1 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
• By: Gina
  It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...
• By: Elissa
  I am finding it very difficult to grasp how few(no) people are on here discussing this with great concern and passion for changing it. This entire subject has taken me by storm.
• By: Nestlé and the other reasons I support the boy ...
  [...] those jobs typically going to people from outside the community, [...]

treehugger

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

Biosingularity

• More Fruit and Veggies Now, Better Arteries Later
  Just in time for the holidays, here’s a new reason to get children to eat their veggies. Children who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables have healthier, less stiff arteries as young adults compared to children who don’t load up on fruit and veggies, according to a new study. Researchers say arterial ...
• Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
  In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do ...
• Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
  By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t human ...
• Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
  If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, a d ...
• A SNP Surprise
  Ellen Goode and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found a surprise while studying the human genome: four chromosomal locations with mutations that could lead to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. But the biggest surprise was a number of SNPs on chromosome 8 that seem to act through a different mec ...

CFACT

• 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
  Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
• End the ethanol subsidies
  Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.
• CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate confer ...
  CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.
• Biodiversity: Losing which species?
  The current wildlife extinction rate is the lowest in 500 years--according to the UN Environmental Program̢۪s own World Atlas of Biodiversity. Many species have actually expanded their ranges over the past century.
• Stockholm temperatures freeze global warming claim ...
  Lessons learned from the Swedish temperature record. In science, observations must be taken much more seriously than theories or computer models.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Bushfire in western Australia
  A bushfire in Western Australia is threatening lives and homes about 50 kilometres south of Perth, local media reported on Wednesday.
• Russia ready to work with EU on visa scrapping - M ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Wednesday his country's readiness to scrap the visa regime with the EU.
• Retailer Dixy nine-month net loss down to 37.3 mln ...
  Russian food and consumer goods retailer Dixy Group's IFRS net losses fell to 37.3 million rubles ($1.20 million) in January-September 2010 , the company said on Wednesday.
• Medvedev calls for common conflict resolution meth ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Wednesday for the countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to have common strategies for resolving conflicts.
• Kazakhstan calls on OSCE states to adopt declarati ...
  Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Wednesday called on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states to adopt a declaration in support of a world free from nuclear weapons.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Ariane-5 puts into orbit 2 communication satellite ...
  The Ariane 5 carrier rocket launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana late on Friday delivered its dual-satellite payload into orbit, the Arianespace satellite launch firm said.
• Soyuz spacecraft to deliver New Year gifts to ISS
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft will bring New Year presents to the International Space Station (ISS), commander Dmitry Kondratyev said on Friday.
• Russia's Binnopharm and GSK to cooperate in vaccin ...
  Russian pharmaceutical company Binnopharm and GlaxoSmithKline will sign an agreement on Friday on transferring technologies and antigen supplies to produce innovative vaccines in Russia, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said.
• Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan
  The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with a crew of three landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday morning, the Mission Control Center said.
• Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocks from ISS
  The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with a crew of three undocked from the International Space Station in the automated mode on Friday, the Mission Control Center said.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Also see Jim White on the strange dance of Pakistan officially insisting none of this is going on. Corrosively cynical comment omitted.Combat ...
• Make hay while the sun shines
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’ve been blogging for just about three and a half years now, and in the last week or so I have finally seen some movement on the subject of my very first blog post: an appeal for principled conservatives to push back on the civil li ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The drone attacks may not even be legal. If they are not, they may be war crimes. With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the alternative to cal ...
• Tracking the new financial WMDs
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Blogger George Washington (emph. in orig.): Remember, credit default swaps didn’t bring down the economy because they are toxic while all other financial vehicles are pure as the driven snow. CDS brought down the economy because they ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Second verse, same as the first:Militants armed with guns and a truck bomb demolished a police department used to detain terror suspects in Pak ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Food Safety Bill Passes Senate, Including the Test ...
  Among the Senate bill's last major sticking points was how it would affect small farmers and food producers. Some small-farm and organic food advocates warned that the legislation would destroy their industry under a mountain of paperwork, and Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat of Montana, pushed for a ...
• Wikileaks Reveals Intel Efforts to Make Africa Saf ...
  The Wikileaks release of U.S. State Department classified diplomatic cables may be problematic, but it has been quite a trove of information on the workings of our diplomatic corps. For the most part, the dump has confirmed things that we already knew about U.S. policy -- and that seems to be the ca ...
• Senate Votes $4.6 Billion for Indian, Black Farmer ...
  The U.S. Senate yesterday approved spending $4.6 billion to settle two lawsuits: one by black farmers who alleged racial discrimination by government lenders and the other by 300,000 American Indians who said they had been cheated out of land royalties dating to 1887.Click here to read this article
• Scientists Expose Devastating False Carbon Account ...
  Simultaneously as biofuels are blamed for increasing world hunger and landlessness ([1] Biofuels and World Hunger, SiS 49), scientists have been lifting the lid on biofuels' massive contribution to global warming. Fatal flaw in bioenergy accountingClick here to read this article
• The 'Transition Town' Movement's Initial Genius
  The genius of the "transition town" movement is that it starts with a positive vision, focuses on local scenes, teaches skills, invites people to develop plans, gives them other obviously useful things to do together, and thus provides the added-value of intensifying community. You can find this in ...

fotoFrontera

• Las mejores imágenes del mundo parte II (9 fotos)
  Cada día son más y más las personas que buscan en Internet las mejores imágenes del mundo. En el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas lo sabemos y por eso mismo tenemos para usted la segunda parte de esta maravillosa colección que reúne la crema y nata de la fotografía digital. Quizás también le interese... ...
• Animales increíbles I (Fotomanipulaciones en Photo ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...
• Playas paradisiacas parte XIII (10 paisajes del ma ...
  Si usted lo desea, puede escoger un número para ver nuestras entregas anteriores sobre la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. ¡Cada día, tenemos más! [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si de ...
• Aviones supersónicos V (7 imágenes para recordar)
  Quizás también le interese... Aviones supersónicos I (10 fotos) | Aviones supersónicos II (10 fotos) Aviones supersónicos III (10 fotos) | Aviones supersónicos IV (10 fotos) Aviones supersónicos V (7 fotos)Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK ...
• Flores del jardín I (3 fotografías en alta resoluc ...
  Desde hace mucho tiempo, una de las especialidades del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, son las fotografías de flores. Prueba de ello, es la hermosa colección que hoy tenemos para todos ustedes totalmente gratis.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK s ...

Center for a Livable Future

• CDC responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance testi ...
  The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, confirms that the CDC “feels there is strong scientific evidence of a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans.” Frieden offered the CDC’s position in his response to a lette ...
• JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
  Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
• Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
  While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
• Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
  How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
• Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
  A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...

Norwegianity

• Kindle calling
  So yeah, about the blog. I’m just not feeling very bloggy lately. I blame the Kindle. Instead of reading with my right eye and fueling my emotional left brain, I’m reading with my left eye now which feeds my rational self and, rationally speaking, I ain’t got squat to blog about. Sure I could rant, ...
• Post turkeytude
  Fleeing early proved wise. I missed the nasty ice storm and it was all salted away before I got home. I tried my best to spread joy and happiness wherever I traveled. In Wilmot that meant zipping through an awesome $70 Three Floyds assortment (Broo Doo, Dreadnaught, Arctic Panzer Wolf) on Wednesday ...
• Turkey Day greetings from the land of cheese
  A cheapshot headline to start, this being a holiday and all. In fact I do not believe I have ever once been served cheese while in Wisconsin save on top of a hamburger. Via time-delayed posting, have a surprisingly happy and gravyly cranberried, verily merrilyed Thanksgiving. � � The cartoon is a re ...
• Read carefully
  Just got around to remembering to delete my political groups from Twitter. No way am I going to bother to unfollow everybody but dumping the list serves the same purpose, removing one more easy access to political news. Thanks to the Kindle I’m spending my time reading now instead of surfing. Over T ...
• Does this post make me look political?
  Three wire stories on the TSA and their grotesquely intrusive body scans/pat downs today: A grope too far: Fliers’ anger at TSA boils over Under pressure from public and pols, TSA head says airport screening will be refined, adjusted If even small number of people participate, security protest could ...

Public News Service

• 2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family& ...
  2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family” Phoenix, AZ - Many families looking to adopt children are going overseas to places like Russia to find children. Meanwhile, Arizona has 2,500 children in the foster care system waiting for a “forever family.” Comments from Sarah Melick, adoption specialis ...
• Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...an ...
  Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...and Their Disappearance Phoenix, AZ – The number of small town grocery stores is declining in Arizona, as they compete with superstores in the state's larger cities and shopper attitudes change. But it's a change in the landscape that isn't healthy for ...
• CDC’s ‘Get Smart Week’ Aims to O ...
  CDC’s ‘Get Smart Week’ Aims to Outsmart Bacteria Phoenix, AZ – Arizona has recently joined the list of states that are home to a type of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia (Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase), only existent in one state in 2001. That fact is part of this week’s “Get Smart About Antibio ...
• AZ Gets Ready for the Great American Smokeout
  AZ Gets Ready for the Great American Smokeout Phoenix, AZ – The American Cancer Society’s 35th annual Great American Smokeout is this Thursday, November 18. There are compelling health reasons to quit smoking, and there’s plenty of help available. More than 36 million Americans still smoke daily, an ...
• Smart Meters - They’re Smart, But Are They S ...
  Smart Meters - They’re Smart, But Are They Safe? Phoenix, AZ - The number of metro Phoenix homes equipped with Smart Meters will rise to at least two million over the next two years. But in other states, notably California, some consumers are saying that the wireless electric meters are making them ...

Center for Food Safety

• Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
  Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...
• Senate Passes Landmark Food Safety Legislation
  Center for Food Safety Applauds New Power for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment Seen as a Win for Small, Local Food Producers and Processors, Consumers The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passing of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) in the U.S. Senate.  The bill which passed the Sen ...
• Public Says No To Transgenic Fish, Demands Mandato ...
  Nearly 400,000 Citizens Send Letters to FDA Demanding Labeling of GE Fish COMMENTS CITE MATERIAL CHANGES, AS WELL AS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS As the comment period on the labeling of a controversial genetically engineered salmon came to a close yesterday, the Center for Food Safety ...
• USDA Proposing Interim Planting of Illegal, Geneti ...
  In August, a Federal court ruled that USDA’s approval of genetically engineered (GE), “Roundup Ready” sugar beets was unlawful, concluding that USDA had failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the impacts of this crop on farmers and the environment, such as the biological contamination of non-GE c ...
• Coalition Reveals Immense Opposition To Transgenic ...
  As Comment Period on Approval and Labeling Winds Down More than 360,000 Send Comments to FDA Demanding Action on GE Fish A coalition of consumer, environmental and animal welfare groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers, grocers and chefs held a joint ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• In Memory Of Chalmers Johnson 1931 - 2010
  The excerpt below is taken from an article Professor Emeritus Chalmers Johnson wrote for The Nation in 2001.� The article is entitled "Blowback": The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; they attacked Ame ...
• Where's the ‘Thanks' in Thanksgiving?
  Where's the ‘Thanks' in Thanksgiving?: "(FinalCall.com) - One of the most cherished American holidays is Thanksgiving, a day that Abraham Lincoln officially declared in 1863, in praise of “our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” In the early 1900s, Gimbels and Macys saw dollar signs and ...
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why Carville Won't Apologiz ...
  OpEdNews - Article: Why Carville Won't Apologize to Obama for his Balls Crack Carville, of course, got several things out of this supposed joke. He got attention from the White House. No surprise there, it didn't like the offensive crack. He got media attention which was guaranteed considering that ...
• Article: Human Trafficking Is A (Non-) Metaphor Fo ...
  OpEdNews - Article: Human Trafficking Is A (Non-) Metaphor For Our Times For OpEdNews: David Michael Green - Writer Next to genocide and war, human trafficking is about the most disgusting thing I can think of. For those unfamiliar with the term, human trafficking refers to what is essentially slav ...
• Annelie Botes: "I Don’t Like Black People"
  IOL News November 30, 2010 (8am) Annelie BotesRemarks made by a prominent Afrikaans author have opened a debate about race in South Africa. Author and columnist Annelie Botes told Rapport newspaper in an interview last week she did not like black people.� People have since either hailed Botes as �b ...

Pensieve

• Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of Peac ...
  Too often we are desensitized to the brutality of war. We are tempted to think that we couldn’t function if we let the pain of the world into our lives. But we shouldn’t forget that in the midst of the worst pain, there can be hope. This message by a survivor of war in Iraq [...] Related posts:Whe ...
• Monetary Crisis Video
  With the US printing money and calling it “quantitative easing”, this video is even more ironic. The US is doing precisely what they were condemning the Chinese for last week, and we all lose from it. But at least it’s catchy. Let’s toast some marshmallows as Rome burns. Like the previous one, this ...
• TSA Patdowns, Animated in Taiwan
  In their now traditional irreverent style, animators in Taiwan’s Next Media Animation explain the completely insane new travel laws. I’m glad that when I go to the US these days, either I drive, or I ride a bus. Related posts:They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha! Immigration Only a Dream Schadenfr ...
• Freedom
  Photo by Glen’s Pics These are lyrics that came to me this morning as I was struggling through the paradox of being a “slave to righteousness” versus a slave to sin. Being “slaves” of God is not true slavery, because when we submit to him, he sets us free to do much more than we [...] Related post ...
• Ortega and Ham Endangering Central America
  Photo by brian.ch The actions of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Honduran minister of Agriculture César Ham are endangering the stability of the region. One is creating a war out of thin air to hide his blatant power grab. The other is taking advantage of Honduran President Lobo’s trip to Ta ...

Green Times

• Don’t be a tosser
  Recycle (directory/categories/Recycling), recycle, recycle! We can’t say it enough. City councils offer bins and facilities to help your separate your waste. So don’t be a tosser! Recycle! Photo by: Manja Louman  
• Surfing Green
  Being one with the waves! Such an amazing feeling… Make sure you keep our oceans and beaches beautiful! So you can enjoy being one with nature. Surfing is also a great way to exercise without feeling that you are exercising. And surf brands are helping in protecting the environment, read our articl ...
• Environmental News 26/11/2010
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• YikeBike
      Grant Ryan – the inventor – gives a presentation at a TED: Ideas Worth Spreading event about maybe the coolest bike you’ve ever seen! The YikeBike is an electric bike (glossary/categories/technology/electric-bike.html) which you can easily fold up. It’s safe, fast and you can ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

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

Daily Loaf

• Do It Today: Hanukkah, World AIDS Day … and The Ai ...
  Two commemorations of worldwide importance -- Hanukkah and World AIDS Day -- and one bitchin' air guitar party at a Seminole Heights pizza joint.
• Bolts’ Gagne returns, scores OT winner in Toronto
  The all-star forward gave the Tampa Bay Lightning a little taste of what they've expected all along in his first game back from injury.
• A Q&A with Margaret Cho, who’s performing Thurs., ...
  Cho performs a few tunes from her new album along with her topical rants, hilarious anecdotes and self-deprecating admissions.
• Hillsborough county environmentalist files ethics ...
  Layne adds that there is a direct conflict between Guinta's responsibilities when it comes to the Planning Commission, and his responsibilities as a licensed realtor, saying that his "intended 3 items are the same anti-regulation/pro-development agenda being lobbied at all levels of government."
• Prohibition Repeal Day party with the Tampa US Bar ...
  Enjoy cocktails prepared by the USBG team and appetizers by the Don Vicente Historic Inn with music from the early 1900s to set the mood.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Free documentary on Israeli women soldiers; UPDATE ...
  Check out Link Tv’s Doc Debut feature,where you can watch the entire one hour film,  To See if I am Smiling Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In the award-winning documentary To See If I Am Smiling, the frank testimonials ...
• Midnight raids continue, father of three taken fro ...
  From the Palestine Solidarity Project Early Thursday morning, at approximately 2:00am, Israeli forces from the Gush Etzion military base came to the homes of brothers and National Committee members Yousef and Mousa Abu Maria. Both are also co-founders of the Palestine Solidarity Project. Mousa, whos ...
• Wave of Israeli demolitions culminates in destroyi ...
  Here is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank). Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though in practise, all of the Palestinian territor ...
• Pay cheap, buy local: Israeli farmers strike for m ...
  By Audrey Farber One great thing about Israel is that all the produce comes from nearby â whether Israeli territory or Palestinian territory or Syrian territory or Bedouin lands (I am trying very hard to abstain from political opining regarding where farmlands may or may not lie, but that is inh ...
• In the name of the father: Israel arrests 16 year- ...
  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee In yet another nighttime raid on the village of Bil’in, soldiers stormed Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s house and arrested his sixteen year old son At 2:30 AM this morning Israeli forces entered the village of Bil’in in armored military jeeps and by f ...

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 ...

Coteret

• Maariv runs some scary gossip on Bibi and “the Bos ...
  Last night, Channel Ten TV News’s Raviv Drucker exposed a letter written to Benyamin Netanyahu in early 2009. The author, one Yisrael Yagel, a former executive in Netanyahu’s 2008 election campaign, penned an indictment of the Prime Minister’s management style, with particular emphasis on the role a ...
• Maariv: Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-P ...
  The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul. The full translation of his report is at the bottom of the post, a ...
• Yediot’s defense analyst on the looming US-Israel ...
  Read this one in full. Alex Fishman is Yediot’s veteran defense analyst. Besides providing a detailed post-mortem of the latest fiasco in US-Israeli diplomacy, he makes a very blunt allegation: Netanyahu is selling out the IDF’s self-defined strategic interests and the good will of the US administra ...
• What the Oslo Accords were about, from the mouths ...
  The second season of the Israeli version of the reality show Beauty and the Geek is an even bigger hit than the first. Not least because the producers constantly prove that, in Israel 2010, reality outdoes satire. In the second episode, broadcast Tuesday evening, the girls are quizzed in the Channel ...
• Israeli media provides a glimpse of how spin drive ...
  On the front page of this morning’s Maariv, senior columnist Ben Caspit reports [full translation at the bottom of the post; Hebrew original here]: At least three top Likud figures who were briefed recently by officials very close to Netanyahu on the talks with the Americans, on the letter that has ...

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – December 1
  1824 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate had received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 18 ...
• Pennsylvania police ponder riddle of five ‘i ...
  Police in York, Pennsylvania, are asking themselves how the parents of five children aged two to 13 managed to conceal them for so many years with no birth certificates, no schooling, no vaccinations and no evidence of medical care â and why. “I don’t know what would possess them at all,” said detec ...
• Deadline Live – November 30 2010
• AZ Governor Jan Brewer’s Death Panels Claim ...
• New Food Safety Bill Passes

The Air Vent

• The Politicians of Fryentology
  Anthony Watts is already covering this but I’ve been in a mood lately.  Climate ‘scientists’ are recommending rationing as a method for reducing CO2 output. As the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change, the influential academics called for much ...
• Wiki-liars
  R. de Haan left the video below in the comments thread of reporters asking WikiLeaks why “they” published the CRU emails.  I hate the leftist wikileak SOB’s already anyway and think they should be locked up but the equally leftist reporters and the wiki jerks stand around the microphone declaring a ...
• When Did Arctic Warming Start?
  Guest Post By Arnd Bernaerts as previously posted by Verity Jones at Digging in the Clay. Introduction The posting “Mapping global warming” (Jan. 18, 2010 by “KevinUK”) demonstrated convincingly that âmuch of the claimed global warming is hardly global at all. In fact it looks to be more accurately ...
• Cancun’s Anti-Xmas
  Cancun, the UN political scientists will take yet another shot to scam the public into solving climate change through limitation of usage.  Again, the fact that no evidence for man made climate change has reached any degree of certainty but worse yet they will again ignore the only option which can ...
• Frank’s view – find the decline
  Frank whomever on another thread wrote this: “So after you go around calling the CRU âa bunch of liars and scam artistsâ â based on nothing but innuendo â you have the temerity to lecture me on âcalling namesâ?” Actually I said they look like a bunch of liars and scam artists to me, but [...]

Focal Point

• I Can't Believe I Forgot to Have Children: NY Mag ...
  Oh, look, Vanessa Grigoriadis has a another very polished but utterly vacuous feature in New York Magazine. She's marking the 50th anniversary of the approval of the Pill with some very retro reasoning: "Fifty years ago, birth-control pills gave women control of their bodies, while making it easy to ...
• Radical 80's Prom: Friday at the Bowery Poetry Clu ...
  Join us on Friday December 3 at the Bowery Poetry Club for Radical 80's Prom, a gender-bending night of sheer awesomeness featuring original mashups by Marc Faletti, DJ Amanda Marcotte, a costume contest with prizes by Babeland, and much more. Step into the wicked photo booth, and let me ...
• Correction: "Wire" Creator David Simon Not Optimis ...
  A student asked Wire creator David Simon whether he saw any hopeful signs for the younger generation.... [Photo credits: "Correction," great catch by Dennis G. of Balloon Juice, David Simon would be proud that someone is still paying to read the news in print; "David Simon" by Lindsay Beyerstei ...
• Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Ordered Diplomats to Sp ...
  I hope this puts to rest the notion that we would live in a liberal paradise had Hillary Clinton become president instead of Barack Obama...not to mention the notion that we already live in a liberal paradise because Barack Obama won.� Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show that Secretary of ...
• The World is Edward Pasteck's Petting Zoo; We Just ...
  Jezebel is trolling itself again. This afternoon, the well-known feminist blog published an essay by one Edward Pasteck entitled,"American Guy In Paris Freed From The Idea Of 'Consent'." "Having just returned from living in Paris, I feel more convinced than ever that America gets many things ...

Inside Facebook

• American Dreams Combines Social Gaming, Education ...
  American Dreams is an educational social game created by developer Nihaoareyou that not only allows users to play in an online university world, but also have access to real life educational lectures from anywhere around the world. Nihaoareyou, a company that develops educational social games, creat ...
• Ads API Profile: Brighter Option’s Social Ads Mana ...
  As part of our ongoing series on companies offering Facebookâs Ads API tools and services, today we profile Brighter Option’s Social Ads Manager. It allows clients with relatively small budgets to create, target, and bid on ads at a large scale through a self-service tool. SAM’s strengths are in pos ...
• Compose Facebook Updates to Promote WordPress Blog ...
  Involver is announcing a new WordPress and Facebook integration for its Audience Management Platform today. Users can draft WordPress blog posts, compose updates for Facebook and Twitter which promote the blog post, then publish the post and updates from within AMP. Updates for the social channels c ...
• Now Available: The Facebook Marketing Bible Decemb ...
  The December 2010 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Comprehensive Guide to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook is now available! The Facebook Marketing Bible has enabled thousands of marketers, social application developers, publishers, and entrepreneurs to nav ...
• Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages: Rihanna, Star Trek, ...
  An interesting mix of technology and beverage companies, TV shows, musicians and movies on our Top 20 list of growing Facebook Pages. We gather our information from our PageData tool, which counts the number of Likes added to a Page each day. Top Gainers This Week Name Fans Gain Gain, % 1. Harry Pot ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Pentagon Report Shows DADT Repeal Poses ...
  truthout: Pentagon Report Shows DADT Repeal Poses Limited Risks, Gates Pushes Congress to Act http://bit.ly/hAu5Nz #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: The Economics and Politics of Elizabeth ...
  truthout: The Economics and Politics of Elizabeth Warren http://bit.ly/gXcxzh #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Ireland and the Euro: Is It Time to Part ...
  truthout: Ireland and the Euro: Is It Time to Part? http://bit.ly/gzUZy4 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: It's Official: North Korea Says "Modern" ...
  truthout: It's Official: North Korea Says "Modern" Nuclear Plant Is Operating http://bit.ly/fKaZqC #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Russians Refuted US Claim of Iranian Mis ...
  truthout: Russians Refuted US Claim of Iranian Missile Threat to Europe http://bit.ly/dLOsiQ #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• Wikileaks and the new global order: America's wake ...
  Jonathan Cook argues that the disclosure by Wikileaks of secret US diplomatic cables highlight "Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role" but that "the world's finite resources and its laws of nature promise a much harsher lesson".
• Wikileaks disclosures – a welcome "attack on the i ...
  Gilad Atzmon argues that the disclosure by the whistleblower website Wikileaks of 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables is "a long overdue, necessary attack on an 'international community' of warmongers and war criminals”, one that has shown the US “in bed with the world’s darkest regimes".
• Will the Palestinian Authority declare an independ ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that without strategic communications and public relations plans and competent professionals to implement them, the Palestinians stand little chance of exploiting the few opportunities that might present themselves in 2011.
• On reality and its alternates: Glenn Beck vs. Juli ...
  Lawrence Davidson compares US ultra-conservative commentator Glenn Beck with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – Beck "a charlatan who preaches an alternate reality that affirms the untested, ahistorical and prejudicial assumptions and feelings of millions of Americans", while Assange "a real truth t ...
• A distorted revolution: Tea Party stooges of Israe ...
  Paul J. Balles argues that if the present Tea Party in the USA were true to the ideals of the Boston Tea Party after which it is named, it would have questioned Washington's unconditional support for, and the billions of US taxpayers' dollars spent on, the criminal state of Israel.

Amazon Rainforest

• Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
  A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
• Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
  President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
• Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
  In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
• Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
  The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
• Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
  Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

• “Give Conservatism a Chance” by Jimmie ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 In his book “Itâs OK To Leave The Plantation”, C. Mason Weaver said the next logical step for the civil rights movement is the rise of a black conservative movement. Weaver, a black conservative, former congressional candidate and public speaker, says that hysteria, an ...
• Quote(s) of the Day
              “Just because you cook eggs in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits.”   “The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.” Malcolm [...]
• Rejuvenated Purpose? AfroSpear 2.0
  A few days ago a member of the AfroSpear Google Group asked this question: “It appears that the Afrosphere Google Group has died a slow and unfortunate death. Is the Afrosphere a group in name only? What should be the next steps, if anything for the Afrosphere Google Group?” First, it’s difficult to ...
• sat’day riddymz
• Working Man’s Death
  Some days I hate my job. However I am thankful for it and for the lifestyle and security it provides for me and my family. I appreciate it even more when I watch documentaries like this 4-part series on Aljazeera called “Working Man’s Death”. It provides a glimpse of the harsh realities of the ph ...

Expose the BNP

• Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
  Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Griffi ...

Sen4Earth

• No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
  "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
• Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
  Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
• Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
  The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

If Americans Knew

• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

• JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
  Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
• Conservative Conundrum
  Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
• HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
• Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
  This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
• Truth for Tea Baggers!
  War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
• GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
  Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
• Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
  Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
• Aliou Kumbaya
  My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• MIT Unveils Civic Tools for Communities Affected b ...
  Last Friday, MIT Center for Future Civic Media's director Chris Csikszentmihalyi formally released extrAct, a suite of Internet-based databasing, mapping and communications technologies for use by communities impacted by natural gas development. extrAct is targeted not only at communities and lan ...
• Innovation Strategy #1: Don't Take 'No' for an Ans ...
  This past week, Tom Grasty and I were invited to the Paley Center as part of "The Next Big Thing: The New News Entrepreneurs." We were asked to present Stroome before an extraordinary audience stuffed with CEOs, COOs and presidents of some of the world's most important media companies. During on ...
• How the FCC is Creating Better Open Data
  In the context of our TileMill project, we’ve been talking about our goal to help make open data from governments more actionable by making it easier to turn GIS data into custom maps. We’re focused on building better tools so people can turn data into custom maps to tell better stories online, but ...
• Scholarship winner wants to help media "explore ne ...
  When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." Five Knight scholars will grad ...
• Graduating Programmer-Journalist Wants to Help Und ...
  When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." One of the first two Knight scho ...

Cutting Edge News

• North Korea on the Edge - North Korean Belligerenc ...
  The most frequently heard question in the wake of a North Korean attack on a South Korean island is “why?” Those who have devoted their careers to studying North Korea, one of the world’s most opaque nations, say it is difficult to get a clear answer. One theory ties the artillery attack last week t ...
• Korean Peninsula on Edge - South Korea Gives Cool ...
  Diplomatic efforts are underway in Asia to defuse tension on the Korean peninsula. But South Korea is effectively rejecting China’s call to quickly convene multi-national talks to discuss North Korea. This comes as the United States and South Korea begin four days of naval drills seen as a show of s ...
• Politics on Edge - Charlie Rangel is Only a Sympto ...
  It's hard to conclude that Black Caucus Democrats are being sent back to Washington by large voting margins, year after year, because they are delivering such fine lives to their constituents. New York's Charlie Rangel, convicted of eleven ethics violations -- the most ever found against any member ...
• America on Edge - A Billion Dollar Settlement Mark ...
  The US Senate’s approval of a $1.15 billion settlement for black farmers meant to deal with decades of past discrimination capped a roller-coaster year on the issue for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.Vilsack was in the legislative trenches for much of this year pushing for the settlement’s passag ...
• Blue Fin Endangered because of Appetities and Unsc ...
  Your article Mediterranean Feeding Frenzy on Blue Fin, November 22, 2010 proves that we need to do much more to protect these fish from the likes of predator fishing companies and appetites that do not consider the damage they are doing to this diminishing species. Only when unscrupulous fishing ent ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

• But What Is Community?
  By YevgenyIt seems to me that Russia and other former Eastern Block countries have already gone through hell and are now on the way to recovery, while the USA and other formerly rich countries are yet to go through this hell, and nobody knows what it will look like. The take-home point is simple: ...
• The Missing Persons Of Iraq
  By Dirk Adriaensens Always someones mother or father, always someones child. Iraq has the most disappeared persons in the world
• Crop Failures And Drought Within Our Childrens Lif ...
  By Steve ConnorChildren today are likely to reach old age in a world that is 4C warmer, where the 10,000-year certainties of the global climate can no longer be relied on, and widespread crop failures, drought, flooding and mass migration of the dispossessed become a part of everyday life
• The New York Times Again Censoring WikiLeaks
  By Stephen Lendman The newspaper of record, of course, is a longstanding imperial tool, the closest equivalent in America to an official ministry of information and propaganda, what Times editors and bosses know but wont say
• Wikileaks And The New Global Order
  By Jonathan CookThe new disclosures, however, do provide a useful insight, captured in the very ordinariness of the diplomatic correspondence, into Washingtons own sense of the limits on its global role -- an insight that was far less apparent in the previous Wikileaks revelations on the US armys w ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
• Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
  Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...
• WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
  In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
• Vigiling in Afghanistan
  More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
• 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
  The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...

Yid With Lid

• Jimmy Carter Met With Obama's National Security Ad ...
  Sometimes its the small item that makes you worried, like this story I found in Roll Call: President Jimmy Carter discussed foreign policy issues Tuesday with President Barack Obama�s national security adviser, the Associated Press reported. National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer sa ...
• Is America Finished?
  By Barry Rubin A reader has remarked that America seems so polarized, so deadlocked that he finds it hard to believe that the United States can�return quickly (ever?) into being a great power, in the sense that is usually defined. Another reader thinks that the US has objectively declined in ...
• BREAKING! Interpol Issues Arrest Warrent For Wikil ...
  This is strange. While people across the world are calling for the head of Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, today Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest. But not because of the leaks issued by his website, but for Sex Crimes On 20 August 2010, an investigation was opened against Assange in ...
• OOPS! Live Mike Catches Dem Senator Complaining L ...
  OOP! That wasn't supposed to happen. But score a victory for transparency. A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining about what we had all assumed, that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is �rigged.��It�s all r ...
• TAKE THAT MENORAH AWAY FROM THE CHRISTMAS TREE ! ( ...
  Tomorrow night is the first night of Hanukkah, Chanukah and/or חנוכה the Jewish holiday that is spelled a hundred ways in English. Along with the joy of the holiday is the sadness that this minor holiday is continually hijacked by the ACLU and other liberal groups who have no idea what the holiday m ...

The Real Agenda

• Climate Alarmists want Forced Relocation of People
  They also want to halt production and development in both the developed and underdeveloped worlds. Paul Joseph Watson Not content with merely pushing world war-style rationing and the complete de-industrialization of the planet, global warming alarmists meeting in Cancun Mexico this week will propos ...
• Fake ‘slam dunk’ intelligence for War ...
  Mysterious “Laptop Documents”. used to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The UN Security Council on June 9 2010 adopted the imposition of a fourth round of sweeping sanctions against The Islamic Republic of Iran. UNSC Resolution 1929 includes an expanded a ...
• Obama announces 2-year pay freeze for federal work ...
  The real collapse in beginning. This decision could accelerate destruction of middle class. Washington Times Bowing to growing budget concerns and months of Republican political pressure on federal pay and benefits, President Obama today announced he would stop pay increases for most of the two mill ...
• Got Meat? Cloned Meat?
  Anthony Gucciardi Shatterlimits.com Would you eat cloned meat? I certainly wouldn’t, but according to the The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, it is “unlikely to present any risk.” The worst part is that whether you’d eat it or not, you already may have. The U.S. Secretary of Agricul ...
• New York Times self censors on WikiLeaks Informati ...
  The paper asked White House for feed back and decided to hide information under the excuse of National Security.  It also asked other publications to do the same. NYT A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousand ...

Wind Watch

• Henderson bans wind development
  HENDERSON � The Town Council has made Henderson the first north country municipality to ban commercial and private wind-energy towers. On Wednesday, the council voted 4-1 to adopt a local law written by the law firm Hancock & Estabrook LLP, Syracuse, that bans all commercial, private and wind measur ...
• Bingham County denies new wind project
  The Bingham County Planning and Zoning Committee denied Blue Ribbon Energy�s proposal Wednesday night to build 27 wind turbines in the Wolverine Canyon area of Bingham County. Several committee members said there was a lack of information in Blue Ribbon Energy�s application to build the turbines. On ...
• Town wages artful opposition to power line
  In an effort to thwart a proposed electric transmission line that will skirt their town, the people of the tiny town of Clifton, northwest of Waco, sketched out a novel argument Wednesday to the Public Utility Commission: The line would hamper the town’s ability to attract artists and inspire art. C ...
• Doctor calls for halt to Leonards Hill wind farm d ...
  A South Australian doctor who believes wind farms are making people ill says building works on the Leonards Hill wind farm should be halted until independent medical research is conducted. Dr Sarah Laurie, medical director of the newly formed Waubra Foundation, has forwarded to executives of Hepburn ...
• Wind resistance: Plans for turbines generate quest ...
  In a time of rising fuel costs, they stand in open fields with blades turning to harvest the wind and turn it into power. But as wind turbines are built, and proposed, in Central Massachusetts, there is growing opposition from some residents who question their value, and worry about possible ill eff ...

Not My Tribe

• C.S. Gestapo breaks up yet another demonstration
  At the Ulta beauty store.According to the KRDO tame-ass Reich Wing Media “Sgt Larry Furber shoewd everybody he means business” oh my how MACHO… Pig calls in his buddies to do his fighting for him, against a crowd of non-criminal unarmed citizens exercising their civil rights. Sound Familiar? elderly ...
• Woody Guthrie at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Par ...
  Actually, his son Arlo. Now, usually on Thanksgiving we hear Arlo’s “Alices Restaurant”. Which is a good song sung for a good cause, the Alices Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement. Unlike a parade at which he sang the song in 1968, in Chicago, and a parade in Colorado Springs where the music was all m ...
• Speaking of Nicaragua…
  The Artist, formerly known as School of the Americas, THE largest and best funded State-sponsored Terrorist Training Camp in the world, whose alumni include some of Colorado Springs cops, (as I understand, some of the “Homeless Outhrach” officers) used some of the Trainee Terrorists to disperse and ...
• The Law, in its Majestic equality, forbids rich an ...
  At least when it comes to Urban Camping. Seems the “no camping” ordinance didn’t apply at the mall when Greed rather than Need was the motivation to take to the tents. People started camping out early Thanksgiving day to be the first in line for “doorbuster” specials on Black Friday. How about it, D ...
• Tom DeLay found Guilty of Money Laundering
  Apparently “rigging elections” and other felonies don’t carry as much weight. There’s a potential for a life sentence involved, fat chance. Rich People GET paid for their crimes. Not have to Pay FOR them. Since his crimes have led to large numbers of human deaths including every Iraqi and Afghan who ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Muddled Questions about 911 Truth Evidence: A Resp ...
  Understandably many people who question the veracity of the evidence revealing 911 was an inside job tend to come at the issues from a very uninformed perspective. This is understandable given the fact most of us live in a world polluted by the misleading and often simplistic official (read corporat ...
• EU President Herman Van Rompuy is Yoda!
  (Image by Brocke). Nation states are dead: EU chief says the belief that countries can stand alone is a 'lie and an illusion' Mr Van Rompuy’s speech in the German capital told his audience that ‘the time of the homogenous nation state is over’. He added that the ‘danger’ of Euroscepticism was spr ...
• Debating With Larry Silverstein's Friend Andrew G. ...
  The following is an email exchange I had with Andrew G. Benjamin earlier this month. I did not obtain permission to post the emails, but I don't have to. Comments in red were not sent in the emails. Andrew G. Benjamin: I may have some useful info. Can't figure out if you a pro 9-11 Conspiracy, t ...
• YouTube Shuts Down 'Liarpoliticians' Account
  The YouTube channel liarpoliticians - a channel by a British guy who uploaded lots of high quality news clips recorded from British TV - has been terminated. The channel was the home of the original uploads of the Herman Van Rompuy "Global Governance" clip and the Gordon Brown "World Constitution" ...
• Breaking News: Hell Freezes Over!
  Geraldo Rivera Focuses on WTC 7 John-Michael chiming in here to focus in on this important comment from Jon Gold at 911blogger.com: “BuildingWhat?” Appears on Geraldo At Large on FOX News I Made this movie when the BBC released its debunking documentary about WTC7. I was furious because they referre ...

Fooducate

• Is the Vitamin D Craze Over Now?
  In the past few years, sales of vitamin D supplements have soared. More and more people have been tested for vitamin D deficiencies, and many doctors advised their patients to up their intake. But this trend may be coming to an abrupt halt. Today, the non-profit, non-affiliated, Institute of Medici ...
• PowerBar Energy Bites – Mostly Marketing Sound Bit ...
  Powerbar is a high end brand owned by Nestle Nutrition and sold mostly in sports shops. It positions itself as an athlete’s friend. What started as bars has expanded to gels, protein supplements, and now “Energy Bites”. From PowerBar, here are Energy Bites’ key features: Provide More Energy to Mus ...
• 40% of Shoppers: Healthy Food Tastes Bad
  Earlier this month Catalina Marketing released a consumer insight report demonstrating how difficult it is for consumers to shake old habits and to start buying and preparing healthy foods. Some of the interesting stats from the report: 4 out of 10 shoppers believe that healthy foods does not tast ...
• Focus in on Fibers for the Health of Them
  This is a guest blog post by Hope Warshaw, RD Do you eat enough fibers (yes fibers) each and every day? If you’re not eating those five (or more) servings of fruits and vegetables, making at least half your servings of grains whole (grain and wheat) and sneaking in servings of legumes, then it’s ...
• Happy Thanksgiving!
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Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Put a Little Palast in Your Stocking
  from Greg Palast For Chanukah, Christmas, Hajj 2010, Kwanzaa or whatever lights your candle, why not give the (tax deductible) gift of Truth? My latest disguise - fooled you? This year we have a few suggestions for Holiday gift-giving from the Palast Investigative Fund store: A Palast Gift Ca ...
• Debt Vultures Shot for ChanukahLiberia is saved bu ...
  by Greg Palast for In These Times We got’m. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday, the financial vultures, the carcass-chewers who were preying on the dirt-poor African nation of Liberia, gave up. Two shadowy vulture funds, which had won a $43 million court judgment against Liberia, agreed to accept ...
• The Family JewelsA Veteran’s Story
  by Greg Palast In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread." My father ran to his mother's bedro ...
• Rove's Vote Trickster: Caging Explained
  On Tuesday, Tim Griffin, former chief of research of the Republican National Committee, is on the ballot for Congress to represent Little Rock, Arkansas. He's favored to win. But Griffin is just as happy to win by stealing votes. Here's a clip from the Elections Files, the Palast team's investiga ...
• The Petroleum Broadcast SystemOwes Us an Apology
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS 'Frontline' investigation of BP, "The Spill." PBS has uncovered a real shocker:  BP neglected safety! Well, no shit, Sherlock! Pluto rolled over on the rug and looked at me as if to say, Don't we already know t ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• A fatal, familiar chain reaction
  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster were both caused by a string of human errors, says Geoffrey Lean.
• We can't avoid another Deepwater disaster
  In the desperate hunt for oil, danger and human error make a deadly cocktail, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Brazil's Libra oil field may be biggest in America ...
  The Libra oil field in Brazil may be the biggest discovered in the Americas for more than 30 years, according to the country's industry regulator.
• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.
• Deepwater lessons
  Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.

Ian Welsh

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

Age of Autism

• Cathy Jameson's Sunday Age of Autism Read: eMotion ...
  By Cathy Jameson Turkeys, pumpkins and apple pies. Thanksgiving is all around me even though my kids have yet to carve their Halloween pumpkins into Jack-o-lanterns. The pumpkins are sitting on the front steps looking quite festive but rather plain...
• AofA Sunday! 99% Off Donations Today!
  That's right friends, 99% off! Think Black Friday is the hallmark of holiday savings? Pshaw! Welcome to AofA Sunday! Just pledge us $1,000,000 or more and we'll discount your donation a zillion percent! Your final donation could be as little...
• Sparklicious Holiday Gift from Age of Autism: Blin ...
  Our friends at Bling is the new Black want to remind you that they have sparkly fun shirts for women who like to sparkle (men too, why not?), featuring Age of Autism, and other autism designs. Check out their website...
• A Mandela Approach to Autism
  By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. An activist for another disease recently asked me why our community didn't do more to support political candidates. I'd thought that over the previous few weeks I'd explained the situation in which we find ourselves well...
• Urinary Porphyrin Excretion in Neurotypical and Au ...
  http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/730552_2 Full text available. Comparison of Urinary Porphyrins in NT and AU Children Our findings suggest that mean concentrations of uro- and precoproporphyrins are comparable between NT and AU children of the same age ranges. In contrast, the concentrations of.. ...

Global BDS Movement

• BNC endorses findings of London session of Russell ...
  Occupied Palestine, 30 November 2010 - "May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence‟, pleaded intellectual Bertrand Russell at the first meeting of the citizens' War Crimes Tribunal that investigated US war crimes during its war on Vietnam.1 At a time when little was known in the wider public abo ...
• Veolia and Alstom feel the heat – BNC calls for in ...
  Occupied Palestine, November 2010 - Veolia and Alstom, the two French companies involved in the construction and management of a tramway linking west Jerusalem with illegal Israeli colonial settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory, described by the UN Human Rights Council as a “clear violation ...
• Palestinian civil society reaffirms support for pe ...
  Occupied Palestine, 23 November 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) urges the French government to immediately cease all undemocratic, repressive measures against its own conscientious citizens who promote or engage in non-violent boycotts, divestment an ...
• OECD hires services from extremist Jewish settler ...
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• Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on ...
  � Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  � Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Chinese activist held over Tiananmen picture
  Guardian – A Beijing activist was detained on a charge of inciting subversion after posting a photo online of China’s 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, which the military eventually crushed, killing hundreds of people. It is the first time Bai Dongping, 47, has been arrested, although he was taken ...
• US embassy cables: Pakistan backs US drone attacks ...
  The Guardian – The US ambassador to Pakistan reports on meetings with (now president) Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and General Ashfaq Kayani. They discuss immunity for former president Pervez Musharraf; the upcoming election and US drone attacks on the tribal areas. Although publicly t ...
• Tuesday was the coldest November night on record i ...
  BBC – Temperatures plummeted to the coldest on record for November in parts of the UK overnight. Northern Ireland hit a new low of -9.5C (15F) at Lough Fea, Co Tyrone, and in Wales, a record minimum of -18C (0F) was reached at Llysdinam, in Powys. Read Article
• US: FDA cautious on breast milk sharing as trend g ...
  Reuters – U.S. health officials are cautioning new parents about sharing breast milk as a growing number of women are using social networking and other websites to share their milk instead of turning to infant formula. Health experts have long promoted breast-feeding as the “perfect food” to provid ...
• The Food Crisis Of 2011
  Forbes-Every month, JPMorgan Chase dispatches a researcher to several supermarkets in Virginia. The task is to comparison shop for 31 items. In July, the firm’s personal shopper came back with a stunning report: Wal-Mart had raised its prices 5.8% during the previous month. More significantly, its p ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Fabio stars in electric vehicle PSA
  Think electric vehicles are hot? Just imagine how steamy things could get with Fabio thrown in. Nonprofit advocacy group Plug In America has done just that, casting the ageless male model in its newest ad touting the benefits of driving...
• EPA fines Kettleman City waste dump over PCB conta ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday levied a $300,000 fine against a toxic waste dump near a Central California farming community plagued by birth defects for failing to properly manage carcinogenic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Waste Management Inc., which...
• San Luis Obispo solar project to start constructio ...
  This time next year, expect to see a large solar installation rising in San Luis Obispo, courtesy of NRG Solar and SunPower Corp. The 250-megawatt California Valley Solar Ranch will start producing enough power for 100,000 homes by 2013, the...
• Foes of GE salmon raise specter of 'Trojan gene' e ...
  The Food and Drug Administration's public comment period for labeling requirements for a genetically engineered salmon ended not so quietly, with a flurry of press releases leading up to Monday’s deadline. They included an announcement by a group of lawmakers...
• Strawberry pesticide targeted by environmentalists ...
  A coalition of environmental and farmworker groups is urging California's Gov.-elect Jerry Brown to cancel the imminent approval of a controversial agricultural pesticide after he takes office, citing evidence that it is linked to cancer. The San-Francisco-based Californians for Pesticide...

water.org

• Student to swim 10-miles for water (Water.org)
  Carman-Ainsworth High student plans 10-mile swim to raise funds for global effort (Flint Journal/ Mlive – November 29, 2010) FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan – Erick Skaff is using his skills in the water to raise money for a clean water cause around the world. The 17-year-old Carman-Ainsworth High School s ...
• Rec.fm makes online shopping charitable (Benzinga)
  Rec.fm Makes Online Shopping Charitable This Holiday Season (Benzinga – November 26, 2010) – New fundraising platform Rec.fm (http://rec.fm), today announced a special holiday promotion that doubles the amount of money consumers can earn for their favorite charities. Rec.fm normally gives 51% of its ...
• Matt Damon: Here’s My Problem with the Snugg ...
  Matt Damon: Here’s My Problem with the Snuggie (TMZ) - Damon got all bundled up for AOL’s “You’ve Got…” series — in which he shows off some of the worst Xmas gifts he’s gotten over the years (including a stuffed animal his kids won’t even touch). But the coolest gift Damon thinks you can give is a ...
• Keep up with Water.org Haiti projects (ONE)
  Keep up with Haiti water projects in real time (ONE) – As advocates and activists, a lot of our support comes from actions that we take in front of our computers. Once we type in our names for a petition or click on a link, the issue is gone â unless we take the steps [...]
• Good Works: Water.org (Family Circle)
  Good Works: Water.org, Matt Damon and Gary White (Family Circle – November 21, 2010) – “Water is such a basic life necessity, but so easy to take for granted,” says Matt Damon. “In the U.S. we simply turn the tap and it appears, hot or cold, and clean. But for so many people around the [...]

Before It's News

• Bhagwati:_India_or_China
• More_underreported_WikiLeaks_revelations
• It_is_Just_a_Matter_of_Time_Before_Gold_Becomes_Pr ...
• Some_of_the_myths_surrounding_HIV_AIDS
• Short_Term_Personal_Loans_-_Avail_the_Money_to_Mee ...

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Happy Chanukah (Hanukkah) - Adam Sandler
  Happy Chanukah (Hanukkah)! Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah (Hanukkah) Song.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• WikiLeaks exposé: Israel tried to coordinate Gaza ...
  Israel tried to coordinate the Gaza war with the Palestinian Authority, classified diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks said on Sunday, adding that both the PA and Egypt refused to take control of the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
• Wikileaks: US embassy cables leak sparks global di ...
  The Guardian will be publishing extracts in the coming days from a selection of the most significant of more than 250,000 of these diplomatic cables, which were radioed back to Washington via satellite links from US embassies all over the world.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Israel's Shabbos Goy - by Christopher Hitchens
  Run out the clock by demanding concessions for something he has already agreed to in principle, appease the ultras he has appointed to his own government, and wait for a chance to blame Palestinian reaction for the inevitable failure.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
• In Safed, a town backs its racist Rabbi
  In the public park adjacent to the Zefat (Safed) Academic College, all the stone seats and wooden benches are adorned with black marker writings such as �no sitting for dogs, pigs and Arabs�, �life is beautiful without Arabs� and �death to the Arabs! Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-i ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• City Solar Maps: Making it Easier for Americans to ...
  Solar maps are popping up in major cities across the United States. The comprehensive online maps, think Google Maps for solar power, are designed to provide valuable information for residents contemplating solar power.� The maps provi ...
• World War II Airfield Could Become First Solar Par ...
  Rockspring Property Investment Managers LLP has announced plans to construct a solar park on a disused World War II airfield in Buckinghamshire, England. read more
• Sydney Theater Company Installs Largest Rooftop So ...
  In a "switch on" event the Sydney Theater Company (STC) Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton officially turned on Sydney's largest rooftop solar array at its theater, The Wharf. read more
• VideoBoom: Solar Power Meets "Inception"
  This marks the first installment of EnergyBoom's newest weekly feature,�VideoBoom -- videos that highlight clean energy businesses, ideas and creative concepts.� read more
• Endangered Tortoise Stalls 663.5 MW Solar Project ...
  Just weeks after the California Energy Commission approved Tessera Solar's 663.5 megawatt Calico solar project, the commission has temporarily withdrawn it approval. read more

News Blaze

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

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
  Tab seemed to migrate to others !
• Castro Speech database

libcom

• Student protests - what next?
  students_7.jpg After another successful day of action yesterday, we look at what lies next for the growing movement against the UK government's austerity measures of cuts to services and rising fees. ...
• More student protests sweep Italy
  italy.jpeg In the same week that saw students occupy the Colosseum and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy today has seen more occupations, street battles and blockades of railway stations by students oppos ...
• November 30th day of action against cuts and fees
  newcastle.jpg Tens of thousands of students will walk out of class for the third time in as many weeks today during a national day of action against cuts and tuition fees. Protests ...
• Wildcat Strike at Lvov Stadium Building Site
  The bosses lock in workers to prevent news of strike going public. On Nov. 26, about 100 workers on the site of the Euro2012 Stadium construction site in Lvov went on strike. The workers, who are employed by a firm called Comfortbud, hav ...
• My account of the student national day of action - ...
  The mainstream media's accounts of what happened in manchester on wednesday 24th november have been laughably inaccurate. The 3000-strong peaceful demonstration is a work of pure fiction. What follows is my personal account of what really took place. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• 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. ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Nancy Greene Raine
  She was Canada's Olympic superstar in 1968, winning gold and silver medals in Grenoble. These days her life remains rooted in the mountains of BC, but she's also taken up new duties as a Senator in Ottawa. And this week she's our guest.
• Rick Hansen
  His courage and determination are known around the world - while his commitment to spinal cord research has raised millions. He is a remarkable Canadian and one we're excited and proud to have as our guest this week.
• Wayne Gretzky
  He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
• Colm Feore (encore)
  His acting career is prolific, his roles varied, his talent immeasurable. Whether on the Shakespearean stage or the big or small screen, he's one of the most recognizable Canadian faces in the business. In this encore broadcast from 2001, Colm Feore discusses "acting is acting is acting".
• Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition (Sept ...
  Sounds like fun - all summer touring the country going from one barbecue to another. But for Michael Ignatieff it had to be more than fun - it had to be redefining moment. This week we find out if it was.

Scotts Contracting

• N.J.’s first true ‘passive house&#8217 ...
  N.J.’s first true ‘passive house’ will have no need for a furnace Source: The Record – Hackensack, New Jersey Publication date: November 27, 2010 By James M. O’Neill, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Nov. 27–Teaneck resident Ray Evangelista is building a … Continue reading →
• Steven Chu, Department of Energy-CSpan Nov 29, 201 ...
  Steven Chu USA Depart of Energy- yesterday impressed me with his Vision about the Energy Needs of the USA and where the energy in our Future will come from. About This Video Run time: 59 minutes Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary … Continue reading →
• Republicans Take Heed-Science the GOP can’t ...
  Suggestions for the Republicans in Office: Get with the Program and push yourself away Monetary Feed Trough; supported by the Big Oil and Big Coal Campaign Donations, it is clouding your Judgment on Global Warming / Climate Change. The Fog … Continue reading →
• Solar Fact of the Week
  Fact of the week Africa’s Sahara desert, assuming 15% efficient solar cells, could generate more than 450 tarawatt (TW) per year. Current annual global energy consumption, including fossil and renewable sources is about 13 TW.
• Solar Trackers Increase a Solar Panels Electrical ...
  2010/11/30 Scott’s Contracting Dual-Axis Tracking Generates More Power By Mark Scanlon, CEO of Sedona Energy Labs | November 23, 2010 PV World Dual-axis tracking systems generate more power than fixed arrays by continuously positioning the PV array so that … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Your Vote Didn’t Count Last Tuesday
  Fed policy decision cancels out the voice of voters.
• Grand Rapids Woman Harassed by Fair Housing Do-Goo ...
  if America is so free why can't you advertise for a "Christian" roommate?
• Statist Policies Cause More Harm Than Good
  A sure fire way to make a situation worse is to involve the government.
• Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
  The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Transparency Fundamentalists
  WikiLeaks performs a full body scan of the government, which doesn't want its "junk" touched.
• Wikileaks Shows No "New Mind-Set" in US Foreign Po ...
  IPS expert Phyllis Bennis says that with Hillary Clinton ordering spying on UN leaders, Bush style politics are still around.
• Kashmir: Obama and the Vale of Tears
  Kashmir is the key to resolving crises in South Asia and Afghanistan, argues columnist Conn Hallinan. Why is the Obama administration avoiding the issue?
• 60-Second Expert: The Cheonan Incident
  Despite a final report on the sinking of the South Korean vessel in March, doubts persist.
• Joint U.S.-South Korean Military Exercises in Yell ...
  Washington has not been very helpful in defusing tensions over the Yeonpyeong Island attack.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Policy ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight With ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Discus ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ensu ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Internation ...

Iranian.com

• Israel Says Arabs Agree On Iran Threat
  Israel's prime minister said Monday that newly leaked U.S. diplomatic memos provide clear proof that the Arab world agrees with his country's assessment that Iran is the chief danger to the Middle East.read more
• Leaked cables confirm Iran's threat: Hillary Clint ...
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the stories coming in the media, based on leaked cables, show that America’s concern about Iran is well-founded. “I think that it should not be a surprise to anyone that Iran is a source of great concern, not only in the United States; that what comes thr ...
• U.S. fears Iran has long-range missile, but Russia ...
  The United States believes that North Korea is supplying Iran with long-range missiles, suggesting Iran has strike capabilities are stronger than discussed in public, according to one of the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables released Sunday.read more
• US embassy cables: British envoy tutors US on nego ...
  13.(C) Ask a lot of questions, always put the ball back in their court. Doing so will encourage internal discussion and debate in Tehran, as well as put pressure on them to deviate from their prepared script. Wrong foot them by saying something unexpected to try to take them off script. Focus on acc ...
• Cables Hold Clues to US-Iran Mysteries
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Most Revolutionary Act

• Fluoride: the New Lead
  It took decades to “prove” that even low-level lead exposure caused mental retardation and behavioral problems in children. In 1973 when I graduated from medical school, there was a mountain of compelling evidence of the terrible things lead in paint and auto exhaust was doing to kids. However under ...
• The Age of Stupid
  The very last film in our Reel Earth film series was the British movie The Age of Stupid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/. It's actually a series of extremely thought provoking vignettes. I found the film quite sad, as the plot concerns a 2055 archivist in a world where the arctic ice sheet ha ...
• The Age of Stupid
  The very last film in our Reel Earth film series was the British movie The Age of Stupid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/. It’s actually a series of extremely thought provoking vignettes. I found the film quite sad, as the plot concerns a 2055 archivist in a world where the arctic ice sheet has ...
• Afghanistan and the Road Runner
  I spent yesterday trying to get my head around what's really happening in Afghanistan. I would strongly discourage other people from trying this. Mainstream coverage of the NATO occupation is full of the type of paradoxical and contradictory messages that are known to cause insanity. In fact the w ...
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars
  Our Reel Earth film festival finished yesterday. We saved the best films for last, including Blue Gold: World Water Wars - inspired by the book Blue Gold by Canadian Activists Maud Barlow and Tony Clarke. The film opened my eyes to the reality that water scarcity is a far more serious imminent pro ...

Doug's Darkworld

• FBI FOILS OWN TERRORIST PLOT AS STUNNED NATION REE ...
  It’s hard for me to look at the news these days without cringing, so why not share with my readers! The first non-news of the day is the FBI foiling a “terrorist plot” to blow up a Christmas Tree ceremony in Portland with a car bomb. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it, a Somali born teenager tried [...]
• Should the USA Nuke North Korea?
  A commenter recently suggested that the obvious solution to the North Korean “problem” would be to simply nuke them out of existence. Well, maybe not those exact words, but the basic suggestion was to attack North Korea using nuclear weapons. The North has a huge well dug-in conventional military, w ...
• Through Thick and Thin
  It’s been a rough week, what can I say. First, the Veterans Day hangover. Being a veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write [...]
• It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ...
  On Monday evening a helicopter near Los Angeles filmed what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch some 35 miles west of Los Angeles. The government immediately denied any knowledge of a missile launch, and after much speculation in the media and on the Internet, a few days later the case was sol ...
• The Forgotten War, the 1956 Israeli Invasion of Eg ...
  Also known as the Suez Crisis or the Tripartite Aggression. This was a lovely little war, brilliant in its simplicity. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal early in 1956, so Britain, France, and Israel came up with a wonderful plan. Israel would invade Egypt, drive the Egyptian army out of the Sina ...

FourWinds10

• Happy dolphins update on Hutchison-Lazaryan freque ...
• Lab Evidence Refutes BP's and Fed's Deceptions - T ...
  Evidence Refutes BP's and Fed's Deceptions In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. Laboratory test re ...
• University Group Raises Concerns About BP Oil Spil ...
  Over the Labor Day weekend, the Perdido Bay Mullet Festival in Lillian, Alabama had to do something it's never had to do before -- substitute catfish for mullet. Why? Because, according to event organizer Bill Cornell, the company that supplies the mullet for the annual festival "didn’t feel good ab ...
• WATCH: Feds Says It's Illegal to Dig in the Sand
  VIEW VIDEO http://www.thefoxnation.com/justice/2010/09 /20/watch-feds-says-its-illegal-dig-sand � Sept. 21, 2010
• Reign of Eco-Terror, False Flags, or Strange Accid ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Rank the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010
  Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010 is now open and will remain open until Christmas: The top 10 survey: what were the biggest oil stories of 2010? They listed about 40 stories; I pulled out a list below that I think is worth debating ...
• Addressing Oil Company Subsidies
  Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent essay on the elimination of the VEETC, the major ethanol subsidy in the U.S., some ethanol supporters argued for continuing the subsidies because oil companies receive subsidies. There are many versions of the oil subsidy argument – some of ...
• Taxpayer Subsidized Ethanol Exports May Bite Indus ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Ulterior Motives Behind the Ethanol Pipeline? Ethanol producers in the Midwest have lobbied for support to build a pipeline to ship their ethanol to the East Coast. As I have argued, given that the market for ethanol is nowhere close to being saturated in the ...
• Addressing the Ethanol Rhetoric Over the Expiring ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Ethanol Rhetoric Ramps Up It has been interesting to watch the flurry of ethanol rhetoric since the recent elections. With the $0.45 per gallon subsidy (called the VEETC) and the ethanol tariffs both set to expire at the end of next month, both sides feel ...
• Inside Shell’s Bintulu GTL Plant
  Robert Rapier writes about his recent tour of Shell's gas-to-liquids plant in Malaysia.

Discovery Educator Network

• iPad and iPod Touch Handouts | Teaching with Techn ...
  Comments:Special education resources for use with an iPad and iPod Touch. Handouts provided in PDF format. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, teaching, technology, ipodby: Dean Mantz
• "I Don't Get It" - How to Get Your Students Thinki ...
  Comments:Nice list of web 2.0 tools that provide opportunity for creativity and engagement. - Dean MantzTags: thinking, creativity, education, web2.0, tools, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• Wix.com advent created by ktenkely based on Kinder ...
  Tags: advent, wix, ilearn, KellyTenkely, web2.0, tools, education, elementaryby: Dean Mantz
• Bright ideas
  Comments:Site developed in Australia provides a wealth of Web 2.0 tools, integration ideas, and tutorials for successful engagement. - Dean MantzTags: blog, Web2.0, education, library, resources, tools, ideas, creativity, learningby: Dean Mantz
• Projects By Jen -- WELCOME
  Comments:Jennifer Wagner has developed a great collection of resources and lessons that promote inquiry based learning. - Dean MantzTags: projects, JenWagner, projectbasedlearning, inquirybased, Pre-K, 6thgrade, elementaryby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• What Does the Food Safety Act Mean for Your Food?
  Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2010 Live Chat on Twitter Friday, December 3, 4-5 pm with Rodale.com editors and guest experts read more
• Tasty, Healthy, Homemade Options for French Fry Fa ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Hoping to cash in on the nation’s growing interest in natural ingredients, Wendy’s is rolling out revamped “natural-cut fries with sea salt.” One plus: These skin-on fried Russets are cooked in trans fat–free oil. But they’re still deep-fried, which jacks up the calories. An ...
• Pain-Easing Hospice Care is Underused by Those Who ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When faced with an advanced illness for which there is no likely cure, not all patients are given a full understanding of their options. In a new report detailing end-of-life care among older people with advanced cancer, the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which analyzes medical ca ...
• Despite New Guidelines, Hospitals Favor Cesarean B ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Alison M. Rice, 39, is eight months pregnant with her second child. The Arlington, VA, editor has just one main concern about the birth, and it has nothing to do with pain. She wants to deliver her baby vaginally and avoid another cesarean like the one she had four years ag ...
• Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Five Ways to Focus Your Wa ...
  RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—How much of the time do you spend living in the present moment? If you’re like most of the people who attend my lectures on mindfulness, your mind wanders a lot. The To Do list…What’s for lunch?...Last night’s argument…Pick up the dog at the vet…How’s Mom doing? An endless ...

big think

• The Strongest Material Known to Man
  Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science.� If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed ...
• Science Wars? Anthropologists Debate Whether Scien ...
  The Chronicle of Higher Education has a deeply interest feature up today about the stirrings of disciplinary controversy within the American Association of Anthropology.� No doubt this will raise once again a decades-old distracting debate over the so-called Science Wars.� (Read some of my thoughts ...
• I Can't Believe I Forgot to Have Children: NY Mag ...
  Oh, look, Vanessa Grigoriadis has a another very polished but utterly vacuous feature in New York Magazine. She's marking the 50th anniversary of the approval of the Pill with some very retro reasoning: "Fifty years ago, birth-control pills gave women control of their bodies, while making it easy to ...
• From 'Randy Andy' To 'Calamity Andy'
  So what has animated the British media the most about Wikileaks? Could it be the pressure exerted by the Saudis and Gulf States on the United States, who wanted the White House to authorise the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities? Could it be the less than wholesome remarks attributed to US ...Rea ...
• Radical 80's Prom: Friday at the Bowery Poetry Clu ...
  Join us on Friday December 3 at the Bowery Poetry Club for Radical 80's Prom, a gender-bending night of sheer awesomeness featuring original mashups by Marc Faletti, DJ Amanda Marcotte, a costume contest with prizes by Babeland, and much more. Step into the wicked photo booth, and let me ...

Information Liberation

• Cop Asks Stranger for ID, Stranger Asks Cop Why, C ...
  Here's one more reason to "respect the badge." WSBTV reports: Webb said he was minding his own business in front of a Riverdale apartment complex when then-city police officer Daniel Vanhee approached him and asked for identification. *I said:...
• Bill O'Reilly: WikiLeaks Leakers Are Traitors, Sho ...
  Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Bill*O*Reilly took a hard line against the leakers of the classified State Department cables released by WikiLeaks this week, saying they were traitors who *should be executed or put in prison for life.*...
• If This Be Treason...
  ... but, of course, it isn*t. Julian Assange isn*t an American citizen. Wikileaks isn*t an American organization. Even if we accept the logic of state, neither Assange nor Wikileaks owe any duty of loyalty to the US government. Where no loyalty is...
• Homeland Security's Domain Name Seizure May Stretc ...
  We had a bunch of questions concerning the legality of Homeland Security's seizure of domain names via its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group. The whole thing seemed of extremely dubious legality. And it appears we're not the only ones t...
• BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures
  The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-pow...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

• The Race to Fix the Classification System
  The massive disclosure of a quarter million diplomatic records by Wikileaks this weekend underscores the precarious state of the U.S. national security classification system. The Wikileaks project seems to be, more than anything else, an assault on secrecy.  If Wikileaks were most concerned about wh ...
• Seeking the Rule of Law in Afghanistan
  U.S. efforts to promote the rule of law in Afghanistan are expanding and accelerating.  Nearly a billion dollars has been spent in the past decade to strengthen Afghanistan’s legal infrastructure, rising from $7 million in FY2002 to an estimated $411 million in FY2010.  In July 2010, a new Ambassa ...
• Terrorism in East Africa, and More from CRS
  Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). “Countering Terrorism in East Africa: The U.S. Response,” November 3, 2010. “Latin America: Terrorism Issues,” October 26, 2010. “U.S.-South Korea Relations,” November 3, 2010.
• The Evolution of American Military Intelligence (1 ...
  An unclassified U.S. Army history of military intelligence that was formerly used as a textbook in officer training at the Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca is now publicly available online (large pdf). The 1973 volume has been superseded in many or even most respects by subsequent research ...
• US-Saudi Arms Deal Defended by Gates, Clinton
  A $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia — the largest in U.S. history — is poised to proceed despite questions raised by some members of Congress. In a November 16 letter to Congress (pdf), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the deal: “This proposed sal ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Science snips
  Yet more science news snippets from David Bradley Related Posts:Periodic Table of Science BloggersMicrobial BioremedySpectral LinesHappy New YearCassini-Huygens newsScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
• Climate change and digital music
  Information technology has a carbon footprint, that’s beyond doubt. Now, writing in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Christopher Weber, Jonathan Koomey and Scott Matthews in the US in work supported by grants from Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation have calculated that ...
• Six science books for the holiday season
  Six science books for the holiday season subjects as diverse as molecular biology pioneer Sydney Brenner, the question of antimatter, how scientists can better explain their research to non-scientists, a history of the chemical elements, scientific feuds and how innovators exploit business and techn ...
• More thoughts on science from sciencebase
  My latest science news updates Low-allergy wine, true blood, boronic butterflies – The Alchemist learns of low-allergy wines could one day be possible thanks to the discovery of glycoproteins in the tipple that seem to trigger the sniffles and headaches in susceptible drinkers. In analytical news tr ...
• Pharma industry could thrive in open
  The pharmaceutical industry is facing tough times. The patents for many of the billion-dollar blockbuster drugs have expired, generics have taken market share. Health insurance companies and national health services are under increasing pressure to cut costs. Manufacturers and governments in the dev ...

RFF Library

• Coalition Letter: Allow Ethanol Supports to Expire
  Coalition VEETC (John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) http://cei.org/sites/default/files/Coalition%20VEETC%20Opposition%20Letter%2011%202010.pdf [H/T: Competitive Enterprise Institute] A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing t ...
• Draft Resolution of the Ocean Protection Council o ...
  California Ocean Protection Council http://tinyurl.com/2g4fuks [From an E&E Daily story by Colin Sullivan, subscription required] A 55-inch sea-level rise by the end of the century combined with a devastating 100-year storm could mean more than $100 billion in property damage and place nearly half a ...
• On the Road to Prosperity? The Economic Geography ...
  World Bank / by Mark Roberts, Uwe Deichmann, Bernard Fingleton and Tuo Shi http://tinyurl.com/29hse58 Over the past two decades, China has embarked on an ambitious program of expressway network expansion. By facilitating market integration, this program aims both to promote efficiency at the nationa ...
• Climate Proofing Infrastructure in Bangladesh: The ...
  World Bank / by by Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huq Khan, Md. Sohel Masud, Manjur Murshed Zahid Ahmed, Nandan Mukherjee, and Kiran Pandey http://tinyurl.com/2espkrv Two-thirds of Bangladesh is less than 5 meters above sea level, making it one of the most flood prone countries in the world. ...
• Climate Change, Agriculture and Poverty
  World Bank / by Thomas W. Hertel and Stephanie D. Rosch http://tinyurl.com/32afs9g Although much has been written about climate change and poverty as distinct and complex problems, the link between them has received little attention. Understanding this link is vital for the formulation of effective ...

Scientific American - News

• Recommended Daily Vitamin D Intake Gets a Boost
  Vitamin D deficiency has become something of a health bugaboo in recent years, especially after a 2009 study that declared three quarters of U.S. adults and teenagers deficient. Low levels of the vitamin--which is manufactured by the body when sunlight hits the skin and can be found in some fatty ...
• Is the U.S. Falling Behind in the Clean Energy Rac ...
  In the 1970s, refrigerators were growing in size--and energy consumption. In one of the more successful government-supported programs for energy-efficient technology, research and development of better compressors now have provided refrigerators that are larger still--but use roughly the same amount ...
• Can Faith Slow Climate Change?
  Give us all a reverence for the Earth as your own creation, that we may use its resources rightly in the service of others and to your honor and glory. The prayer was recited regularly by a young Sally Bingham growing up in San Francisco. [More]
• How One Astronomer Became the Unofficial Exoplanet ...
  In the past several days a number of news articles have touted the passage of a tidy astronomical milestone--the discovery of the 500th known planet outside the solar system. In the past 15 years, the count of those extrasolar worlds, or exoplanets, has climbed through single digits into the dozens ...
• The Truth About the Risks to Freshwater Aquifers P ...
  It could take decades, at least, to replace cheap, abundant fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources. In the meantime, many scientists and government officials around the world think the next best option for keeping Earth's rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in check is to prevent ...

RAWA News

• Coalition ramps up air war over Afghanistan, mindf ...
  Orlando Sentinel: Once sharply curtailed because of complaints over civilian casualties, U.S. and NATO forces have ramped up the air war in Afghanistan since this summer. Coalition aircraft dropped 1,000 bombs and missiles in October — one of the highest monthly totals of the 9-year-old war.... So f ...
• Charities criticise statement about safety of chil ...
  CAF: Save the Children has criticised a top NATO representative for stating that children are safer in Kabul than they are in London, Glasgow or New York. The comments came from a civilian NATO spokesperson in Afghanistan, who spoke to the BBC's Newsround programme yesterday (22 November).
• Burning Desperation: Why Did You Burn Yourself?
  The New York Times: “Why did you burn yourself?” asks the doctor. “If I threw myself from a building, I’d break an arm or a leg, but I wanted to die,” Halima answers. “That’s why I set myself on fire. I thought I would die instantly.” As an answer it is more how than why, but it is enough for Dr. Ar ...
• Afghanistan No.1 victim of international terrorism ...
  Xinhua: Afghanistan remains the country most affected by international terrorism, a UN official said here on Monday. Despite progress on the political, social and economic fronts, the terrorist activities of the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other extremist groups continue to be the main challenge to Afghan ...
• 119.4 Billion USD Investment in the Afghan War Thi ...
  The Register Guard: The panel’s co-chairmen, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, identify $100 billion in defense cuts that could be made in 2015. That would be too little and too late, but what’s almost revolutionary is the notion that if we’re ever to get this nation back on sound economic footing, w ...

frogblog

• NZ Youth Delegation: Our best reps at Cacun
  I’ve been meaning to blog on the Cop16 UN Climate Change Conference that kicked off in Cacun yesterday, but there hasn’t been much news forthcoming other than the traffic jams that kept delegates and foreign dignitaries trapped in buses for hours yesterday. Luckily, New Zealand has ...
• Horizontal becomes vertical in climate change deba ...
  This is amusing. National Party blogmeister David Farrar called out Labour MP Charles Chauvel for this Red Alert post, in which Chauvel says: "My aunts’ home in Tahiti, 6m from the high tide line, is no less likely to be washed away by rising sea levels than it was last year." The problem for Farra ...
• Welfare Working Group: Submit, submit, submit
  It’s great to see the lively discussion continuing on my post last week about the future directions of welfare policy. There is a view being circulated by some that the Government’s Welfare Working Group’s Options Paper doesn’t deserve much attention; that it follows the Brash 2025 ...
• General debate, December 1, 2010
• “The Morning Star” of West Papua
  Today, December 1 is the day that people from all over the world show solidarity with West Papua. The much loved and contested symbol of West Papuan rights is the flag “The Morning Star” which will be flown in many places today. Keith Locke was at the flag raising in Auckland, while ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Willful Self Destruction
  Tom Friedman imagines what a leaked cable from the Chinese embassy in Washington DC might look like: There is a willful self-destructiveness in the air here as if America has all the time and money in the world for petty politics. They fight over things like — we are not making this up — how and ...
• GOP Cynicism Gone Wild
  This is ridiculous. Both Democrats and Republicans agree that the new 1099 reporting requirements included in the healthcare reform bill should be repealed. The pain-in-the-ass factor is simply too high to justify forcing everyone to create the mountains of new paperwork it would require. The proble ...
• WikiLeaks and the Rest of the World
  The reliably bellicose Victor Davis Hanson has a bone to pick with the founder of WikiLeaks: Julian Assange prides himself on being a bomb-thrower, eager to take down Western governments and banks, the U.S. military, etc. Yet, in cowardly fashion, he stays clear of getting involved with dissident ...
• Pentagon: DADT Repeal Not a Problem
  The military has finally released its long-awaited study on the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the results are unsuprising: most service members don't think repeal would be a problem: The Pentagon has concluded that allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the United States armed forces ...
• Does PPACA Contain a Surprise?
  One of the reasons that employer-based healthcare is so prevalent in the United States is that it's a good deal: unlike the normal income they recieve, employees don't have to pay taxes on their healthcare benefits. A $5,000 policy costs $5,000. Conversely, if your employer simply paid you a cash wa ...

Insanity Report

• Movie Review: Faster
  Finallyâ¦the Rock has come BACK… to making adult films.  And itâs about time.  Itâs been a while since we saw Dwayne Johnson in a film where he was just some big, mean guy who hurts people.  Johnsonâs last few films have left some of his earlier fans wondering if they would ever see him in [...] ...
• IC 212: The Chitlin Circuit 4Loko Podcast Party P ...
  Topics for the show: We continue with the marathon show talking about all kinds of random things Lebron James as the Kanye West of the NBA The Art of talking shit in Basketball The President goes hard in the paint A Diary of a Tired Black Man and the problem with men who are bitter [...]
• It’s All Fun And Games Until a Middle Class White ...
  By know you’ve probably heard of the ridiculous “outrage” over Four Loko, the caffeinated alcoholic energy drink.  Our fearless leaders in Congress, who took a year to argue over the HCR bill and can’t seem to agree on extending unemployment benefits, have moved with break neck speeds to pass laws ...
• FacePalm of the Week: How to be a LowLife Piece o ...
  Maybe you’ve heard of Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta.  He’s the US solider who was awarded the first Medal of Honor (the nation’s top military award) to a living recipient in nearly 40 years.  To win such an award you have to demonstrate incredible…almost super human acts of bravery and honor.  Here’s ...
• IC 211: A Nation of Whiners
  Topics for the show: Dylan’s excessive partying Blake Griffin’s flagrant dunking on the Knicks The Pope says condom use is okay in “some cases” Sometimes its best to just STFU Don’t be a Douche The President hasn’t “experienced” the new TSA procedures Americans bitch too much Join the Facebook Group ...

Simple Climate

• Simple Climate poll part 2: One-liners and metapho ...
  Vote for your favourite from six more scientists' attempts to help me clearly communicate climate change, and discuss how effective they are.
• Methane release undermines CO2 emissions slowdown
  Despite a 1.3 percent CO2 drop from 2008 to 2009, atmospheric greenhouse gas levels reach a record thanks in part to natural methane release, likely from warming in the Arctic.
• Pick the best Simple Climate change explanation
  So far this year 26 scientists have provided Simple Climate with straightforward explanations of climate change situation. Help choose the best of seven explanations of the underlying physics in the first stage of the poll that will select a reader's favourite by the end of the year.
• Extra satellite records settle tropospheric warmin ...
  Additional sets of data have been vital in correcting the initial measurements of the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth, which showed no warming trend, to match other records demonstrating climate change. That's according to a review of 40 years of tropospheric temperature research by a t ...
• When climate becomes a problem too far
  Vivid images are important for understanding global warming, says University of New South Wales psychologist Ben Newell, but go too far and people can react with despair that prevents them doing anything to stop it.

e!Science News

• Virtual biopsy may allow earlier diagnosis of brai ...
  In a study of ex-pro athletes, researchers found that a specialized imaging technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) may help diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disorder caused by repetitive head trauma that currently can only be definitively diagnosed at autopsy. Resul ...
• Study shows pregnant mother's diet impacts infant' ...
  A major new study shows that a pregnant mother's diet not only sensitizes the fetus to those smells and flavors, but physically changes the brain directly impacting what the infant eats and drinks in the future. read more
• Gene transfer from transgenic crops: A more realis ...
  A new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal in cotton plants more accurately than previously available methods. read more
• Measuring the temperature of nanoparticles
  One of the holy grails of nanotechnology in medicine is to control individual structures and processes inside a cell. Nanoparticles are well suited for this purpose because of their small size; they can also be engineered for specific intracellular tasks. When nanoparticles are excited by radio-freq ...
• Loud snoring and insomnia symptoms predict the dev ...
  A study in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found that loud snoring and two common insomnia symptoms - difficulty falling asleep and unrefreshing sleep - each significantly predicted the development of the metabolic syndrome. The study emphasizes the importance of screening for common sleep com ...

unEarthed

• No Reprieve For Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
  A banner hung in Paris during last week's International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna meetings. Long ago in an economy far, far away, I was a writer for one of those trendy Internet-obsessed business magazi ...
• Friday Finds: Bras Provide Support for the Environ ...
  Wi-Fi radiation may be making trees sick. Photo courtesy of sxc.hu, Auro Queiroz California's chemicals law gets tangled in toxic debate With toxic chemicals regulations set to go into effect in January, manufacturers and a ...
• Costa Rica Bans Open-Pit Metal Mining
  Bellavista open-pit mine, Costa Rica In a bold and precedent-setting move, Costa Rica has prohibited all future open-pit metal mining! Environmentalists are celebrating the passage of the new law, which—approved unanimously b ...
• "The Danger of Cosmic Genius"
  Freeman Dyson My friend Ken Brower has a fascinating piece in The Atlantic Monthly for December on the visionary astrophysicist Freeman Dyson. Ken has known Dyson for years and wrote a wonderful joint profile of Freeman and h ...
• A Video Toast To The World of Earthjustice
  Today, in the midst of Thanksgiving, we invite you to spend a minute and 17 seconds with us as we honor the many Earthjustice supporters responsible for significant achievements this year on behalf of people, wildlife and the wi ...

Brave New Climate

• The arithmetic adds up to nuclear
  Yesterday, The Australian newspaper published an Op Ed piece by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook, entitled Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind, which discusses our recent paper in Energy. The print (dead tree) version of the article even had the graph shown here included! However, the editor h ...
• Nuclear is the least-cost, low-carbon, baseload po ...
  This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also [.. ...
• The effect of cutting CO2 emissions to zero by 205 ...
  Guest Post by Dr Tom M. L. Wigley. Tom is a a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and former Director of the CRU. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. For his list of papers and citations, click here (hi ...
• SNE 2060 – a multi-source energy supply scenario
  In this post, I develop a hypothetical multi-energy-supply scenario for global low-emissions electricity in ~2060. The assumed energy mix is 75 % nuclear fission and 25 % non-nuclear sources, with fossil fuel use virtually eliminated except where it is used with carbon capture and storage. The % ann ...
• Systems modelling for synergistic ecological-clima ...
  For those interested in my current science research directions, I’ve just been funded for another 4 years by the Australian Research Council as a Professorial “Future Fellow“, to continue my work on stochastic systems modelling and scenario optimisation. Here are some details on the project: Title: ...

Indigenist Opinion

• In Memory Of Chalmers Johnson 1931 - 2010
  The excerpt below is taken from an article Professor Emeritus Chalmers Johnson wrote for The Nation in 2001.� The article is entitled "Blowback": The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; they attacked Ame ...
• Where's the ‘Thanks' in Thanksgiving?
  Where's the ‘Thanks' in Thanksgiving?: "(FinalCall.com) - One of the most cherished American holidays is Thanksgiving, a day that Abraham Lincoln officially declared in 1863, in praise of “our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” In the early 1900s, Gimbels and Macys saw dollar signs and ...
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why Carville Won't Apologiz ...
  OpEdNews - Article: Why Carville Won't Apologize to Obama for his Balls Crack Carville, of course, got several things out of this supposed joke. He got attention from the White House. No surprise there, it didn't like the offensive crack. He got media attention which was guaranteed considering that ...
• Article: Human Trafficking Is A (Non-) Metaphor Fo ...
  OpEdNews - Article: Human Trafficking Is A (Non-) Metaphor For Our Times For OpEdNews: David Michael Green - Writer Next to genocide and war, human trafficking is about the most disgusting thing I can think of. For those unfamiliar with the term, human trafficking refers to what is essentially slav ...
• Annelie Botes: "I Don’t Like Black People"
  IOL News November 30, 2010 (8am) Annelie BotesRemarks made by a prominent Afrikaans author have opened a debate about race in South Africa. Author and columnist Annelie Botes told Rapport newspaper in an interview last week she did not like black people.� People have since either hailed Botes as �b ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Republican Election Strategy for 2012
  Here it is… “Elect Republicans and then we will then stop sabotaging our nation’s economy.” How many will buy it?
• Only in America – Treason Pays
  Only in America does a political party (Republicans) score political points by trying to destroy presidents of the opposite party. In today’s world, halting the economic recovery, and neglecting to watch nukes in Russia is “good” political strategy.  Lowering taxes on corporations that are already ...
• Sorry Sarah
  The staff at RepublicansAreADisease.com would spend a little time mocking you if you weren’t such low hanging fruit. By all means keep it up! Guess what Sarah. I can see the Russians kicking our nuke inspectors out as I type….
• Republican Platform = Global Warming Doesn’t ...
  As more data confirming the fact that the earth is warming, the ice is melting, the permafrost is melting, and this is causing huge problems , the Republicans stand firm. Doing anything to change our current system of oil company subsidies, handouts, and zero income tax policies would hurt the oil t ...
• Remembering Medicare Part D
  The absolute worst piece of legislation ever written. The bill, Tom DeLay “hammered” through where seniors get drugs, and the tax payer gets the bill. Of course the tax payer funded drugs cost up to five times as much as the same drugs cost other countries health care systems. Isn’t it good to know ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Revolution Roundup #2: As Mass Rebellion Spreads T ...
  The Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) rages on... Over the past few days the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria and Portugal have all held massive demonstrations against the Global Banking Cartel.
• High Frequency Terrorism: How the Big Banks and Fe ...
  By David DeGraw & Max Keiser The stock market plunge on May 6th was an act of domestic financial terrorism in America. A day that will live in infamy.
• The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s ...
  Democracy is devolving into fascism before our eyes, the "iron law of oligarchy" is once again asserting itself. You cannot have a concentration of vast wealth and Democracy at the same time, and we currently have the greatest concentration of wealth in history...
• Take Action! How We Can Save OUR Economy
  AmpedStatus has joined a new coalition to fight for economic justice. We are sick of reporting upon the crimes of Wall Street and watching our future go up in flames without any accountability or measures being taken to defend against blatant criminality. The Wall Street Elite have controlled our po ...
• Financial Reform Report Card: Banksters 37, People ...
  The financial reform process is providing definitive proof as to what the true priorities are for each Senator. 10 Senators have emerged as American heroes, 37 Senators have revealed themselves as puppets of the Financial Oligarchy.

+972

• 16 year-old Palestinian reports abuse by Israeli i ...
  Mohammed Abu Rahmah was arrested from his home during a military nighttime raid on his village of Bil’in on November 23rd. Abu Rahmah, the son of imprisoned Bil’in organizer, Adeeb Abu Rahmah, was released without charge on Monday, and reports being harassed and beaten during his questioning. On Nov ...
• Maariv runs some scary gossip on Bibi and “t ...
  Last night, Channel Ten TV News’s Raviv Drucker exposed a letter written to Benyamin Netanyahu in early 2009. The author, one Yisrael Yagel, a former executive in Netanyahu’s 2008 election campaign, penned an indictment of the Prime Minister’s management style, with particular emphasis on the role a ...
• Outrageous legislation causes uproar in Israel
  The Knesset yesterday passed a bill through its first stage of legislation [Heb], and if eventually approved will impose a fine of 10 shekels on patients who fail to show up to appointments they made with their doctor. But +972 magazine has gained access to other clauses of the bill, which the mains ...
• Marching for human rights in Israel
  As the date of Israelâs second annual Human Rights March approaches, the writer, who is the executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), lists the many blows Israelâs democratic society has suffered over the past year – and explains why he remains hopeful. By Hagai E ...
• Liberal Jewish organization sidelines Jewish Voice ...
  By Jerry Haber / cross-posted with permission from the Magnes Zionist blog Does Jewish Voice for Peace have a place at the Jewish communal table? I expect the answer to be “no” from people on the right wing of the Jewish communal spectrum; after all, some of them barely tolerate J-Street. But as an ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Irrigation infrastructure efficiency grants progr ...
  South Australian River Murray irrigation operators are invited to apply for Australian Government funding to improve water efficiency and return water to rivers and wetlands.
• Television recycling free of charge
  People in regional South Australia and Broken Hill will be able to drop off their broken and obsolete TVs free of charge under an initiative sponsored by the Australian, South Australian and New South Wales Governments.
• 1800 new affordable homes for Victorian communiti ...
  Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments.
• Boost to Snowy River flows
  Environmental flows in the iconic Snowy River will start ramping up next week after the finalisation of a deal between the NSW, Victorian and Australian Governments to provide an additional 24 billion litres of water this year.
• Australia’s biodiversity conservation strategy se ...
  Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, today released Australia’s new strategy for biodiversity conservation on behalf of the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council.

Matt Weidner Blog

• You Wanna Know What Makes Me Real Angry????
  It’s the fact that all the big shot, Fat Cat, rich bastards at the top of the pyramid are continuing to get richer while all of us are paying for it.  They’re getting richer with OUR MONEY. MY MONEY, YOUR MONEY, OUR MONEY is being given away to the banks, while the same banks are [...]
• Foreclosure Twilight Zone- Motion to Ratify Fraud ...
  We’re living in a strange, scary, crazy world where down is up, up is down and the rule of law has been replaced with something else…some sinister motives that push homeowners into foreclosure, that keep banks, institutions and law firms that have engaged in questionable business practices for years ...
• Who gets stuck fixing foreclosed homes when banks ...
  “Cape Coral - Big banks are taking over foreclosed homes but in some cases they’re not taking care of them like they’re required. And you’re footing the bill. “Board-ups is something that we’ve not traditionally done in the code enforcement realm,” said Mike VanDeutekom with Cape Coral Code Enforcem ...
• GOD BLESS ICE LEGAL- AWESOME New Attorney Fee Orde ...
  Perhaps the only thing that will change things is hitting them on attorney’s fees….the evil that permeates this country is astonishing…. WE ALL OWE A TREMENDOUS DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO TOM ICE AND ICE LEGAL FOR ALL THEIR GROUNDBREAKING AND EARTH SHATTERING WORK. What will you each day to fight the tyra ...
• Don’t Blame the American Borrower For The Fr ...
  Recently a federal judge implicitly suggested that it might be unethical to defend homeowners in foreclosure.  In response I articulated the reasons why the defense of homeowners in foreclosure is my profession’s highest calling at this moment because the battle is exposing far bigger problems than ...

abelard - news

• labour and liberals and eugenics - the clown and b ...
  Origins and driving force behind so many of recent UK Labour/Socialist politicians, or why socialist make the poor poorer.
• government interference in net freedom of speech | ...
  Government or their subsidiaries starting to take unreasonable control over Internet freedom of speech.
• dexterous prosthetics | science and technology new ...
  Brain-controlled spare limbs now being tested in humans. Now that will make moving easier ^_^.
• spanish national accounts | politics eu news at ab ...
  Accounts massaging - new Spanish practice?
• benefits help change the population selectively | ...
  Rather like Calhoun's rats, when given more food (or the means to obtain food) humans tend to produce more offspring.

The Parallel Parliament

• They’re Just Tea Leaves
  I walked into the House of Commons early yesterday and ran into a couple of journalists waiting to talk to any MP they could find about their thoughts on the by-elections. It was supposed to be Michael Ignatieff’s “Waterloo,” according to pundits, yet the mood of the journalists was sombre at best. ...
• Ever Met A Prince?
  While the political and journalistic worlds will be over-examining the tea leaves left over from yesterday’s by-elections, the results themselves don’t show any defining trends. The Conservative win in Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette was predicted, but Julian Fantino’s slim margin of victory in Vaughan ...
• Carry Protection
  There’s something about Armatec that gets to me. Its talented engineers spend their time designing systems that protect our troops as they are ferried across the rugged terrain of Afghanistan in armoured personnel carriers. They are operating in a niche that, regardless of one’s opinion of the war i ...
• It’s A Crime
  Normally, I wouldn’t weigh in on a by-election, opting to let democracy run its course. Trouble is, the current political slugfest underway in Vaughn, Ontario has some remarkably undemocratic aspects to it. Julian Fantino is the star candidate for the Conservatives in the contest, but for most campa ...
• Keeping A Stiff Upper Lip
  My kids won’t kiss me.  Neither will my wife. I can still taste morsels from lunch hours after I’ve eaten. Man, the things I do for Jack Layton! Joking, of course. This is “Movember” and some 80 MPs have grown moustaches for the month in order to bring awareness to prostate cancer and to raise [... ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiative S ...
  Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can probably guess, I’ ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Iâm writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isnât all itâs cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as itâs the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck it up [.. ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will be croppe ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m expect ...
• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the piece ...

Reader Supported News

• 5 Rare Sumatran Elephants Found Dead in Indonesia
  The report begins: "Indonesia - Five endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia, and conservationists said Sunday that they suspect farmers poisoned the animals to stop them from damaging crops." A poisoned Sumatran Elephant lays beneath a tarp in Indonesia, 05/09/10. (photo: ...
• No Evidence That WikiLeaks Releases Have Hurt Anyo ...
  "American officials in recent days have warned repeatedly that the release of documents by WikiLeaks could put people's lives in danger. But despite similar warnings before the previous two releases of classified US intelligence reports by the website, US officials concede that they have no evidence ...
• Obama, Republicans in Tax Face-Off at White House
  "President Barack Obama faces off with Republican congressional leaders over taxes on Tuesday in a test of wills that could foreshadow how the White House works with the opposition party in the coming two years." President Obama's proposal to freeze federal workers' pay was the first in a series ...
• Pentagon Study: Gays Could Serve With No Harm
  "The Pentagon study that argues that gay troops could serve openly without hurting the military's ability to fight is expected to re-ignite debate this month on Capitol Hill over repealing the 17-year-old 'don't ask, don't tell' policy." US Marines Gunnery Sergeant Michael Fermin (left) and Maste ...
• 5 Rare Sumatran Elephants Found Dead in Indonesia
  The report begins: "Indonesia - Five endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia, and conservationists said Sunday that they suspect farmers poisoned the animals to stop them from damaging crops." A poisoned Sumatran Elephant lays beneath a tarp in Indonesia, 05/09/10. (photo: ...

War Resisters League

• Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea - ...
  President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the Kore ...
• IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
  Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
• Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
  Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
• International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
  Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...
• March for Justice on October 2!
  What: One Nation Working Together Who: A broad-based national coalition of labor, racial and economic justice groups, community organizations, and antiwar organizations. Where: Washington D.C. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial When: Saturday, October 2 Dear fellow War Resisters, As the U.S. expen ...

Center for a Livable Future

• CDC responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance testi ...
  The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, confirms that the CDC “feels there is strong scientific evidence of a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans.” Frieden offered the CDC’s position in his response to a lette ...
• JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
  Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
• Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
  While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
• Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
  How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
• Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
  A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Albertans & Minister applauded for pulling parks b ...
  Sierra Club Canada 25 Nov 2010 Edmonton & Calgary:  Sierra Club Canada is thanking Albertans for coming to the rescue of their parks and the Minister for, in the nick of time, hearing ...
• Perfect Storm for Alberta’s Caribou: Bill 29, Tar ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 24 Nov 2010 A new Alberta Caribou ‘policy’, which does nothing to protect severely threatened woodland caribou, is one more nail in the coffin for this b ...
• World Heritage Sites in Danger with Alberta’s Prop ...
  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Sierra Club of Canada Nature Canada 23 Nov 2010 Ottawa, ON ...
• Is Tar Sands Development Driving Weaker Parks Legi ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 22 Nov 2010 Albertans have been struggling to understand the reasoning behind Bill 29, the Alberta Parks Act, which is proposing to substantially weaken ...
• Job Opportunity: Office Manager & Program Administ ...
  Position:� Office Manager & Program Administrative Support Organization:� Pembina Institute ...

Stop NATO

• U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain ...
  Stop NATO November 24, 2010 U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance Rick Rozoff This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preside ...
• Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
  Stop NATO November 22, 2010 Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force Rick Rozoff The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the wa ...
• NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
  Stop NATO November 19, 2010 NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Operations Rick Rozoff As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unveils its first 21st century strategic doctrine in Lisbon this week, its first ground war and war outside Europe is in its tenth year with no end in sight. Th ...
• World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its ...
  Stop NATO November 9, 2010 World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its Reach: Radio interview with Rick Rozoff on the In Context show. http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46842 Click arrow on lower right hand of page. Click to enlarge: U.S. Unified Combatant Commands: Northern Command, South ...
• Das Pentagon baut in Osteuropa neue NATO-Hilfsarme ...
  Stop NATO 10. November 2010 Das Pentagon baut in Osteuropa neue NATO-Hilfsarmeen auf Rick Rozoff Übersetzt von Luftpost Am 19. und 20. November werden sich die Chefs von 28 nordamerikanischen und europäischen Staaten – also die Regierungschefs aller führenden Militärmächte des Westens und ihrer Vasa ...

Consumerist

• Gorilla Coffee Sues New York Times For Posting Wor ...
  Gorilla Coffee, the coffee shop where eight employees jointly quit over protests about working conditions, is suing the New York Times for publishing their resignation letter. The Times reporter and the eight ex-workers were also named in the suit, which claims the epistle was defamatory and caused ...
• Brooklyn Bees Now Producing Honey With Red Dye No. ...
  Honey bees are the epitome of DIY all-natual wholesome food goodness. But don't try to tell that to beekeepers in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn whose bees have been putting out a glowing red secretion, complete with Red Dye No. 40. The beekeepers began noticing the bright red honey, which appa ...
• Man Trampled In Target On Black Friday Thought He ...
  A man with a herniated disk who became trapped on the ground as shoppers raced into a Target on Black Friday says that while he lay there, he thought he was going to die. You can hear his pitched screams on the surveillance video. He says that he waited outside for eight hours and then got pinned ...
• Chef Tries, Succeeds In Making Better Meat Munchki ...
  Earlier this month, Dunkin' Donuts launched a new sausage-in-dough-with-maple-syrup product they call "sausage pancake bites," but which many have just taken to calling "meat munchkins." But one NYC food blogger, unhappy with the results of his taste test, challenged a real restaurant chef to go DD ...
• The 'Cable Constrictor' Hits The Streets To Warn P ...
  As we told you earlier today, our brethren at Consumers Union have launched a public awareness campaign to alert consumers about the risks of the proposed sale of NBC Universal to Comcast. And as part of this campaign, CU's Cable Constrictor moving billboard wended its way around Capitol Hill this ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Judge Denies Government Request for Expert Names i ...
  Associated Press: Prosecution Request Denied In NSA Leaks Case Yesterday, a judge denied the government’s request to require lawyers for NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake to reveal the names of their expert consultants several months before the leak case goes to trial. The judge called the demand ...
• Classification Chicanery Thwarted at Drake Hearing ...
  At yesterday's hearing in the government's retaliatory prosecution of Thomas Drake, a federal judge refused to grant what he generously dubbed an "usual request" from the prosecution to require Mr. Drake's defense team to turn over the names of consulting experts prior to allowing defense expe ...
• WikiLeaks' Third Release Focuses on U.S. Diplomati ...
  The New York Times: Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels Yesterday, the international whistleblower website WikiLeaks released it third major trove of information this year related to secret American documents. This release focused on "confidential American ...
• Potential Benefits of the new Whistleblower Protec ...
  S. 372, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) currently awaiting Senate passage, is a solid down payment on meaningful reform of whistleblower law for government workers, in terms of rights, due process, remedies and resources. Many of the institutional changes it incorporates into law ...
• Unjust Actions against Franz Gayl, Michael Moore, ...
  Washington Post: Marine Whistleblower Franz Gayl - Security clearance removal is retaliation This front-page story details the continuing retaliation against GAP client and Marine safety whistleblower Franz Gayl. Among other disclosures, Gayl blew the whistle in 2007 on the bureauc ...

UK Progressive

• WikiLeaks Julian Assange: Hero or Villain? How He ...
  by Denis G. Campbell Rumoured to be hiding in the United Arab Emirates from an Interpol arrest warrant, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, is a ‘person of interest’ in dozens of countries on everything from rape to espionage. While one could recommend a good food taster and radical plastic surger ...
• The Monday Line: KLM, Stork Nests and Other Servic ...
  By Denis G. Campbell GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS: I’ve had it. I am done with KLM/Air France and Sky Team until someone there takes a Singapore Airlines flight and teaches their staff a thing or two about real service vs. constant whingeing over seniority, throwing food at you and hiding behind drawn ...
• Massachusetts Posts Pharma Payments to Health Prov ...
  by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica This week, Massachusetts became the first state to post an online database of payments from drug and medical device companies to the state’s health care providers. Thesearchable database covers reports from more than 280 companies and subsidiaries. The new databa ...
• National US Holiday and Ch-ch-ch-changes Coming He ...
  Quiet here on the newsfront because of the US National Thanksgiving holiday weekend and we are working like busy little bees on the 1st website re-design in nearly two years. Yes, a new-look UK progressive is coming soon with the opportunity to receive a periodic news bulletin delivered to your e-ma ...
• Sarah Palin’s Presidential Strategy, and the Econo ...
  by Robert Reich Monday night, Sarah Palin watched from the audience as daughter Bristol danced on ABC. Twenty-three million other Americans joined her from their homes. Tuesday, the former vice-presidential candidate started a 13-state book tour for her new book, “America By Heart,” which has a firs ...

NewsAlert

• Verizon joins movie-streaming market with a portab ...
  The Philadelphia Inquirer
• OTB says it will shut down Friday
  The New York Post
• WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tells TIME: Hilla ...
  Time reports: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 Richard Stengel over the diplomatic-cable dump that Assange's organization loosed on the world thi ...
• 'Mob' honeymoon put off by judge, again
  The New York Post
• Conservatives clamor for cuts to defense spending
  The Washington Examiner

JoNova

• Update from the Thompsons: The legal limbo drags ...
  The Thompsons have no income, but fight on with borrowed help. Matt and Janet Thompson moved to Australia, got all the approvals to set up a cattle feedlot, invested their life savings, then the rules began to change. They didn’t need a license at all when they started. Then a paddock was called a w ...
• Thorne 2010: A very incomplete history of the miss ...
  Emails are coming in about the latest attempt to announce that they’ve “found the hot-spot”: Thorne et at 2010. It’s already being used in NOAA press releases to repeat the same line about how a “new scientific study” supports the models. The aforementioned support is rather weakly phrased as being ...
• ABC admits it’s a propaganda arm of the government
  What Mark Scott admitted as the managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was really what everyone knew anyway: the ABC aims to please the gatekeepers of the pay-checks (which is, after all exactly what we’d expect from most organizations in the long run). What makes it telling is ...
• Oreskes, Readfearn: Got no evidence? Throw differe ...
  Ad Hominem Unleashed (aka ABC): On the origin of the sceptics Commentators on a sinking ship search for reasons to “keep the faith afloat”. The debate has moved a peg. Instead of “oil shills” now we’re just paranoid ideologues afraid of reds under the bed. The battle cry: the “skeptics” are shills o ...
• Lomborg: uses irrational name-calling and denies t ...
  The Australian published Bjorn Lomborg: A Rational Take On Warming last week. It was self-contradictory, baseless name-calling from a formerly sensible writer. Rational? The only rational response to climate change is to use empirical, observable evidence. Rational people can point to results from 2 ...

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