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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 2


Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Netanyahu has no choice but to freeze East Jerusal ...
    "There is no way we will give Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] a license to build in East Jerusalem," the American official said with unconcealed anger. "Our letter will not mention, or even hint at, the explicit word 'Jerusalem.'" Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • A new way to embitter Palestinian lives
    But even this is not enough for the settlers, so they create provocations. For their takeover of the springs does not just deny the Palestinians access to water sources; it also, and primarily, creates a violent provocation.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Right-Wingers Using Public Employees as 21st-Centu ...
    The image of the overpaid public sector worker with fat retirement benefits offers a compelling storyline for the Right. But it's a complete fabrication. Submitted by Linda R. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How Tea Party Candidates Like Joe Miller and Rand ...
    Conservative candidates walk a fine line between getting the political support of militias, while avoiding charges of extremism unpalatable to the mainstream. Submitted by Linda R. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe -- And ...
    We�ve gone beyond Stephen Colbert's "truthiness" into a "truth-be-damned" environment. Submitted by Linda R. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • SupportOurTroops.Org Calls for Christmas Boxes fo ...
    According to Martin C. Boire, Chairman of Support Our Troops, said that during 2010 SupportOurTroops.Org has shipped over $7,200,000 in goods to the troops worldwide with a 1.3% overhead.
  • UN Welcomes Pope's Comments on Condom Use to Redu ...
    The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidib�, praised the 'significant and positive step forward' taken by the Vatican, saying it would help accelerate progress towards eradicating the virus.
  • IDA Pledges $2,500 to Arrest Killers of a Mute Sw ...
    The young swan named Monday lost her 19-year-old mother six months earlier when she was taken illegally from the Palace of Fine Arts grounds. Now, only her 13-year-old sister Blanche remains. Mute Swans have graced the lagoon for decades.
  • UN Urges Compromise as Somalia' Parliament Meets t ...
    A session of the parliament got under way today to consider the new cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who was himself appointed by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed last month, following the resignation of his predeces
  • Hindus Lauds Supermodel Christensen for Her Visits ...
    Christensen reportedly spent three days with the villagers to have firsthand experience of the effects of climate change. She took some pictures which will be shown at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun, Mexico from N

    libcom

    • Wildcat strike by Canadian postal workers
      GMC_Canada_Post_Truck[1].JPG A number of Canada Post employees in Winnipeg walked off the job Monday to protest a change in the mail sorting procedure. Canada Post's website says t ...
    • Pike River Mine explosion: fate of 29 workers stil ...
      NZmine_290319f.jpg Pike River Mine on the West Coast of New Zealand is said to be one of the most advanced mines in the country, yet workers still bear the brunt of the drive for profit. On Friday 19th N ...
    • Seattle Solidarity Network Wins Again
      hrgaction-small.jpg Direct action settles the bill at King Way Apts http://www.seattlesolidarity.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65 For three years, Gladys lived wit ...
    • Nine workers arrested in beating death of manager
      STORY HIGHLIGHTS Nine workers arrested in beating death of manager By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN November 15, 2010 -- Updated 1015 GMT (1815 HKT) * Manager worked at component firm Allied Nippon in Ghaziabad district * Happened as 400 workers held a p ...
    • Wall Street Already Finding Loopholes in Financial ...
      recession.jpg Continuing in the tradition of watered down, pro-corporate legislation that the Obama administration is becoming infamous for, new reports are surfacing that banks and financial institution ...

    Free Range International

    • Rules of Engagement
      I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
    • Healing Ulcer
      After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
    • Afghanistan Summary
      This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
    • On The Border
      The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
    • Inchon
      Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...

    The Story Behind the Story

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

    du la bab - Now is the Time

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

    Mansbridge One on One - CBC

    • Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan
      He's been a general and a president, leading Pakistan while wearing those both hats in the tense days following 9-11. Now Pervez Musharraf is out of office and exiled from his country. But that hasn't stopped him from wading into the debate about Pakistan, Afghanistan and how countries like Canad ...
    • Mark B. Salter, Aviation security expert (Nov 13, ...
      The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the ink cartridge bomber: those incidents have changed the way we fly. But have the precautions actually worked or are they simply too much? Today we find out with aviation security expert Mark Salter.
    • Tim Cook, War Historian (Nov 6, 2010)
      Another year, another Remembrance Day and another chance to remind ourselves Canada's military past. This week we look back at some of that past that is often forgotten.
    • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
      She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's our ...
    • Naheed Nenshi, Calgary Mayor (October 23, 2010)
      He's made the news in countries around the world - the main reason? He's Canada's first major city Muslim mayor. Does that matter? We'll ask Calgary's new mayor himself.

    Scotts Contracting

    • Live Webcast-Retrofitting Cities-How to Green the ...
      Retrofitting Cities: How to "Green" the Cities We’ve Got Live Webcast Nov. 22, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT Register Now More than half the world’s population now lives in and around cities, arguably providing an excellent opportunity for … Continue reading →
    • Quality Solar Panels will be available at $1.89 pe ...
      On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: January of 2011 container quantities (633 pcs) of these High Quality Solar Panels will be available at **$1.89/W with free delivery anywhere in the USA. We are taking … Continue reading →
    • Solar Car Roofs by Fisker Automotive=American Inge ...
      PRESS RELEASE Quantum to Begin Series Production of Solar Roof for Fisker Automotive IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTWW) announced today that it has received a $9.4 million production release for … Continue reading →
    • New: A Car that Runs on Human Waste
      New car runs on human waste Sunday, November 21, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Engineers from alternative energy company GENeco say they have designed an automobile engine that can run off methane gas produced from human waste. To … Continue reading →
    • ‘Sustainability’ can mean profits
      Nov 18, 2010 New York Times NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of Greenwire NEW YORK — The recession taught many companies that "sustainability" can mean profits. Slashing energy use and streamlining production in hard times, businesses learned that being green made a positive … Continue reading →

    The View From Abroad

    Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

    Law.com

    Iranian.com

    • Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges
      Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control. read more
    • ارزیابی توان نظامی ایران و کشور های عرب در خلیج فا ...
      هشدار سپاه پاسداران پیرامون احتمال تدارک یک حمله نظامی علیه ایران، تازه ترین نمونه از پیامهایی است که طی روزهای اخیر سازمانها و رهبران جمهوری اسلامی در مورد خطر بروز جنگ انتشار داده اند.read more
    • جهانبگلو يا جهانشاهی؟ ايران بر سر دو راهی!
      اين‌که آيا رژيم حاکم بر ايران در روزها و ماه‌های پيش رو در اثر يک انقلاب خونين و ويران‌گر، آتش جنگی منطقه‌ای، و يا کم‌ترين هزينه و آشتی ملی برای حفظ يک‌پارچگی ايران و سعادت نسل های آينده از اريکه قدرت پايين کشيده شود چندان به تصميم و برنامه‌ريزی مخالفان و قدرت‌های خارجی بستگی ندارد.read more
    • Khamenei thinks he can control a nation of "micro ...
      The Stuxnet worm might be partly responsible for delays in Iran's nuclear programme, says a former UN nuclear inspections official.read more
    • کیهان: اجرای طرح هدفمندی را به بسیج بسپارید
      آفتاب: روزنامه کیهان خواستار محول شدن کار اجرای طرح هدفمندی یارانه‌ها به بسیجیان شد. در سرمقاله امروز این روزنامه که به بهانه هفته بسیج نوشته شده، آمده است: این روزها دولت‌مردان دست به تیغ جراحی برده و در پی نجات اقتصاد بیمار کشورند.read more

    Most Revolutionary Act

    • Japan: Leading the Way
      There’s a great article in the November issue of Adbusters (www.adbusters.org) "What’s Wrong with Being the World’s #2?" by Roland Kelts. The title is a direct quote from Renho, Japan’s 42 year old Minister of Administrative Reform. She was referring to a supercomputer – not to Japan’s economy – ...
    • Selling Our GM Stock
      Taxpayers sold one third of their holdings in General Motors on November 18th, when GM became a publicly traded company (on Wall Street) again. I’m sorry to report that we lost money on the deal. We only got $33 a share on our stock, and to break even we would have needed to make $44 a share. There’ ...
    • The Royal Wedding: Camouflaging Bad News
      Prince William and Kate The British government has become nearly as sophisticated as the US government at releasing some massive fluff piece – such as the engagement of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson William (which happened back in October) – to distract public attention from more serious, potentially ...
    • Kiwi Slang
      One thing I really like about living in New Zealand is that I suddenly have access to a whole new vocabulary to describe everyday experiences. For the most part culture – science, technology, art, law and pseudo-sciences, such psychology, sociology and anthropology – originates with the upper cl ...
    • China, Human Rights, and the FBI
      Interesting all the brouhaha over jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Lui Xiabo – and Obama’s “demands” that he be released – or that at minimum his family be allowed to travel to Oslo to collect his prize. Obviously if the President were really concerned about human rights in China, he could al ...

    Doug's Darkworld

    • Through Thick and Thin
      It’s been a rough week, what can I say. First, the Veterans Day hangover. Being a veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write [...]
    • It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ...
      On Monday evening a helicopter near Los Angeles filmed what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch some 35 miles west of Los Angeles. The government immediately denied any knowledge of a missile launch, and after much speculation in the media and on the Internet, a few days later the case was sol ...
    • The Forgotten War, the 1956 Israeli Invasion of Eg ...
      Also known as the Suez Crisis or the Tripartite Aggression. This was a lovely little war, brilliant in its simplicity. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal early in 1956, so Britain, France, and Israel came up with a wonderful plan. Israel would invade Egypt, drive the Egyptian army out of the Sina ...
    • Palestinian Dreams
      I’ve been doing some posting in a  discussion group, and like watching the main stream media news, I have been astonished at what I see. For one thing, it really is true, there are people that literally believe that every word uttered on Fox News is the truth. I have a hard time understanding that, ...
    • Gloria Ramirez and the Riverside Miasma, a Medical ...
      At 8:15pm on February 19, 1994, one Gloria Ramirez arrived at the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer. She was extremely confused, and suffering from problems with her breathing and heartbeat. All pretty normal ER fare so far. The ER st ...

    FourWinds10

    Crisis Maven

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

    Capital Flow Analysis

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

    R-Squared Energy Blog

    • Addressing the Ethanol Rhetoric Over the Expiring ...
      Join the forum discussion on this post The Ethanol Rhetoric Ramps Up It has been interesting to watch the flurry of ethanol rhetoric since the recent elections. With the $0.45 per gallon subsidy (called the VEETC) and the ethanol tariffs both set to expire at the end of next month, both sides feel ...
    • Inside Shell’s Bintulu GTL Plant
      Robert Rapier writes about his recent tour of Shell's gas-to-liquids plant in Malaysia.
    • Cleantech, Globalization and Energy Independence
      Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Kevin P. Kane. Kevin is an Oil & Gas analyst and cleantech business consultant living in South Korea. Kevin previously published two widely circulated essays: American Freedom from Oil: A Bipartisan Pipedream and Energy Security ...
    • The Stroke of a Pen
      Bob Dinneen wants Congress to extend ethanol tax credits with "a stroke of the pen, a little bit of Whiteout, just change the date."
    • The Palm Oil Conundrum
      Join the forum discussion on this post People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing field (i.e., they don’t require big subsidies or mandates in order to compete). ...

    Discovery Educator Network

    • Langwitches Blog » Assessment of Learning via Skyp ...
      Comments:@Langwitches provides graphic illustrations of her handouts, guidelines, and pre/during/post processes - Dean MantzTags: skype, assessment, langwitches, learning, classroom, blog, technology, collaboration, 21stcenturylearningby: Dean Mantz
    • Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTime ...
      Highlights and Sticky Notes:On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.Researchers say the lure of these technologiesis particularly powerful for young peoplTheir brains are rewardednot for staying on task but for ...
    • CITE Journal - Language Arts
      Tags: copyright, Web 2.0, Fairuse, journal, education, ethics, CITE, languageby: Dean Mantz
    • Free Pictures of Everything on Earth -- Ookaboo!
      Tags: photos, free, tools, media, pictures, cc, publicdomain, imagesby: Dean Mantz
    • 21centuryedtech - home
      Tags: web2.0, resources, wiki, 21centuryedtech, education, teaching, technology, 21stcenturyskillsby: Dean Mantz

    Rodale News

    • Airport Body Scans Trigger Travel Angst
      RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Travelers across the country are wondering if this year's holiday travel season will be especially challenging, thanks to the controversy raised by rigid Transportation Security Administration screening techniques aimed at keeping bombs off of passenger airlines. Amid all th ...
    • Pumpkin Cheesecake? Spicy Wine? It's Alicia Silver ...
      RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Thanksgiving doesn't have to be all about wishbones, drumsticks, and dark meat. In fact, even if you are a meat eater, you'll likely appreciate a rich, satisfying vegan recipe, says actress and activist Alicia Silverstone, author of
    • Keep Dangerous Chemicals Out of Your Cookies
      RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Christmas cookies shouldn't contain hidden chemicals. And neither should holiday pies, scones, and cakes, for that matter. But as manufacturers continue to sneak harmful chemicals into everything from cookie sheets and cupcake liners to the ingredients list itself, it's toug ...
    • Plastic for Dinner? Food Safety Bill to Leave BPA ...
      RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâLast week, the Senate voted to move forward with the Food Safety and Modernization Act and finally protect our nation's food supply. There were definitely good things about the bill, which has been languishing in the halls of Congress for more than a year. "The Tester Amendm ...
    • 5 Low-Salt Versions of Family Dinner Favorites
      RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends limiting daily sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams (mg), and you and other adults in your family may be already watching your salt consumption. But this recommendation affects the youngsters in your home, too: Teenagers ingest mo ...

    big think

    • Market Failure Cannot Be Resolved Without Regulati ...
      I am all for free markets and not mucking them up with government intervention. But the economic theory of regulation tells us that if there is a market failure, it cannot be resolved privately. The public sector must get involved.The most illustrative examples of such failures in U.S. financial ... ...
    • Is Grand Theft Auto Our Aeschylus?
      Or, could Call of Duty: Black Ops take precedence on syllabi over The Illiad? This question has fresh relevance when considering Charlie Crist’s current dilemma: to pardon, or not, the late Doors singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison was a poet, after all. And the question of whether Morrison’s hip t ...
    • 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 ...
    • Patriotic Millionaires
      Generally, I don’t like it when people tell you they’re patriotic. It takes more than proclaiming your patriotism to be a real patriot. But a new group calling itself Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength can make a real claim to be patriotic in one sense: they actually think they should be ... ...
    • The Economy and Climate Change Perceptions: Study ...
      As advocates, commentators, and many scientists seek to account for the decline since 2007 in public concern, worry, and acceptance of the climate change problem, speculation has tended to focus relatively narrowly on the presumed impact of climate skeptics, with the Climategate incident accepted .. ...

    Information Liberation

    • SHOCK VIDEO: Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA
      Does this make you feel safe? Description: Let*s get the facts straight first. Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn*t set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn*t complete th...
    • TSA pat-down leaves bladder cancer survivor covere ...
      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. *I was absolutel...
    • Woman says her Lambert security screening was sexu ...
      Business traveler, Penny Moroney, was flying home from St. Louis to Chicago. Like all other airline passengers, she had to go through security first. When the metal in her artificial knees set off the detectors, she had to undergo more screening. W...
    • TSA Screenings Worry Sexual-Assault Survivors
      For women and men who have already been sexually assaulted, the new screening rules--or just the threat of these rules--present a very real danger. They can be triggering events, setting off a posttraumatic-stress reaction. "I started crying. It was ...
    • Jill & Joe Biden Claim Americans Should Just Accep ...
      Joe Biden won't even look Larry King in the eyes as he lies and says we need the naked scanners....

    Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

    FAS - Secrecy News

    • Seeking the Rule of Law in Afghanistan
      U.S. efforts to promote the rule of law in Afghanistan are expanding and accelerating.  Nearly a billion dollars has been spent in the past decade to strengthen Afghanistan’s legal infrastructure, rising from $7 million in FY2002 to an estimated $411 million in FY2010.  In July 2010, a new Ambassa ...
    • Terrorism in East Africa, and More from CRS
      Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). “Countering Terrorism in East Africa: The U.S. Response,” November 3, 2010. “Latin America: Terrorism Issues,” October 26, 2010. “U.S.-South Korea Relations,” November 3, 2010.
    • The Evolution of American Military Intelligence (1 ...
      An unclassified U.S. Army history of military intelligence that was formerly used as a textbook in officer training at the Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca is now publicly available online (large pdf). The 1973 volume has been superseded in many or even most respects by subsequent research ...
    • US-Saudi Arms Deal Defended by Gates, Clinton
      A $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia — the largest in U.S. history — is poised to proceed despite questions raised by some members of Congress. In a November 16 letter to Congress (pdf), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the deal: “This proposed sal ...
    • Do Corporations Have Personal Privacy Rights?
      The Supreme Court will decide next year whether corporations are entitled to “personal privacy” and whether they may prevent the release of records under the Freedom of Information Act on that basis.  FOIA advocates say that assigning personal privacy rights to corporations could deal a crippling b ...

    Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

    • Science sightings from sciencebase
      My latest science news updates First stem cell trial in stroke patient, how did the media do – In its regular assessment and critique of reporting on medical happenings, NHS Choices looked at the recent early test of stem cell therapy for a stroke victim and reports (amazingly) that "In general, the ...
    • My lucky 13 exam tips for students
      My son and his friends are today heading into their first set of important high school exams, their “mock GCSEs”. They call them mock, but the results they achieve at this stage will determine where they go after they do their GCSEs proper, i.e. their 16+ options. So as a loving dad who has done [.. ...
    • Sizing up the universe
      As a child I devoured books on the stars and planets, on dinosaurs, volcanoes. Was fascinated by the prospect of a space shuttle and lament the fact that I was sent to bed before they landed on the Moon (I was only three at the time, and the Apollo 11 landing happened at 2am UK [...]Sizing up the un ...
    • Latest science snippets
      My latest science news updates New cancer treatment shows promise – An holistic and alternative approach to cancer treatment that isn't "alternative medicine" Pillbox – prototype pill identification system – Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) ...
    • Canned heavy metal and more
      My latest science news updates on SpectroscopyNOW – a sneak preview just for you ahead of their going live on 15th November, covering heavy metals in sardines, enzyme inhibitors for pain relief and sleep problems, the possibility of oral insulin without a Trojan horse carrier, and a spectroscopic te ...

    RFF Library

    • Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infras ...
      Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/119xx/doc11940/11-17-Infrastructure.pdf [From Summary] In fiscal year 2007—the most recent year for which data on combined spending by the federal government and by state and local governments are available—total public spending for transportati ...
    • Residential Insurance on the U.S. Gulf Coast in th ...
      RAND Corporation / James W. Macdonald, Lloyd Dixon, and Laura Zakaras http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2010/RAND_OP284.pdf The hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 brought devastating losses of life and property; they also threw the residential insurance market in the Gulf States into turmoi ...
    • Implications of Energy and Carbon Policies for the ...
      University of Tennessee / Burton C. English, Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Chad Hellwinckel, Kimberly L. Jensen, R. Jamey Menard, Tristram O. West, and Christopher D. Clark http://beag.ag.utk.edu/pp/UTREPORTNov10.pdf [Abstract] Energy and carbon policies could have considerable sector wide impacts o ...
    • Biomass: Comparison of Definitions in Legislation ...
      US Congressional Research Service / Kelsi Bracmort and Ross W. Gorte http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40529_20101028.pdf [Summary] The use of biomass as an energy feedstock is emerging as a potentially viable alternative to address U.S. energy security concerns, foreign oil dependence, rural economic ...
    • Updated Capital Cost Estimates for Electricity Gen ...
      US Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/beck_plantcosts/pdf/updatedplantcosts.pdf [From Summary Page] The current and future projected cost of new electricity generation capacity is a critical input into the development of energy projections and analyses. The cost of new generat ...

    Scientific American - News

    • HIV Drugs Taken Preemptively Cut Rate of Infection ...
      For HIV-negative men who have sex with men, taking preemptive antiretrovirals seems to reduce the risk of getting infected by about 44 percent, according to a new international study. Among those who reported having unprotected receptive anal sex, the prophylactic drug treatment was about 58 perce ...
    • For Whom the Nobel Tolls: An Evening Out with Jame ...
      NEW YORK--Never open a reporter's notebook inside The River Club. "People don't do work here. It's just not done," admonishes James Watson , the Nobel laureate, who is seated on a leather banquette overlooking Manhattan's East River. Our dinner companions grow jittery, an awkward silence falls, and ...
    • Household Cleaners to be Reformulated to Clean Up ...
      About 2,000 household cleaning products will be reformulated to reduce smog-forming compounds under a new regulation adopted Thursday in California.The rule will trigger a new, mandatatory wave of “green” products, including window cleaners, general purpose cleaning sprays, degreasers, oven cleaners ...
    • Rooting Out CO2: Scientists Isolate a Gene That Bo ...
      Changes to a single gene in a model organism in plant biology, Arabidopsis thaliana , have been found to promote faster-growing and larger root systems--an application that could help researchers engineer bigger, better crops capable of sequestering more atmospheric carbon. The gene and its operati ...
    • Extragalactic Expat: Newfound Exoplanet Likely Cam ...
      Nearly everything we can see in the night sky without the aid of a telescope is in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, the Milky Way Galaxy. And the hundreds of planets that have been discovered outside our solar system all orbit stars within the Milky Way; their relative proximity permits the kind of care ...

    RAWA News

    • More Americans oppose war in Afghanistan: poll
      AFP: More Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan than support it, a new poll showed Thursday, the latest sign of waning public backing for the US-led mission. The Quinnipiac University poll also found a large majority of Americans want to see an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the mili ...
    • The forgotten victims
      The Canadian Press: Essa Mohammad was tending to his family’s flock of sheep in Kandahar’s Arghandab district this summer when a sudden bang and flash of light knocked him unconscious. When the 12-year-old boy woke up several days later, he was missing his right leg, left arm and right eye — the tol ...
    • Kabul diary: The blind leading the blind
      The Express Tribune: In late January 2009, General Petraeus approached one of his team members for an update on the ongoing Afghanistan strategy review and received the unexpected analysis: “It is the blind leading the blind,” said Derek Harvey, from the Defence Intelligence Agency. He further told ...
    • Army doctors see sharp rise in severe injuries fro ...
      The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence has nearly tripled the number of rehabilitation beds available for severely wounded soldiers from Afghanistan to accommodate a sharp rise in the number of soldiers who have lost one or more limbs in the conflict. The military's Headley Court rehabilitation centr ...
    • Bacha Bazi: Afghanistan’s darkest secret
      Indiana Daily Student: It was pushed back by the Taliban, but now, some experts say it’s making a comeback. It’s something so controversial that most Afghans refuse to talk about it or to even acknowledge its existence. It’s 1 a.m. in northern Afghanistan, and a group of armed, powerful older men a ...

    frogblog

    • Tim Groser is far fetched on TPP
      At his post cabinet press conference about 8 days ago Key was asked about investor state dispute mechanisms. Investor state dispute mechanisms are the clauses in trade deals that allow overseas investors to sue governments at World Bank tribunals if governments do things that cost o ...
    • Democracy in NZ: Lost, Stolen or just Mislaid?
      Last weekend Jeanette Fitzsimons delivered the inaugural Rod Donald Memorial lecture to a packed audience in Christchurch. Here are some highlights of the speech and you can read the whole thing here. Running through the history of democracy has been the issue of just who is a membe ...
    • Australian Greens stand up for human rights
      Australia does not have nationwide legislation providing for civil unions.  Victoria, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory do, and civil unions under State or Territory law are recognised by the Federal Government, but elsewhere there is no legal recognition of same sex re ...
    • Podcast: Green Spirituality, Russel Norman
      Green Party Co-leader, Russel Norman, discusses what’s sacred to him in this, the second of an occasional series where I talk to a Green MPs about their spirituality. Click the arrow thing to listen… Click to play If you’re having problems with our Flash player, try this alternativ ...
    • Pike River: Celebrate one man’s determinatio ...
      A disaster like that which has happened at the Pike River mine is always difficult to cope with. The families of 29 miners have no idea whether their loved ones are dead or alive, or if alive, whether they can be rescued. It is tempting to want to attribute blame, whether it be to ...

    Patronus Analytical

    J Kozy

    • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
      The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...
    • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
      The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
    • Is Perfect Research Possible
      Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...
    • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
      No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
    • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
      Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...

    MoJo - Kevin Drum

    • No Mandate for Republicans
      You could hardly expect me not to post about this, could you? A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. ....The results sig ...
    • Quote of the Day: Persian Hospitality
      From Keith Humphreys, quoting a friend on Persian cultural norms of hospitality: Iran is a place where if you walk up to a street demonstrator who is holding up a sign reading “death to the west” and ask for directions to a particular restaurant, you may well get the response “Oh, that place isn’t ...
    • My TSA Anti-Rant
      I am so going to regret writing this post. For those of you who used to respect me, please just chalk it up to food poisoning or early onset Alzheimer's or whatever. But here goes. I hate the TSA screening process. Everyone hates the TSA screening process. You'd be crazy not to. It's intrusive, anno ...
    • Obama in 2012
      Josh Marshall on Obama's chances in 2012: People simply don't appreciate how seldom elected presidents get denied reelection. By my count, it's only happened three times in the last century. Carter, the first President Bush and Herbert Hoover. (If you come up with someone I'm missing I'll be terr ...
    • Help!
      I've lost two blog posts today. The first one was because I did something stupid. The second was because MoJo's blog software ate it. I'm tired of this. So this is a plea for help. Can anyone recommend a good, simple Windows key logger? I don't need anything fancy, and I don't need to monitor other ...

    Insanity Report

    • FacePalm of the Week: How to be a LowLife Piece o ...
      Maybe you’ve heard of Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta.  He’s the US solider who was awarded the first Medal of Honor (the nation’s top military award) to a living recipient in nearly 40 years.  To win such an award you have to demonstrate incredible…almost super human acts of bravery and honor.  Here’s ...
    • IC 211: A Nation of Whiners
      Topics for the show: Dylan’s excessive partying Blake Griffin’s flagrant dunking on the Knicks The Pope says condom use is okay in “some cases” Sometimes its best to just STFU Don’t be a Douche The President hasn’t “experienced” the new TSA procedures Americans bitch too much Join the Facebook Group ...
    • IC 210: For Underage Drinkers Who Considered Four ...
      Topics for the show: Ghostface tells the most gay and disturbing story about ODB EVER Kriss explains his rules for orgies i.e. the 20 feet between unobstructed penis rule. No heterosexual man gets turned off because his girl has unmatching bras and panties on… Eva Longoria does it right Four Loko ge ...
    • Movie Review: Diary of a Tired Black Man
      Late Monday night I was bored and decided to watch “Diary of a Tired Black Man.”  I did so knowing I was probably going to want to claw my eyes out when I was done.  People always ask “Kriss why do you torture yourself by watching bad movies?”  I’m not really sure.  I get some [...]
    • Mike Vick: When I Do Believe In Second Chances
      Remember when I wrote those articles about Chris Brown and how big of an unrepentant jackass he was?  People would give me shit because they claimed that I was being too hard on him.  I would be asked things like “So are you saying people don’t deserve a second chance?”  Of course I think people [.. ...

    Simple Climate

    • Extra satellite records settle tropospheric warmin ...
      Additional sets of data have been vital in correcting the initial measurements of the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth, which showed no warming trend, to match other records demonstrating climate change. That's according to a review of 40 years of tropospheric temperature research by a t ...
    • When climate becomes a problem too far
      Vivid images are important for understanding global warming, says University of New South Wales psychologist Ben Newell, but go too far and people can react with despair that prevents them doing anything to stop it.
    • Air-stilling temperatures create heat, wind power ...
      Climate change won't cause more hurricanes but will place human bodies under more heat stress, Nat Johnson and Steven Sherwood tell Simple Climate, and will reduce the power generated from wind turbines according to Diandong Ren.
    • Climate change shifts organisms in space and time
      Duke University's Bill Morris finds the hills are alive with moving plants, and warns that climate change impacts could mean species that have worked together in the past will move out of sync.
    • Prehistoric CO2 double-up gives warming data
      Measurements from a global warming episode 40 million years ago show that a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere increased sea surface temperatures between 2 and 5ºC, Dutch and British scientists find.

    e!Science News

    • New spinal implant will help people with paraplegi ...
      Engineers have developed a new type of microchip muscle stimulator implant that will enable people with paraplegia to exercise their paralysed leg muscles. read more
    • Flying snakes, caught on tape
      Five related species of tree-dwelling snakes found in Southeast and South Asia may just be the worst nightmares of ophidiophobes (people who have abnormal fears of snakes). Not only are they snakes, but they can "fly" -- flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, and gliding fro ...
    • Global CO2 emissions back on the rise in 2010
      Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – the main contributor to global warming – show no sign of abating and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University of Exeter (UK). read more
    • The not-so-sweet truth about sugar -- a risk choic ...
      More and more people have become aware of the dangers of excessive fructose in diet. A new review on fructose in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) indicates just how dangerous this simple sugar may be. read more
    • Registered dietitians play essential role in effec ...
      Proper nutrition therapy is essential for the successful management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and registered dietitians (RDs) can play a key role as part of the health care team. An article in the December issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association reviews the evidence and nutriti ...

    unEarthed

    • A Video Toast To The World of Earthjustice
      Today, in the midst of Thanksgiving, we invite you to spend a minute and 17 seconds with us as we honor the many Earthjustice supporters responsible for significant achievements this year on behalf of people, wildlife and the wi ...
    • Friday Finds: California Says No To The Brazilian
      California recently adopted a law that requires cleaning companies to reduce their smoggy ingredients. Plastic looks not so fantastic in parody rap video On the heels of LA's new law banning single-use plastic bags, spirit ...
    • A Reason To Give Thanks—Environmental Laws Survive ...
      Roadless areas of the Tongass N.F. are among Earthjustice's top priorities for protection Although the recent elections signal a return to more inhospitable times for environmental protection in Congress, we are sustained by ...
    • EPA Cracks Down On Oil And Gas Greenhouse Emission ...
      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced final rules for the disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry, one of the largest sources of methane, a potent global warming pollutant. Accordin ...
    • A Reason To Give Thanks—Environmental Law Survived ...
      Roadless areas of the Tongass N.F. are among Earthjustice's top priorities for protection Although the recent elections signal a return to more inhospitable times for environmental protection in Congress, we are sustained by ...

    Brave New Climate

    • SNE 2060 – a multi-source energy supply scenario
      In this post, I develop a hypothetical multi-energy-supply scenario for global low-emissions electricity in ~2060. The assumed energy mix is 75 % nuclear fission and 25 % non-nuclear sources, with fossil fuel use virtually eliminated except where it is used with carbon capture and storage. The % ann ...
    • Systems modelling for synergistic ecological-clima ...
      For those interested in my current science research directions, I’ve just been funded for another 4 years by the Australian Research Council as a Professorial “Future Fellow“, to continue my work on stochastic systems modelling and scenario optimisation. Here are some details on the project: Title: ...
    • SNE 2060 – assessment of energy demand
      In a previous post on BraveNewClimate – TCASE #The energy demand equation to 2050 — I estimated a mid-century global primary energy demand of ~1000 EJ (see here for definitions). But it may as well have been 2060; the actual date that this global demand will be reached is obviously uncertain, but ...
    • CO2 rising – the science of global warming
      Below are two climate change book reviews by me; I hope you find them as interesting as I did. I’ve provided an Amazon link to one and a Book Depository link to another — because I’m not out to promote any particular online bookstore (although I tend to find the latter cheapest, and as to [...]
    • Electricity costs exhibits
      I note that there has been some interesting discussion here on costs of electricity, especial the comparative value of fossil fuels versus nuclear (and renewables). This is a point I will revisit from a number of perspectives over the next few months, because I agree with commenters like Arthur Dent ...

    Indigenist Opinion

    • 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 ...

    Republicans are a Disease

    • Sorry Sarah
      The staff at RepublicansAreADisease.com would spend a little time mocking you if you weren’t such low hanging fruit. By all means keep it up! Guess what Sarah. I can see the Russians kicking our nuke inspectors out as I type….
    • Republican Platform = Global Warming Doesn’t ...
      As more data confirming the fact that the earth is warming, the ice is melting, the permafrost is melting, and this is causing huge problems , the Republicans stand firm. Doing anything to change our current system of oil company subsidies, handouts, and zero income tax policies would hurt the oil t ...
    • Remembering Medicare Part D
      The absolute worst piece of legislation ever written. The bill, Tom DeLay “hammered” through where seniors get drugs, and the tax payer gets the bill. Of course the tax payer funded drugs cost up to five times as much as the same drugs cost other countries health care systems. Isn’t it good to know ...
    • Brainwashed Republican Lemmings
      Should we feel sorry for brainwashed Republican lemmings? The fools that think that giving all the breaks to billionaires while they rob the poor and the middle class is “good for” America. That think all taxes are bad, but don’t understand roads, bridges, jails, and stuff like that. The filthy r ...
    • I Hope Everyone Watched Rachel Maddow Tonight
      As it turns out Politico ran a story today about the Republicans not trusting Obama after he spanked them so hard at their retreat last year. They quoted some “staffer” nonsense that couldn’t possibly true, and then Politico had to “revise” their “story” later, since it was so absurd. It seems the f ...

    Appalachia Rising

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

    Amped Status

    • Revolution Roundup #1: Silver Bullets, Bank Runs a ...
      Twice a week we will highlight the growing grassroots resistance movement to the Global Banking Cartel. We are focusing on news and campaigns that unite the people (99.9% of the population) versus the ruling class (0.1% of the population).
    • WTF! Are Progressives Seriously Defending the Fede ...
      Watching Progressives defend the Federal Reserve is one of the most horrifying developments I have seen, and we all know how horrifying things currently are. Just because some Republicans have come out against the Fed's QE2 policy, doesn't mean that you should think the policy is a good thing.
    • Time to Fight Back: Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver!
      Are you sick of being screwed over by Wall Street? Now is the perfect time for us to get some revenge! A crack in the foundation has been exposed! If people go out and buy silver in large numbers, JP Morgan will lose $4 BILLION.
    • We Need A Rally To Restore The Rule Of Law And/Or ...
      The Federal Reserve represents global banking interests who have overstepped their legal authority. Their Quantitative Easing program is an explicit violation of the Constitution. By deliberately devaluing the dollar and causing the price of basic necessities to rise, the Federal Reserve is, as a m ...
    • Dear America, Your Taxes Are Going Up 20%, Food an ...
      We are now creating short videos to break issues down in an easily understood manner. The goal is to have a video that family and friends can watch which explains our crisis and hopefully inspires passive people into action. In this first video, David DeGraw discusses the Federal Reserve's latest ...

    +972

    • Most Israeli media publish press releases as strai ...
      By Shuki Tausig, 7th Eye – Hebrew original here. “Netanyahuâs office has an original technique for marketing its messages,” senior Yedioth Ahronoth columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in his Friday column. “Briefings are emailed every few hours to reporters and commentators.  The condition is that the i ...
    • Knesset kills classical two-state solution in all ...
      I just finished watching a live transmission of the Knesset vote on the referendum law. The law, which passed at a majority of 65 to 33, conditions any Israeli withdrawal from any of its territory – into which Israel, alone in the world,  includes the Golan Heights  East Jerusalem – on passing a n ...
    • Judge orders non-violent Palestinian Organizer to ...
      Abdallah Abu Rahmah was scheduled to be released from prison last Thursday, after having served the one-year prison term he was sentenced to. He remains in jail after the Military Court of Appeals ordered today to keep him behind bars regardless, pending a decision in the Military Prosecution’s appe ...
    • Yes, NYT’s Ethan Bronner actually said this ...
      According to Oren Persico of the The 7th Eye, a respected online media magazine published by the Israel Democracy Institute, Ethan Bronner, The New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief,  appeared on Sunday at the Eilat Journalism Conference and said this [full translation of section at the bottom of ...
    • Givati verdict in line with IDF history
      IDF history of light punishment for war crimes, women officially to be relegated to second class status, and more IDF lies: three notes on recent events We have become as Gomorrah: Jewish legend attributes to the people of Sodom a series of barbarities. The act which supposedly sealed the fate of th ...

    Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

    Matt Weidner Blog

    • Does the Defense of Foreclosures by Lawyers Border ...
      Wow, another mind bender here…that is a question asked by a retired federal judge… READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE. I’ll post more later…I’ve decided to take a deep breath and wait before responding to things that make my head explode, but wasn’t this the country that felt that even rapists and murders ...
    • WAKE UP AMERICA- THIS IS WAR! Foreclosure appearan ...
      Please watch and share the link from today’s live appearance on Dylan Ratigan Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy WATCH SHOW HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
    • ALERT!- WATCH MSNBC TODAY AT 4:00 MARK STOPA AND M ...
      We’ve got so much to talk about…hours and hours would not be enough. I’m hoping we’ll get into the facts in the Congressional Report and the continuing unfolding of servicer and lender abuses….now admitted before Congress and contained within the attached report. Any of us who are speaking out and f ...
    • The Matt Taibbi MSNBC Interview- We May Have Anoth ...
      Some of these bankers need to go to jail.  Each one of these mortgage deals is a Madoff-like scam. Go Visit 4ClosureFraud and watch the full interview. Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
    • Mind Blowing- Motion to Ratify Fraud
      Some of the things I’m seeing and experiencing in these foreclosure wars make me feel like my head is going to explode.  The motion attached to this post is one such example. The motion is unprecedented.  There is no precedent in judicial history that provides any authority or support for the acti ...

    abelard - news

    The Parallel Parliament

    • A November of Peril or Promise
      “When chill November’s surly blast make fields and forest bare.”  This Robbie Burns observation comes true each year, but for Sudan the month of November might well prove to be one of the most pivotal periods in its long and bloody history. The internationally significant referendum on whether Afr ...
    • The Swing Is Gone
      I arrived back in London a few hours ago – midnight to be exact – after travelling from Ottawa through Toronto. With the Foreign Affairs Committee schedule being moved back for the foreseeable future, this journey home will be repeated far too often. My wife Jane had phoned to say the kids wanted to ...
    • Paradise Lost
      It was just the kind of move that confirmed for many countries why they couldn’t opt for Canada to claim a seat on the United Nations Security Council. No sooner had the strategic vote been lost than the Harper government began ruminating about the prospect of closing even more embassies on the Afri ...
    • An Apology Would Be Helpful
      Decorum in the House was supposed to be getting better over these last few weeks and there certainly has been the odd better moment. But then yesterday, Conservative Joy Smith rose from her seat and accused Michael Ignatieff of maligning Winnipeg’s Filipino community while he was present in that cit ...
    • The Dragon vs. the Eagle
      Despite the hype, it was never destined to be a breakthrough set of summits. At both the G20 gathering in Seoul and the APEC summit in Japan, participants warily watched the birth pangs of a new world order as China and the United States squared off over the unfolding of the world’s economy. While t ...

    Vaccine Awakening

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

    2020 Science

    • Lost in the Maize
      Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will be croppe ...
    • Lost in the Maize
      Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m expect ...
    • Basic research and personal responsibility
      Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the piece ...
    • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science at ...
      Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.  ...
    • Lost in the Maize
      A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in airp ...

    Reader Supported News

    • Jeff Sommer: A Forecast That Obama Could Love
      Excerpt: "Based on the facts at hand right now, Mr. Obama is likely to win the 2012 election in a landslide." Ray C. Fair, a Yale professor (and marathoner), sees better economic conditions in the next two years. 11/21/10. (photo: Jennifer S. Altman/NYT) Jeff Sommer: A Forecast That Obama C ...
    • Debate Over Bush Tax Cuts to Go Down to Wire
      Excerpt: "President Barack Obama said he is open to talks with Republicans after arguing for months that the country could not afford to keep rates low for individuals with income above $200,000 a year." President Barack Obama, flanked by House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Lea ...
    • Tigers Could Be Extinct in 12 Years If Unprotected
      Intro: "Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries where they still roam fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a 'tiger summit' Sunday." File photo, a Southeast Asian Tiger killed for its skin and bo ...
    • WikiLeaks Says Next Leak 7 Times Larger Than Iraq ...
      "Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said Monday it was planning to publish nearly three million more secret documents in its next mass release of confidential material, according to its Twitter feed." Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, holds a news conference at the Geneva Press Club in Switzerl ...
    • California to Begin Removing Toxic Chemicals From ...
      The report begins: "It's almost unthinkable now that environmentalists and manufacturers once stood together as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill making California the first state to regulate toxic chemicals in consumer products." File photo, produce on supermarket shelves. (photo: PA) ...

    War Resisters League

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

    Center for a Livable Future

    • 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 ...

    A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

    • Crazy Like a Fox
      In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
    • Addicted to Contractors
      The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
    • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
      Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
    • Obama's Indecent Interval
      Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
    • Divide and Conquer
      At an upcoming conference in London, the Afghan government will unveil its plan to bring the Taliban rank and file back into the political fold -- and plead for international assistance for its new initiative. 

    Field Notes - Alberta Environment

    Stop NATO

    • Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
      Stop NATO November 22, 2010 Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force Rick Rozoff 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 wa ...
    • NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
      Stop NATO November 19, 2010 NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Operations Rick Rozoff As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unveils its first 21st century strategic doctrine in Lisbon this week, its first ground war and war outside Europe is in its tenth year with no end in sight. Th ...
    • World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its ...
      Stop NATO November 9, 2010 World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its Reach: Radio interview with Rick Rozoff on the In Context show. http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46842 Click arrow on lower right hand of page. Click to enlarge: U.S. Unified Combatant Commands: Northern Command, South ...
    • Das Pentagon baut in Osteuropa neue NATO-Hilfsarme ...
      Stop NATO 10. November 2010 Das Pentagon baut in Osteuropa neue NATO-Hilfsarmeen auf Rick Rozoff Übersetzt von Luftpost Am 19. und 20. November werden sich die Chefs von 28 nordamerikanischen und europäischen Staaten – also die Regierungschefs aller führenden Militärmächte des Westens und ihrer Vasa ...
    • La mer d’Oman au centre de la guerre de l&#8 ...
      Stop NATO 10 novembre 2010 La mer d’Oman au centre de la guerre de l’Occident au 21e siècle Rick Rozoff Traduit par Julie Lévesque pour Mondialisation.ca. Bientôt, un quart des porte-avions nucléaires du monde seront dans la mer d’Oman. Le super porte-avions à propulsion nucléaire de classe Ni ...

    Consumerist

    • Animated Pig Bunnies Explain Quantitative Easing
      Still don't understand quantitative easing? Is it really just "printing money" or something more subtle? These animated xtranormal pig bunnies seem to have a grasp, at least judging by the millions of hits this movie of them explaining it has gotten. "The only thing deflating is the Fed's credibili ...
    • Personal Finance Roundup
      Seven Smart Money Moves for the Holidays [Wall Street Journal] "Here are seven smart money tips to get the most bang for your (diminished) bucks this holiday season." Top 10 myths about job interviews [CNN Money] "Here is his list of the top 10 job interview myths, and how to deal with them." 8 W ...
    • 90 Percent Of E-tailers Will Participate In Cyber ...
      Just as gamblers use Monday Night Football to make up for their brutal disappointments throughout the weekend, shoppers who fall short during Black Friday mayhem turn to online shopping on Cyber Monday to snatch up the supposed best deals available. Shop.org, which coined the term in 2005, cites a ...
    • Florida Aims To Fine Pesky Robocallers
      Fed up with untimely calls from the Terminator, Robocop and other telemarketrons, Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is going after four telemarketing firms in the state, aiming to stick them with fines and injunctions that will stop them from making more cold calls. The Pal ...
    • Morning Deals
      ClothingZappos: [Shoes] Zappos VIP Membership (Free Overnight Shipping Forever) - FREE signup, ends Fri. 11/26Target: [Clothing & Accessories] Save $7 Off $70+ Order- Click to activate coupon!J. Crew: [Clothing & Accessories] Save 25% Off $150+ Purchase with coupon code TURKEY.Men's Wearhouse: [App ...

    Whistleblogger - GAP

    • Whistleblower News Roundup 11.15.10
      Knoxville News Sentinel: Anderson 'Whistleblower' Appeal Fails A Tennessee Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judge’s decision to throw out a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former Tennessee County employee. The judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to demonstrate that the employe ...
    • Roundtable Discussion: The Problems with Whole Bod ...
      There’s a viral video spreading about a San Diego man’s experience at the airport when he decided to opt-out of the TSA’s “new and improved” security process. When John Tyner was picked to be taken out of the regular, metal-detection security line, he was given the choice to either be subjecte ...
    • Daily Whistleblower News: Debate Intensifies Over ...
      Photo by flickr user Silas216 Los Angeles Times: Man Shuns Body Scan, Prompting Flap With TSA and Celebrity Status on Web One man’s standoff with TSA security -- over his refusal to submit to a full-body scan or the alternative, invasive “pat-down” -- has intensified the debate over whethe ...
    • Take 30 Seconds to Demand Federal Whistleblower Ri ...
      Dear GAP Supporters: This is it. Congressional leaders have a chance to finally pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372, H.R. 1507) during this final session of Congress. If they don’t, GAP and our partners will have to start from scratch next year with the new Congress. ...
    • Daily Whistleblower News: Whistleblower Sues NYC T ...
      By flickr user Magama.Krakow New York Daily News: Whistleblower on Safety, Security Hazards Sues Transit Authority Brass A Transit Authority superintendent has filed a lawsuit against NYC Transit officials, claiming that he was retaliated against for reporting several unlocked security gat ...

      Blacklisted News

      The Intelligence Daily

      My AntiWar

      CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

      • To Sanction, or Not to Sanction—That is the Questi ...
        Summary: Majd Sanctions, or any kind of external pressure or even threats of military action, will be, in the end, self-defeating. source: Global Expert Finder read more
      • Israel vs Iran: the Washington factor
        Summary: Paul Rogers The mid-term election results in the United States carry implications for Israel’s military plans towards Iran. source: Open Democracy read more
      • GATES’ FALSE IRAN PREMISE: SANCTIONS WILL NOT SOW ...
        Summary: The real alternative to another U.S.-initiated war in the Persian Gulf is not more sanctions, any more than it is militarized containment; the real alternative remains something that President Obama has yet to try—serious, strategically grounded diplomacy with the Islamic Republic. The ...
      • Iran is not the Arabs' enemy, Israel is
        Summary: Arab states in the Gulf region and beyond have every right to defend their interests, but they have no right to pursue hostile policies against the Iranian republic just to appease Washington and obtain a certificate of good conduct from international Zionism. In the final analysis, Is ...
      • What do US comedian Jon Stewart and Hamas Chief Kh ...
        Summary: NarwaniWhat do US comedian Jon Stewart and Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal have in common? What does Stewart have in common with Syrian President Bashar al Assad or outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for that matter? source ...

      The Daily Galaxy

      • "The Ice-Nine Phenomenon": Will Artificial Genomes ...
        Craig Venter, famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010, created the artificial genome of a parasite and a pathogen. Will their...
      • World's Largest Shark Sanctuary Established in the ...
        A shark sanctuary larger than Denmark has been declared around the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia, covering 17,760 square miles (46,000 square kilometers) of one of the world's richest marine biodiverse region, the Coral Triangle. Protections also extend to dugongs,...
      • New Discovery: Uplift of Andes 14 million Years Ag ...
        The Amazon, the world's largest river, used to be a large wetland connected to the Caribbean until 14 million years ago, when the uplift of the Andes mountains caused an enormous change in continental drainage, blocking westward flow, creating the...
      • Image of the Day: A Galaxy Early in the History of ...
        This image from a supercomputer simulation shows galaxy formation occurring early in the history of the universe. The simulation was performed by Fermilab's Nickolay Gnedin and the University of Chicago’s Andrey Kravtsov at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in...
      • ISS Eye: Earth's Tallest Man-Made Structure from S ...
        The 828 meter, 160-story Burj Khalifa skyscraper towers above downtown Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. in an image taken earlier this year by GeoEye 1, the highest resolution satellite in operation. The skyscraper is the tallest structure ever built,...

      Natural News

      • Pharma researchers working on drug to erase your m ...
        (NaturalNews) 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, ...
      • TSA feels inside underwear of female ABC News empl ...
        (NaturalNews) TSA agents, always looking to increase their reach (quite literally), are now reaching down the pants and into the underwear of female travelers. This is what happened to an ABC News employee, who described the experience as "worse than going to the gynecologist."In an ABC News story, ...
      • Don't Touch my Junk - Here's why I wrote this song ...
        (NaturalNews) Last Wednesday night, I just couldn't sleep. The story of traveler John Tyner just stuck in my head. "Don't Touch My Junk" seemed to be a powerful statement from a regular guy standing up to Big Brother. It was the linguistic equivalent of that Chinese student standing in the path of a ...
      • Lawsuit filed against USDA to stop organic milk fr ...
        (NaturalNews) Although it is illegal under current USDA rules, the agency is still tolerating organic milk producers who bring conventional dairy cattle onto their farms -- pumped full of hormones and antibiotics -- and then call them "organic" cows when they start giving milk. The Cornucopia Instit ...
      • TSA assaulting cancer survivors with humiliating p ...
        (NaturalNews) New evidence is emerging that the TSA is assaulting and humiliating cancer survivors as part of its aggressive pat-down procedures. Last week, a breast cancer survivor (and former flight attendant) who lost one of her breasts to cancer was forced by TSA to remove and show them her pros ...

      Threat Level

      • Audit Faults TSA’s Training of Airport Screeners a ...
        Flying for Thanksgiving? Whether you plan to submit patriotically to a naked body scan, or opt instead for the full security grope, you can at least rest assured that the 43,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) handling airport screening have benefited from the most rigorous and up-to-date t ...
      • Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for A ...
        A Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer. The man allegedly gained access to computer systems belonging to FedComp (a data processor for various credit unions around the country), the Federal Re ...
      • ‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
        “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to ...
      • Kryptos Artist Launches Website to Receive Solutio ...
        Start your engines, Kryptos fans. Artist Jim Sanborn, the creator of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture, has launched his new website which he built in conjunction with a much-anticipated clue he’s scheduled to release in a New York Times story this weekend. The site Kryptos Clue appeared this week. It’s ...
      • Wiseguys Plead Guilty in Ticketmaster CAPTCHA Case
        Three operators of a ticket scalping agency have pleaded guilty to charges that they illegally used computer scripts to bypass CAPTCHA — the squiggly letters and numbers websites display to prove a visitor is human — and automatically purchase thousands of tickets from Ticketmaster and other vendor ...

      PERRspectives : Blog

      • 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts
        In a rare moment of candor last week, the third-ranking Republican in the House admitted the failure of the Bush tax cuts. "You know, I think it's fair to say, if the current tax rates were enough to create jobs and generate economic growth we'd have a growing economy," Mike Pence acknowledged, add ...
      • Obama Saves U.S. Auto Industry from the Party of H ...
        As the American auto industry teetered on the brink of collapse in December 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney beseeched his GOP allies in Congress to back an aid package, warning, "If we don't do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever." Which is exactly right. Because while R ...
      • Sharron Angle Joins Bush in Praising Dictators
        Tea Party favorite and failed Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle is no fan of democracy. Angle, after all, declared if her supporters failed to help her "take out" Harry Reid, they should resort to "Second Amendment remedies." Now, two weeks after her defeat at the polls, the Las Vegas Sun reve ...
      • The Return of the Free Lunch Party
        As Ronald Reagan's budget chief almost thirty years ago, a frustrated David Stockman famously lamented that when it comes to spending discipline, "there are no real conservatives in Congress." Now, three decades after he concluded "the supply-siders have gone too far," Stockman called the Republica ...
      • "We Don't Negotiate with Ourselves"
        Everything you need to know about the difference between the governing style of Republicans and Democrats is on display in the battles over the passage and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Despite large Congressional majorities and broad public support for ending as promised the budget-busting Bush ...

      Blackspot News Feed

      • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
        In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
      • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
        By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
      • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
        When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
      • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
        Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
      • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
        Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

      Consortium News

      • Time to Apologize to Plame/Wilson
        Official Washington's "Fair Game" abuse of CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson went beyond the White House. November 14, 2010
      • The UN and the Hypocrisy of Power
        Israel and its defenders in Washington have exposed the UN's impotence over the Palestinians' plight, says Lawrence Davidson. November 13, 2010
      • Dogmatism in an Age of Complexity
        Amid crises fraught with complexity, many politicians thrive by offering a simplistic world view, notes Judy J. Johnson. November 13, 2010
      • WikiLeaks Ban or Global Secrecy Act
        A proposal to criminalize disclosure of CIA or US military contacts aims at WikiLeaks but could hit elsewhere, writes D.H. Kerby. November 11, 2010
      • Angry Voters of a Decaying Empire
        Voters with no real stake in America's corporatist empire expressed pointless anger about their fate, says Phil Rockstroh. November 11, 2010

      CounterPunch

      Institute for Middle East Understanding

      Water - AlterNet

      Public Citizen in Texas

      • Sunset Report Takes Half Step Forward, More Change ...
        Today, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission staff released their report on the Texas Commission on Environental Quality.  The Sunset Avisory Commissioners will meet to take public testimony – December 15th or 16th and will vote on their recommendations to the legislature on January 12, 2011.  The ...
      • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
        Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
      • Public Citizen and Sierra Club Pleased with RailRo ...
        Public Citizen and Sierra Club agreed with many of the recommendations made by the staff of the Sunset Commission that was released yesterday for the Railroad Commission, but more must be done to protect the health and quality of life of all Texans.  âOverall these recommendations, if adopted, will ...
      • Abilene Town Hall on TCEQ Sunset, November 18th
        The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Abilene, Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving.  The Abilene town hall will take place Thursday, November 18th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Unity Church of Christianity. All are invited to attend ...
      • Texas “Low-level” Radioactive Waste Disposal Compa ...
        A commission overseeing low-level radioactive waste disposal in Texas voted Saturday to publish proposed rules that would guide the importation of nuclear waste from across the country for burial near the New Mexico line. The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission voted 5-2 to ...

      Unexplained Mysteries

      • Conjoined twins share the same brain
        Doctors were stunned to discover that conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana seemed to share the same brain. The twins are joined at the head and appear t...
      • Mars "Hopper" could run on Martian gases
        Future robotic missions to Mars could use gas from the Martian atmosphere to "hop" large distances. Gases gathered from the atmosphere could be compre...
      • Robot George: revived after 45 years
        One of the first ever humanoid robots has been revived after being stored in a garage for 45 years. Former RAF officer Tony Sale who is now 89 built t...
      • Stonehenge builders used "ball bearings"
        Scientists believe the use of ball bearings may explain how the massive slabs of Stonehenge were moved. Balls placed in grooved wooden tracks could ha...
      • GM mosquitoes released in to the wild
        Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in to the wild in the Cayman Islands. Between May and October male mosquitoes were released three t...

      Grassroots

      • A New Kind of Disaster in Haiti in the Midst of St ...
        un_haiti_tent.jpg Haitian peasant leader, Chavannes Jean Baptiste, put it best: �Haiti is going from disaster to disaster.��He was talking about debilitating disease among displaced people in squalid living conditions, tropical storms destroyi ...
      • How peasant farmers feed the planet
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      • Indigenous Youth Find Opportunity at Home
        pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...
      • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
        mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
      • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
        mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...

      Climate

      GreenBiz

      • Why Water is a Risk and Opportunity Your Company C ...
        Without a clean, constant and secure water supply, many of the world's industries would undoubtedly collapse. But with every risk lies an opportunity, and smart companies such as PG&E and Woolworths are moving to reap the rewards from reducing their customers' consumption and strengthening their sup ...
      • Why Russia is the Land of Opportunity for Climate ...
        Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...
      • The Greening of Professional Sports
        From coast to coast, and in every professional sport, teams and their owners are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts, from solar-powered scoreboards to stadiums located in the heart of neighborhoods, rather than beyond city limits.
      • General Mills' Five-Year Goals Aim to Cut Impacts ...
        The company wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and water and energy each by 20 percent, while also halving its solid waste generation by 2015.
      • Why Business is the Best Bet to Fix Russia's Clima ...
        Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...

      Reuters Global

      Booman Tribune

      • Time to Leave Afghanistan
        I hope the president realizes that our military doesn't know what the hell they are doing in Afghanistan and it is time to cut our losses and get the hell out. For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because ...
      • Are We Missing Something?
        The consensus is growing among Democrats that the Republican Party is fundamentally insane. It's not they disagree with us on policy. It's that they do not abide by the basic rules of debate and argument. They aren't just impervious to logic; they actually have no use for it. Let me go back to t ...
      • Feminized Heroism
        It seems to me to be rather mundane to kill your enemies in battle. It may require courage and ingenuity, but it's your job. What's exceptional is putting your own safety at unnecessary risk in order to save your buddies. Now, these two things are not mutually exclusive. You might, for example, ...
      • The Good, the Bad, and Hannity
        First the good before we get to the bad and the ugly (i.e., Mr. Sean Hannity). American innovation comes to the rescue of people who don't want their junk viewed by the TSA scanner operators. Jeff Buske says his invention uses a powdered metal that protects people's privacy when undergoing med ...
      • Reverse Elitism
        I've found myself diverging from Paul Krugman on many issues ever since he went nuts about the lack of mandate in candidate Obama's health care plan. But it's not a straight line. Often I find myself in complete agreement with Krugman, and this morning is one of those times. It also helps explain ...

      European Tribune

      Futurismic

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

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      • Sometimes, Not Taking Drugs is the Problem
        A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Despite criticism of drug problems in the U.S., new statistics show that non-adherence to prescriptions is a larger problem than we’d thought. Regardless of your stance on therapy vs. medication for depression, ADHD, and other psychologically-related conditions, it’s ...
      • What Animals Can Teach Us about Depression
        A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression is one of the most frequent reasons that people find a therapist or counselor. Feeling down, deflated, hopeless, worthless, and unmotivated are all part of what makes up the experience of depression. It varies from individual to individual, and both the caus ...
      • Part II: Managing Anxiety
        By Joyce McLeod Henley, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, Codependency Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile After aerobic exercise, the next step to managing your anxiety is to learn relaxation training. Just as we have a stress response that raises our he ...
      • PTSD a Major Factor in Heart Disease
        A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is widely considered a psychological and emotional issue. But therapists and counselors may soon be coordinating their efforts with medical doctors. A survey from the American Heart Association found that PTSD, independent of any ...
      • Bullying From the Other Side
        A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Parents are taught to look out for signs that their child is being bullied at school. But what happens if you discover that your child is the bully, not the victim? Your first instinct may be to deny the possibility, or to acknowledge it but blame external factors suc ...

      Mountaintop Removal

      • “Deep Down”: A community battle over proposed moun ...
        �Deep Down�: A community battle over proposed mountaintop removal coal mining Climate Science Watch At issue is the practice of mountaintop removal mining, in which explosives are used to blow up mountaintops, exposing the seams of coal underneath while ... Educating Rand: �Deep Down� Film Brings K ...
      • Coal industry considers name change for controvers ...
        Coal industry considers name change for controversial mining practice West Virginia Public Broadcasting Some call it mountaintop removal, some mountaintop mining. Either way, the term refers to a form of surface mining where a mountain's overburden is taken ...
      • Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Loses Another Fina ...
        PlanetSave.com Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Loses Another Financial Supporter PlanetSave.com ... of major banks to issue a strong position on mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, saying that will no longer lend money to the destructive practice. ...
      • Educating Rand: “Deep Down” Film Brings Kentucky's ...
        Educating Rand: �Deep Down� Film Brings Kentucky's Mountaintop Removal Battle ... AlterNet (blog) While national media attention on mountaintop removal mining has largely been focused on West Virginia, the PBS Independent Lens series will air �Deep Down� ... and more��
      • 'War on coal' pits miners against environmentalist ...
        Pittsburgh Post Gazette 'War on coal' pits miners against environmentalists Pittsburgh Post Gazette He also filed suit against the EPA last month for its tougher scrutiny of mountaintop removal permits. The guys from New York who'd come to raft the New ... and more��

      Memeorandum

      • North and South Korea Exchange Fire, Killing Two ( ...
        Mark McDonald / New York Times: North and South Korea Exchange Fire, Killing Two  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean mi ...
      • Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full- ...
        Washington Post: Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the new full-body security-screening machines at the country's airports, as most say they put higher priority on combating terrorism than protecting personal priva ...
      • Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor (Ne ...
        New York Times: Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the repeated appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the ...
      • White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash (Marc Ambinde ...
        Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com: White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash  —  The administration is quietly and aggressively defending airport security policies against what they see as a media frenzy of distorted information.  —  The White House and the Department of Homeland Security indicated t ...
      • Woman who told Obama her financial fears has lost ...
        Michelle Singletary / Washington Post: Woman who told Obama her financial fears has lost her job  —  Nobody is safe.  —  Velma Hart, who burst onto the media scene after telling President Obama she was scared about her financial future, has been laid off.  Hart was let go as the chief financial off ...

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      China Dialogue

      • Slideshow: China’s wetland crisis
        This year, photographer Sean Gallagher travelled across China, documenting the impact of the country’s vanishing wetlands. In a series of images, he introduces a striking story of decline.Wetlands are found on every continent on earth, as rivers, shallow lakes, swamps, mangroves, estuaries and flo ...
      • Unpicking China’s grain prices
        Cereal costs are surging in both Chinese and global markets – but for very different reasons, state researcher Cheng Guoqiang tells Wen Yu.After his sister-in-law moved to Beijing, Zhao Xiaojun of Huangcheng village in Hebei, north China, worked out the economics of borrowing two mu (1,333 square me ...
      • Reflections of a climate veteran (2)
        In the conclusion of Tan Copsey’s interview with James Hansen, the American climatologist discusses the role of science in global-warming activism, and says it is time to take the fight to the law courts.Tan Copsey: You played an interesting role in a case in the United Kingdom, where your testimony ...
      • Reflections of a climate veteran (1)
        James Hansen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. After 30 years in the field, he tells Tan Copsey why cheap fossil fuels are still obstructing progress – and why taxing carbon is the answer.James Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a member of the United ...
      • The right course for rivers
        A decade after the World Commission on Dams launched its seminal report on responsible water and energy projects, Peter Bosshard says its recommendations are still spot on.Ten years ago today, Nelson Mandela launched the report of the independent World Commission on Dams (WCD) at a glitzy ceremony i ...

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      • Audit Faults TSA’s Training of Airport Screeners a ...
        Flying for Thanksgiving? Whether you plan to submit patriotically to a naked body scan, or opt instead for the full security grope, you can at least rest assured that the 43,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) handling airport screening have benefited from the most rigorous and up-to-date t ...
      • Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for A ...
        A Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer. The man allegedly gained access to computer systems belonging to FedComp (a data processor for various credit unions around the country), the Federal Re ...
      • ‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
        “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to ...
      • Kryptos Artist Launches Website to Receive Solutio ...
        Start your engines, Kryptos fans. Artist Jim Sanborn, the creator of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture, has launched his new website which he built in conjunction with a much-anticipated clue he’s scheduled to release in a New York Times story this weekend. The site Kryptos Clue appeared this week. It’s ...
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      • Two Koreas exchange fire across maritime border
        SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, in one of the heaviest bombardments on the South since the Korean War ended in 1953.
      • North Korea artillery fire hits South island
        SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return fire by the South, Seoul's military and media reports said.
      • South Koreans hurt, evacuated after North Korea fi ...
        SEOUL (Reuters) - Several South Korean civilians and soldiers were wounded and many others were being evacuated to bunkers on an island hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea on Tuesday, a Seoul television reported.
      • EURO GOVT-Bunds rise after N.Korean artillery fire ...
        LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - German Bund futures rose on Tuesday, matching a sharp rally in U.S. Treasuries after reports of North Korean artillery fire at a South Korean island pushed investors towards safe-haven government bonds. At 0740 GMT, the Bund future was 38 ticks higher at 128.32. U.S ...
      • Focus shifts to China as North Korea tensions esca ...
        BEIJING (Reuters) - China's tight bond with North Korea faced mounting pressure with the arrival on Tuesday of a U.S. envoy as Washington urges Beijing to use its influence over Pyongyang to curb its nuclear weapons ambitions.

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      • Did Mossad kill German politician involved in Iran ...
        Accusations of Israeli involvement in the suspicious death of a German politician have been revived, following new autopsy evidence revealed by a medical examiner. Continue reading →
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        Georgia lets Russian envoy visit jailed spy suspect. Danish agency aware of CIA spying since 2004. Iran charges German reporters with espionage. Continue reading →
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        The revelation that a double agent betrayed the ten Russian deep-cover spies, who were arrested in the United States last summer, may have been leaked to the media as part of a turf war between two rival Russian spy agencies. Continue reading →
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      After Downing Street.org

      • "Die for a Tie" -- How the Korean War Began
        By David Swanson An excerpt from the just published book "War Is A Lie" http://warisalie.org After two world wars with a depression in between, none of which Americans had submitted to voluntarily, President Harry S Truman had some bad news. If we didn't set off immediately to fight communists in ...
      • Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20 ...
        Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20/10) - by Stephen Lendman A personal note. It's no way to begin a Sunday or any day. An email explained. My first thought was: damn, we lost another good one when we urgently need him and many others, given the state of today's America - out-of-cont ...
      • Afghanistan War Weekly: November 22, 2010
        The NATO conference in Lisbon marked a turning point in the war and portends further escalation of the fighting. From what we know so far, the 28 NATO countries signed on to the Obama/Petraeus plan to extend combat missions until at least 2014, with training and an indeterminate NATO military prese ...
      • Michael Ratner with Thom Hartmann
      • All People Named Patrick Will Be Stopped
        Racial Profiling to Limit Terror Attacks Is Fundamentally Flawed, Expert Says ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2010) — Stop using racial profiling, says Professor William Press from the University of Texas at Austin. He claims that as well as being politically and ethically questionable, racial profiling does ...

      Grist - News

      • Find out where your city is most walkable with Wal ...
        by Jonathan Hiskes. Today, Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable. That could be useful if, say, you're visiting an unfamiliar city on holiday travel and want to burn off some extra stuffin ...
      • Moscow’s transportation policy makes even Re ...
        by Jonathan Hiskes. Newly elected Republican leaders may be blocking passenger-rail plans in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey and wishing it were the 1950s in Congressional transportation policy, but at least we're doing better than Moscow. Stephen Smith of Market Urbanism takes a look at new may ...
      • Mother of Green Party candidate killed by SUV beco ...
        by Jonathan Hiskes. Natasha Pettigrew, a Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, died on Sept. 20 after a Cadillac Escalade struck her while she was bicycling. The 30-year-old was training for a triathlon about an hour before sunrise. The driver didn't stop and didn't call police until ...
      • G20 vows to ‘spare no effort’ for Canc ...
        by Agence France-Presse. SEOUL -- The world's 20 largest rich and emerging economies including China vowed Friday to "spare no effort" at upcoming climate change talks in Mexico, a year after Beijing stymied a deal in Copenhagen. "We will spare no effort to reach a balanced and successful outcom ...
      • Understanding the smart meter backlash
        by Jonathan Hiskes. David's been writing lately about the intersection of technology and human habits and culture, arguing that energy is a behavioral challenge as much as a technological one. There's a prime of example of how these things collide -- and why climate hawks should pay attention ...

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      • The Washington Independent, signing off
        We thought our model of online journalism could rise above the industry's financial struggles. For a while, it did. But in the end, we fell prey to the recession just like everyone else.
      • Lunchtime Links
        Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex… …and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With the Stars voting system. Salon ranks the sexiest men of 2010. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” gets translated into English. Lieberman thinks Palin is qualified t ...
      • Study finds high costs, questionable return for Vi ...
        A new study on the impact of anti-illegal immigration policies in Prince William County, Va., found that the Latino population decreased substantially after the policy was implemented in 2007, with a 7,700-person drop in the non-citizen Latino population between 2006 and 2008. (That number accounts ...
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        Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm elections and what they mean for strategy on various policy and electoral issues going forward. The event was closed to the press, but Politico m ...
      • New report lays out failures that led to Deepwater ...
        An interim report released today by the National Academy of Engineering lays out a series of failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill. The report isn’t pretty. It points to “failures and missed indications of hazard,” “insufficient checks and balances” on safety a ...

      Digg Green

      • Sensory stimulation could prevent brain damag ...
        Scientists find that tickling rats' whiskers allows the animals to regain full cognitive function, as long as the action is taken within two hours of the stroke. Researchers are looking into a stimulation counterpart for humans.
      • Huge rocket launches secret U.S. spy satellit ...
        A huge unmanned rocket carrying a secret spy satellite for the United States roared into space Sunday, delivering what one official has touted as "the largest satellite in the world" into orbit.
      • CSI blood breakthrough: New test to help poli ...
        A crime-busting test that can reveal the age of a suspect from a drop of blood has been devised by scientists. Detectives using the test can narrow someone's age to within nine years using tell-tale markers in their DNA. The profiling technique even works on dried bloodstains years - and could ...
      • Study Finds Wi-Fi Radiation Makes Trees Sick ...
        A recent study by Dutch scientists found that Wi-Fi radiation could be responsible for sickness in urban-populated trees.
      • Prolonged cell use can trigger allergic react ...
        Chatting endlessly on your cell phone can lead to an allergic reaction to the nickel in your phone, according to allergists. From cosmetics to jewelry, body piercings to tattoos, allergies can lurk in unlikely places, allergists say.

      Invisible Opportunity

      • How the Rothschild Banksters Destroyed the United ...
        Satanic Psychopaths will be Satanic Psychopaths. It isn’t about greed as much as it is about power. The United States has been under the Rothschild’s thumb since its inception. The Bank of England took a minority interest in the first two “Banks of the United States”. After a brief battle with Andre ...
      • Video – Climategate is Still the Issue
        Sitting here now, one year later, it’s becoming difficult to remember the importance of that release of information, or even what information was actually released. Many were only introduced to the scandal through commentary in the blogosphere and many more came to know about it only weeks later, af ...
      • Profit Ties between Phony Terror Alerts, Airport S ...
        Steve Scheetz Since September 11, 2001, our government has been operating with a demand for the understanding of the people. We, as part of this demand, are to allow for certain limitations of our liberty in order to gain a certain level of security. But, given the questionable nature of what are li ...
      • Cops ticket seven men for playing chess in childre ...
        By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up! A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the “crime” of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids — even though no ...
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        Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. Martin Luther King, Jr. �

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

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      Twilight Earth

      • 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 T ...
      • Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
        Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
      • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
        The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...
      • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
        Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
      • Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
        Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...

      Inhabitat

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        Read the rest of Modern Green-Roofed Homes Blend Into Poland’s Countrysidehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architectur ...
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        In 1961, writer, sociologist, and intellectual activist Paul Goodman put together a plan to ban cars in Manhattan, and today his supporters, are challenging you to do just the same. In support of a new film on Paul Goodman’s life, this inspiring competition is asking you to submit 5 ideas for how tr ...
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        This Brittlebush tent made from recycled materials was developed as a design-build project for Simón De Agüero, a grad-student at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. The design features a steel structure framing a three-inch rammed-earth wall surrounding the space. The structure accommoda ...
      • Roadside Storm Pipes Transformed Into Colorful Wor ...
        Many areas of India are undergoing an incredible transformation as existing infrastructure is overhauled in favor of more up-to-date systems. Although most construction projects feature an unwelcoming aesthetic, Designboom points us to one design solution where the designers have turned a blight of ...
      • Lamps Made of Old Beakers are Scientifically Aweso ...
        If you want to be blinded by science every time you walk into your living room, why not decorate it with some of these awesome lamps made of old beakers? While we do wish these lamps used CFLs instead of 60 watt incandescents, we’re definitely digging the unique design that might just get you “exper ...

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      • Helmet Visor Could Protect Troops From Shock Waves
        Adding a face shield to the standard-issue helmet worn by U.S. troops could help protect soldiers from traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A new study that models how shock waves pass through the head finds that adding a face guard deflects a subs ...
      • Old, Ignored Records Yield 200 Years of Fish Popul ...
        By digging up and poring over old books and records of Mediterranean marine life, scientists have filled a 200-year gap in fish population data. The data, generated from from naturalists’ accounts and fish market records published between 1818 and 2000, shows the clear decline of fishes in the A ...
      • 3,000-Year-Old Conch Trumpets Play Again
        Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used these trumpets 3,000 years ago. The well-preserved, ornately decorated shells found at a pre-Inca ...
      • Extragalactic Exoplanet Found Hiding Out in Milky ...
        Some extrasolar planets are truly out of this world. Astronomers have for the first time discovered a planet in the Milky Way that came from another galaxy. The planet, which has a mass of at least 1.25 Jupiters, orbits an elderly star that was ripped from a small satellite galaxy some 6 [...]
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          Summary: Majd Sanctions, or any kind of external pressure or even threats of military action, will be, in the end, self-defeating. source: Global Expert Finder read more
        • Israel vs Iran: the Washington factor
          Summary: Paul Rogers The mid-term election results in the United States carry implications for Israel’s military plans towards Iran. source: Open Democracy read more
        • GATES’ FALSE IRAN PREMISE: SANCTIONS WILL NOT SOW ...
          Summary: The real alternative to another U.S.-initiated war in the Persian Gulf is not more sanctions, any more than it is militarized containment; the real alternative remains something that President Obama has yet to try—serious, strategically grounded diplomacy with the Islamic Republic. The ...
        • Iran is not the Arabs' enemy, Israel is
          Summary: Arab states in the Gulf region and beyond have every right to defend their interests, but they have no right to pursue hostile policies against the Iranian republic just to appease Washington and obtain a certificate of good conduct from international Zionism. In the final analysis, Is ...
        • What do US comedian Jon Stewart and Hamas Chief Kh ...
          Summary: NarwaniWhat do US comedian Jon Stewart and Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal have in common? What does Stewart have in common with Syrian President Bashar al Assad or outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for that matter? source ...

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          Craig Venter, famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010, created the artificial genome of a parasite and a pathogen. Will their...
        • World's Largest Shark Sanctuary Established in the ...
          A shark sanctuary larger than Denmark has been declared around the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia, covering 17,760 square miles (46,000 square kilometers) of one of the world's richest marine biodiverse region, the Coral Triangle. Protections also extend to dugongs,...
        • New Discovery: Uplift of Andes 14 million Years Ag ...
          The Amazon, the world's largest river, used to be a large wetland connected to the Caribbean until 14 million years ago, when the uplift of the Andes mountains caused an enormous change in continental drainage, blocking westward flow, creating the...
        • Image of the Day: A Galaxy Early in the History of ...
          This image from a supercomputer simulation shows galaxy formation occurring early in the history of the universe. The simulation was performed by Fermilab's Nickolay Gnedin and the University of Chicago’s Andrey Kravtsov at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in...
        • ISS Eye: Earth's Tallest Man-Made Structure from S ...
          The 828 meter, 160-story Burj Khalifa skyscraper towers above downtown Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. in an image taken earlier this year by GeoEye 1, the highest resolution satellite in operation. The skyscraper is the tallest structure ever built,...

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          (NaturalNews) 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, ...
        • TSA feels inside underwear of female ABC News empl ...
          (NaturalNews) TSA agents, always looking to increase their reach (quite literally), are now reaching down the pants and into the underwear of female travelers. This is what happened to an ABC News employee, who described the experience as "worse than going to the gynecologist."In an ABC News story, ...
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          (NaturalNews) Last Wednesday night, I just couldn't sleep. The story of traveler John Tyner just stuck in my head. "Don't Touch My Junk" seemed to be a powerful statement from a regular guy standing up to Big Brother. It was the linguistic equivalent of that Chinese student standing in the path of a ...
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          (NaturalNews) Although it is illegal under current USDA rules, the agency is still tolerating organic milk producers who bring conventional dairy cattle onto their farms -- pumped full of hormones and antibiotics -- and then call them "organic" cows when they start giving milk. The Cornucopia Instit ...
        • TSA assaulting cancer survivors with humiliating p ...
          (NaturalNews) New evidence is emerging that the TSA is assaulting and humiliating cancer survivors as part of its aggressive pat-down procedures. Last week, a breast cancer survivor (and former flight attendant) who lost one of her breasts to cancer was forced by TSA to remove and show them her pros ...

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          Flying for Thanksgiving? Whether you plan to submit patriotically to a naked body scan, or opt instead for the full security grope, you can at least rest assured that the 43,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) handling airport screening have benefited from the most rigorous and up-to-date t ...
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          A Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer. The man allegedly gained access to computer systems belonging to FedComp (a data processor for various credit unions around the country), the Federal Re ...
        • ‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
          “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to ...
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          Start your engines, Kryptos fans. Artist Jim Sanborn, the creator of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture, has launched his new website which he built in conjunction with a much-anticipated clue he’s scheduled to release in a New York Times story this weekend. The site Kryptos Clue appeared this week. It’s ...
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        • 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts
          In a rare moment of candor last week, the third-ranking Republican in the House admitted the failure of the Bush tax cuts. "You know, I think it's fair to say, if the current tax rates were enough to create jobs and generate economic growth we'd have a growing economy," Mike Pence acknowledged, add ...
        • Obama Saves U.S. Auto Industry from the Party of H ...
          As the American auto industry teetered on the brink of collapse in December 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney beseeched his GOP allies in Congress to back an aid package, warning, "If we don't do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever." Which is exactly right. Because while R ...
        • Sharron Angle Joins Bush in Praising Dictators
          Tea Party favorite and failed Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle is no fan of democracy. Angle, after all, declared if her supporters failed to help her "take out" Harry Reid, they should resort to "Second Amendment remedies." Now, two weeks after her defeat at the polls, the Las Vegas Sun reve ...
        • The Return of the Free Lunch Party
          As Ronald Reagan's budget chief almost thirty years ago, a frustrated David Stockman famously lamented that when it comes to spending discipline, "there are no real conservatives in Congress." Now, three decades after he concluded "the supply-siders have gone too far," Stockman called the Republica ...
        • "We Don't Negotiate with Ourselves"
          Everything you need to know about the difference between the governing style of Republicans and Democrats is on display in the battles over the passage and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Despite large Congressional majorities and broad public support for ending as promised the budget-busting Bush ...

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        • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
          In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
        • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
          By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
        • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
          When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
        • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
          Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
        • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
          Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

        Consortium News

        • Time to Apologize to Plame/Wilson
          Official Washington's "Fair Game" abuse of CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson went beyond the White House. November 14, 2010
        • The UN and the Hypocrisy of Power
          Israel and its defenders in Washington have exposed the UN's impotence over the Palestinians' plight, says Lawrence Davidson. November 13, 2010
        • Dogmatism in an Age of Complexity
          Amid crises fraught with complexity, many politicians thrive by offering a simplistic world view, notes Judy J. Johnson. November 13, 2010
        • WikiLeaks Ban or Global Secrecy Act
          A proposal to criminalize disclosure of CIA or US military contacts aims at WikiLeaks but could hit elsewhere, writes D.H. Kerby. November 11, 2010
        • Angry Voters of a Decaying Empire
          Voters with no real stake in America's corporatist empire expressed pointless anger about their fate, says Phil Rockstroh. November 11, 2010

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        Public Citizen in Texas

        • Sunset Report Takes Half Step Forward, More Change ...
          Today, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission staff released their report on the Texas Commission on Environental Quality.  The Sunset Avisory Commissioners will meet to take public testimony – December 15th or 16th and will vote on their recommendations to the legislature on January 12, 2011.  The ...
        • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
          Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
        • Public Citizen and Sierra Club Pleased with RailRo ...
          Public Citizen and Sierra Club agreed with many of the recommendations made by the staff of the Sunset Commission that was released yesterday for the Railroad Commission, but more must be done to protect the health and quality of life of all Texans.  âOverall these recommendations, if adopted, will ...
        • Abilene Town Hall on TCEQ Sunset, November 18th
          The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Abilene, Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving.  The Abilene town hall will take place Thursday, November 18th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Unity Church of Christianity. All are invited to attend ...
        • Texas “Low-level” Radioactive Waste Disposal Compa ...
          A commission overseeing low-level radioactive waste disposal in Texas voted Saturday to publish proposed rules that would guide the importation of nuclear waste from across the country for burial near the New Mexico line. The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission voted 5-2 to ...

        Unexplained Mysteries

        • Conjoined twins share the same brain
          Doctors were stunned to discover that conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana seemed to share the same brain. The twins are joined at the head and appear t...
        • Mars "Hopper" could run on Martian gases
          Future robotic missions to Mars could use gas from the Martian atmosphere to "hop" large distances. Gases gathered from the atmosphere could be compre...
        • Robot George: revived after 45 years
          One of the first ever humanoid robots has been revived after being stored in a garage for 45 years. Former RAF officer Tony Sale who is now 89 built t...
        • Stonehenge builders used "ball bearings"
          Scientists believe the use of ball bearings may explain how the massive slabs of Stonehenge were moved. Balls placed in grooved wooden tracks could ha...
        • GM mosquitoes released in to the wild
          Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in to the wild in the Cayman Islands. Between May and October male mosquitoes were released three t...

        Grassroots

        • A New Kind of Disaster in Haiti in the Midst of St ...
          un_haiti_tent.jpg Haitian peasant leader, Chavannes Jean Baptiste, put it best: �Haiti is going from disaster to disaster.��He was talking about debilitating disease among displaced people in squalid living conditions, tropical storms destroyi ...
        • How peasant farmers feed the planet
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        • Indigenous Youth Find Opportunity at Home
          pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...
        • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and C ...
          mexico200605-012.jpg � � - - - - -� � Over a thousand women and men, farmers, indigenous people, urban and rural people affected by social and environmental destruction are planning to march in 5 caravans towards Cancun, Mexico, in protest aga ...
        • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
          mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...

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        • Why Water is a Risk and Opportunity Your Company C ...
          Without a clean, constant and secure water supply, many of the world's industries would undoubtedly collapse. But with every risk lies an opportunity, and smart companies such as PG&E and Woolworths are moving to reap the rewards from reducing their customers' consumption and strengthening their sup ...
        • Why Russia is the Land of Opportunity for Climate ...
          Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...
        • The Greening of Professional Sports
          From coast to coast, and in every professional sport, teams and their owners are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts, from solar-powered scoreboards to stadiums located in the heart of neighborhoods, rather than beyond city limits.
        • General Mills' Five-Year Goals Aim to Cut Impacts ...
          The company wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and water and energy each by 20 percent, while also halving its solid waste generation by 2015.
        • Why Business is the Best Bet to Fix Russia's Clima ...
          Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...

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        • Time to Leave Afghanistan
          I hope the president realizes that our military doesn't know what the hell they are doing in Afghanistan and it is time to cut our losses and get the hell out. For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because ...
        • Are We Missing Something?
          The consensus is growing among Democrats that the Republican Party is fundamentally insane. It's not they disagree with us on policy. It's that they do not abide by the basic rules of debate and argument. They aren't just impervious to logic; they actually have no use for it. Let me go back to t ...
        • Feminized Heroism
          It seems to me to be rather mundane to kill your enemies in battle. It may require courage and ingenuity, but it's your job. What's exceptional is putting your own safety at unnecessary risk in order to save your buddies. Now, these two things are not mutually exclusive. You might, for example, ...
        • The Good, the Bad, and Hannity
          First the good before we get to the bad and the ugly (i.e., Mr. Sean Hannity). American innovation comes to the rescue of people who don't want their junk viewed by the TSA scanner operators. Jeff Buske says his invention uses a powdered metal that protects people's privacy when undergoing med ...
        • Reverse Elitism
          I've found myself diverging from Paul Krugman on many issues ever since he went nuts about the lack of mandate in candidate Obama's health care plan. But it's not a straight line. Often I find myself in complete agreement with Krugman, and this morning is one of those times. It also helps explain ...

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        Futurismic

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

        Therapy News

        • Sometimes, Not Taking Drugs is the Problem
          A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Despite criticism of drug problems in the U.S., new statistics show that non-adherence to prescriptions is a larger problem than we’d thought. Regardless of your stance on therapy vs. medication for depression, ADHD, and other psychologically-related conditions, it’s ...
        • What Animals Can Teach Us about Depression
          A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression is one of the most frequent reasons that people find a therapist or counselor. Feeling down, deflated, hopeless, worthless, and unmotivated are all part of what makes up the experience of depression. It varies from individual to individual, and both the caus ...
        • Part II: Managing Anxiety
          By Joyce McLeod Henley, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, Codependency Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile After aerobic exercise, the next step to managing your anxiety is to learn relaxation training. Just as we have a stress response that raises our he ...
        • PTSD a Major Factor in Heart Disease
          A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is widely considered a psychological and emotional issue. But therapists and counselors may soon be coordinating their efforts with medical doctors. A survey from the American Heart Association found that PTSD, independent of any ...
        • Bullying From the Other Side
          A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Parents are taught to look out for signs that their child is being bullied at school. But what happens if you discover that your child is the bully, not the victim? Your first instinct may be to deny the possibility, or to acknowledge it but blame external factors suc ...

        Mountaintop Removal

        • “Deep Down”: A community battle over proposed moun ...
          �Deep Down�: A community battle over proposed mountaintop removal coal mining Climate Science Watch At issue is the practice of mountaintop removal mining, in which explosives are used to blow up mountaintops, exposing the seams of coal underneath while ... Educating Rand: �Deep Down� Film Brings K ...
        • Coal industry considers name change for controvers ...
          Coal industry considers name change for controversial mining practice West Virginia Public Broadcasting Some call it mountaintop removal, some mountaintop mining. Either way, the term refers to a form of surface mining where a mountain's overburden is taken ...
        • Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Loses Another Fina ...
          PlanetSave.com Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Loses Another Financial Supporter PlanetSave.com ... of major banks to issue a strong position on mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, saying that will no longer lend money to the destructive practice. ...
        • Educating Rand: “Deep Down” Film Brings Kentucky's ...
          Educating Rand: �Deep Down� Film Brings Kentucky's Mountaintop Removal Battle ... AlterNet (blog) While national media attention on mountaintop removal mining has largely been focused on West Virginia, the PBS Independent Lens series will air �Deep Down� ... and more��
        • 'War on coal' pits miners against environmentalist ...
          Pittsburgh Post Gazette 'War on coal' pits miners against environmentalists Pittsburgh Post Gazette He also filed suit against the EPA last month for its tougher scrutiny of mountaintop removal permits. The guys from New York who'd come to raft the New ... and more��

        Memeorandum

        • North and South Korea Exchange Fire, Killing Two ( ...
          Mark McDonald / New York Times: North and South Korea Exchange Fire, Killing Two  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean mi ...
        • Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full- ...
          Washington Post: Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the new full-body security-screening machines at the country's airports, as most say they put higher priority on combating terrorism than protecting personal priva ...
        • Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor (Ne ...
          New York Times: Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the repeated appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the ...
        • White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash (Marc Ambinde ...
          Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com: White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash  —  The administration is quietly and aggressively defending airport security policies against what they see as a media frenzy of distorted information.  —  The White House and the Department of Homeland Security indicated t ...
        • Woman who told Obama her financial fears has lost ...
          Michelle Singletary / Washington Post: Woman who told Obama her financial fears has lost her job  —  Nobody is safe.  —  Velma Hart, who burst onto the media scene after telling President Obama she was scared about her financial future, has been laid off.  Hart was let go as the chief financial off ...

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        China Dialogue

        • Slideshow: China’s wetland crisis
          This year, photographer Sean Gallagher travelled across China, documenting the impact of the country’s vanishing wetlands. In a series of images, he introduces a striking story of decline.Wetlands are found on every continent on earth, as rivers, shallow lakes, swamps, mangroves, estuaries and flo ...
        • Unpicking China’s grain prices
          Cereal costs are surging in both Chinese and global markets – but for very different reasons, state researcher Cheng Guoqiang tells Wen Yu.After his sister-in-law moved to Beijing, Zhao Xiaojun of Huangcheng village in Hebei, north China, worked out the economics of borrowing two mu (1,333 square me ...
        • Reflections of a climate veteran (2)
          In the conclusion of Tan Copsey’s interview with James Hansen, the American climatologist discusses the role of science in global-warming activism, and says it is time to take the fight to the law courts.Tan Copsey: You played an interesting role in a case in the United Kingdom, where your testimony ...
        • Reflections of a climate veteran (1)
          James Hansen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. After 30 years in the field, he tells Tan Copsey why cheap fossil fuels are still obstructing progress – and why taxing carbon is the answer.James Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a member of the United ...
        • The right course for rivers
          A decade after the World Commission on Dams launched its seminal report on responsible water and energy projects, Peter Bosshard says its recommendations are still spot on.Ten years ago today, Nelson Mandela launched the report of the independent World Commission on Dams (WCD) at a glitzy ceremony i ...

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        Threat Level

        • Audit Faults TSA’s Training of Airport Screeners a ...
          Flying for Thanksgiving? Whether you plan to submit patriotically to a naked body scan, or opt instead for the full security grope, you can at least rest assured that the 43,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) handling airport screening have benefited from the most rigorous and up-to-date t ...
        • Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for A ...
          A Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer. The man allegedly gained access to computer systems belonging to FedComp (a data processor for various credit unions around the country), the Federal Re ...
        • ‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
          “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to ...
        • Kryptos Artist Launches Website to Receive Solutio ...
          Start your engines, Kryptos fans. Artist Jim Sanborn, the creator of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture, has launched his new website which he built in conjunction with a much-anticipated clue he’s scheduled to release in a New York Times story this weekend. The site Kryptos Clue appeared this week. It’s ...
        • Wiseguys Plead Guilty in Ticketmaster CAPTCHA Case
          Three operators of a ticket scalping agency have pleaded guilty to charges that they illegally used computer scripts to bypass CAPTCHA — the squiggly letters and numbers websites display to prove a visitor is human — and automatically purchase thousands of tickets from Ticketmaster and other vendor ...

        Reuters - Most Popular Articles

        • Two Koreas exchange fire across maritime border
          SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, in one of the heaviest bombardments on the South since the Korean War ended in 1953.
        • North Korea artillery fire hits South island
          SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return fire by the South, Seoul's military and media reports said.
        • South Koreans hurt, evacuated after North Korea fi ...
          SEOUL (Reuters) - Several South Korean civilians and soldiers were wounded and many others were being evacuated to bunkers on an island hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea on Tuesday, a Seoul television reported.
        • EURO GOVT-Bunds rise after N.Korean artillery fire ...
          LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - German Bund futures rose on Tuesday, matching a sharp rally in U.S. Treasuries after reports of North Korean artillery fire at a South Korean island pushed investors towards safe-haven government bonds. At 0740 GMT, the Bund future was 38 ticks higher at 128.32. U.S ...
        • Focus shifts to China as North Korea tensions esca ...
          BEIJING (Reuters) - China's tight bond with North Korea faced mounting pressure with the arrival on Tuesday of a U.S. envoy as Washington urges Beijing to use its influence over Pyongyang to curb its nuclear weapons ambitions.

        IntelNews

        • Did Mossad kill German politician involved in Iran ...
          Accusations of Israeli involvement in the suspicious death of a German politician have been revived, following new autopsy evidence revealed by a medical examiner. Continue reading →
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          Georgia lets Russian envoy visit jailed spy suspect. Danish agency aware of CIA spying since 2004. Iran charges German reporters with espionage. Continue reading →
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          France accuses Iran of violence at Tehran embassy. CIA picks Air Force general to lead military ops office. Aussie spies spooked out by student filmmakers. Continue reading →
        • Did FSB leak Russian double spy’s name to the medi ...
          The revelation that a double agent betrayed the ten Russian deep-cover spies, who were arrested in the United States last summer, may have been leaked to the media as part of a turf war between two rival Russian spy agencies. Continue reading →
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          Britain's GCHQ turns to Google for help. CIA double agent pleads guilty from prison. Georgia offers to negotiate with Russia over spies. Continue reading →

        After Downing Street.org

        • "Die for a Tie" -- How the Korean War Began
          By David Swanson An excerpt from the just published book "War Is A Lie" http://warisalie.org After two world wars with a depression in between, none of which Americans had submitted to voluntarily, President Harry S Truman had some bad news. If we didn't set off immediately to fight communists in ...
        • Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20 ...
          Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20/10) - by Stephen Lendman A personal note. It's no way to begin a Sunday or any day. An email explained. My first thought was: damn, we lost another good one when we urgently need him and many others, given the state of today's America - out-of-cont ...
        • Afghanistan War Weekly: November 22, 2010
          The NATO conference in Lisbon marked a turning point in the war and portends further escalation of the fighting. From what we know so far, the 28 NATO countries signed on to the Obama/Petraeus plan to extend combat missions until at least 2014, with training and an indeterminate NATO military prese ...
        • Michael Ratner with Thom Hartmann
        • All People Named Patrick Will Be Stopped
          Racial Profiling to Limit Terror Attacks Is Fundamentally Flawed, Expert Says ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2010) — Stop using racial profiling, says Professor William Press from the University of Texas at Austin. He claims that as well as being politically and ethically questionable, racial profiling does ...

        Grist - News

        • Find out where your city is most walkable with Wal ...
          by Jonathan Hiskes. Today, Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable. That could be useful if, say, you're visiting an unfamiliar city on holiday travel and want to burn off some extra stuffin ...
        • Moscow’s transportation policy makes even Re ...
          by Jonathan Hiskes. Newly elected Republican leaders may be blocking passenger-rail plans in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey and wishing it were the 1950s in Congressional transportation policy, but at least we're doing better than Moscow. Stephen Smith of Market Urbanism takes a look at new may ...
        • Mother of Green Party candidate killed by SUV beco ...
          by Jonathan Hiskes. Natasha Pettigrew, a Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, died on Sept. 20 after a Cadillac Escalade struck her while she was bicycling. The 30-year-old was training for a triathlon about an hour before sunrise. The driver didn't stop and didn't call police until ...
        • G20 vows to ‘spare no effort’ for Canc ...
          by Agence France-Presse. SEOUL -- The world's 20 largest rich and emerging economies including China vowed Friday to "spare no effort" at upcoming climate change talks in Mexico, a year after Beijing stymied a deal in Copenhagen. "We will spare no effort to reach a balanced and successful outcom ...
        • Understanding the smart meter backlash
          by Jonathan Hiskes. David's been writing lately about the intersection of technology and human habits and culture, arguing that energy is a behavioral challenge as much as a technological one. There's a prime of example of how these things collide -- and why climate hawks should pay attention ...

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        • The Washington Independent, signing off
          We thought our model of online journalism could rise above the industry's financial struggles. For a while, it did. But in the end, we fell prey to the recession just like everyone else.
        • Lunchtime Links
          Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex… …and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With the Stars voting system. Salon ranks the sexiest men of 2010. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” gets translated into English. Lieberman thinks Palin is qualified t ...
        • Study finds high costs, questionable return for Vi ...
          A new study on the impact of anti-illegal immigration policies in Prince William County, Va., found that the Latino population decreased substantially after the policy was implemented in 2007, with a 7,700-person drop in the non-citizen Latino population between 2006 and 2008. (That number accounts ...
        • Democratic donors still divided over the best appr ...
          Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm elections and what they mean for strategy on various policy and electoral issues going forward. The event was closed to the press, but Politico m ...
        • New report lays out failures that led to Deepwater ...
          An interim report released today by the National Academy of Engineering lays out a series of failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill. The report isn’t pretty. It points to “failures and missed indications of hazard,” “insufficient checks and balances” on safety a ...

        Digg Green

        • Sensory stimulation could prevent brain damag ...
          Scientists find that tickling rats' whiskers allows the animals to regain full cognitive function, as long as the action is taken within two hours of the stroke. Researchers are looking into a stimulation counterpart for humans.
        • Huge rocket launches secret U.S. spy satellit ...
          A huge unmanned rocket carrying a secret spy satellite for the United States roared into space Sunday, delivering what one official has touted as "the largest satellite in the world" into orbit.
        • CSI blood breakthrough: New test to help poli ...
          A crime-busting test that can reveal the age of a suspect from a drop of blood has been devised by scientists. Detectives using the test can narrow someone's age to within nine years using tell-tale markers in their DNA. The profiling technique even works on dried bloodstains years - and could ...
        • Study Finds Wi-Fi Radiation Makes Trees Sick ...
          A recent study by Dutch scientists found that Wi-Fi radiation could be responsible for sickness in urban-populated trees.
        • Prolonged cell use can trigger allergic react ...
          Chatting endlessly on your cell phone can lead to an allergic reaction to the nickel in your phone, according to allergists. From cosmetics to jewelry, body piercings to tattoos, allergies can lurk in unlikely places, allergists say.

        Invisible Opportunity

        • How the Rothschild Banksters Destroyed the United ...
          Satanic Psychopaths will be Satanic Psychopaths. It isn’t about greed as much as it is about power. The United States has been under the Rothschild’s thumb since its inception. The Bank of England took a minority interest in the first two “Banks of the United States”. After a brief battle with Andre ...
        • Video – Climategate is Still the Issue
          Sitting here now, one year later, it’s becoming difficult to remember the importance of that release of information, or even what information was actually released. Many were only introduced to the scandal through commentary in the blogosphere and many more came to know about it only weeks later, af ...
        • Profit Ties between Phony Terror Alerts, Airport S ...
          Steve Scheetz Since September 11, 2001, our government has been operating with a demand for the understanding of the people. We, as part of this demand, are to allow for certain limitations of our liberty in order to gain a certain level of security. But, given the questionable nature of what are li ...
        • Cops ticket seven men for playing chess in childre ...
          By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up! A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the “crime” of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids — even though no ...
        • Quote of the Day – Never forget…
          Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. Martin Luther King, Jr. �

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