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The Progressive Realist

• Ukraine Follows the 'Turkey Model'
  There's an inherent risk involved in taking at face value the policy declarations of a country's leader. My general rule of thumb is to do so when the declaration in question supports an argument I'm trying to defend. And that's certainly the case when it comes to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovy ...
• North and South Korea Exchange Artillery Fire: Nuc ...
  About five hours ago, North Korea fired 200 rounds of artillery at an inhabited South Korean island called Yeonpyeong. South Korea responded with a fighter jet deployment and 80 rounds of artillery. In other words, it looks a lot like the two Koreas are at war. This could escalate badly. North Kore ...
• The Dumbest Thing You Will Read About the War In A ...
  The week after the Tet Offensive, in February 1968, reporter Peter Arnett recorded a conversation with a US military officer in which he described the destruction of the provincial capital of Ben Tre as necessary because "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." It was a quote that came t ...
• Four Bogus Conservative TSA Narratives
  The good news is that the American political leadership on both sides of the aisle is starting to bend on the new TSA regulations much faster than I thought possible. Two Republican legislators, Rep. John Mica�and Rep. Thomas Petri, both of whom will be assuming positions of authority related to tra ...
• Climate Science Rapid Response Team Debunks Bjorn ...
  In a recent op-ed in Washington Post, Bjorn Lomborg argued that efforts to reduce global warming pollution can wait, because “coping with climate change is something we know how to do.” To bolster that claim — which goes against the consensus of practically every scientific body in the world — Lombo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Our Politics Are so Awesome.
  Regarding this notion that Republicans are deliberately attempting to sabotage an economic recovery, I don't disagree, but I think it's more accurate to say Republicans want to deny Democrats -- and Obama in particular -- success, rather than a poli-sci calculation that presidents win re-election p ...
• The Little Picture: SuperSteve.
  (MIC Gadet) A Steve Jobs action figure by MIC Gadget that's sold out of its first run of 300. Is it the next Tickle-Me-Elmo?
• Isarithmic History of the Two-Party Vote.
  David Sparks, a PhD candidate in political science at Duke University, has produced a fascinating video that details the shifting two-party vote over the last century, in isarithmic form. As he explains, isarithmic maps "are essentially topographic or contour maps, wherein a third variable is repres ...
• Denver's Traffic Problem.
  A new report by a navigation and mapping company called Navteq shows that Denver has the 10th worst rush hour traffic in the country. Elsewhere on the list are large, old cities with huge commuter populations and limited physical space in which to increase capacity -- like New York, Washington, Phil ...
• War in Real Life.
  If there's anything funny about modern video games, and especially war-themed "first person shooters," it's that they vastly overstate the amount of action that any given soldier experiences. "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" takes place in Afghanistan and has U.S. soldiers in constant combat with thei ...

Buzzflash

• Essentially, There is a FOX (Faux) News GOP Primar ...
  BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/they-said-they-would Just look at what privatization to the health care industry..."...WENDELL POTTER [former executive, CIGNA]: ...We were concerned that the movie ["Sicko"] would be as successful as "Fahrenheit 9/11" ...
• Wikiarguments: a Practical Plan to Get Big Money O ...
  CARMEN YARUSSO FOR BUZZFLASH There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”--Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government is deeply corrupted by moneyed special interests. Just look at the immense wake of destruction left by our government and its policies i ...
• James Carville, Two Balls and Mary Matalin
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Jesse Jackson suggested cutting off Obama's nuts And this comment made him look Like a putz. Nothing makes a man more impotent Than repeated calls About who does and doesn't happen To have real balls. I can't imagine what demons James Is currently battlin' But I imagine ...
• 'Tis the Season to be the Chief Mama Grizzly.' Pal ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH Sarah Palin's new book, 'America By Heart,' which, according to her publisher, includes 'selections from classic and contemporary readings that have moved' her, also contains gratuitous swipes at Levi Johnston, the contestants on 'American Idol' and Michelle Obama. T ...
• Bush Excessive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Go to Help Cre ...
  EDITOR'S BLOG FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN When the wealthiest Americans use their excessive tax breaks to invest offshore, they do nothing to create jobs for Americans. And that appears to be just what many of them are doing. According to a November 20 article in The New York Times,"Well- ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Various matters
  The ongoing death of the rule of law. The administration's cartoon depiction of Anwar Awlaki. Obama's empty vows.
• The Ghailani verdict and American justice
  Accused terrorist Ghailani is convicted of 1 charge, acquitted of 280. Here's why the people crying foul are wrong
• Gates v. Eisenhower and Obama v. Justice
  Looking to the past and to other nations sheds light on our notions of war and justice
• Two vignettes
  "Tweaks" by Obama on laptop seizures and Bush's proud war crimes confessions highlight political realities
• The "pro-Constitution=pro-terrorist" canard
  The ACLU and CCR are accused of "crossing the line" for representing the rights of Anwar Awlaki

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• UFE Applauds Dem Leaders for Showing Spine on Top ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2010United for a Fair EconomyResponding to reports that Democratic leaders will hold an up-or-down vote on extending middle class tax cuts but will also allow a vote on the McConnell tax plan, which includes complete repeal of the estate tax, United for a Fair ...
• Charlie Rose Opens Up the Deficit Debate
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2010FAIRTonight's broadcast of the Charlie Rose Show will feature a discussion of the budget deficit with progressive economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). read more
• CEDAW Hearing Encouraging, U.S. Ratification Long ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2010National Organization for WomenNOW applauds Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for chairing a first-ever Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Eight years h ...
• Amnesty International Calls for Speedy Resolution ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2010Amnesty International - USAAmnesty International is calling on authorities in Colombia to take fast action on the case of a pregnant human rights defender who was arrested in the north-eastern city of Bucaramanga, Colombia on November 16, on charges of having l ...
• Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Ceremony Hono ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2010Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human RightsAbel Barrera Hernandez, Founder and Director of the Tlachinollan Center received the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award for his courageous defense of the rights of rural and indigenous peoples living in Guerrero S ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Can Cannabis Cure Budget Woes?
  by Christopher BrauchliThe South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will. — Will Rogers read more
• The Billionaires Want More, More, More
  by Bernie SandersThe billionaires are on the warpath. They want more, more, more.read more
• Michael Chertoff, Bend Over, Please…
  by Thom HartmannDuring the time you're reading these words, somewhere in the world somebody is getting onto or off an airplane with a few ounces of cocaine, heroin, or diamonds packed into a condom and stuffed up their rear.The cocaine, heroin, or diamonds could just as easily be enough C4 plastic e ...
• There is Another Way for Bullied Ireland
  by Mark WeisbrotAs another one of the so-called "PIIGS" countries is being led to the slaughterhouse, it is worth asking whether all the carnage advocated by the European authorities is really necessary. Ireland is in its third year of recession, and income per person has already declined by more ...
• Be Under No Illusion, NATO is in No Shape to Make ...
  by Patrick CockburnIf Iraq was bad, Afghanistan is going to be worse. Nothing said or done at the Lisbon conference, which is largely an exercise in self-deception, is going to make this better and it may well make it worse.It is not just that the war is going badly, but that NATO's need to show pro ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Taliban Negotiator Was Imposter, Received "A Lot O ...
  By Steve Hynd It sounds like something from The Onion, but it's by Dexter Filkins in the NYT: 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 appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the tab ...
• In Afghanistan, The Occupation Is The Problem
  By Steve Hynd Your Af/Pak "must-read" for today is by analyst Alex Strick van Linschoten, who lives in Kandahar. In a piece entitled "Five Things David Petraeus Wants You To Believe" he sets out the problems with Petraeus happy-talk about "momentum" in Afghanistan. It's essentially un-excerptable so ...
• If 2015, Why Not Now?
  By Steve Hynd The editors of the UK's Independent newspaper are making a lot of sense: Nato's new policy of disengagement is neither as clear nor as quick as it should be, but it is a welcome recognition that the end state in Afghanistan is never going to be perfect and that an open-ended commitment ...
• Aide: If Petraeus wants "to turn it up to 11, he f ...
  By Steve Hynd The Washington Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran has a piece today which is mostly about how wonderfully, swimmingly, well the occupation of Afghanistan is going now that General Petraeus is in charge - sourced almost entirely from Petraeus' own aides speaking anonymously and with no quotes ...
• Is the only way to end the Afghan war a 2012 prima ...
  By Steve Hynd Here's how well the NATO surge in Kandahar, Afghanistan, is going: The number of people assassinated in the city in the past six weeks has jumped to 13, compared with six in a similar period in May and June before the big US operations began, according to data collated by a security co ...

Water Wars

• Nov. 14 Friends & Neighbors
  St. Cecilia School: Kindergarten event Tuesday
• Water wars: Hearing looms on eminent domain takeov ...
  According to the California Department of Public Health, drinking water being served to Lake Forest Water Company customers exceeded state arsenic levels in 2007, and the problem has not been corrected, despite water company owner Rick Dewante saying it has.
• Water wars for the city
  Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
• Georgia governors open to water talks; Tennessee n ...
  One thing is certain after Tuesday's elections: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida all will have new governors since none of the current governors are running.
• Amnesty International looks to next 50 years
  Growing up in Cleveland, Larry Cox remembered watching the Browns battle a Steelers team that would "just grind you down until they won." Today, as executive director of Amnesty International USA, Mr. Cox finds himself in a smash-mouth game of his own.

WordPress | Economics

• New Scientist: Knowledge is power
  If we are going to cut our energy consumption, we must first know where we’re wasting it. Givi
• Is ".IT" suffix what remains of investing in Italy ...
  From Amazon.com web site “Amazon employs more than 31,200 around the world. Headquartered in S
• Déjà vu
  It’s difficult to know what to add on the Eurozone crisis. It seems the market is doubting the
• FOLLOW THE FEE
  “Dollar Sign”, 1981 Andy Warhol (1928-1987) My film journo days had had me covering vari
• Mark Thoma - Will the US Follow Japan?
  From Economist’s View: Will the US Follow Japan? Via Tom Keene, here’s a chart showing

Electronic Intifada

• Despite law "reform," Palestinians out of work in ...
  BEIRUT, Lebanon (IPS) - Abu Yussif doesn't want to talk about his work anymore. "It's not going to help and nothing will change anyway," he says. The tall, white-haired Palestinian ...
• Gaza farmers sow self-sufficiency
  It was midday on a Monday when 61-year-old Hamdan Abu Shallouf bent down, laboring away in his small home garden among his okra plants. There is something special about Abu Shallou ...
• Cinematic therapy for Israeli soldiers
  Director Samuel Maoz's reduction of Lebanon to the interior of an Israeli military vehicle alerts us to the film Lebanon's insular vision right away. Bel�n Fern�ndez comments for T ...
• The deadly lie of democracy in Iraq
  An elections process in Iraq cleverly diverts all attention from the colossal incompetency of the government, and spins the tall tale of a young, fledgling born-again count ...
• A privatized Nakba
  Palestinians describe the Israel Land Administration Law (ILA) quietly passed by the Israeli Knesset in 2009 as the final stage in the 62-year process of displacement from their ho ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Pakistan backs NATO's 2014 Afghanistan handov ...
  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he backs NATO's plans to hand over security of Afghanistan to local authorities by the end of 2014.
• Pakistan may delay Taliban operation
  A military offensive in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan could be delayed due to 'the widening role of India in the Afghan affairs' and the 'differences in perceptions' over the scheduled withdrawal of NATO forces from that country, a media report said Monday.
• Afghanistan to join list of failed wars
  It is hard to measure any degree of return on the war investment in this country.
• Afghan handicrafts, dry fruits lure retailers at D ...
  Handicrafts and several other items made by women from Afghanistan lured retail buyers at the India International Trade (IITF) Fair 2010 here over the weekend.
• Afghan election watchdog disqualifies 19 over poll ...
  Afghanistan's election watchdog has disqualified 19 candidates who contested in the September poll, seven of whom are members of the 249-seat parliament, for alleged fraud.

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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Let's Get Small: SBA Puts GTSI Co-Conspirators in ...
  Last week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) suspended EG Solutions and MultimaxArray FirstSource, temporarily barring the two companies from bidding on new federal contracts. The two companies are alleged to have been a part of contracting schemes carried out by...
• More Secrecy Surrounding TSA Case?
  Recently we wrote an article about how the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has invoked “sensitive security information” in an effort to seal former Federal Air Marshal Manuel V. Alcaraz’s employment case before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). As it...
• Morning Smoke: Christie, Sprey, Spinney et al Outl ...
  How to Cut the Defense Budget by Thomas Christie, Pierre Sprey, Franklin Spinney, et al [Counterpunch] Why is Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl Being Retaliated Against for Saving Our Troops? by Shanna Devine [The Whistleblogger] Marines Wreck Super Geek's Career by...
• Marine Corps Whistleblower Franz Gayl Stripped of ...
  The Washington Post broke the news this afternoon. Franz Gayl, a Marine Corps science advisor, had his security clearance stripped a few weeks ago. “Gayl's alleged offense - described in official documents - was inserting a USB device into a...
• Morning Smoke: Afghanistan Reconstruction Watchdog ...
  Afghanistan watchdog fails to sway his critics by Richard Lardner [Associated Press] Intelligence Bodies Faulted on Disclosure by Scott Shane [The New York Times] Watchdog calls for removal of State Department's interim IG by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] SEC Investigating...

Digital Journal

• Nova Scotia to restrict tanning bed use
  In a move to protect young people from the harmful effects of tanning beds, the Nova Scotia government has introduced legislation that will ban people under 19 years of age, from being exposed to the beds' UV rays.
• It's Always Something entertains Toronto for Gilda ...
  Life isn't always easy. Gilda Radner knew this all too well. When the actress was diagnosed with cancer she used her laughter. On Monday night at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto you could almost feel her laugh during "It's Always Something".
• The 106th annual Santa Claus Parade arrives in dow ...
  Tens of thousands of men, women and children in Toronto gathered on the parade route on a cold, windy day in Toronto to experience 31 floats, 24 marching bands and the famous figure of Santa Claus.
• Setting up international schools in Africa
  This summer, Kwantlen Criminology professor Dr. Joan Nesbitt, and two of her colleagues, Dr. Farhad Dastur, and Jessie Horner went to the East African country of Kenya to learn about bringing field schools to the region.
• Breezy surfing in Lawrencetown, NS
  Areas around Halifax saw a veil of snow yesterday, under overcast skies. However, the sunshine brought many adventurers out on this crisp Sunday morning.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...
• The Human Right to Housing Revisited
  On December 10th, 2008 the D.C. Council declared Washington, D.C. to be the first human rights city in the nation. Sadly, the Council still has not taken any steps beyond that to enforce any human rights, least of all the human right to housing. One of my first posts here was about the human right t ...
• Texas Town Delays and Weakens Plans for a Homeless ...
  When they say everything is bigger in Texas, you would hope that would also mean a larger sense of compassion. But when it comes to dealing with homelessness, that's not always the case. The City Council of Lubbock, Texas, has once again stalled on proposed plans to establish a homeless committee to ...
• Put Housing First in the Second City
  This week, the Chicago City Council's Housing and Finance committees voted 13 to 8 to send an affordable housing bill to lame-duck mayor Richard Daley. Can it make the windy city a bit more hospitable to low-income people? The measure, known as the Sweet Home Chicago bill, would require that 20 perc ...

Ceasefire.ca

• NATO approves “new” Strategic Concept
  NATO leaders approved a new Strategic Concept document at their Lisbon summit meeting on Friday. The document lays out NATO’s vision of its role in the world, the Alliance’s goals, and how Alliance members intend to pursue those goals. Among other elements, it also spells out the fundamental tenets ...
• Petition: Don’t Extend Canada’s Military Mission i ...
  Tell Stephen Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that you do not support the proposed training mission for the Canadain Forces in Afghanistan. Send your letter.
• Conservatives kill climate change bill
  The story that the Roman Emperor Caligula wanted to appoint his horse to the Senate is apocryphal, but it is a sad fact that Canada’s own quasi-Emperor has appointed 36 unelected horses (or posterior portions thereof) to the Canadian Senate in just the past four years. And on Tuesday the Prime Minis ...
• Steven Staples on Canada’s extended Afghanistan mi ...
  Here are some links to media reports that include comments by Steven Staples on the decision to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan: Barbara Yaffe, “Harper gambles on grudging support for ‘non-combat’ role,” Vancouver Sun, 17 November 2010 CTVNews, “Cannon says ‘risk factor’ remains for troops,” ...
• Government confirms Afghanistan extension
  The Harper government has confirmed that it is extending Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan until 2014 (Jane Taber, “Conservatives bump Afghan withdrawal date back three years,” Globe and Mail, 16 November 2010). Approximately 950 Canadian soldiers, to be based mostly in the Kabul area, will b ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Lead, Cadmium Found in Kids’ Drinking Glasse ...
  November 22nd, 2010 AOL News By: Justin Pritchard Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from “The Wizard of Oz” exceed federal limits for lead in children’s products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing commissioned ...
• TSA Pat Down Went Too Far, Agency Chief Says
  November 22nd, 2010 ABC News By: Sharyn Alfonsi and Lee Ferran The beleaguered head of the Transportation Security Administration said today that at least one airport passenger screening went too far when an officer reached inside a traveler’s underwear, and the agency is open to rethinking its curr ...
• Passenger Chooses Strip-Down Over Pat-Down
  November 22nd, 2010 NBC San Diego By: R. Stickney When a San Diego man opted out of security screening using the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) at Lindbergh Field Friday, he stripped down to his underwear in an attempt to avoid the pat-down procedures. Samuel Wolanyk took the protest started Nov. ...
• TSA Pat-Down Leaves Traveler Covered in Urine
  November 22nd, 2010 MSNBC.com By: Harriet Baskas 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 absolutely hum ...
• Garlic Helps With Hypertension
  November 22nd, 2010 BBC By: Helen Briggs Garlic may be useful in addition to medication to treat high blood pressure, a study suggests. Australian doctors enrolled 50 patients in a trial to see if garlic supplements could help those whose blood pressure was high, despite medication. Those given four ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• Knesset decapitates two-state solution
  Dimi Reider writes: 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 Je ...
• Stuxnet could cause Bushehr meltdown
  On the eve of the release of a new IAEA report on Iran, officials linked to the UN nuclear oversight agency have added to speculation on the possible impact that the Stuxnet malware may have had on Iran’s nuclear program — including the possibility that it could lead to the meltdown of the reac ...
• The Israelification of America
  As the Transportation Security Administration faces a barrage of criticism, some indignant Americans are calling for the “Israelification” of US airports — as though the security procedures used in a tiny Middle Eastern ethnocracy with one international airport could easily be scaled up for Ame ...
• Power and tiny acts of rebellion
  Chris Hedges writes: We have reached a point where stunted and deformed individuals, whose rapacious greed fuels the plunge of tens of millions of Americans into abject poverty and misery, determine the moral fiber of the nation. It is no more morally justifiable to kill someone for profit tha ...
• George Bush gets some advice from the Conservative ...
  Borris Johnson writes: It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought [...]

Watts Up With That?

• Final 2010 Arctic Sea Ice Summary – Sea Ice ...
  I’m a bit late in getting this posted, as I’ve had a number of distractions the past week. But here it is, the post mortem report on 2010 Arctic Sea ice minimum. Of course the most interesting aspect is how … Continue reading →
• The day the SORCE solar satellite was almost lost
  This is the little known story of what recently happened to the SORCE spacecraft and how it was nursed back to a mostly operational status over a period of weeks, after nearly dying in the cold of space due to … Continue reading →
• Profiling the Largest Solar Explosions
  From NASA JPL:  Solar flares â they’re big and they’re fast. They can knock out a satellite or create a beautiful aurora. And the jury is still out on what causes these explosions. Flares, and the related coronal mass ejection, … Continue reading →
• Wegman whiners: this post’s for you
  Gotta love what’s in the yellow highlight. Since that story was printed in USA Today about the Wegman issues, I’ve been getting an influx of anonymous whiner trolls that are saying things like this: Tamsie Submitted on 2010/11/22 at 11:29 … Continue reading →
• Climate change no longer scary in Europe
  Itâs not the climate, but the tide of opinion thatâs changing in Europe and around the globe Guest post by Dr. Hans Labohm The upcoming climate change (and wealth redistribution) summit in Cancun â coupled with Bjorn Lomborgâs ongoing publicity … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Chalmers Johnson: The Sorrows of Empire (2004) + C ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of Chalmers Johnson. talkingsticktv | November 22, 2010 Interview with Chalmers Johnson author of The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic” given February 12, 2004 in Seattle. Ch ...
• Chomsky: “The Business Elites … Are In ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Keane Bhatt t r u t h o u t 19 November 2010 Acclaimed philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He shared his perspectives on international affairs, economics and other t ...
• NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 19, 2010 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 ...
• Americans Voted Few Incumbent Bums Out by Joel S. ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org Nov. 19, 2010 For some years a number of groups have been advocating voting out incumbents in Congress, both the House and the Senate, as a path to reform and improve the US political system.  You might have thought that with this ...
• “Winning” A Nuclear War By Timothy V. ...
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Nov. 15, 2010 Nov. 18, 2010 We have a situation in the United States and NATO, along with the belligerent State of Israel, where the ruling elite believe that it is ultimately possible to win a nuclear war. Think about that ...

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  IraqBodyCount on the Chilcot Inquiry : "Throughout the inquiry most of the attention has remained firmly fixed, fixated even, upon the interplay between political and military actors here and in the USA, and the ramifications of the war as felt by them, while the subject that is of greatest conce ...

Wired - Science

• 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 [...]
• Spacecraft Flies Through Cosmic Snowstorm
  See Also: New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby Close Encounter Coming With Ghostly Green Comet Reader Photos: Ghostly Green Comet Approaches Earth Aging Spacecraft Set On New Comet Hunt New Evidence of Ice Age Comet Found in Ice Cores Follow us on Twitter @astrolisa and @wiredscience, and o ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Robert Fisk: An American bribe that stinks of appe ...
  In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else's property would be regarded as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Amy Kaplan: In Palestine, occupational hazards
  I was eager to return to Palestine, to see what Edward Said called "Zionism from the standpoint of its victims." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
• Tibi: For Israel, the life of an Arab has less val ...
  By handing light sentences to IDF soldiers who knowingly risked the life of a non-combatant Palestinian child, an Israel Defense Forces court has conveyed a message that the lives of Arabs have less... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Settlers make water sources a tourist site and bar ...
  According to Dror Etkes, who has been researching construction in the settlements for several years, at least 25 springs are undergoing development for tourism. "Access to these springs has been... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Noam Chomsky on post-midterm America
  Noam Chomsky on the illusion of US democracy, liberal-conservative politics, the economy, unions and much more in a Paul Jay (the Real News Network) interview. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA w ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia-NATO summit in Lisbon
• Russia's second 5G-fighter to fly before yearend
  Flight trials of the second prototype of Sukhoi's fifth-generation fighter aircraft are due before the end of the year, Sukhoi holding CEO Mikhail Pogosyan said on Monday.
• Russian 5th-generation fighter
• U.S. Delta IV rocket with secret satellite blasts ...
  A Delta IV rocket carrying a secret payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was successfully launched on Monday from Cape Canaveral, the launch company said on its website.
• Iran's nuclear program

NewsWise

• Thermotherapy Introduced as a Chemotherapy Alterna ...
  Using hyperthermia, Virginia Tech engineering researchers and a colleague from India unveiled a new method to target and destroy cancerous cells. The research was presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical Society Nov. 23 in Long Beach, Calif.
• Flying Snakes, Caught on Tape
  New video analysis and mathematical modeling by engineers at Virginia Tech reveals how certain types of snakes can "fly" by flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, and sailing from tree to tree -- work presented today at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamic ...
• Leading Scholar on Japan Chalmers Johnson (1931-20 ...
  Chalmers Johnson, an internationally prominent scholar on Japan and international relations and an emeritus professor at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), died Saturday, Nov. 20 at his home near San Diego. He was 79. He is survived by his wife, Sheila John ...
• Get Paid to Change the World: New Book Shows How ...
  Heather Krasna, director of career services at the Univ. of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs, has written "Jobs that Matter."
• High School Media Mentors Honored for Sparking Pas ...
  The Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College has recognized four inaugural recipients of the S'Park Media Mentor Award, honoring high school teachers and advisors who are committed to igniting a passion for media in their students.

Natural Health News

• Grains of Sound -- Low Earth Orbit
  The video uses� footage provided and authorized by the European Space Agency.� The song used appears on the album Sine Language Volume 3 (Under), part of a three volume concept album about the transcendent power of music to communicate beyond the barriers of time, space, and culture
• Calming the Baby Beast
  Baby Embry is a natural born dancer. (For those concerned, the parents are now aware that the child’s car seat straps are not properly secured in the video, and have since corrected the issue.)
• Darvon Found to Kill People and Pulled from the Ma ...
  Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Darvon and Darvocet, has announced that it will no longer market these widely used painkillers in the U.S.� A study has linked propoxyphene, the active ingredient in the drugs, to potentially fatal heart rhythm abnormalities. Xanodyne agreed to the ban at ...
• U.S. Senate Fails to Protect Innocent Children fro ...
  Although more than 200 research studies show that bisphenol A (BPA) is harmful to human health, the U.S. government has decided that it would rather side with the chemical industry than with children. The Senate failed to vote on the passage of a bill that would have resulted in a ban on the use of ...
• Regular Exercise Reduces Large Number of Health Ri ...
  Regular exercise can reduce the risk and symptoms of more than twenty physical and mental health conditions, and can also slow down how quickly your body ages. A review of research which summarized the findings of 40 papers published between 2006 and 2010 found that exercise affects conditions incl ...

Antemedius

• Is Having A Plane Ticket Enough To Be Suspected Of ...
  The whole issue of the full body scanners is a complex one. No one doubts we want to be safe in the air, but at what cost? You would be arrested if you showed up to the airport naked, yet it is deemed just fine for TSA employees to see you that way. We have been conditioned that when one is going to ...
• CIA Requires Secrecy To Cover Up Crimes That Kille ...
  If the CIA routinely lies to the American people, maybe that's because its got so much to lie about, like killing millions of innocent human beings around the world. As far back as December, 1968, the CIA's own Covert Operations Study Group gave a secret report to president-elect Richard Nixon that ...
• No Appetite for Prosecution: In Memoir, Bush Admit ...
  Originally published at www.andyworthington.co.uk With just days to go before George W. Bush�s memoir, Decision Points, hits bookstores (on November 9), and with reports on the book�s contents doing the rounds after review copies were made available to the New York Times and Reuters, it will be int ...
• Did Reality TV Enable The Tea Party Candidates?
  It is an article of faith that the 24/7 news cycle has changed politics. The voracious appetite of cable news for anything the least be contentious or scandalous has, the conventional wisdom says, coarsened our discourse and made the political arena a lot wilder. There is a lot to support this, wit ...
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Increases Plurali ...
  As David Swanson noted on Wednesday: You may have heard that our center-right nation got enthusiastic, formed a grassroots movement called a tea party, and overwhelmingly voted in a more rightwing party, sending hordes of nasty socialists packing as a result of their overly progressive performance, ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Israel Behind Stuxnet Attack on Iran?
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I’m going to leave it to the cyberwar legal experts to discuss the legal issues, but regarding the recent Stuxnet worm that Iran reports infected particularly its nuclear program, the New York Times says … Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of b ...
• Costa Rica Files ICJ Case Against Nicaragua
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This is all you can do, I suppose, when you don’t have an army to resist invasions (and can they bring Google in as a third party?) (CNN) — Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded ...
• China’s Drone Production
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson China has been moving to catch up with the US and Israel in production of military UAV drones, reports the Wall Street Journal today, in an article by Jeremy Page (Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, A11).   The article says that the uptick in drone output has surprised ...
• Google’s 21st-Century Internet Trade Agenda
  by Roger Alford This Google published an extremely useful and interesting white paper on the 21st-century Internet trade agenda. The basic argument is that the Internet will never reach its full potential if governments continue to impose restrictions on the free flow of information. The statisti ...
• Lindsey Graham on All Options Open re Iran and Nuk ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Tod Lindberg, editor of the Hoover Institution’s Policy Review, reports in the Weekly Standard on a blunt message delivered by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-NC) at a discussion meeting of senior transatlantic policy makers, the Halifax International Security Fo ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
  Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...
• Mine Blast: Cowardice in NZ Police
  I am staggered that police have so far failed to enter the mine because of poisonous gas. One man with breathing gear could sort this out. Hopeless.
• MINE BLAST: Australians and Brits among missing
  THe news conference on the NZ coal mine explosion has been told a number of foreigners, including Australians and British nationals, are among the missing.
• BREAKING: At least 29 missing
  Initial reports that up to five people survived yesterday's Pike River coalmine blast were wrong. The mine's CEO has just told a news conference only two people have surfaced, and three men who were expected to come out never did....
• TGIF offers comprehensive mine coverage
  Follow the link, then right click on the TGIF link in the middle of the page that opens up, and save file to disk http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1380

My Care2 Picks

• TSA Gestapo Empire
  Protecting trains and subways from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as air travel.Imagine New Yorkers showing up an hour or two in advance for clearance for a 15 minute subway ride.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• N. Korean Strike Shocks Residents
  A 43-year-old resident staying in an emergency shelter told that the whole town is on fire. "You cannot see anything." he told. "The town is totally dark because of the fire smoke."Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Put the Palestinians on a Diet
  Released documents, whose existence Israel had denied for eighteen months, reveal that the state approved �a policy of deliberate reduction� of basic goods, including food and fuel, in the Gaza Strip. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Clarence Aaron
  In 1993, Aaron was sentenced to life without parole for a first-time nonviolent federal drug offense.Big-time dealers can do short time for testifying against their underlings.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Hypocrisy of Knowledge
  �The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.� ~ Isaac Asimov Submitted by Vikram Chhabra to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
  Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force � Stop NATOThe recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Signs that the BDS is biting
  Signs that the BDS is biting [http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/]On November 6th The Jerusalem Post published an article written by G. Steinberg and J. Edelstein titled, 'Turning the Tables on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• WikiLeaks Promises Release 7x the Size of Iraq War ...
  WikiLeaks Promises Release 7x the Size of Iraq War Logs Leak :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]WikiLeaks is planning to release more than... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Wikileaks: Next batch of secret documents seven ti ...
  Wikileaks: Next batch of secret documents seven times larger than Iraq war logs | Raw Story: "STOCKHOLM — Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said Monday it was planning to publish nearly three million... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Krugman: Obama has embraced conservative worldview ...
  Krugman: Obama has embraced conservative worldview | Raw Story: "New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says President Barack Obama has adopted a right-wing mindset on American politics and is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Chemtrails
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• Truth Squad Radio with Chemtrail Guy Michael Murph ...
  This Sunday we will be talking with Michael about the journey he made while making the film "What in the World are they Spraying?" as well as the Coalition Against Geoengineering and a DVD program in which he will use all donated DVDs or monetary donations to purchase DVDs for the purpose of duplica ...
• Chemtrail Guy Michael Murphy’s having a DVD Drive!
  I have purchased a dvd burner and would like to use all donated dvds or monetary donations to purchase dvds for the purpose of duplicating and handing out free copies.
• European Food Safety Authority: A Playing Field fo ...
  Experts from the European Food Safety Authority are collaborating with companies such as Monsanto.
• Cloture on S.510!
  As expected, the Senate agreed on cloture for S.510.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scott Bo ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
  Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...
• Mine Blast: Cowardice in NZ Police
  I am staggered that police have so far failed to enter the mine because of poisonous gas. One man with breathing gear could sort this out. Hopeless.
• MINE BLAST: Australians and Brits among missing
  THe news conference on the NZ coal mine explosion has been told a number of foreigners, including Australians and British nationals, are among the missing.
• BREAKING: At least 29 missing
  Initial reports that up to five people survived yesterday's Pike River coalmine blast were wrong. The mine's CEO has just told a news conference only two people have surfaced, and three men who were expected to come out never did....
• TGIF offers comprehensive mine coverage
  Follow the link, then right click on the TGIF link in the middle of the page that opens up, and save file to disk http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=1380

Mondoweiss

• Huffpo gives platform to Israel lobbyist’s c ...
  Marty Kaplan at Huffpo: "I take Israel personally." Further proof that the left is permeated by the Israel lobby. Further proof that Zionism has produced a giant IQ drop in what I grew up thinking were the smartest people in the country. Note that Kaplan hadn't been to Israel in 40 years till he vis ...
• Undercover men grab 10-year-old boy in East Jerusa ...
  Lia Tarachansky sent this along, saying she gets news like this all the time. Three undercover Israeli security men grab a 10-year-old boy in Silwan (a village in occupied Jerusalem just below the Dung gate of the Old City).They hold him for a couple of hours, accuse him of throwing stones. Note the ...
• ‘We are not in Israel’: Close encounte ...
  Palestinian man with the handful of olives left on his trees. A Palestinian family living in Bethlehem but originally from the village of Jeb al Theeb contacted our group of volunteers asking for help in harvesting olives on their land adjacent to the settlement of Nokdim, home to Israeli FM Avigdo ...
• A deal on settlements: are we being played?
  You’re fed up with Israel’s settlement policy. You’ve read about Obama’s offer to give Israel the moon for a three month moratorium that excludes East Jerusalem, and you’re furious. On the other hand, you might be someone who could care less about settlements. Your chief concern is Israel’s securi ...
• Israeli forces raid Bil’in in the middle of ...
  Israeli forces stormed the village of Bil'in in a night raid. Four soldiers raided the home of Adeeb Abu Rahma, one of the prominent organizers of the non-violent demonstrations against the Wall. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been imprisoned by Israel for the last 17 months. Tonight, Israeli forces arrested M ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
  PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
  Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
• VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
  On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
• VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
  GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
• VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
  VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• A Moment of Peace
  23 November 2010One evening last year in Laos, I saw this monk reading in a window.� With the holiday season upon us, I remembered this moment of peace and thought you might like to share it.Please click to download a free Moment of Peace. {loadposition user8}
• Moonshine on Ama Dablam
  22 November 2010 Recently, I published an image that became popular.� While perusing the photos from that night in the Himalaya in Nepal, a similar but better image popped up.� The moon shining off the mountain grabbed and held my eye, and I thought some people might like to share this moment. �Moo ...
• Michael Yon invited by Brits and US to embed again
  Published in The US Report at theusreport.com Published on June 24, 2010 by Kay B. Day Michael Yon has been invited to embed again by both Great Britain and the US.Michael Yon isn’t a correspondent who sparks a neutral reaction in the reader. You either love him or you don’t. There’s not much of an ...
• Heavenly Shower
  Published: 16 November 2010 The Himalaya near Mount Everest are ruthless and serene, while the stars tracing above are without love or grudge.� Seasonal tides of fair and foul weather wash in thousands of trekkers, and more ambitious climbers who kletter by night and day.� Many reach their aspiratio ...
• To Wish Upon a Star
  Monday 15 November 2010One night during my recent walk to Mt. Everest there seemed to be a million stars.� And so the camera was pointed at the treacherous mountain known as Ama Dablam, or �mother�s necklace,� and at the stars above her shoulders.� The serious climbers consider this mountain more di ...

The Killing Train

• Political theory interlude
  Manuel suggested I read Norberto Bobbio, an Italian socialist writer on democracy. So I picked up his "Which Socialism?" In it, Bobbio argues that there's no necessary connection between democracy and socialism. Contrary to what socialists would like to believe, democracy doesn't automatically happe ...
• Canadian democracy - procedural tricks to kill the ...
  Canada's weak climate change bill was killed by the Senate today (see the star article for example). The Harper people's vision for the country isn't compatible with trying to stop climate change. This is known, and unsurprising. What is interesting to me is the procedural trick used to make this c ...
• The Haditha Massacre in the Iraq War Diary
  I did a query of the Iraq War Diary for all entries on November 19, 2005 (there were 179). Among them was this entry on the Haditha massacre. It has been seriously redacted, possibly more than other entries, as it appears quite incomplete, with no explanation of how the casualties came about: Report ...
• The First Battle of Fallujah 2004 in the Iraq War ...
  Below I look at incidents in April 2004, during “The First Battle of Fallujah”. In some ways the account of the battle in the war logs confirms what was reported, but some of the details (such as when ceasefires were announced) are different. The war logs probably understate civilian deaths. They do ...
• Citation thoughts
  I spent some time looking at Yves Engler's "Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy" and "Canada and Israel" and noticed that he cites work in a non-standard way. Dawn Paley's recent review of the Black Book, posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op, describes it this way, and I agree: read more

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Experts debate nuclear intentions
  Two former IAEA directors clash over evidence gathered by DVB of a nascent nuclear weapons programme in Burma
• Court rejects appeal over NLD ban
  Burma's top court refuses to hear appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi over the government's dissolution of the National League for Democracy
• Burma army threatens all-out assault
  Five army units lined up in territory close to breakwaway DKBA faction as pressure to surrender or join forces with the Burmese army mounts
• China fuel shortage sparks alarm
  China's hoarding of fuels and attempts to diversify its energy means could cause prices to soar in Burma and much of the world
• After 10 years, mother and son reunite
  Kim Aris arrives at Rangoon airport bearing tattoos of the National League for Democracy symbol to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climategate scientist insists sceptics will accept ...
  Professor Phil Jones, the scientist at the centre of the Climategate row, has insisted that global warming sceptics will be won over once the negative effects become obvious.
• Skiers enjoy Scotland while daffodils bloom in Dev ...
  Even by the unpredictable standards of British weather, it is peculiar for different parts of the country to be experiencing different seasons at the same time.
• The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs ...
  The collapse of the warmist position on climate change has not impinged on politicians in Britain or Brussels, says Christopher Booker.
• What the Green Movement Got Wrong: Greens come to ...
  For many years, Channel 4 would not have dared devote an hour to the errors of environmentalism, writes Charles Moore.
• Binding climate change deal is impossible after Ba ...
  Obama's electoral setback has killed off any hope of securing a legally binding climate change deal, John Prescott has said.

National Geographic | Environment

• New Satellite Pictures: "Magnificent" Views of Ear ...
  NoneSee Earth's largest sand sea, swirling ice "galaxies," Van Gogh-ready algae, and more in a new collection of artistic satellite images.
• Presented By:
• Brazil Ethanol Looks to Sweeten More Gas Tanks
  Brazil is poised to increase its production of sugarcane ethanol, helped by foreign investment and policy flux in the United States and Europe.
• Cheap Renewable Power Key to BMW’s Electric Megaci ...
  Lightweight, high-strength carbon fiber has long been seen as the secret—but an expensive one—for more efficient cars; BMW details a strategy for slashing the cost.
• Exotic Plant's Once-a-Century Bloom in Pictures
  NoneThe rare, 40-foot-tall Queen of the Andes plant flowers just once in its 80- to 100-year lifetime, blooming for a few weeks before it dies.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Serbia war crimes court convicts 2
  [JURIST] The trial chamber of the Belgrade Higher Court's War Crimes Department convicted two men Monday whom prosecutors claim were involved in the deaths of about 700 Muslim civilians in 1992. The court sentenced former Zvormik mayor Branko Grujic [Bloomberg report] to six years in prison and form ...
• China senior official urges lawyers to promote soc ...
  [JURIST] A top Chinese official on Monday called on the country's lawyers to promote law enforcement and social justice [Xinhua report] and encouraged lawyers, prosecutors and government officials to build a community of support and respect. During a meeting attended by members of the country's law ...
• Madagascar voters approve new constitution
  [JURIST] Voters in Madagascar have approved a new constitution that will lower the minimum age requirement for presidential candidates, according to provisional results released Monday by the country's electoral commission. According to preliminary results, nearly 74 percent of voters approved the c ...
• Rights group calls for release of last UK Guantana ...
  [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Monday urged the US and the UK to work towards the release [press release] of the last British Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee, Shaker Aamer, whom AI claims is being arbitrarily detained. Aamer, a UK resident, has been held by t ...
• Myanmar high court dissmisses Suu Kyi suit over pa ...
  [JURIST] The Myanmar Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Monday filed by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] challenging the government's dissolution of her National League of Democracy (NLD) [party website], according to unnamed government officials. The court has ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• I Am a Blogger No Longer
  This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
• Billy Joel Explains the Election
  What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...
• Obama Considers Staff Changes, Ever So Carefully
  Despite urgent pleas from Democrats that he shake up his White House staff, President Obama will proceed with a plan he put in place before the election, one that calls for a careful review the structure of his office before making changes.  Chief of Staff Peter Rouse is leading the review, and Obam ...
• 2012! It's Never Too Early for Mitt-Chif
  Item: Someone has set up this website: http://mittromneyflipflops.com/ Item: An advertisement for displaying Romney's congratulations to Michigan's governor elect, Rick Synder, shows up on people's Facebook page.  This is odd because Romney never endorsed Snyder; he endorsed Rep. Pete Hoekstra in th ...
• On Election Night, What You Might Have Missed
  Some elections, President Obama said today, are "exhilarating." Others are "humbling."  Last night's was chalk full of news -- so much news that you might have missed some of it. ** The Three Iowa judges who ruled that same-sex marriage was legal were all roundly defeated, thanks to a blizzard of ad ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Brad Burston: Jews of the Gate (JVP) vs. Jews of t ...
  Recently, I wrote a post about a talk Brad Burston, the Haaretz columnist, gave in Seattle that was hosted by J Street.  I said some tough things about Brad’s remarks that night and he was open-handed and gracious enough not to take personal offense, as so many large-egoed journalists tend to do.  ...
• IAEA Inspectors: Stuxnet May’ve Shut Down Iranian ...
  Based on interviews with unnamed IAEA inspectors, AP is claiming that virtually all the centrifuge arrays used in the Iranian uranium enrichment program have been temporarily shut down.  The suspicion is that the Israeli Stuxnet attack has caused serious damage not just to Natanz, but to Bushehr as ...
• Ethan Bronner: Israel-Palestine Conflict ‘Largely ...
  I like to follow Ethan Bronner’s writing for the N.Y. Times not so much because I’ll learn much, but rather to see how torturous the writing and thinking of a liberal Zionist must be in covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a major western newspaper.  And his report in today’s Week in Revie ...
• Die Welt on Uwe Barschel’s Murder and Possible Mos ...
  As promised, two German-speaking readers have graciously translated two of the article Die Welt published today about the 1987 killing of Uwe Barschel in Geneva.  I’m going to excerpt passage mainly from the news article, The Dead Man in Room 317, and a short passage from the toxicologist’s essay ...
• Mossad Accused of 1987 Assassination of German MP
  Uwe Barschel may be about to join the infamous line of Mossad assassination victims killed outside the immediate conflict zone, including Mahmoud al-Mabouh, Khaled al-Meshal, Gerald Bull, and Imad Mugniyeh among others.  In 1987, he was a rising star in Germany’s Chrisitian Democratic Union.  He h ...

Ode Magazine

• Detach from peace
  By: PeaceCorso I bet that title is a surprising piece of advice coming from me, the inner peace activist! It took me a long time to learn this lesson in my peace work, and if I can pass along this wisdom to you, I’ll be grateful, and you’ll be relieved. H ...
• The Stitching Studio: more meaning in the making
  By: BrookeApplegarth Women seeking refuge in the U.S. from war torn countries like Sudan, Iraq and Bhutan face many challenges upon their arrival. Lacking English language skills and work experience, it is difficult for these women - many of which are single mother ...
• Folio heralds Ode a 2010 award finalist
  By: EmilyAviles Today Folio announced the Eddie and Ozzie award finalists. The Folio awards span all corners of the magazine publishing industry and recognize the very best in editorial and design. Ode Magazine is thrilled to have been nominated not once, but twice ...
• Feeding a passion for peace
  By: PeaceCorso "Ban Ki-moon (born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in ...
• A salute to the potency of optimism
  By: Anne Thomas Ode is about (extra)ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Alice Herz-Sommer is one such person. At 107 years old she is the oldest living survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Despite the many tragedies of her past, Alice’s positive, loving, music-filled atti ...

OpEd News

• Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20 ...
  Another vital voice lost when he's so badly needed
• TSA GESTAPO EMPIRE
  TSA is a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. Pistole has given the finger to US senators and representatives, state legislators, and the traveling public who have expressed their views that virtual strip searches and sexual molestation are too high a price to pay for "security."
• Tomgram: David Swanson, All War All the Time
  These last years of blissful peace have left Republican Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, soon to be the new chair of the House Armed Services Committee, in a true panic. How, he wonders, will a starved military ever get the necessary money for the weapons it needs to keep us safe, and where exac ...
• U.S. Intelligence Thwarted Attack on Iran
  A draft NIE update on Iran's nuclear program, completed earlier this year, is dead in its tracks, apparently because anti-Iran hawks inside the Obama administration are afraid it will leak. It is said to repeat pretty much the same conclusions as the NIE from 2007. That, in 2003, Tehran halted its n ...
• How do you define true "health" or "least rate of ...
  A new branch of aging research - telomere science - - confirms health practices as anti-aging modalities. All this is now accessible on Podcast radio interview with A4M president Dr. Ron Klatz.

Switchboard

• Gov. Makes Official Casino Announcement - Legal Hu ...
  Last Wednesday, I wrote about Governor Paterson’s surprise bid to build a Las-Vegas-style casino on the banks of the Neversink River, one of the most important freshwater ecosystems in North America.  Not only could this casino pose a threat to New York City’s nearby water supply, beca ...
• Carbon cuts attributed to cleaner energy; Casino d ...
  In USA Today, Dan Lashof commented on a recent study linking lower carbon emissions to the economic recession. Dan countered that some of the drop in emissions should be attributed to efforts of big countries, such as Germany and the United States to limit and reduce carbon emissions a ...
• A light on the horizon in Mexico
  As Mexico prepares to host the next round of climate negotiations, attention has turned to national and local commitments to reduce climate-disrupting pollution.  Mexico set a bright example this fall by proposing new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs.  These standards will c ...
• Opposing Pebble Mine: Terrorism or Patriotism?
  It’s hard not to sense desperation in Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively’s remarks at a conference in Anchorage last week.  Instead of his usual refrain about the importance of due process for foreign mining companies like Anglo American who want to develop the massive Pebble Mine at ...
• Ted Turner Shows Us It's Time To Let Wild Yellowst ...
  A few weeks ago, the bacterial disease brucellosis was found in a domestic bison on Ted Turner’s Flying D Ranch southeast of Bozeman, Montana, with wild elk the likely source of transmission.  The infected bison has been slaughtered, and its meat will be sold for consumption, as bruc ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• LGM Readers
  All get two minutes for looking so good. Related posts:The Readers Speak Because I trust LGM readers to steer me in the right direction . . . . Discussion of Issues Of Greater Interest To Readers Than Me Related posts:The Readers Speak Because I trust LGM readers to steer me in the right direc ...
• Scan My Junk, Please.
  William Saletan on the idiocy of Airport-Scanner Opt-Out Day. Related posts:Bad Analogies of the Day "To start with, he needs to more frequently acknowledge that what he’s calling for is not new and not just his idea." Whole Foods, junk science, healthism, and other stuff white people like Re ...
• The Hall of Hacks
  The first six are all superb choices. Related posts:Really Undeserving Hall of Famers On the Futility of Arguing With Hacks Today Among Thin-Skinned Hacks Related posts:Really Undeserving Hall of Famers On the Futility of Arguing With Hacks Today Among Thin-Skinned Hacks
• Public vs. Private
  Is it wrong for me to feel untouched by this plight? Unless your parents are paying for it, I really see very, very little justification for pouring money into a private college for an undergraduate degree.  Grad and professional school is a different story; outcomes are sufficiently determined by s ...
• Congratulations to Joey Votto…
  … just another immigrant trying to take a job away from a hard working American. Related posts:“Joey, Have You Ever Been in a Turkish Prison?” Congratulations are in Order… Hearty LGM Congratulations Related posts:“Joey, Have You Ever Been in a Turkish Prison?” Congratulations are in Order… He ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• LaCrosse Goes Hybrid At LA Auto Show
• Intel Backing Fuel Cell Portable Charger
• Sanyo Has Enhanced Rechargeable Battery
• Sunny Sunshade Concept Lights Up Night
• HyperSolar Claims Huge Solar Output

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Three IP groups oppose PTO proposal for humanitari ...
  Three prominent intellectual property groups have voiced opposition to a recent proposal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding technologies that address humanitarian needs. The proposal would allow patent holders to get a fast-track re-examination of such technologies.
• Former Greenberg Traurig associate loses license f ...
  A former Greenberg Traurig associate has surrendered his law license to the Supreme Court of Georgia following a finding that he billed nearly $500,000 under assumed names.
• Trial against silica-claims attorney not barred by ...
  A federal appeals court in Texas has cleared the way for a second criminal trial against a prominent plaintiffs' attorney accused of fraud in negotiating $34 million in silica-related settlements.
• Serious fun: Board game promotes importance of doc ...
  Registering the birth of children isn't a priority in many African countries, but the nonprofit group Lawyers with Borders hopes to change that with the help of that old party standby: the board game.
• Special Report: Asia Practice
  Law firms with a beachhead in the People's Republic of China are profiting from record growth. Plus, the state of the legal markets in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Under the Influence of Fracking?
  In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
• Speaking Out on Water Issues
  Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...
• DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
  COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...
• Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
  Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
• Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
  Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...

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

environment 360

• The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins ...
  The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than virtually any place on Earth. These rapidly rising temperatures represent the first breach in the enormous frozen dome that holds 90 percent of the world’s ice. BY FEN MONT ...
• Green Tech Sector Advances Despite Failure of Clim ...
  While the collapse of climate legislation in Congress was a setback for some green businesses, many others are moving ahead with projects to develop renewable energy. One major reason: The clean-tech sector is rapidly growing worldwide, and U.S. companies don’t want to be left behind. BY JOHN CARE ...
• Indian Temperatures Could Rise Significantly by 20 ...
  A new report forecasts that average temperatures in India could climb 2 degrees C (3.6 F) within two decades, with even higher temperatures projected for some coastal regions. According to the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment, a group of more than 100 scientific organizations, the natio ...
• Interview: A Shark Conservationist On Targeting th ...
  As Asian economies have boomed in the last two decades, demand for sharks fins — a prized delicacy — has soared, leading to severe overfishing of many shark species. As many as 70 million sharks are killed Sonja Fordham annually, a toll that is driving an estimated one-third of the world’s 1,044 ...
• New Class of Insecticides Linked to Bird Declines, ...
  In a new book, a Dutch researcher says the introduction of a new class of insecticides two decades ago has led to a steady decline in bird species that rely on insects as their main source of food. Henk Tennekes, of the Experimental Toxicology Services in Zutphen, the Netherlands, says the widesprea ...

Red Ice Creations

• "Pandemic" Simulated Reality Show has audience par ...
  Under the chilling tagline, "Humanity is an endangered species, it just doesn’t know it yet," the Discovery Channel’s latest social media campaign uses Facebook to show you how a virulent disease could affect your life and those of your friends and family members. This eerily realistic simulation us ...
• Rendlesham Forest tapes released to public (Audio)
  Spooky tape recordings of US military men investigating a UFO in British woodland 30 years ago have finally been released. The airmen tramped through Rendlesham Forest in search of the source of mysterious night-time lights that looked like an alien spacecraft. It became one of the world’s most famo ...
• Exorcists wanted: apply to Catholic Church
  Wanted: a few good men to cast out devils. Overwhelmed with requests for exorcists, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the esoteric rite, the Catholic News Service reported. The church has signed up 56 bishops and 66 priests ...
• Foundation X To Assist In UK Financial Reconstruct ...
  For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the e ...
• Tarantulas help scientists break down human fear
  Scientists using tarantulas to unpick human fear have found that the brain responds differently to threats based on proximity, direction and how scary people expect something to be. Researchers from Cambridge, England used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI, to track brain activity in 20 ...

Russia Today

• Russia leads way in saving tiger from jaws of exti ...
  Representatives from 13 countries with remaining tiger populations and other countries campaigning to save the animal from extinction are gathering in Russia for a four-day summit.
• Danish military appeals to Wikileaks for info on a ...
  Denmark's Defense Ministry says it wants to know if its troops abused prisoners in Iraq after a Danish paper and the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks published evidence.
• American vets: in suicide, many lose the war at ho ...
  The memory of recent combat has become a daily nightmare for many US soldiers who returned home from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Hungary to auction communist relics to aid fire’s ...
  The Hungarian government has announced its decision to hold a charity action of its communist-era relics. The proceeds will be transferred to aid the victims of a recent deadly chemical plant fire.
• NATO and Russia to share missile defense responsib ...
  A Russian newspaper has published new details of the joint NATO-Russian missile defense shield, which was discussed on the sidelines of last weekend's alliance summit in Lisbon.

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

• Taking week off
  Due to the holiday this week, ol’ Dad is taking the week off for the family and catch up on some schoolwork. I can now say this with some confidence in that visitors can take advantage of my now extensive archive of interesting articles and posts. Enjoy the holidays and don’t be afraid to leave [... ...
• Rebuttal: What did NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Tele ...
  On November 15th 2010 this past Monday, NASA released a finding that the Chandra X-Ray Telescope discovered an infant black hole in our “nearby” galactic neighborhood (50 million light-years). Black holes are the theoretical “singularity” in which when a super-massive star explodes (goes nova) the r ...
• Secret Map of Britain
  I don’t usually use the Above Top Secret site as a reference, but this came through The Debris Field and a site named ‘what’s all this, then?’ and it piqued my curiosity. The title of the article is “The Secret Map of Britain” and it’s not entirely what you think it is: A recent thread [...]
• Inexplicata: Uncanny Mexican UFOs
  UFOs are a tradition in Mexico and Latin America at large as this uncanny video show. Notice how the UFO splits apart into two “stages”, perhaps indicating the nuts and bolts theory of UFOs. However in a witness interview the person indicates the UFO came down and “healed” him, which appeals to the ...
• The Paracast: Dr. Frank Salisbury
  This past Sunday Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien interview Dr. Frank Salisbury and discuss nuts n’ bolts UFOs, the paranormal theory of UFOs, Jacques Vallee, the Skinwalker Ranch, the “greys” theology and parallel dimensions. Excellent interview. Dr. Frank Salisbury Interview

Tippers News

• Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
  EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
  Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against human ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• A TSA Myth in the Making
  The "Muslim exemption" is a dangerous myth because it strengthens the TSA by making its critics appear to be foolish conspiracy theorists.
• Ireland Gets Rescue Loans
  “Ireland has formally applied for a rescue package worth more than $100 billion, after months of trying to survive its financial crisis with austerity measures and strict budgetary planningâ¦. The loans to Ireland were necessary in large part because of the faltering state of the nationâs banking sy ...
• Deal Emerging for Deficit Reduction
  “After an election dominated by vague demands for less debt and smaller government, the sacrifices necessary to achieve those goals are coming into sharp focus. Big cuts at the Pentagon. Higher taxes, including those on home ownership and health care. Smaller Social Security checks and higher Medica ...
• Lovett C. “Pete” Peters (1913-2010)
  Pete Peters, former trustee and long-time friend of the Foundation, died earlier this month at age 97.  He held the record for the most years served on the FEE board. A great advocate of the freedom philosophy, Pete founded the Pioneer Institute in Boston in 1988 to address state-level policy issues ...
• Bernanke Defends Fed Actions
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is hitting back at the major nations that have assailed the Fed’s latest actions to try to boost growth, offering a blunt argument that the steps were needed to keep the U.S. economy growing — and, by extension, to keep the global recovery on track.” (Washin ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Advice for journalism educators in Africa
  While I was attending the annual Online News Association conference a week ago, one of several great panels I sat in on was titled “From Earthquakes to Coups: Tools for Crisis Reporting.” I’ve been interested in crisis mapping and other crowdsourced efforts during disasters ever since I learned how ...
• Best advice for Soundslides
  I was asking around recently, among my friends at other j-schools who teach photojournalism. Yes, they are still teaching Soundslides. The No. 1 reason is almost unanimous: It’s a great transition from making stills to making video. I think it also helps — a lot — with teaching storytelling. Right ...
• Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
  Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
• Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
  Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
• Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
  I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post (A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again) has seve ...

Facing South

• After a long fight, the Senate funds justice for b ...
  Two years after Congress promised to help late petitioners in a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by black farmers, the Senate has finally approved the money. On Friday evening, the Senate allocated $1.15 billion to settle charges that the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated ...
• Hurricane recovery loans go to Baton Rouge refiner ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens The Louisiana Bond Commission voted last week to issue ExxonMobil Corporation $12 million more in tax-free, low-interest bonds to finance an upgrade of the petro giant's Baton Rouge facility. The $12 million approved Thursday comes on top of $300 million in Gulf Oppo ...
• A huge win for clean energy in Kentucky
  Clean energy activists are elated over a big victory in the heart of coal country, where a Kentucky power cooperative has agreed to cancel plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative struck a deal with an alliance of grassroots activists and others to ...
• CIW wrests historic agreement from tomato growers ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes Tomato farm workers have cleared their largest obstacle yet on the road to justice in Florida's fields. In a stunning advance, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers arrived at a far-reaching agreement with the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, the tomato in ...
• Ruling the Roost: Florida's congressional hawks ga ...
  The economy, jobs, taxes -- these are the issues grabbing post-election headlines about the Republicans' agenda for Congress. But the new GOP leadership could have even more dramatic impact on issues beyond U.S. borders. That's because the Republicans poised to lead key House foreign polic ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Great Depression
  Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
• Riel, Louis
  Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
• Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
  Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
• Confederation
  Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
• Vimy Ridge
  Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I make a Christmas fairy out of a chicken/ ...
  Eileen Bradley left a comment on our “how to make Christmas decorations by reusing and recycling stuff?” post, asking about wishbone fairies: Does anyone know how to make Christmas Tree Fairies from Chicken or Turkey wishbones. I have seen them made but donât know how to make them. Thank you I’ve ne ...
• Interesting reducing, reusing & recycling links
  With Halloween approaching, check out this fab tutorial on making mini skull lanterns out of little plastic bottles – she says “milk bottles” but from a British POV, they look more like little yoghurt drink bottles. Either way though, ace! SueAnn on Lil Bird Told Me has posted a great idea to make o ...
• How can I reuse or recycle acorns?
  It’s possibly getting a bit late in the year for this one but I kept forgetting to post it earlier in the autumn ;) Our house backs onto woodland that includes a lot of oak trees. There are millions of acorns out there. Whenever we’re out on dog walks, we hear and see them them [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle chocolate/sweet tins?
  After seeing Judith Williamson’s wonderful jewellery made from old sweet tins the other week, I’ve been thinking about what else could be done with them. T’is approaching the season for big tins of chocolates and biscuits after all. Since they’re well sealing metal tins, they’re great for using for ...
• Great reusing and recycling ideas from October
  We’ve had some great comments on Recycle This over the last month. Here are some of my favourites: I’ve seen this idea in a couple of places recently but Paul in Austin, TX was the one to mention it here – use the necks and lids from plastic bottles to make random plastic bags air [...]

Mondoweiss

• Huffpo gives platform to Israel lobbyist’s c ...
  Marty Kaplan at Huffpo: "I take Israel personally." Further proof that the left is permeated by the Israel lobby. Further proof that Zionism has produced a giant IQ drop in what I grew up thinking were the smartest people in the country. Note that Kaplan hadn't been to Israel in 40 years till he vis ...
• Undercover men grab 10-year-old boy in East Jerusa ...
  Lia Tarachansky sent this along, saying she gets news like this all the time. Three undercover Israeli security men grab a 10-year-old boy in Silwan (a village in occupied Jerusalem just below the Dung gate of the Old City).They hold him for a couple of hours, accuse him of throwing stones. Note the ...
• ‘We are not in Israel’: Close encounte ...
  Palestinian man with the handful of olives left on his trees. A Palestinian family living in Bethlehem but originally from the village of Jeb al Theeb contacted our group of volunteers asking for help in harvesting olives on their land adjacent to the settlement of Nokdim, home to Israeli FM Avigdo ...
• A deal on settlements: are we being played?
  You’re fed up with Israel’s settlement policy. You’ve read about Obama’s offer to give Israel the moon for a three month moratorium that excludes East Jerusalem, and you’re furious. On the other hand, you might be someone who could care less about settlements. Your chief concern is Israel’s securi ...
• Israeli forces raid Bil’in in the middle of ...
  Israeli forces stormed the village of Bil'in in a night raid. Four soldiers raided the home of Adeeb Abu Rahma, one of the prominent organizers of the non-violent demonstrations against the Wall. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been imprisoned by Israel for the last 17 months. Tonight, Israeli forces arrested M ...

Media Consortium

• Jim VandeHei Talks Politico Pro : CJR
  An interview w/Jim VandenHei about Politico Pro, which will provide 'high-impact, high-velocity reporting on the politics of energy, technology and health care reform' for political and policy professionals. At what price? $2,495 for the first subscriber to a single vertical such as energy; and afte ...
• Discounted memberships: A short term gain with lon ...
• The Newsonomics of membership " Nieman Journalism ...
  New journalism is hungry for new business models. Beyond millions in foundation start-up support, what will sustain these enterprises? One answer: membership. The notion is borrowed from NPR (née National Public Radio), which we must remind ourselves is no “experiment.” While the daily press is te ...
• Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring | paidC ...
  One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to their e-editions, a broad category that includes digital replicas, online-only subscriptions, Kindle subscriptions, and products like Times Reader. Leading th ...
• PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
  t the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, w ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Women lead US science PhDs to record levels
  More students, 49,562, earned doctorates in the United States last year than ever before, and female scientists are leading that boom, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual survey of doctorates. That’s a 1.6% jump from 2008. Most of the growth was in science and engineering PhDs ...
• New human embryonic stem cell trial set to begin
  The second-ever clinical trial of a therapy involving the use of human embryonic stem cells has received the green light from US regulators. The company developing the therapy, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, got the go-ahead from the US Food and Drug Adminis ...
• Duke geneticist resigns as investigation continues
  Troubled Duke geneticist Anil Potti has resigned, according to an email sent by the Director of Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Hunt Willard, and posted online by the Duke Chronicle today. Willard says that investigations into alleged research misconduct in Potti's w ...
• Controversial Antarctic fishery gains ‘sustainable ...
  A long running fisheries row has come to a close as the Antarctic toothfish is finally certified as a ‘sustainable’ catch, despite furious objections from some scientists. Dissostichus mawsoni caught in the Ross Sea can now be sold with a Marine Stewardship Council sustainability badge, after con ...
• Scientists respond to ocean acidification doubts
  Recent reports that ocean acidification is proceeding at worrying pace, particularly in Arctic waters, have led some environmental optimists to question the severity of the problem. Book author and blogger Matt Ridley, for example, argued in a 4 November opinion piece in the Times that ocean aci ...

new geography

• The Overdue Debate: Smart Growth Versus Housing Af ...
  American households face daunting financial challenges. Even those lucky enough not to have suffered huge savings and retirement fund losses in the Great Recession seem likely to pay more of their incomes in taxes in the years to come, as governments attempt pay bills beyond their reasonable financi ...
• Will Ideology or Pragmatism Rule American Politics ...
  Now that the dust from the midterm elections has settled, America remains just as divided as before on what type of governing approach it favors. As the LA Times’ Gregory Rodriguez, points out, if the United States “was a cartoon character, it would be a cheerful fellow with his head in the clouds ...
• Divining The Stock Market's Future
  Like the rest of us, I pick over the stock market’s runic inscriptions to find meaning in earnings reports, ratios, analyst reports, and trend lines, hoping to divine the traces of an orderly world—something it clearly is not. In modern nations, especially the United States, the averages of stock e ...
• How Liberalism Self-destructed
  Democrats are still looking for explanations for their stunning rejection in the midterms — citing everything from voting rights violations and Middle America’s racist orientation to Americans’ inability to perceive the underlying genius of President Barack Obama’s economic policy. What they have f ...
• The Other Chambers of Commerce
  The recent political conflict between the Obama Administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has thrown a new spotlight on an old communication problem. Local chambers of commerce, although they predate the U.S. Chamber by nearly a century and a half, often are assumed to be part of the U.S. Cha ...

GM Watch

• Tell USDA to say no to GM beets
• Europeans wary of GMO foods
• Brazil launches GM-free soya program
• GM salmon hit by large coalition of critics
• India: Farmers destroy DuPont's GM rice trials

spiked

• Rage against the x-ray machine
  The criticism of tomorrow’s mass protest against airport scanners highlights how much liberals have become detached from liberty.
• What happens when you opt out of the scanner
  You can resist being x-rayed at airports, but be warned: you will be subjected to ‘the Diana Ross’ for doing so.
• A public display of BMA ignorance
  Bans on tobacco displays are ineffective and economically destructive, no matter what medical policy wonks say.
• The return of the Banana Republic of Ireland?
  Not really. Ireland’s economic crisis appears more like the prime example of the travails of Western capitalism.
• Censorship dolled up as consumer activism
  Is it better that it was ‘people power’ rather than state pressure that forced Amazon to remove a paedo book?

Cryptogon

• North and South Korea Exchange Artillery Fire
  Via: MSNBC: Fires were burning out of control Tuesday after a South Korean island was hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea. YTN said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong island. Most of the shells landed on a South Korean military base there. South Korea returned fire an ...
• Insider Trading: Criminal Charges, Fines Against L ...
  Upstarts get busted in an attempt to maintain appearances while public menaces Goldman Sachs and AIG are allowed to slip from the headlines. Via: Los Angeles Times: Federal investigators in New York are wrapping up an extensive investigation into allegations of insider trading and other stock-tradin ...
• Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
  This story is a couple of years old, but I’d never heard of it before. Via: Counterpunch: Looking for weapons of mass destruction? Try the backwoods of North Carolina. The site is easy to find. You donât need infrared telemetry, informants, or a global positioning satellite. Just follow the railroad ...
• Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
  Via: New York Times: On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer? By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his summer reading assignment. But he ...
• Ireland to Seek EU-Led Bailout as Lenihan Works to ...
  Via: Bloomberg: Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said Ireland will apply for a bailout as it sets itself up to be the second euro member to seek a rescue from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. “I will be proposing to my colleagues that they should formally apply for a program,” L ...

The Economic Collapse

• Black Friday: A Festival Of Greed In The Midst Of ...
  Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line up before the crack of dawn at retail stores across the nation hoping to find great deals on cheap plastic stuff made outside the United States.  The Friday after Thanksgiving has become an "unofficial holiday ...
• Full Spectrum Dominance: 8 Examples Of How The Gov ...
  Over the past several decades, no matter which political party has been in power the government has continued to become a larger part of our lives. These days many people are speaking of the "nanny state" that we have created, but the reality is far worse than that. The truth is t ...
• Tent Cities, Homelessness And Soul-Crushing Despai ...
  For decades, our politicians have been deeply addicted to government debt, they have stood idly by as millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas and they have passed countless business-crushing regulations and they never thought that it would catch up with us.  Well, it has.  A ...
• 12 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – Federal ...
  Do you remember the days when getting elected to Congress or choosing to work for the government was referred to as "public service"?  The idea was that you would be making a sacrifice for the greater good of the country.  Well, those days are long gone.  Today, getting elected to C ...
• Why Is Indiana Putting Armed Security Guards Into ...
  Did you ever think that things in America would get so bad that we would need to put armed guards into our unemployment offices?  Well, that is exactly what is happening in Indiana.  Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of ...

Desertification

• A tsunami of fruit trees (Willem Van Cotthem)
  Suppose 50 % of all the trees planted would be fruit trees.  Suppose avenues would be planted with apples, cherries, peaches, pears, apricots, cherimoyas, etc., species and varieties adapted to the local climate.  Suppose our parks would be orchards.  Suppose … Continue reading →
• Making Africa green again by planting fruit trees ...
  Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/11/muslim-green-africa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 One Muslimâs Mission To Make Africa Green Again Arwa Aburawa Muslim starts sustainable tree planting operation to make Ethiopia green once ag ...
• The need to address cost and damages from weather- ...
  Read at : http://networkedblogs.com/aScTk?ref=nf Solutions for those at risk in climate disasters by Michael Zissener There are ever more indicators that climatic change is influencing the frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes. If scientific global climate models are accurate, the … Contin ...
• It is in the interest of the world to assist devel ...
  Read at : http://www.mediaglobal.org/article/2010-11-20/cop_10_gives_intellectual_property_rights_new_meaning COP-10 gives intellectual property rights new meaning By Ian Potts 17 November 2010 [MediaGlobal]: The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversit ...
• Ending Hunger and Malnutrition (2011 Hunger Report ...
  Read at : http://www.hungerreport.org/2011/report/summary Our Common Interest: Ending Hunger and Malnutrition 2011 is a time of opportunity to achieve lasting progress against global hunger and malnutrition. For the United States, it is a time of renewing our commitment to this … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

• Reform Reading:  CRS Outlines Tools to Slow D ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• A Public with Lots to Tell EPA About Coal Ash
  Diane Hofner had a banner full of pictures and a six-minute power point presentation to display what she calls “unsupervised” pollution — black, oily coal ash being strewn on the roads in her hometown of Portland, New York.
• Reform Reading: Credit Ratings Hard to Replace, Ov ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• The Republican Governors’ San Diego Schmooze
  After spending $102 million to help its party pick up six new gubernatorial seats, the Republican Governors Association finds that its annual meeting in San Diego is swarming with eager fundraisers and operatives — several of whom are already hustling to make a current or former GOP governor the par ...
• Reform Reading:  Banks Prepare for Stress Tes ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

backofthebook.ca

• Our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll, v 2.0
  By Frank Moher Time to update our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll. Some fine qualifees have presented themselves in recent months. The original idea of the list was to record for posterity those news organizations that have or haven't done their job in covering 9/11. You'll find that roster her ...
• Dr. Martin’s diagnosis
  By Alison@Creekside Retiring from politics after 17 years, MP Dr. Keith Martin, (Reform, Alliance, Ind, Lib), spoke on CBC's The Current last week about the "serious, serious lack of democracy in Parliament . . . the tragedy of the Commons". Martin began as a Reform MP in '93, attracted by the ...
• Don’t drink and drive, unless it’s bad ...
  By Bev Schellenberg What does a province do when a law acts as an effective deterrent? They consider changing it, apparently. At least, that’s what the still wet-behind-the-ears Solicitor General Rich Coleman is thinking of doing with BC’s strict new impaired driving laws Since September, B.C. ...
• Ambrose disappears Sisters in Spirit
  By Alison@Creekside Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons' new missing persons initiative entirely bypass Sisters In Spirit, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdered FN women and girls in the first place, but SIS can no longer use the SIS ...
• Revolting, but not worth fighting.
  By Rachel Krueger Book banning is for right-wing fundamentalists and crotchety spinsters and very tense parents of pristine children and also EVERYONE who saw The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure on Amazon last Tuesday and immediately clutched their pearls.  Including me.  The site has sinc ...

Worldnews

• Pope comments about condoms, HIV broadened ...
  VATICAN CITY - The Vatican spokesman has broadened the scope of the pope's comments about condom use being a lesser evil than...
• Angelina Jolie aids flood hit Italy
  Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has once again turned up for a humanitarian cause and has pledged to help...
• Amanda Knox prepares for Italy sex-murder app ...
  US student Amanda Knox, the American woman jailed for the sex-murder of Bri... Italian student Raffaele Sollecito, jailed for 25 years for the murder of B... The British student Meredith Kercher is seen in Perugia, Italy, where she w... An appeal by Amanda Knox, the American woman jailed for th ...
• Hit by AIDS, Africa welcomes Pope's condom me ...
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The pope's stunning suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations has grabbed the attention of Africa, which has a soaring number of Catholics and a raging HIV pandemic. From church leaders to AIDS activists, many Africans welcomed Pope Benedict XVI's message ...
• Kotla returns as world cricket venue
  New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday finally lifted its suspension and reinstated the Feroz Shah Kotla as an international venue....

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• A primer on Parkinson's disease
  About 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each year.
• Gonorrhea rates at lowest levels since 1941
  One of the nation's most common forms of sexually transmitted diseases has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded, according to a new repo ...
• Wholesome Breakfast or Decadent Brunch?
  Mo Rocca Examines the Pros and Cons of Two Ways to Start the Day (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
• Cancer is killing me, so why can't I decide when a ...
  Only three per cent of people with pancreatic cancer are alive five years after the initial diagnosis. Dr Ann McPherson argues she has the right to take control of her final hours.
• Scientologists target Aborigines with “drug ...
  The Northern Territory (NT) Health Department of Australia last Saturday warned the Church of Scientology that its drug detoxification therapy, being promoted to Aborigines in Australia by the church was dangerous for people with kidney problems.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Thank Goodness - A Devotion http: ...
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• ExamineReligion: Condoms and Catholics: Consistent ...
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• ExamineReligion: The Spirit of Christmas hovers ov ...
  ExamineReligion: The Spirit of Christmas hovers over Tucson, biding its time http://exm.nr/gTSBsc
• ExamineReligion: Harry Potter leads to demonic pos ...
  ExamineReligion: Harry Potter leads to demonic possession claims Catholic exorcist http://exm.nr/frdy4o
• ExamineReligion: What the slaves ate for Thanksgiv ...
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Energy Collective

• Giving Thanks for Grid Reliability?
  Smart Grid technologies make the grid more reliable.� Distribution automation, such as remote sensing and management technologies give utilities real-time knowledge of grid conditions.� Utilities can become proactive in resolving any problems that occur within the domains of generation, transmission ...
• China in joint venture to build solar power plants ...
  photo: Todd Woody I made my debut on Reuters on Thursday with a scoop on one of China’s biggest solar companies forming a joint venture with California’s SolarReserve to build photovoltaic power plants in the United States:
• Daniel J. Weiss: Conservative leaders attack Brown ...
  Senior Fellow Daniel J. Weiss is CAPAF�s Director of Climate Strategy. The incoming House Republican majority includes many climate science deniers.� They have already begun their attacks on promoters of policies to reduce energy use, save families money, and cut global warming pollution.� This incl ...
• Base-Power Alternatives to Replace Base-Loaded Coa ...
  The purpose of this study is create �ballpark� estimates of the capital costs of deploying three base-power alternatives to replace East Coast base-power coal plants and to compare these alternatives regarding capital cost and the quantity and cost of CO2 reduction. The three alternatives considered ...
• Houston to deploy electric car network. Yes, Houst ...
  photo: eVgo I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Houston, we have an opportunity.

Green House - USA Today

• How to prep your house for an electric car?
  Thinking about an electric car? How you prep your house for it varies widely, depending on the model, your home's wiring and how quickly you want to charge it.
• Sheryl Crow auctions off her solar equestrian farm ...
  Want a peek inside singer Sheryl Crow's solar equestrian estate? Her French style Cross Creek Farm, which uses solar panels to reduce 40% of its electric costs, is now up for auction so the realty company offers a video.
• World's 'largest solar-powered boat' to circumvent ...
  A catamaran, claiming to be "the world's largest solar-powered boat" is is now trying to circumvent the globe without the use of fossil fuels.
• Prince Charles narrates new eco-documentary
  Prince Charles, who's putting solar panels on his 180-year-old home in London, Clarence House, narrates a new documentary on the global environmental crisis.
• Study: lower carbon emissions linked to recession
  Carbon dioxide dioxides, widely considered the chief cause of global warming, decreased from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, says a study released Sunday.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Destructive Neoliberal Austerity
  by Stephen Lendman Instead of vitally needed stimulus, Washington and European governments dictate austerity. The pretext of deficit reduction is being used to transfer more wealth to those already with too much, plus the usual canard over the urgency to save national banking systems. In other wo ...
• The Era of Pain Avoidance is Over
  By Numerian
• The Windy City Makes Waves for Peace, Equity and J ...
  by Stephen Lendman The suburban Chicago-based Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP) "is a diverse, community-based group dedicated to organizing activities and educational events that advance the cause of peace and justice for both Palestinians and Israelis." It supports: ...
• In terror prosecution cases, justice does not mean ...
  Mary Shaw On November 17, in federal court in New York City, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was convicted of a single charge of conspiracy in connection with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He was acquitted of 284 other counts against him. Ghailani was the first Gi ...
• Profit Ties between Phony Terror Alerts, Airport S ...
  By Steve Scheetz and Rady Ananda COTO Report Since September 11, 2001, the US government has been operating with a demand for the understanding of the people. We, as part of this demand, are to allow certain limitations on our liberty in order to gain a certain level of security. But, given the qu ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
  New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article.
• Let's Do Something About Poverty!
  The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty!, in order to encourage ...
• The growing gap and the problem of recession
  Bruce Livesey writes a blog in the Progressive Economics Forum showing the link between worsening income inequality and the threat of a Great Recession that could 'go on indefinitely'. Read the blog here.
• Does Canada really have a debt and deficit problem ...
  A new CCPA study examines Canada's debt and deficit and finds that debt in Canada—even after two years of stimulus—is still at very low levels compared to other countries, and compared to the mid-1990s. Big Train Coming: Does Canada Really Have a Deficit and Debt Problem? says a sharp turn to spe ...
• Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
  A new report by the CCPA and the Rideau Instittute says the planned purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets is the result of a ‘pilot error’ by the Canadian government. Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada carefully examines all of Canada’s current and future security requ ...

World Wide Hippies

• South Korea says two soldiers have been killed aft ...
  North Korea fires on South Korea â live coverage | The Guardian ⢠Two South Korean marines have died after North Korea fired shells at on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff said 16 others were injured during the bombardment of the island, which is located near ...
• Inequity, War and Civil Disobedience
  I finally got a real post done for World Wide Hippies (When the Political gets Personal) . During this process I learned that it’s harder to write for other sites than it is to write for my own. Over here, I say whatever comes into my head with minimal fact checking. [...]
• Worldwide Hippies News!
  WWH- News – Week of November 22, 2010 Worldwide Hippies is your most trusted network of independent news and views on the web. Worldwide Hippies News is produced weekly for the Hippie Community Worldwide. We want to expose the tomfoolery of human civilization for what it is, and celebrate the indiv ...
• Stocks Drop On News Of FBI Raids
  US Stocks Sink; Financials Drop After FBI Raids Hedge Funds | Wall Street Journal U.S. stocks sank Monday as financials dropped after new details of a widespread insider-trading case emerged and worries over the stability of the euro zone following Ireland’s agreement to a bailout weighed on the mar ...
• Gonzales Guilty
  Gonzales once again implicates self in Bush torture program | Raw Story Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has implicated himself – yet again – in the Bush administration’s torture program. Gonzales told Talking Points Memo that he knew “enhanced interrogation techniques” were used against sus ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
  Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...
• The Lies of Islamophobia
  The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne�s command, including his ...
• What's Mike Up To?
  What's Mike Up To?
• 'I Remember'
• 9/11 Families Call for Immediate Acknowledgement o ...
  NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civ ...

Salon

• At least 345 die in stampede at Cambodian festival
  Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving at least 345 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
• Piracy case against 5 Somalis goes to jury in Virg ...
  The piracy case against five Somali men accused in an attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the African coast is headed to jurors in Virginia.
• Hillary's 2016 denials mean nothing
  Hillary Clinton, as you might have heard by now, was asked by Chris�Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" if she was willing to "categorically" declare that she is done with political office. The secretary of state first replied that she is happy in her current post, which prompted Wallace to repeat his q ...
• Joe Barton's climate report was plagiarized
  A couple of years ago, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, asked a statistician named Edward Wegman to produce a report that would cast doubt on climate change science, because Barton -- then the chairman of the House energy committee -- is less a citizen legislator than the whims of the oil and gas indust ...
• Pope wants to start debate on condoms and AIDS
  Pope Benedict XVI sought to "kick-start a debate" when he said some condom use may be justified, Vatican insiders say, raising hopes the church may be starting to back away from a complete ban that would allow condoms to play a role in the battle against AIDS.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• UN tribunal: Lebanon’s hour of truth
  Lebanese democrats were horror-struck when Rafik Hariri, the country’s most influential moderate, was murdered in a Beirut bomb blast in 2005. The killing was a savage blow to their hopes of rebuilding after a civil war that had taken 150,000 lives ...
• Welfare rules: A smack down, not a hand up
  Ontario’s social assistance system is supposed to do two things: provide financial assistance to those in need and employment assistance to help individuals prepare for, find and keep a job.
• Not so fast, M. Duceppe
  The Bloc leader has been in Europe trying to sell foreigners an idea he can’t peddle at home.
• Still a long way to go
  Formal complaints are up by almost 4,000 from the same period last year.
• Afghan mission: NATO fans the fog of war
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the allies in Afghanistan claimed to be united in Lisbon on the weekend, but their end game still isn’t entirely clear. They pledged a “long term partnership” and “enduring commitment” to Afghanistan’s elected gove ...

Energy Collective

• Giving Thanks for Grid Reliability?
  Smart Grid technologies make the grid more reliable.� Distribution automation, such as remote sensing and management technologies give utilities real-time knowledge of grid conditions.� Utilities can become proactive in resolving any problems that occur within the domains of generation, transmission ...
• China in joint venture to build solar power plants ...
  photo: Todd Woody I made my debut on Reuters on Thursday with a scoop on one of China’s biggest solar companies forming a joint venture with California’s SolarReserve to build photovoltaic power plants in the United States:
• Daniel J. Weiss: Conservative leaders attack Brown ...
  Senior Fellow Daniel J. Weiss is CAPAF�s Director of Climate Strategy. The incoming House Republican majority includes many climate science deniers.� They have already begun their attacks on promoters of policies to reduce energy use, save families money, and cut global warming pollution.� This incl ...
• Base-Power Alternatives to Replace Base-Loaded Coa ...
  The purpose of this study is create �ballpark� estimates of the capital costs of deploying three base-power alternatives to replace East Coast base-power coal plants and to compare these alternatives regarding capital cost and the quantity and cost of CO2 reduction. The three alternatives considered ...
• Houston to deploy electric car network. Yes, Houst ...
  photo: eVgo I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Houston, we have an opportunity.

EU Times

• Discovery of GPS tracker becomes privacy issue
  Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old computer salesman and community college student, took his car in for an oil change earlier this month and his mechanic spotted an odd wire hanging from the undercarriage. The wire was attached to a strange magnetic device that puzzled Afifi and the mechanic. They freed it ...
• Microsoft Moves to Help Nonprofits Avoid Piracy-Li ...
  Microsoft is vastly expanding its efforts to prevent governments from using software piracy inquiries as a pretext to suppress dissent. It plans to provide free software licenses to more than 500,000 advocacy groups, independent media outlets and other nonprofit organizations in 12 countries with ti ...
• Brigitte Bardot wants to run for French presidency
  Brigitte Bardot, the Sixties sex symbol has announced she may run for president in France’s next elections as the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, “took me for an imbecile” over animal rights pledges. Miss Bardot, once a screen icon now an animal rights campaigner, said she had been asked by the Ecology ...
• ‘Viva Palestina’ aid flotilla set to d ...
  Egypt announces it will allow aid convoy to dock at Al-Arish seaport on route to Gaza, will deny George Galloway entry into country. A flotilla of ships titled the “Viva Palestina” convoy, hailed by organizers as the largest convoy to break the Gaza embargo, is set to depart this weekend, organizers ...
• Boer on hunger strike in South African prison
  It has been eighteen days since Willem Ratte, Boer Republican, and ten others were imprisoned by the South African government without substantial evidence for their imprisonment. This questionable imprisonment has together with the continual victimization of Boers by the South African Government led ...

Stonecipher News

• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
• Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
  According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
• Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
  This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.
• Repression and the Ruling Class
  From my Triond collection: I recently read Louis Althusser’s article on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. He discusses the production for conditions of reproduction by breaking down the Marxist theory into several fundamental aspects. Althusser discussed the differences between the proleta ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Apple releases Find My iPhone app free for iPhone ...
  Today Apple releases the new iOS 4.2 and with it has also announced that the MobileMe feature ‘Find My iPhone, iPad or iPod touch’ is now totally free for any iPhone 4, iPad, or fourth-generation iPod touch running iOS 4.2. Like the name says, this feature allows you to find your iOS device when yo ...
• JFK's Texas - At Least as Fake as Sarah Palin's Al ...
  Sarah Palin's Alaska tries to describe an Alaska that really doesn't exist. Yet viewers get to see the Palins doing a lot of stuff that appears to really happen in front of their eyes. They fish, they climb, they fly, they shoot, they club halibut in the head. I do all that stuff too. All real stuf ...
• Desperate North Korea
  By Douglas V. Gibbs North Korea tested a nuclear device in 2006. In 2010 the communist nation invited a U.S. scientist to view Pyongyang's nuclear complex. The invite was not for chit-chat, but to show the world that North Korea has a new uranium enrichment plant with at least 1,000 centrifuges. Du ...
• Tweeting after-hours: The U.N.'s undiplomatic blog ...
  Nicholas Kay , Britain's ambassador to Sudan, will document the country's march toward its January independence referendum on a new blog that promises to "convey the drama and scale" of the likely breakup of Africa's largest country. "I am a reluctant blogger," Kay, a member of a growing cadre of b ...
• A change in the weather doesn’t explain Yemen
  By Andrew Bolt So, let me see if I’ve got this right. The upsurge in al Qaeda activity in Yemen can be put down to…..Climate Change. What the!…..TonyfromOz. Here we go again, focusing on the fashionable rather than the real

Groklaw

• Oregon Senator Vows To Block Internet Blacklist Bi ...
  U.S. Senator Ron Wyden vowed yesterday to take steps to block the controversial bill that would let the government effectively block access from the U.S. to sites involved in copyright infringement. - San Francisco Chronicle
• Are Hash Values Unique Digital Fingerprints?
  Fortunately, the NIST saw this coming. In 2005, it took Prof. Wang seriously and began considering a stronger class of hash formulas, SHA-2. On November 2, 2007, NIST opened a competition to find an even stronger class, SHA-3. According to NIST, federal agencies must shift to SHA-2 by the end of thi ...
• Cravath Kicks Off Bonus Season
  Cravath has started the associate-bonus ball rolling this year, and the news, all things considered, is good: the firm is matching last year's bonuses for younger associates and it is giving $5,000 more to its most senior associates. - WSJ Law Blog
• Open-Source Firm Decries Software Abuse
  An open-source software company claims a website violates its trademark and uses it to distribute a media-player program riddled with "potentially malicious" spyware. Geeknet and VideoLAN, creator of the VLC Media Player, claim Tightrope Interactive violated the VLC trademark, which VideoLAN has use ...
• Prop. 8 case on TV
  The Ninth Circuit Court agreed on Wednesday to allow live and delayed broadcasting of the Dec. 6 oral argument on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 - California's ban on same-sex marriage. In a brief order, the Court cleared live broadcasting by C-SPAN, the cable network. It also gave permiss ...

WideShut

• November 16, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  Lots of topics on this week's show including the dangerous HPV vaccine, and more TV Licence lessons.
• DEMOS and Jobless Britain: WideShut Webcast On Res ...
  Keelan discusses the protests, DEMOS think tank, unemployment in Britain and the agenda of forced work and slave labour.
• LIVE: WideShut Webcast On Air Now
  Keelan discusses the protests, DEMOS think tank, unemployment in Britain and the agenda of forced work and slave labour.
• The Body Scanner Scam
  If Body Scanners cannot detect common forms of terrorism, and are dangerous to our health, what the hell are they being used for?
• Shoot The Messenger: 77 Ripple Effect Creator In C ...
  Freedom of speech on the line as 7/7 Ripple Effect creator John Hill enters court for the second time on November 11th.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Abinanti: Sewage release needed notification
  Abinanti: Sewage release needed notification
• Drexel Hill resident runs in Philadelphia Marathon ...
  Drexel Hill resident runs in Philadelphia Marathon today
• Murray Murmurings: Snowy River is well and truly r ...
  Murray Murmurings: Snowy River is well and truly rooted
• New app puts citizens on water patrol
  New app puts citizens on water patrol
• Post-oil spill restoration begins
  Post-oil spill restoration begins

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Situation at mine now 'grave'
  Family members have been shown CCTV footage of the blast, as police tonight describe the situation as grave.
• Pike River Coal slammed inspector shortage two yea ...
  The company that owns the Pike River coal mine itself raised concerns about mine safety in New Zealand, according to documents obtained by ONE News
• Vicki Wilkinson-Baker: So many dreams, so many cam ...
  On the desk there's a forest of microphones. There's a bank of television cameras ready to send pictures and words round the world.
• 24 hours of obstacles slows mine rescue progress
  Frustration is showing in Greymouth as efforts to reach the 29 trapped Pike River Coal miners hit obstacles.
• Police warn parents about choking game in South Au ...
  Police in South Auckland are warning parents about an online game that is being blamed for the deaths of two young people.

Just World News

• Robinson and Brahimi: Wrong on Hamas and women
  Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...
• Celebrate Laila's book launch today!
  Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...
• Virginians standing up to Cantor!
  A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...
• The U.S., Congress, and the world in 2010
  I was at a meeting in Washington on Thursday where we were discussing the effects that the democrats' drubbing in the November 2 mid-terms could be expected to have on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process". Most of the participants were understandably glum. (This was just after the news ...
• Laila El-Haddad and Josh Foust books: on Amazon!
  It has been a crazy and wonderful week! We launched Josh Foust's book Afghanistan Journal on Tuesday. Just prior to that, both his book and Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between went up for sale on Amazon. I've been completing the work on the hardcover ...

First Truths

• Torture: The Great American Export
  My latest denounces the complete impunity with which the United States and its proxies carry out their torture tactics.
• Privacy or State Monopoly on Info?
  The federal government is preparing itself, under the pretext of protecting our online privacy, for a huge power grab that will likely consolidate unprecedented amounts of our personal information in the hands of government. I commented on the development for the Center for a Stateless Society.
• Liberty is the Mother of Equality (And Vice Versa)
  In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that liberty is the channel through which to achieve egalitarian goals, that free markets are the best way to attack the system of privilege we're yoked to today.
• The Crime Families Meet in Korea
  I address Seoul's G20 summit in a commentary piece for C4SS.
• Israel, At it Again
  My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society confronts Israel's latest endeavors into violent regional domination and government disinformation.

Media Co-Op

• 2010 Vancouver Transgender Day of Remembrance
  On an early west coast winter evening, members of the trans community & their allies gathered in front of The Carnegie Community Center and marched to SFU Harbour Center for a solemn memorial for those killed due to anti transgender/transexual violence and hate. Approximately 120 people marched and ...
• Keepin' it Old School. Singing Barbershop in Halif ...
  I love to sing. I can’t help myself. My grandfather was a singer, unafraid to let loose with high, warbling, tenor-range notes. With a highball in his hand you could barely get him to stop singing. He’d sing Depression-era songs, songs that p ...
• Media Co-op Investor: November
  Getting (radio) Active with Cameco and Piping Mad for TransCanada Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies which benefi ...
• BC Pen Riots 1934-1976 (By Michael Barnholden)
  Taken from “Reading The Riot Act” (Anvil Press, Vancouver, 2005) reposted from: http://antiprisonvancouver.wordpress.com/ In his official dispatches, Warden W.H. Cooper liked to use the french word emuete, meaning uprising or riot, to describe disturbances in the British Columbia Penitentiary. Follo ...
• Nova Scotia: Electro-State
  Renewable energy expert Neal Livingston says Nova Scotia will export its renewable energy and keep the coal burning Nova Scotia could soon follow in the footsteps of the Alberta tar sands energy boom. But instead of exporting upgraded bitumen, ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Homage to Ireland in Her Hour of Need
  Now that they've gone stone broke and are dirt poor again. Lets send the Irish a big hug and kiss for all the fun they've always provided. Just as a token, this trailer from my favorite Irish theme film, (apologies to John Ford and "The Quiet Man")... Alan Parker's, "The Commitments". You think th ...
• Haitian cholera: opening soon in theaters near you ...
  Haitian VenusA Collier County woman is Florida's first documented case of cholera imported from Haiti. The woman, who lives in southwest Florida, had been visiting family in the region of the earthquake-devastated nation that is at the center of its cholera epidemic.(...)"We really don't anticipate ...
• Beck, rhymes with yecch: Murdoch flirts with antis ...
  Welcome to the "Glenn Beck Program," where Jews are Nazis and those who exploit ancient anti-Semitic conspiracy narratives are friends of the Jews.� Michael Wolraich - CNN �Soros' people called me to say I am an anti-Semite because I was going to air this," he says in one program. "Probably, I am m ...
• UK Students trash British Conservatives' HQ. ... t ...
  Students have finally had enough. Fees were introduced in 1998 and we hardly heard a squeak; they were bumped up to over £3,000 in 2006 and no one revolted. But today students smashed their way into the Tory party campaign HQ in a show of anger against a political elite they believe have abandoned t ...
• The must see, must pass along video
  David Seaton's News LinksSteve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video and it is a powerful and positive piece of work. If you like it pass it on.DS

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Black Farmers Finally See Justice
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON - Yesterday (Nov 19) it was announced that the $1.15 billion awarded black farmers in the Pigford settlement that arose from decades of discriminatory practices at the U.S. Department of... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Chemical Lobby Gets Its Way in U.S. Senate
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – For several years now, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been warning of the risks associated with bisphenol A (BPA) – especially the BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Calif. Officials Honored for Efforts to Protect P ...
  Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. – Six dedicated public servants will be honored tonight in San Francisco for their shared commitment to protecting the health and environment of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• Will the Real Ethanol Beneficiaries Please Stand U ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – This month’s election is being called a referendum on taxpayer-funded bailouts and wasteful federal spending, but Congress may not have gotten the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• In Farm Country, Democrats’ Bitter Harvest
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival of freshmen members... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Most Powerful Nutrient Ever Discovered for Eye ...
  By Dr. Mercola Scientists long ago discovered that a class of naturally occurring pigments called carotenoids held powerful antioxidant properties that are crucial for your health. But only recently has one particular carotenoid jumped to the forefront in terms of its status as a "supernutrient ...
• Is Obama A Keynesian?
  Does a mere question of economic policy justify such outrage?
• Did You Know that Splenda is in Your Drinking Wate ...
  The human body can't break it down, or use it in any way. And as it turns out, modern wastewater treatment methods don't break down Splenda either. Smitha Ramakrishna, a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search, found that the sweetener can accumulate in the water supply after people excret ...
• A Simple, Inexpensive Trick to Cure a Cold
  By Dr. Mercola Each year Americans catch more than one billion colds, making the cold virus the most common infectious disease in the United States. It accounts for more school absences and missed work than any other illness, and it's the number one reason people visit their physicians -- even ...
• Great News!! U.S. Says Genes Should Not be Eligibl ...
  Reversing a longstanding policy, the U.S. federal government has ruled in a legal brief that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents. This could have an enormous impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry. It is not yet clear if the new policy will be put into effect by t ...

JAMA

• Mycophenolate Mofetil vs Azathioprine for Remissio ...
  Context  Current remission maintenance therapies for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated vasculitis (AAV) are limited by partial efficacy and toxicity. Objective  To compare the effects of mycophenolate mofetil with azathioprine on the prevention of relapses in patients with AAV. ...
• The Real Meaning of Rationing [Commentary]
  (No abstract is available for this citation)
• Automated External Defibrillators and the Law of U ...
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• Treating Sternal Wound Infections After Cardiac Su ...
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• Treating Sternal Wound Infections After Cardiac Su ...
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Survival - tribal peoples

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

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

Montreal Gazette

• Suicide and silence make deadly partners
  An extraordinary 5,600 people attended the service, held last week in Ottawa's hockey arena, where Devon's father Luke Richardson is assistant coach of the Senators. Surrounded by thousands of fellow mourners, Devon's grieving family broke the taboo around suicide.
• The United Nations disgraces itself -again
  The United Nations has proven itself to be only half hostile to women and their welfare. By giving Saudi Arabia a seat on the executive board of a new superagency for women, but refusing a spot to Iran, the world body has dug itself deeper into a hole of cynical hypocrisy.
• Freedom of speech under attack
  Suppressing freedom of speech is a practice most Canadians associate with Burmese generals and Robert Mugabe -not Ontario universities, provincial courts or federal cabinet ministers.
• Murder reminds us just how vile the Mob is
  The murder of 86-year-old Nicolo Rizzuto in his own kitchen Wednesday evening is a reminder of the way organized crime really works.
• The United Nations disgraces itself -again
  The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women -commonly called UN Women -was created this year as a super-agency to promote women's rights and interests. Four UN bureaucracies were brought together to form a single more powerful agency. It is a promising sign that UN Women w ...

Food World Order

• addicted to cheese? here's why
  from care2: Ever felt like you couldn’t give up cheese? Ever think it might actually be a drug? The surprising news is that as far back as the 1980’s researchers have known that cheese contains trace amounts of morphine. Seriously. In 1981, Eli Hazum and his colleagues at Wellcome Research Laborator ...
• 11/18 binge & purge: radioactive water, cheese fri ...
  usda, oregon ag refuse to publicize gm bentgrass escape* video: texas covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years* epa sued for allowing mercury pollution 900x safe level* reminder on arizona restrooms: don't drink from toilets* big cheese vs real cheese: usda's bailout of pro ...
• 'food safety' bill reaching congressional conclusi ...
  urgent: contact your senator now about s510 - senate debate could extend into the weekend from natural news: Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new auth ...
• agroterror threataganda: terror fight extends to n ...
  fbi says surveillance aims to protect nation's food supply from ketv: Federal and local authorities said they're keeping a close eye on the vulnerabilities of the heartland's agricultural industry in efforts to prevent terrorist attacks. The FBI said it's actively watching Nebraska farmland and fa ...
• 10/28 binge & purge: food stamp fortune cookie
  food stamp usage soars among working families* why monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals' herbicides* fda seizes $700,000 of rice from georgia warehouse* one-third of US adults could have diabetes by 2050: cdc* colgate accused of toothpaste recipe theft in india*

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Black Friday: A Festival Of Greed In The Midst Of ...
  Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving when millions of Americans line up before the crack of dawn at retail stores across the nation hoping to find great deals on cheap plastic stuff made outside the United States.  The Friday after Thanksgiving has become an "unofficial holiday ...
• Full Spectrum Dominance: 8 Examples Of How The Gov ...
  Over the past several decades, no matter which political party has been in power the government has continued to become a larger part of our lives. These days many people are speaking of the "nanny state" that we have created, but the reality is far worse than that. The truth is t ...
• Tent Cities, Homelessness And Soul-Crushing Despai ...
  For decades, our politicians have been deeply addicted to government debt, they have stood idly by as millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas and they have passed countless business-crushing regulations and they never thought that it would catch up with us.  Well, it has.  A ...
• 12 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – Federal ...
  Do you remember the days when getting elected to Congress or choosing to work for the government was referred to as "public service"?  The idea was that you would be making a sacrifice for the greater good of the country.  Well, those days are long gone.  Today, getting elected to C ...
• Why Is Indiana Putting Armed Security Guards Into ...
  Did you ever think that things in America would get so bad that we would need to put armed guards into our unemployment offices?  Well, that is exactly what is happening in Indiana.  Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of ...

CASSE

• In Search of Answers about Economic Growth
  It's time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.
• Enough Is Enough
  Brian Czech's foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.
• An Economy of “Enough”
  On November 17, you'll be able to download the outstanding new report about how a steady state economy would work.
• Thermodynamic Roots of Economics
  We can no longer afford to ignore the fundamental operating rules for the economy.
• The Economics of Lawns and Landscaping
  Rethinking how we manage lackluster lawns and landscapes can create a cascade of economic and environmental advantages.

The Talking Clock

• Howdy Washington, from a British Ron Paul supporte ...
  Just a quick hello to readers from Washington... We did mean the USA Washington, but 'wae'aye, man!' to anyone from the English, Tyne & Wear version, too. You know, it's always very interesting seeing who checks in to this humble little blog. It's incredibly nice when we learn that we've be ...
• Thought for the Day
  When I was growing up, we generously gave a couple of MILLION pound in aid to stop hundreds of thousands of people dying of famine in Ethiopia. A mere twenty or so years later, we might have to give a few dozen BILLION in aid to Ireland so that a few politicians can keep together their European U ...
• Quote of the Day: 17th November 2010
  "Today, as EU officials seek to bounce Ireland into direct economic rule, we can see how deadly serious the Eurocrat elite are. There is no need for Ireland to accept a bail out at this time - and yet the EU elite deliberately talk up the prospect in order to strengthen their control. If Ireland ...
• Ireland bailout: Playing Statler and Waldorf to th ...
  As Ireland dies as a sovereign nation and we, the people of Britain have to cough up to bailout their European misadventure, we thought we'd read the House of Commons debate on the bailout - so you don't need to. We've given you the potted highlights. And we've taken the opportunity to play Statl ...
• Would the European Union kindly just hurry up and ...
  Readers of the Daily Mail appear to be in extremely optimistic, bordering on rapturous this morning at news that the European Union could be being read the last rites. The 500+ comments are almost unanimous in their rejoicing at the headline: "Ireland's debt crisis could kill the European Union s ...

Facing South

• After a long fight, the Senate funds justice for b ...
  Two years after Congress promised to help late petitioners in a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by black farmers, the Senate has finally approved the money. On Friday evening, the Senate allocated $1.15 billion to settle charges that the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated ...
• Hurricane recovery loans go to Baton Rouge refiner ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens The Louisiana Bond Commission voted last week to issue ExxonMobil Corporation $12 million more in tax-free, low-interest bonds to finance an upgrade of the petro giant's Baton Rouge facility. The $12 million approved Thursday comes on top of $300 million in Gulf Oppo ...
• A huge win for clean energy in Kentucky
  Clean energy activists are elated over a big victory in the heart of coal country, where a Kentucky power cooperative has agreed to cancel plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative struck a deal with an alliance of grassroots activists and others to ...
• CIW wrests historic agreement from tomato growers ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes Tomato farm workers have cleared their largest obstacle yet on the road to justice in Florida's fields. In a stunning advance, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers arrived at a far-reaching agreement with the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, the tomato in ...
• Ruling the Roost: Florida's congressional hawks ga ...
  The economy, jobs, taxes -- these are the issues grabbing post-election headlines about the Republicans' agenda for Congress. But the new GOP leadership could have even more dramatic impact on issues beyond U.S. borders. That's because the Republicans poised to lead key House foreign polic ...

CenterLine

• Omar Khadr’s Show Sentencing
  by Joshua L. Dratel According to media reports, during Omar Khadrâs Guantanamo military commission sentencing hearing last month, the prosecutor importuned the jury, composed of U.S. military officers, to âsend a messageâ to the world and impose a 25-year prison … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Al Qaeda Threatens Small-Scale Attacks, Details Cargo Plane Plot The latest issue of Inspire, an online magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, reportedly details the failed cargo plane plot last month and threatens more small-scale attacks against … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  After Ghailani Verdict, Debate Over Civilian Trials Intensifies Republicans continue to hammer at the Obama administration over this weekâs jury verdict in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee tried in U.S. civilian courts, suggesting that the result … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Ghailani Acquitted On All But One Charge Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried by a U.S. civilian court, was acquitted on all but one of more than 280 charges Wednesday by a jury in U.S. federal court … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Britain to Pay Settlements to Former Guantanamo Detainees Britain has agreed to pay 15 former Guantanamo detainees and one current detainee millions of dollars in order to avoid lawsuits that allege the British government was complicit in their detention and … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Leo and $50 million: is it enough to save the tige ...
  As the 13 countries with wild tigers struggle to agree how to protect them, $50 million is pledged to protect the animals, and Leonardo DiCaprio adds his support
• NASA's spare solar sail reaches orbit
  More than two years after a rocket failure destroyed a new experimental solar sail, NASA has successfully launched a spare into orbit
• Will transgenic salmon turn the tide of US public ...
  The latest poll suggests growing uncertainty in the US about genetically modified food
• 'Mystery' contrail seen from space
  A satellite image supports the theory that a strange contrail observed last week was caused by a plane rather than a missile
• Today on New Scientist: 22 November 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: quantum time travel, the Milky Way's smallest black holes and a new stem cell trial or blindness

Tech Drive In

• Java4Ever - World's Geekiest Movie Trailer is Hila ...
  I am not going to comment anything about this video. If you consider yourself as a geek and love open source and Linux, you are going to love Java4Ever movie trailer. Enjoy! Java4ever is the story about a young man, who thinks "open", and his .Net obsessed father. Cast include "William ...
• 6 Things to Look Forward for in Upcoming Ubuntu 11 ...
  The next major Ubuntu release cycle is slowly coming alive. Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed Natty Narwhal is going to feature some of Ubuntu's most significant changes ever. All in all, Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be *the* most important release ever as far as Canonical is concerned. Now, lets see what makes th ...
• 10 Cool Screenlets for Ubuntu GNOME
  If you haven't used Screenlets in your Ubuntu yet, it is an excellent application to experiment with. And hundreds of useful third party user contributed screenlets are available for free. Here is a quick review of some of the best user contributed screenlets available for Ubuntu GNOME. Inst ...
• Ubuntu Software Center Slowly Turning Around, Adds ...
  Ubuntu Software Center is getting updates almost everyday. The latest one brings in more paid applications into Ubuntu Software Center. And it's good to see Canonical slowly waking up to one of its most important revenue making�opportunity. Brukkon, Fluendo DVD Player and More Video Codecs ...
• F1 - New Firefox Extension to Share Links Fast and ...
  Mozilla Labs has always been a really interesting place to explore. They created ripples across the web by showcasing brilliant Seabird Mozilla Concept Phone a month ago. Now here is another quite useful Firefox extension to share links fast and neat by Mozilla Labs. F1 Firefox Extension fro ...

Case About Bird Flu

• False flag terrorist attack in Germany could be us ...
  Following unprecedented protests in Germany, in Stuttgart and Gorleben, against the creeping authoritarianism, the government is trying to exploit an alleged threat to the Berlin’s Reichstag building by Islamic terrorists to bring the economical, political and social life of the country fully under ...
• Irish PM aims to ram through IMF and EU budget in ...
  [Editor's note: The four year "economic plan" for Ireland drawn up by the IMF and EU -- Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann visited EU officials over the weekend, according to the FAZ -- will bring about the impoverishment of Irish people and surely lead to significant civil unrest  if the PM Brian ...
• Irish opposition Labour calls for parliament disso ...
  DUBLIN | Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:26am EST DUBLIN (Reuters) – The leader of Ireland’s opposition Labour party called on Monday for an immediate dissolution of parliament and general election after support from within the government’s own ranks crumbled. Public anger toward Ireland’s government — led by P ...
• Civil unrest and riots feared as Ireland’s bank cr ...
  http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Civil-unrest-and-riots-feared-as-Irelands-bank-crisis-worsens-109836899.html Civil unrest and riots feared as Ireland’s bank crisis worsens By           DARA KELLY IrishCentral.com Staff Writer Updated Monday, November 22, 2010, 5:16 AM  Plans to cut the minimum wage ...
• IMF and banks poised to strip Ireland of assets: b ...
  belfasttelegraph.co.uk Republic of Ireland may have firesale of top assets Saturday, 20 November 2010 The Irish government may be forced into a firesale of prized assets to raise billions of euros to repay its debts. Its 25% stake in Aer Lingus worth €150 million (£128m) may be sold once the country ...

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. �

Veterans Today

• MFSO Issues an Apology to the Bidens
  Retraction of the Article OUTRAGEOUS: Joe & Jill Biden lie about military families speaking out against the wars After receiving an ACTION ALERT from Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) late last week regarding an  interview on Larry King Live recently that led to my article OUTRAGEOUS: Joe & Jill Bi ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: DHS-TSA Terror Watch L ...
  In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not removed in a timely manner, and tens of thousands of names were placed on the list without predicate. A Septe ...
• Iraq: The Three Trillion Dollar War
  This Thanksgiving, we offer appreciation for the $3-trillion Iraq War brought to us by the GOP, numerous spineless Democrats, the media, an apathetic American public, Fox, Israel, and the brave neocons who fearlessly waged war from think-tanks and the danger-fraught desks at the DoD and the White Ho ...
• “We Are at War”: Christian Identity Ra ...
  Don't look for the Tea Party to check Israeli militarism
• Innocent Texas man freed after 27 years in prison
  More evidence Texas hates liberty, hates justice - Junk Science: A Texas Injustice persists as the State of Texas leads the nation with more than 40 DNA exonerations on record. The Innocence Project is currently conducting a statewide review of cases where DNA evidence could prove a defendant’s i ...

electric politics

• American Presidential Dictatorship
  When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his lates ...
• Our Unsecure Border
  There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-state ...
• A Postcard From Paris
  In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...
• The Anger Index
  You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...
• Óχi Euro
  Until fairly recently the Greek debt crisis wasn't so much in the news. Now, it's roiling markets and a lot of commentators are wringing their hands over the possibility that it could precipitate another world-wide financial crash. That's probably a baseless fear. Greece is mainly a Eurozone proble ...

PR News

• Best Buy holiday PR akin to 'political campaign'
  MINNEAPOLIS: This holiday season, retailers are touting value and price, but at the end of the day it's about targeted engagement via media relations and social media.
• Formulatin selected by mobile language-learning pr ...
  NEW YORK: Formulatin was hired by Voxy to introduce its mobile language-learning program into the marketplace.
• PR NewsChannel launches commenting feature
  TAMPA, FL: PR NewsChannel launched a feature that allows people to leave comments on press releases.
• Vocus hires Bruno to work on M&A
  LANHAM, MD: Vocus announced it hired James Bruno as SVP of corporate development.
• Wall Street Communications hired by Chyron
  SALT LAKE CITY: Wall Street Communications was hired by Chyron, a provider of digital and broadcast graphics solutions.

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 ...

k2p blog

• Qantas to fly one A380 again on Saturday, Rolls Ro ...
  Qantas will have one A380 ready to fly again on Saturday 27th, 23 days after the engine explosion on QF32. But Rolls Royce will probably restrict the operating regime of the Trent 900 by limiting the maximum thrust to be used.
• Al Gore does a U-turn and admits the obvious
  Former Vice President Al Gore has admitted that his “support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.” Gore was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate mandating the use of ethanol in 1994.
• Borobodur courtyard reopened but 90% of ash remain ...
  The Borobodur site which was closed to the public after the eruptions of Mount Merapi began on Oct. 26 has been partially reopened to the public. 20 cubic metres of ash have been removed so far but only represents 10% of the total.
• Rolls Royce shares, time to sell? Trent 900 hit wi ...
  The financial position of Rolls Royce is strong and they should be able to weather the storm of fixing the faulty Trent 900s. But profits will be hit hard for at least the next 12 months and perhaps even longer if Trent 900 sales suffer or if the Trent 1000 is further delayed.
• The Cancun hype begins – but it is all about ...
  With one week left before the Cancun circus begins (UN/ IPCC Climate Conference from 29th November to 10th December), the mainstream media hype has begun.

Left Foot Forward

• Hannan accused of “dishonourable” beha ...
  The Tory right were on the march in Brussels today, voting in hardline Eurosceptic Martin Callanan as the leader of the party's MEPs. Callanan was the unanimous victor in the poll of the Conservative's 24 Members of the European Parliament, winning over 50 per cent of the vote - including the suppor ...
• Ireland on the brink: Time for the Second Republic ...
  Twenty four months into its economic crisis and Ireland is finally beginning to address the fundamental issues that caused its national disaster, starting with the unique Irish mentality and its parochial political system.
• Coalition’s housing plans will disincentivis ...
  There is a sound argument to try to support greater mobility in social housing - only five per cent of social tenants moved home over the past year compared to almost a quarter of tenants in the private sector, though it is unclear what an ‘optimal’ level would be. It is also important to emphasise ...
• Are Ed and AJ really split over 50p?
  The red tops are overflowing with stories today of Labour's split over the 50p rate. But is there really a cigarette paper between the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor?
• Taking the axe to social housing
  The government’s consultation “A fairer future for social housing” says that “social housing – affordable and stable – should act as a springboard to help individuals make a better life for themselves”. Yet the result of this announcement will do the exact opposite – it will ensnare individuals in p ...

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Intel Hub

• Charlie McGrath: No More Mr. Nice Gov’t
  Wide Awake News Charlie MacGrath The dust is just settling on the mid-term election, yet our future path seems crystal clear. We’ve had two and a half years of gimmicks – cash for clunkers , cash for caulkers, $8000.00 tax credits, 99 weeks of unemployment benefits; and people like myself and other ...
• Tensions Mount in Korea as Both Sides Prepare for ...
  The Intel Hub At this point it is to early to tell if this situation will escalate to full scale war. What we do know is that North Korea has threatened continued attacks on South Korea who they claim provoked them into shooting in the first place. Update: Debkafile is now reporting that Japanese Pr ...
• TSA Agents Take Mother’s Child!
  The Intel Hub The TSA is openly molesting American citizens, forcing them through toxic scanners, threatening them with arrest if they opt out, and now taking kids out of their mothers eyesight without their approval! Apparently TSA believes that children are possible Al Qaeda agents who may attempt ...
• South Korea Returns Fire After Communist North Fir ...
  Daily Mail South Korea has scrambled F-16 fighter jets and returned fire after North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery on to a populated South Korean island near the countries’ western border. Shells fell on Yeonpyeong island, injuring two civilians and wounding four soldiers. Several houses ...
• Chemtrail Base Whistleblower Comes Forward
  The Intel Hub Radio By Shepard Ambellas Editors Note: The Pinal County Airpark today according to sources is not used as a CIA base or chemtrail base. However there is still a military presence. In early 2010 Shepard Ambellas host of The Intel Hub Radio Show got an exclusive interview with a former ...
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  Cape Wind's big win

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  “This decision will not only raise costs for our members, but also establishes a dangerous precedent of regulatory rubber-stamping ofrenewable energy ...

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  "We believe the utilities' support and involvement in advancing the biofuels market will help bring awareness to the benefits ofrenewable natural gas. ...

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  NM issues renewable energy transmission bonds

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  The New Mexico RenewableEnergy Transmission Authority Board has issued $50 million in bonds to upgrade the state's transmission system and promote the ...

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  State's recycling rate holds steady

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  OLYMPIA – Washington's recycling rate stayed level in 2009, at 45 percent, according to data reported today by the Washington Department ofEcology ...

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  Pasco biomass plant says it will reopen

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  The state Department of Ecologyalso ordered it to close because it had not gotten an air quality permit. A state labor official also says the company still ...

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  For hares, variety really is the spice of life

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  Steve Smith and Franz Suchentrunk at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology have now shown that variation at a particular gene locus in hares can...

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  La Niña may reduce Californiawater allocations

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  But experts at the Department ofWater Resources say that "strong" La Niña conditions are likely to offset this fall's deluges. "We're off to a good start ...

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  Cambodia's Death Toll Rises To 378 In Stampede

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  Many people were crushed underfoot or fell over its sides into the water. Disoriented victims struggled to find an escape hatch through the human mass, ...

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  Water company officials lifted restrictions on drinking and cooking with tap water in this Mojave Desert city Monday, but some neighborhoods are still using...

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  DOI officials, shallow-waterdrillers differ on permit progress

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  23 -- Top officials from the US Department of the Interior and shallow-water drilling contractors emerged from a Nov. 22 meeting in Houma, La., ...

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