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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

1 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

backofthebook.ca

  • Jack up the crazy: Courtney Love’s reality s ...
    by Rachel Krueger This is what we’re doing now, Universe?  It’s not enough that Snooki has a book deal and that the Bieber-fetus has a biopic.  We’re giving Courtney Love a reality show now? Because this show isn’t going to be whatever Courtney thinks this show is going to be ("America’s Next ...
  • WikiLeaks cache slim on Canadian content, so far
    By Frank Moher Early pickings for Canadians eager to find out what U.S. diplomats think of us, thanks to WikiLeaks' latest release of documents, labelled "cablegate," have been slim to none. Make that none. So far, just 220 of 251,287 files have been released, and none feature the American am ...
  • Poledancing to the Web’s Tune
    Call them WebMatrons -- a new breed of businesswomen who've reinvented themselves on the internet ~~ By Beth Hendry-Yim ~~ After spending more than half her life working hard to raise her two boys alone, Susan Peach is ready for life to get a little easier. At 46, the B.C. fitness instructor . ...
  • Poledancing to the Web’s Tune – page 2
    Coninued from page 1 Good, original content is the first and most important factor in getting and growing traffic, Peach explains. It not only draws potential customers in, but also keeps them browsing around and clicking on links and ads. For Lennard, creating content has had another plus side. ...
  • Little Cams: Fatty Beats Flatty
    by Eric Pettifor Back in May I wrote a review of the Samsung U10 Pocket Camcorder, concluding "Because of the interface, I would only recommend this sweet little horror if you need something small and cheap which produces high quality vids right now." Time has passed, and I had the opportunit ...

Worldnews

  • E.Timor leader pushes for Asean membership ...
    SINGAPORE - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday it would be symbolic if his fledgling country gained Asean membership next year when former occupier Indonesia takes over as chair of the regional bloc. "If it is under Indonesia and Timor-Leste joins Asean as the 11th member at t ...
  • Human trafficking in Vietnam shows no letting ...
    Hanoi - Nearly 5,000 women have been trafficked from Vietnam over the past six years, usually to work in brothels or as sex slaves, authorities said Wednesday. According to police, 4,793 victims of human trafficking have been identified over the past six years. Their experiences...
  • Vodafone might take till 2020 to make Indian ...
    New York/New Delhi, Dec.1 (ANI): British mobile operator Vodafone's foray into India has been a disaster, so much so that insiders and experts have gone on record to say that it could take the firm until 2020 to make an economic profit. � According to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, in 2007 ...
  • Why a piece of pizza is so tempting after a s ...
    Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): Wonder why the thought of pizza or a chocolate cake is really tempting especially when you have had a really stressful day at work?� A new animal study has found that exposure to stress post dieting can increase chances of binge eating.�...
  • Reese Witherspoon says she feels more sexuall ...
    London, Dec 1 (ANI): Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon admits she feels better about the way she looks now than she did in her twenties. � The 34-year-old actress,...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Oil Companies and Banks Will Profit From UN Forest ...
    by John Vidal, environment editor, in CancunSome of the world's largest oil, mining, car and gas corporations will make hundreds of millions of dollars from a UN-backed forest protection scheme, according to a new report from the Friends of the Earth International.read more
  • Deceits, Plots, Insults: America Laid Bare
    by Jerome Taylor, Cahal Milmo and David Usborne, US Editor The doors to a previously hidden world of diplomatic intrigue and insults were dramatically thrown open last night as the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks published its vast tranche of secret American diplomatic communiqués. The re ...
  • Amid Major Release WikiLeaks Site Suffers 'Denial ...
    The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents.read more
  • US Cables Leak Sparks Global Diplomatic Crisis
    by David LeighThe United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.read more
  • NY Assembly Approves Hydraulic Fracturing Moratori ...
    by Marie C. Baca, ProPublicaThe New York state legislature refused to consider most major agenda items in Monday’s session, but they still gave their final approval to a bill that places a six-month ban on hydraulic fracturing while state and federal agencies review the practice.read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Video: Steven Chu on why China’s bid for clean en ...
    When it comes to innovation, Americans don�t take a back seat to anyone � and we certainly won�t start now.� From wind power to nuclear reactors to high speed rail, China and other countries are moving aggressively to capture the lead.
  • Seeking Links Between Supply Chain Sustainability, ...
    As the world�s nations converge on Cancun this week for the two week UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) a few statistics are in order to put the supply chain and related logistics industry into perspective.� It�s a pretty sure bet (given poor results at COP15 in Copenhagen and recent Co
  • David Livingston - Cancun: Wax, Feathers, and Clim ...
    By David Livingston
  • Gyms Now Producing "Healthy Clean Energy"
    "Healthy clean energy" may soon become a catch-phrase used around the world.� Businesses spanning multiple sectors and countries have begun to integrate exercise equipment as a means of generating electricity into their business plans.
  • And so the word “sustainable” dies - Killed by the ...
    The larger idea is to build a more sustainable economy, or what Chinese leaders have called a balanced and harmonious society. In that economy, families would not have to save 20 percent of their income in order to pay for schooling and medical care, as many do now. They would instead be abl ...

Green House - USA Today

  • What happens to Starbucks cups? New idea tested
    Most Starbucks paper cups end up in the trash, but the coffee giant is trying to change that. It has completed a six-week pilot program that shows its used cups can be recycled into new ones.
  • Paper piling up at home? Nine tips to cut the clut ...
    Confession: Several rooms in my house have at least one growing pile of papers. I can't seem to beat back the paper monster, whether it's school forms, catalogs, brochures, junk mail. Most of it ends up in my recycling bin, but I need to manage it betterl. So I was pleased to find nine helpful tips ...
  • Study: Plastic bag fee cuts bag use in China by ha ...
    What happens when stores charge for plastic bags? Perhaps it's no big surprise, but a new study shows that people in China -- the world's top consumers of plastic bags -- used half as many bags.
  • Greenpeace sues Dow Chemical, alleging espionage
    Contractors working for Dow Chemical and Sasol North America, a chemical manufacturer, hired private investigators to conduct a two-year corporate espionage campaign against the environmental group Greenpeace, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday in federal district court in Washington.
  • U.N. meeting to tackle climate change begins in Ca ...
    As new data show greenhouse gases have reached record levels, representatives of nearly 200 countries begin gathering today in Cancun, Mexico, for a United conference to combat climate change.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility
    by Stephen Lendman The Pew Charitable Trusts "uses public opinion polling and other research tools to produce reports that track important issues and trends." Its new report is titled, "Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility," focusing on America's burgeoning prison populatio ...
  • Will the Palestinian Authority declare an independ ...
    Either might force international community’s hand, suggests Halper The other day I looked back with sadness on how nothing had changed for the better since my last trip to Palestine three years ago. On that occasion I also visited Gaza, an experience indelibly etched on my memory. The situatio ...
  • Is Christmas Imploding?
    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 ...
  • The THAT Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11
    http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-THAT-Coincidence-Theor-by-John-Waters-101126-985.html THAT the Bush administration benefited so mightily from 9/11, a reasonable person (or investigation) might find it prudent to at least question its possible complicity. Even the minimalist LIHOP (Let It Happ ...
  • US Senate passes the Patriot Act for Food, S510, b ...
    By Rady Ananda Today, the US Senate passed the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25. We can expect to watch the raids on natural foods increase, and we can expect continued malicious prosecution of growers, like the 2-acre gardener in Georgia. Read more �Original post blogged on b2ev ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Closing the doors on youth
    Karen De Blonde is a Social Work student at the University of Manitoba and is completing a field placement at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Today CCPA-MB published her Youth Voices:� She has researched some of the devastating affects of Stephen Harper's crime strategy and she aptly s ...
  • Transforming Saskatchewan's Electrical Future: Usi ...
    The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just released the second in its series on Transforming Saskatchewan's Electrical Future.�Part Two, entitled�Using Electricity More Efficiently�contains some surprising facts about how much electricity is consumed in our provi ...
  • A plea to reverse the ecological destruction of th ...
    On October 15th and 16th, prairie naturalist and award-winning author Trevor Herriot spoke on behalf of the Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Trevor's presentation, "All Flesh is Grass," provides us with both an urgent plea to reverse the ecological destructio ...
  • Flashback to the 1990s: austerity and health care
    Although at the periphery of federal budget debates, transfers the provinces were put in focus again this week. �The Chretien government with Paul Martin as finance minister put Canada through the most recent cuts to program spending to erase the deficit starting in 1996. �Part of the result was cut ...
  • UK students resist Canadian-style austerity
    As CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in today's Globe and Mail, the UK government is trying to cram through the biggest public spending cuts in its history. We’ve seen the movie and it does not end well. That’s what our federal government did in 1995, and the books got balanced all right ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Nukes On The Move
    The Military Is Secretly Trucking Hundreds Of Nuclear Warheads Across The U.S. | Jalopnik Nondescript 18-wheelers are secretly transporting nearly 1,000 of the U.S. Navy’s 100-kiloton W76 nuclear warheads from a submarine base near Seattle to a plant in Texas. Worse news? It’s by an agency recently ...
  • No More Unemployment… Benefits
    Thanks to GOP, Extended Unemployment Benefits Expire Today | Alternet Extended unemployment benefits are about to run out today. If al Qaeda really wanted to hit America where it hurts, this is what they’d do. But there’s no need, since the GOP is poised to do it for them. A letter from 29 senator ...
  • Taken: Bait and Switch
    “Taken” – an exclusive WWH investigation into Human Trafficking WWH – Over the past few months WWH correspondent Diana May-Waldman, with Michelle Close-Mills and Deena Reemiel has been investigating the human trafficking industry. This is the forth article in our series that exposes the global marke ...
  • The Big Picture: Rio’s Drug War
    Rio’s drug war | Boston.com A small war took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between Brazilian forces and hundreds of drug traffickers holed up in the shantytown complex dubbed Complexo do Alemão. After recent efforts by officials to pacify Rio’s drug and gang-related violence ahead of t ...
  • Dems May Have Screwed Up On Health Care Reform
    An Error By Dems May Allow The Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform To Succeed | TPM Conservative foes of the Affordable Care Act want the federal courts to smother the new health care law in its crib. They’ve argued that Democrats failed to erect the proper safeguards to protect the legislation from ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 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 pus ...
  • Wendell Potter Appearances for 'Deadly Spin&#3 ...
    For more information, visit WendellPotter.com AUTHOR APPEARANCES WASHINGTON, DC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The National Press Club 529 14th Street, Northwest 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. WASHINGTON, DC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW 7:00 p.m ...
  • Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
    Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...
  • The Lies of Islamophobia
    The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne�s command, including his ...
  • What's Mike Up To?
    What's Mike Up To?

Salon

  • Michael Jackson's father refiles wrongful death ca ...
    Michael Jackson's father refiled a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday in state court against the doctor charged in his son's death and added a Las Vegas pharmacy as a defendant.
  • Julian Assange lands on Interpol's most wanted lis ...
    Interpol has placed the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks on its most-wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him as part of a drawn-out rape investigation.
  • Joe Scarborough, Michael Bloomberg, Joe Lieberman ...
    Sanctimonious self-appointed "centrists" with no constituency outside of their social circles to launch meaningless-but-well-funded campaign in support of their admiration for themselves, Howard Fineman reports.
  • How our "security" obsession costs us
    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 degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of y ...
  • Is Britain's Iraq war inquiry compromised?
    The British government took unspecified "measures" to protect American interests during the ongoing British investigation into the causes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to a September 2009 State Department cable released by WikiLeaks.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Video: Steven Chu on why China’s bid for clean en ...
    When it comes to innovation, Americans don�t take a back seat to anyone � and we certainly won�t start now.� From wind power to nuclear reactors to high speed rail, China and other countries are moving aggressively to capture the lead.
  • Seeking Links Between Supply Chain Sustainability, ...
    As the world�s nations converge on Cancun this week for the two week UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) a few statistics are in order to put the supply chain and related logistics industry into perspective.� It�s a pretty sure bet (given poor results at COP15 in Copenhagen and recent Co
  • David Livingston - Cancun: Wax, Feathers, and Clim ...
    By David Livingston
  • Gyms Now Producing "Healthy Clean Energy"
    "Healthy clean energy" may soon become a catch-phrase used around the world.� Businesses spanning multiple sectors and countries have begun to integrate exercise equipment as a means of generating electricity into their business plans.
  • And so the word “sustainable” dies - Killed by the ...
    The larger idea is to build a more sustainable economy, or what Chinese leaders have called a balanced and harmonious society. In that economy, families would not have to save 20 percent of their income in order to pay for schooling and medical care, as many do now. They would instead be abl ...

EU Times

  • Georgia nabs Russian ‘spy ring,’ angering Moscow
    Georgia on Friday accused 13 people, including four Russians, of spying for Russia after a four-year investigation. Georgia on Friday accused 13 people, including four Russian citizens, of passing information to Russia’s GRU military spy agency during the brief August 2008 war between the two countr ...
  • Anti-China rally held in Japan after video leak of ...
    About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their anger fuelled by a video capturing a collision between Chinese and Japanese vessels which sparked a diplomatic spat. Brandishing imperialist “Rising Sun” flags, the demonstrators gathered at an open air concert hall in the ce ...
  • UK Gang of “sexual predators” jailed for grooming ...
    ‘Sexual predators’: Gang of Asian men weep as they are jailed for total of 32 years for abusing white girls as young as 12. A gang of Asian âsexual predatorsâ were jailed yesterday for abusing white girls as young as 12. The five men preyed on their victims over several months and threatened them wi ...
  • Why Do Astronauts Wear Space Diapers?
    NASA says this is not a space diaper, but it is. They call it the Maximum Absorbency Garment. But why do astronauts use them? Quite simply, when astronauts are sitting in the Space Shuttle, strapped to their seats and ready to go, they may experience very long delays. Sometimes even hours. And when ...
  • US, Australia seek to influence China’s behavior
    The United States and Australia pledged Saturday to tighten security ties and work together to influence the behavior of an increasingly assertive China. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said their countries would enhance their military and de ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Cancun Climate Change Conference: Less Hype, Same ...
    By Nicolas Loris International climate change talks kicked off on Monday in Cancun, Mexico, and the expectations aren’t nearly as high as they were last year at the summit in Copenhagen, where no country committed to any legal binding agreement. This year in Cancun, leaders from nearly 200 countrie ...
  • Saudi king urged US to ‘cut the head of the Irania ...
    Wikileaks: leaked US documents show Saudi willingness to resisting, rolling back Iranian influence and subversion in Iraq.   Middle East Online , Nov 28, 2010 Nervous about Nuclear Iran PARIS – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, ac ...
  • Hanukkah 2010 Night 1–A Japanese View of the Pales ...
    I had the pleasure yesterday of starting in Los Angeles, having lunch in Las Vegas, dinner in Atlanta, and a nice 2am arrival this morning in Miami. Such is the hub and spoke system of air travel. Yet all is right with the world, as Hanukkah in Miami begins tonight. Tomorrow I will be back with my ...
  • Leaks reveal Pakistan arms fears
    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 nuclear stockpile despite the country’s growing instability. The ...
  • The killing of more physicists in Tehran
    I wrote about an earlier assassination, using similar methods, back in January. Several murders of physicists, using the same techniques? I can only think of one intelligence service with sufficient motive, chutzpah and capability. The recent WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables reveals just how ...

Groklaw

  • Spread Firefox Co-Founder Slams Tech Giants for St ...
    "When I installed iTunes, in order to manage my music collection and sync to my iPod, why did Apple think it was OK to add the iTunes Application Detector plug-in to my Firefox web browser without asking me?" he asked in a blog post. "Why did Microsoft think it was OK to sneak their Windows Live P ...
  • Google search investigation sparked by complaint f ...
    The investigation follows complaints by three companies - Foundem, a British price comparison site; Microsoft-owned Ciao; and the French legal search engine justice.fr - that links to their services appear too low on Google's general search results. They also noted that when Google offers similar se ...
  • With Oracle-SAP trial over, third-party maintenanc ...
    That day could come when -- or, more important, if -- Oracle's case against Rimini Street ever goes to trial. "We didn't really have a ruling on the overall question of third-party maintenance vendors," Josh Greenbaum, principal with Enterprise Applications Consulting, said about the recent verdict ...
  • Alito Dissents from Cert Denial in Music Downloadi ...
    Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. disagrees with the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a dispute involving a 16-year old Texas youth accused of illegally downloading music from the Internet. The teenager, Whitney Harper of San Antonio, claimed she was an "innocent infringer" who wasn't aware the songs had ...
  • Brussels launches formal Google probe
    The investigation, which follows eight months of more informal inquiries by competition officials , will centre on claims that the US search company gave preferential treatment to its own services when ranking search results, and discriminated against competitors. It will also probe the contractual ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • The brilliance and necessity of Julian Assange’s W ...
    Since Bob Morris has pointed out that even some who are typically rebellious in their rhetoric are condemning Julian Assange, I think it’s worth pointing out how historically important Assange (and Wikileaks, of course) could be.  With the caveat that we have all yet to see the effects of what W ...
  • College grad owes nearly $200,000 in loans
    Kelli Space graduated from Northwestern, financed by Sallie Mae. She owes almost $200,000. Tuition there is $14,000 a quarter, or $38,000 for three quarters x 4 years, which totals $152,000. So she wasn’t a spendthrift, not at all. Now she has crippling debt for decades into the future. Student loan ...
  • Ireland forced to take EU ‘bailout
  • Wikileaks to release documents on US bank showing ...
    But first, Ecuador offers asylum to WikiLeaks founder and even liberal and left blogs that should know better are harrumphing like neanderthal conservatives about how Assange has gone beyond the pale and isn’t it tragic that governments can have their sleazy lies and evasions exposed for all to see ...
  • Does the federal government want to “seize” your 4 ...
    Is this for real? Turns out … could be. The government certainly is thinking about getting a piece of the retirement savings pie and is floating plans to have ‘voluntary’ Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRA) whereby the feds would take some of your private retirement money and give you annuities in ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Visser's book on Iraq now available for sale!
    Reidar Visser's magisterial 300-page book A Responsible End? The United States and Iraq, 2005-2010 is now available for sale from Amazon. Actually, it's already selling really well there! Long-time JWN readers will be quite familiar with the work of this smart and dedicated European researcher, who ...
  • U.S. diplomacy in tatters-- and not from Wikileaks
    Our country's ability to influence events around the world is in tatters-- and this was already the case before the latest round of Wikileaks started to dribble out to the public. Yesterday there were "elections" in Egypt and Haiti, two countries deep within the U.S. sphere of influence. Both electi ...
  • Robinson and Brahimi: Wrong on Hamas and women
    Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...
  • Celebrate Laila's book launch today!
    Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...
  • Virginians standing up to Cantor!
    A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Living in Limbo
    Refugee Claimant from Cameroon is in Immigration Purgatory When Simo Sandrine Téclaire arrived at Dorval airport as an accepted immigrant to Canada in 2006, she was surprised to learn that her file was not going to be accepted after all. Th ...
  • Trial of John Graham Native Land Defender Begins
    Reports from Rapid, RAPID CITY, SD (Nov. 29) Trial of John Graham, Native Land Defender Begins: Reports from Rapid City (scroll for update) As many who have been following this case know, John Graham has been charged with the 1970's murder of ...
  • My Convocation/Protest Against the University of P ...
    Forgive me for my self-indulgence, but I thought this was a pretty funny photo. The odd duck in there is yours truly at the graduation ceremony in Toronto.
  • CSIS Director's Comments made Public by Wikieaks
    When the Director of CSIS, Jim Judd, sat down with an official from the US Department of State in July 2008, he probably didn't know that the detail of the conversation would be shared with the over 3 million people with clearance to view US documents classified “Secret”. He certainly couldn't have ...
  • Indigenous Environmental Network Live Stream and D ...
    MEDIA ADVISORY WHO: Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), in collaboration with Global Justice Ecology Project, Abya Yala Nexus and Earth Cycles WHAT: COP16 Live video and audio stream and daily 1 hour video/radio show WHERE: RedRoadCancun.com WHEN: Monday, Nov 29 to Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Daily ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why isn't Julian Assange in Guantanamo? Where are ...
    Peter King, a member of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the latest release "manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
  • Glenn Beck: a clown by moonlight
    "...there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight...." Lon Chaney Sr.(hat to James Kunstler)David Seaton's News LinksFirst, once again, it is important to remember that it is central to Glenn Beck's message that nothing in it make much, or sometimes any, sense at all. This is not some sort ...
  • Quote of the day
    "In today's world five times more money is being spent on drugs for male virility and on silicone implants for women than is being invested in research for a cure to Alzheimer's disease. This means that in a few years the world is going to be full of old women with big tits and old men with stiff co ...
  • Glenn Beck done by a duck
    It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me – Glenn BeckDavid Seaton's News LinksHere is a marvelous video by Jonathan McIntosh of Rebellious Pixels that explains the Tea Party, Beck and Fox better than an ...
  • Lenny Bruce, Picasso, Christine O’Donnell and the ...
    Picasso: (Children don't try this at home) Lenny Bruce: (Children don't try this at home)Once upon a time a� proud samurai of legendary ferocity approached an elderly zen master famous for his wisdom and asked him if heaven and hell existed. The ancient monk looked at the warrior with withering ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – At least 5,000 Americans – most of them young children, the elderly and the sick – die every year from eating contaminated food, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Environmental, Health, Business and Public Policy ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – Six new members have taken seats on the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, collectively bringing with them decades of experience in environmental activism,... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to ...
    November 29th, 2010 tbody { border:0; } Download the PDF The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House United States House of Representatives The... [[ This is a ...
  • Europe Steps Up to Protect Babies from BPA
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202-667-6982; Leeann Brown: leeann@ewg.org Bisphenol-A (BPA) will be banned from baby bottles come June of 2011, announced the European Union’s executive commission on Thursday. Citing concerns of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Black Farmers Finally See Justice
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON - Yesterday (Nov 19) it was announced that the $1.15 billion awarded black farmers in the Pigford settlement that arose from decades of discriminatory practices at the U.S. Department of... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • A Newly Discovered Reason to Avoid Fast Food and P ...
    Perfluoroalkyls, which are chemicals used to keep grease from leaking through fast food wrappers, are being ingested by people through their food and showing up as contaminants in blood. Perfluoroalkyls are stable, synthetic chemicals that repel oil, grease, and water. They are used in surface prot ...
  • Amazing Video Animation of the Inner Life of a Cel ...
    This animation was designed to take cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell. �It illustrates the mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus.
  • Green Tea Extracts Plus Vitamin D Boost Bone Healt ...
    Green tea polyphenols combined with a form of vitamin D called alfacalcidol could boost bone structure and strength, according to a new study in mice. The mixture may reverse damage to bones caused by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced chronic inflammation, which could in turn reduce the risk of ost ...
  • How to Live Longer - Reduce Your Need for This
    A new study recently compared patient-physician relationships and relief of symptoms between complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional primary care (COM). The study was part of a Swiss evaluation of complementary and alternative medicine. Researchers looked at more than 6,000 p ...
  • The Worst Type of Fish You Can Eat
    Fish farms are killing off wild salmon. Norwegian policies are making farmed seafood unsustainable and unhealthy. Open cage salmon farms, used to raise what is perhaps the most popular type of farmed fish, pose numerous problems for the environment and public health.

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Peru releases footage of uncontacted tribe
    A group of Nanti people from Peru. © Survival Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, Indepa, has released footage of uncontacted members of the Nanti tribe living in the remote Peruvian Amazon. The footage was taken during an expedition led by Indepa to the Kugapakori Nahua Nanti Reserve in sou ...
  • Kalahari Bushman appeals to African Commission
    Moeti's grandmother Xoroxloo died of thirst © Survival A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help. 

Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference e ...
  • Canada endorses UN Declaration on indigenous peopl ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival Canada has endorsed the UN Declaration on indigenous peoples three years after the declaration was approved by the General Assembly. In a statement released last Friday, Canadaâs Indian and Northern Affairs department said, âThe Government of Canada wou ...
  • International NGOs unite against oil giants
    Uncontacted Indians' territory in Peru is being invaded by oil companies. © Anon Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru. ...
  • Survival wins Hollywood award for tribal rights fi ...
    'Mine' has been viewed by over 650,000 people worldwide. © Survival Survival International’s film ‘Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain’ has won the award for ‘Best Short’ in the category of International Human Rights at the Artivist Film Festival to be held in Hollywood. ‘Mine’, narrated by Briti ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Canada Health Act rules ignore human nature
    The Quebec College of Physicians is shocked, shocked to learn that some doctors are accepting cash payments to jump patients up the surgery waiting list. And federal Liberal health critic Ujjal Dosanjh claimed that he "could never in my wildest nightmare imagine this happening here."
  • Haiti's long agony continues unabated
    At that moment on Sunday, the candidates and many Haitians were saying that they deserve better than the corrupt, incompetent, uncaring administration Haitians have come to expect.
  • Freedom of speech under attack
    Suppressing freedom of speech is a practice most Canadians associate with Burmese generals and Robert Mugabe -not Ontario universities, provincial courts or federal cabinet ministers.
  • Diplomacy will never be the same
    There's a place for hypocrisy in human affairs, and for secrecy too. Right now, however, that place is not the U.S. State Department, which has just had the first few of a quarter-million or more leaked private "cables" published on the Internet. Diplomacy will never be the same.
  • How did the STM flub Friday so miserably?
    Yesterday's sunny mild weather made it easy to forget Friday morning's nasty ice. But many thousands of Montrealers, especially West Islanders, will remember for a long time, at some risk to their blood pressure, Friday's shocking display of ineptitude by the Societe de transport de Montreal ...

Food World Order

  • food prices expected to rise sharply
    from cnbc: Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven't seen cotton prices this high since after the Civil War. Soybeans are up. Oil is up. Metals are up. So are coffee and cocoa. In this era of massive liquidity, everything is up, except for food prices ...
  • despite massive protests, senate passes 'food safe ...
    from natural news: The new Food Tyranny Act - called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate - has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of th ...
  • mcdonald's & pepsi to help write uk health policy
    exclusive: dept of health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol & diet-related disease from guardian: The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars an ...
  • produce kids grow is forbidden fruit in chicago lu ...
    kids grow veggies but can't eat them from chicago tribune: It's harvest time in Chicago Public School gardens full of chubby tomatoes, heavy squash and fragrant basil. These urban oases, carefully tended by teachers, students and volunteers, range from several square feet to several acres of fru ...
  • forbes admits it was 'wrong on monsanto, really wr ...
    from gmwatch: The only dubious aspect of this article is the suggestion that Monsanto's fortunes might be saved by its new soybean seed with "high levels of omega-3 fatty acids," which "could appeal to health-conscious consumers." We doubt that Monsanto soybeans (if GM) and health-conscious consumer ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

  • .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
    Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
  • Child Rapists Protected By The State
    In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
    Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02

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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • PMQs: Best line
    PMQs isn't a serious arena of politics which is why we've stopped bothering to listen most of the time. However, the panto season hasn't kicked off yet. And in the absence of a former Blue Peter presenter in Cinderella... We do have to acknowledge the great put down of Ed Miliband by David Cam ...
  • Brothers in arms: The people and the British press ...
    Blogging was a little lighter yesterday. Those of us you who, like me, are patriots who have turned to the blogosphere as our battlefield of choice upon which to the fight our undemocratic future under the tyranny of European Empire dictatorship might empathise. But we've all - collectively - ...
  • Ireland bailout: Playing Statler and Waldorf to th ...
    As Ireland dies as a sovereign nation and we, the people of Britain have to cough up to bailout their European misadventure, we thought we'd read the House of Commons debate on the bailout - so you don't need to. We've given you the potted highlights. And we've taken the opportunity to play Statl ...
  • Lord Monckton: Was he right? (clue: yes)
    This time last year, a rather British eccentric came to global prominence. He had been heard of in some circles, but to most members of the public, he was a name that was new to their consciousness. His name, wrote simply: Lord Monckton. He became a YouTube sensation after warning that the ...
  • Quote of the Day: 29th November 2010
    "I strongly suspect that Mr Cameron wants to make his coalition into a merger between “centre ground” conservatives and “centre ground” Lib Dems. That would leave many Conservative voters with no choice but to support UKIP and many Lib Dem voters no choice but to support Labour." - Lord Tebbi ...

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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Fallout Continues from WikiLeaks Cables Interpol issued Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, a âred noticeâ Wednesday in connection with alleged sex crimes in Sweden. The New York Times reports that being placed on the red notice list is not … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Oregon Teen Accused of Bomb Plot Pleads Not Guilty Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born Oregon teen arrested last Friday in an FBI sting operation for plotting to detonate a car bomb at a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, pleaded … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Oregon Teen Arrested in FBI Sting for Plotting Attack A Somali-born teenager was arrested in an FBI sting operation on Friday night in Portland, Oregon, for attempting to detonate a car bomb at a downtown Christmas-tree lighting ceremony.  Mohamed Osman … Continue reading →
  • Upcoming Event of Note
    The American Constitution Society’s New York Lawyer Chapter and Fordham University School of Law Student Chapter, along with the  New York State Bar Association on Civil Rights, present a discussion entitled, “Trial and Terror: A Discussion of When, Where and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Belgium Charges Nine with Terror Ties Nine people were charged Wednesday in Belgium, accused of having links to terror groups after two reportedly unrelated sweeps of arrests yesterday, one against a âChechen-linked Islamist groupâ and one against a group believed … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 12 Open Source Android Applications Worth Checking ...
    According to Gartner, Android is all set to become one among the most preferred mobile phone OS out there and�burgeoning�Android Market is a sign of things to come. Already some 100,000 apps and growing. But how many of these applications are open source after all? There are no reliable statistics. ...
  • 7 Brilliant GNOME GTK Themes
    One of the most common queries I get from our readers is regarding the availability of quality themes in Ubuntu. As you all know there are plenty of themes out there and the difficult thing is to choose good from bad. So here is our collection of 6 brilliant GNOME GTK themes you should definitely gi ...
  • Impressive New Look Evolution Mockups
    In Linux, a lot of design makeover starts with a mockup. We have already experienced it first hand with the clever redesign of Nautilus called Nautilus Elementary. The following Evolution mockups are so impressive that I really hope someday these changes will be implemented in Evolution partially at ...
  • Divergence, Orta, Equinox - Three Awesome GTK Them ...
    Themes for Ubuntu and Linux are truly coming of age. Without any doubt, Faenza icon theme is easily the best I have used in my Ubuntu. Here is a collection of three cool GTK themes namely Divergence, Orta and Equinox that are the best in my list of GTK themes to use with Faenza. We have already feat ...
  • How to Install VLC 1.1.5 in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid ...
    VLC 1.1.5 is the latest and�fifth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. Latest VLC comes with a number of important bug fixes and other security related improvements. Here is how you install latest VLC 1.1.5 in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid using PPA. What's New in VLC 1.1.5? Two and a half mon ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • EMERGENCY UPDATE: WIKILEAKS BANK DATA WILL BRING G ...
    WIKILEAKS DATA TO LEAD TO MAJOR BANK COLLAPSE IN US SEISMIC SHOCK TO GLOBAL ECONOMY BANKS WILL SHUT,  BUSINESS GRIND TO A HALT, EMERGENCY LAWS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED BANK RUN PLANNED FOR DECEMBER 7th COULD ALSO COLLAPSE FINANCIAL SYSTEM EURO UNRAVELLING FASTER THAN EXPECTED BUT A WELL MANAGED EUROZONE ...
  • Financal Times admits Europe is facing fiscal unio ...
    [Editor's Note: not even fiscal union looks likely to save the euro now even if it could be accomplished on time] Europe is edging towards the unthinkable By Wolfgang Münchau Published: November 28 2010 20:49 | Last updated: November 28 2010 20:49 “The eurozone is manoeuvring itself into a position ...
  • ECB pledge to buy bonds seals euro’s doom
    The meltdown of the eurozone has slowed this morning following the announcement by the European Central Bank that it will buy bonds from governments in what is also seen as an indirect admission that the market does not want to buy bonds. Because the ECB’s bond buying programme will stoke inflation, ...
  • EURO CRISIS ACCELERATES: Markets shun Portugal, Sp ...
    Analysis: Is the euro zone running out of time on debt crisis? By Luke Baker BRUSSELS | Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:51am EST BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The euro zone debt  crisis is moving at a such a pace, with pressure now mounting on several countries simultaneously, that European Union institutions may find i ...
  • Portugal in line for next bailout as debt default ...
    EU Faces More Bailouts as Euro Contagion Spreads to Portugal: Euro Credit By John Fraher and James Hertling – Nov 30, 2010 10:20 AM GMT+0100 Investorsâ attention will soon turn to the European Central Bank, whose Governing Council will decide on Dec. 2 whether it can afford to stick to a plan to wit ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Stick a fork in Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, they&#82 ...
    By Les Visible As I understand it, airlines operate on small margins of profit. Maybe I’m wrong but this seems to be the reason they keep cutting services to reduce costs and also charging for things that used to be free. I think you can stick a fork in the American airline industry. You can [...]
  • Gordon Duff: Unconstitutional, Time to End the Sca ...
    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Let’s begin with one fact. We are using expensive, dangerous and illegal scanners in our airports for one reason. A year ago, single “terrorist,” really a moronic dupe with a defective bomb in his crotch was escorted onto a plane for Detroit, no search, no p ...
  • CIA, Mossad and Soros Behind Wikileaks
    By Wayne Madsen WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to ...
  • Eliot Spitzer: “The FED is a Ponzi Scheme Ru ...
  • US Government seizure of the internet has begun; D ...
    By Mike Adams 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 “Departmen ...

Veterans Today

  • ALAN HART : THE FOLLY OF THE ISRAELI AND ARAB APPR ...
    Is Wikileaks being manipulated by an intelligence service? Alan Hart The Wikileaks revelation that some Persian Gulf Arab leaders wanted (and still want?) America to attack Iran is confirmation of what some of us thought we knew – that Arab leaders are not merely impotent but as dangerously deluded ...
  • WIKILEAKS – MORE ISRAELI GAME THEORY WARFARE?
    When Israeli mathematician Robert J. Aumann received the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic science for his work on game theory, he conceded, “the entire school of thought that we have developed here in Israel” has turned “Israel into the leading authority in this field.”
  • Those Were The Days
    THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND, I THOUGHT THEY’D NEVER END Like a lot of people that read our online publication, Veterans Today, I sometimes get tired of politicians, politics, draft dodgers, bureaucrats and, to borrow a term from General Norman Scharzkopf, the daily “bovine scatology” that our wor ...
  • Why Do Elections Have Consequences Only When the G ...
    Senators are only elected by their own states and Representatives are only elected by their districts but that didn’t seem to matter as the GOP elected decided they knew what the American people wanted no matter how they voted. Seems a bit odd that this happened and now, it is back to “what the Amer ...
  • GORDON DUFF: SELLING WIKILEAKS, SELLING HATE FOR ...
    Wikileaks has divided the world into two camps, those who love Wikileaks as a slap in the face for the United States and those who recognize the stench of Wikileaks for what it is, simple Israeli propaganda. Millions around the world look at Wikleaks as poor, harried Julian Assange and his personal ...

electric politics

  • A Once and Future Country
    How strange that we Americans refuse to take responsibility for our future. Instead of recognizing our political system for the broken shambles that it is, and trying to fix it, we're waiting, seemingly paralyzed, for some kind of savior or external intervention. Good luck with that! To talk about ...
  • American Presidential Dictatorship
    When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his lates ...
  • Our Unsecure Border
    There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-state ...
  • A Postcard From Paris
    In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...
  • The Anger Index
    You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
    To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
  • Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
    The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...

k2p blog

  • UK MP’s continue with their expense claim sh ...
    A list of 1,574 expense claims by UK MP's were rejected by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) in the space of five months, and shows that politicians have attempted to claim back money for their mortgage repayments, first-class travel and excessive hospitality.
  • Settled Science? Smoking declines, lung cancer cas ...
    A new survey in the Upsala- Örebro healthcare region has found that though smoking has been declining since the 1970's, the number of cases of lung cancer have increased by 41% since the mid 90's.
  • Nasa/University of Colorado establish Sun-Climate ...
    The "settled science" of climate change seems to be opening up to real science at last. Nasa and the University of Colorado are establishing a new research centre dedicated to studying the effect of the sun on climate.
  • OAS/CARICOM accept Haiti election results: Was vot ...
    To have a result - of any kind and whether valid or not - seems to be more important than having a proper election result for OAS and CARICOM (Organisation of American States and the Caribbean Community).
  • Earliest winter in 50 years
    In the Östergötland region of Sweden winter has not come as early as in 2010 in over 50 years. It was back in 1965 when the winter came almost as early as this year.

Left Foot Forward

  • As Scotland gets greater taxation powers, is North ...
    On the day the coalition unveiled its formal legislative proposals to give Holyrood greater tax varying powers, a group of business leaders in Northern Ireland have called for Stormont to be given the power to set its own corporation tax.
  • IDS misleads The Sun on out-of-work benefits
    Iain Duncan Smith has again misused statistics on Britain's welfare bill. He wrongly told The Sun that the out-of-work benefit bill was a "huge reason" for the deficit.
  • UK Statistics Authority asked to look at governmen ...
    Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham today told the Commons he had written to the UK Statistics Authority to look at the government's use of statistics in school sport. Mr Burnham was speaking during the Opposition Day School Sports Funding Debate, in which he implored education secretary Michael ...
  • Anti-cuts networks are more flexible and effective ...
    Yesterday marked the continuation and escalation of a campaign led by the decentralised activist network UKUncut against major UK businesses who fail to meet their full tax obligations. The first target, Vodafone, was actioned at numerous sites across the country and done with a level of organisatio ...
  • Alexander criticises overly optimistic private sec ...
    Shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander gave a speech to Demos today in which he acknowledged Labour's mistakes in communicating their response to the recession and criticised Conservative attempts to portray the opposition as hoping for a double dip recession. He explained that Labour ...

Whistleblowers Protection

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Top Ten Lies About Senate Bill 510
    Natural News By Mike Adams The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it’s headed to become law. It’s being hailed as a “breakthrough” achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-bo ...
  • World Aids Fraud Special Broadcast Wednesday 7pm E ...
    The Intel Hub News Network Join The Intel Hub News Network for a World Aids Day Special Broadcast. We have some exciting guests lined up including Robert Scott Bell, Terry Michael, Joan Shenton, Liam Scheff, and more to be announced. With your hosts Bob Tuskin, Shepard Ambellas and more! Listen Here ...
  • Interpol Puts WikLeaks Founder On Most-Wanted List
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  • CNN Aboard USS George Washington – Censored ...
    The Intel Hub A CNN correspondent is currently aboard the USS George Washington but most people in America are UNABLE to view the live updates. Apparently, a US ship taking part in war games exercises in Korean waters is not important enough for the American people to view. What is going on in Korea ...
  • FBI Fabricates Terror Plot?
    The FBI has arrested a nineteen year old man who they claim wanted to denote a Christmas tree bomb in Portland. But did officials trick and entrap the guy just to win national security points? RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports. Related Posts: FBI Arrests Supposed Terrorist in Oregon Bomb Plot Was FBI ...

FRS

  • Haiti election polls closed in chaos
    Haiti election polls closed in chaos, posted with vodpod November 29 -Haiti’s voting stations have closed amid the chaos and confusion that has marked most of the election. ————————————————————————————– Haiti on edge as credibility doubts taint elections Mon, Nov 29 2010 By Pascal Fletcher PORT-AU-P ...
  • Afghanistan: Measuring what the US/NATO occupation ...
    29 November 2010, A World to Win News Service Recent  reports by both human rights groups and Afghan officials indicate that violence against women in Afghanistan is on the rise and that this has been the trend since the beginning of the occupation of Afghanistan by the U.S. and other Nato countries ...
  • India: CPI(Maoist) exposes government ‘devel ...
    Communist Party of India(Maoist) Central Committee November 27, 2010,  Press Release Unified Action Plan to ‘Develop’ Maoist Stronghold Districts is not Aimed to Solve Any Basic Problems of the People, But to Crush the Revolutionary Movement! Punish Traitors Severely, Who are Involved in Scams of Bi ...
  • Saudi Arabia to hire 100,000 Nepali migrants in ne ...
    Himalayan News Service, November 29, 2010 Nepali workers in demand KATHMANDU: Nepalis joining overseas jobs may rise in 2011 following the increased demand from destination countries. “Current demand trend shows there will be a sudden boost early next year,” said Manohar Khanal, director at the Depa ...
  • Al-Jazeera: Nepali migrant workers feel pain of ec ...
    Foreign workers are bearing the brunt of the current economic downturn – they’re often the first to lose their jobs. With migrant workers sending home remittances of almost 400 billion dollars last year the subsequent loss of income could be devastating for many. There are 2 and a half million Nepa ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Getting shot at by Israelis in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
    Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine. So today we expressed our solidarity by painting messages of support on a wall in Beit Hanoun and demonstrating against the ongoing siege of Gaza. Despite this entire event being completely peaceful on our end, Israelis shot ...
  • My mum interviewed by Salem News
    A lovely story by Salem News in which my mother is interviewed. It is indeed the boundless, unconditional love that she gave to me that is responsible for any good deed I have done in my life. If only every child were given the same, we would have a better world within one generation.� Thank [...]
  • Truth Behind Blockade of Gaza – As Revealed ...
    News Release – For immediate release – Thursday, October 21, 2010 Due to Gisha’s Freedom of Information Act Petition on Gaza Closure: Israel Reveals Documents related to the Gaza Closure Policy à After 1.5 years of obstruction, today Israel revealed the procedures governing the closure of Gaza and t ...
  • Road to Hope convoy stalled at Egyptian border
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Road to Hope convoy stalled at Egyptian border The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy continues its role in the international community’s collective mission to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver desperately needed aid to the people of Palestine in Gaza.  The convoy c ...
  • Road to Hope Convoy Press Release – November ...
    PRESS RELEASE 1 November 2010 Road to Hope (R2H) Convoy in Positive Dialogue with Egyptian Officials Access to Gaza via Egypt looking likely � Arriving at the Libyan/Egyptian border on 26 October, 2010, the Road to Hope Convoy continues to wait at the border.   However, over the last two days increa ...

    Blacklisted News

  • No hiding place from new U.S. Army rifles that use ...
    The U.S. army is to begin using a futuristic rifle that fires radio-controlled 'smart' bullets in Afghanistan for the first time, it has emerged.
  • Wikileaks "Cablegate" Psychological Operation Just ...
    This recent round of so-called leaked documents from Wikileaks now dubbed "Cablegate" shows further confirmation that it is simply a tool being used in a massive psychological warfare operation against the people of the world.
  • A Danish-British security company admits selling I ...
    The firm, named G4s, sells the devices to the detention facilities in the occupied West Bank, which provide the necessary means for torture of the Palestinian prisoners, Berlingske Tidende reported on Nov. 23.
  • Vladimir Putin’s Vision Of A Socialist European Fr ...
    Back during the Cold War, one of the great fears was that the Soviet Union would invade western Europe and absorb it into their socialist empire.� But now could essentially that exact same thing happen in the name of free trade?�
  • WikiLeaks should be designated a ‘foreign terroris ...
    Washington’s biggest state secrets – from Arab leaders privately begging for air strikes on Iran to American diplomats spying on UN officials – were laid bare Sunday in a massive online document dump.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profo ...
    In a national broadcast exclusive interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Paper ...
  • “We Have Not Seen Anything Yet”: Guard ...
    “In the coming days, we are going to see some quite startling disclosures about Russia, the nature of the Russian state, and about bribery and corruption in other countries, particularly in Central Asia,” says Investigations Executive Editor David Leigh at the Guardian, one of the three newspapers g ...
  • Headlines for November 30, 2010
    U.S. Launches Criminal Probe of WikiLeaks, Obama Proposes Salary Freeze For 2 Million Federal Workers, Millions of Unemployed Workers Set to Lose Jobless Benefits, Big Polluters Exempted From Environmental Oversight, Oxfam: Climate-Related Disasters Killed 21,000 in 2010, Climate Change Talks Open I ...
  • Leak: Pakistan’s President Feared Military M ...
  • Gunmen Kill Christian in Mosul

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran's independent stance is hugely popular among ...
    Summary: The latest batch of Wikileaks revelations give the impression that, next to Israel, it's the Arab states that are most energetically pressuring the U.S. to attack Iran. In terms of the real threat to Iran, that 's definitely putting the cart before the horse. source: CASMIIread more
  • Now we know. America really doesn't care about inj ...
    Summary: It's not that US diplomats don't understand the Middle East; it's just that they've lost all sight of injustice. Vast amounts of diplomatic literature prove that the mainstay of Washington's Middle East policy is alignment with Israel, that its principal aim is to encourage the Arabs ...
  • Arab leaders "flatter themselves", compete with ea ...
    Summary: wikileaksWhat is very striking about all these documents on the Middle East is that the Arab people are not going to be surprised that much. They all along have known that they are ruled by a bunch of liars and deceivers who go to extra lengths to appease and please the United States. W ...
  • Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter
    Summary: Juan ColeAs for Iran, US intelligence still cannot find evidence of a nuclear weapons program, and the UN inspectors again certified spring, 2010, that no nuclear material has been diverted from the Natanz facility to non-civilian purposes. But the cable shed light on the thinking of hi ...
  • Embassy cables reveal how US relentlessly cajoles ...
    Summary: The cables illuminate other aspects of the American approach. It is clear US officials are not averse to pressurising, even bullying, third countries to attain their policy objectives. It is also clear that, lacking an embassy in Tehran and with a limited American presence of any kind i ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Clustered Beauty of Hydra A -Clue to the Fate ...
    A stunningly beautiful galaxy cluster 840 million light years from Earth gets its name from the strong radio source, Hydra A, that originates in a galaxy near the center of the cluster. Optical observations show a few hundred galaxies in...
  • Earth's Volcanic Epicenter - A Sweeping Arc of 160 ...
    The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East. The Kamchatka River and the surrounding Central Valley are flanked by large volcanic belts, containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active. The peninsula has the...
  • Image of the Day: Iceland's Mystery Boulder
    After the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupted earlier this year dusrupting dily life throughout Europe, the heat it generated melted the adjacent glaciers, exposing the rocks and debris that now litter the valley. This huge unearthly rock, 15 meters tall...
  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
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  • Prehistoric Wind Preserved Secrets of Life and Dea ...
    The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology...

Natural News

  • Ten food safety lies they didn't tell you about wi ...
    (NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it's headed to become law. It's being hailed as a "breakthrough" achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens ...
  • Industry bought Congressional votes to pass S. 510 ...
    (NaturalNews) Despite an incredible outpouring of public opposition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act", or S. 510, the Senate voted 73 to 25 to pass the bill anyway. And data presented by Maplight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, shows ...
  • US Senator caught admitting that lame duck session ...
    (NaturalNews) The recent passage of Senate Bill 510, the so-called "Food Safety Modernization Act" took place during the Senate's "lame duck" session -- the time after the fall elections, but before the new members of Congress have been installed, where Congress reconvenes to discuss various busines ...
  • List of U.S. Senators who voted for S 510 Food Saf ...
    (NaturalNews) Senate Bill S 510 - the "Food Safety Modernization Act" - was passed by the U.S. Senate today (http://www.naturalnews.com/030576_Food_Safety_S_510.html). If signed into law, it would unleash a new era of FDA tyranny over farmers, food producers and even small family farms, many of whic ...
  • Despite massive protests, US Senate passes S 510 F ...
    (NaturalNews) The new Food Tyranny Act -- called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate -- has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of the f ...

Threat Level

  • Jury Seated in Landmark Xbox Modding Trial
    LOS ANGELES — Opening statements in a criminal Xbox 360 modding case are set to begin here early Wednesday, a day after 12 jurors were picked to decide the outcome of the first-of-its kind trial. It took five hours to empanel a jury, whose members include a university student dean, music engineer, l ...
  • Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLea ...
    The international police organization Interpol has issued a Red Notice for the arrest of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, in connection with a sex crime investigation in Sweden. A Red Notice is kind of international wanted poster seeking the provisional arrest of a fugitive, with an eye towards ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Cablegate: The Taiwanese Animated Versi ...
    The Taiwanese news-animation company NMA has distilled the global diplomatic furor sparked by the State Department cable leak into a 90-second computer generated highlight reel. Think of it as worldwide anarchy in a CGI format. See Also: Cyberattack Against WikiLeaks Was Weak Newspapers Reveal Dip ...
  • First Criminal Trial Over Game-Console Mod Chips B ...
    LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man is set to go before a jury here Tuesday on criminal charges of violating copyright law by modifying Xbox 360 consoles to play pirated games. In the first trial of its kind, defendant Matthew Crippen is charged with two counts of violating the anti-circumventi ...
  • Cyberattack Against WikiLeaks Was Weak
    In the first test of WikiLeaks’ resiliency since a staff rebellion earlier this year, the organization recovered within hours from a distributed denial-of-service attack during its rollout of leaked State Department cables Sunday. But experts who monitored the disruptive traffic say the attack was ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Prosecution of Wikileaks
    Just because you can leak embarrassing, classified national security information doesn't mean you should. And just because the American government may be able to prosecute someone for it doesn't mean they should, either. But in the case of the Wikileaks, prosecution - to the extent that U.S. law a ...
  • The Wikileaks of President McCain
    To be sure, Wikileaks' release this weekend of a quarter million diplomatic cables is a devastating blow to the national security interests and foreign policy of the United States. And the secret assessments they contain regarding U.S. allies and potential partners like Germany's Angela Merkel ("av ...
  • Oregon Plots Reveal Dual Terror Threats
    This weekend, Americans learned of a new domestic terror threat in Oregon. According to the FBI, Somali-born student Mohamed Osman Mohamud planned to detonate a bomb during the annual Christmas tree lighting in Portland. But while all eyes are now fixed on the tree lighting plot, down the road in ...
  • Nixon with Lipstick
    What's the difference between Richard Nixon and Sarah Palin? Lipstick. (Well, that and military service, graduate education, a keen intellect, years of national political experience and a proven grasp of policy foreign and domestic.) But as a fellow "serial collector of resentments", the half-ter ...
  • Tom Delay Decries the Criminalization of Politics. ...
    On the day of his booking on conspiracy and money laundering charges five years ago, disgraced House Majority Tom Delay proclaimed, "Let people see Christ through me." Now a convicted felon, Delay isn't turning the other cheek but instead decrying "the criminalization of politics." If that sounds ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Iran-Nuke NIE Stopped Bush on War
    A US intelligence estimate refuting claims about Iran's nuke plans killed George W. Bush's war option, reports Ray McGovern. November 22, 2010
  • Pat-Down Fury vs. Perfect Security
    America's post-9/11 hysteria may finally be abating as over-the-top airport security outrages the public, says Ivan Eland. November 23, 2010
  • A Dark Humor Pervades US Politics
    Victorious Tea Party Republicans bring to Washington not just their ideas but their own curious reality, observes Don Monkerud. November 22, 2010
  • Obama's Frantic Mideast Peace Gamble
    President Obama begs Israel's Likud government to return to peace talks, offering many incentives, notes Lawrence Davidson. November 22, 2010
  • America's 'Christian Nation' Myth
    A new poll finds a majority of Americans believing the Founders created a "Christian nation," laments Rev. Howard Bess. November 22, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Will the PA Declare a State… or Collapse? (Stuart ...
    It has always been vitally important to counter Israeli propaganda. Abbas should have set up a professional communications unit, trained and funded Palestinian embassies around the world ...
  • Israel's eased blockade 'still crippling' Gaza (B ...
    There has been "little improvement" for people in Gaza since Israel announced it was easing its economic blockade of the territory six months ago. That is the verdict of a new report by a ...
  • Childcare experts condemn police treatment of Pale ...
    Sixty Israeli childcare experts and literary figures have sent an open letter to the prime minister and attorney general calling on the authorities to monitor more closely police interact ...
  • Top 10 Wikileaks Palestine Nuggets (Yousef Munayy ...
    This post will focus on the most recent leaks as they relate to Palestine, and below are 10 of the more interesting passages relating to Palestine, the Palestinians and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Note that quotes in the text below are from the documents themselves, which may be paraphrased su ...
  • Israel can't put occupation up for immoral referen ...
    Israeli morality at its best: A manifestly immoral question is formulated for a referendum, and insult is added to injury because only we Israelis, members of the chosen people, will deci ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Delay jurors, take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’
    As Public Citizen’s offices close for the Thanksgiving holiday, the jurors in the money-laundering and conspiracy trial of former U.S. House GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay had still not come back with a verdict. At the end of the day on Tuesday they informed the judge they were “making progress,” ...
  • Texas scores a “D-” in its regulatory process
    As the Texas Sunset Advisory Committee takes a look at our environmental regulatory agencies this interim, perhaps they should consider Texas’ grade in a new report released by the Institute for Policy Integrity – a “D minus” the lowest possible grade of all the states reviewed because of  inadequ ...
  • Clean Cars Could Save Texans over $16 million on T ...
    As Texas families prepare for one of the busiest travel holidays of the year, a new Environment Texas report finds that more fuel efficient cars could save Texans over $16 million at the gas pump this Thanksgiving holiday alone. The report was released as new federal fuel efficiency and global warmi ...
  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
  • 20,000 Sacrificed In Annual Blood Offering To Corp ...
    The nation looked on in reverence Friday as 20,000 citizens were decapitated, dismembered, and burned alive in the name of Corporate America, continuing the age-old annual rite to ensure bounteous profits in the coming fiscal year. . . . The blood offering follows last week’s Feast of Increasing Mar ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA to make astrobiology announcement
    NASA is planning to hold a conference on Thursday to discuss an astrobiological discovery. The conference will take place at NASA's headquarters and c...
  • Japanese company plays Mozart to bananas
    In an effort to produce sweeter produce a company in Japan has been playing Mozart to its bananas. They didn't stop there either, a whole range of fru...
  • Man escapes jail, squeezes through bars
    US authorities have been left baffled after a prison inmate escaped by squeezing through the bars. 23-year-old Kristopher Allen White somehow managed ...
  • 'Big cat' blamed for livestock attacks
    A panther or other large cat is being blamed for a series of livestock attacks in Wales. Police discovered a paw print at the site of one of the attac...
  • Pope urges respect for embryos
    Pope Benedict XVI has made a statement during a vespers service requesting respect for embryos. The Pope emphasised the need to respect human life fro...

Grassroots

Climate

GreenBiz

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

Reuters Global

  • Denuclearising Pakistan
    At about the time WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables, including one related to a secret attempt to remove enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor, a top Pakistani military official held a briefing for journalists that focused on U.S.-Pakistan ties.
  • WikiLeaks Scandal: Is the United Nations a Den of ...
    U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has dismissed suggestions that her diplomats are part-time spies, as suggested by the latest batch of documents released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
  • Wikileaks on Pakistan
    In the Wikileaks reports, the most significant feature for Pakistan may be evidence of rising tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran
  • Are the Taliban distancing themselves from al Qaed ...
    "For the first time, a member of the former Taliban government blames Osama bin Laden for the Sept. 11 attacks."
  • Is Kosovo ready for visa-free travel to the Europe ...
    Citizens of Kosovo want to travel to the European Union without visas. Will the EU consider it? Or will concerns over illegal migration and border security prevail?

Booman Tribune

  • If it Pisses Off Liberals...
    Greg Sargent says that the Pentagon review of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy "will leave GOP moderates with no reasons left to oppose repeal." Okay, let's assume that the there actually are some GOP moderates. No, wait. Check that. Why would we assume such a silly thing? The reasons to oppose ...
  • Only Homeowners Should Vote
    That's what this Tea Party bozo believes: Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips said denying the right to vote to those who do not own property "makes a lot of sense" during a weekly radio program. "The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right ...
  • The Last Time
    From the president's press statement after meeting with congressional leaders (via email): Now, none of this is going to be easy. We have two parties for a reason. There are real philosophical differences - deeply held principles to which each party holds. And although the atmosphere in todays ...
  • Pretzel Logic
    Americans rarely save enough money for retirement, but you know who tries really hard? The unemployed. That's right. Unemployed people try to save as much of their unemployment checks as possible. People making $200,000 a year? They're tapped out on that Lexus lease. So, all we have to do to r ...
  • Landmark Food Safety Bill Passes Easily
    Here's something funny. Only eight Republicans had the courage to vote against Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) amendment to the Food Safety bill that would have imposed a two-year moratorium on federal earmarks in the Senate: Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, J ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Mental Health Among Mental Health Professionals
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Therapists and counselors are people too. Just because they’re trained to recognize and help people through depression, anxiety, and other concerns doesn’t mean they are immune to these struggles in their own lives. A new survey of mental health professionals found th ...
  • Do Kids Need “Mental Health Days”?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline What do you do, as a parent, when your child doesn’t want to go to school? Sometimes, kids feign illness for a day off. Other times, they’ll be open about not wanting to go. On one hand, it’s possible that kids, like adults, get stressed, tired and overwhelmed and can ...
  • Aware of Awareness: Mindful Acknowledging of “Thin ...
    By Renee Burgard, LCSW, Mindfulness Based Approaches/Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Renee and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. attr. to Buddha I hope t ...
  • Thanksgiving Ushers in Holiday Season, Holiday Str ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression, stress, and anxiety lead people to find a therapist or counselor at all times of the year. But emotional triggers and stressful tasks and obligations are especially close-packed during the holiday season. Most of the time, the holiday celebration itself—the ...
  • Self-Perception of Body Weight Matters More than N ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Eating disorders and unhealthy weight-related behaviors are complex: they’re physical, psychological, and emotional, all wrapped up into one. It’s an issue that’s addressed both by therapists or counselors and by medical professionals and doctors. Previous research ha ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Initiative looks to change public perception of co ...
    Initiative looks to change public perception of coal Ledger Independent Clarifying what it calls some misconceptions of the coal industry, such as surface mining or mountaintop removal, is also a goal of FACES of Coal. ... and more��
  • Bankrolling of Mountaintop Removal Mining Continue ...
    Triple Pundit Bankrolling of Mountaintop Removal Mining Continues Triple Pundit Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) has been growing emerging trend within the coal mining industry. ... PNC Bank Will No Longer Fund Mountain Top RemovalThink Progress PNC to stop financing mountaintop coal miningPhiladel ...
  • Mountain Heroes: Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Tod ...
    PlanetSave.com Mountain Heroes: Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Today PlanetSave.com Mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) is very harmful to ecosystems, including to the humans living in or off of those ecosystems. ...
  • EPA won't release Spruce Mine alternatives study - ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) EPA won't release Spruce Mine alternatives study Charleston Gazette (blog) And we've also noted the promise of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson (above) that her agency's handling of mountaintop removal issues would be a model of ...
  • EPA's Choice This Week: Crucify Appalachia or Stan ...
    EPA's Choice This Week: Crucify Appalachia or Stand Up to Big Coal Lobby AlterNet Here's the truth: Providing less than 8 percent of national coal production, highly mechanized mountaintop removal mining is crucifying Appalachian streams ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Senate Dems Plan Dramatic Tax Cut Vote, Followed B ...
    The Huffington Post: Senate Dems Plan Dramatic Tax Cut Vote, Followed By ‘Grab Bag’ Negotiations  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Read More: Bag Of Goodies Tax Cuts, Democrats Tax Cut Deal, Middle Class Tax Cuts.  Dick Durbin Tax Cuts, Senate Democrats, Senate Democrats Middle Class, Tax Cut Single Vote ...
  • Judge upholds healthcare reform law (Julian Pecque ...
    Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Judge upholds healthcare reform law  —  A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to the healthcare reform law, the second time the law's mandate that people buy insurance has been ruled constitutional.  —  The lawsuit was brought by Liberty Univer ...
  • WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tells TIME: Hilla ...
    Howard Chua-Eoan / Time: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tells TIME: Hillary Clinton ‘Should Resign’  —  Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, “should resign.”  Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Ri ...
  • Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch C ...
    The Huffington Post: Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch Centrist Civility Group  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — TV's Joe Scarborough, who today dismissed Sarah Palin as a symbol of “anti-intellectualism” with a “dopey dream” of being president, will help headline the launch n ...
  • WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julia ...
    Guardian: WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world  —  The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigatin ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Addressing an adaptation dilemma
    The Copenhagen conference side-stepped debate on the link between climate and development finance. A future deal will stumble unless the issue is squarely faced, writes Richard JT Klein.Preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change – a process termed “adaptation” – is now essential. ...
  • “China will be transparent”
    Xie Zhenhua is China’s chief climate negotiator. As ministers prepare for two weeks of global warming talks, he tells Meng Si his team will take an open approach. On the morning of 25 November, Xie Zhenhua, China's chief climate negotiator, met with chinadialogue and other local NGOs to discuss Chi ...
  • The year of collapse
    Next week, international climate-change negotiations begin in Cancún following 12 months of setbacks. Tan Copsey explains why chances of serious progress towards a global climate treaty are looking slim.The need for action on climate change has never been more urgent. Greenhouse-gas emissions for 20 ...
  • The ongoing hunt for climate cash
    Rich nations have made bold statements about channeling climate finance to developing countries, but concrete agreements remain elusive. As we approach the next round of UN negotiations, Jessica Brown sums up the latest developments.Raising and delivering finance to support the fight against climate ...
  • Nervous neighbours
    Construction of a large-scale dam in Tibet is prompting familiar fears downstream on the Brahmaputra. Joydeep Gupta reports on India's concerns.Only five rivers in the world carry more water than the Yarlung Zangbo, or Brahmaputra as it is known when it reaches India. Only one carries more silt. Ris ...

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Threat Level

  • Jury Seated in Landmark Xbox Modding Trial
    LOS ANGELES — Opening statements in a criminal Xbox 360 modding case are set to begin here early Wednesday, a day after 12 jurors were picked to decide the outcome of the first-of-its kind trial. It took five hours to empanel a jury, whose members include a university student dean, music engineer, l ...
  • Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLea ...
    The international police organization Interpol has issued a Red Notice for the arrest of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, in connection with a sex crime investigation in Sweden. A Red Notice is kind of international wanted poster seeking the provisional arrest of a fugitive, with an eye towards ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Cablegate: The Taiwanese Animated Versi ...
    The Taiwanese news-animation company NMA has distilled the global diplomatic furor sparked by the State Department cable leak into a 90-second computer generated highlight reel. Think of it as worldwide anarchy in a CGI format. See Also: Cyberattack Against WikiLeaks Was Weak Newspapers Reveal Dip ...
  • First Criminal Trial Over Game-Console Mod Chips B ...
    LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man is set to go before a jury here Tuesday on criminal charges of violating copyright law by modifying Xbox 360 consoles to play pirated games. In the first trial of its kind, defendant Matthew Crippen is charged with two counts of violating the anti-circumventi ...
  • Cyberattack Against WikiLeaks Was Weak
    In the first test of WikiLeaks’ resiliency since a staff rebellion earlier this year, the organization recovered within hours from a distributed denial-of-service attack during its rollout of leaked State Department cables Sunday. But experts who monitored the disruptive traffic say the attack was ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Analysis: Euro debt crisis - Italy no longer quite ...
    ROME (Reuters) - Italy has so far largely avoided the debt crisis that has engulfed Greece and Ireland despite having the region's weakest growth record, a huge public debt and notoriously unstable politics.
  • South Korea spy chief says more attacks likely
    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea is highly likely to attack South Korea again, the South's spy chief said on Wednesday, as a flotilla of American warships led by an aircraft carrier left South Korean waters after a deadly attack.
  • "Don't hunt down my son," says mother of WikiLeaks ...
    CANBERRA (Reuters) - The mother of Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday she was distressed by an international police alert for her son's arrest and did not want him "hunted down and jailed."
  • Short on votes, deficit panel delays decision
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A presidential commission looking for ways to slash the budget deficit postponed final action on Tuesday on a bold fiscal austerity plan after it was unable to gather enough support among panel members.
  • Interpol posts wanted notice for WikiLeaks founder
    LONDON (Reuters) - Interpol issued a "red notice" on Tuesday to assist in the arrest of Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, who is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of sexual crimes.

IntelNews

  • More underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    Some of the least noticed revelations include a 2009 dispatch from a US diplomat in Tel Aviv, which appears to confirm the close secret relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, despite the fact that these two countries have no official diplomatic connections. Another diplomatic cable r ...
  • Some underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    Undoubtedly the most underreported WikiLeaks disclosure concerns a 2007 meeting between US officials and Meir Dagan, the then Director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. During the meeting, Dagan apparently "presented US with five-step program to perform a coup in Iran". Continue reading →
  • Blasts target Iranian nuclear scientists, killing ...
    Teams of unknown assailants chose the first day of the WikiLeaks diplomatic revelations to attack two senior Iranian nuclear scientists in capital Tehran, managing to kill one of them. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #456 (Israel edition)
    US Senate intel committee ex-chief wants Israel spy free. Israel about to announce next Mossad chief. Mossad book authors accused of plagiarism. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #455
    Israel says it did not kill German politician. Foreign cyber spies targeted UK defense official. The 10 most interesting CIA-backed startups. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • AUDIO: Mark Haim on KOPN With David Swanson on "Wa ...
    Listen here: mp3. More on the book: http://warisalie.org
  • The Peace Letter
    Read the Washington Peace Center's new newsletter, the Peace Letter: PDF.
  • MESSAGE FROM DEBRA SWEET, DIRECTOR OF WORLD CAN'T ...
    As I write, George W. Bush is a nightmare all over TV with his memoir, rubbing our faces in the crimes of the Bush regime. What a vivid reminder of why we needed to drive out the Bush regime, and why World Can’t Wait was formed in 2005. In the different –or maybe not so different –political landscap ...
  • SPECIAL PROSECUTOR DECLINES TO FILE CRIMINAL CHARG ...
    By Jason Leopold From Truthout | Original Article Nearly three years after he was appointed to investigate the destruction of at least 92 interrogation videotapes, a dozen of which showed two high-value detainees being subjected to waterboarding and various other torture techniques by CIA interrogat ...
  • BUSH - A SELF-DESCRIBED CONTENT MAN ??
    By Amy Davidson From The New Yorker | Original Article “Just make up your mind,” Laura Bush told her husband. “You’re ruining this for everyone.” Which decision, of the many described in “Decision Points,” George W. Bush’s memoir—it comes out next week, but Reuters and the Times have copies—would th ...

Grist - News

  • Worldchanging’s bright green contribution
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Rumors have been floating around for a while, but on Monday the unfortunate fact became public: the sustainability news and advocacy site Worldchanging is shutting down. The 501c3 non-profit will dissolve by the end of the year, though the hope is to preserve its seven-year o ...
  • Why it’s OK for big polluters to get stimulu ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. A hefty new investigation from the Center for Public Integrity takes the Energy Department to task for giving stimulus (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funding to industrial polluters while waiving requirements that they conduct environmental-impact reviews. It's an i ...
  • ‘The science of public transit is not too co ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. A Berkeley transportation scholar offers an appealingly simple rule in Adam Nagourney's dispatch on the sizeable subway and light-rail expansion in Los Angeles: Robert B. Cervero, the director of the University of California Transportation Center in Berkeley, said that if th ...
  • Bluefin tuna gets scant relief at fisheries meetin ...
    by Agence France-Presse. PARIS -- Fishing nations opted Saturday to leave catch limits for eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna virtually unchanged despite concerns that the species is perilously close to collapse. Annual quotas for the sushi mainstay will be trimmed from 13,500 tons this year to 12, ...
  • Feds designate ‘critical’ polar bear h ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government on Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could affect new oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic. The Fish and Wildlife Service set aside 187,000 square miles ...

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Washington Independent

  • From AINN’s President and CEO: A Letter of T ...
    Closing The Washington Independent and reducing capacity at The New Mexico Independent are difficult milestones in an otherwise remarkable year for The American Independent News Network. We have been able to accomplish so much, and with so much less. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to give ...
  • The Washington Independent, signing off
    We thought our model of online journalism could rise above the industry's financial struggles. For a while, it did. But in the end, we fell prey to the recession just like everyone else.
  • Lunchtime Links
    Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex… …and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With the Stars voting system. Salon ranks the sexiest men of 2010. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” gets translated into English. Lieberman thinks Palin is qualified t ...
  • Study finds high costs, questionable return for Vi ...
    A new study on the impact of anti-illegal immigration policies in Prince William County, Va., found that the Latino population decreased substantially after the policy was implemented in 2007, with a 7,700-person drop in the non-citizen Latino population between 2006 and 2008. (That number accounts ...
  • Democratic donors still divided over the best appr ...
    Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm elections and what they mean for strategy on various policy and electoral issues going forward. The event was closed to the press, but Politico m ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Stick a fork in Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, they&#82 ...
    By Les Visible As I understand it, airlines operate on small margins of profit. Maybe I’m wrong but this seems to be the reason they keep cutting services to reduce costs and also charging for things that used to be free. I think you can stick a fork in the American airline industry. You can [...]
  • Gordon Duff: Unconstitutional, Time to End the Sca ...
    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Let’s begin with one fact. We are using expensive, dangerous and illegal scanners in our airports for one reason. A year ago, single “terrorist,” really a moronic dupe with a defective bomb in his crotch was escorted onto a plane for Detroit, no search, no p ...
  • CIA, Mossad and Soros Behind Wikileaks
    By Wayne Madsen WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to ...
  • Eliot Spitzer: “The FED is a Ponzi Scheme Ru ...
  • US Government seizure of the internet has begun; D ...
    By Mike Adams 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 “Departmen ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Energy Efficient Science Tower to Connect Copenhag ...
    The University of Copenhagen’s Panum Complex is set to receive a new sustainably-designed Science Tower complete with an impressive vertical atrium. Set in the heart of the city, the new project will host a major laboratory and will act as a public venue that helps integrate the University with the ...
  • 3D Printed Sand Pods Create Cooling Microclimates
    Read the rest of 3D Printed Sand Pods Create Cooling Microclimateshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: desert cooling, eco design, evap ...
  • Zero Energy Solar Powered Building in India
    This futuristic building in South India provides a healthy and comfortable indoor environment which consumes about 60% less energy than other homes – and it receives the remaining 40% of its energy load from solar power. Called the Zero Energy Space, the building has triple-glazed UPVC windows, engi ...
  • Eclectic Wooden Stools Made From Recycled Timber
    These colorful offcut bar stools by Edwards Moore Architects are a beautiful example of eclectic upcycling. Each stool is composed of a bundle of reclaimed timber pieces that have been parceled together to form a sturdy surface for sitting. Co-owners Juliette Moore and Ben Edwards view “architecture ...
  • GM To Invest $162 Million Into Chevy Volt Producti ...
    It looks like winning the title of Green Car of the Year has done wonders for the Chevrolet Volt — shortly after receiving the award GM has announced plans to invest $162 million into three small car manufacturing plants — one of which is solely responsible for the Chevy’s Volt’s generator. The adde ...

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WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Recall: Obama’s Election Victory and World Geopoli ...
    Not only does Obama's election as US President now 'whitewash' a terribly-soiled US image in the world, but it also allows the cabal to exploit his committment to widen the war in Afghanistan to their advantage. It is therefore a black/Obama administration that would be led by the nose to attack Pak ...
  • CAN ISRAEL DEFEAT HEZBOLLAH IN THE COMING WAR?
    Hezbollah, has smashed the myth of Israel’s invincibility, broken the barrier of fear, increased the popular demand for resistance, exposed the fake peace process and rejected appeasement, acquiescence and surrender. Hezbollah forces taught the world that Arabs can and will liberate Palestine bec ...
  • IRAN-KOREA NUCLEAR LIES, ORDERS FROM TEL AVIV
    With the world coming down around America, Afghanistan a hopeless quagmire, even by “Vietnam” standards, the dollar in free fall, AIPAC spying openly revealed in civil proceedings and Americans, by the million, abandoning traditional news media, the “nuclear option,” an attack on an American city by ...
  • China, Russia, Iran Dumping Dollar For Gold
    Something is going on that your government does not want you to know about. Very few journalists have written about it and little or nothing has appeared in the mainstream media. The story could be one of major stories of our time. Western powers have tried to destroy gold as a backing for currencie ...
  • Korean Conflict: Pentagon to Deploy Nuclear Aircra ...
    A US nuclear aircraft carrier is to deploy to the Yellow Sea off the coast of South Korea after the two countries agreed to conduct further war games in a show force against North Korea.

Andy Worthington

  • The Irrelevance of Wikileaks’ Guantánamo Rev ...
    Following Wikileaks’ release of 251,287 US diplomatic cables, which has, if nothing else, revealed that secrecy and the Internet appear to be mutually incompatible, a handful of media outlets immediately picked up on references to Guantánamo — and the Obama administration’s negotiations with other ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo at “Th ...
    On Saturday December 4, I’ll be following up on my recent appearance at the Amnesty International Student Conference with a presentation entitled, “Nine Years of Guantánamo: What Now?” at “The Rights Time,” an Amnesty International regional conference, taking place at the Human Rights Action Centre ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Obama’s Failure t ...
    Early last Thursday morning, I was delighted to prop up my wilting eyelids to talk to Brad Friedman (of The Brad Blog, which has been doing remarkable work exposing election fraud over the last few years) about Guantánamo for a guest-hosted Mike Malloy Show that began at 2.15 am my time. The interv ...
  • Cameron’s Britain: “Kettling” Ch ...
    For anyone unfamiliar with “kettling,” Wikipedia accurately describes it as “a police tactic for the management of large crowds during demonstrations or protests,” which “involves the formation of large cordons of police officers who then move to contain a crowd within a limited area,” so that prote ...
  • “Aafia Siddiqui: Sentenced to Death” & ...
    On Wednesday December 1, from 6.30 to 9.30 pm, I’ll be discussing the fate of Aafia Siddiqui at the London Muslim Centre, 46-92 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1JX, with other speakers including Moazzam Begg, former Guantánamo prisoner and the director of Cageprisoners, and the journalist Yvonne Ridle ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Thanks, Aunt Myrtle. Now, put the gun down.
    As fun as it would be to keep talking about national politics, it’s probably time to return my gimlet eyes to local politics. (Wait! one last sip: How awesome are Republicans? They may be drunk with victory, but boy, are they mean drunks! http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/gops-top-tax-guy ...
  • Even Republicans Love The Pork
    Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1, of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...
  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a Mom ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan on t ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why I l ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So far, ...

SPL Center

  • Feds Charge Alleged Accomplice in 1998 Skinhead Mu ...
    On July 4, 1998, two women invited anti-racist skinhead pals, Lin âSpitâ Newborn, 25, and Dan Shersty, 21, to a late-night party in the desert outside of Las Vegas. But there was no party: Newborn and Shersty were shot to death in what police and prosecutors called a planned execution by the leader ...
  • Tony Perkins Defends Family Research Council, Sort ...
    I went up against Tony Perkins, the head of the hard-line anti-gay group Family Research Council (FRC), on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” last night. Perkins was there to defend his organization after the SPLC listed it as a hate group last week. The whole experience was like trying to nail ...
  • New Intelligence Report Finds Gays Most Targeted f ...
    The FBI issued its 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report this morning. The report shows that the number of reported hate crime incidents fell from 7,783 to 6,604. But a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains: the LGBT community is, by far, the most victimized by vi ...
  • Un-TruTV: Fear vs. Fact on Ventura’s ‘Conspiracy T ...
    Madison, Georgia. Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and âconspiracy expertâ Alex Jones creep through the woods and hunker down beside a tree. Jones points through underbrush. Ventura leans forward, peers at something, and says in his ominous rumbling baritone, âWhat in the hell is this?â The camer ...
  • Plea Closes 1965 Case of Slain Civil Rights Worker
    With Monday’s guilty plea of former Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler in the 1965 slaying of civil rights worker Jimmy Lee Jackson, another of the infamous cold cases that have languished unresolved since the turbulent peak of the civil rights movement was closed. Fowler, 77, will spend six ...

change: org.

  • Illinois Considers That Maybe Doctors Who Assault ...
    It seems like a no-brainer: a doctor who sexually assaults his patients should have his license permanently revoked faster than you can say "scumbag." But Illinois lawmakers are just starting to think that maybe they shouldn't let rapists be gynecologists. Cara at The Curvature reports that, after a ...
  • Mom Fights School District for Autistic Son's Serv ...
    For six-year-old J.C. Bowen, his golden retriever, Pepsi, is more than just his best friend. J.C. has autism, and Pepsi helps him get through day-to-day life. He's trained to stop J.C. from running off, rocking, banging his head, and having a meltdown. Pepsi helped J.C. develop his balance and he le ...
  • The Problem with Calling People "Illegal"
    Discussions about race can be tricky, if not dangerous. Even the best intentioned folks can find themselves stumbling into the landmines of vocabulary. Once detonated, the person who triggered the explosion needs more than a “But, I’m not a racist” to put out the fire. Racism is structural, so our ...
  • Why School Lunch Reform Must Pass This Week
    Hot dogs and chicken patties and greasy pizza — oh my! Those are the entrees most kids currently get in their school cafeterias. If school lunch reform legislation doesn't pass this week, those meals are unlikely to get any better in the future. The Child Nutrition Act, legislation that would improv ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Oil Companies and Banks Will Profit From UN Forest ...
    by John Vidal, environment editor, in CancunSome of the world's largest oil, mining, car and gas corporations will make hundreds of millions of dollars from a UN-backed forest protection scheme, according to a new report from the Friends of the Earth International.read more
  • Deceits, Plots, Insults: America Laid Bare
    by Jerome Taylor, Cahal Milmo and David Usborne, US Editor The doors to a previously hidden world of diplomatic intrigue and insults were dramatically thrown open last night as the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks published its vast tranche of secret American diplomatic communiqués. The re ...
  • Amid Major Release WikiLeaks Site Suffers 'Denial ...
    The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents.read more
  • US Cables Leak Sparks Global Diplomatic Crisis
    by David LeighThe United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.read more
  • NY Assembly Approves Hydraulic Fracturing Moratori ...
    by Marie C. Baca, ProPublicaThe New York state legislature refused to consider most major agenda items in Monday’s session, but they still gave their final approval to a bill that places a six-month ban on hydraulic fracturing while state and federal agencies review the practice.read more

Lifehacker

  • Start a Meal Exchange to Save Money and Enjoy More ...
    If your busy schedule stops you from making as many homemade meals as you'd like, a meal exchange makes it easy to stockpile a variety of meals with a minimum of fuss. More��
  • OpenNotifier Adds Android-Like Notifications to Ja ...
    Jailbroken iOS only: The pop-up push notifications on iOS are not everyone's cup of tea, to put it mildly. If you'd like persistent notifications for literally any function in your phone's system bar, jailbreak app OpenNotifier is worth lookin ...
  • Stop Getting Twitter Replies from Other People's P ...
    It's great that your friends are getting personalized, newspaper-style digests of all the tweets they probably already saw. But why do you have to get a spam-ish ping every time that "paper" is delivered and you're "featured" in it? Boing Boin ...
  • HandBrake Batch Encoder Simplifies Multiple Video ...
    Windows: HandBrake is many things, but a simple-to-grasp interface it is not, at least for newcomers. A simple, graphical batch encoding helper app makes lining up multiple files for encoding much more simple. More��
  • Use Ninite and Task Scheduler to Keep Relatives' C ...
    Some people avoid any and all update notices—and you can't always blame them, given how many occur on the average computer. Reader Andrew Chandler suggests fixing their ignoring ways with the no-fuss Ninite installer and Task Scheduler automat ...

Water Privatization

  • Regulator cites need to control Angat dam
    State-owned Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) on Tuesday stressed the urgent need to control operations of the Angat Dam, including its power component, to help protect and secure water supply in Metro Manila and neighboring towns.
  • Selangor MB: Withdraw Syabas License
    SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.
  • Council candidate DeSisto outlines his plan for Ta ...
    Tony DiSisto , a candidate for the District 4 City Council seat that represents south Tampa, is campaigning on a 10-point "Tampa Plan." In it, he offers his positions on such topics as the budget, job creation, roads, water management, downtown and culture. In a news release DeSisto e-mailed with hi ...
  • Should BN hold the General Election in the early p ...
    SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.
  • Union, peasant leaders gunned down; bishops condem ...
    With the toll from extrajudicial killings (EJKs) reaching 22 under President Aquino's term by the count of local human rights group Karapatan, Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano filed two resolutions urging the House of Representatives to probe the cases of the two latest victims.

Guardian

  • Mervyn King should quit over 'political bias', say ...
    �� Leaked US cables show governor of Bank of England's 'thirst for power has clouded his judgment', former colleague says �� Read David Blanchflower's article hereDavid Blanchflower, a leading economist and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, has called on Mervyn King t ...
  • South Korea to hold artillery drills
    China calls for restraint a week after North Korean attack on Yeonpyeong island killed fourSouth Korea plans to hold major artillery training exercises next week � including some in an area close to its disputed maritime border with the North, media in Seoul reported today.Analysts warned the move, ...
  • All the latest news from Westminster
    Andrew Sparrow with all today's politics news � including prime minister's questions at midday10.20am: David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, has said that Mervyn King should resign. Blanchflower made the call in an article for Comment is free, writte ...
  • Portugal sale is latest eurozone test
    The sale of ��500m of 12-month bonds will be held later this morning, just hours after Standard & Poor's ratcheted up the pressure on the Lisbon government by warning that it may cut Portugal's credit ratingPortugal's ability to survive the debt crisis that is gripping the eurozone will be tested to ...
  • World Cup 2018 and 2022 bids – live
    �� England's 2018 hopes rise as Putin hints will not turn up �� Russia likely to get Blatter's casting vote �� David Conn: Avoiding allegations does Fifa no credit �� Please comment below or email or on TwitterThe Three Lions10.29am: Owen Gibson reports that 2018 chief executive, Andy Anson, has du ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Four degrees of hurt
    It's possible, with the right kind of lighting, to see the ongoing UN climate negotiations as some kind of sealed-in world where Alice in Wonderland logic holds sway. In this world, with the right amount of political will and political acuity, decisions are going to be made that will keep temperatu ...
  • Turning animal magic into money
    If you're planning to come to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, don't bring a hunger for bluefin tuna with you; you'll be disappointed. London's Olympic Committee is one of a number of authorities and businesses that have just pledged to play no part in the marketing of bluefin "until the fishery is ...
  • China hints at new climate future
    At a recent meeting in Tianjin, there's been intriguing discussion about where the host country, China, is going on climate change. And where it's going is, it seems, towards national legislation to restrict the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. This national law is likely to emerge as part of th ...
  • All eyes on France, as tuna wars loom
    Paris and Brussels are presently seeing skirmishes over the fate of what's become the oceans' most iconic creature - the Atlantic bluefin tuna. � This week and next, the French capital hosts the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) - the org ...
  • Copenhagen or Babel? A climate conundrum
    It's the time of year when an environment correspondent's thoughts turn inevitably to the UN climate summit. A little less than a year after filing into the frozen wasteland of Copenhagen's Bella Center, we're looking this year to the sunnier climes of Cancun in Mexico. Already the wordplay is being ...

The Wonk Room

  • Health Law Preserving Choice In Medicare Advantage ...
    One of the most common Republican narratives about the new health care reform law argued that eliminating the subsidy to private insurers participating in Medicare Advantage would force insurers to stop offering coverage, causing 10 million seniors to lose their Medicare benefits. Throughout the deb ...
  • New Report Addresses Mayor Bloomberg’s Fears About ...
    Our guest blogger is Karla Walter, Senior Policy Analyst with the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. New York City residents are gearing up to support a bill ensuring that when businesses get taxpayer dollars to invest in the city, they give back good jobs to th ...
  • Is Robert Gates Now The Greatest Advocate Of Don&# ...
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered the strongest endorsement of the Pentagon’s Working Group study of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell this afternoon, warning opponents of repeal that if they “choose not to act legislatively,” they are “rolling the dice that this policy will not be abruptly overturned b ...
  • 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, what’s the difference, Republicans insist, between a vote in December and a vote in February? The difference is that th ...
  • Pence Invokes Reagan To Push Budget Plan That Form ...
    Yesterday, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) — who has been serving as House Republican Conference chairman and is being touted as a possible 2012 Presidential nominee — gave what his office promoted as a “major economic speech” at the Detroit Economic Club. At the best of times, Pence has a very tenuous grasp ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Taxing the Wealthy Part II
    Just a further thought from my earlier post today: If, in this idiotic "war on terror" we have been asked to sacrifice so many rights and freedoms, ... indeed, if so many Canadians believe that protesters willingly renounced their rights and freedoms by showing up the day after the vandalism at the ...
  • Liberal Win in Winnipeg North a Sad Day for Canada
    I'm working on a bigger post about CSIS director Judd's shit-headed comments about Canada's "Alice in Wonderland" mentality about terrorism. But for now, I'd just like to say that unless you were a fan of the explosion of homelessness, and the decline of our public health care system under Chretien ...
  • Tax Corporations, Tax Wealth, Tax the Highest Inco ...
    Here's something your beleaguered working-class blue n' white collar stiffs who voted for Rob Ford might understand. Some people have been making out like bandits for the past couple of decades, and they haven't exactly been doing anything productive for society to earn their keep. Stephen Gordon, ...
  • US Election Reflection
    I'm typing about the recent mid-term USA elections because I think that what happened there is relevant for what's happening to leftists everywhere, including here in Toronto where right-wing populist Rob Ford defeated cynical liberal opportunist George Smitherman. Here's Cathie From Canada before ...
  • I was at the Amnesty International Film Festival t ...
    I saw: "Speaking of Baghdad" "Ghosts" and "The Devil Operation"

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Father of UBS Whistleblower Makes Personal Thanksg ...
    Today, Ronald Birkenfeld, father of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, made a personal Thanksgiving Day appeal to President Barack Obama for his son to be released from prison. In his letter to the President Mr. Birkenfeld stated, "His separation from his loved ones is extremely painful to our ...
  • NWC hosts international visitors
    On November 19, 2010, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) hosted a visit by Middle Eastern officials as part of the State Department's Transparency in Government project for the Near East. The program offered a view of the role of citizens, media and private non-profit advocacy in fostering t ...
  • NWC Urges Public to Take Action to Prevent the Cor ...
    Today, the National Whistleblowers Center voiced its strong opposition to Proposed Rules submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implementing the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and encouraged citizens to take action. (See N ...
  • My letter to Scientific American on PAWA
    The December 2010 issue of Scientific American, page 12,� features my letter to them about the Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA), HR 2067 and S 1580.� I appreciate the way that the editors enlarged this quote on their letters page:� "When whistleblowers speak truth to power, they could finally ...
  • Wham-O takes on patent whistleblowers
    The Wham-O company, maker of the Frisbee, is arguing to a federal appeals court that a qui tam provision in patent law is unconstitutional.� Wham-O's lawyer, Andrew Dhuey, told Law.com that the patent law, 35 U.S.C. � 292, violates the Constitution's "take care" clause which says that the President ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • How YouPorn Tries To Hide That It's Spying On Your ...
    There's a fair bit of attention being paid to a Forbes article about some new research concerning how a bunch of websites, including YouPorn, are exploiting a simple security hole to see what other sites you've visited: How does it work? It's based on your browser changing the color of links you' ...
  • Wi-Lan Just Keeps On Suing; Says Cable Modems Infr ...
    Wi-Lan really is the patent troll that just keeps on suing. You may recall that the company -- which once was an operating company that totally failed in the market, because it was unable to execute -- has since become one of the nastier patent trolls out there, suing everyone it possibly can. Yea ...
  • Hurt Locker Producers Demand Sanctions Against Law ...
    We've discussed in great detail the efforts by Voltage Pictures, the producers of the movie Hurt Locker to sue thousands of people for sharing the movie. Well, "sue" should be used loosely, as the effort, coordinated by US Copyright Group (really DC law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver), is really abo ...
  • Oddities: Apple Doesn't Use DMCA Safe Harbors In R ...
    Back in June we wrote about a somewhat odd copyright lawsuit, involving a guy who has spent many years recording bird sounds. Some of those sounds appeared (without his permission) in an iPhone app called "iBird" and so the guy sued both the developer of iBird and Apple. Of course, he also had onl ...
  • Interpol Really Couldn't Find A Photo Of Julian As ...
    As you've probably heard by now, Interpol has issued a "red notice" for the arrest of Wikileaks' Julian Assange, stemming from the sexual assault charges against him in Sweden. I'll leave it to others to analyze the actual merits of the charges against Assange, or the fact that Interpol has gotten ...

VacTruth

  • Possible 400 Dead as UK Government Betrays Parents ...
    Toddlers are to be inoculated against six diseases at once in a bid to boost vaccination rates. Recently uncovered evidence suggests as many as 400 children have died from a vaccine and 21,000 experienced an adverse reaction in the UK alone.
  • How Government and Pharmaceutical Companies Gamble ...
    After a high number of dangerous vaccine reactions, these vaccines were pulled from a recent vaccine campaign.
  • GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts To Boost HPV Va ...
    By financing cancer research experts and support groups they can manipulate the market to benefit themselves. GSK is financially influencing experts in attempts to change current medical practices and diagnostics in the early detection of cervical cancer.
  • Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
    Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
  • Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
    In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just finished on Thinking Liberty.  Not sure when the podcast will be up.  Love to hear what you think. Related to the discussion gendered caregiving roles, here is a post about how it is harder for an immigrant child to gain citizenship if it is her father, rather than mother, who is a citizen. And ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you live in the DC area, we will be having a really free market on Tuesday, December 14th from 7 PM to 10 PM at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW, Wash DC. This Tuesday, November 30th, it looks like I’ll be on Thinking Liberty at a little after 8 PM U.S. eastern standard [...]
  • Are all Johns (and Janes) the Same?
    Last Tuesday I linked to an article that really bugged me, but I hadnât quite put my finger on all the reasons why.  It was about a brothel for women that is opening in New Zealand.  The author of the article was predicting that the brothel would be a failure because women “have to be [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Apologies for missing my Thursday post.  I’ll make it up to you. You may have heard that there was a protest in Haiti.  UN peacekeepers are being blamed for the Cholera outbreak that has killed more than 900 people.  What a clusterfuck.  And the media reporting has been hideous. Also a clusterfu ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Ansel has a report up on the aftermath of the hurricane in Haiti. I absolutely love the way these people looked at harm caused by substance abuse.  My very non-scientific personal experience backs up 100% that alcohol is the worst regarding harm to others.  Guess I need to start drinking less and do ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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