak of cholera in Haiti - a belief which is not proven, but a be ...

Planetsave

  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter a ...
  • Hybrid Tug Boat Cuts Emissions
    Every now and then we get to cover a story that is just simply awesome. For me, as a kid, whenever I wasn’t watching Thomas the Tank Engine, I would desperately be trying to watch TUGS. I like the idea of tug boats. They’re small but powerful. And now, a new study by the University... Read More...
  • The Amazon Changed from Wetland to River
    Much of our planet is not what it once used to be: mountains have risen and collapsed; continents broken apart and crashed into one another; and according to a report to be published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the world’s largest river – the Amazon – started life out as a massive swath of wet ...
  • Australian Subtropic Seas Must be Protected
    Leading Australian scientists and scientific organisations have come together to call for a greater national effort to protect the countries eastern and western coastlines. The reason? Many scientists believe and have witnessed, with the increase in global warming, a shift in marine life as they hea ...
  • The End of Cheap Coal Cometh
    Peak coal is the point in the future at which the maximum global production of coal is reached. In a report entitled “The End of Cheap Coal,” authors Richard Heinberg and David Fridley suggest that we may reach peak coal in the next two decades, bringing an end to the relatively cheap coal prices. T ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Corporate Media's Complicity in TSA's Systematic V ...
    Editor's Comment: The corporate media (ABC in this case) continue the avalanche of reporting on the government belligerence now accelerating in the airports and stories of passenger rage. If the corporate media were this hot on the truth of 9/11 and wars on Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001-2003, Washing ...
  • Huge Breakthrough: Kentucky’s Coal Country Cancels ...
    Thanks to a powerful and growing New Power grassroots movement, a broad alliance of Kentucky activists sent an electrifying message across the nation today: A just transition to a clean energy future, even in the heartland of coal country Kentucky, is possible. Recognizing the spiraling costs of ...
  • New Zealand: 29 miners still missing after undergr ...
    22 November 2010 Three days after an explosion ripped through the Pike River Coal (PRC) mine in the Paparoa ranges on New Zealand’s West Coast, 29 miners remain trapped inside. There has been no communication with the men and it is not known whether any survived the November 19 blast....
  • Ireland “on the brink of significant civil unrest” ...
    22 November 2010 The general secretary of one of Ireland’s largest unions, the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU), Eamon Devoy, has warned that “we are on the brink of significant civil unrest in this country, the like of which has not been witnessed in this jurisdiction for decad ...
  • Repression of British students presages explosive ...
    22 November 2010 The witch-hunt and arrest of student protestors accused of involvement in the occupation of the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank Towers, London on November 10 must serve as a warning to all working people. The 55,000-strong demonstration against education cuts and a ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Who Killed American Jobs? The Corporations That Ki ...
    Good jobs - plentiful, high-paying, high-benefit, defined-benefit-pension jobs - exist not because of low taxes for rich people, not because of non-existent taxes for corporations, not because of the complete absence of regulations. Good jobs exist because of Unions. When high-paying, high-benefit j ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Celebration turns to horror. "At least 339 people been killed in a stampede during festival celebrations in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said. Huge crowds had gathered on a small island for the final day of the Water Festival, one of the main events of the year in Ca ...
  • Open Letter To Noam Chomsky: You're Wrong On A Cou ...
    Professor Chomsky, you're always an engaging writer, and I found a short essay of yours, "The US Elections: Outrage, Misguided," enlightening as usual. But, I disagree on a couple of points, and I'm going to explain why. Here's a link to the article I'm referring to. More than half the "mainstream A ...
  • Wishful thinking
    Spotted this morning on a vehicle in a local strip mall: But she does speak for the Faux News Channel, Dancing With the Stars, Discovery/TLC, and teabaggers. You know, everyone else who really counts. Yeah, good luck with that.
  • Buffett isn't buying the GOP party line on taxes
    Congressional republicans are playing a game of chicken over tax cuts for the richest of the rich. These would be the same people who just last week killed an extension of unemployment benefits for people who have lost their jobs and been unable to find employment in this economy because it would ad ...

Care 2

  • Red fox makes himself at home
    BILL Wilcox is used to having wildlife paying passing visits to the backyard of his Little Mountain home. Snakes, brush turkeys and kangaroos are regular visitors, so he wasn't too surprised when a red fox began making an appearanceSubmitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Make Black Friday Green, by keeping the trees in m ...
    Rainforest Action Network wants to help consumers make better choices about the books they buy. A report and consumer guide finds that publishers of popular kids� books are using paper linked to Indonesian rainforest destruction and global warming.Submitted by Julie P. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Grizzly debate misleads and undermines the public ...
    We are talking here about a threatened population of one of the most iconic and popular animals in and around the nation�s oldest Park, Yellowstone. We are talking here too about whether management and decision-making serves the interests of a broad Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • 10 Ways to Outfox Cops That Are Abusing Their Powe ...
    What few people understand, but police know all too well, is that your constitutional rights only apply if you understand and assert them. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Despite Setbacks, Africa Seen as Key Player in Fut ...
    As the international community commemorated Africa Industrialisation Day last week, United Nations officials expressed mixed emotions about a beleaguered continent plagued by a rash of political, economic and military crises. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Remember Velma Hart?
    Velma Hart spoke up a few months ago and confessed that she was exhausted with Barack Obama. Remember that nice, intelligent woman who asked Barack Obama if she had hot dogs and beans in her future? Well, the shoe has dropped. She has lost her damn job! Washington Post has the story: Nobody is safe. ...
  • Liberal Lunacy, Taxes = Investment
    The past few days have been occuppied with an email debate with a dear friend of mine, who is a certified liberal/progressive, who is convinced that the Bush tax cuts are the source of all evil. He has bought into the leftist dogma that paying more taxes is honorable and essential and was inspired b ...
  • Monday Open Thread
    Code-breakers are making progress on solving a cryptic sculpture at CIA headquarters … VPOTUS puts his foot in his mouth again, insulting an entire nation … 92% of young Afghan men have never heard of 9/11, and more stunning poll findings (a MUST-READ) … Hey! You can buy special undies that make you ...
  • Law Won
      Julian Assange, the master of WikiLeaks, travelled to Stockholm to seek protection with the Swedish journalism protections. Assange met at least two women who invited him to their flats. Both later accused Assange of sexual abuse, and the word “rape” was used. For several weeks, the prosecutor’s o ...
  • Be Thankful You Aren’t a Woman Born in Iran
    This time of year we begin to reflect on what we are grateful for, a welcome hiatus from the daily onslaught of bad news here and abroad. I will pause to give thanks for a great many things large and small, but upon reading today’s news I added one to my list—gratitude for not being [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Amazing Single Sheet 3D Paper Sculptures
    This Danish artist can make a single sheet of paper sing, whatever size it is. The astounding products of the most gifted Peter Callesen will just blow you away. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Incredible Book Carvings by Brian Dettmer
    This American artist gives repurposing books a whole new dimension with his incredible surgically precise scuptural ability, changing them into real works of art. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Crocodiles Leaping from the Water Caught on Camera
    An amazing gallery of pictures of crocs exploding from the water and lunging for their helpless victims! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Australia'a Spider Man
    Meet ‘Real Life Spider Man’ Nick Le Souef, who has decided to live with up to 1,000 deadly spiders for three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Overfishing Hurts the Big Fish and the Small F ...
    Since 1998 the story has been circulating that large ocean fish are in decline and that nearly 90% are gone. However, more recent studies suggest that's not the case. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & bluepri ...
    VIDEO! up now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGMgAFJGxH0 National Level Exercise 2011 docs found on Army Corps fileserver prove upgrade for Secret 'Civil Disturbance Operations CONPLAN 3502' the Master Pentagon Blueprint for RNC/G20 Lockdowns, Policing Disasters & More By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities ...
  • Friday Evening: It's time to expose teh secret ops ...
      Hey everyone, the big story is finally getting released. This should clarify a lot of confusing dimensions to what's really been going on. And a huge relief to deal with - after months of work! It's a messy one - but really important. Tune into RuleOfLawRadio.com tonite, Fri Nov 19th  -- if ...
  • Waterfall New World Order Resistance of Minneapoli ...
    What can I say? I like street art – when it breaks up the unspeakable horror of the modernist nightmare, the endless, colorless flat planes composing our concrete public existence. So it was a surprise to go looking and find these big New World Order stencils around the Hennepin Avenue bridge ...
  • Storm the Boards! Applications Nearly Due for Comp ...
    I spent quite a while writing up all the open boards and appointments in Minnesota. The official post is here - http://tc.indymedia.org/2010/nov/storm-boards-applications-nearly-due-compensated-citizen-slots-panels-and-agencies Just for fun I'll crosspost the whole thing below. Worth yr effort ...
  • Metals To Nibiru! Gold & silver $1400 / $29 parabo ...
    Linkdump O Quick Hitz! Way too many links going on-have fun! Sorry for lack of pics, you gotta clix em to see :-|   "Where is My Mind" came on TheCurrent as I posted this, really appropriate for the ZeroHedge Durden posts. Total Waveform Synchronicity and it ain't even 11/11 yet.... Onwards. ...

Daily Censored

  • Detroit Teachers say ‘NO’ to privatization and a s ...
    Picture of Robert Bobb, Chief Financial Administrator and Eli Broad henchman along with David Bing, conservative mayor of Detroit and an employee of corporate Houghton Mifflin discussing their privatization efforts.   Press Release                                      For Immediate Release Detroit F ...
  • Yes, “There Will Be Blood.”
    We have arrived.  Recently, I wrote about Mt Clemens, Michigan that is going bankrupt.  That city only has 17,000 people, but the problem is that Mt Clemens is but one of many.  Because of the total obstructionist attitude of the Tea Party/Republican/Blue Dog Democrats, however, the Federal Governme ...
  • New RFID in cell phones aims to get access to your ...
    There are several new phones coming out next year that will have RFID stickers on them, enabling you to pay for your purchases with just a swipe of your cell phone. It all sounds convenient until you learn that retailers want access to your cellphones and social networks for marketing purposes. When ...
  • Project Censored Awardee Wadner Pierre Speaks Abou ...
    By Brandon Fastman, 11/21/10 Wadner Pierre was studying Computer Science in 2004 when Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a coup d’état. Soon after, Pierre’s step-father, a Catholic priest who protested Aristide’s overthrow, was thrown in jail. At that point Pierre decided he ...
  • Podcast: teaching critical thinking skills for civ ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Dr. James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, in discussion of the central problems and solutions of the US economic crisis. The interview is here (you can fast-forward through commercials and music that covers local program informati ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 13: Interview ...
    This podcast is the second part of PDA’s election analysis. John Bonifaz of Freespeechforpeople.org is interviewed by PDA national director Tim Carpenter. In the last segment, PDA co-founder Steve Cobble gives us his take on ...
  • War Is A Lie
    Donate $75 or more and receive War Is A Lie Enter War Is A Lie in the “special fund” box I am about to publish a new book called War Is A Lie that takes on ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 12: An Interv ...
    Now that the dust has settled following Election Day, PDA presents a two-part election analysis podast. In this episode, PDA National Director Tim Carpenter interviews author and journalist John Nichols and PDA field coordinator Conor ...
  • IOT: End the War and Occupations November Call
    On This Call… David Swanson: 1. Don’t use the term “Defense” spending when referring to military spending. 2. No one lost any of their elections because they failed to support the wars. 3. Warned about the ...
  • Changing Gears
    Get the Jump on holiday shopping and support PDA! It’s appropriate to thank you again for your recent electoral activities. Thanks to you, progressives did a lot better than the rest of the Democrats. After that ...

Marler Blog

  • Domino's Employees Face Criminal Penalties, but Pa ...
    We all remember this video: Today I learned that the Domino employees, Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer, who made a video of Setzer, 32, putting cheese up his nose before putting it on a sandwich, passing gas on a piece of salami and sneezing on an order of cheese sticks, then hid ...
  • West Broward High School in Florida Receives $10,0 ...
    West Broward High School students interested in science have new incentive to pursue higher education today. Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm, announced a donation of $10,000 to the newly established Marler Clark – Samantha Safranek Scholarship Fund. The fund’s namesake, Samant ...
  • Hepatitis A Vaccination Program Works in Alaska - ...
    I can almost see Alaska from my house. If the rest of the country follows Alaska’s lead, I may be down one product line at my law firm.  According to the journal Vaccine, Alaska health officials said the state's hepatitis A vaccination program (a program that we have advocated for several years aro ...
  • TSA, Thanksgiving and Safe Food - Makes Staying Ho ...
    I travel alot.  However, I will not be traveling this week, and if I was, I would not be carting the following: Baked goodies: Cakes and pies will be allowed through security checkpoints, although they may be swabbed for explosives, said TSA spokesman Jim Fotenos. Just about everything else that go ...
  • Thanks Phil Brasher for explaining the unexplainab ...
    I stole the below from Phil Brasher, as he has given the best explanation of the unexplainable. The Senate has put off finishing work on an overhaul of federal food-safety regulations until after the Thanksgiving holidays. However, Senate Democratic leaders have announced a deal on the amendments t ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.22.10
    Motley Fool says consider selling Tesla stock before it's too late But what do they know? GE's electric vehicle order to trigger fleet purchasing trend Tens of thousands of orders will do th ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.19.10
    LA 2010: Chevy Volt wins 2011 Green Car of the Year title Another sign the electric car era is here. LA 2010: Elon Musk says Tesla-powered Toyota RAV4 EV is good for Model S Partnership with ...
  • 2011 Chevy Volt wins Green Car of the Year title i ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Joel Ewanick, VP, U.S. Marketing for General Motors, and the Chevy Volt with the Green Car of the Year Award The Chevrolet Volt drove off with the 2011 Green Car of the Year Award at the LA Auto Show this morning, beating out tough ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.18.10
    Chevy Volts ready to ship Just waiting on the EPA's MPG stickers. Indian minister calls use of "gas guzzling" SUVs "criminal" German automakers object. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.17.10
    Report: Coda delays deliveries of all-electric sedan to late 2011 The bad news continues. Think City will cost $34,000 before incentives Targeted customers include, well, city folk. ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman Interviewed on National Public Televis ...
  • MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Interviews Whistleblower W ...
    Following our interview with Wendell Potter, the former chief spokesman for CIGNA, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann invited Potter on his show to discuss the health insurance industry’s attack on Michael Moore and his film SiCKO . Watch here.
  • A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
    “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President Barack Obama should look to an old naval facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Ana Maria Careaga wa ...
  • "Push Michael Moore Off A Cliff:" Health Insurance ...
    When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the American healthcare system in 2004, it put the health insurance industry on high alert. One person who immediately went on the offensive was Wendell Potter, who at the time was the chief spok ...
  • 88.7 "La Tribu" - Buenos Aires, Argentina
    More than 200 stations in Latin America air Democracy Now! headlines in Spanish. We recently received a wonderful video from 88.7 Radio La Tribu in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Check it out.

Farming Pathogens

  • Virus Dumping
    Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wi ...
    Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wing Lies? The Nation / By Danny Goldberg Until progressives change the mind sets of the tens of millions who believe right-wing mythology, elections will be disappointing regardless of who is in the White House. November 21, 2010 | Ideas don’t happen ...
  • Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy &#8 ...
    Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy — For At Least The Fourth Time In Five Months Huff Post William Alden & Shahien Nasiripour First Posted: 11-20-10 09:01 AM   |   Updated: 11-20-10 01:55 PM NEW YORK — For at least the fourth time since June, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke p ...
  • The American Ruling Class
     Rolling Stone feature discusses issues explored in The American Ruling Class facebook�July 16, 2009 by Alive Mind The American Ruling Class has never been more relevant to the current news cycle or to the collective consciousness of the American public. Goldman Sachs is announcing record profits a ...
  • When Your ‘Junk’ Is Touched at the Air ...
    Cable news reached an all new level of self-satire and hackery this week as various daytime “serious” anchors mindlessly repeated the phrase “touch my junk” over and over. Years of journalism training, internships and advanced education and they’re repeating “touch my junk” in the context of a video ...
  • 9/11 Families Ask: What Happened to the Third Buil ...
    9/11 Families Ask: What Happened to the Third Building That Collapsed in the WTC Attacks? A new ad campaign featuring the family members of 9/11 victims, which does not focus on conspiracy theories, is getting serious treatment in the mainstream media. Raw Story / By Stephen C. Webster Via:  AlterN ...

Solari

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 AfghanistanSri Lanka Gu ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • For Rome to prosper it must first burn
    Summary:   This is post #1701 on the FM website.  It’s a summary, guessing about the future of America based on the evidence and theories presented here (and at DNI) during the past 7 years.  The title describes the theme; at the end are links to more information. Most modern systems are robu ...
  • Two regions diverging, tearing the world apart. B ...
    Summary:  The emerging  nations are overheating, many of them suffering from a too-loose monetary policy transmitted from the US by their currency pegs to the US dollar.  Many of the developed nations are in the grips of deflationary forces.  This gap between the two worlds results from the now dysf ...
  • The sure route to reforming America
    Summary:  It becomes increasingly apparent that America needs serious reforms, stat.  This post gives a brief description of the problem, but no solution.  However the necessary characteristics of a solution are described, aiding the search. Our political system has since 1976 run increasingly frant ...
  • More about rising food prices (perhaps one of the ...
    Summary:   Readers of the FM website respond to its contents with a flood of comments (emailed or using the comment form).  Mostly critical, appropriate to it content — speculation about the topics on the edge of the known.  Some brilliant.  Some illustrate why America might have a very diffic ...
  • About the coming large rise in food prices
    Summary:  Rising food prices might be one of the most important geopolitical trends of the decade.  This is another post in a series, describing the causes and effects; links to other chapters appear at the end. What result do you expect from this combination of factors? Rising demand for the produc ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Errors kill 15,000 aged patients a month in USA: s ...
    Reuters – Mistakes and unavoidable problems kill an estimated 15,000 elderly U.S. patients every month in hospitals, U.S. government investigators reported on Tuesday. More than 13 percent of patients covered by Medicare, the government health insurance for the elderly, or about 134,000 people month ...
  • North Korean artillery hits South Korean island
    BBC – South Korea says it has returned fire after North Korea fired around 200 artillery shells at one of its border islands, reportedly killing one marine. The South’s military was placed on its highest non-wartime alert after the shells landed on Yeonpyeong island. North Korea has not yet commente ...
  • US drone strike ‘kills five in Pakistan’
    AFPâ A US drone attack in Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan on Monday killed five militants, two security officials said. The drone fired two missiles on a vehicle in Khaisore village, 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, they said. Read Article
  • Mental distress hounds university students, study ...
    The Australian – MORE than 80 per cent of university students are struggling with psychological distress, a new study has found. University of Queensland researchers polled 6500 Australian uni students and found 83.9 per cent were mentally distressed, far outstripping the rate in the general populat ...
  • Haiti cholera could overrun Caribbean
    Press TV – The Haitian Health Ministry said on Sunday that of a total 52,715 recorded cases, 20,687 had been treated in hospitals, DPA reported. The UN says the cholera outbreak, first seen on October 19 in the lower Artibonite region, north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is threatening hundreds o ...

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

  • Pat-down sparks outrage across US
    Anger is rising in the United States as travelers are forced to endure pat-downs and full-body scanning at airports allegedly for their safety. The growing backlash was provoked after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) left travelers with three options -- to undergo either a potentiall ...
  • What If NATO Is Defeated In Afghanistan?
    Eric S. Margolis writes: Amazing as it sounds, NATO, the world’s most powerful military alliance, may be losing the only war the 61-year old pact every fought. All its soldiers, heavy bombers, tanks, helicopter gunships, armies of mercenaries, and electronic gear are being beaten by a bunch of light ...
  • The World’s Largest Crime Scene
    This is the Crime-Scene that has been unofficially in place for the last 62 years. It was created by Israel as their minimum territorial requirement for "peace-anywhere" in the world today. Specifically The one-party Zionist State that has disallowed Christians and ordinary Jews as well as Muslims f ...
  • “War Without Borders”: NATO Proclaims Itself Globa ...
    The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the war in Afghanistan, the European Union and Russia. The U.S.-controlled North Atlantic Alliance endor ...
  • International Bankers Finance Both Sides in War – ...
    Documentary: The US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, began investigating Nazi finances 60 years ago and found Allied banks, including many British and American high street names, who continued to do business with Hitler's Germany throughout the war

Andy Worthington

  • Did You Miss This? 100 Percent Funding Cuts to Art ...
    In almost all the coverage of the coalition government’s proposed cuts to university funding, as a result of a review conducted by Lord Browne, the former CEO of BP (whose qualifications for such a role have never been adequately explained), it has been noted that the reduction in funding announced ...
  • Moazzam Begg in The Independent: The UK Government ...
    Forgive me, dear readers, for bombarding you with articles about the financial settlement recently reached between the British government, 15 former Guantánamo prisoners and Shaker Aamer, the remaining British resident in Guantánamo, and for repeating, over the last week, since this story first brok ...
  • Send a Letter to Your MP Demanding the Release fro ...
    Since the announcement last week that the British government has reached a financial settlement with 15 former Guantánamo prisoners — and with Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison — it has been blindingly obvious that reaching a settlement with a man who is still imprisoned for no ...
  • Moazzam Begg Explains How Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners ...
    In the Wandsworth Guardian, tenacious reporter Paul Cahalan has, for many years, covered the story of the former Battersea resident Shaker Aamer, who is still held in Guantánamo, despite being cleared for release by a military review board under the Bush administration in 2007. As has been revealed ...
  • Morris Davis, Former Guantánamo Chief Prosecutor, ...
    On Monday, I’ll be publishing my own detailed response to the outcome in the federal court trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, and the Republican hysteria that has arisen because the jury dismissed 284 charges against him — relating to his alleged participation in the US embassy bombings in Africa in A ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Thanks, Aunt Myrtle. Now, put the gun down.
    As fun as it would be to keep talking about national politics, it’s probably time to return my gimlet eyes to local politics. (Wait! one last sip: How awesome are Republicans? They may be drunk with victory, but boy, are they mean drunks! http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/gops-top-tax-guy ...
  • Even Republicans Love The Pork
    Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1, of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...
  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a Mom ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan on t ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why I l ...
  • 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, ...

SPL Center

  • New Report Examines ‘Tea Party Nationalism,& ...
    Back in July, the NAACP publicly called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate extremists and racist individuals within their ranks. Although the presence of such elements in Tea Party circles had been evident for some time, movement figures tended to be dismissive and defensive in their response. Such ...
  • Report: Would-Be Terrorist Inspired by ‘Schoolteac ...
    The media watchdog Media Matters for America today released audio of an interview conducted with Byron Williams, the would-be terrorist who last July was arrested after a shootout with cops on his way to San Francisco, where he allegedly planned to kill employees at the offices of the ACLU and the T ...
  • Feds Charge Alleged Accomplice in 1998 Skinhead Mu ...
    On July 4, 1998, two women invited anti-racist skinhead pals, Lin âSpitâ Newborn, 25, and Dan Shersty, 21, to a late-night party in the desert outside of Las Vegas. But there was no party: Newborn and Shersty were shot to death in what police and prosecutors called a planned execution by the leader ...
  • Veterans Against Jihad Takes on ‘Threat’ of Sharia ...
    The latest fairy tale to emerge from the paranoid right is the idea that the United States legal system is haunted by the specter of Sharia law. Although strict Islamic legal codes are the rare exception even among Muslim-majority nations, anti-Muslim groups and individuals â including well-known po ...
  • New Intelligence Report Finds Gays Most Targeted f ...
    The FBI issued its 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report this morning. The report shows that the number of reported hate crime incidents fell from 7,783 to 6,604. But a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains: the LGBT community is, by far, the most victimized by vi ...

change: org.

  • Bowling Green, Ohio Delivers a Message of Equality ...
    In every community lies an opportunity for the advancement of equality. This past election, thousands of residents in the college town of Bowling Green, Ohio proved just that. Yesterday, election officials certified that a majority of voters approved ordinances 7905 and 7906, thus securing the right ...
  • Asylum Seekers Protest Indefinite Detention in Aus ...
    The United States and Australia have a lot in common: Both are predominantly English-speaking countries. Both are former British colonies, settled by Anglo-Saxons who more or less wiped out the indigenous peoples whose land they stole. They even invaded Iraq together. Good times. And just like in th ...
  • Of Prostheses and Urine Bags: Airport Pat-Downs Pu ...
    Many travelers are balking over the Transportation Security Administration's anti-terrorism procedures at airports, namely, the full-body scanners and invasive pat downs. But a few recent cases indicate that people with illnesses may be forced to undergo particularly humiliating treatment due to the ...
  • For Sale: Decrepit, Leaking Nuclear Power Plant
    It’s hard to imagine anyone in their right mind agreeing to buy a decrepit, incredibly unpopular nuclear power plant just weeks after it leaked radioactive matter. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped Entergy, the country’s second-largest operator of nuclear power plants, from putting the Vermont Yank ...
  • Mike Huckabee's 'Important' Remarks On Iowa Justic ...
    Potential presidential contenders Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee will all make appearances in Iowa this month, throwing more speculative fuel on the already fiery debate over the Republican party's pick for the 2012 election. Their visits are also turning the state into a culture war b ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Hotel Workers Lead a New Tide of Labor Militancy
    by Brian TierneyThey clean rooms, wash sheets, cook meals and carry luggage for weary travelers the world over. They toil in an industry that has taken advantage of its largely immigrant workforce and kept many of them below the poverty line.But now they are leading a new wave of militancy and solid ...
  • Amid Airport-Security Backlash, a Push to Privatiz ...
    by Cathal Kelly In time-honoured American fashion, anger has begun to transform into politically charged and ultimately pointless change. U.S. air tra ...
  • In Canada It's a Gov't Versus Its People on Climat ...
    by Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE - The Canadian public is completely at odds with its own government on climate change, a new survey revealed Friday.A large majority of Canadians want urgent action on climate, including redirecting military expenditures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In sharp contrast, ...
  • Anti-UN Cholera Riots Spread to Haiti Capital
    PORT-AU-PRINCE - Rioting has spread to the Haitian capital where hundreds of people clashed with UN troops they blamed for a worsening cholera epidemic.Stone-throwing youths raced Thursday through the rubble-strewn streets of fetid camps built for earthquake survivors as UN peacekeepers in armored t ...
  • Good Things Come in Small Farming Practices
    by Helen Greenwood''AUSTRALIAN farmers are looking for the same thing that American farmers need, and that is to farm profitably, and build soil and heal the land while farming.''Joel Salatin, hailed by Time magazine for his prize-winning, pioneering work as a sustainable farmer, is in Sydney to con ...

Lifehacker

  • If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product [Q ...
    Everybody wants stuff for free but we seldom question what it means to get something for free. Today's quotable moment is a reflection on what it means when a company gives it all away. More��
  • ThickButtons Update Adds Voice Input, Smarter Land ...
    Android only: ThickButtons' keyboard slightly enlarges the letters you're most likely to type next. It's a neat idea, but you might miss a standard landscape mode, or Android's voice-to-text powers. Luckily, both are present in the latest Thic ...
  • Launch New Google Documents from Shortcuts or Hotk ...
    Windows only: Google Docs are handy because they're always available and easy to pull up. Creating new documents, though, is a multi-click process that could be streamlined. The How-To Geek provides that speed-up through desktop shortcuts or k ...
  • Opera 11 Beta Introduces Tab Stacking for Customiz ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: Who knows better than you which tabs go together? That's the thinking behind Tab Stacking, a new feature in the latest Opera beta that lets you group together tabs based on site origin, theme, or however you think they fit. ...
  • Enable BarTab's Memory-Freeing Features in Firefox ...
    Firefox only: The previously mentioned BarTab extension lightens Firefox's memory load and prevents crashes—in other words, it's a great add-on. But the latest Firefox 4 betas, and presumably the final release, can do most of that with an abou ...

Water Privatization

  • Council candidate DeSisto outlines his plan for Ta ...
    Tony DiSisto , a candidate for the District 4 City Council seat that represents south Tampa, is campaigning on a 10-point "Tampa Plan." In it, he offers his positions on such topics as the budget, job creation, roads, water management, downtown and culture. In a news release DeSisto e-mailed with hi ...
  • Should BN hold the General Election in the early p ...
    SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.
  • Union, peasant leaders gunned down; bishops condem ...
    With the toll from extrajudicial killings (EJKs) reaching 22 under President Aquino's term by the count of local human rights group Karapatan, Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano filed two resolutions urging the House of Representatives to probe the cases of the two latest victims.
  • Who’s afraid of SC? Not Angat winner…
    Korea Water Resources Development Corp. (K-Water), winning bidder for the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant, is not walking away from the deal because of a Supreme Court-issued temporary restraining order.
  • Korean state water firm still keen on Angat‏ plant
    MANILA, Nov 1 (PNA) -- Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. has reported that Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-Water), Korea's state water utility firm remains interested in acquiring the 218-megawatt (MW) Angat-hydroelectric power plant despite the pending case at the Supreme Court.

Guardian

  • Two South Korean marines killed in shelling by Nor ...
    Two killed after Communist country fires on Yeonpyeong island in first attack on South Korean land since 1953 warNorth Korea faces a fresh wave of international condemnation after troops bombarded an island in disputed waters with dozens of rounds of artillery today, reportedly killing two South Kor ...
  • Prince William and Kate Middleton name the date
    Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding will take place on Friday 29 April at Westminster AbbeyThe wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will take place on Friday 29 April at Westminster Abbey, Clarence House announced today.The princes' private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, said th ...
  • Ireland political crisis – live
    �� Lisa O'Carroll with minute-by-minute coverage as Ireland's ruling coalition faces imminent collapse amid turmoil over the EU's potential ��90bn bailout �� Read Lisa O'Carroll's lunchtime summary1.37pm: First pictures of the vandalisation of minister Noel Dempsey's constituency home have emerged � ...
  • Migration cap 'stricter than expected'
    Home secretary to announce the level of the government's planned cap on number of migrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EUThe level of the immigration cap on skilled migrants from outside Europe to be announced this afternoon by the home secretary, Theresa May, is to be far below the 37 ...
  • Daily pill helps prevent HIV infection
    Campaigners say breakthrough could change approaches to preventing HIV and AidsA once-daily pill can protect men at high risk of HIV from becoming infected, a ground-breaking study shows today.The international trial, which has generated much excited anticipation, provides proof for the first time t ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • China hints at new climate future
    At a recent meeting in Tianjin, there's been intriguing discussion about where the host country, China, is going on climate change. And where it's going is, it seems, towards national legislation to restrict the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. This national law is likely to emerge as part of th ...
  • All eyes on France, as tuna wars loom
    Paris and Brussels are presently seeing skirmishes over the fate of what's become the oceans' most iconic creature - the Atlantic bluefin tuna. � This week and next, the French capital hosts the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) - the org ...
  • Copenhagen or Babel? A climate conundrum
    It's the time of year when an environment correspondent's thoughts turn inevitably to the UN climate summit. A little less than a year after filing into the frozen wasteland of Copenhagen's Bella Center, we're looking this year to the sunnier climes of Cancun in Mexico. Already the wordplay is being ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • New Jersey Passes Landmark Anti-Bullying Legislati ...
    Joe.My.God points out that the New Jersey legislature has “overwhelmingly approved” the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, a measure âdesigned to combat harassment, intimidation and bullying among students.â The bill, which comes in the wake of the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi — who threw hi ...
  • Military Leaders, Newspapers, And Republicans Crit ...
    Following Senator Jon Kyl’s (R-AZ) announcement last week that he will delay and obstruct the New START treaty, many in the media presumed that START was all but dead. Yet the White House, knowing that it is now or never for the START treaty, doubled down and put its credibility on the line demandin ...
  • Johanns’ New 1099 Pay-Fors Prove How Hard Re ...
    In August, Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced a measure to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement in the Affordable Care Act — which requires small businesses to report any purchases over $600 to the IRS — and proposed paying for the $19 billion shortfall by eliminating $11 million from the Preventi ...
  • Senate Extends TANF, But Fails To Renew Popular, J ...
    For months, Republicans in the Senate have blocked an extension of the currently expired Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Contingency Fund, a successful jobs program that has created more than 250,000 subsidized jobs for low-income workers through grants to states. The Emerge ...
  • Gibbs Warns Congress Against Leaving DADT Repeal T ...
    This afternoon, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs listed repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell as a priority for the lame duck session after the Thanksgiving recess and reiterated the now oft-repeated warning that if Congress fails to lift the ban, the matter could be decided by the courts. “Do thi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • 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, Cana ...
  • 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 o ...
  • Mining Industry P.R. Hacks
    Before John Mackay's private members' bill C-300 to deprive federal funding to Canadian mining companies found guilty of criminal behaviour abroad went down to its preordained defeat at the hands of our corporate controlled political system, the intertubes were filled with nauseating puss-balls, emp ...
  • 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 ...
  • Right-wing voters
    Hah.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Urges Public to Take Action to Prevent the Cor ...
    Today, the National Whistleblowers Center voiced its strong opposition to Proposed Rules submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implementing the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and encouraged citizens to take action. (See N ...
  • My letter to Scientific American on PAWA
    The December 2010 issue of Scientific American, page 12,� features my letter to them about the Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA), HR 2067 and S 1580.� I appreciate the way that the editors enlarged this quote on their letters page:� "When whistleblowers speak truth to power, they could finally ...
  • Wham-O takes on patent whistleblowers
    The Wham-O company, maker of the Frisbee, is arguing to a federal appeals court that a qui tam provision in patent law is unconstitutional.� Wham-O's lawyer, Andrew Dhuey, told Law.com that the patent law, 35 U.S.C. � 292, violates the Constitution's "take care" clause which says that the President ...
  • Metro employees' union reports on NTSSA protection ...
    Local 689 of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) represents employees of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA or Metro). Last month, Lindsey Williams (Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I spoke to Local 689's Executive Board.� You can follow this link ...
  • 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, fo ...

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

  • Botched TSA Pat Down Leaves Traveler Covered In Ur ...
    It certainly appears that the TSA might need a bit more training with these new intrusive groping pat downs. MSNBC has the story of a survivor of bladder cancer, who now has to wear a urostomy bag, which collects his urine for him alongside his body, trying to travel via the airport in Detroit. He ...
  • Just Calling Something Property, Doesn't Make It P ...
    For years, we've pointed out how rather insidious it is to refer to copyright and patents as "property," as it leads to those who support traditional property rights to default to supporting these government-granted monopoly privileges as if they were property. Stewart Baker, over at the Volokh Con ...
  • Looks Like Visa Program For Science & Tech Grads I ...
    theodp writes in to let us know: "By enacting a controversial 'emergency' rule in 2008 allowing foreign students who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) in the U.S. to work for American employers for 29 months of Optional Practical Training (OPT) without the need for an ...
  • UK Lawyers Who Originated 'Pay Up Or We'll Sue' Kn ...
    Earlier this year, we noted that Davenport Lyons, the UK law firm, that really spearheaded the whole mass automated "pay up or we'll sue you for copyright infringement" business, before handing it off to ACS:Law was being investigated by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, a part of the Solicitors ...
  • Why Murdoch's iPad-Only Newspaper Misses The Point
    There's been lots of talk about how News Corp. is developing an iPad-only newspaper called "The Daily," but the more I read about it, the less sense it makes. The general thinking behind it seems to come from the same reasoning which explains why so many iPad publisher apps are so bad. They're app ...

VacTruth

  • GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts To Boost HPV Va ...
    By financing cancer research experts and support groups they can manipulate the market to benefit themselves. GSK is financially influencing experts in attempts to change current medical practices and diagnostics in the early detection of cervical cancer.
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Are all Johns (and Janes) the Same?
    Last Tuesday I linked to an article that really bugged me, but I hadnât quite put my finger on all the reasons why.  It was about a brothel for women that is opening in New Zealand.  The author of the article was predicting that the brothel would be a failure because women “have to be [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apologies for missing my Thursday post.  I’ll make it up to you. You may have heard that there was a protest in Haiti.  UN peacekeepers are being blamed for the Cholera outbreak that has killed more than 900 people.  What a clusterfuck.  And the media reporting has been hideous. Also a clusterfu ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙØµØ ÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت ÙÙ Ø Ø±Ø¨ Ù…Ù Ø Ø±Ùب 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: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
  • By: FutureEmergency.com
    [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
  • 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, [...]

treehugger

  • Cyclists Campaign to Improve Brussels Rental Bike ...
    Photo: letsgo Two years ago TreeHugger commented, not too positively, on the bicycle rental scheme in Brussels. Calling the post "Free Bikes Flop in Brussels", lack of bicycles, lack of docking stations and lack of commitment were all issues. Now a new group has sprung up: "Where's my Vi ...
  • Where In The Taxonomy of Environmental Escapism Do ...
    Title page, Linnaeaus, 1758, 10th edition of Systema naturæ. Image credit:Wikipedia. Life style grand-standing has lately been a consistent favorite in America. Sara Palin's make-pretend Alaska lifestyle is but the latest example of many such successes. (Remember Zero Impact Man?) Making ...
  • Is WiFi Killing Our Trees?
    Electrobonsai effect on trees: They move away from EMF sources. Image Credit Lloyd Alter The TreeHugger Team proved it three years ago: Trees do not like WiFi. Now other scientists are catching up. A recent Dutch study was quoted in PC World: The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiati ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: 9 Thanksgiving Recipes, Tried ...
    Photo: TreeHugger Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this is one holiday where food is king, queen, court...well you get the point. TreeHugger writer Kelly Rossiter has whipped up (and sampled!) nine delicious vegetarian recipes -- so you can pack your menu full of tasty delights a ...
  • Are Some People Not Fit to Be Vegans?
    Photo by Takver via flickr and Creative Commons license. What to eat? It's still a touchy subject, and posts about food choices here at TreeHugger tend to draw (at best) sprited debate and at worst, heated ire. So here's more fuel for the fire - dedicated vegan food blogger Tasha at the Voracio ...

Biosingularity

  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
  • Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...
  • New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ ...
    Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also represen ...
  • Gene Therapy for Treating Depression
    For decades, medications for depression have acted pretty much the same way–by manipulating levels of serotonin and other chemical messengers in the brain. New drugs have offered only modest changes from the old ones. Now a team of researchers, led by Michael Kaplitt, an associate professor at Weill ...

CFACT

  • Climate change no longer scary in Europe
    The tide seems to be turning: the Climate Conference fiasco in Copenhagen, Climategate scandal and stabilization of worldwide temperatures since 1995 have given rise to growing doubts about the putative threat of "dangerous global warming."
  • Big Green Bus has flat tires
    If the Big Green Bus hasn̢۪t actually stalled, it̢۪s at least got a couple of newly-flattened tires. And the suddenly-Republican U.S. Congress̢۪s opposition to energy taxes is only part of it.
  • Greenwashing America
    Every time you see some product being sold as “Green,â€Â allegedly safer or more beneficial for the environment, you can be sure that it is more expensive than a comparable product that does the same thing without making this claim.
  • Why are Republicans climate skeptics?
    Maybe because the Republicans mostly come from more rural states that haven̢۪t had any warming -- man-made or otherwise.
  • The slow death of the environmental movement
    The death of environmentalism began with the issue of global warming. It, along with its proposed solutions, have been widely rejected by the public.

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The drone attacks may not even be legal. If they are not, they may be war crimes. With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the alternative to cal ...
  • Tracking the new financial WMDs
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Blogger George Washington (emph. in orig.): Remember, credit default swaps didn’t bring down the economy because they are toxic while all other financial vehicles are pure as the driven snow. CDS brought down the economy because they ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Second verse, same as the first:Militants armed with guns and a truck bomb demolished a police department used to detain terror suspects in Pak ...
  • A terrible precedent
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In 2002 CIA agents - Americans - tortured prisoners and were videotaped doing so. In 2005 those videotapes were destroyed, and on Tuesday the five year statute of limitations for filing criminal charges in the matter expired. For a ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postAbbreviated “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 pr ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • rBGH-Free Trend Continues
    Rick North writes about the continued expansion of the number of dairy processors/marketers offering products they certify are free from milk of farmers where cows are injected with synthetic growth hormones. Click here to read this article
  • Divided We Eat: What Food Says About Class in Amer ...
    As more of us indulge our passion for local, organic delicacies, a growing number of Americans don’t have enough nutritious food to eat. How we can bridge the gap.Click here to read this article
  • From Agribusiness to Agroecology? An Analysis of V ...
    On Sunday, October 3rd, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made public another remarkable opportunity for agroecology and food sovereignty advocates worldwide as he announced the effective nationalization of AgroIsleña, the transnational agribusiness firm that was - before Chavez signed Decree Number ...
  • Fast Food, Fat Profits
    Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050.Click here to read this article
  • Climate Chaos Descends on Bolivia and the Andes
    "According to a report released this week," the Onion reported on November 10, 2010, "... climate change, the popular mid-2000s issue that raised awareness of the fact that the earth's continuous rise in temperature will have catastrophic ecological effects, has apparently not been resolved, and may ...

fotoFrontera

  • Colección de imágenes fantásticas I (10 postales i ...
    Si usted lo prefiere, también podría revisar nuestra colección con 60 imágenes fantásticas con movimiento. O qué tal nuestra serie de imágenes de pegasos. ¿Le parece poco? Vea 23 imágenes de ángelesNota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXVI
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar ...
  • Los insectos de mi jardín V (10 imágenes gratis)
    Revise nuestras fotos anteriores de esta serie. [1][2][3][4][5]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 ...
  • Backgrounds, fondos y wallpapers abstractos I
    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 ...
  • Fotoreportajes especiales: Coatepec, Veracruz.
    Continuando con nuestra serie de foto reportajes especiales, el día de hoy deseo invitarlos a conocer un bellísimo pueblito llamado Coatepec ubicado en el, Estado de Veracruz, México. A través de 38 fotos gratis, sea testigo de un lugar digno de ser tomado en cuanta para sus próximas vacaciones.Nota ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
    Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
  • Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
    While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Read carefully
    Just got around to remembering to delete my political groups from Twitter. No way am I going to bother to unfollow everybody but dumping the list serves the same purpose, removing one more easy access to political news. Thanks to the Kindle I’m spending my time reading now instead of surfing. Over T ...
  • Does this post make me look political?
    Three wire stories on the TSA and their grotesquely intrusive body scans/pat downs today: A grope too far: Fliers’ anger at TSA boils over Under pressure from public and pols, TSA head says airport screening will be refined, adjusted If even small number of people participate, security protest could ...
  • Slippery when slick
    Yes, it’s slippery out there. Scraped off two cars, salted a sidewalk and picked up a trunk load of tamarind, chilis, plum sauce and mangoes this morning, and am busily ignoring the Vikings game while sorting out some links of possible interest to you and yours. Speaking of slippery…. There may be s ...
  • The Zeeboid process
    The Zeeboid Affair: Gawker outed as chumps [more] Strib’s nicer take I was a troll and voted for her to get an abortion, if only because we don’t need to torture any more children by letting them be raised by politicized assholes like the Arnolds. And isn’t it typical that it’s the husband (aka Zeeb ...
  • Cheating, cont.
    Given all the cheating stories, it’s somewhat ironic that after doing that last post I turned right around and edited a short college paper for an ESL client. I give old clients the cheap rate of $45 an hour, which probably isn’t enough considering that I heavily edited a three-page paper in just th ...

Public News Service

  • Congressman Grijalva Calls on FDA to Ban Triclosan
    Congressman Grijalva Calls on FDA to Ban Triclosan Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva (Rah-OOL Gree-HOL-vah) joined two House colleagues calling on the Food and Drug Administration to ban triclosan (TRICK-lo-san), a common ingredient in many over-the-counter products like soaps, shampoo ...
  • Former Commissioner: Politics Still Threatens Ariz ...
    Former Commissioner: Politics Still Threatens Arizona Wildlife Tucson, AZ – Arizona voters earlier this month rejected a ballot measure to increase the legislature’s authority over wildlife management. But a former state Game and Fish commissioner says political considerations continue to intrude on ...
  • Advocate: Wrong Time to be Ending Jobless Aid
    Advocate: Wrong Time to be Ending Jobless Aid Phoenix, AZ - More than 50-thousand people in the state are at risk of losing unemployment benefits during the Christmas season if Congress doesn’t act. Low-income advocate Cynthia Zwick, director of the Arizona Community Action Association, says this is ...
  • Plans to End Childhood Hunger in AZ by 2015
    Plans to End Childhood Hunger in AZ by 2015 Phoenix, AZ – Actor Jeff Bridges is hoping a new program announced this week will end childhood hunger in Arizona and across the nation by 2015. The No Kid Hungry Campaign incorporates public-private partnerships, nutrition education and increased particip ...
  • Advocates: Don't Repeal Health Reform on the Backs ...
    Advocates: Don't Repeal Health Reform on the Backs of Arizona Children Phoenix, AZ – Leaders in the new Republican-dominated U-S House say the midterm election was a mandate from Americans to repeal health reform. Advocates for Arizona children say they find that hard to believe. Comments from Dana ...

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA Proposing Interim Planting of Illegal, Geneti ...
    In August, a Federal court ruled that USDA’s approval of genetically engineered (GE), “Roundup Ready” sugar beets was unlawful, concluding that USDA had failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the impacts of this crop on farmers and the environment, such as the biological contamination of non-GE c ...
  • Coalition Reveals Immense Opposition To Transgenic ...
    As Comment Period on Approval and Labeling Winds Down More than 360,000 Send Comments to FDA Demanding Action on GE Fish A coalition of consumer, environmental and animal welfare groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers, grocers and chefs held a joint ...
  • Help CFS Fight GE Salmon
    Check out our new video on GE salmon and support our work! Filed under: GE Animals, GE Food, Take Action
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Defending Sacred Places
  • Minister Says Bushmen Live in 'Dark Ages'
    by Niren Tolsi Mail & Guardian November 12, 2010 Botswana's minister for environment, wildlife and tourism, Kitso Mokaila, stoked the growing controversy around his government's treatment of Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve by telling the BBC that Bushmen are "living in the D ...
  • P C Vinoj Kumar: IT professionals who see the worl ...
    Welcome to theweekendleader.com: A group of IT professionals who launched the Save Tamils Movement (STM) during the height of the war between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government in 2008 have just completed a documentary film on the historic struggle of the Tamils in the island nation. “T ...
  • A Fistful of Dollars | Mother Jones
    A Fistful of Dollars | Mother Jones Statistically speaking, he's probably right. The rate of violent crime among Native Americans is twice the national average (PDF); on some reservations, it's 20 times higher. At least one in three American Indian women will be raped (PDF) in their lifetimes. Ye ...
  • The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson ...
    The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson - The Washington Note Next week, Foreign Policy magazine and its editor-in-chief Susan Glasser will be releasing its 2nd annual roster of the world's greatest thinkers and doers in foreign policy. I have seen the list -- and it's impressively creativ ...

Pensieve

  • Monetary Crisis Video
    With the US printing money and calling it “quantitative easing”, this video is even more ironic. The US is doing precisely what they were condemning the Chinese for last week, and we all lose from it. But at least it’s catchy. Let’s toast some marshmallows as Rome burns. Like the previous one, this ...
  • TSA Patdowns, Animated in Taiwan
    In their now traditional irreverent style, animators in Taiwan’s Next Media Animation explain the completely insane new travel laws. I’m glad that when I go to the US these days, either I drive, or I ride a bus. Related posts:They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha! Immigration Only a Dream Schadenfr ...
  • Freedom
    Photo by Glen’s Pics These are lyrics that came to me this morning as I was struggling through the paradox of being a “slave to righteousness” versus a slave to sin. Being “slaves” of God is not true slavery, because when we submit to him, he sets us free to do much more than we [...] Related post ...
  • Ortega and Ham Endangering Central America
    Photo by brian.ch The actions of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Honduran minister of Agriculture César Ham are endangering the stability of the region. One is creating a war out of thin air to hide his blatant power grab. The other is taking advantage of Honduran President Lobo’s trip to Ta ...
  • Forbid Campaign Contributions!
    Photo by wstera2 I read an article by Noam Chomsky this morning, in which he reflects on the aftermath of the US election. In it are several interesting points, well though out and illuminating; others were less so. Firstly he apparently sees himself as an anti-capitalist, not a Democrat. I suspect ...

Green Times

  • Don’t be a tosser
    Recycle (directory/categories/Recycling), recycle, recycle! We can’t say it enough. City councils offer bins and facilities to help your separate your waste. So don’t be a tosser! Recycle! Photo by: Manja Louman  
  • Surfing Green
    Being one with the waves! Such an amazing feeling… Make sure you keep our oceans and beaches beautiful! So you can enjoy being one with nature. Surfing is also a great way to exercise without feeling that you are exercising. And surf brands are helping in protecting the environment, read our articl ...
  • Environmental News 23/11/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Public Transport
    Living far from work? Don’t drive to work, use public transport (directory/categories/Transport). Just with little things like this you can make a huge difference in helping to prevent pollution (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/pollution-reduction.html ) and reduce your impact on the environmen ...
  • The Butterfly Effect
    Butterflies are beautiful creatures. They can be found in many colours and sizes. They feed primarily on nectar from flowers and play an important role in our ecosystem (glossary/wildlife/ecosystem.html)! Read our article The Butterfly Effect (climate-change/butterfly-effect.html) and help make a d ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. military widens probe of platoon in Afghanist ...
    ShareThisU.S. military widens probe of platoon in Afghanistan 23 Nov 2010 A military probe of U.S. Army troops accused of terrorizing Afghan civilians has turned to questions of supervision by their commanding officers, testimony in the case against one soldier revealed on Monday. The disclosure cam ...
  • North Korea shells S. Korean island
    ShareThisNorth Korea shells S. Korean island 23 Nov 2010 North and South Koreas have exchanged artillery fires after 50 North Korean artillery shells hit the Yeonpyeong Island near the disputed Yellow Sea border. At least a dozen South Korean marines were wounded and one killed in the attack in Yeon ...
  • High alert as N.Korea fires artillery barrage on S ...
    ShareThisHigh alert as N.Korea fires artillery barrage on South 23 Nov 2010 North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing one person and triggering an exchange of fire as southern armed forces went on their highest state of alert. In what appeared to be ...
  • Ireland forced to take EU and IMF bail-out package
    ShareThisIreland forced to take EU and IMF bail-out package 22 Nov 2010 Ireland has accepted an EU and IMF bail-out thought to be worth up to £77 billion after emergency telephone conference talks. Ireland has finally been forced to take an economic bail-out from the European Union in a deal designe ...
  • Obama Rejects Push From Karzai to Reduce Raids in ...
    ShareThisObama Rejects Push From Karzai to Reduce Raids in Afghan War 21 Nov 2010 Disagreements between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S.-led allies over how the war should be pursued burst into the open at a coalition summit this weekend, with U.S. President Barack Obama rejecting Afghan d ...

Daily Loaf

  • Rick Scott’s work already done? Economists say Flo ...
    This will be the last MPR before the Thanksgiving holiday.  Regular readers may recall my whining about not getting any days off – the fact that I might start losing some company days off means there won’t be a report here tomorrow, and management is giving the staff at this weekly paper Friday of ...
  • Lobbying for body-scanning machines doubled over p ...
    You might recall that in the days and weeks after the "underwear bomber" , Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly blew up a plane in Detroit last Christmas, former homeland security chief Michael Chertoff was all over cable and broadcast news hyping the full body screening machines as way to detect hidde ...
  • Personal lubricant for novices
    A guide for matching lube to your sexual stylings.
  • My first year of gaydom — Things fall apart (part ...
    I don't understand. Where is she? Why won't she respond to any of our calls or texts or IMs? She knows it's N's birthday today. I've been trying for a few days now to nail down whether she'd come over for both the party with our tribe of friends tonight and also tomorrow for time together just the ...
  • Rick Scott’s work already done? State economists s ...
    State economists say that unemployment won't ultimately drop below double digits until two years from now.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • What’s the point of a trial? Protest organiz ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee: Military Judge Orders to Keep Bil’in Organizer Jailed Even After He Has Finished Serving His Sentence in Full Ed’s note: Not only is organizing popular protest apparently a crime, it is one deserving unending prison sentence. Since it is obvious Isra ...
  • Jews dancing at the gate
    By Jesse Bacon I am proud to note that Emily Schaeffer’s blog post on the BDS movement was linked to in Bradley Burston’s recent column. I have noted Burston’s shift in one of my first blog posts; it makes me happy that we are now part of his evolving thinking and the broader opinion shift that rep ...
  • What “looks and acts like a banana republic? ...
    By Rela Mazali Two recently published items present what I see as telling, if limited and even evasive, probes into the extent and depth of Israel’s militarization, each revealing a different manifestation of it. The first (truncated in the English version which omitted the passages of personal test ...
  • Another Settler Arson of Salem’s Olive Trees
    Uri Pinkerfeld, Villages Group coordinator for Salem and Deir El Hattab, reports: On Sunday November 14 2010, around 12 noon, smoke was seen rising from the olive orchards on the slopes of Jabal Kabeer above Salem. Several farmers went to locate the fire’s location, north of the settler bypass road, ...
  • Welcome to the Zoo
    By Audrey Farber, crossposted at Mondoweiss.net My neighborhood doesn’t have street signs. And when it does, they don’t refer to names of streets anyone is familiar with. House numbers, too, are scarce. I didn’t know my own street address until yesterday â four and a half months after my arrival. My ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • South Korea scrambling jets in response to North K ...
    Steve Herman of VOA in Korea is tweeting it.
  • Portable wind and solar from Electric Pinwheels
    It can be assembled in about 30 minutes, is weather proof, and scalable.
  • We need music like this here too
    My friend John Wight at Socialist Unity supports the campaign to make “Liar Liar” by Captain SKA the number one Xmas song in Britain, rather than Bowie’s “Heroes” which is being used for pro-Afghanistan war propaganda.
  • FBI raids three hedge funds
    Two of the funds have links to biggie Steve Cohen’s monster SAC hedge fund and many assume he is a primary target. Maybe the corruption and ooze of slime around Wall Street and Greenwich CT has finally become so intolerable that the feds really are acting. But only criminal indictments will do. No m ...
  • TSA has met the enemy and they are us
    Politico has a round-up of major media news stories opposing the new TSA policies. I’m struck at the difference between Obama’s remote, uncaring response and Hillary Clinton’s, where she acknowledged that she would avoid the searches if possible. Obama made no effort to connect with the public or un ...

Coteret

  • Israeli media provides a glimpse of how spin drive ...
    On the front page of this morning’s Maariv, senior columnist Ben Caspit reports [full translation at the bottom of the post; Hebrew original here]: At least three top Likud figures who were briefed recently by officials very close to Netanyahu on the talks with the Americans, on the letter that has ...
  • Danny Ayalon to Norway: Why can’t you keep your ar ...
    The Israeli government reaction to the homegrown cultural boycott of the West Bank settlement of Ariel was forceful and blunt: Threaten funding, establish a “Zionist Art Prize” and de-legitimize whoever takes part as fifth-columnists. This should not have been a surprise, coming from a government th ...
  • Lieberman says Israel’s borders “imperialist” and ...
    “Anti-Zionism” can be found in surprising places. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was up in the Golan Heights on Thursday. The settlement of Katzrin awarded him “honorary citizenship of the city.” The Israeli media provided superficial reporting of Lieberman’s acceptance speech, with only gene ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Climategate Anniversary
    By John Pittman On 11/28/2009, JeffID graciously posted an article of mine http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/context-2/#more-6449 . Now that the anniversary is approaching, I wanted to go back and look at some items of interest including a couple of predictions I made. I started the articl ...
  • Climategate, a year of comedy.
    It has been almost a year now since the UEA emails known as climategate were revealed.  What has followed has been a year of hilarity as one scandal after another followed.  Just think about how funny it was when Pachuri (head of the IPCC) published his sex book, Mann publishing one self exonerating ...
  • Blackboard on Eq 34
    The M10 hurricane paper discussion is continuing now at the blackboard.  I haven’t mentioned it much but I do consider it one of the best examples of blog based science on the internet.  As usual, I’m way way too busy to have fun, but the discussion has lapsed into the derrivation of eq 34 which [ ...
  • Hide the Incline!
    A missile was launched off our coast today, in case you are new here, I’m an aeronautical engineer.  I’ve watched rockets and planes my whole life.  Today a mysterious missile was launched off the California coast which was very disconcerting.    The pentagon is calling it everything except wha ...
  • 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.

Focal Point

  • TSA Sexism: Pilots' Junk Off-Limits; Flight Attend ...
    Pilots who shun full body scans are exempt from the TSA's new "enhanced" body searches. Flight attendants are not. Their respective unions complained about the searches, but only pilots got an exemption. Flight attendants and pilots go through the same FBI background checks and fingerprinting. Ove ...
  • Cheating Still Cheating; Bastards Still Bastards
    Do today's college students define cheating differently? That's the thesis of this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled "Cheating and the Generational Divide." The author claims that a recent scandal at the University of Central Florida exposes a "widening chasm in what different ...
  • Non Sequitur: Privatize TSA Screeners for Invasive ...
    Republicans are exploiting public outrage over whole body scanners and new invasive pat-downs to justify privatizing TSA screeners: As criticism grows of the government's new full-body imaging scanners and the alternative "enhanced" pat-downs, some airports are considering ditching TSA agents ...
  • TSA: Pose Nude, or We'll Touch Your Junk
    As you've probably heard, the TSA introduced a new extra-invasive body search protocol on Oct. 29, just in time for the rollout of whole body scanners at 65 airports. The old school pat-down was nothing if not thorough. Why is the TSA suddenly getting even more invasive? My theory is that the ...R ...
  • Health Care Reform: The War of Attrition Begins
    Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, a occasion originally conceived for somber reflection on bitter and pointless trench warfare. It is fitting that the Republicans chose this week to announce their plans to harry health care reform to death. The GOP campaigned on grandiose promises of repealing the ...R ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Tests Its First Search Operator, a “Quick ...
    Facebook is testing a new “Quick Link” feature in its search interface which lets users jump straight to the “Photos of…[User Name]” page by including “photos” in their search. The link to user’s tagged photos was previously only accessible beneath a user’s profile picture on their profile. Search o ...
  • Buddy Media’s Tool Improved for Multi-Page Managem ...
    Later today, Buddy Media will announce several improvements that it has made to their Facebook Page management system Buddy Media Platform’s Publisher tool. Admins using the system can now see a combined stream of posts and comments to all the Pages they control, sort the stream by many parameters, ...
  • PayPal’s Shoptimist Offers Group Buying and Sweeps ...
    PayPal is preparing to launch its new social shopping experience Shoptimist. Shoptimists Unite will allow users to invite their friends to purchase group deals which reduce in price with more buyers, or enter sweepstakes to win popular items. Neither feature on its new Shoptimist Facebook Page are f ...
  • Through Sharing and Spin-Offs, Phrases Becomes Lar ...
    Pre-fabricated wall post generation app Phrases has overtaken FarmVille and all other Facebook apps in monthly active user count. However, the app’s developer Takeoff Monkey disabled Phrases for US users within the last month, meaning some of the current users being counted are no longer actually ac ...
  • Philippines’ Largest Mobile Carrier Backs Zong Pay ...
    The Philippines largest mobile carrier, Smart, is putting its marketing power behind mobile payments for Facebook Credits, underscoring Southeast Asia’s growing importance to the Facebook developer ecosystem. The country is Facebook’s sixth largest market behind the U.S., Indonesia, Turkey, the U.K. ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • "War criminals" leak strikes at heart of Israeli s ...
    Paul Larudee considers the implications for Israel and its armed forces of the leaking of the details of 200 Israeli military personnel who participated in the invasion of Gaza of 2008-09, which resulted in the murder of more than 1,400 people, primarily civilians, including over 340 children. "Ins ...
  • Obama plays the fox with the Israeli wolves
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the apparent game plan behind US President Barack Obama's extraordinary concessions to Israel in return for a temporary moratorium on colony expansion in the West Bank will most likely fail because it aims unscrupulously to ensnare the Palestinians into an agreement tha ...
  • No, Mr Netanyahu, you and yours are responsible fo ...
    Alan Hart dismisses Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's propaganda that anti-Semitism in increasing. He argues that it is not anti-Semitism but anti-Israelism that is gathering pace and that Israel has only its arrogance, racism and criminal behaviour to blame.
  • Israeli fascism, the joker Shlomo Avineri and the ...
    Uri Avnery cautions against those in Israel such as Shlomo Avineri who dismiss the increasingly potent fascism tendencies in the country and warns against appeasing racists and fascists, in the way that Peace Now is currently doing.
  • Scribd.com yields to Israeli pressure over war cri ...
    The document hosting and embedding website Scribd.com has yielded to pressure from the Israeli army's press unit and deleted the Scribd account of Redress Information & Analysis, following our posting of a list of Israeli military personnel suspected of war crimes in Gaza during Operation Cast L ...

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

  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: DHS-TSA Terror Watch L ...
    Resilient Founding Fathers with Propensity for Resistance among One Million+ Terror Watch List Suspects!   In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not rem ...
  • Blows Against the Empire, the Criminalization of D ...
    By way of preface, let me give you a little of my background. I was born a prototypical Southern California working-class surfer boy. As a poor, white kid, I was educated by the California Public School system of the 1960’s and was, therefore, both the avatar of the Liberal Contract of Egalitarianis ...
  • Ron Paul Introduces the American Travel Dignity Ac ...
    ‘We Americans Should Never Give Up Our Rights in Order to Travel’  Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the videos of ...
  • Our National Symptoms-Chasing Yoyo Syndrome
    …And Corrupt System of No-Checks & Many-Imbalances I go on line and check out the major newspaper headlines, and to my delight there is a TSA related headline or two in every one. In the last few days two in every three e-mails I’ve received (and I receive hundreds a day) carry TSA related heads up ...
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama’s New Healthcare ...
    Taking Medical Tourism One Step Further The Obama administration is getting ready to unveil a new innovative healthcare initiative geared to bridge TSA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Tourism Industry to provide airline travelers with several major physical examinations at No C ...

Afro Spear

  • “Kudos Jammeh shall you live up to your word ...
    Many things have been said and written about Gambian strong man Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Diliu Jammeh. He was listed among the horrid and stinking dictators Africa has ever had. He’s renown for his iron fist when it comes to manning a tiny west African country. So too, he likes honours, bragg ...
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  • Interview With Aristide
    Aristide Speaks from South Africa.   “…The picture is that in Haiti, we have the same people who organized the invasion of 2004 after kidnapping me to put me in Africa. They are still there. That means there is a kind of neo-colonial occupation of 8,900 UN soldiers with 4,400 policemen spending, mor ...
  • “Kanye West Apologizes for Calling Bush a Ra ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  It may be too little and too late, but Kanye West is finally apologizing for calling George W. Bush a racist. Nonetheless, his realization could be a lesson for us all. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, celebrities offered their support to the affect ...
  • “Kanye should never have apologized to Bush& ...
    Article in Race-Talk by Dr. Boyce Watkins  One of the proudest moments in my life as a political observer was when Kanye West did something that almost no other artist or entertainer would be astute or courageous enough to do. In 2005, as people were dying in the streets of New Orleans, West used th ...

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

  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • 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….

Unsuitable Blog

  • Operation Christmas Child: Christian Fundamentalis ...
    Somewhere in the minds of millions of children there exists a place where Christmas is every day, and gifts appear beneath the eternal tree and at the foot of the magical fireplace whenever their back is turned. In the hearts of millions of children the joy of giving is equally precious as the joy o ...
  • McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...
  • BT Adastral Plan Wipes Out “Green” Pro ...
    Adastral Park is part of BT’s (formerly British Telecom) Martlesham Heath technology complex, a combination of defence research laboratory and industrial park, situated close to the busy Suffolk town of Ipswich, and adjacent to a large area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You can find Adastral Park b ...
  • Monthly Undermining Task, November 2010: The Onlin ...
    Where do you go for information? I guess, because you are reading this as a web page, then your primary resource for information that you need in a hurry (and aren’t we all in a hurry nowadays?) is the Internet. As far as corporations go, online presence has now eclipsed printed and television media ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Graduating Programmer-Journalist Wants to Help Und ...
    When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." One of the first two Knight scho ...
  • Graduating "programmer-journalist" wants to help c ...
    When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." One of the first two Knight scho ...
  • Building a successful technology venture for the b ...
    This is a long overdue update from our end! We were awarded a grant in the 2008 News Challenge for developing low-cost technologies for community radio stations in India. We have come a long way since then. Our systems are now in use in 9 stations in India, and growing steadily. But we have also rea ...
  • Remix Radio Re-Imagines Public Radio as Interactiv ...
    While we continue to delve into code-level collaboration with Spot.Us to get our Story Exchange crowdfunding project launched later this year, I'll take the opportunity in my next couple posts to give updates on other emerging PRX services that are helping reshape public radio, and that ultimately w ...
  • Overcoming the Challenges of Using Ushahidi in Low ...
    With the increased adoption of Ushahidi around the world, we are finding that one problem (which we anticipated in the very beginning of the initiative) is that of low bandwidth regions. In the early days of testing the platform in Kenya, we found that the map would take ages to load, and so the dev ...

Cutting Edge News

  • North Korea on the Edge - North Korean Artillery A ...
    North Korea and South Korea have reportedly traded artillery fire Nov. 23 across the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea to the west of the peninsula. Though details are still sketchy, South Korean news reports indicate that around 2:30 p.m. local time, North Korean artillery shells ...
  • Farhud Violence--Arabs Against Praying Jews--is Sh ...
    I thought I had heard it all. But to think that Jewish people in the twentieth century were massacred by Arabs at the Wailing Hall in Holy Jerusalem and in Hebron in 1929, as related in Edwin Black's book and article on The Farhud (see When Arabs Massacred Jews Because they Sat While Praying, Novemb ...
  • Airport Pat Downs Not Needed--Just Go for the Scan
    The current hysteria about airport pat-downs and frisking is completely unnecessary. While it is true that pilots and flight attendants should not have to subject themselves to radiation numerous times daily, for the average person flying once or twice per month--or double that, the full scan is con ...
  • Airport Pat Downs Prove We Must Profile Muslims
    Common sense shows that we must treat the Islamic threat to our airports as we would any criminal threat. We must respond with criminal-style profiling of this threat. This means unfortunately, that our Muslim neighbors must be subjected to special attention, along with all Muslims entering this cou ...
  • Palestinian Checkpoints and American Airports
    The next time Palestinian protesters want to to complain about Israeli checkpoints, I would invite them to visit American airports where men, women, and children must be publicly patted down in their private parts because of Arab and Islamic terrorism. Apparently, the Israeli people have come to gri ...

High Country News

  • Not quite so SAD
    Sudden aspen decline appears to be slowing in Colorado, but the trees' glory days may be past.
  • Lone shepherd on a distant promontory
    A writer wanders the mountains north of McCall, Idaho, with Peruvian shepherds, their dogs and sheep.
  • Tribute to a prickly icon
    Both fans and critics contemplate the life and legacy of Edward Abbey in a special issue of the Western literary and arts journal Matter.
  • Western elections wrap-up
    High Country News examines the results of what everyone agrees was a "very weird election."
  • Snapshot of an election
    Maps and graphics chart the relation of campaign spending to Western election results, among other things.

CounterCurrents

  • Designer Disease : I Am Wrong
    By Sadanand Patwardhan After 9/11, the president of USA urged citizens, not to grieve or pray or reflect or volunteer to help, but to go out and shop. Drug industry too wants people to go out and shop. Thats why it is telling people - You are wrong
  • Stone Age Brain, Space Age Culture
    By Mickey Z.The last time Mars got this close to Earth was 60,000 years ago, an age when stars were easy to find and one could cause a blackout by simply dousing the fire. In a mere 280 or so years, the extraterrestrial lady in red will once again be 34,646,418.5 miles away. I wonder what kind (if ...
  • Escaping From The American (And Canadian) Dream
    By Peter Goodchild The stagflation of the 1970s has returned: high prices and low wages. The difference is that this time it isnt going to go away. In response, we must increase our income and decrease our expenses, although thats easier said than done. The magic word is frugality or thrift
  • The Ultimate Roller Coaster Ride: A Brief History ...
    By Post Carbon Institute Fossil fuels have powered human growth and ingenuity for centuries. Now that were reaching the end of cheap and abundant oil and coal supplies, we are in for an exciting ride. While there is a real risk that we ll fall off a cliff, theres still time to control our transitio ...
  • Indian Media Discredited
    By Binu Mathew Indian medias credibility is at an all time low. The recently released audio tapes involving a major corporate house publicist and reputed journalists and the subsequent black out of the news by almost the entire Indian mainstream media puts a huge question mark over the integrity an ...

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

  • US Gets Punked, Taliban We Were Negotiating With W ...
    Apparently President Obama had "reached out" to the wrong Guy. With great fanfare President Obama has directed US diplomats to join the Afghans in negotiations with� Mullah Mansour, a senior commander of the Taliban. The NY Times, is reporting that the diplomats thought they were sitting down with ...
  • The Great Mystery: What's The Obama Administration ...
    By Barry Rubin Letters I receive from readers mainly focus on asking me what I think about the U.S.-Israel-PA negotiations about getting back to...negotiations. What is my view of this big deal that's being discussed for a three-month freeze on Israeli construction. My response has bee ...
  • ADL is Showing its Progressive Junk Again, Issues ...
    I am of the opinion that the START treaty is bad for America. It takes what is an American advantage in weaponry and gives it away, something that no other country in the history of the world has ever done successfully. As John Podhoretz said last week, the proposed treaty creates "a parallelism bet ...
  • NO RETREAT!! TSA Head Says "Can't See London, Ca ...
    Yesterday there were indications that the TSA might be stepping back from its humiliating new screening process where passengers get a choice of submitting to an X-Ray machine which creates a nude picture of the people who step through its portal or getting your "junk" groped by a TSA agent. To ...
  • Maxine Waters' Corruption Trial Delayed Because of ...
    The ethics trial of Maxine Waters was supposed to to start today, but in a surprise announcement the house committee announced last week that the trial was being delayed.� While Ms Waters claimed this was a victory, the NY Times has reported that the reason for the delay is new evidence which casts ...

The Real Agenda

  • Big Pharma Researching for Drugs that Erase Memory
    Drug researchers are working on a mind-altering chemical that could erase your memories. It's all being pursued under the umbrella of "mental health" with claims that this could help victims of emotional trauma. The idea that you can "heal" a patient by chemically lobotomizing them is, of course, en ...
  • Al Gore has gone Insane
    An Inconvenient Lunatic: Gore Says Climate Change is the new Global Terror Hindustan Times Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fi ...
  • Ireland Officially Seeks Aid from Europe
    Spain will be the biggest bailout of all Bloomberg Ireland became the second euro country to seek a rescue as the cost of saving its banks threatened a rerun of the Greek debt crisis that destabilized the currency. The euro erased gains and Irish bonds pared an early advance after Moody’s Investors ...
  • Insider Trading in the U.S. We already knew.
    Charges are expected after federal probe concludes WSJ Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders, and analysts across the nation, according to people familiar w ...
  • Obama Administration ‘Hides’ Massive S ...
    ABC The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congressional report about the wisdom of the deal. The ...

Wind Watch

  • Council firm on turbine dispute
    A wind farm company arguing with Palmerston North City Council about ongoing noise problems is hoping to keep the dispute out of the courts, but the council is sticking to its guns. After receiving a complaint a day for more than a year from neighbours of Te Rere Hau wind farm, the council has moved ...
  • Permitting concerns swirl
    �The suggested changes would be to trash it, and start all over,� rancher Heidi Cross said regarding the proposed Converse County wind farm permitting guidelines. �You drive up to Casper and . . . just look at it. It is miserable, it�s disgusting, it�s dirty,� Cross said. Her comments were similar t ...
  • Hundreds attend meeting as opposition to windfarm ...
    �The more you look at this, the more questions there are and until they are answered you have to say stall the digger,� were the words of Fearghal McHugh, Chairperson of the newly formed Wind Turbine Action Group South Roscommon as he urged local people to support their opposition of plans for the � ...
  • Council to stop windfarms being built near homes
    A council is planning to bring in ground-breaking policy to stop windfarms being built too close to homes. The move comes after a planning inspector over-ruled a decision by Cherwell District Council to refuse permission for a £10m windfarm between Fritwell and Fewcott, near Bicester, where the near ...
  • Wind turbine noise: noise complaints predictable
    Applicants and regulators should have foreseen the negative noise response from neighbors living near wind turbine sites. By their not adequately understanding the sound character generated by wind turbines, appropriate corrections to prevent annoyance were not included in the noise predictions. Win ...

Not My Tribe

  • Petition on Piñon Canyon seizure.
    The Chamber of Commerce both locally and nationally is lobbying to have ranchers evicted from Piñon Canyon. These being the same Chamber of Commerce who fight Health Care on the grounds that the government providing insurance would somehow be seizure of private property without due process. So, the ...
  • US/UK “Liberators” not allowing Afghan ...
    What a surprise. The Puppet Karzhai government, as always echoing what Washington and London (but mainly Wall Street) tell them, is refusing to seat Members of Parliament elected “fraudulently”. This from the most farcical “democracy” in history. Even the French and American puppets in Saigon weren’ ...
  • Pope: Some condom use (may be) acceptable.
    Apparently he figured out that spreading fatal infectious agents like HIV might perhaps maybe be slightly less moral than preventing a billion more babies to be thrown into a hungry, violent world in the next decade. Or something like that. See, every now and then something is done right.
  • Pullout from Afghanistan? not for another 3 years. ...
    BBC had a story “An hour away from Kabul, despair grows as NATO discusses exit…” Meaning, the BBC is required to report that the war is a positive thing for Afghan people so they focus on government officials who got their jobs handed to them by the American and British Conquerors and Occupiers errr ...
  • More about the BlackOps Video Porn Game
    This is a slight mod of their game package picture. The Cellar-Dwellers living in their Moms Basements probably wouldn’t notice any of the problems with the picture. First, the person, whose face is blanked out (Babykillers typically don’t want people recognizing them) is holding two pistols, Colt M ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Too Rich ...
    George W Bush became opposed to abortion when mother showed him dead foetus http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8118079/George-W-Bush-became-opposed-to-abortion-when-mother-showed-him-dead-foetus-in-jar.html Rofl! ... Lmao! ... Yeh right ... sure ... George W Bus ...
  • WTC 7: Simulation vs. Reality - One of These Thing ...
    Can YOU guess which thing is not like the other things? .....
  • Geraldo Should Be Impressed by 1300 Architects and ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asserted yesterday that Geraldo Rivera wouldn't be so impressed by the 1,300+ Architects and Engineers of ae911truth.org if he knew "about the swimming pool engineer or the HVAC engineer or the dental engineer who thinks it was done with beam weapons from sp ...
  • 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 & Telle ...
  • Amplifying the Sounds of Loud and Clear
    911 EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY - Chemical Engineer Mark Basile Related Info: The Sounds of Loud and Clear

Fooducate

  • The Great Fat Debate
    We recently participated in the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE),  organized by the American Dietetic Association. Ten thousand dietitians swarmed the Boston Convention Center for an endless number of education sessions and “healthy” food tastings. One of the most popular sessi ...
  • Hint Flavored Water – A Bridge from Pop to Tap?
    If you can avoid buying drinks at the supermarket - good for you. Tap water is safe, free, and abundant. For those who still need some flavor, you can easily add a wedge of lemon or some mint leaves to your water pitcher. But, if you want the convenience of a prepared drink, Hint may work out well f ...
  • How Many Calories in Your Thanksgiving Meal?
    With Thanksgiving just days away, a little reminder that our holidays are a great opportunity to gain weight if we’re not careful. Courtesy of Smoothfitness. Click on the picture to zoom in. The sad part – this does not include any beverage. Even if you stick to plain old tap water, you’ll probably ...
  • FDA Bans Killer Caffeine Cocktails
    The only thing worse than a bunch of drunk college kids is a bunch of dead college kids who overdosed on alcohol. That’s why the FDA finally moved this week to ban alcoholic beverages enhanced with Caffeine and other stimulants. One of the drinks is Four Loko: … a concoction of four main ingredient ...
  • Only 8% of Americans Eat Enough Fruits (Veggies – ...
    Yesterday we participated in a conference call hosted by Produce for Better Health Foundation, discussing how America has progressed in produce consumption over the past decade. A distinguished panel presented quite a grim picture: America’s  fruit and vegetable consumption remains far below reco ...

Traffikd

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

  • Kalahari Bushman appeals to African Commission
    Moeti's grandmother Xoroxloo died of thirst © Survival A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help. 

Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference e ...
  • Canada endorses UN Declaration on indigenous peopl ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival Canada has endorsed the UN Declaration on indigenous peoples three years after the declaration was approved by the General Assembly. In a statement released last Friday, Canadaâs Indian and Northern Affairs department said, âThe Government of Canada wou ...
  • International NGOs unite against oil giants
    Uncontacted Indians' territory in Peru is being invaded by oil companies. © Anon Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru. ...
  • Survival wins Hollywood award for tribal rights fi ...
    'Mine' has been viewed by over 650,000 people worldwide. © Survival Survival International’s film ‘Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain’ has won the award for ‘Best Short’ in the category of International Human Rights at the Artivist Film Festival to be held in Hollywood. ‘Mine’, narrated by Briti ...
  • Botswana government renews insults to Bushmen
    Government minister says Bushmen are 'living in the dark ages'. © Survival Botswanaâs minister of environment, wildlife and tourism is the most recent government official to make disparaging remarks about the Kalahari Bushmen. In an interview with the BBC, Kitso Mokaila said, âI don’t believ ...

Greg Palast

  • The Family JewelsA Veteran’s Story
    by Greg Palast In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread." My father ran to his mother's bedro ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Leadership
    I don’t normally write about leadership.  Somehow it’s become a niche subject: either the subject of some banal business book, or discussed by the military.  It seems remote from politics or even economics because we live in an elite consensus society, where leadership is rare because the price of ...
  • Off to Vegas tomorrow
    Vacation time.  By my count, my first actual vacation in over 20 years (ie. I’m not adding a few days on to what is essentially a business trip.)  Will see how the backscatter machines/patdowns go.  If they go too badly this may be the last time I visit the US unless I’m being paid very [...]
  • Theatre but no solutions
    Advocating sending in the Army while knowing the Army will never be invited allows one to dodge proposals that would significantly harm the cartels in Mexico by crimping their logistics.
  • The real reason for grope-athon and porn-scanners
    Matt Stoller notes: Why does flying sucks more today? Rich people fly in private jets, so the powerful no longer hear complaints from their friends. This comes back to what I wrote before, but with respect to public schools and the Iraq war.  If important people don’t have skin in the game, things ...
  • The cost of being cheap
    Over at Barry Ritholz’s there’s a discussion of the cost of a business being cheap.  Barry recounts how he used to work for a cheap employer and as a result he sent possible employees who could have earned his employer millions to other companies.  He then asks if others are vindictive bastards li ...

Age of Autism

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Wikileaks promises release 7 times bigger than Ira ...
    Computer World – Wikileaks has promised to release a load of information seven times bigger than the Iraq War Logs, which raised the Internet group’s profile around the world and caused some nations to take notice of the issue of leaks of top-secret documents online. In a note on Twitter, Wikileaks ...
  • Israel passes bill on withdrawal from land
    BBC – Israel’s parliament has passed a bill setting stringent new conditions before any withdrawal from the Golan Heights or East Jerusalem. The bill requires a two-thirds majority in the Knesset before any withdrawal could be approved. Failing that, the proposal would be subject to a national refer ...
  • Iraqi TV presenter killed in northern Iraq
    Xinhua — An Iraqi presenter with a local television was killed on Sunday evening by gunmen in the city of Mosul, the capital of Iraq’s Nineveh province, a provincial police source said. Read Article
  • Irish PM Brian Cowen to call new year election
    BBC – Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he will call a general election in the new year following a day of political turmoil over an EU-led bail-out of the country’s ailing economy. He rejected opposition calls for a snap election, saying the country’s crucial budget had to be passed first. ...
  • Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses
    AP – Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from “The Wizard of Oz” exceed federal limits for lead in children’s products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing commissioned by The Associated Press. The decorative ena ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Kettleman City birth defects not linked to toxic d ...
    A state investigation did not find a common underlying cause for recent birth defects, including heart problems and cleft palates and lips, in Kettleman City, a Central California farming community of about 1,500 mostly Spanish-speaking residents, according to a long-awaited...
  • Report expected on birth defects in Kettleman City
    State health officials are expected to release a long-awaited report Monday on their investigation into the possible causes of severe birth defects in Kettleman City, a Central California farming community of about 1,500 mostly Spanish-speaking residents. State health investigators tested...
  • Tidal power: Could waves provide 10% of America's ...
    Last month, in the swells off Oahu, a company called Ocean Power Technologies connected a small test buoy to the power grid that serves the Marine Corps Base Hawaii. It was a first for a wave energy device in U.S....
  • Barstow residents still avoiding perchlorate-taint ...
    Some 40,000 Barstow residents spent a third day avoiding their tapwater Sunday, as officials scrambled to flush the system of a chemical found in rocket fuel and munitions. The high levels of perchlorate were revealed Thursday in test results from...
  • National monument status urged for Arctic National ...
    Forget healthcare reform, cap and trade, deficit reduction. For congressional stalemates, there's no more evergreen a fight than whether to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Don't expect it to get resolved next year. With the Republicans...

water.org

  • Patrick Alubbe on E. Africa water management (BaoB ...
    Inadequacy of resources impedes agricultural water management in East Africa – Interview of Patrick Alubbe (Baobab – Issue 59 – 2010) – Mr. Patrick Alubbe, the Regional Director of Water.org, an organisation which provides grants and credit for community-based water management initiatives in Kenya, ...
  • Water.org partners with CamelBak this holiday (BW)
    Water.org Partners With CamelBak This Holiday Season ( BusinessWire) – KANSAS CITY, Mo. – There are a lot of ways to do good but this one’s really easy AND really powerful – help bring clean water to a person in need by purchasing a limited-edition Water.org reusable BPA-free water bottle. These cus ...
  • Water.org: Bringing clean water to the world (GMTV ...
    Water.org: Bringing Clean Water To the World (Green Marketing TV) – Water.org is a non-profit organization that uses innovative solutions inspired by for-profit social enterprises to provide sustainable sources of clean drinking water to poor families and communities in the developing world. Water.o ...
  • Matt Damon gets $1 Million for clean water (Ecoraz ...
    Matt Damon Gets $1 Million For Clean Water (Ecorazzi) – It was just announced that the Hult International Business School is going to donate $1 million to Water.org as part of an an MBA case competition. An organization co-founded by superstar Matt Damon, Water.org aims to provide safe drinking wate ...
  • Matt Damon’s water bottle for charity (BSCKi ...
    Matt Damon Designs Limited Edition Water Bottle For Charity (BSCKids) – Matt Damon is known for his action packed films, but he is also a big giver to charities. He recently co-founded Water.org to bring awareness about developing nations and their lack of safe water. In fact, Haiti is a big contend ...

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