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• RELIGION-CHINA: Buddhism Enjoys A Revival
  Quan Zhenyuan discovered Buddhism by accident. After the owner of a vegetarian restaurant here in the Chinese capital gave her a book about the religion, she became hooked. Today, Quan is one of a growing number of urban Chinese who turn to Buddhism for spiritual fulfillment.
• Britain Bans Exports of Execution Drug Sought by U ...
  After first resisting the efforts of human rights and legal advocates, the British government has now backed down and placed an immediate ban on the export of lethal injection drugs to be used in U.S. executions.
• Rights Groups Divided over Wikileaks Revelations
  Some of the nation's leading human rights groups - who are almost always on the same page - are taking widely opposing positions on the latest Wikileaks document dump of diplomatic cables.
• MEXICO: Oaxaca Voters Hope for Change
  "A dark chapter has come to a close in the history of Oaxaca. A chapter that must never again be repeated," said lawmaker Flavio Sosa, the head of the social movement that brought this southern Mexican state to its knees for several months in 2006 and was brutally repressed.
• U.S.: Military's Anti-Gay Policy May Be in Final D ...
  The ongoing effort to repeal the policy banning gays and lesbians from openly serving in the U.S. military got more ammunition Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Defence released a report finding that its repeal would cause only minimal short-term disruption to the military.

Scoop - NZ

• EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany
  Credit default swaps (CDS) measuring risk on German, French and Dutch bonds have surged over recent days, rising significantly above the levels of non-EMU states in Scandinavia. "Germany cannot keep paying for bail-outs without going bankrupt itself," said Professor Wilhelm Hankel, of Fran ...
• Euro collapse in 2010 ?
  Covering the Greek debt crisis and the slide in the euro in 2010 has been like monitoring a schizophrenic's state of mind from minute to minute. One day, a bailout package is a "sure thing" and fears that Europe is sinking deeper into its debt mess ease. Then the next day, political resis ...
• Holland: Dont mention the houses !
  The Netherlands will be next. Everybody is thinking and writing about the problems of Ireland and Spain. Soon, they will be thinking and writing about the Netherlands. Check it out: The Netherlands Banking is a relatively large chunk of the Dutch economy. In 2009 and probably also in 2010, Dutch ba ...
• The Road To Endless War
  A clear narrative over Afghanistan emerged from the Nato summit held in Lisbon on 19-20 November 2010. At heart, the end is in sight for a difficult nine-year war: progress was being made on the ground, a timetable was in place for a gradual handover to the Afghan national army, and foreign-troop wi ...
• Pashtuns Lose Parliamentary Majority
  Most of the results of the disputed parliamentary election in Afghanistan were announced on Wednesday. Altogether 24 candidates were disqualified from parliament because the Independent Electoral Commission found them guilty of fraud. Some 1.3 million of the 5.6 million votes were tossed out as inva ...

Independent - London

• Iran executes footballer's mistress
  A former footballer's mistress was hanged in Iran today after being convicted of murdering the player's wife.
• £53m raid mastermind given longer sentence
  A martial arts expert who masterminded the £53 million Securitas robbery has had his jail term increased from 10 to 25 years in Morocco, police said today.
• Labour put limits on Iraq Inquiry to keep the US h ...
  Gordon Brown's Government secretly promised to limit the extent of the Iraq war inquiry to prevent damage to the United States, the leaked cables disclosed. The pledge – made last September as the Chilcot inquiry into the war started – threatens to damage the credibility of the investigation, which ...
• Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AID ...
  In Zimbabwe nearly a thousand adults are newly infected with HIV each week. A similar number die of AIDS. Helping the next generation to be free of HIV is crucial to stopping the spread of the virus.
• Out of their depth: Bank Governor's private view o ...
  David Cameron and George Osborne were described as lacking "experience" and "depth" by Meryvn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, according to the latest leaks of American diplomatic cables.

Rogue Government.com

• Senate Passes Overhaul of Food Safety Regulations
  The legislation, which passed by a vote of 73 to 25, would greatly strengthen the Food and Drug Administration, an agency that in recent decades focused more on policing medical products than ensuring the safety of foods.
• Bank of America stocks drop on WikiLeaks worries
  Shares in Bank of America, the largest US bank, tumbled more than three percent Tuesday amid speculation it will be the next target of leaked documents from WikiLeaks.
• Almost half of all Britons believe in aliens
  A poll of 2,000 adults concluded that 44 per cent were convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
• More Than 8 Million Drop Out of Credit Card Use
  More than 8 million consumers stopped using credit cards over the past year. The decline stems from a combination of consumer choices and bank actions.
• Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight b ...

Innovation Canada

• When good stress turns bad
  Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
• Blowin’ in the wind
• Studying sturgeon
  It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
• Talking Fish
  When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...
• Bridge Building
  You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...

Signs of the times

• Israelis Unleash Dogs on Palestinians
  Israeli forces have unleashed their dogs on the Palestinians decrying the oppressive policies Tel Aviv implements on the occupied Palestinian territories. The forces used the "savage" animals, sound bombs and tear gas to suppress the protest which erupted before the Israeli troops razed two resid ...
• 'Iran Will Bring United Nations Security Council M ...
  A day after the terrorist attacks against two Iranian scientists, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns of bringing permanent members of UN Security Council (UNSC) to trial. "By God, if such an incident takes place one more time, we will bring each permanent member of the United Nations Secu ...
• Muslim Man Brutally Bashed in US Jail
  Surveillance cameras at a US prison have captured a footage showing a Muslim prisoner being severely beaten by a fellow inmate, as jail officers look on. For several minutes and in front of at least three prison guards, Hanni Elabed was brutally beaten by another prison inmate. The 24-year-old ...
• Iranian Woman Tortured in US Prison Since 2007
  An Iranian woman who has been imprisoned in the United States since 2007 says she is being harshly mistreated by prison officials. Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan told Press TV in a telephone interview from the prison that she is going through several unbearable tortures and traumas and is put under so muc ...
• Assange In Trouble: Interpol Issues Arrest Alert F ...
  Global police agency Interpol has alerted member states to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of rape on the basis of a Swedish arrest warrant. "There is a public Red Notice on behalf of Sweden," an Interpol spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman confirmed Interpol had posted Sweden's ...

The Galloping Beaver

• What might you be up to, Mr. Harper?
  Southern Lebanon is a giant hardened in depth defensive position. Israel faced an enemy able to stop it in the 2006 war there when Hezbollah proved itself a capable conventional military force able to go toe to toe with the IDF.� Keep this in mind.� Stephen Harper has allied Canada with the rightw ...
• Conservative Lawnorder
  Here's one of Stephen Harper's trusted advisers opining on the wikileaks story, take it away Flanagan... Hey Ezra, here's you're tough on crime, law & order gang at work. Counseling to commit murder, a political adviser to the Prime Minister condoning politically motivated assassination. Doucheba ...
• Greater powers Mr. White?
  White called for greater powers under the Police Services Act to deal with rogue officers in the wake of the incident, and launched an internal investigation into what happened to Bonds at the Elgin Street police headquarters. I refer the good chief of police White to something called the Crimin ...
• Things that grow in the darkness
  Being any part of National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa (or over there in Hull) can be frustrating. It's like living in a mushroom farm much of the time. Things grow out of cracks and turn into things you don't expect. However, if you are the Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEF ...
• Warped headline
  Federal Tories take 2 byelections, Liberals 1There were no "Tories" running. They were Harperites. Surely the CBC can tell the difference.

Media Matters for America

• Beck just makes things up about Smithsonian exhibi ...
  Glenn Beck falsely suggested that "tax dollars" were being used to pay for a Smithsonian art exhibit that included an image of what Beck described as "Jesus with ants on him." In fact, donations from companies, foundations, and individuals paid for the exhibit, not tax dollars.Beck claims "tax doll ...
• Fox hosts anti-immigrant leader to launch baseless ...
  Fox & Friends�hosted William Gheen, president of the anti-immigrant Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), to attack the DREAM Act. Gheen not only rehashed falsehoods about the bill, but also levied several absurd�claims, such as that the bill would "displace and replace" millions of America ...
• Beck invents facts to attack food safety bill
  Glenn Beck distorted a Congressional Budget Office cost estimate to claim that food-safety legislation would mean "higher taxes for you," baselessly claimed the bill would drive up food costs, and underplayed concerns about food safety. Beck demonized the legislation as a George Soros-backed effort ...
• Beck just makes things up about health care reform
  Glenn Beck falsely claimed that "the tactic known as deem and pass" was used for "final passage" of health care reform legislation. In fact, House Democrats did not use "deem and pass" to pass the bill, which Fox News itself reported in March.Beck falsely claims "deem and pass" was used to pass hea ...
• Fox panelist's outrageous claim: TSA agents can m ...
  Fox News panelist Gary B. Smith claimed that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents "can make up to $175,000 a year" "to pat people down." In reality, TSA personnel primarily responsible for screening passengers make between $25,518 and $44,007 plus locality pay, and even senior man ...

Global Research.ca

• Stop These Wars or We'll Fill Your Jails
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: NATO Going Global: World's Largest Military ...
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• Memories That Still Hold US Hostage: Reflections O ...
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• Australia could be drawn into a military conflict ...
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• Who's Who in Afghanistan? Creating a New Impostor ...
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TPM Cafe

• On Iran, Targeted Non-Proliferation?
  Was the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Majid Shahriari, and the wounding of his colleague Fereydoon Abbasi, a case of "targeted non-proliferation?" Was it a case of taking out the brains behind the program instead of bombing its facilities? The Iranian government says yes, blamin ...
• The Wikileak That Didn't Bark
  This Wikileaks mess is a disaster, a huge setback for and distraction from serious national security challenges, and Bradley Manning has a lot to answer for. Meanwhile, anyone else noticed the difference between this week's focus on the steady diplomatic grind involved in foreign policy versus the s ...
• The "Green New Deal" meets the "New Austerity" - ...
  My colleague Michael Gergen, (Partner at Latham & Watkins and Pro-bono Counsel to the Coalition for Green Capital), delivered a great talk a month ago in Milan: The "Green New Deal" meets the "New Austerity" - Making Clean Energy Cheaper (Milan, Oct. 27, 2010) By Michael J. Gergen ...
• Beating Up On Brad DeLong
  For a mainstream economist Brad DeLong is about as good as you get. He is widely read in a number of areas including even (heaven forbid) economic history. He also is extraordinarily open-minded, recognizing that neo-classical economics may not hold all truths past, present, and future. This leaves ...
• Leading Israeli Says Palestinians Should Just Decl ...
  Jeff Halper, the Israeli activist and scholar, thinks the "peace process" is dead in the water. That is hard to argue with. After all, it has come down to America offering Netanyahu a $3.5 billion bribe to freeze some settlements for 90 days. Imagine, a one-time superpower begging our #1 aid re ...

TruthOut

• Pentagon Report Shows DADT Repeal Poses Limited Ri ...
  An extensive report�released�by the Pentagon today shows that repealing the "don't ask, don't tell"�ban on openly gay and lesbian military members poses a low risk to the�overall effectiveness of the armed forces. read more
• Russians Refuted US Claim of Iranian Missile Threa ...
  Washington - A diplomatic cable from last February released by Wikileaks provides a detailed account of how Russian specialists on the Iranian ballistic missile programme refuted the U.S. suggestion that Iran has missiles that could target European capitals or intends to develop such a capability. ...
• The Economics and Politics of Elizabeth Warren
  Congressional Republicans are apparently intent on a big showdown with Elizabeth Warren, who is currently building up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This is very good news for the White House, if they use this opportunity wisely. read more
• It's Official: North Korea Says "Modern" Nuclear P ...
  Seoul, South Korea - For the first time, North Korea made its uranium enrichment program a matter of written record Tuesday with the proud claim in the country’s leading newspaper of a modern facility that is already operational. read more
• Esther J. Cepeda | "Illegal" - It’s Debatable
  Chicago - Never mind the actual issue of how to deal with unwieldy immigration laws or their reform, today let's look at the long-brewing war between those who use the terms "illegal immigrants" or "illegal aliens" and those who prefer "undocumented immigrants."read more

Planetsave

• Running Out of P ? – World Nearing Peak Phos ...
  It seems we always take the most basic things for granted. With regards to adequate water, air, and soil (things we assume will always be there) we are gradually becoming more mindful of them, and their limits. But how many of us are worried about phosphorus (P) running out? Well, lately, more and m ...
• NASA Scientist James Hansen’s Testimony in U ...
  I covered the Ratcliffe on Trial climate activism case here on Planetsave a few weeks ago. The gist of this story is as follows: 20 of the 114 activists that were arrested in a school in Nottingham (UK) in April 2009 are on trial now on suspicion of conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power St ...
• Slaughterhouse Illegality and Cruelty Exposed in U ...
  Sheep decapitated whilst still alive; calves slipping and collapsing repeatedly to the floor for three hours; goats leaping into the killing area to try to evade the stunning tongs… These are among the scenes secretly filmed by Animal Aid at F Drury & Sons slaughterhouse in Wiltshire. Sounds horribl ...
• Boycott Botswana Diamonds & Help Kalahari Bushmen ...
  We’ve covered the unfair plight of the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana in a couple posts on Important Media recently. In order to help address the human rights battle being held in Botswana right now, Survival International (in coordination with notable celebrities like Gillian Anderson, Quentin Blake, ...
• The Onion: Global Warming May Still Be a Major Pro ...
  WASHINGTONâAccording to a report released this week by the Center for Global Development, climate change, the popular mid-2000s issue that raised awareness of the fact that the earth’s continuous rise in temperature will have catastrophic ecological effects, has apparently not been resolved, and may ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Oil Budget Calculator: Deepwater Horizon Spill -- ...
  The Federal Interagency Solutions Group, Oil Budget Calculator Science and Engineering Team http://t
• Energy-Water Nexus: A Better and Coordinated Under ...
  GAO http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1135.pdf [Summary] Oil shale deposits in Colorado, Utah, and Wyomi
• More fresh water on way to Caloosahatchee
  More fresh water on way to Caloosahatchee (News Press)
• Another lesson learned
  Woke up today with one of our 1 week old spawns totally gone. There were only about a dozen of them.
• Study: NY's Regulatory System Gets D+
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A new independent study gives New York a D+ grade for its regulation of in

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Crossing: The Event That Changed My Life by Ro ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
• The American Oligarchy, Civil Rights and the Murde ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 29, 2010 Image via Wikipedia Civil
• Hope, Real Hope, Is About Doing Something by Chris ...
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 29, 2010 On Dec. 16 I will join Da
• On Patriots, Scoundrels and Spectators by Philip A ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 28, 2010 We need to define what word
• U.S. looking for a fight by Bruce Gagnon
  by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes Nov. 28, 2010 The Advent vigils (fo

Axis of LogicImage via Wikipedia

• Police Arrest 153 At Student Protest In London - W ...
  British police made 153 arrests during student demonstrations in London on Tuesday against proposed university tuition hikes, officials said. Police reported the arrests following a day of cat-and-mouse between demonstrators and riot officers that culminated in a violent standoff in the capital's ...
• Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Assange residency ...
  Ecuador has offered Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, residency in the country. Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said his country's government wanted to invite Mr Assange to Ecuador to give him the opportunity to speak publicly. He said Ecuador was ...
• Haiti Elections: Yet More Kaka from MINUSTAH - Hai ...
  To hear it all, one would think that the Haitian electoral fraud happened yesterday. In fact, the fraud went down many months ago, when a corrupt electoral comission (CEP) with U.S., Canadian and French financial backing, banned the most popular political party Lavalas from the elections. W ...
• Global food justice. A Billion Hungry and 2.3 Bill ...
  With more than one billion people around the world considered overweight, why are so many others still starving and struggling to fill their plates?...
• Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Polic ...
  Documents, whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year, have been released after a legal battle led by Israeli human rights group, Gisha. The documents reveal a deliberate policy by the Israeli government in which the dietary needs for the population of Gaza are chillingly ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  It's not a "leak" if it's been on the front page for years. "US and UK diplomats feared Pakistan's nuclear material could fall into the hands of terrorists, the latest leaked classified US diplomatic cables reveal. The documents, released by Wikileaks, warn that Pakistan is rapidly building its nucl ...
• Quote of the Day
  Adam Serwer at the American Prospect pulls this out of the DoD's survey on repealing DADT: As one special operations force warfighter told us, "We have a gay guy [in the unit]. He's big, he's mean, and he kills lots of bad guys. No one cared that he was gay."
• Paris Hilton vs. VA Nurses
  Here's a good short way to describe our current economic non-debate, from Brad Reed at Crooks and Liars: � Joe Lieberman apparently thinks (freezing pay of federal workers) is a great idea. Joe Lieberman also wants to keep tax cuts for the richest 2% of Americans in place. In other words, Joe Lieber ...
• Are You Ready to Pay $500 a Month for Internet?
  Because that's what coming, and fast. From Zandar: To everyone who said "We should let the free market take care of net neutrality issues" then I hope you don't have Comcast as your internet provider. Level 3 Communications, an Internet networking company that recently signed a deal to deliver movie ...
• Gates wants DADT repealed *NOW*
  It's shaping up to be one hell of a lame duck session. This morning the Senate passed food safety legislation for the first time in over 70 years, sane republicans and the old-guard foreign policy wonks are urging ratification of the new START treaty before the new Congress is seated, and now, this ...

Care 2

• 5 Right-Wing Scumbags Bankrolling Dangerous (and P ...
  An eye opening article.Submitted by Laura H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The Elephant Sanctuary: Video
  The Elephant Sanctuary: You can actually watch the girls as they go through their daily routines!!Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Last unemployment check is in the mail
  Although the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance is officially Nov. 30, many jobless have already filed their last claim for benefits.And since lawmakers aren't likely to extend the deadline anytime soon, many more unemployed Americans wiSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & ...
• Pennsylvania leader in sentencing children to deat ...
  While they may not be sentencing these children to die from lethal injection, they are sentencing children, and not the "worst of the worst" either, to life without parole. This is the same as a death sentence for these children. Submitted by Kitty G. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• TAKE ACTION!! China Gold: Stop Mining Tibet
  Help us turn up the heat on China Gold International Resources, the Canadian-based arm of China Gold Group Corp � one of China�s largest state-owned mining companies that has been operating in Tibet for a number of years. Under Chinese occupation, TibetanSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� ...

Smirking Chimp

• The National Security State Cops a Feel: Taking Of ...
• Jobs First - Any Other 'Deficit Plan' Sells Americ ...
• Golden State Tea Partiers Play Anti-Immigrant Card ...
• Cables Hold Clues to US-Iran Mysteries
• CELEBRATIONS: Looking for the Good in the Times of ...

Paul Krugman

• Historical Bleg
  Statue of limitations?
• California Versus Spain
  States of difference.
• Keeping It Clean
  Goodness gracious, watch your language.
• Obama Has Always Been At War With Eastasia
  Hope gets frozen.
• Learned Helplessness
  We're not that much at sea, intellectually.

No Quarter

• McClatchey Joins the Stupid Ass Wiki Parade
  Here’s another moron masquerading as a journalist. Meet Tim Johnson (thank God, no relation), who wrote this piece of tripe: Seeking a frank evaluation of Argentina’s president, the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires late last year to delve into her p ...
• Sec. Clinton And Eric Holder Speak Out On WikiLeak ...
  [THE UPDATE at the end of my post gets into Interpol's "Red Notice," aka arrest warrant for Julian Assange.] One would have to have one’s head buried in the sand or on a remote island to not have heard about the most recent leaks of classified cables by WikiLeaks of U.S. diplomacy. These documents e ...
• Israel’s Flight of Aviation Security Fantasy
  Dana Milbank surprised me on Sunday by putting up an excellent article challenging the myth that Israel’s Aviation Security system is something the United States should and could easily adopt. Milbank wrote: Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), making the rounds of cable TV, says the federal government “flubbed ...
• Time For Something Completely Different
  Time to kick off the Christmas season. I bet you didn’t see this on Black Friday. I bet those were some interesting rehearsals. This should wake you up.
• The Best Medicine (and it’s cheap)
  It oxygenates the blood. It releases stress. It massages the vital organs. It stimulates circulation and stabilizes blood pressure. It facilitates digestion. And, perhaps best of all… It facilitates overall feelings of well-being. If you had to buy laughter, it would cost a fortune. Happily we can m ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Diabolical Little Dolls by Kristin Tercek
  Kristimn Terceck has discovered a glorious niche for her darkly comic painting of food objects in a highly memorable and unusual way. Brilliant. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Salvaged Driftwood Carved into Amazing Sculptures
  Driftwood is being upcycled by artists galore. See how one artist, Cherri Miele, is magically transforming it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Amazing Animal Sculptures Made from Recycled Trash
  Treasure from trash is the ethos of this amazing young sculptress. Sayaka Ganz may only just have set out on her life's artistic journey but she is already a major talent read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
• 10 Craziest Roads on Earth
  From the narrowest to the widest to the steepest, here are 10 of the strangest roads on Earth! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Freakish Monsters Created from Dead Animal Parts
  Dead animal bones and taxidermy parts are given a second life by California artist Angela Rossi of Beat Up Creations whose sculptures have an eclectic mind of their own. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• WikiLeaks VII: Our Man in Zimbabwe Flatters His Wa ...
  Bush's ambassador to Zimbabwe believed freedom would ring there.
• Transparency Fundamentalists
  WikiLeaks performs a full body scan of the government, which doesn't want its "junk" touched.
• WikiLeaks VI: U.S. Supporting Separatist Kurd Part ...
  WikiLeaks documents to show U.S. support for Kurd group classified as terrorists.
• WikiLeaks V: Spying on the UN -- Et Tu, Obama Admi ...
  Spying on the United Nations is one tradition that the State Department should let die out.
• Wikileaks Shows No "New Mind-Set" in US Foreign Po ...
  IPS expert Phyllis Bennis says that with Hillary Clinton ordering spying on UN leaders, Bush style politics are still around.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• US mulls legal action on WikiLeaks
  What legal repercussions could WikiLeaks founder face in the US? Mike Hanna reports.
• Poll gains for Egypt's ruling party
  Opposition Muslim Brotherhood fails to win seats in the first round of parliamentary vote marred by fraud claims.
• Venezuela hit by deadly mudslides
  Floods and landslides kill at least 21 people and thousands of others flee their homes.
• Climate talks seek to define duties
  Negotiators at UN talks struggle over proposals to bridge divide between rich and poor countries on greenhouse gasses.
• US ponders legal action on Assange
  Washington studies whether Espionage Act applies to WikiLeaks founder, while rape charges land him on Interpol list.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Hydraulic Fracturing in the Spotlight
  The gas industry's practice of hydraulic fracturing came under wide scrutiny, as New York legislators temporarily banned it and industry representatives, environmentalists and regulators debated its merits -- and increased oversight -- in Washington.
• End Ethanol Subsidies, Senators Say
  A bipartisan group says that subsidies and tariffs to spur domestic production are "fiscally irresponsible and environmentally unwise."
• Google Energy Guru Will Head Policy Center at Stan ...
  Dan W. Reicher, an energy expert who is leaving Google for Stanford, says that policy mechanisms will be critical to making progress on a shift to renewables.
• N.Y. Assembly Approves Fracking Moratorium
  A vote sends a message about safety concerns related to this type of gas drilling.
• On Our Radar: Senators Seek Extension of Clean Pow ...
  Lawmakers favor cash grants to renewable energy developers over tax credits, which can be less effective in a slowed economy.

Dot Earth NewsImage via Wikipedia

• Farewell to a Great Web Effort at Worldchanging
  A "bright green" Web site designing the future is shutting down.
• First Seas, Now Trees, Added to Google's Earth
  Google begins to populate its virtual Earth with trees.
• Coal Trends Still Rule Climate Talks
  Chinese coal and American politics guarantee that Cancun climate talks will only nibble at the climate challenge.
• U.S. Presses Iceland Over Whale Meat Trade
  Iceland criticized over selling fin whale meat to Japan.
• A Black Friday Push, From Twitter to Beijing
  A global push, from the Web to China, to spread the gospel of shopping.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• The Federal Reserve is laundering money - Xtranorm ...
  For followups & fun I've posted a bunch of vids to youtube (New Madrid MSNBC and Army Corps 1 and 2 ) and a bunch of pdfs to Scribd including all the latest crazy Pennsylvania Homeland Security stuff. Event here: Indymedia having a 2010 Resistance in Review on Friday at Waite House with dinner! TC ...
• New banner image finally - different header layout ...
  Good change, reduces clutter Are those THETANS?! Needs Andrew Jackson vs Banksters! Needs Rocky Taconite American Hero What this place needs is blink tags
• Statecraft Horrorshow! Wikileaks State Department ...
  Ahk a quick link dump here. Wikileaks is expected to drop the big diplomatic cables starting with Der Spiegel . There's a new Wikileaks blog out there - Assange talked to some Arab reporters over videochat so apparently the fuzz hasn't gotten him yet. 2010-11-28: ARIJ Conference | WL Central . Liveb ...
• Teacher! Leave those kids alone - Psychiatric coer ...
  The kids ain't all right, with a steady diet of ennui, blinking lights and stimulants, things are looking grim. I bumped into a pile of research about frequently coercive residential education sites for teens and children. It's a troubling area... I feel quite fortunate I never had an upbringing to ...
• Foreign Policy Wisdom of the Late Great Chalmers J ...
  One of my favorite analyst/writer type people has been Chalmers Johnson. He passed away on Nov 20th. His books Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis were just fantastic, and it's pretty much due to him that the idea of Blowback got out there - the idea that imperial schemes cause messes that come right back ...

Daily Censored

• Feds Drop Scandal-Prone Star Witness In Politicize ...
  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s image as a crime-fighting, cost-conscious reformer worthy of 2012 Presidential consideration has taken big hits during the last month.
• Joel Klein of New York to become an Executive for ...
  Joel Klein announced Nov. 9 that at year’s end he will resign as York City’s Schools chancellor to become executive vice president at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Yesterday, the company announced that it was buying a technology company with big financial ties to the New York City school system.  How ...
• Will “Black Friday” Survive – Consumerism Redux
  By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Not only is Christmas no longer a religious holiday, the whole purpose of Christmas has become the ritual of shopping for gifts. So important has gift-buying become, that the media are fascinated by scorecards and metrics that help Americans understand how well ...
• Cathie Black: ‘No experience necessary – only free ...
  From: The Desk of: Kobi Abayomi Asst. Professor ISYE-Statistics Georgia Tech This shit is all around criminal. City schools chancellor nominee Cathie Black insists she's connected to public education via a highly touted charter school - but a close look shows she's had no contact with students, pare ...
• Why it is important to continue to question the TS ...
  In the past month, we have seen major media outlets follow the story of National Opt Out day. Now that it is over, the stories are less frequent and will probably subside as the media moves on to other stories. It is important, however, to remember that everyone must keep up the pressure against the ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US leaks reveal Pakistan nuclear, coup concerns
• US deploys 'game-changer' weapon to Afghanistan
• US lawmaker cites Lebanon worries to UN envoy
• Dems Split On Obama Plan To Freeze Federal Pay
• Teen shoots self, ending US school hostage drama

Institute for Policy Studies

• Transparency Fundamentalists
  WikiLeaks performs a full body scan of the government, which doesn't want its "junk" touched.
• Wikileaks Shows No "New Mind-Set" in US Foreign Po ...
  IPS expert Phyllis Bennis says that with Hillary Clinton ordering spying on UN leaders, Bush style politics are still around.
• Conservative Attack on Christmas
  Scrooge and the Grinch are Christmas angels compared to conservative lawmakers.
• The Lineup: Week of November 29-December 5, 2010
  As global climate talks get underway in Cancun, Miriam Pemberton calls for more parity in spending on climate and military security and Diana Bronson warns that "geoengineering" fixes for the world's climate problems could do far more harm than good.
• Spend More on the Climate, Less on the Military
  The U.S. military is beginning to see climate change as a security threat, but the government isn't making it a high enough priority.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• My heartfelt thanks
  A Letter of Thanks to PDA Members With the 2010 election now behind us, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all my friends, allies and supporters at PDA. Those thanks extend ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 11/19/10 – 11/30/10
  Lobby and call in day Lobby day Members of PDA national, state leadership teams and coalition partners will be on the Hill today to distribute Healthcare NOT Warfare packets ...
• Message from PDWV: Progressives Must NOT Abandon O ...
  I fear our disappointment with President Obama is taking us into dangerous territory. Our anger could, in the end, bring unintended consequences that we may long regret. We should reassess our goal in light of the political ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 11/12/10 – 11/19/10
  Conference, lobby days and calls Note: Our OneNationPDA.org site is having technical difficulties. Please hit refresh on your browser if you get an “fatal error” message. Conference: PDA is on the ground at the Pricing Carbon Conference at ...
• November Organizers Call
  56 PDA leaders from arund the country joined us for IOT/AG reports, national news and state reports. It was great call!

Marler Blog

• Did you ever get the feeling that grown-ups are no ...
  That is not meant as a slam against the Democrats now or when the Republicans took us in year's past from a surplus to tax breaks for the weathly, medicare drug benefits and two wars. I was having a relaxing evening for a change until I received an email from John Stanton of Roll Call noting that “ ...
• ABA - Marler Blog Nominated to Top 100 Law Blawgs
  It must be my day.� The Senate passes a food safety bill by breakfast, FSIS deems a pathogenic strain of E. coli an adulterant before lunch, and I get nominated into the ABA's Top 100 Law Blawgs.� Now it is time for readers to weigh in on the ABA Site and vote.
• FSIS now considers E. coli O26 an adulterant in ra ...
  For those that recall back to August 2010, Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., recalled approximately 8,500 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O26. The product subject to recall included: 42-pound cases of "GROUND BEEF FINE 90/10," containing three (3) - approximately 1 ...
• Food Safety News - over a year old and going stron ...
  I know it is a bit odd for a foodborne illness trial lawyer to act as publisher (think of me as a good Rupert Murdoch) of an online newspaper, but I a very proud of what the staff, interns, freelancers and contributing writers have accomplished over the last year, and look forward to FSN's continued ...
• Senate Passes Food Safety Overhaul - S 510 Passes ...
  I got up really early to watch the vote of CSpan and still can not quite beleive it passed and with a margin of 73 in favor and 25 against.  The Bill that in large part will do: Allow the FDA to order a recall of tainted foods; Require larger food processors and manufacturers to register wit ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 12.01.10
  Chevrolet Volt production officially begins today, GM auctioning first one for charity Math and science students in Detroit are the winners. Al Gore admits supporting corn ethanol subsidies was a mistake ...
• Chevrolet Volt production officially begins today, ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Chevrolet, GM, Electric First Chevrolet Volt gets built - Click above to watch the time-lapse video Want to be like Lance Armstrong and get the first available production model of one of the most eagerly-awaited vehicles of the decade? You can, if you're willing to bid ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.30.10
  Iceland's Northern Lights Energy places order for 1,000 Amp electric SUVs The biggest order in the company's history will take five years to fulfill. Nissan Leaf nabs 2011 European Car of the Year award ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.29.10
  2011 Chevy Volt gets 93 mpge rating from EPA But also 37 mpg and 60 mpg. Report: Renault shooting for 150-mile range electric vehicle by 2015 By 2025, a 300-mile range EV could become a rea ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.24.10
  LA 2010: more details on the Honda Fit, including that weird extra fob Plus extra info on the tests Honda will do before the car comes out. X-Prize in-fighting goes public as Li-Ion Motors tries to back o ...

Rafe's Radar

• Where Stanford invents self-driving cars
  Take a tour of the automotive lab where professors, students, and industry partners come together to build projects like Stanley the self-driving SUV and the Pikes Peak Audi. Originally posted at The Car Tech b ...
• OtherInBox handles e-mail overload; knows too much
  Very useful e-mail autofiling service is the core of a scary-smart consumer behavior analysis business.
• Tripping tackles travel safety with video intervie ...
  New site helps you welcome world travelers into your home--but only after they pass a video check-in.
• GPS for your Cheerios: Aisle411
  New service, launching today, gives smartphone users maps of what's where in big retail locations.
• A May-December tech marriage: iPhone plus fax mach ...
  New eFax app shows that the iPhone's camera makes a good replacement for a scanner or fax machine.

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, ...
  Noam Chomsky is a Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He is author of dozens of books. His most recent is "Hopes and Prospects." Watch Part I of this conversation TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: Noam, you were continuing your prescription- your advice that ...
• The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
  Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pu ...
• Amy Goodman Interviewed on National Public Televis ...
• MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Interviews Whistleblower W ...
  Following our interview with Wendell Potter, the former chief spokesman for CIGNA, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann invited Potter on his show to discuss the health insurance industry’s attack on Michael Moore and his film SiCKO . Watch here.
• A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
  “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President Barack Obama should look to an old naval facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Ana Maria Careaga wa ...

Farming Pathogens

• Help/Harm
  Many of us only reluctantly accept one of life’s toughest lessons. In the course of doing our very best to make a better world–decades all blood, sweat and tears in the face of hideous odds–we may discover ourselves really fouling a few things up. The road to hell, etc., etc. Never realizing our mis ...
• Virus Dumping
  Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
• We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
  The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
• How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
  Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
  You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...

Suzie-Q

• WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Relea ...
  WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 11-28-10 01:36 PM   |   Updated: 11-28-10 03:19 PM This article is being updated. WASHINGTON — The New York Times and The Guardian have published a selection of the 250,000 classified State Department do ...
• 5 Ways to Deal With Your Conservative Relatives Th ...
  5 Ways to Deal With Your Conservative Relatives This Thanksgiving How does one deal with the conservatives at the family table while avoiding a massive food fight? Stay calm and relaxed, and follow these simple guidelines. AlterNet / By Sarah Seltzer and Lauren Kelley November 24, 2010 | Maybe your ...
• Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wi ...
  Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wing Lies? The Nation / By Danny Goldberg Until progressives change the mind sets of the tens of millions who believe right-wing mythology, elections will be disappointing regardless of who is in the White House. November 21, 2010 | Ideas don’t happen ...
• Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy &#8 ...
  Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy — For At Least The Fourth Time In Five Months Huff Post William Alden & Shahien Nasiripour First Posted: 11-20-10 09:01 AM   |   Updated: 11-20-10 01:55 PM NEW YORK — For at least the fourth time since June, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke p ...
• The American Ruling Class
   Rolling Stone feature discusses issues explored in The American Ruling Class facebook�July 16, 2009 by Alive Mind The American Ruling Class has never been more relevant to the current news cycle or to the collective consciousness of the American public. Goldman Sachs is announcing record profits a ...

Solari

• Dr. Blaylock: Body Scanners More Dangerous Than Fe ...
  By Dr. Russell Blaylock Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, lecturer, and editor of The Blaylock Wellness Report. The growing outrage over the Transportation Security Administration’s new policy of backscatter scanning of airli ...
• Now Available: Pieces of Eight, by Dr. Edwin Vieir ...
  Thanks to the generous support of James Turk and the GoldMoney Foundation, Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution is now in the process of being reprinted by R R Donnelley, one of the premier printers in the United States. This is a special run of t ...
• A New Generation of Robotic Weapons
  By Graham Roberts and Frank O’Connell Continue reading the article . . .
• U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown
  Click for larger image… By Ben Sisario In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a divisio ...
• BIOME Me Up Scotty!
  The Mercedes-Benz BIOME symbiosis vehicle is made from an ultralight material called BioFibre and tips the scales at just 875.5 lbs (around 394 kg). This material is significantly lighter than metal or plastic, yet more robust than steel. BioFibre is grown from proprietary DNA in the Mercedes-Benz ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• DEA Criminalization of 'Fake Marijuana' K2 Repeats ...
  We know from marijuana prohibition that law enforcement has no control over the drug market and the criminals who run it.
• Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profou ...
  World-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky discusses the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks.
• California Leads States in Hate Crimes
  According to a new FBI report, California had more reported hate crime incidents last year than any other state, with 1,015 cases.
• TSA Myth or Fact: 'Blogger Bob' Provokes a Stream ...
  Colorful comments on the TSA website reveal how many people are unnerved by the seemingly endless tightening of security at airports in the United States.
• The 6 Stages of Backlash Against the TSA's Ridicul ...
  Conservatives exploited the TSA backlash to promote right-wing ideas. While it's important to highlight their role in the debate, we must keep fighting intrusive security measures.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• The home-grown aspect of the jihadist menace
  Summary:  Much of our home-grown terrorism results from the government’s careful nurturing, clearly seen in the many cases since 9-11.  It’s yielded a full harvest:  a fearful and tame public.  Here are some of these stories. Domestic jihadist terrorists since 9-11 comes in several forms.  Mo ...
• A look at America’s lost decade
  Summary:  When the new Congress takes their seats in January, the Tea Party-dominated House will have many goals.  Jobs for the unemployed is not among them (they prefer to trust in the Blue Fairy).   The numbers paint a sad story, of little interest to our ruling elites. Let’s look at America’s ...
• Why the Turkey is not our national bird, and a rem ...
  Summary: For our Constitutional regime to survive the coming troubles we’ll need social cohesion.  That means remembering who we are as a people and nation.  Remembering our shared history.  And most of all, remembering that America belongs to us, its citizens.  No matter how powerful our eli ...
• A Thanksgiving Day note
  Summary:  Don Vandergriff tells us about a well-deserved Medal of Honor presented to SSG Giunta by President Obama.  As a contrast, Obama awards an undeserved Medal of Freedom to money, in the person of Warren Buffett. For those of us not able to be present when this young NCO received the Medal of ...
• The Republicans are serious about the budget. The ...
  Summary:  After Obama taught the Democrats not to believe in change, they’re confident that the new Republicans are just as bogus.  The Democrats might be disappointed when the budget debates show us their true values, wisdom, and strength of will.  The results might prove unpleasant for Am ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Australian Billionaire and Labor MP’s push for nuc ...
  ABC – Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer has backed the development of nuclear power in Australia. Several federal Labor figures are pushing the party to debate the issue at its national conference next year. Mr Palmer says he supports the new industry, despite his own interests in other resourc ...
• Internet Freedom Under Attack – FCC May Put Net Ne ...
  Daily Tech – Any ruling is expected to treat wireless differently than wired broadband. Net neutrality is a topic that raises some serious support from both sides of the table. The cable and phone companies that provide the majority of the nation’s broadband connectivity donât want the FCC to impose ...
• Chinese activist held over Tiananmen picture
  Guardian – A Beijing activist was detained on a charge of inciting subversion after posting a photo online of China’s 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, which the military eventually crushed, killing hundreds of people. It is the first time Bai Dongping, 47, has been arrested, although he was taken ...
• US embassy cables: Pakistan backs US drone attacks ...
  The Guardian – The US ambassador to Pakistan reports on meetings with (now president) Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and General Ashfaq Kayani. They discuss immunity for former president Pervez Musharraf; the upcoming election and US drone attacks on the tribal areas. Although publicly t ...
• Tuesday was the coldest November night on record i ...
  BBC – Temperatures plummeted to the coldest on record for November in parts of the UK overnight. Northern Ireland hit a new low of -9.5C (15F) at Lough Fea, Co Tyrone, and in Wales, a record minimum of -18C (0F) was reached at Llysdinam, in Powys. Read Article

The Progressive Realist

• Delay Likely Means Death for New START
  In response to criticism for stalling the New START treaty, Senate Republicans have insisted that all they are talking about is a delaying a vote for a couple of months. After all, whatâs the difference, Republicans insist, between a vote in December and a vote in February? The difference is that th ...
• Former NSA Jones: Making Africa Better Place Makes ...
  Former National Security Advisor Jim Jones says tackling the "real 21st century challenge" of maritime security and political instability in West Africa is "something we must do" as well as something we should do.  He called on the United States and its NATO Allies to work together on these issues ...
• Ha’aretz on Qatar’s Emir
  I haven’t done a close check of even the English media, but sense that the Israelis are having a field day with the Wikileaks cables, claiming that they vindicate Israeli policy in multiple ways. This Ha’aretz lede is an example: “Israelis can’t be blamed for mistrusting Arabs, according to remarks ...
• Wikileaks and Diplomatic Secrecy
  I'm not sure I have any special insight to offer about the latest from Wikileaks. Certainly it makes journalism's claim to be "the first draft of history" ring truer than usual, now that there's selective real-time access to archives and information that usually takes decades to get released. Steve ...
• How the Cancun Conference Can Succeed With — or Wi ...
  Yesterday some 15,000 delegates, business leaders, activists and journalists gathered in Cancun to kick off the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16). And already the UNFCCC has some good news to report: 400 major companies including ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• More from the DoD's DADT Report.
  Following up on Gabe's post below, the Defense Department's report on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell is an interesting document, not only for the survey results, but for the perspective they provide. For instance, did you know that in 1948, not only did 80 percent of enlisted men oppose integrating ...
• Lightning Round: Like Chomsky, Without Tenure.
  To whom the president is trying to appeal, post-midterms, grows more mysterious by the day. The organization that helped elect him, OFA, is writing letters to the editor informing them how awesome a federal pay freeze is. In a meeting with congressional Republicans, the president made sure he commu ...
• Andrew Sullivan and the Fiscal Commission.
  Andrew Sullivan praises the Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission and the president, apparently trying to distance himself from the left: Some left-liberal anti-debt measures do not trouble me too much: a hefty tax on Wall Street would be fine by me, for example, and obviously Obama is going to have to ...
• Where Are the Black Hobbits?
  The Atlantic Wire's John Hudson on the newest controversy to hit Middle-Earth: This week, the casting director of "The Hobbit" was fired for turning away a woman of Pakistani descent for being too dark to play a hobbit. The agent also placed an advertisement in a New Zealand newspaper seeking ext ...
• The Little Picture: Maddow Gives Props.
  (Flickr/Paul Schultz) TV host Rachel Maddow, who today gave the Obama administration props for pushing for a "don't ask, don't tell" repeal during the lame-duck session of Congress. "This is a sign that the president's been doing a lot," she said.

Buzzflash

• Will the Afghanistan War be the Likely Cause of a ...
  ROBERT NAIMAN FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT Press reports have suggested that Administration officials are trying to make Democratic voters forget that the Administration promised to start drawing down troops from Afghanistan in July 2011 by "pivoting" to the "aspirational goal" that "most" U.S. "comba ...
• Corporate Profits Set Records as Wall Streets Wall ...
  BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN Corporate profits in the US hit their highest in history in the third quarter of 2010, according to The New York Times (NYT). Meanwhile, in Washington, Republicans and conservative Democrats prepare to leave unemployed Americans without benefits ...
• Will Durst on Thanksgiving of Yore and Just Last Y ...
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH The 4th Thursday of November is definitely the bestest holiday. Food, Family, Friends and Football. 4 of the 5 Fs. I most fondly remember the Thanksgivings of yesteryear. The big old family reunions, which I looked forward to, until about five seconds after I hit the drivewa ...
• Five Reasons to Care about Haiti’s Sham Elections
  BILL QUIGLEY AND NICOLE PHILLIPS FOR BUZZFLASH Haiti needs legitimate leaders right now.  Unfortunately, the elections set for November 28, 2010 are a sham.  Here are five reasons why the world community should care. First, Haitian elections are supposed to choose their new President, the entire ...
• Warren Buffet Argues The Most Wealthy Should Be Pa ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH This suggests that the very rich who don't Ever want to cough a nickel up Should admit the only economic theory That really works is "trickle up."read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secret ...
  The strident reactions to the whistleblower site highlight some important attributes of our political culture
• Two more Iran nuclear scientists attacked with bom ...
  Whoever is responsible for assassinating civilian scientists is guilty of terrorism in the purest form
• The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plo ...
  The latest government success story is met with virtually no skepticism -- despite plenty of reason for it
• The US of A breaks the Soviet record
  As of tomorrow, the American occupation of Afghanistan will have lasted longer than the suicidal Soviet one
• Anatomy of a journalistic smear job
  The Nation casts aspersions on John Tyner without a shred of evidence

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

• Latest scientific discoveries
  Forget fruit and veg. Lose weight and cut the booze to reduce cancer risk People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease. UK trialling testing sugar-coated salt on roads Although they’ve been usi ...
• Science snips
  Yet more science news snippets from David Bradley Related Posts:Periodic Table of Science BloggersMicrobial BioremedySpectral LinesHappy New YearCassini-Huygens newsScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
• Climate change and digital music
  Information technology has a carbon footprint, that’s beyond doubt. Now, writing in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Christopher Weber, Jonathan Koomey and Scott Matthews in the US in work supported by grants from Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation have calculated that ...
• Six science books for the holiday season
  Six science books for the holiday season subjects as diverse as molecular biology pioneer Sydney Brenner, the question of antimatter, how scientists can better explain their research to non-scientists, a history of the chemical elements, scientific feuds and how innovators exploit business and techn ...
• More thoughts on science from sciencebase
  My latest science news updates Low-allergy wine, true blood, boronic butterflies – The Alchemist learns of low-allergy wines could one day be possible thanks to the discovery of glycoproteins in the tipple that seem to trigger the sniffles and headaches in susceptible drinkers. In analytical news tr ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Governments at Cancún Climate Talks Need to Suppor ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2010Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP)Governments attending the global climate talks in Cancún, which begin today, need to abandon loophole-ridden carbon markets and support bottom-up climate solutions that integrate equity, food security and democrati ...
• Closure of Fiji Water Facility Should Be Permanent
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2010Food & Water Watch “Bottled water company Fiji Water has pulled out of Fiji after the government imposed a tax of 15 Fiji cents per liter on the water, up from just one-third of a cent per liter. While Fiji Water’s announcement may be posturing at this point in ...
• CCR Responds to Criminal Investigation of Wikileak ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2010Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) In response to reports of a criminal investigation into the release of thousands of classified United States files and military documents by Wikileaks in July 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the fol ...
• WikiLeaks: Beyond the Spin
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2010Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) PRATAP CHATTERJEE Chatterjee is a regular columnist for the Guardian and just wrote a piece titled "WikiLeaks v the imperial presidency's poodle: Once, Harold Koh spoke truth to power. Now, as Hillary Clinton's legal a ...
• Report Warns Austerity Will Block Recovery, Risk R ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2010CEPRA new report from the Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America’s Economic Future demonstrates that the White House deficit commission proposals are “fundamentally misguided” and take the economic debate in the dangerous direction of austerity.r ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The 'Transition Town' Movement's Initial Genius
  by Craig Comstock Can we get beyond denial about peak oil, climate change, and economic troubles as long as we don't find forms of action open to us? read more
• Backbone, Please
  by Robert KuttnerIf anything is more overrated than bipartisanship, it is post-partisanship. The Republicans surely get this. They dig in their heels, don't budge, and wait for the Democrats either to fail, or to come to them. But the media are infatuated with the idea that excessive partisans ...
• In Praise of Wikileaks
  by Pierre TristamAs I'm writing this, the New York Times, the Guardian in the U.K. and Der Spiegel in Germany are publishing the third in a series of huge document "dumps" by Wikileaks, Julian Assange's non-profit whistleblower website that since 2006 has been unmasking government and corporate s ...
• US Embassy Cables: The Job of the Media is Not to ...
  by Simon JenkinsIs it justified? Should a newspaper disclose virtually all a nation's secret diplomatic communication, illegally downloaded by one of its citizens? The reporting in the Guardian of the first of a selection of 250,000 US state department cables marks a recasting of modern diplomacy ...
• Hope, Real Hope, Is About Doing Something
  by Chris HedgesOn Dec. 16 I will join Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern and several military veteran activists outside the White House to protest the futile and endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of us will, after our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain ourselves to ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Bad Hippies! No December Afghanistan Review For Yo ...
  By Steve Hynd Karl Eikenberry is the latest administration official to tell us that the thorough review of progress that Obama promised the nation a year ago when he ordered the Afghan surge will instead be just a rubberstamp of "staying the course" for another Friedman Unit. I won't prejudge the De ...
• Subliminal Messaging On Afghanistan
  By Steve Hynd A report last week by veteran Af/Pak analyst Ahmed Rashid, nicely timed for the Lisbon summit at which NATO rolled out its "aspirational" date of 2014 for an Afghan transition, says that Afghan president Hamid Karzai has never been so anti-Western and anti-American in his views. In an ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Gov.-elect Bentley to host dinner for Alabama cong ...
  Several of the Republicans in the delegation publicly backed Bradley Byrne over Robert Bentley in the final hours of the GOP primary runoff.
• Water Wars
  Nearly 50 years after Seneca Indians saw about 10,000 acres of their Allegany Territory flooded in order to construct the Kinzua Dam, the Seneca Nation will announce its intention to operate electricity generated from waters at the dam.
• Fiji water wars
  Mark Lacter: L.A. billionaire Stewart Resnick has pulled the plug on Fiji Water's only production plant after the tiny Pacific Ocean island nation raised the company's tax rate,
• Water wars for the city
  Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
• A climate journey
  As the world prepares for the Cancún summit, John Vidal visits people on the frontline of the battle against global warming.

WordPress | Economics

• Salary Multiples
  There was an interesting discussion on the radio this morning about salary multiples – how muc
• Economics Article: E-Books vs Physical Books
  For this recent article assignment, we were to find an article that involves two markets and their r
• Prof Jan Gehl calls for a people-friendly city of ...
  Tonight, I listened to Jan Gehl outline his vision for Hobart.  In short, he advocates less cars, mo
• The rule of capture in Pennsylvania oil and gas la ...
  Michael Giberson Via the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center at Pennsylvania State Univer
• Money
  “So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of mone

Electronic Intifada

• Why NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifa ...
  NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation's financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of "anti-Semiti ...
• WikiLeaks' harsh lesson on imperial hubris
  The new WikiLeaks disclosures provide a useful insight, captured in the very ordinariness of the diplomatic correspondence, into Washington's own sense of the limits on its global ...
• "Return to sender" - Israel blocks the mail to Gaz ...
  Palestinians living under siege in the occupied Gaza Strip cannot even communicate by mail, as Israel also severely restricts or delays the delivery of post including letters and p ...
• Nahr al-Bared reconstruction delay throws civil ri ...
  More than three years after Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the north of Lebanon was destroyed, its reconstruction is finally under way. However, the process runs at a slow pace and ...
• Letter from prison: I have a lot of energy to stru ...
  The following is an excerpt from a letter by Palestinian political prisoner and civil society leader Ameer Makhoul, written in response to a postcard featuring an image of a lighth ...

Afghanistan Sun

• 3,200 Taliban killed in Afghanistan in 90 days
  Secret operations of British and US troops have led to the death of nearly 3,200 Taliban militants in just around 90 days in Afghanistan, a media report said Wednesday.
• Pak woman claims Taliban 'publicly lashed&#03 ...
  A 27-year-old Pakistani woman has claimed that Swat-based militants had publicly lashed her over allegations of adultery in 2008.
• Afghan officials shocked at "reliable policem ...
  An Afghan citizen, who shot and killed six American soldiers on Monday, had been reportedly a reliable police officer since he joined in 2008.
• Afghanistan announces last set of election results
  KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan announced on Wednesday the final batch of results from a September 18 parliamentary election, with poll organisers aiming to wrap up a vote marred by widespread fraud and...
• Marriage, ill health makes you poorer
  Health costs can be devastating for poor families (file photo) KABUL, 1 December 2010 (IRIN) - Uncertain harvests are a perennial risk for rural Afghans, but two events stand out as exacerbating pover...

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

• Your Thoughts on WikiLeaks' Disclosure of State De ...
  We've been hearing from a lot of people about the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, with strong feelings coming down on all sides of this complicated issue. Since the the disclosures raise questions related to so much of POGO's work, we wanted...
• Morning Smoke: Pharmaceutical Company Ghostwrote T ...
  Drug Maker Wrote Book Under 2 Doctors’ Names, Documents Say by Duff Wilson [The New York Times] Administration orders review of classified information safeguards by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] The Race to Fix the Classification System by Steven Aftergood [Secrecy...
• Two New Podcasts: War Zone Watchdogs, Part I and I ...
  We've just published two new podcasts on war zone watchdogs. In the first of the two episodes, POGO staffers discuss our recent letter to President Obama raising questions about the effectiveness and independence of the State Department's de facto Inspector...
• Morning Smoke: Hill Gears Up for Oversight Onslaug ...
  Battles Loom as Hill Gets Set for Oversight Investigations by Eliza Newlin Carney [National Journal] SEC switches to undercover tactics by Brooke Masters [Financial Times] FDA Official Retires Amid Inquiry by Alicia Mundy [The Wall Street Journal] Ethics Group Says...
• Industry's Payments to NIH's Medical Researchers M ...
  To borrow a phrase taken from Dr. Samuel Johnson, privacy may be the last refuge of a scoundrel. Some federally funded medical researchers have managed for years to keep their financial arrangements with drug companies hidden from the public and...

Digital Journal

• Family of man who killed himself claim doctor used ...
  Family members of a Nova Scotia man who committed suicide said the man wrote notes stating that his doctor used him to get drugs for her.
• Pat Burns' widow robbed hours after funeral
  The morning after the funeral for former NHL coach Pat Burns, his widow discovered that someone had broke into her car and stolen several items.
• Driver narrowly escapes serious injury in airborne ...
  A young driver and his three passengers in Ontario are lucky to have escaped serious injury Friday night when their vehicle left the road and became airborne striking a hydro pole.
• Man arrested after standoff with Ontario police
  An Oshawa man, 25, is in custody after an assault yesterday that lead to a long afternoon standoff with police. The incident is not considered a hostage situation.
• Four arrested in distraction theft in Toronto
  Four suspects are accused of targeting people who removed large quantities of cash from the bank and rob them while distracting them.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homelessnes ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe and st ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling the Tr ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have whil ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
• 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Political attacks
  We are under attack from the Harper Conservatives. Please make your contribution now to help us stop Harper’s plans to spend $16 billion on the F-35 stealth fighters.
• Afghan intervention surpasses Soviet stay
  The duration of the U.S. and allied intervention in Afghanistan now exceeds that of the Soviet intervention of 1979-1989. Sunday, 28 November 2010 marks the 3340th day since U.S. and allied forces entered Afghanistan in order to topple the Taliban government and capture Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Lad ...
• Is the Defence Department feeling the heat over F- ...
  The Defence Department has commenced a public relations campaign to sell the Canadian public on the Harper government’s decision to buy the F-35 fighter (Steven Chase, “PR blitz aims to sell “skeptical public” on need for F-35 fighter jets“, Globe and Mail, 24 November 2010). Roundtables targeting ...
• WikiLeaks strikes again
  After WikiLeaks’ controversial release in October of 400,000 Pentagon reports pertaining to the Iraq war, Washington is gearing up to respond to the release of another batch of secret files. Washington is also doing damage control in preparation for the release of internal documents that may conta ...
• Peace talks with Taliban imposter?
  Reports surfaced this week in the New York Times and Washington Times indicating that one of the high-ranking Taliban officials said to be leading the Taliban side of the informal peace talks with the Afghan government and coalition forces, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, was instead a shopkeeper fr ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• My Holiday Gift Ideas!
  Thanksgiving is upon us and you know what that signifies! It’s that time again to open up your wallet and show people how much you care with elegantly wrapped presents. So, why not show them how much you really care by improving their health habits, too? Personally, I buy Fred Van Liew’s water filt ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-10
  Today, Kevin gives you the inside story behind America’s involvement in the Haiti earthquake and behind the most famous conspiracy theories in our history. Permanent Latisse Side Effects Cause for Alarm Non-Stick Pans Linked to Thyroid Disease Plus, Dr. R. Geoffrey Broderick of Cornucopia Express ex ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-23-10
  Today, fresh & tan from The Dominican Republic, Kevin gives you the secrets behind success in network marketing. Find out what the number one cause of cancer is and what you can do to prevent it from happening to you! GM Crops Cause Organ Damage Obama Breaks Transparency Promise The 545 People Respo ...
• Galeos Caesar Dressing Not What It Claims To Be
  November 22nd, 2010 WalletPop By: Mitch Lipka Galeos Miso Caesar Dressing, a supposedly low-calorie and low-fat product hyped on NBC’s reality show “The Biggest Loser” and endorsed by trainer Jillian Michaels, among others, is neither low-cal nor low-fat, lab tests commissioned by Consumer Ally foun ...
• FDA Pulls Painkiller Darvon Over Safety Risks
  November 22nd, 2010 AOL News By: Matthew Perrone The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the market under pressure from public health officials who say it causes dangerous heart rhythms. The Food and Drug Administration says the drugmaker Xanodyne will halt marketing of Darvon and ...

Pambazuka News

• Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
  Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
• March on Washington scheduled for November
  The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
• USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
  Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
• Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
  Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
• Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
  As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...

War in Context

• Tom Engelhardt: The United States of Fear
  The national security state cops a feel By Tom Engelhardt It’s finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp.  It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your “safety” will mean your humiliation, your degr ...
• WikiLeaks exposes Obama’s willingness to engage Ir ...
  Christian Science Monitor reports: WikiLeaks revelations that American officials were planning to raise pressure on Iran with more sanctions and a missile defense shield – even while President Obama was making high-profile public overtures to Iran – are being seen in Tehran as validation of deep sk ...
• WikiLeaks row: China wants Korean reunification, o ...
  The Guardian reports: China supports the “independent and peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula” and cannot afford to give the North Korean regime the impression it has a blank cheque to act any way it wants, Chinese officials based in Europe said today. The officials, who asked not to be ...
• WikiLeaks: good for Israel
  I didn’t come up with the headline — it’s from Israel’s pro-settler Arutz Sheva news network. And as their report makes clear, this favorable review of what has been described as a diplomatic 9/11, reflects the views of the Israeli government. Just as Benjamin Netanyahu on September 11, 2001, said ...
• Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian specter
  Juan Cole writes: A 2007 cable from then US ambassador to Israel to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows a) that the Israeli leadership did not want the US to withdraw from Iraq and b) that Israeli politicians think that even if Iran never used a nuclear weapon, just for it to have one would doom [. ...

Watts Up With That?

• Sea Level Rise and Solar Activity
  Guest post by David Archibald Successful prediction of levels of solar activity suggests that prediction of other phenomena driven by solar activity might also be successful, and useful. Sea level rise is a concern of some people. President Obama said … Continue reading →
• Cancun: the rationing rationalizing
  Well the Telegraph article on rationing our modern lifestyle to reduce CO2 has made some waves since I covered it yesterday, fortunately it has not affected the attendees at Cancun. See the video below.
• Greenpeace’s Free Climate Pedometers at COP1 ...
  This is curious. Greenpeace is giving away free pedometers at COP16 in Cancun. Watch the video below. I don’t really understand the point of all this, except maybe its some sort of guilt over the limousine largess from COP15 in … Continue reading →
• What really goes on at COP16 in Cancun
  I’m really disappointed that I didn’t get the “fossil of the day” award. Watch the presentation at COP16 and get some popcorn. I wonder if the producers of Jurrasic Park gave permission to licensed use of the logo, of if … Continue reading →
• Tempest in a teapot: International team of scienti ...
  Via press release: (Santa Barbara, Calif.) ââ Scientists can use cylinders as small as teapots to study the mechanisms involved in powerful hurricanes and other swirling natural phenomena. The earth’s atmosphere and its molten outer core have one thing in … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• KNOW THE FACTS: North Korea lost 30% of its popula ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, November 27, 2010 The World is at a dangerous crossroads. The US is seeking a pretext to wage war on North Korea. North Korea is said to constitute a threat to Global Security. From the Truman Doctrine to Obama. The history ...
• The Harvest: Farming Sustainably in New York
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ lauraflanders | November 24, 2010 Eating less meat might be better for the world, but it can definitely be delicious. Buckwheat is actually a fruit, a grain substitute that can be excellent for those with gluten sensitivities, or just a nice alternative to the us ...
• Truth About Global Economic Crisis: Book Review by ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org Nov. 26, 2010 You want to read The Global Economic Crisis The Great Depression of the XXI Century, edited by Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, if you meet these criteria: you welcome information and analysis about crit ...
• Cut to the political heart of a U.S. holiday on th ...
  Sent to DS by the author. by Roxanne Amico Dandelion Salad Spiritmorph Studio Nov. 25, 2010 This is a post I wrote on âThanksgiving Day.” [Before that is this very important reminder that ânatural gas frackingâ (DRILLING) has already been proven lethally dangerous to all land, air, water, food, and ...
• Derrick Jensen: It’s Very Important for Us to Star ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Nov. 26, 2010 Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: “The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet…Itâs Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance” We speak with Derrick Jensen, who has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecolog ...

Your New Reality

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  The music of Inception gives everything a heavy, slightly sickening edge. Imagine it playing at a wedding. Or a funeral.
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  The 2nd shooter got a real early start in the business. Via Reddit .
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  It's Propaganda, Yes, But Maybe It's From Our Side, To Reassure Us North Korea Can't Defend Itself As war appears to be about to dawn between North & South Korea, if it didn't actually already begin two or three days ago, this very strange indeed video appears on the UK Telegraph site. The Teleg ...
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  I've been trawling through hours and hours of amazing footage shot at early 2003 anti-War On Iraq protests in Sydney. Again and again it smacks me in the face that all of the protesters, including the tens of thousands of Australian school students who marched against the war, knew more about the qu ...
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  Very soon, this could be what you find when you go to your favourite independent news site to load up on truth to help fight the daily barrage of lies. Piracy prosecutions can and will be used to close down news sites. Not CNN or FoxNews of course. I mean the ones that carry actual, real news. ...

Wired - Science

• Secret of Big Caves Revealed by Math
  Spelunkers look at a cave and wonder how to explore its deepest reaches. But physicists look at it and wonder how it got there in the first place. A new mathematical analysis solves a longstanding cave-formation puzzle: how a trickle of water laced with carbonic acid manages to quickly dissolve ...
• Senate Passes Historic Food-Safety Reform
  The U.S. Senate has approved the first major food-safety legislation in more than 70 years, by a 73-to-25 vote. The Food Safety Modernization Act will give the Food and Drug Administration more power, providing better food tracking systems and more inspections of large-scale food production operati ...
• Computer Game Makes You a Genetic Scientist
  A new online game harnesses the computational power of idle brains to help decipher the origins of genetic diseases. The game, called Phylo, stands on the shoulders of crowdsourced science giants like the protein-folding game Foldit and the celestial object identification powerhouse Galaxy Zoo. Eac ...
• Yellow-Bellied Marmots May Inherit Social Victimiz ...
  An unusual study of an animal social network suggests that ending up as the butt of unfriendly interactions could be in part inherited. The study, in yellow-bellied marmots, gives the first look beyond people at what facets of social relationships might have genetic components, says coauthor Da ...
• Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System
  A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system’s outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth. “We’ve accumulated 10 years more data, double the comets we viewed to test this hypothesis,” said planetary scientist John Matese of the Univers ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
  Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Poll: Most Israeli Jews believe Arab citizens shou ...
  Approximately 86 percent of Israeli Jews believe any final Knesset decision regarding the country's future political arrangement must be approved by a Jewish majority, according to a poll by the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• UN report: Palestinian territories – “prolonged oc ...
  UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk: "The Palestinian experience suggests the need for a new protocol of international humanitarian law... some outer time limit after which further occupation becomes... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Jonathan Cook: Wikileaks and the new global order
  Underlying the gossip and analysis sent back to Washington is an awareness from many US officials stationed abroad of quite how ineffective -- and often counter-productive -- much US foreign policy... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Israel accused over ‘cruel’ Gaza blockade
  Amnesty director Kate Allen: "The so-called 'easing' of the Gaza blockade does not change the fact that there's still a cruel and illegal blockade collectively punishing the entire civilian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian military denies missile deployment near NA ...
  The chief of Russia's Armed Forces General Staff on Tuesday denied media rumors that Russia had deployed short-range nuclear missiles near its borders with NATO allies.
• Russia to place air and space defenses under unifi ...
• Russia, West have 10 years for full accord on miss ...
  Russia and the West must reach a suitable agreement on the issue of missile defense in the next decade otherwise Moscow will have to adopt and deploy new strategic weapons, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
• Russia, West have 10 years for full accord on miss ...
  Russia and the West must reach a suitable agreement on the issue of missile defense in the next decade otherwise Moscow will have to adopt and deploy new strategic weapons, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
• Russia's missile forces to replace Topol-M with mu ...
  Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will be rearmed with multiple-warhead RS-24 missiles instead of the RS-12M Topol-M (SS-27 Sickle) mobile intercontinental ballistic missile systems, SMF Commander Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

• The Methodist Hospital Receives $10 Million Gift f ...
  The children of a distinguished Houston philanthropist and oilman made a $10 million gift this week to the Methodist Transplant Center in honor of their late father who received a heart transplant at Methodist 20 years ago.
• Stock Market 'Flash' Crashes Now Can be Predicted, ...
  The kind of stock market "flash crash" that happened on May 26, 2010 is now predictable - and possibly preventable - thanks to a new formula developed by two Cornell professors and an investment expert.
• Building Name Change at Sandia/California More tha ...
  Officials at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore have announced a change in name for one of its laboratory facilities, signaling the lab's increased attention on bioresearch.
• Experimental Vaccine Sets Sights on Lung Cancer
  An experimental immunotherapy may someday become the newest weapon against lung cancer. Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center are enrolling patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital as part of an ongoing ...
• Loyola's Heart-Bypass Mortality Rate is 74 percent ...
  Loyola University Hospital's mortality rate from heart-bypass surgery is 74 percent lower than the mortality rate at peer hospitals, according to Thomson Reuters Cardiovascular Benchmarks Report.

Natural Health News

• Solar Furnace Melts Rock
  In a clip from the TV Show "Bang Goes the Theory," a high-performance solar furnace focuses normal sunshine into a heat-ray that reaches 3,500 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt rocks.
• Higher Levels of this Mineral Linked with Lower He ...
  A new study reports a protective effect against the risk of sudden cardiac death in women who consume higher levels of dietary magnesium. Researchers analyzed data from more than 88,000 women.� Over the 26 year follow-up period, women whose magnesium intake was among the highest 25 percent of the s ...
• Tomato Juice Can Reduce Osteoporosis
  New research shows that tomato juice, which contains the chemical lycopene, can significantly increase the presence of cell-protecting antioxidants that help to fight against osteoporosis.� The researchers claim that the amount of lycopene found in just two glasses of tomato juice is enough to help ...
• Excess Fructose Plays a Role in Diabetes, Obesity ...
  A new review of fructose reveals just how dangerous this sugar can be.� The review provides a concise overview of recent clinical and experimental studies that show how excessive amounts of fructose can play a role in high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease. With the intr ...
• U.S. Probes Lead in Children's Drinking Glasses
  U.S. federal regulators have launched an investigation into lead levels in drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters.� They are declaring them children's products, and therefore subject to stricter standards. A number of glasses have been cited in an ongoing investigation into dang ...

Antemedius

• Two Americas: The Over Privileged and The Ignored
  Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated last week that, while a national unemployment figure of roughly 10 percent nationally is alarming enough, the figure is better than double that figure for those Americans without college degrees. While America stands at a dangerous crossroad with a dispa ...
• U.S. Threatening Assange With Prison For Revealing ...
  Maybe because he's from Australia, a U.S. satrap on the far rim of the American Empire, that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange doesn't know that Washington does not allow anyone to steal information unless it orders them to do so. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama hack who will not prosecute CI ...
• Good News For Murfreesboro Mosque! Judge Refuses I ...
  My father loved the law. He loved it because it was an attempt to provide balance without resort to violence. Note the attempt in that sentence, it is important to recognize that justice is not about exact balancing but about a society making a concerted effort to balance the harm done by one person ...
• Stop These Wars or We'll Fill Your Jails
  By David Swanson Here's an easy question: would you rather go to jail for a few hours with a bunch of friends or die? Here's a poorly kept secret: the wars that a majority of Americans want ended are not ending, and the war machine that a majority of Americans want cut back is growing. Here's a situ ...
• Secrecy And Democracy, The Hard Balancing Act
  The Wikileaks story is going to be the big news for a while, but I thought I’d talk about the need for balance in terms of secrecy. The release of the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic communications is going to be more than a little embarrassing. How could it not be? These are internal communicat ...

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

• A Response to Beth Van Schaack by Douglas Guilfoyl ...
  by MJIL by MJIL I am grateful to Professor Van Schaack for her thoughtful and considered response. It strikes me as an entirely fair criticism that – albeit in a short commentary focusing on the standards governing the use of force by governments – I neglected to explore fully issues of combatant ...
• A Response to Jean-Marc Coicaud by Ramesh Thakur
  by MJIL by MJIL Dr Jean-Marc Coicaud is one of the more thoughtful and reflective UN officials, and his response shows why. Broadly speaking, I agree with all three of his comments The conceptual, political and operational relationship between law and legitimacy will be treated differently by pol ...
• Understanding the Legitimacy Crisis of the UN — Th ...
  by MJIL by MJIL [Dr Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University Office at the United Nations in New York.] Professor Thakur highlights what he claims to be today the weak legitimacy of the United Nations. He does so not only by stressing the gap between the principles upon ...
• ‘Law, Legitimacy and United Nations’ by Professor ...
  by MJIL by MJIL [Ramesh Thakur is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada.] The UN is the site where power should be moderated by lawful authority. Legitimacy connects authority to po ...
• Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law Now Available
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Stanford University Press has now published The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law, which I edited with the University of Toronto’s Markus Dubber.  The book contains chapters on the substantive criminal law of 16 diff ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• RIP, men
  Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
• 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....

My Care2 Picks

• Utah Legislators to Brainwash Youth for Fossil Fue ...
  Indoctrination. That is what Utah state lawmakers decided to implement last week. A state committee voted unanimously to recommend the Mineral and Petroleum Literacy Act. This bill would use oil, gas, and mining revenues to develop an elementary schoolSubmitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �No ...
• ACTION ALERT: Tell EPA: Say No To Arch Coal's Meg ...
  Recently, EPA's office in Appalachia took a historic stand against mountaintop removal mining, the most devastating coal mining technique in existence. Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin said that Arch Coal's planned Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note- ...
• GORDON DUFF: WIKI-MURDERS IN IRAN, SIGNAL FALSE ...
  An attack on American forces in the Persian Gulf is being planned. Wikileaks is an integral part of the operation. The operation is staged for the Persian Gulf where American warships are �sitting ducks� for a sneak attack Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 1984 by George Orwell â Film Movie
  George Orwell was a visionary. This film is old but never more timely. Grab some popcorn and sit down with the family and watch this insightful movie.Submitted by Joseph M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Surviving in Haiti
  The capacity of humanity to survive, sustain culture and create joy - no matter the external circumstances - is without limit. The suffering of the people is as unimaginable as is the poor planning or sheer neglect ( + foreign sabotage )Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...

Angry Indian News

• Wikileaks: Assad - Iran not pursuing nuclear weapo ...
  Wikileaks: Assad - Iran not pursuing nuclear weapons: [j-post] "“We’re not convinced Iran is developing nuclear weapons,” the leaked cable quoted Assad as saying.He argued that Iran could not use a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• US 'kept Pakistani army Swat murders secret' | Wor ...
  US 'kept Pakistani army Swat murders secret' | World news | guardian.co.uk: "A deeply entrenched 'culture of revenge' in the Pakistani army led to a spate of murders during fighting against the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Intelligentsiya: Mother Jones: Fiji Water Closes, ...
  Intelligentsiya: Mother Jones: Fiji Water Closes, Fires Workforce…Re-Opens?: "On Monday, Fijian press reported that Fiji Water had ordered its entire 400-person workforce dismissed immediately, even... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Black holocaust conference remembers past, charts ...
  Black holocaust conference remembers past, charts lessons for future: "ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - There is a saying that the ancestors of Blacks brought to the Western Hemisphere didn't come here on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Reparations, the Tea Party and America's Founding ...
  Reparations, the Tea Party and America's Founding Fathers: "(FinalCall.com) - “Trouble Brewing” was the title of an October 30 article by Edward Luce published in the Financial Times newspaper.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Meet Bernie! Bernie just loves TSA…
• You might be a domestic extremist if…
  Folks, I jest don't know what's happening in this country. Evidently, if you don't take kindly to having your private parts either fried or groped, you are a domestic extremist.
• Submit meekly to TSA, then mob the nearest store – ...
  People will mob stores and go through police blockades like they are nothing to get the latest deal at stores, yet complain about and are afraid to peacefully stand up and say no to TSA scans because it is inconvenient to insist on their rights, so they willingly submit to irradiation and gropes to ...
• Brussels moves against herbalists
  Daniel Hannan explaining how the vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 24th November, regarding regulations on herbal medicines will put companies out of business.
• Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Associ ...
  Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Association annual meeting to launch Food Freedom Coalition.

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

• Congress dithers as unemployment benefits run out
  ShareThisCongress dithers as unemployment benefits run out 30 Nov 2010 A federal extension of unemployment-insurance benefits expires Tuesday, and a Congress split along party lines hasn’t approved new funding for payments that help support the long-term unemployed. Without a new program, by the end ...
• DoS attacks hammer WikiLeaks for second day runnin ...
  ShareThisDoS attacks hammer WikiLeaks for second day running 30 Nov 2010 WikiLeaks, the focus of attention since it released a quarter-million U.S. diplomatic cables two days ago, is again under a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, Internet researchers said today. The site remained online with some sho ...
• WikiLeaks Shelters in Amazon Servers
  ShareThisWikiLeaks Shelters in Amazon Servers 01 Dec 2010 WikiLeaks is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, as the controversial website combats powerful Internet-based attacks. WikiLeaks said Tuesday it was the target of a computer attack that ove ...
• Harper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileak ...
  ShareThisHarper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileaks director Posted by looncanada 30 Nov 2010 In a shockingly flippant comment to a Canadian television news anchor Evan Solomon of the CBC News Network on live TV, Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to the Canadian Prime Minister S ...
• US embassy cables: UN seeks answers from Washingto ...
  ShareThisUS embassy cables: UN seeks answers from Washington --United Nations official says US order to diplomats to glean intelligence on UN leadership may breach international law 29 Nov 2010 The senior American diplomat at the UN tonight defended her team after WikiLeaks disclosed a US spying ope ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• RIP, men
  Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
• 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....

Mondoweiss

• Let Americans’ shift on gays in the military ...
  This is a great day in the U.S. The Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, recommended that the U.S. government end the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military. From now on, he said, they should serve openly. Battalions of liberal commentators, from Chris Matthews on down, will support Oba ...
• International day of solidarity in Gaza greeted wi ...
  Live bullets were fired from snipers at an Erez control tower within a metre of demonstrators on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Tuesday morning in Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza. A German activist Vera Macht was injured as she stumbled while running for cover. The�Loc ...
• Maybe the internet hasn’t killed Israeli PR ...
  The above interview is with Curtis Brown about his article�(written with Diana Allan) The Mavi Marmara at the Frontlines of Web 2.0 in the Autumn 2010 edition of the Journal of Palestine Studies. It looks critically of what many in the blogosphere are doing, including us here at Mondoweiss, and say ...
• Searching for the ghost of Israeli democracy
  Fania Oz-Salzberger, Amos Oz's daughter, has challenged my characterization of her comments at the Nexus Institute�s �Return of Ghosts� symposium. Here is what she wrote in the�comments section of my blog:I am befuddled by your representation of what I thought had been a cordial and thoughtful excha ...
• U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant so ...
  The above headline is taken right from Haaretz. Akiva Eldar wrote in 2009 about a report from the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor which found:The report says that the 1967 law on the protection of holy places refers to all religious groups in the country, including in ...

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

• Just got this Email from Office of Secretary Gates
  Q:� WikiLeaks:� Post-WikiLeaks reaction.� What's your sense on whether the information-sharing climate and environment created after 9/11 to encourage greater cooperation and transparency among the intelligence communities and the military led to these three massive data dumps? And how concern ...
• Perspectives on Afghanistan
  Published: 24 November 2010 Please click here to view the entire Article.   {loadposition user8}
• 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 ...

The Killing Train

• Wikileaks Cablegate! Panamanians hope for a succes ...
  I was just peeking around Wikileaks's Cablegate (cablegate.wikileaks.org). This looks like the real thing folks! Take a look at this 1989 cable on Panama for example: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/1989/12/89PANAMA8545.html SUBJECT: PANAMANIANS HOPE FOR A SUCCESSFUL COUP More analysis to foll ...
• 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 ...

treehugger

• 3 Things the U.S. Can Learn About Recycling from t ...
  Photo credit: Collin Dunn The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the increasing human presence has created an unpreceden ...
• Holy Cow: the World's Happiest Cows and Best Milk
  Photo: Bhaktivedanta Manor It's cow bliss: the dairy in Hertfordshire, run by the Hare Krishnas. There are only 44 of them but life is sweet: on this farm all the cows have names, they are hand-milked whilst listening to Sanskrit music and they feed on grass all year. Calling it a "Hil ...
• Bicing Bike Sharing System Hits The Streets Of Bue ...
  Photo: Buenos Aires Government via Clarin. The Buenos Aires government sure is doing something right aggressively pushing bike use, even against complaining drivers or dumb press campaigns. After creating new bike paths and better conditions for bike parking, they are now officially launching t ...
• Goldman Environmental Prize Founder Dies at 90
  Richard Goldman at the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony; Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Some sad news came out yesterday: Richard Goldman, the esteemed philanthropist and creator of the Goldman Environmental Prize, passed away of natural causes at the age of 90. We have the utmost respect fo ...
• "Kitchen Composition" Built From Scraps
  Images credit Dilettante Studios You've got to love the attitude of John Preus and Charlie Roderick of Dilettante Studios in Chicago. They work almost exclusively with found, inherited, re-purposed and salvaged materials, mixing, matching and mashing them together to build collages of scrap.... ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Children ‘most at threat’ from HIV/AIDS
  Two-thirds of HIV-infected mothers in Burma accessing healthcare but only 18 percent of total sufferers given antiretroviral treatment
• Thai army ‘obstructing refugees’
  Aid groups warn that fighting continues in eastern Burma and refugees continue to move back and forth across the border
• Opposition leader calls for international unity
  DVB talks to Suu Kyi
• ‘She gives them strength in their struggle’
  Aung San Suu Kyi meets with 100 family members of Burma's political prisoner population and pledges to fight for their freedom
• Burma’s new leaders court Arakan party
  Power-sharing deal on the cards as analyst claims the junta proxy is looking to appoint an ethnic leader as one of three vice-presidents

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Cancun climate change summit: small island states ...
  Protect us from becoming an "endangered species" say leaders of small island states.
• Cancun climate change summit: David Cameron will n ...
  David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has turned down the chance to attend the latest round of climate change talks, as there is little chance of a global deal this time.
• Cancun climate change summit: UN considers putting ...
  UN scientists are to consider moves such as putting mirrors in space and sprinkling iron in the sea in an attempt to cut global warming, the head of the IPCC said.
• Scientists: 'world should press on without US in c ...
  Scientists urge world to carry on with deal as talks kick off with little hope of the superpower agreeing to emissions cuts.
• Cancun climate change summit: UN consider putting ...
  UN scientists are to consider moves such as putting mirrors in space and sprinkling iron in the sea in an attempt to cut global warming, the head of the IPCC.

National Geographic | Environment

• Top Ten Discoveries of 2010: Nat Geo News's Most P ...
  NoneA time-bending earthquake, a fish with "hands," and "Yoda bat" are among National Geographic News's most visited coverage of 2010 discoveries.
• 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season Oddly Active
  "This was a strange, strange season," one expert says, noting that the U.S. seemed to have "hurricane repellent" during high storm activity.
• Climate Change Talks Hinge on “Green Growth,” says ...
  As global climate negotiations open in Cancun, Mexico, former United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer focuses on the role of business.
• Fighting Poverty Can Save Energy, Nicaraguan Proje ...
  Modernizing electricity services in two rural Nicaraguan villages yielded major energy savings, showing how addressing poverty and climate change can go hand-in-hand, a new study says.
• "Flamboyant" New Squid Worm Surprises, Delights Ex ...
  With head tentacles and iridescent "oars," the new sea species is "definitely flamboyant," one expert said. "I'm delighted by it."

Jurist - Legal Research

• Gaza rights situation not improving despite Israel ...
  [JURIST] Six months after Israel announced that it was easing the blockade of the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder], there is little sign of economic improvement for the struggling territory, according to a report published Tuesday by 25 human rights groups including Amnesty International [advocacy webs ...
• Supreme Court hears California prison overcrowding ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in Schwarzenegger v. Plata [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on an order to reduce the California prison population [JURIST news archive]. In August 2009, a ...
• ICJ orders DRC to compensate Guinea for false dete ...
  [JURIST] On Tuesday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] ordered the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] to pay an undetermined amount to Guinea for the 1988 arbitrary imprisonment of a Guinean businessman. The tribunal found [judgment, PDF] that the DRC vio ...
• Serbia requests extradition of accused Nazi living ...
  [JURIST] Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic [official profile] said that Serbia has filed documents asking the US to extradite accused Nazi war criminal and naturalized US citizen Peter Egner [JURIST news archive] to Serbia so that he can stand trial on war crimes charges. Serbian prosecutors ...
• EU announces antitrust probe into Google business ...
  [JURIST] The European Commission [official website] on Tuesday announced a formal investigation [press release] into allegations that Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] abused its dominant market position by manipulating search results to give its own services preferential placement. Th ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• WikiLeaks: One Analyst, So Many Documents
  To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secr ...
• After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
  In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
• 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 ...

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

• Mossad and Mujahadeen e-Khalq, Partners in Assassi ...
  Two separate pieces of information have convinced me of the likelihood that the Mossad and the Iranian dissident group, Mujahadeen e-Khalq (MK) are knocking off some of Iran’s top nuclear scientists.  As I’ve posted here, Haaretz’s Yossi Melman has written that the hand of Mossad is in yesterday’s ...
• State Murder and Trolls: Anti-Social Behavior Cloa ...
  Yes, it may sound like a stretch but bear with me.  These subjects do have a common thread as you will see.  Today’s NY Times op-ed section offers an interesting column about trolls and their pollution of internet discourse.  And yes, believe it or not I’m coming back to this topic after a longis ...
• Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
  Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
• Israeli Rights Activists File Complaint Against ID ...
  Alongside the newly named IDF chief of staff, Yoav Galant, his new deputy chief will be Gen. Yair Naveh.  Naveh has the distinction of being responsible for the Palestinian targeted killings which Anat Kamm leaked to Haaretz journalist, Uri Blau.  These West Bank murders completely contravened Sup ...

Ode Magazine

• Keeping it local to rebuild shattered lives
  By: Amanda_TWW A British expatriate, Figen Cakir has lived in Turkey for nearly two decades. She experienced first hand the devastation the Golcuk earthquake had on her community in 1999. More than a decade after, the local people are still rebuilding their lives, ...
• California dreaming becomes a reality
  How Alvarado Street Bakery went from hippie collective to commercially successful co-op. Alvarado Street Bakery makes quality products with co-operative values.Photo: MJ Wickham Alvarado Street Bakery traces its roots to the Red Clover Worker’s Brigade, a 1970s Northern Califo ...
• A planet is a terrible thing to waste
  Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...
• Cosmic salad
  Bring the abundance of nature to your plate. Photo: Pieter de Swart The science of economics revolves around the concept of scarcity. How do you handle something you have too little of, like money? How do you distribute something that isn’t plentiful enough, like food? And how ...
• Fixing the free market
  How co-opsâbusinesses in which the employees are also the owners of the companyâmerge economic growth with social goals. By pooling the production of fair trade farmers such as this cocoa farmer in Peru, Equal Exchange negotiates higher prices for its members.Photo: Equal Exchange ...

OpEd News

• CUTTING THE BUDGET DEFICIT: An Open Letter to Pres ...
  The Federal budget must not be moved slightly towards balance on the backs of civilian Federal workers; this article makes that case, and provides meaningul alternatives to cutting the deficit.
• Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility
  Economic harm from imprisonment
• Congress is Acting Like the Wizard of Oz
  With Congress failing to pass a bill extending emergency unemployment benefits, lessons from the Wizard of Oz on brains, courage and a heart are needed for Congress.
• Why Good Grades Are Important To Start A Successfu ...
  Too often, college students wait until it is too late to get their GPA up. Here is what a high GPA means to employers and why it is so crucial.
• A Restorative Answer to Rio's Raging Slums
  A slum in Rio de Janeiro is under siege. With guns and military might, the government is seeking to "pacify" the area. There is another way. When Dominic Barter saw the deep divide between rich and poor and the incessant violence, his desire to help led the development of a unique Restorative Circle ...

Switchboard

• Coal Industry's Orwellian Rebranding of Mountainto ...
  There's a popular TV show in which every week a family in need gets to have its delapitated house torn down and rebuilt into a luxurious mansion.  This is called an "Extreme Home Makoever." The coal industry reportedly has a cynical plan to re-brand mountaintop removal to make it seem ...
• Improving Accuracy and Accountability in the Inter ...
  Having a strong, credible, and transparent system for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and the actions of a country is an essential building block of an effective international system to address global warming. This was a key issue at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Resolving i ...
• Industry recycles discredited claims but bipartisa ...
  It seems like every day the bipartisan consensus on the need to end corn ethanol subsidies grows. A day after a coalition of 58 organizations from across the political spectrum, delivered a jointly signed letter to Congressional leadership signaling their strong opposition to any exten ...
• Sparking Inspiration and Fueling Our Clean Tech Ec ...
  The Great Wall of Opportunity - The Solar Jobs Board at the Solar Power International Conference, Los Angeles, CA Oct 2010 Here is proof that the solar industry is�delivering new job opportunities for�our� beleagured? recovered?�changing economy.� Solar is�a core�component of an eme ...
• 17 Senators call for end to corn ethanol tax credi ...
  Today, a group of Senators from across the political spectrum sent a letter to Senate leadership calling on their colleagues to let the wasteful corn ethanol tax credit and protectionist import tariff expire at the end of the year. The letter was signed by 17 Senators, including unlike ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Great moments in misanthropy
  David Simon deflates the hopes of an entire generation. Good for him. All we need now is another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little. (Via Lindsay Beyerstein) Related posts:Great Moments in Presidential Foresight Great Moments in the Passive Voice Great Moments in Wingnuttery Related pos ...
• North Korea: A Negotiable Issue?
  As has been noted in several places, this is one hell of an interesting cable. The upshot is that South Korean officials seem to believe that North Korea will collapse in a fairly short interval after the death of Kim Jong Il, and that a few Chinese policymakers have suggested that China is prepare ...
• Nobody Actually Cares About “Federalism,&#82 ...
  LizardBreath on the upcoming celebrations of treason in defense of slavery that are trying to leave out the slavery part: I think what gets to me is the Orwellian nature of it all; that it’s a power play. If Confederate-worshippers can make it seem aggressively impolite to insist on straightforward ...
• The Article II Defense of Bush v. Gore
  On the Twitter today, Jacob Levy made the half-defense of Bush v. Gore perhaps most commonly made by smart people: the majority opinion was indefensible, but the outcome is not, because the Rehnquist concurrence (arguing that the Florida courts violated the provision of Article II that the “State s ...
• Nope, Not Over It
  Jeffrey Toobin on the 10th anniversary of one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time: [M]omentous Supreme Court cases tend to move quickly into the slipstream of the Court’s history. In the first ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that ended the doctrine of sepa ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
• Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
  An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
• 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 ...

Earth Techling

• Students Finish Epic Electric Car Drive
• British Columbia Gets Its Big Wind Farm
• Tommy Bahama E-Bike A Not Cheap Gift
• 2nd Life for Electric Vehicle Batteries?
• Missouri Tech School Ditching Coal, Wood

National Law Journal | U.S.

• New Mass. law sharply restricts initial questions ...
  Massachusetts recently became one of two states with laws restricting how and when private employers can ask job applicants about their criminal history, and lawyers say a state agency's interpretation of the law makes it even more restrictive.
• Justices sharply question parties in California pr ...
  Severe prison overcrowding, horrendous health conditions for inmates and state budget woes converged in the Supreme Court on Tuesday as California challenged a court order to reduce its prison population by about 40,000.
• Dole Food hit with fees for suing directors of ban ...
  Dole Food Co. Inc. must pay nearly $200,000 in attorney fees and costs to two Swedish filmmakers, a judge in Los Angeles ordered after dismissing the company's defamation lawsuit over a documentary depicting the alleged plight of banana plantation workers.
• Stanford's law and business schools launch green e ...
  Stanford University's law and business schools are launching a joint interdisciplinary research center that will focus on the development, policy and financing of clean energy technology.
• New dean hopes to advance Dayton's 'entrepreneuria ...
  The University of Dayton School of Law has named Paul McGreal as its new dean. McGreal, who now a professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law, will replace outgoing dean Lisa Kloppenberg in July 2011

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

• Mahatma Gandhi's Life-Size Bronze Statues and Bus ...
  Gandhi's life-size or one-and-half life-size bronze statues have been dispatched by ICCR from India to Italy, Canada, USA, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, France and New Zealand. Sculptors of statues and busts are Ram Suta
• 10 Asian Countries Urge National Funding to Streng ...
  Meeting in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, the members of parliament pledged to be 'agents of change' and agreed 'to transcend political boundaries in advancing disaster risk reduction and in fostering synergies with climate change adapta
• Over 3 Million People Sign UN-Drafted Petition Ur ...
  The agency puts the number of chronically hungry people worldwide at 925 million. Last year, the global economic downturn and rising food prices pushed the figure past the one billion mark for the first time in history.
• 54 Prisoners Dance Their Way Out the Presidency Ja ...
  All prisons in West Bengal were converted into correctional homes in the year 2000 - a decision of the state government as part of the global celebrations of the Millennium year.
• Catholic University of America Offers Hinduism Cou ...
  The Catholic University of America (CUA), national university of the Catholic Church in the United States located in Washington DC, is offering various Hinduism related classes.

environment 360

• Chinese Ban on Free Plastic Bags Has Cut Consumer ...
  Use of plastic shopping bags in China has dropped 50 percent since the government required stores to charge customers for the bags, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden conducted surveys that found that consumers in Beijing and Guiyang used an average of 21 ...
• Canada Introduces Strictest Standards for Lead in ...
  The Canadian government is imposing strict new health standards that would effectively ban the use of lead in toys and other products that children put in their mouths. The new regulations would limit the amount of lead in toys, pacifiers, bibs and other products intended for children under the age ...
• Sustainable Palm Oil: Rainforest Savior or Fig Lea ...
  The push to promote sustainable palm oil is turning into a test case for green consumerism. The outcome could help determine the future of the rainforests of Asia and Africa — and whether consumer pressure can really sway corporate giants. BY FRED PEARCE
• Tiger Summit Approves Plan To Double Populations o ...
  Leaders from 13 nations where tigers are still found in the wild agreed on a conservation plan they hope will double populations of the endangered cat by 2022. The leaders, meeting in Russia for the International Tiger Conservation Forum, pledged to support a wide-ranging plan that includes restorat ...
• Earth as Art: Satellite Portraits from Space
  In this collection of satellite photographs, the U.S. Geological Survey has assembled a colorful and striking portrait of the Earth’s land and sea surfaces as seen from space. These Landsat images, compiled in the Photo gallery USGS/NASAEarth as Art: Antarctica’s Byrd Glacier “Earth as Art 3” coll ...

Red Ice Creations

• Harvard Scientists Reverse the Ageing Process in M ...
  Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs. Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the ageing process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice ...
• Sweden Officially Declared Dead - Population Aslee ...
  Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, voted for the most sweeping changes to the country's constitution since 1974 on Wednesday, confirming Sweden's place in the EU among a raft of other amendments. The new consititution was passed with the backing of seven parliamentary parties, with only the Sweden De ...
• US Government seizure of the internet has begun; D ...
  As part of a new expansion of government power over information, the Department of Homeland Security has begun seizing and shutting down internet websites (web domains) without due process or a proper trial. DHS simply seizes web domains that it wants to and posts an ominous "Department of Justice" ...
• Report warns Obama about 'new' Dark Ages
  Airplanes would fall from sky, cars would stop, networks fail Two national-security experts have issued a report through the Heritage Foundation that warns Obama administration officials to start working now to prevent – and mitigate the damage from – an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United St ...
• Citizens of Europe Rage Against the Machine
  The international bankster machine seeking to colonize Western nations through debt is now meeting resistance from Greece, to France, to Ireland, to Italy, to Spain, to Portugal, and to the U.K. These new protests in Ireland and Italy follow a crippling 2-week strike in France where citizens took ov ...

Russia Today

• Demise of euro possible if crisis drags down Italy ...
  With Italy and Spain showing signs of being embroiled in the debt crisis, the EU could engineer its own collapse by trying to secure more than 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) to bail them out, says MEP Nigel Farage.
• Moscow escort agency ad lists Girls Aloud as emplo ...
  A Moscow-based escort service was caught red-handed using an old photo of the star British girl band Girls Aloud in its promo. The band’s management says they are not planning to sue and take the situation with humor.
• Putin warns Russia will step up nuclear defense wi ...
  In an interview with CNN host Larry King, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke of threats that might emerge if no agreement on missile defense in Europe and the New START treaty is reached.
• Russia’s proposal a wake-up call to revamp securit ...
  The new pan-European security treaty proposed by President Dmitry Medvedev has given European countries hope of a “fresh approach” to security, says OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut.
• A host of venues – Russia wins either way
  Russia is hotly tipped in the 2018 race for the right to hold World Cup as it locks horns with England, as well as joint bids from Spain/Portugal, and the Netherlands/Belgium.

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

• Leadership in world green energy another “Sp ...
  Folks in government are calling China’s meteoric rise on the super-power stage a “sputnik moment” for the United States, especially since the introduction of their super-computer this year and the construction of their modern high speed rail service. And although China’s currently the new leader in ...
• It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature
  The above canard from an old 1970s ad campaign may sound corny now-a-days, but in this case it might apply. … Thatâs not a tiny man. That boulder â shot by Icelandic photographer, volcano adventurer and overall awesome guy Ragnar Sigurdsson â stands 15m high, weighs about 1000 tons, and it wasnât th ...
• Texas is UFO Hot-Spot
  A lot of States in the US can probably claim the mantle of most UFO sightings; New York, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida come to mind immediately. But the one state that holds the title lately is one you wouldn’t think of; Texas. A Texas witness reports a slow moving disc-shaped object wi ...
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• 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 NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't � ...

The Freeman

• Algorithms Can’t Pick College Football Champ ...
  At the end of this week we will know who will play for the national championship of major college football. Will it be Oregon? Auburn? Boise State? Texas Christian University, or another team? We won’t know until a mathematical equation tells us. That’s correct. A mathematical algorithm determines w ...
• Federal Workers Face Pay Freeze
  “President Obama on Monday announced a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers as he sought to address concerns over high annual deficitsâ¦.” (New York Times) Itâs a start. FEE Timely Classic “Government Workers Are Americaâs New Elite” by Steven Greenhut
• Senators Agree Obamacare Needs Repair, But Can’t P ...
  “The Senate on Monday failed to repeal an unpopular element of the health care overhaul even though Democrats and Republicans agreed it needed to be jettisoned to prevent businesses from being saddled with undue tax paperwork.” (New York Times) They told us we wouldnât know how the new law works unt ...
• Richman in Christian Science Monitor
  My op-ed on WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, and the cost of Empire is in today’s Christian Science Monitor.
• The Bourne Pronouncement
  Two classic writings on the usefulness of war for government planning and two (perhaps three) current news items inspired this week’s column. First, the “Bourne” in the above title is Randolph Bourne, who famously wrote in 1918: War is the health of the state. In times of peace citizens can, or at l ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
  Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
• Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
  I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...
• Online video, links, and people: Putting it all to ...
  I spend a lot of time speaking (and thinking) about online video — both journalism video and the broader YouTube varieties. When we think about how people use online video — and by “people” I mean mostly North Americans in the college and university student age group — we have to consider sharing. ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• With federal benefits set to expire, unemployed wo ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica Unless Congress acts to extend programs for those who have exhausted regular state unemployment benefits, millions of jobless workers may soon be phased out of emergency unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits from states typically last for 26 weeks, but since 20 ...
• Tea party leader: Denying vote to those without pr ...
  When critics charged that tea party groups like True the Vote may have been trying to disenfranchise voters with their aggressive tactics in the 2010 elections, the allegations were often waved off as a hysterical exaggeration. But at least some leaders of the national tea party movement openly que ...
• Come celebrate 40 years of change in the South
  Does the political scene have you in the dumps? Are you ready for a little Holiday Cheer? Then RSVP today for the Institute's Holiday Party and 40th Anniversary Bash this Saturday, December 4 at 7pm in Durham, NC! Hosted at the Hayti Heritage Center, the event will feature delicious food from ...
• One thing we're thankful for
  Thanksgiving is here, Facing South readers -- time to start your ovens, pick your football games and bone up on your Thanksgiving knowledge. It's also, of course, time to reflect on the people and things for which you're grateful. For us at Facing South, that's an easy one: We're thankful ...
• 5 top Election Watch 2010 stories at Facing South
  Thanks to our generous supporters (you can still donate today!), Facing South's Election Watch 2010 was a huge success. In case you missed them, here were some of the big stories we covered and broke about the changing Southern political landscape in 2010: 1 - HOW TO BUY A STATE LEGISLATURE ...

Worldpress - Africa

• U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
  In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
• 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.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
• World War II
  Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such
• Group of Seven
  The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.
• Winnipeg General Strike
  The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
• War of 1812
  The war of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The process of calling

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle old kitchen fat?
  Since we do what we’re told by our water company, we don’t pour meat fat from cooking down the sink – we scrape/pour it into an old plastic container instead. The gross pot full in the picture is a combination of lots of fat from lots of different meals for the last couple of months, [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle till receipts & their r ...
  We’ve had an email from Roger: I was wondering Have you ever featured Till receipts on your website, I work in a supermarket and at least once a day i ‘run out’ of till receipt paper and have to replace it, But i’m sure there is at least 10% of the paper still on the [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle plastic tablecloths?
  After last month’s straw placemats and coasters post, I got thinking about plastic “disposable” tablecloths – the type people buy as a cheap way to decorate their table for children’s (and other) parties. They’re usually thin sheets of plastic, either brightly coloured or covered with character pict ...
• Recycling plastic bottles in the garden: reuse it ...
  Dani saw my mention of using a plastic bottle to make a resealable plastic bag last week and got in touch to say she finds ways to reuse the whole bottle in her gardening adventures. I use an old cereal bag and a bottle top to keep the seeds airtight / waterproof as well as [...]
• Recycled into Jewellery – more beautiful ite ...
  With all the buy-stuff events coming up over the next couple of months – and because it’s generally wonderful and inspiring, I thought it was high time we had another look around the world of upcycled jewellery – the stuff people are making by reusing and recycling random things that would otherwise ...

Mondoweiss

• Let Americans’ shift on gays in the military ...
  This is a great day in the U.S. The Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, recommended that the U.S. government end the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military. From now on, he said, they should serve openly. Battalions of liberal commentators, from Chris Matthews on down, will support Oba ...
• International day of solidarity in Gaza greeted wi ...
  Live bullets were fired from snipers at an Erez control tower within a metre of demonstrators on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Tuesday morning in Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza. A German activist Vera Macht was injured as she stumbled while running for cover. The�Loc ...
• Maybe the internet hasn’t killed Israeli PR ...
  The above interview is with Curtis Brown about his article�(written with Diana Allan) The Mavi Marmara at the Frontlines of Web 2.0 in the Autumn 2010 edition of the Journal of Palestine Studies. It looks critically of what many in the blogosphere are doing, including us here at Mondoweiss, and say ...
• Searching for the ghost of Israeli democracy
  Fania Oz-Salzberger, Amos Oz's daughter, has challenged my characterization of her comments at the Nexus Institute�s �Return of Ghosts� symposium. Here is what she wrote in the�comments section of my blog:I am befuddled by your representation of what I thought had been a cordial and thoughtful excha ...
• U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant so ...
  The above headline is taken right from Haaretz. Akiva Eldar wrote in 2009 about a report from the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor which found:The report says that the 1967 law on the protection of holy places refers to all religious groups in the country, including in ...

Media Consortium

• Fundly + Facebook = Millions in Micro-Donations fo ...
  One startup that's trying to capture the heat of micro-donations and make them more social is Fundly, which started life as BlueSwarm in 2009 before moving to Palo Alto, Calif., from Boston. The donation platform lets candidates begin taking micro-donations online quickly, and even embed those effor ...
• ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin | paidConte ...
  ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit is the most high-profile addition so far from a recent grant by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation designed to encourage its grantees to try new methods ...
• 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 ...

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 )

• Vitamin D: A dosing down?
  Posted on behalf of Tiffany O'Callaghan A new report concludes that huge doses of the vitamin D are unwarranted and may even be harmful, and it suggests that most Americans and Canadians aren’t suffering from a deficiency in the "sunshine vitamin". The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report analyz ...
• Diplomatic cables detail DNA sleuthing
  May I borrow your hanky?The next time you’re at a swanky function at the US embassy, you might want to keep track of your wine glass. At least, if the latest tranche of leaked documents from the US government is any indication: diplomats and other officials have apparently received instruction to co ...
• Former chemistry grad student found guilty of frau ...
  A former graduate student has been found guilty of misconduct in a high profile case that rocked the chemistry community four years ago and resulted in the retraction of six papers. Dalibor Sames, a chemist at Columbia University in New York, retracted the six papers between March and June, 20 ...
• The rare earth blues
  At this week's enormous materials science meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, there are scores of talks and posters dealing with the rare earth metals – the fifteen lanthanides, across the bottom of the periodic table, plus scandium and yttrium - which are used in everything from mobile phones to powe ...
• Hold the science, says anthropology society
  Is anthropology a science? Don’t ask the American Anthropological Association (AAA), which recently voted to strike the word “science” from its long-term mission statement. At the society’s annual meeting in New Orleans two weeks ago, the AAA’s executive board voted to change its long term goa ...

new geography

• Looking Down Under for a California Turnaround
  At a time when government in California faces an existential crisis, it’s telling to observe a starkly different picture in Australia. Forty years ago, local officials in fast-growing suburban communities in Queensland, Australia looked to their colleagues in fast-growing suburban communities in Ca ...
• Korea Conflict Shows That Borderlands Are Zones of ...
  The current conflict between the Koreas illustrates a broader global trend toward chaos along borders separating rich and poor countries. Ultimately, this reflects the resentments of a poor neighbor against a richer one. Feeling it has little to lose, the poorer neighbor engages recklessly in the ho ...
• Stuck in the Station: The High-Speed Rail "Low Bal ...
  You know that something is up when a Washington Post editorial advises that the Obama Administration do a "reality check" on its plans for high speed rail. From the beginning, there was more slow-speed than high speed rail, however both components of the plan could be in trouble. The Onion joined th ...
• Love and the City
  It has been said that the modern city is soulless, that it is heartless, and that it is brutal. The modern city represents in its scale and complexity one of the most extraordinary of human inventions, but there is also no doubt that everywhere in the world it is also one of our biggest failures. ...
• The Rise of the Efficient City
  Smaller, more nimble urban regions promise a better life than the congested megalopolis. Most of the world's population now lives in cities. To many academics, planners and developers, that means that the future will be dominated by what urban theorist Saskia Sassen calls "new geographies of centra ...

GM Watch

• Raj Patel on T. J. Buthelezi and Monsanto's Bt cot ...
• Problems with Monsanto's "new generation" of GM so ...
• Revealed: The glyphosate research the GM soy lobby ...
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• New study claims FDA review of GM salmon incomplet ...
• The great biofuel delusion

spiked

• Praising the pope, patronising Africans
  It is crazy to believe that Benedict XVI can decide the fate of millions of Africans with one comment about condoms.
• 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.

Cryptogon

• China Approves Fund That Will Invest In Foreign Go ...
  Too bad this fund isn’t about taking delivery of physical metal from COMEX… Via: ZeroHedge: China has approved a fund that will invest in gold exchange-traded funds outside the country, opening the door to mainland China investors who face negative real interest rates on their bank deposits and want ...
• BitTorrent Based DNS to Counter U.S. Domain Seizur ...
  I like it. I’m not yet able to believe the hype about how it supposedly, “Can’t be touched by any governmental institution,” but I’ll definitely be following developments. Something like this needs to happen. Via: TorrentFreak: The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and ...
• Today, I Want to Try to Sell You Some Soap
  I noticed that a reader bought a gallon of Dr. Bronner’s Unscented soap on Amazon via Cryptogon. Most of you probably know about Dr. Bronner’s soaps, but I want to do a quick post about this just in case you’re unfamiliar with these products. Some of the things I do with the Dr. Bronner’s Unscented ...
• Airport Style Security Screenings… To Ride t ...
• GM Hiring 1,000 Engineers to Expand Electric-Vehic ...
  Via: Bloomberg: General Motors Co., the maker of the Chevrolet Volt gasoline-electric car, will hire 1,000 engineers in Michigan to help expand the automakers’ lineup of electric- drive vehicles. The hiring will increase GM’s workforce of electric-vehicle engineers by 50 percent to about 3,000, said ...

The Economic Collapse

• Will You Be Able To Heat Your Home This Winter? Mi ...
  Will you have a warm house to come home to this winter?  If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. With the United States experiencing the highest levels of long-term unemployment that it has seen since the Great Depression, millions of Americans families are simply ...
• Less Money, More Problems
  How in the world is the U.S. economy going to recover if the American people have less money to spend?  Millions of American families are heading into 2011 knowing that either they won't be seeing an increase in income or that their incomes will be smaller next year.  Long-term unem ...
• One Piece Of Moderately Good Economic News And 14 ...
  Today the financial world was buzzing with excitement because there was one moderately good piece of news for the U.S. economy.  U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs during the month of October and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%.  This is certainly welcome news, but t ...
• 20 Statistics That Prove That Global Wealth Is Bei ...
  Today global wealth is more highly concentrated in the hands of the elite than it ever has been at any other point in modern history.  Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people in the world knew how to grow their own food, raise their own animals and take care of themselves. ...
• Caught In A Lie: Bernanke Promised Congress The Fe ...
  On June 3rd, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised the U.S. Congress that the Federal Reserve would not monetize the debt of the U.S. government.  On November 3rd, 2010 the Federal Reserve announced a massive quantitative easing plan which will involve the purchase of ...

Desertification

• A new generation of agricultural innovators has em ...
  Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=5145 Ghana: Agricultural Innovation in Ghana The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization based in Washington D.C., recently toured Ghana in search of innovations as part of a two year evaluation of sustainable agriculture across sub-Saha ...
• Invasive plant species are taking over millions of ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/news/newsitem.php?a=1811 Invasive species threatening African agriculture Written by Maina Waruru Invasive plant species are taking over millions of hectares of African farmland and grazing fields, reducing Africa’s crop yields by an average of 30 percent annually an ...
• Investments that raise agricultural productivity i ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/news/newsitem.php?a=1812 New study reveals causes of global food crisis Increased demand in rising economies, such as China and India, futures market speculation and falling agricultural yields and food stocks were not the primary cause of the 2007-08 … Continue read ...
• More productive agriculture and better food to boo ...
  Read at : http://mediaglobal.org/article/2010-11-25/agricultural_productivity_and_food_security_key_to_improve_human_health_in_africa Agricultural productivity and food security key to improve human health in Africa By Sofia Tillo 25 November 2010 [MediaGlobal]: The old saying that âyou are what you ...
• Poor governance major cause of inadequate water su ...
  Read at : http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2010/November/24/GH-112410-Africa-Water.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kff%2Fkdghpr+%28Kaiser+Daily+Global+Health+Policy+Report%29 Poor Governance Major Cause Of Africa’s Water Problems, AfDB Report Says A report re ...

The Paper Trail

• Reform Reading:  WikiLeaks Has Trove of U.S. ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Reform Reading:  FDIC Says Banks Should Relax ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• “Beneficial Use” of Coal Ash In Questi ...
  Nearly every day over the last 32 months, members of a citizens group in Giles County, Va., have paid a visit to a seven-acre stretch of land along the ancient New River, where a planned business park is now under construction. They’ve snapped photos and shot video of bulldozers unloading more than ...
• Financial Stability Panel Told of “Inexcusab ...
  Banks and mortgage servicers accused of foreclosing homes improperly are being put under the microscope by regulators, who will recommend in January if extra supervision is needed, a senior Treasury Department official told the Financial Stability Oversight Council today.
• Reform Reading:  Republicans Order Up Watchdo ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

Human Habitat

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Guest Column: The ecology of bears

North Lake Tahoe Bonanza

- Nov 30, 2010

- 18 hours ago

By Mary Alber INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Based on last week's coverage of the bear hunt legalization in Nevada, I got the strong impression that the author ...

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US Ecology CEO to Present at RBC Capital Markets Transportation and ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Nov 30, 2010

- Nov 30, 2010

About US Ecology, Inc. US Ecology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides radioactive, hazardous, PCB and non-hazardous industrial waste management and ...

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USA: Ecology issues burn bans for Chelan, Douglas and Kittitas counties

FireEngineering.com

- Dec 01, 2010

- 5 hours ago

The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is issuing burn bans in Chelan, Douglas and Kittitas counties because of worsening air quality. ...

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Ecology Grants Will Help Local Governments Measure, Map Run-off

Kitsap Sun

- Nov 29, 2010

- Nov 29, 2010

... of stormwater collection ponds plus improvements for the Kingston area are the biggest recipients of the Washington Department of Ecology grants. ...

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Water bills from Birmingham Water Works to rise 6.9% in January

al.com (blog)

- Dec 01, 2010

- 32 minutes ago

File photoThe Birmingham Water Works board Tuesday approved the rate increase as part of its 2011 budget. About 600000 customers of the Birmingham Water ...

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Food safety bill passes Senate, but dead in the water because …

Hot Air

- Dec 01, 2010

- 22 minutes ago

Apparently, no one told Harry Reid to check Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution before passing S510, the food-safety bill that Democrats hailed as a ...

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Water On in Mulberry

The Ledger

- Dec 01, 2010

- 3 hours ago

An equipment failure at this facility is responsible for the city's water shortage. November 30, 2010. By Kyle Kennedy MULBERRY | Mulberry residents were ...

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Fiji Water gets back to bottling despite tax

Sydney Morning Herald

- Dec 01, 2010

- 1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES: The day after Fiji Water shut down its operations in Fiji and fired all its workers in protest at a large tax increase, it has changed its mind ...

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