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Saturday, December 11, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • PERU: Resistance to Increasing Mining Royalties
    As metal prices continue to soar, the debate on a tax on windfall earnings of mining companies in Peru and an increase in the royalties they pay has been revived.
  • Govt Accused of Fuzzy Math in Gitmo Report
    A prominent public interest law firm that has defended numerous Guantanamo Bay detainees charged Thursday that a recent government report on a high rate of recidivism among former inmates is loaded with "vague and unsubstantiated claims and misinformation".
  • Of Wikileaks, Whistleblowers and Whipping Boys
    As pro- and anti-Wikileaks forces draw their battle lines, and Wikileaks' impresario Julian Assange marks time in storied, overcrowded and very Victorian Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, a group of his supporters are taking a different tack.
  • LIBERIA: 'Up Jumps A Girl Into the Book'
    Recess is over at a small church school on the edge of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Children wearing bright blue, yellow and white uniforms stream back into the classrooms. Seated behind brown wooden desks, with sweat just drying off of their little bodies, only a few children have pens and c ...
  • BURMA: Ethnic Rebels Resist Junta's March Toward F ...
    An ongoing clash along the Thai-Burma border, pitting Burmese troops against ethnic insurgents, is raising the spectre of more violence in areas that the Burmese military sees as the final frontier to putting the country under the grip of one army for the first time in over six decades.

Scoop - NZ

  • US home prices still 30% above long-term average
    The typical American family is facing the biggest economic uncertainty since the Great Depression and must feel like their lives are in a washer spin cycle.�  Many unemployed Americans are now entering a stage where unemployment insurance is being cut off which will send tens of thousands of people ...
  • Obama and GOP Worked to Kill Bush Torture Probe
    In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies� that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable ...
  • Why President Obama is Failing
    The great American novelist Mark Twain observed "history does not repeat itself but it rhymes." Today the rhyme is with the 1930s, and if you don't hear it read FDR's great Madison Square Garden speech of October 1936: For twelve years this nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothi ...
  • Tuition fees rebellion sparks UK coalition crisis
    Out of idle curiosity as much as anything I have been taking a look at how individual Lib Dem MPs are likely to vote on tuition fees next Thursday. A full list follows at the end of this post. The best source on this is the blog of Tim Starkey, a Lib Dem councillor who is co-ordinating the rebels. ...
  • US: 1000's of foreclosures on shaky ground
    Two Pennsylvania cases, one state and one federal, have exposed new types of document problems in foreclosure cases. One of the cases has potentially transformative consequences for thousands of troubled Pennsylvania homeowners. At the center of each is the same law firm: Goldbeck McCafferty & M ...

Independent - London

  • South Africa's FirstRand to run Zambia's Finance B ...
    Zambia's central bank has appointed South Africa's FirstRand (FSRJ.J) to run a key commercial bank facing collapse due to poor management, a central bank spokesman said today.
  • British paratroopers strike blow against Taliban
    British paratroopers in Afghanistan today said they had "struck a blow right into the heart of the insurgency" after advancing into Taliban territory in Helmand province.
  • North Korea sends top diplomat to Russia
    North Korea dispatched its top diplomat to Russia today amid a flurry of regional diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions over the North's deadly artillery attack on South Korea.
  • Brutal Mexican La Familia cartel chief killed
    Known as "The Craziest One," he indoctrinated gang members in a pseudo-Christian ideology, and purportedly wrote a book of moral values for his cult-like cartel — all the while gruesomely decapitating his foes and selling cocaine and methamphetamine by the ton.
  • Clinton expresses frustration at Middle East impas ...
    Without suggesting a new path toward Middle East peace, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed frustration with the Israel-Palestinian impasse while insisting the Obama administration will "not lose hope."

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • The bright side of E. coli
    Mention the Escherichia coli bacterium, or E. coli, and many people immediately get anxious. After all, certain strains of E. coli, typically ingested through undercooked ground beef, have been associated with cases of severe diarrhea, kidney failure and even death. But a group of undergraduate stud ...
  • Getting to the root of HIV
    Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
  • When good stress turns bad
    Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
  • Blowin’ in the wind
  • Studying sturgeon
    It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...

Signs of the times

  • Morality is modified in the lab
    Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses. They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality. And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they imp ...
  • Explosion Rocks Southern Afghanistan
    An explosion has gone off near a police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city, with the possibility of casualties, Afghan interior ministry says. "There was an explosion that could be from a car bomb some 200 meters from Kandahar police headquarters in an alley," AFP quoted Afghan In ...
  • Propaganda Alert! U.S. homeland security report: F ...
    Facebook users are being targeted by terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, according to a U.S. government report. Terror bosses are said to rely on the social network to swap information, recruit new members and spread radical propaganda. The study says users even share bomb recipes and lessons on how t ...
  • WikiLeaks 'Struck a Deal With Israel' Over Diploma ...
    We should obviously all support WikiLeaks and its founder and spokesperson, Julian Assange, who has just been arrested in Britain, in this dirty war by states around the globe against transparency and openness. But in the world of politics, sadly, things are never as innocent as they appear. Acco ...
  • If We Lose our Internet Freedoms Because of Wikile ...
    Just a little more background on the "hero" Jullian Assange and Wikileaks... Wikileaks was started up in Dec. of 2006. Oddly enough, as a supposed "leak" site, a dissident site, it was given a great deal of immediate mainstream attention from the likes of the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and eve ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Things would that make me busier than I need to be
    There is a new way to spell asshole.
  • The best entertainment ...
    Comes from those who believe so strongly in their lies that they can't recognize the propaganda they're pushing. Take John Bolton, for example. This guy was the Bush administration's Pit Bull. Not that they needed one, but that's as good as he got. Dumber than the back end of a ball peen hammer, he ...
  • The Canadian "anti-American melodrama" doc dump
    WikiLeaks delivers a four page cable from the American Embassy in Ottawa in 2008 analyzing the increase in "anti-American melodrama" on Canada's "state-owned" television..Lols. *ring* ... *ring* ...."Yeah. Special Agent Joe here."."Hey Joe, you finished that report on the changing dynamic of Canad ...
  • Thank God! His affair was with a ... WOMAN!
    Another big-buck TV evangelist bites the dust. Bene D has the whole picture.
  • The Stud . . .
    Two priests died at the same time and met Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said, "I'd like to get you guys in now, but our computer's down. You will have to go back to Earth for about a week, but you can't go back as priests. What'll it be?" The first priest says, "I've always wanted to ...

Media Matters for America

  • Perkins Falsely Suggests DADT Repeal Lac ...
    In a Washington Times op-ed, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins falsely suggested that repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" lacks support from military officials and the public. In fact, numerous military officials and an overwhelming majority of Americans support repealing Don't Ask, ...
  • War on Facts: Fox & Friends Falsely ...
    On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson interviewed author Brad O'Leary to rebrand Fox & Friends' fake "War on Christmas" campaign as a "War on Christianity." During the segment, on-screen text read, "The War on Religion? Stimulus: No Funds To Religious Facilities"; but in fact, faith-based ...
  • Will Fox Admit Obama Isn't A "Radical Ideologue"?
    Fox News and Fox Business hosts and contributors have repeatedly attacked President Obama as a rigid ideologue who is unwilling to compromise. With their own network now reporting liberal criticism of Obama for reaching a compromise with Republicans over extending the Bush tax cuts, will they now a ...
  • Fox Falsely Claims Child Nutrition  ...
    On�America Live�John Stossel falsely�claimed�that the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act -- which aims to increase access to child nutrition programs and reduce childhood obesity -- will increase the deficit by $4.5 billion. In reality, the bill is deficit neutral.Stossel�Claims�Child Nutrition Bill Wil ...
  • Fox Forwards Blatantly False Claim That DREAM Act ...
    Fox News uncritically reported the false claim that the DREAM Act would offer "a free ride to college" to certain unauthorized immigrants.Fox Reports GOP Claim that DREAM Act Would Provide "Free Ride" Fox Correspondent Uncritically Reports GOP Claim that DREAM Act Offers "A Free Ride To College."� ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • China's Nobel Ceremony Loyalty Test
    A good post from Mark Lagon on China's reaction to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo, and particularly what it means for China's international image. As Mark notes, there was a lot of potent symbolism in Oslo in terms of who was absent from today's award ceremony. The cer ...
  • The Obama Tax Deal: Giving the Hostage Takers More ...
    As readers of this blog know, I was originally willing to support the package that President Obama negotiated with the Republicans. While I am not happy about giving tax breaks to rich people, President Obama extracted more concessions from the Republicans than I had expected in the form of extendin ...
  • An Ugly Video To Get Jews To Support War With Iran
    A friend just sent me this video. It's posted on the website of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, one of the largest mainstream Jewish organizations with offices in every major city and many small town across America. It's historic goal is the defense of American Jews. It has numerou ...
  • America's Future in the Global Economy: This Week' ...
    On Monday, the same day the White House was finalizing its $900 billion tax deal with Republicans, the President gave an important address at a vocational technical school in North Carolina. It was his clearest statement yet about the challenges America faces in the global economy. The United Sta ...
  • Official: Obama May Defy Grim Predictions on Isra ...
    A senior administration official told me yesterday that those who think that President Obama is simply going to give up on Palestine-Israel piece don't understand him. This official said that President Obama opened his administration with an important investment in the peace process, making the app ...

TruthOut

  • An Open Letter to the Left Establishment
    Editor's Note: We have received this text from its original authors; many of us have signed on as individuals; we share it now with you, our readers . www.ProtestObama.org A Call for Active Support of Protest from Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara E ...
  • Cops Guilty in Post-Katrina Shooting. Can Verdict ...
    The conviction of three New Orleans police officers Thursday, for the shooting and subsequent coverup of the death of Henry Glover in the chaotic days after hurricane Katrina in 2005, marks a victory for federal agencies working for more than a year to root out corruption and lawlessness within the ...
  • Back to Basics
    In the first few shaky, panicky days after the attacks of September 11, I found myself driving through downtown Keene, New Hampshire. There on the green of a large traffic circled stood two people, not speaking, not moving, just holding signs. One said "Peace," and the other said "No War." When I ...
  • International Human Rights Day: Celebrating Defend ...
    This year, International Human Rights Day (10 December) has as its theme: “human rights defenders who act to end discrimination.” As the UN Human Rights Office explains: Human rights defenders speak out against abuse and violations including discrimination, exclusion, oppression and violence. They ...
  • The Afghan War: Spreading Democracy (and Heroin)
    Leaked documents reveal US and Afghan government collusion with major traffickers. Documents made public by WikiLeaks' latest file drop show that Afghan President Hamid Karzai pulled strings several times throughout early 2009 to free numerous drug traffickers with whom he had political or economic ...

Planetsave

  • Global Weirding News of the Week: Global Weirding ...
    There is more global weirding news streaming through my news feeds every week than I could ever cover in depth here on Planetsave. There are a number of pieces every week that I wish I had more time for but, unfortunately, just don’t. So, I think I am going to get back to weekly news... Read More...
  • Environmental News of the Week: Wikileaks, Mt Ever ...
    Of course, we don’t have the time to cover every single environmental news story on Planetsave everyday. But I hate leaving big stories completely off our site. Here are a number of huge environmental stories from the past week or so that I couldn’t go without sharing. Believe it or not, this is a t ...
  • Animal Aid: “Help Ban Shark Finning”
    For all those in the UK who care about sharks and want to see an end to shark finning, here’s an action opportunity via Animal Aid: The European Union Commission is currently reviewing the EU shark finning ban, and this is a great opportunity to close the loopholes in the current regulations. Please ...
  • Indigenous Peruvians Win Appeal Against U.S. Oil C ...
    “Indigenous plaintiffs from the Peruvian Amazon won their appeal [this week] in the landmark human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit against U.S. oil giant Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the case should be heard in Los Angeles, ...
  • Is Short-Termism Blighting Our Future?
    by Rob Butler There’s not much work coming in at the moment. I’m self-employed and I don’t have much in the way of savings. There is a lot of anxiety around about finances – if you turn on the TV it seems that every day there is a great deal of talk about cuts, recession,... Read More...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Julian Quixote - Eric Walberg
    It was United States president Woodrow Wilson who called for "open diplomacy" — number one of his fourteen points in 1918 — so that "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." He would surely approve of Wikileaks' efforts at open diplomacy, though current US Secretary of State.. ...
  • Assange Speaks for Himself - Featured
    WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. December 07, 2010 "The Australian" -- In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhap ...
  • Bankers' bonuses to face strict limits in Europe - ...
    The new rules may encourage some City workers to quit London for other financial centres Only 20-30% of bonuses can be paid in upfront cash, according to new guidelines announced by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS). The rules are much tougher than those agreed by the G2 ...
  • Middle East peace talks: Settlement row 'crisis' - ...
    Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says Middle East peace talks are in crisis following Israel's refusal to stop building in settlements. His comments come hours after the US said that it had failed to get Israel to renew its settlement curbs. Mr Abbas suspended talks in September after a 10 ...
  • A Time to Gift, or a Time to Grift? It’$ Christmas ...
    Go, Wall Street, Go! Never mind the rise in unemployment and foreclosures. Never mind the folks waiting to know if they will get the benefits they need before they are cut off. Never mind the growing gap between rich and poor, and the continuing spread of poverty. (Did you know...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We can only assume that McCain is worried that gay people might openly get a tax cut, too. He lit up his Twitter feed on Friday with all the concern he could muster 140 characters at a time, letting his followers know he is worried about some of the provisions of the tax compromise. JM Bell is keepi ...
  • Just Eliminate the Income Tax. Instead, Tax Wealt ...
    This was written as a response to the tax "plans" that stupidly - or deliberately - conflate Social Security and the deficit. But now, it strikes me as the perfect "compromise" between the rethuglicans demanding tax cuts for the obscenely rich and liberals refusing to let the working and middle clas ...
  • Boner's Not wasting Any Time
    GOP Speaker-elect Boehner hires lobbyist as policy director House Republican leader John Boehner has tapped a top medical industry lobbyist to be his policy director when he takes the reigns as speaker in January. The lobbyist, Brett Loper, is the senior executive vice president of the Advanced Medi ...
  • Senator Claire McCaskill (D): Twitter flurry on re ...
    Last week: Merkley Lays Out A Course For Reforming The Filibuster In The Next Senate: 'Mark This Date On Your Calendar' ....Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) laid out a path to fundamentally change the way the filibuster works. Merkeley told Hartmann to "mark this date on your calendar: January 5th. That's ...
  • Meanwhile, Massive Job-Killing Trade Deal on the T ...
    While we're all freaking out over the kill-Social-Security-to-help-Paris-Hilton deal, the administration is working quietly behind the scenes to repeat the NAFTA catastrophe with South Korea. From Firedoglake: Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Korea Trade Deal For more than a decade, ...

Care 2

  • British Greens Are Forced to Fund a Climate Denier ...
    British environmentalists have recently found themselves in the strange position of funding an advertising billboard campaign that reads: "'Green' Climate Policies: Probably Unnecessary, Certainly Ineffectual, and Ruinously Expensive." Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Holiday gift ideas for the vegetarian or vegan in ...
    The holidays are in full swing with Christmas trees, Menorah lightings, snowflakes, spiritual music, Tofurky cooking, and family gatherings. Many shoppers are trying to mark friends and relations off their holiday gift buying list. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Woman almost dies while saving her dog from frozen ...
    In Clitheroe, UK a woman plunged through thin ice as she tried to rescue her Labrador retriever from the icy river of Ribble at Brungerley Bridge in Lancashire. Luckily her partner used the dog's leash to pull the woman to safety, and shortly thereafter wSubmitted by Diane A. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • Fasano: Domestic violence law should include pet a ...
    Little Horatio still wears the evidence of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his former owner's son five years ago. Now going on 8 years old, the Catahoula leopard dog took so many beatings to the head prior Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tigers getting smaller due to stress: Survey
    The endangered Bengal tiger is dwindling not only in numbers, but also in stature. A recent survey suggests that the famed big cats are getting physically smaller due to increasing stress levels. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Wolffe And Walters Exhibit Symptoms Of PDS
    PDS – Palin Derangement Syndrome. I know, I know, what else is new? That seems to be the case every single day recently. Yes, seems nary a day can go by without someone making some obnoxious comment about Governor Palin (oh, that reminds me – do you realize there are people in this country who [...]
  • Obama Begs President Bill Clinton to Help Him
    “Bubba To The Rescue,” shouts Drudge. Did you all just catch President Bill Clinton at the podium, with the White House logo behind him, speaking on our economic crisis? Barack Obama called Clinton, who said that he FLEW OVERNIGHT to see Obama today (is there an emergency?) and that they conferred. ...
  • Bad Luck Cadet #9 – I Will Never Call Dickface Dic ...
    I Will Never Call Dickface Dickless Again is the ninth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. The first in this series is Accidents Happen. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties. I became a detective a few years later. Crime in my [. ...
  • If I Were a Rich Man, Could I Buy a Lung?
    Well, yes you can. In fact, in Arizona that may be the only way you can get one. It’s a sign of these remarkable and difficult times. There was a day not that long ago when if Dad fell off the roof or Mom got cancer nature took its inevitable course. There were no emergency [...]
  • Tomorrow’s Friday * Open Thread
    Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie is one cool dude, especially with that leather jacket … KISS’s Gene Simmons and wife appeared on Parker/Spitzer recently, with Gene Simmons famously saying that he wants his vote for Obama “back” (with video) … Eliot Spitzer is one of those Democrats who is royally P ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Iconic Blondes Created from Chewed Gum
    Bubblegum art is nothing new, unless, like Jason Kronenwald you decide to use the gum as paint, recreating the faces of famous blondes with amazing ingenuity. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • How Long Would It Take for a Deadly Virus to Wipe ...
    The recent AMC production "The Walking Dead" raises the specter of a worldwide viral pandemic in which the world's population is decimated by a killer disease. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Facts About Pearl Harbor: The Worst Day in U.S. ...
    Sixty-nine years ago, on December 7,1941, the Japanese navy carried out an insensate act. Here are 7 facts about this extremely unfortunate day in U.S. history. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The 12 Plankton of Christmas
    A festive look at some amazing microscopic creatures. They come in the shapes of candles, trees, the three wise men - and more! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Japanese Fu-Go Fire Balloon Bombs of World War ...
    If the US 'Bat Bomb' seemed a strange notion, the Japanese had weapons of their own that rarely hit the headlines, because they never did the damage they were meant to. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Infowars & Elite Deviance from Archbishop Romero t ...
    “There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nothing hidden that will not be made known. Everything you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight; what you have whispered in locked rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.” – Luke 12:2-3 - (WikiLuke?) Teh Latest f ...
  • Military Contracts December 8 2010
    The Great Deflation hits some sectors moar than others. It looks like Raytheon is getting to overcentralize the damn crypto devices which someday shall FAIL yet again. Unless of course a Raytheon goon sellz the keyz out the backdoor and everyone covers it up. Contracts Announced by The U.S. Departme ...
  • Epic European Royalty Water-Stealin 'World Society ...
    The World Society - Definitely not a New World Order Water Corporation? or - All yr water are belong to Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus! http://www.theworldsociety.org/privilege2.html I wonder if these people are having a conspiracy against Lake Superior!! Apparently Jesse Ventura h ...
  • The Federal Reserve is laundering money - Xtranorm ...
    For followups & fun I've posted a bunch of vids to youtube (New Madrid MSNBC and Army Corps 1 and 2 ) and a bunch of pdfs to Scribd including all the latest crazy Pennsylvania Homeland Security stuff. Event here: Indymedia having a 2010 Resistance in Review on Friday at Waite House with dinner! TC ...
  • New banner image finally - different header layout ...
    Good change, reduces clutter Are those THETANS?! Needs Andrew Jackson vs Banksters! Needs Rocky Taconite American Hero What this place needs is blink tags

Daily Censored

  • Robert Bobb must resign! Detroit Schools
    We Celebrate Our Huge Victory in Court, and Demand that Bobb Resign Now!  Submitted to the December 9th DFT General Membership Meeting  Whereas: 1.      In a huge victory this week for the people of Detroit, most especially our city’s students and teachers, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Wendy Bax ...
  • You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up
    The first bit of disturbing news came as I tuned into NPR this a.m. Now that cholera is actually spreading into the Dominican Republic, somebody found vaccine that they didn’t know they had. “The Pan American Health Organization has discovered far more vaccine is out there than previously thought.” ...
  • Is Democracy the Opposite of Capitalism?
    The roots and rise of modern democracy are inextricably linked with Capitalism. Nothing appears in human society outside of history, or context, or economic foundation. Democracy doesn’t fall from the sky or exist above class politics. Bob Avakian in his book: ‘Democracy: Can’t We Do Better Than Tha ...
  • The federal government is violating the First Amen ...
    Readers hopefully have read the article by whistle blower, David Goodstein, entitled “So you want to blow your whistle: Confessions of a whistle blower (http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/06/so-you-want-to-blow-your-whistle-confessions-of-a-whistle-blower/).  David Goodstein is the courageous whistleb ...
  • Keep the Change, Mr. President
    Michael Collins You have accomplished what no Republican could do. Social Security and every other program that benefits the people are now in real peril. The Grail is yours, celebrate your victory. You just have another couple of years of public fretting, fake humility, and dissembling before the b ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

Marler Blog

  • A Food Safety Fish in a Northwest Puget Sound Pond
    When I was asked by King 5 anchor, Jean Enersen, to talk about food safety history, I never thought she had video of 18 years ago too:
  • New numbers on burden of foodborne illness in the ...
    A few weeks ago I was looking at the 2009 FoodNet data and started thinking about the upcoming release of new numbers on the burden of foodborne illness in the United States.  As you might recall in 1999 Mead and colleagues published estimates of the annual burden of foodborne illness in the U.S. T ...
  • Jasper County Missouri resident dies of E. coli af ...
    John Hacker of the Carthage Press reports that a Jasper County resident died earlier this week from E. coli food contamination and the Jasper County Health Department is investigating other possible cases that might be related to a single family gathering over Thanksgiving weekend. Jasper County He ...
  • Mr. Bill goes to Washinton, D.C. - again
    Honestly, I have lost track how often I have done the back and forth to "the other Washington" over the last several years.� For the longest time (when the Republicans held the House and Senate) nothing moved on food safety issues and walking the halls of the House and Senate was beside the point.� ...
  • Still time to Vote for the top 2010 ABA Journal Bl ...
    Not that I am suggesting that being in the top 100 is bad, but with a little help from you and friends, I could move up the chart a bit(e) more.� Interestingly, I am in the Torts category (not the cake).� You have to scroll down a little to find it.� Thanks.

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Revenge of the Electric Car trailer ...
    Filed under: Etc., Videos, Electric Revenge of the Electric Car movie trailer - Click above to watch video after the jump It looks like at least 10,000 people want to see the preview for the new Revenge of the Electric Car movie. That was the number of "likes" the film's producers set for the RotE ...
  • Nissan Leaf website is totally for the kids
    Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Hatchback, Nissan, Toys/Games, Electric Nissan Leaf website for kids - Click either image for high-res gallery How do you teach children that electric cars can be fun to use and good to drive? By explaining that they work pretty much just like any other car exc ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.10.10
    Chu says electric cars can be "competitive" with gas vehicles in five years His list of requirements, though, is a tall order. This Nissan Leaf website is totally for the kids Animal car dea ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.09.10
    Fabio schools Fox's hyper-skeptical Neil Cavuto on electric cars Still, the ignorant Fox News anchor just won't believe his guest. GM announces expansion of Hawaii Hydrogen Initiative Plug-i ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.08.10
    Ford Transit Connect gets delivered in short order with help from Azure Dynamics They only cost twice as much (and then some) as the gas-powered version. Report: GM may let Euro drivers switch Opel Ampera ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Video: UN Guards Beat Reuters Photographer At Canc ...
    Democracy Now! videotaped UN security guards Friday beating a Reuters photographer who was arrested while covering a protest at the UN climate conference in Cancun. Guards seized Jorge Silva’s press credentials and then beat him while he was detained on a bus. The incident sparked a pro ...
  • Amy Goodman Appears on al-Jazeera English Live fro ...
    As the Global Climate Talks in Mexico enter their final day, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is interviewed on al-Jazeera English to give a report on the progress of negotiations.
  • Global Children's Campaign to Climate Delegates: S ...
    This years UN climate change conference has attracted many children from around the world. In Cancún, Mexico, Democracy Now! had the chance to speak with two children from the youth-led group Plant-for-the-Planet. "Click Here for Full Cancún Climate Summit Coverage."http://www.democracynow.org/ta ...
  • "We Cannot Afford to Be Held Hostage...By Politica ...
    Among the countries most affected by climate change are small island states. Rising sea levels from global warming threaten their very existence. As the high level talks opened here in Cancun one of the more impassioned speeches came from the head of the Tuvalu delegation. Tivalu is a a Polynesian ...
  • Youth Climate Activists to World Leaders: "Remembe ...
    Youth climate activists from around the world are gathered in Cancun this week to push for a binding climate deal. Democracy Now! spoke to several of them on Monday at Cancunmesse, the main hub of NGO activity here at the UN climate talks.

Digg Green

  • Walmart Partnership Saves 600K+ Acres of Wild ...
    Walmart will announce that its Acres for America program has far exceeded this goal by helping to conserve 625,000 acres of land in five years. So far, the program has donated $18-20 million toward projects that total nearly $20 million in acquisitions.
  • Next generation of algorithms inspired by pro ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- An ant colony is the last place you'd expect to find a maths whiz, but University of Sydney researchers have shown that the humble ant is capable of solving difficult mathematical problems.
  • APOD: 2010 December 10 - A Twilight Occultati ...
    A thin, one day old crescent Moon hugged the western horizon after sunset on Monday, December 6. The Moon also occulted or passed in front of Mars. But only some well-placed skygazers along a band through North America were able to catch this lunar occultation's final act in fading twilight. ...
  • Scientists Discover the Secrets Of Spider Web ...
    What they found is that the substance, which is made up of highly entangled polymers, is both viscous and elastic, both of which are "valuable properties for catching fast-flying, incoming insects--and in keeping the victims trapped long enough for the spider to subdue, and devour, them"
  • Sun spikes - is this what hell looks like? [P ...
    This extreme close up of the sun shows a remarkable view of sun spikes and a small flare on the bottom right.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Tensions With India Grow After US Cheers TSA Gropi ...
    by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2010 US State Department officials are cheering tonight after TSA workers in Jackson, Mississippi subjected the Indian Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar to an “enhanced pat-down” on the grounds that she was wearing a sari, traditional Indian garb. Homeland Sec ...
  • Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Homosexual
    Christine Dell’Amore National Geographic News Published December 3, 2010 Male birds that eat mercury-contaminated food show “surprising” homosexual behavior, scientists have found. In a recent experiment in captive white ibises, many of the males exposed to the metal chose other males as mates. Thes ...
  • SHOCKER: US State Department ‘cleared’ the release ...
    By Paul Wolf Despite public perceptions, Wikileaks does not make the material it receives available directly to the public. It sends the documents to newspapers, which decide what news is fit to print. As of this writing, Dec 2, 2010, four days after the New York Times and other newspapers began pub ...
  • COP16 Attendees Sign Petition to Ban Water, Harm U ...
    By Alex Newhouse Climate dignitaries, “experts,” and activists in Cancun for the United Nations COP16 global-warming conference were caught on film over the weekend signing a petition to ban water and another to cripple the U.S. economy if the American government refused to cooperate with the “inter ...
  • Quote of the Day – But when a long train of ...
    But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. The Declaration of Independence

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Bears Protest to Save Nude Supermodels
    EARTH has PETA’s back. Keeley Hazell: Donât Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW) Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona PETA Celebrates National Topless Day …Speaking of nudity, my last nude (sasquatch) cartoon Visit the rest of Joe’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com. And follow him on Twitte ...
  • Climate Change Conference, Cancun Style! (cartoon)
    Will Cancun be more productive than Copenhagen? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change… Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climat ...
  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...
  • Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
    Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
  • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
    The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...

Inhabitat

  • MVRDV Unveils Le Monolithe Urban Superblock in Lyo ...
    Read the rest of MVRDV Unveils Le Monolithe Urban Superblock in Lyonhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", "sustainable d ...
  • Yunak Evleri Is a 5-Star Hotel Built Into Ancient ...
    Read the rest of Yunak Evleri Is a 5-Star Hotel Built Into Ancient Caveshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Antique furnished hotel, Cappadocia Ca ...
  • Binishell Modular Shelters Look Like Green Hobbit ...
    Read the rest of Binishell Modular Shelters Look Like Green Hobbit Homeshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", bini shell ...
  • NASA’s Solar Powered Micro-Satellite Will Clean Sp ...
    Solar sail satellites have been taking the top headlines this year, with devices such as Lightsail-1 grabbing much of the attention. However, NASA has just become the first agency to launch an experimental micro-satellite from a larger, solar powered satellite. The NanoSail-D was recently ejected fr ...
  • Living Green Curtain Made of Morning Glories
    If you’re in the market for green curtains you could certainly buy some made of organic cotton — but this leafy approach showcased on Tokyo Green Space seems a lot cooler. This living curtain is made of sun-loving morning glories and shades 3331 Arts Chiyoda, an old junior high school that was recen ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Monday
    If it’s clear where you are on Monday night, bundle up, head outside and look up. One of the best meteor showers of the year will peak on Dec. 13. The Geminid meteor shower, which returns every December as the Earth passes through a debris trail from asteroid 3200 Phaethon, is usually one of the ye ...
  • Fake Watchful Eyes Discourage Naughty Behavior
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Being watched by a photograph of staring eyes can be enough encouragement to behave, follow orders or do the right thing, a study has found. Psychology researchers at Newcastle University hung two different posters at a restaurant, to see how customers would react. They bot ...
  • Then and Now: Repeat Photography Captures Changing ...
    For 50 years, the U.S. Geological Survey has been building an archive of old photos of desert landscapes and revisiting the sites to take new photos. The result is the largest collection of repeat photography in the world.
  • Reproduction Hack Makes Mice From Two Dads
    In a weird feat of biotechnological virtuosity, scientists have engineered mice with genes from two dads, and none from a mom. This was done by engineering females with eggs containing only chromosomes from a father. Mating added genes from a second father. “These findings have novel implications f ...
  • Dark Matter Rush: Physics Gives Gold Mine New Life
    See Also: Dark Matter Hunters Construct a New Weapon Signs of Destroyed Dark Matter Found in Milky Way’s Core Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time Huge Holes in the Earth: Open-Pit Mines Seen From Space Follow us on Twitter @ ...

PakAlert

  • Video: American Empire is Collapsing
    As the US economy continues to struggle, it seems Wall Street and big banks are doing better than ever. The income disparity gap in the United States is the largest of all the developed industrial nations. The Trends Research Institute Director Gerald Celente says the American Empire is collapsing a ...
  • INCREDIBLE Raw Footages of Thousands Of Students R ...
    Mass demonstrations by thousands of students and trade unionists in central London against an increase in tuition fees, are growing more violent. It's the latest and the largest in a string of rallies against sweeping austerity measures and budget cuts across Europe. What started as a relatively pea ...
  • White Xmas: Monster Snow Storm To Cover Over 50% U ...
    While the details of what areas will get smacked by a major snowstorm this weekend are still being sorted out, one thing is certain, the storm has the potential bring a travel nightmare to many areas. AccuWeather.com meteorologists are predicting a storm will move from the northern Plains into th ...
  • BUSTED – WIKILEAKS WORKING FOR ISRAEL
    Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Despite the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange fo ...
  • 24 Signs That All Of America Is Becoming Just Like ...
    Well, the United States has lost over 42,000 factories since 2001 and now all of America is turning into “Allentown”. Unfortunately, things are going to get even worse. Thousands more factories and millions more jobs will be sent overseas. The debt loads of our state and local governments will con ...

Andy Worthington

  • On Human Rights Day, A Call to Release Shaker Aame ...
    Today is the 60th anniversary of Human Rights Day, declared by the United Nations in 1950 to mark the adoption by the UN of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — essentially, the founding document of the human rights movement — on December 10, 1948. To mark the occasion, and, I think, to highl ...
  • On Human Rights Day, Public Figures Call for World ...
    Public figures, intellectuals, former prisoners and human rights activists have today, Friday 10 December, issued a statement calling for an international ban on long-term solitary confinement and prisoner isolation. Supporters of the statement include US academic Noam Chomsky, US author and poet Al ...
  • Heroes and Villains in the Tuition Fees Vote
    In case anyone would like to send congratulations to MPs who bucked the party line in yesterday’s vote on raising tuition fees from £3,290 a year to £9,000 a year and withdrawing all funding from arts, humanities and social sciences — or something less complimentary to the Liberal Democrats respon ...
  • Government Wins University Tuition Fees Vote, But ...
    After a heated debate in the House of Commons — and an even more heated protest outside the Houses of Parliament  — the coalition government secured Parliamentary approval — by just 21 votes (323 to 302) — for savage cuts to the funding for university teaching, transferring the entire burden for ar ...
  • Anwar Al-Awlaqi: Judge Rules that President’ ...
    On Tuesday, in an extremely troubling ruling in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge John D. Bates dismissed a lawsuit contesting what is described as President Obama’s “targeted killing” policy, but which is, in fact, a program to assassinate US citizens anywhere in the world, without expla ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Reaganing - Even Liberals will Drink to This!
    For a little levity during this political season, watch the 30 Rock episode titled "Reaganing." If you don't have access via on-demand, check it out: http://www.nbc.com/30-rock/video/reaganing/1255493\ There are tons of laughs, but the jelly bean bit will make any politico crack up! Enjoy...
  • 2010 New Milford Awards - Your Vote Counts!
    Grab a beverage and help us toast another banner year in New Milford history. While we won't be applauding most of the award winners, we can still say "cheers" as we raise our glass to their achievements. Make like Bridgeport: vote early, vote late, no official ballot necessary, and write-in nominat ...
  • rope-a-what?
    Wow, our chattering class sure loves horse races, doesn't it?Even when there's not a pony in sight.Guess what? Richard Blumenthal remains ahead of Linda McMahon! By about the same, comfortable but not Delaware-style oh-my-god-we-can't-possibly-pull-the-lever-for-the-crazy-lady-wide margin as he ha ...
  • primary colors
    Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!)The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout.According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times:1497 registered Repu ...
  • "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
    What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...

SPL Center

  • Arkansas House Speaker Salutes Failed Racist Candi ...
    Outspoken white racist Billy Roper, the neo-Nazi founder of White Revolution and former deputy outreach coordinator at the now-defunct National Alliance (NA), failed miserably Nov. 2 as a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas. But he did get a nice consolation prize: a letter from the speaker ...
  • Founding Fathers on Facebook Hijacked by the Radic ...
    The Founding Fathers as white racist poster boys? Do a Facebook page search of the name Thomas Jefferson, and the very first listing that will appear is Thomas Jefferson â American. You can click to join 11,753 people who âlikeâ the page. Well, congratulations. You just signed onto fan pages sponsor ...
  • White Revolution Chief Seeks Kinder, Gentler Ode t ...
    In the ranks of white supremacists, Dec. 8 is a day of celebration. But being who they are, racist skinheads and other neo-Nazis generally treat what they call Martyr’s Day — an event meant to honor those who have died for the cause of white nationalism — as just another excuse for a beer-swilling, ...
  • Tally Grows of Viewers Moved to Violence by Beck’s ...
    Through countless diagrams and diatribes, chalk-wielding Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has made it his mission to inform his audience that left-wing progressives are purportedly on the brink of revolution. Many of Beck’s fans take him seriously. In the past two years, at least three have decided t ...
  • Glenn Beck: A Quarter of Americans May Face Starva ...
    Cranking up his doomsday predictions to a new fever pitch, Glenn Beck this week warned that by January some 75 million Americans could be starving. “race yourself. We went to two or three experts yesterday,” the Fox News Channel host said in his Wednesday radio broacast. “[O]ne of them said that by ...

change: org.

  • Double Trouble: U.K. Approves Sale of Cloned Meat
    Hello Dolly! The Food Standards Authority in England has declared that meat and milk from the descendants of cloned animals is safe to eat. The FSA supports no restrictions on the sale of food products from the offspring of cloned animals, which means the meat will be sold without a label. To reach ...
  • How Your Retirement Plan Could Be Helping the Plan ...
    If you have anywhere near my level of financial literacy, and "Retirement Plans for Dummies" is above your reading level, then it's likely that if you do have a 401K or IRA plan, it's investment portfolio is something of a black box. That should change—if not for the sake of your own financial healt ...
  • Victory! Starbucks Apologizes
    Earlier this month we reported that a Starbucks in Bahrain willingly agreed to an unofficial government request to kick out a group of journalists, international observers, human rights advocates and the families of torture victims, all just sitting around drinking coffee. Then last week, after cont ...
  • Happy 19th Birthday, Oakland Students! Now, Pay Us ...
    In Oakland, California, teens who turn 19 while still in high school are being slapped with an uninvited birthday gift: having to pay $80 a month to take a public bus to school. City transit systems across the country are raising rates in order to protect their bottom line, and Oakland's no differen ...
  • Janet Jackson, The Trevor Project, and Fighting LG ...
    We all know Janet Jackson is a gay icon. There's a reason she's going to be on the new issue of Instinct magazine, after all. And she has long voiced her support for the LGBT community, both in her work and in interviews. But now she's taken on another cause: The Trevor Project, and telling LGBT peo ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama's Huge Would-Be Gift To The Scions Of The Su ...
    by Dan FroomkinWASHINGTON -- Millionaires and billionaires would reap big rewards if President Obama's tax cut deal becomes law, but thanks to the agreement's estate-tax provisions it's their heirs who will make a real killing. The Obama concession that's getting most of the attention in the me ...
  • House Dems Reject Obama's Tax Deal; Pelosi Promise ...
    by John NicholsAfter he brokered a deal with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts and establish a sweeping estate-tax exemption in return for maintaining unemployment benefits, President Obama essentially told congressional Democrats: Take it or leave it.House Democrats have deci ...
  • On Behalf of Afghan Familes, Journalist Testifies ...
    by Jeremy ScahillEditor's Note: Nation national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill today testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the US's shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. His complete testimony is below.read more
  • Nader: I am Looking for Someone to Challenge Obama ...
    by Elise ViebeckPerennial third-party candidate Ralph Nader predicted on Wednesday that President Obama's tax deal with Republicans will earn him a primary challenge in 2012.Though he wouldn't rule out another presidential campaign himself, Nader, 76, said he hoped a new face would take up the progr ...
  • 'Hacktivists' Warn Over More Action
    A group of "hacktivists" who crippled websites in revenge for cutting off services to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks have warned they will continue their "digital sit-in" in a campaign for total internet freedom.The loose-knit group, known as Anonymous, has disrupted sites belonging to finance gi ...

Lifehacker

  • Improve Your Bandwidth-Heavy Activities with Route ...
    We've gone through a few ways to ensure a fast internet connection when you need it, but if your voice and video chats are of sub-par quality, there are actually quite a few different settings you can tweak for optimal connection. More�� ...
  • Best Personal Media Streaming Tool?
    Although commercial streaming solutions are great and all sometimes you want to stream your own music and video right from your personal collection. This week we went to hear all about your favorite streaming tool. More�� ...
  • Remains of the Day: A Year in Search, Google Zeitg ...
    Enjoy a look at this years most popular searches and events, the Apple Mac Store is on schedule for its January debut, and Dropbox adds team support. More��
  • Tribler BitTorrent Client Searches and Downloads F ...
    Windows (Mac/Linux on the way): One of BitTorrent's biggest downsides is its reliance on central servers. Free program Triber is a truly decentralized BitTorrent client, meaning you can search for and download torrents straight from the peers ...
  • Gmail for Android Gets Priority Inbox Support, Pri ...
    Google's made good on improving how the very handy Priority Inbox functions on Androids. Messages can now be marked important or otherwise in the client, you can get notifications for your important messages, and the reply/reply-all distinctio ...

Water Privatization

  • EDL vacancies pose grave risk - Bassil
    BEIRUT: The dwindling number of engineers, technicians and clerks in the electricity and water departments may seriously affect the overall performance of Electricite du Liban ( EDL EDL ) if the government fails to take immediate action, Energy and Water Minister Jibran Bassil and other experts warn ...
  • Council ponders snow plowing privatization
    Snow removal operations completed by Blaine city crews on certain routes are slightly more cost-effective than hiring a contractor to complete the same task.
  • City of Keyser eyes water system privatization
    Keyser, W.Va. — By Richard Kerns Tribune Staff Writer KEYSER – Faced with an uncertain future for an $11 million improvement project that city officials say is crucial to the future of the Keyser water system, city officials Wednesday hosted representatives of a private water company that offered to ...
  • More privatization for child welfare
    State officials approved a plan Thursday for replacing 77 state child welfare workers with private contractors.
  • City pulls plug on regional waterworks
    Cincinnati's effort to change its water works system into a regional water district is over after officials say the mayor pulled the plug on it.

Guardian

  • Poster poems: poverty
    In these hard times, let's share some verse on the subject of feeling the pinchNow that the IMF has taken control of Ireland, it seems that traditional poverty is back in fashion. House repossessions are up, consumer spending is down, and unemployment is running at levels not seen for a quarter of a ...
  • Pope's offer of conversion to Anglicans risked 'vi ...
    British ambassador warned that pontiff's invitation to disaffected Anglicans to convert left relations with Vatican at 150-year lowThe British ambassador to the Vatican warned that Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to Anglican opponents of female priests to convert en masse to Catholicism was so infla ...
  • PM condemns royal attack 'mob'
    David Cameron promises that violent protesters will feel the full force of the law while many complain of excessive police forceDavid Cameron today promised the full force of the law will be brought to bear on "the feral thugs" responsible for violence in London during and after the Commons tuition ...
  • Nobel ceremony honours Liu Xiaobo
    Few nations heed Beijing's boycott as committee calls for winner to be freed and tells China: citizens have right to criticiseIt was not a special chair. Like the six others next to it on the dais in the cavernous central assembly room of Oslo's city hall, its frame was of plain varnished hardwood a ...
  • Drugs boss may have been killed
    Nazario Moreno González believed to have been killed during fighting between gunmen and federal forces in ApatzinganThe bible-quoting leader of one of Mexico's six major drug cartels is believed to have been killed in two days of skirmishes with federal forces in a state on the country's Pacific coa ...

McClatchey

  • WikiLeaks: Tying Assange to Manning won't be easy
    WASHINGTON — Even as some government officials contend that the release of thousands of classified documents by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange jeopardizes U.S. national security, legal experts, Pentagon officials and Justice Department lawyers concede any effort to prosecute him faces numerous hur ...
  • Mexico says brutal La Familia drug kingpin slain
    MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces killed a drug cartel boss of the La Familia crime syndicate, known for its horrific brutality and long tentacles into dozens of U.S. cities, a government official said Friday.
  • Bank of America restarts foreclosure sales
    Bank of America Corp. said it has restarted foreclosure sales, giving attorneys the go-ahead this month in 16,000 cases.
  • New Congress gives Florida most influence in decad ...
    WASHINGTON — For a state of its size, Florida has not wielded considerable clout on Capitol Hill in years. But that's about to change: Republican control of the U.S. House in January will boost the state's influence, with three Floridians chairing three key committees.
  • Alaska judge rules against Miller's Senate challen ...
    ANCHORAGE — Superior Court Judge William Carey ruled against Joe Miller on all counts in his challenge of the vote tally in the U.S. Senate race against Lisa Murkowski.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Cancun: The chihuahua that roared
    �From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • The chihuahua that roared
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • Time to get down to [business] at Cancun
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: I've been rifling through the main documents that delegations are discussing here, with a view to finding out how far they have to travel if they're to leave here clutching a piece of paper more meaningful than a plane ticket. There are two key document ...
  • Unlikely marriage powers ahead
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: No-one here really wants to be doom-laden about it, but it's a reality that more and more are having to face: the UN climate process could be grinding to a halt. Researchers from Scotland will look at the potential of marine energy in the Maldives If t ...
  • 'Terrific ten' given days to save the world
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico. Enid Blyton had five (and then seven) - Ocean had 11 (and then 12). Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, president of the UN climate summit here, has gone for 10 - 10 people who have just three days to save the planet. The UK's Chris Huhne sa ...

The Wonk Room

  • The Cancun Compacts: Nations Of World Choose Hope ...
    The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. “Confidence is back,” announced Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon at the conclusion of climate talks in Cancun at 3 am. “Hope has returned.” Restoring hopes crushed by the collapse last year of Cope ...
  • CEOs Receiving Gold-Plated Health Packages As Most ...
    From Gary Strauss at USA Today comes this quite shocking story about how some employers are preserving gold-plated health insurance plans for top CEOs just as millions of workers “face rising health insurance costs and dwindling benefits“: Though millions of workers face rising health insurance cost ...
  • Outgoing Sen. Bennett Says Some Republicans Would ...
    Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pushed a vote to postpone consideration of the DREAM Act, giving the Senate a chance to take up the House version of the bill next week and hopefully pick up a few Republican votes in the meantime. Without the support of at least a handful of Repub ...
  • Why Sarah Palin Is Still Wrong About ‘Death ...
    It’s worth considering Sarah Palin’s new claim that the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) — one of the few cost control mechanisms in the Affordable Care Act — will lead to “death panel”-like rationing, if only to bury it once and for all for the absurdity that it is. First, look at how Pali ...
  • Three Federal Judges Unethically Serve On Board of ...
    Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that three U.S. Court of Appeals judges serve on the board of the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE), an organization that “routinely hosts free junkets for federal judges where they can ride horses, bunk with industry attorneys, and learn ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • I was at the Amnesty International Film Festival t ...
    I saw: "Speaking of Baghdad" "Ghosts" and "The Devil Operation"
  • Canada Hands Minors to be Tortured, but it's WikiL ...
    Every single fucking time that WikiLeaks provides some transparency, some unfiltered look at the reality of the criminal wars launched by the bush II regime (and perpetuated by the nauseating Obama administration) some White House fuck-face or other scum-bag politician struts up to a microphone and ...
  • The Surveillance Society
    Alison at Creekside sent me this link in my comments section a couple of days ago. All I could say was "holy shit." Yes, the RCMP public relations guy is a joke. The RCMP has been disgracing itself for years, because it has been tolerating steroid-damaged apes like that Desmond Sandboe, and those f ...
  • Haiti, Cholera, and Canada
    What's the connection? Well, just like Canada along with the rest of NATO, wasn't able to meet the relatively modest demands of the Afghan people for a decent government, because our elites simply don't care about these people but only want to plunder them, so too, is our second-biggest internationa ...
  • Catholics n' Canadians [Haiti and Afghanistan]
    The thing about accountability is that you know who is responsible. When you know who is responsible, you have to hold them accountable. It's pretty circular thinking I'll admit, but I can't think of any other way to say it this morning. The Pope is the big Roman Catholic cheese. He's da man. He's ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act fails Ho ...
    The Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act included provisions to give workers modern whistleblower protections in mines, and in all workplaces governed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It would fix the terribly weak protections of Section 11(c) of the OSH Act. On Wedn ...
  • MSPB reports on the federal whistleblower predicam ...
    This week, the federal Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) released a report that it had submitted to President Obama last September. The report reviews hurdles federal employees have to jump before they can win a case of whistleblower retaliation. It is called Whistleblower Protections for Federal ...
  • Sen. Dorgan, in farewell speech, remembers Bunny G ...
    Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is retiring this year, after 30 years in Congress. Sen. Dorgan served as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC). In an address on the Senate floor last week, he reviewed the Committee's hearings on contracting waste, fraud and corruption in Iraq and Afgha ...
  • 7th Circuit to appoint counsel for tax whistleblow ...
    In an unusual move, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has decided to appoint a lawyer for Milwaukee tax whistleblower Mike DeGuelle (pictured). Tax.com reports today that  DeGuelle blew the whistle on a prolonged tax cheating scheme by S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. The scheme included ...
  • S.372: A Bad Deal for Whistleblowers
    After a careful review of S. 372, the National Whistleblowers Center, the Federal Ethics Center, and the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition strongly recommend that the bill not be approved in its current form.� We urge the House of Representatives to fix the bill and send it back to the Sena ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Should Superhero Superpowers Be Considered Propert ...
    We've had many, many debates around here over the question of whether or not "intellectual property" is actually property. So it seems like many of you might enjoy this article, sent in by johnjac, where some attorneys with way too much free time on their hands discuss whether or not superpowers pos ...
  • A Look Back: Remember When Camera Phones Were A Du ...
    Earlier this year, I bought both a point-and-shoot camera and a new smartphone. The point-and-shoot is decent, though I had lots of trouble with the manufacturer, who originally sold me a busted camera, and then charged me to fix it (yay). However, I've noticed lately that I'm perfectly happy just ...
  • Netflix's Move From DVDs To Streaming Shows The Ma ...
    We've pointed out many times in the past that exceptions to copyright (such as fair use and the first sale doctrine) may actually be a lot more important than copyright itself in "promoting the progress." For example, we've highlighted CCIA's study that uses the identical methodology used by the en ...
  • Is The CIA Hosting A Wikileaks Mirror?
    Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the locations from which people are searching for the term "wikileaks." Not surprisingly, the hottest spot on the heatmap is the Northern Virginia, Washington DC area. Shocking, I kn ...
  • DailyDirt: Launching Rockets And Satellites
    Getting into space is getting cheaper as more countries and more companies are able to launch space-worthy rockets. The space shuttle may be retiring, but unmanned missions seem to be (mostly) progressing nicely. It might be inspiring to see humans in space, but it seems far more practical to get ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Fighting Words
    If I say blue, are you confused?  But I might be thinking cobalt while you are thinking cornflower. Maybe the person next to you is colorblind and can’t tell blue from green. Maybe the person next to them is completely blind and can’t understand color.  Maybe we weren’t talking about color at all. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Before I start my links, let me just apologize that I have not been able to keep up with all the comments on my last post (not to mention the comments elsewhere on the internets).  I try to respond to everyone, but I’m a bit overwhelmed this week.  It is especially hard since many of [...]
  • Feminism or the Highway?
    Is feminism the only banner under which people can fight patriarchy, or better yet, kyriarchy? Is any act performed with the goal of ending gender oppression automatically feminist? Even if the people doing it don’t identify with feminism?  Even if feminism has consistently slapped them in the face ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just finished on Thinking Liberty.  Not sure when the podcast will be up.  Love to hear what you think. Related to the discussion gendered caregiving roles, here is a post about how it is harder for an immigrant child to gain citizenship if it is her father, rather than mother, who is a citizen. And ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you live in the DC area, we will be having a really free market on Tuesday, December 14th from 7 PM to 10 PM at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW, Wash DC. This Tuesday, November 30th, it looks like I’ll be on Thinking Liberty at a little after 8 PM U.S. eastern standard [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

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: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • Support Safe Cosmetics & Score EWG's Sweet Holiday ...
    Photo: EWG Environmental Working Group's (EWG) Skin Deep Cosmetic Database is my go-to source when researching and reviewing beauty products. They brought us the Toxic Dirty Dozen, the truth about shocking chemicals in popular perfumes, and much, Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • 77 Design-Savvy Gifts Under $77 in Core77's Holida ...
    Photos via Core77 Does every family include a relative that tucks a $2 bill into a child's hand? Design site Core77.com gives you the power to be that relative with its 2010 holiday gift guide. A $2 bill is just the beginning of the 77 gifts on the list -- all under $77. (For more design-sa ...
  • Here's the London Underground After Nine More Deca ...
    Image courtesy of Practical Action Ninety years from now, your London-going grandchildren may be jealous that you didn't have to strap on a snorkel to visit Big Ben, Parliament, London Bridge, and Canary Wharf. That's the forecast from Practical Action, the development charity behind the London ...
  • WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let ...
    There are gads of programs, downloads, and even fonts that help you conserve paper when you print. And there are those little taglines on emails that encourage readers to think before printing. However, there is one new strategy from WWF that really gets people to stop printing. They've created ...
  • Europe's Grassland Butterfly Species In Alarming D ...
    Photo by andy.v via Flickr Creative Commons Butterflies are one of the major pollinators and a vital component to a functioning ecosystem. We've seen dips in butterfly populations worldwide, and the latest report from Butterfly Conservation Europe is that 17 species of grassland butterflies are ...

Biosingularity

  • Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
    Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
  • Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...
  • New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ ...
    Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also represen ...

CFACT

  • Seeing the face of energy poverty, up-close, in Ca ...
    On one side of this tropical strip, UN delegates, media, and observers shuttle between luxurious hotels, posh restaurants, a white sandy beach with turquoise water, and a modern convention center where they spend their time bemoaning man-made climate change
  • A Cancun Christmas Carol
    Kyoto was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Japan announced it. Old Kyoto was dead as Jacob Marley, which is to say, as dead as a door-nail.
  • From Cancun: Leadership is the courage to say no
    With any luck COP 16 will be the last UN sponsored climate conference, and we can all just go home, and focus on what really matters - working towards a better future for all of us - including the future of the least fortunate among us.
  • Morano on Fox about wealth redistribution by clima ...
    CFACT's Marc Morano appeared on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" to discuss the recent admission by a UN official that the goal of a climate treaty is to "redistribute the world's wealth by climate policy."
  • When sheep didn't have wool
    Today, farmers are accused of “tampering with Nature.â€Â But farmers have been doing such tampering for thousands of years. We had to, for survival. As one dramatic example, wild sheep didn’t have wool.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Spain as 51st state
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The WikiLeaks release of some (not all!) of the diplomatic cables in its possession has generated an unprecedented response. Glenn Greenwald did an excellent roundup of the different ways both public and private entities are putting ...
  • 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 Wikileaks document dump was really tough to keep up with. Lots and lots of stories:We’re bombing Yemen, and Yemen’s government is covering ...
  • xo for the holidays volume III
    For the third year in a row, xo publicity is offering a free compilation of holiday music.  It can be had here, and since I really enjoyed the first two I’m passing this along as well.  No consideration was provided for this, unless you’re going to be a stickler and count the hookers and coke. UPDAT ...
  • Shutting down the Internet, once seizure at a time
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postLast Friday, deep in the middle of a long holiday weekend, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized dozens of web sites. The full list is here, and a common reaction m ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • House Passes Senate Food Safety Bill with FY 11 Ap ...
    On Wednesday evening, December 8, the House passed a combined Continuing Resolution-Food Safety bill by a vote of 212-206. All Republicans and 35 Democrats voted no.Click here to read this article
  • Maude Barlow: A Healthy Environment Should Be a Hu ...
    In most legal systems, you have a right to freedom of speech or religion, but you don't have a right to breathe clean air or drink safe water. That needs to change. Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Pushing to Legalize Commercial Planting o ...
    MEXICO CITY-Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is edging toward the use of genetically modified varieties to lower its dependence on imports, but strong opposition among some growers and environmentalists, who see altered corn as a threat to native strains, has kept the wheels turning slowly.Click here ...
  • One Million Petition EU to Halt GM Crop Approvals
    The petition is seen as a test case for the "European citizen's initiative," introduced under the EU's new constitutional treaty, which enables a million or more people to jointly ask the European Commission to change EU legislation.Click here to read this article
  • Beekeepers Want Government to Pull Bayer's Pestici ...
    Beekeepers and environmentalists Wednesday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove a pesticide that could be linked to colony collapse disorder from the market and to issue an order to stop its use.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXIX
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ...
  • Trenes y locomotoras III (enormes caballos de hier ...
    Nuestra colección de imágenes sobre trenes y locomotoras, va en aumento cada día y prueba de ello, son estas 8 hermosas fotografías que hoy compartimos con todos ustedes. No olvide usted escojer un número a continuación para revisar nuestro archivo y descubrir más imágenes de trenes. [1][2][3]Nota: ...
  • Del crepúsculo al amanecer V (Imágenes Fantásticas ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4][5]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarla ...
  • 3 porta retratos navideños para poner tus fotos (. ...
    Como regalo especial para todos y cada uno de los más de 12,800 suscriptores del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas y los más de 20,000 visitantes diarios, tenemos una bonita colección de 3 porta retratos navideños .PSD donde usted podrá fácilmente colocar sus fotografías en Photoshop. Los archivos han sid ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXVII ...
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
    Charles Benbrook, PhD, visiting CLF’s offices earlier this week, sat down with CLF staff to discuss a wide variety of topics, including the future promise of organic farming. Following his keynote lecture at the Polly Walker Ecology Fund, the Livablefutureblog asked the Organic Center’s Chief Scient ...
  • Is There a CAFO in Your Neighborhood?
    National consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch (FWW) just released the latest version of its Factory Farm Map, which charts the concentration of factory-farmed animals across the country and their subsequent affect on human health, communities and the environment. As most factory farmer ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • The dream lives on
    And the post-political blogging tributes keep rolling in, this latest gift from our resident poet-in-comments memorydejavu who on his recent visit from Alaska left me this: Since I don’t wear suits but have been in jail, I’m guessing the guy in the striped shirt is me, even though I have never ever ...
  • Flog-ola
    I’ll be watching basketball on TV so yeah, I’m a cultural wasteland in the making but for those of you with some art in your heart, here’s two recommended gigs: Big Sky: Time Friday, December 10 · 7:30pm – 10:00pm Location 42nd Ave Station  4171 Lyndale Avenue North Minneapolis, MN Created By Skyso ...
  • Sermonizing sports
    I utterly detest stories like this one, insisting as they do that poor little ghetto kids are throwing away their lives by smoking pot or doing the occasional line when suburban kids have to destroy their lives before society reluctantly takes them back in after their vacation at Hazelden. The Regis ...
  • Excerpts from a life
    Rolling Stone has just published an interview they did with John Lennon on December 5, 1980. No link to the interview yet, but here’s an excerpt: “It’s nice of [Japanese Playboy] to show just the back of the baby,” John remarks about one of the photos. “I don’t want pictures of Sean going around. Mo ...
  • Links
    Links, because it’s Monday morning and you don’t have time for this nonsense: Do you have a right to drink yourself to death? And if so, why can’t you kill yourself with hard drugs? I’m pro wet-house but I don’t understand how the authorities can be OK with one kind of slow death, but not [...]

Public News Service

  • AARP: AZ Seniors Losing Access to Medical Care
    AARP: AZ Seniors Losing Access to Medical Care Phoenix, AZ - Arizona seniors appear to be caught in the middle of a tug of war over money and medical care. Doctors are already refusing to accept new Medicare patients, according to AARP, because of a looming 23-percent cut in their reimbursements fro ...
  • Shrinking Budgets Shrinking Local Jail Populations ...
    Shrinking Budgets Shrinking Local Jail Populations in AZ Phoenix, AZ - A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts shows, for the first time in decades, the number of inmates in local jails is on the decline. Comments from report author, Claire Shubik-Richards.
  • Congress May be Next to Tell AZ Kids “Go Out ...
    Congress May be Next to Tell AZ Kids “Go Outside and Play” Phoenix, AZ – Children today spend less time outdoors than any other generation in history. That's the impetus for legislation newly-introduced in Congress - the Moving Outdoors in Nature Act - which would encourage Arizona, and all states, ...
  • Holiday Season a Critical Time for AZ Food Banks
    Holiday Season a Critical Time for AZ Food Banks Phoenix, AZ – With Arizona’s continuing high levels of unemployment, poverty and “food insecurity” this holiday season, the state’s food banks are counting more than ever on contributions of money, groceries and volunteer time. Comments from Terry Sha ...
  • Gaping Holes Appearing in AZ Abuse Victim Safety N ...
    Gaping Holes Appearing in AZ Abuse Victim Safety Net Tucson, AZ – The impact of state budget cuts on programs targeting abuse victims is now becoming apparent at emergency shelters. These havens of last resort for women and children are increasingly operating at or above capacity. Comments from Susi ...

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA Aims to Commercialize Genetically Engineered ...
    This week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) led a coalition of farmers, activists, and consumers in a public comment campaign addressing USDA’s latest plan to commercialize illegal GE Roundup Ready Sugar Beets (RRSB).  Last month, USDA released a proposal aimed at commercializing RRSB in spite of in ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • TheAngryindian Interviews Mayalsian HIV Activist S ...
    Editor's Note: Now that World AIDS Day has come and gone, what next? While things are getting �better� in the First World, the Third and Second Worlds are being silently devastated by the pandemic. Most eyes are on the African continent, but Asia has been largely overlooked, if not outright ignored, ...
  • U.N. Human Rights Chief Concerned over WikiLeaks T ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 10, 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been transferred to the segregation unit of the London prison where he has been held since his arrest earlier this week. Assange’s attorneys will ask for his release on bail at a hearing next Tuesday. Assange was j ...
  • The American civil war re-enactment society | Dian ...
    The American civil war re-enactment society | Diane Roberts | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk About five minutes after Lee surrendered at Appomattox courthouse in 1865, the white south got busy rewriting history, rebranding slavery as either benign paternalism or an accident that wasn't their fault ...
  • angry news from around the world: Rapa Nui - Chile ...
    angry news from around the world: Rapa Nui - Chilean police brutes use rubber bullets and teargas against islanders demanding the return of ancestral land bbc.world-latin-america Witnesses say police fired pellets as they tried to evict several indigenous inhabitants from buildings they occupied ea ...
  • WikiLeaks: Assange Delivers On Obama’s Promise Of ...
    WikiLeaks: Assange Delivers On Obama’s Promise Of Transparency | NEWS JUNKIE POST A bit more than two years ago, America and most of the world were infatuated by the new President-elect. Barack Obama was promising “integrity, transparency and accountability in government, politics and the law”. Poin ...

Pensieve

  • Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
    This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...
  • President Lobo vs. Free Speech
    President Lobo is threatening to deny naturalized Hondurans their citizenship if they oppose him. He is twisting the Honduran constitution to do this. This is the article he is citing, which on the surface looks reasonable: âARTICLE 32: Foreigners cannot perform in the country international or nat ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Big organic
        Organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) brands should be available for everyone – people should be able to find and afford organic products. But consumers and activists are nervous about big corporations taking over organics brands. Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Gro ...
  • Environmental News 10/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Grow your own vegetables
    Help the environment and save some money! Get your own veggie patch. Grow your own vegetables instead of buying them at the supermarket. It’s fun, easy and cheap! This way, you get rid of the pesticides (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html) in your food and the plastic wrappings that come with it. Fi ...
  • 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 ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US to ship sniper rifles to Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS to ship sniper rifles to Afghanistan 11 Dec 2010 As the violence against US-led soldiers in Afghanistan peaks, the US Army is shipping a new batch of rifles to the country in an effort to enable snipers to hit targets at long distances. The XM2010 rifle can hit a target at a distance of ...
  • US-led airstrike kills 7 Afghan civilians
    ShareThisUS-led airstrike kills 7 Afghan civilians 11 Dec 2010 At least seven Afghan civilians have been killed during the latest spate of US-led air strike in Afghanistan amid the rise in civilian casualties in the war-torn country. The attack took place in Zarmat district in Paktia province on Sat ...
  • US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS-led soldier killed in Afghanistan 10 Dec 2010 Another US-led foreign soldier has been killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, the Netherlands-based BNO News has reported. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the serviceman was killed by an improvised e ...
  • Senate to Consider Tax-Cut Bill That Would Add $85 ...
    ShareThisSenate to Consider Tax-Cut Bill That Would Add $857 Billion to U.S. Debt 10 Dec 2010 Senate leaders released an agreement crafted by the White House and Republicans to sustain Bush-era tax rates through 2012, set the estate tax at the lowest rate in 80 years, extend jobless aid and cut payr ...
  • Al Qaeda Looks to Make New 'Friends' -- on Faceboo ...
    ShareThisAl Qaeda Looks to Make New 'Friends' -- on Facebook 09 Dec 2010 If you're on Facebook, Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] wants to friend you. Terrorist groups are using Facebook to share operational information and to target, recruit and radicalize members of the general public, according to a Departmen ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • CWP Report: “All out War: Israel against dem ...
    by the Coalition of Women for Peace Comprehensive Report on Intensifying Political Persecution in Israel CWP published a new report today, titled “All-Out War: Israel Against Democracy.” This comprehensive report documents the increasing political persecution of peace and human rights organization ...
  • The deputy assassin
    By Rela Mazali In the second piece below, Israeli activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan comments on the recent appointment of a new Deputy Chief of Staff, Yair Naveh, who orchestrated (at least some of) Israel’s summary executions widely wordwashed as “targeted assassinations.” Peled-Elhanan claims the appoi ...
  • The Deadly Fires: Israel’s Katrina?
    The Israeli authorities announced Sunday night that the fire ranging in the Carmel hills since Thursday, Israel’s most devastating fire on record, is now under control. An even worse disaster was averted. The fire did not seriously spread into Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, or its suburb Tirat ...
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the âbeginning of the export seasonâ in the Gaza Strip. âThe export seasonâ entails the continuation of a short-term program, sponsored â from planting through to distribution â by the Dutch government. The progr ...
  • Correction to the disclaimer, and Happy Hanukkah
    By Jesse Bacon On Tuesday, I posted about a free documentary screening. I then edited that post when I learned that the film received Israeli government funding. I provided the disclaimer for folks who are observing the full cultural boycott of Israel, (which my sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace is not ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Biofuel ice vehicle half way across Antarctica
    The Bio-Inspired Ice Vehicle (BIV) burns E85, has a top speed of 85, and has performed fine during its 3,600 mile trip across Antarctica.
  • California high-speed rail project slammed by peer ...
    An ad-hoc group of transportation experts, headed by former state director of transportation Will Kempton, slammed the California High Speed Rail Authority saying it needed “a thorough reassessment of a number of critical engineering, financial, economic and managerial issues.” Um, that doesn’t leav ...
  • Ok, now things have just gotten totally Bizarro Wo ...
    The Republican Party may field candidates in 2012 who want to end the Afghanistan War, presumably in opposition to the war-mongering Obama. Ouch, this makes my brain hurt.
  • Connecticut kicked out of New England by tourism g ...
    From Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant Look at this!! It’s part of the Discover New England website, the official tourism site for the region. Apparently, because we reduced our tourism budget to $1, we’re no longer represented here.
  • Democratic House member. “F**k the president”
    An unidentified Democratic lawmaker let slip his frustration at President Obamaâs proposed tax compromise, apparently muttering âf**k the president,â during a heated debate this morning. Via NewsBusters, a right-wing site, who says leftie media will ignore the story. Ha, not all of us. Meanwhile, Th ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, ...
    Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of clothing to a customer.  The refusal stemmed from the fact that the buyer was “just a Jew.”The Jewish bu ...
  • Yediot: “Security establishment” warns ...
    This appears to be a General Security Service (GSS) leak: The scenario that the security establishment is preparing for is threatening. The scenario envisions the security prisoners launching a hunger strike, setting fire to their cells, trying attack the guards, severing all contact with the prison ...
  • Maariv “exclusive”: Israel and Brazil sign major s ...
    This appears to be a major agreement: Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Security in the Defense Ministry Amir Kain signed the historic agreement for security cooperation between the two countries a few days ago.  Brazil’s intelligence affairs minister signed the agreement on the Brazilian sid ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Cancrap
    Ya can’t stop stupid. Global accord on climate change hailed as breakthrough Some bullet points on the Cancun agreement: - Following the lead of the United States, Canada has pledged to reduce its emissions by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020. Short of massive economic collapse or starting wide ...
  • OLMC 10, What does it mean…
    In the background Andy Revkin is preparing an article on our paper.  He was looking for both Ryan and Nic’s emails and asked Steve McIntyre and I for them.  I put him in contact and then suggested that Ryan and Nic should tell more of our story as there is a bit of spin going [...]
  • The Reviews
    Ryan O’Donnell The most pervasive theme in the âDoing It Ourselvesâ thread was what the reviews said. Rather than respond individually, I thought it would be best [read: less work for me!] to do a post on it. This post will focus on the comments that required changes to the manuscript. With one exce ...
  • Warpspeed – Steig Confirms O’Donnel Re ...
    Real Climate is comprised of the best of the best, after this there can be no question.  Steig, who just recently left a request for a copy of the paper: Back when Ryan O had written comments at RC, I said something like “I encourage you to submit this work for publication.” I’d glad to [...]
  • Antarctic Trends, Graphics and Discussion
    On Climate Audit, in response to a request by Hu McCulloch, Ryan posted the following improved graphic. WordPress likes to help out with resizing images, so for the really big one go here. Compare that to the Steig et al. reconstruction below which was used as the cover for Nature. Back in the day w ...

Focal Point

  • Did Assange's Accusers Want STD Testing?
    Some of Julian Assange's defenders* are citing this special report by Mark Hosenball as proof that the rape allegations against the wikileaks figurehead are unfounded. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The two Swedish women who accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual misconduct were at first not ...
  • Weekly Pulse: DADT, Vampire Bees, and Other Health ...
    The latest edition of the Media Consortium's Weekly Pulse features: -An op/ed by doctor who specializes in treating STIs in a military town. Some of Dr. Kenneth Katz's military patients say they won't follow up when they ship overseas bcause they're afraid their personal medical information will b ...
  • A Feminist Lawyer on the Case Against Wikileaks' J ...
    Feminist attorney Jill Filipovic takes a closer look at the sex crime allegations against Julian Assange of wikileaks. I think the post strikes exactly the right balance between being skeptical about the merits and motives of the case against Assange and acknowledging that he's accused of some ...Re ...
  • WAM! Radical '80s Prom Photos
    The Radical '80s Prom was a huge success. We drew over 100 paying customers and raised over $1000 for Women Action and Media, a national organization dedicated to creating gender justice in media. It was the best damned dance party I've ever been to. DJs Marc Faletti and Amanda Marcotte had ... ...
  • Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips Advocat ...
    This sums up everything that needs to be said about the "populist" Tea Party. It's not populist and its values of are antithetical to those of the Boston Tea Party. Last month, Judson Philips, the president of Tea Party Nation, suggested on his internet radio show that only property owners should ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Privacy, Community Council, DST, ...
    Congress Censors Privacy Hearing – In a strange incident, Ohio Democrat Rep. Zachary Space asked Columbia University Law School Professor Eben Moglen to censor his remarks during a hearing on online privacy to avoid specific criticism of Facebook. The hearing was for the House Subcommittee on Commer ...
  • Platform Update: OAuth 2.0 Migration, Open Graph T ...
    Facebook has announced updates to several planned migrations and support for video and audio Open Graph tags in its weekly Platform update to the Developer Blog. Also, as of today, the November 2010 Rollup, POST for Canvas, and JSON Encoding Empty Arrays migrations are enabled by default for new app ...
  • Comparison: Cardpool and Plastic Jungle Exchange F ...
    Two companies, Cardpool and Plastic Jungle, are competing to become the preferred way to exchange unwanted gift card for Facebook Credits. This week, both unveiled new functionality that allows users to enter a gift card’s code and have the Credits deposited in their account that same day. There is ...
  • Latest Update to Facebook’s Official Stats Shows S ...
    Facebook has updated its official statistics page with new numbers that show how it has become much more than a social networking web site. While the on-site platform appears to be entering a new phase of slower growth and more monetization, the social plugins and Graph API that Facebook launched ea ...
  • Google’s Eric Chu to Discuss Android’s 2011 Social ...
    January 25th | San Francisco As we announced recently, Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011, our second conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is happening January 25th in San Francisco. Today we are excited to announce that Google’s Eric Chu, Group Manager of Android, will be jo ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel’s racist rabbis: wave of edicts urge "Hate ...
    Jonathan Cook views the vile racism disseminated by prominent Israeli rabbis, from edicts prohibiting the renting of homes to gentiles, to justifications for murdering Palestinian babies, to utterances defining non-Jews as talking animals and equating them with donkeys whose sole purpose is to serve ...
  • And what will Santa bring the kiddies of Gaza?
    As Christmas approaches, Stuart Littlewood remembers the besieged and starving people of Gaza – many of whom have to scavenge through rubbish tips for food to survive – forgotten by religious leaders and the "criminals who inflicted ... savagery and torment, and continue to deny them their human rig ...
  • Obama to Netanyahu: "You win"
    Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama's admission that he has given up trying to persuade Israel to freeze illegal settlement building proves that the makers of the USA's Middle East policy "are Israel’s leaders and their lobby in the US … not the man who occupies the Oval Office in the Wh ...
  • UK ministers who legislate for war criminals to wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the army of obsequious Israel grovellers within the British government and main political parties who are spearheading the efforts to change the law so that Israeli war criminals can visit the country without fear of justice.
  • Assange and Wikileaks need your help
    Christopher King urges everyone who cares about justice and the truth to stand by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with donations to help him defend himself against politically-motivated, vexatious prosecution by criminal governments and their lickspittles anxious to hide their dirty secrets.

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

  • Central Asia Militants: A Rhetorical Question of F ...
    Central Asian Militants, Pan-Turkic Aims & Mysterious Financiers I just finished reading an interesting article at Asia Times on the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which is characterized by some as Central Asia’s most aggressive militant group. The main focus of the article is placed on the s ...
  • Is the First Amendment Dead & Gone? You bet!
    …and so are so many other rights I just received an email with a link to the following clip, and with the link came the headline that read:   ‘Wikileaks Has Proven the First Amendment is Dead & Gone!’ Is the First Amendment dead & gone? You bet! Has it been dead and gone for a while now? You [...]
  • Digging Deeper in Years into Wikileaks’ Treasure C ...
    A Fairly Short List of Goodies for Wikileaks Santa   I have been waiting. I have been searching and reading. I have been waiting impatiently while searching and reading the initial pile of recently released Wikileaks’ documents, specifically those pertaining to Turkey. I have received many e-mails a ...
  • Notes on the Margin-Dec 1
    Setting the Record Straight on Satire v. Fiction, A Few Notes on my Opt-Out Support Session at DCA & A Few Words on  Ron Paul Supporters-Activists My last ‘Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz’ seems to have caused some unexpected reaction. First, it started several e-mails from the media asking whether they ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • From Stanley Crouch to Che Guevara: Taking AfroSpe ...
    Freeslave, After reflecting on our recent discussion, I have decided it’s time for me to take a back seat and give you the responsibility of administering the blog. Although 6 of us started it, the reality is that there has to be someone to oversee it. Over the years by default and by choice, I [... ...
  • The Black Masses and the Praise Song
    Many of the “Masses” of Black People have something that is truly undervalued in this “trust no one but yourself” society. These Lumpens of society, if they are believers in Jesus Christ, actually have something of great value that neither hatred, ridicule, nor cynicism can’t snatch from them. Becau ...
  • This Is A Disgrace!
  • “The Persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assang ...
    World Socialist Web Site 3 December 2010 The American state, its spokesmen in the mass media, and its allies around the world are engaged in an international campaign of vilification and persecution against WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. This campaign has nothing to do with any supposed crime he ...
  • The most powerful black women in Europe–Black Wome ...
    Black Women in Europe⢠blog announced its first-ever Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List that includes 58 women in Europe in six categories. The categories are business, lifestyle, media, politics, social entrepreneurs and NGOs. This year’s Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List 2010 were chosen from ...

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

  • JFKto911.info
    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • 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 ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
    I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
    When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...
  • CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
    CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...
  • Medill Students: Audience Research Should Drive Hy ...
    At the Block By Block "community news summit" in September, operators of locally focused websites came together to share what they knew and learn from their peers. Almost all of them were looking for advice on how to support their sites financially. Here's a start: "Sustaining Hyperlocal News: An A ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Blaxthos is at it Again
    Just for the record, the anonymous poster known as Blaxthos is once again editing the Wikipedia page of Edwin Black. Blaxthos was among the subjects of a stinging investigation by Black (see Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge, Page One, April 12, 2010). If that doesn't earn Blaxthos a con ...
  • Gallaudet University Identity Crisis
    Congratulations to Mr. Riker for his excellent article (see Gallaudet University's Identity Struggle Continues, Opinion December 6, 2010) highlighting the problems surrounding the selection of Catherine Murphy as pr director at Gallaudet University recently. His assessment is more than correct. Her ...
  • All Pretense of Wikileaks as Journalism Gone Due t ...
    The misguided souls that tried to claim that Wikileaks was a journalistic enterprise now surely know better. All pretense of that is now gone. First of all, journalism requires reporting, context, and original writing--not just raw document dumps. Most importantly, the recent attacks by Wikileaks su ...
  • Wikipedia Should be Judged by Accuracy not Crimina ...
    Apropos a recent question about criminals modifying pages on Wikipedia, the inclination is probably that burglars and dope peddlers should not be contributing to pages on alarm systems and drug cartels, but that is a bit simplistic. Someone may have committed an infraction ten or twenty years ago--m ...
  • Impact of Global Climate Change will be Swifter th ...
    Your recent article on icebergs and the processes that shatter the ice shelves (see Understanding How Icebergs Form May Lead to Better Forecasts of Global Warming, Sci-tech Dec. 6, 2010) was a good reminder that what lies in store as the global climate changes will be swift and shocking. I refer to ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Happy As A Hangman
    By Chris HedgesThose who do not carry out acts of rebellion, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, are guilty of solidifying and perpetuating these crimes. Those who do not act delude themselves into believing they are innocent. They are not
  • WikiLeaks: What, Really, Is The Problem?
    By Alan HartAlan Harts vote of confidence for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and an indictment on the mainstream media for the way it reported the leaks
  • Assange Rape Accuser Linked To Notorious CIA Opera ...
    By David EdwardsOne of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • The Truth Will Always Win
    By Julian Assange In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth
  • The Arrest Of Julian Assange: Truth In Chains
    By Chris FloydWell, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the worlds most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish and lawless desire to destro ...

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

  • Obama Knows Best? The U.S. Government is Telling ...
    By Barry Rubin Yes, it is as bad as it seems. When Secretary of State Hilary Clinton protests the fact that the Syrian government lied to her about its missile supplies to Hizballah, she instructed those meeting with the Syrians on their talking points. It is amazing how the Obama Admin ...
  • WikiLeaks Bombshell: Cuba To Be Bankrupt in 2-3 Ye ...
    The warnings were all there.� Just sixteen months ago we learned that Cuba was running out of one of the most important and basic family commodities. The Communist dictatorship, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, was running short of toilet paper and couldn't get sufficient supplies until the ...
  • Obama's Message to Nobel Peace Winner "Congrats, B ...
    Sometimes the hubris of our Barack Obama is astounding. He believes that in the end, it is all about him because he is perfect.. Just take a look at the way he handled the public's rejection of his health care program. The public could not possibly reject his program...they just don't understand it. ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama's Secret Plan To Pay-off US Deb ...
    Its Friday, time for your weekend dose of Newsbusted from Newsbusters.org. In this week's episode you will learn� about Obama's Secret Plan To Pay-off� US Debt To China, the President's war on WikiLeaks, and Ryan Seacrest's unusual approach to LA Lakers' games. So with after the usual warning, ...
  • Stuxnet Computer Virus Still Reeking Havoc on Iran ...
    In a way Iran is like the character Rocky from the movies. Every time the Sylvester Stallone character would be in the middle of getting the crap beaten out of him, he would scream "you ain't so bad," but the audience would know better because they would see the blood flying every time the poor guy ...

The Real Agenda

  • Alarmistas do clima propõem esterilização e infant ...
    A superpopulação é um mito. Dados da ONU indicam claramente que a população se estabilizará em 2020 e, em seguida, cairá dramaticamente depois de 2050 de uma forma natural. Como The Economist relatou: "A fertilidade está diminuindo e o número de membros da família está diminuindo, como no Brasil, na ...
  • 1000+ Scientists Dissent over Anthropogenic Warmin ...
    Scientists caution that the key to remember is “climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables,” not just CO2. UK Professor Emeritus of Biogeography Philip Stott of the University of London decried the notion that CO2 is the main climate driver. “As I have said, over and over again, ...
  • Will they shut the web down to stop Wikileaks?
    In a previous article, we entertained the idea that the whole Wikileaks issue would be the perfect event to give the government complete control of the world wide web.  Now, a Wikileaks spokesman suggests this may be the only way to stop the disclosure of more documents. ABC The arrest and detention ...
  • U.N. Climate Concern Morphs into Chemtrail Glee Cl ...
    Rady Ananda In Cancun, Mexico, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under pressure to overturn the UN ban on chemtrails. This would dissolve an agreement reached in October at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Japan. In that landmark decision, the 193-me ...
  • U.S. Fiscal Health Worse than Europe, says academi ...
    Reuters The U.S. dollar will be a safe investment for the next six to 12 months because global markets are focused on the euro zone‘s troubles but America’s fiscal health is worse than Europe’s, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said on Wednesday. Li Daokui, an academic member of the central ba ...

Wind Watch

  • Ashfield wind concerns gain velocity
    ASHFIELD — On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 18 more than 60 Ashfield residents met at the Main Street Community Hall for an informal discussion on a pending wind energy proposal. In June, Barnstable-based Clear Sky Energy (CSE) expressed interest in installing eight to 10 wind turbines on Ridge Hill ...
  • The Great Wind Rush
    As wind turbines sprout across the country, turbulence is building over their cost, health effects and aesthetics In a world obsessed with climate change, Humphrey Price-Jones believes wind turbines have become the crucifix of a new religion, a towering, unmistakable symbol of good intent. They feat ...
  • Tower removal marks end of wind farm battle in Laf ...
    A group of farmers fighting to bring down a wind project in Lafayette Township, finally see their work pay off. A tower designed to track wind speeds today comes toppling to the ground… a final sign the project is defeated. News 12′s Ryan Gustafson was there. The tower was put up to measure wind spe ...
  • Green energy costs lowballed, task force says
    Ontario’s government is overstating the benefits of its Green Energy Act and underestimating hydro rate increases, according to a new report on economic competitiveness set to be released on Tuesday. The report — written by the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress — poin ...
  • Wind farm project ‘is a threat to wildlife&# ...
    The wind farm element of Grahamstown�s proposed combined renewable energy project has raised serious concerns from the game reserve sector. Dr William Fowlds, chairman of Indalo, the association of private game reserves in the area, said although the proposed Grahamstown wind farm comprised just nin ...

Not My Tribe

  • DADT repeal on hold
    Stalled. A retaliation, perhaps, for the filibuster on the Tax/Unemployment “deal”. Mixed feelings on the first. I mean, sure, take away inequality. But this reminds me of something Cicely Tyson said in a movie, concerning the integration of the Army, “Oh, Lord, we’re in trouble now They done found ...
  • American Royalty, beware! Look to England to see t ...
    Bessie’s little boy Charlie was attacked in his car. Or so the headline says. By English students who had just had their tuitions raised, and their grants lowered, while Bonnie Prince(ss) Charlie got his allowance raised. Unlike some, I believe his lifelong Major Crime spree outweighs the number of ...
  • Nominate Julian Assange for a Nobel? Time Person o ...
    I Am Just Sick. Julian Assange arrested, denied bail, confined to a UK jail cell deemed unsuitable for Bush, Blair or their murderous peers. Britain even assured Israel that its war criminals could visit England without fear of politically motivated arrest warrants. So much for the Assange-is-Mossad ...
  • Wikileaks reveals inventory of US possessions crit ...
    To complain that the Wikileaked list of US “critical infrastructure and key resources” provides a checklist of targets for aspiring terrorists is to pretend that opponents of empire are as simple minded as American television viewers. The importance of most of these Critical Foreign Dependencies is ...
  • message from a Hopi elder
    You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…   Where are you living?   What are you doing?   What are your relationships?   Are you in right relation?   [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subject ...
  • What is it terrorists hate about us again?
    ... O yeh ... Our freedoms! SAS hit squads at UK's malls SAS hit squads are today protecting packed shopping centres from terrorists - with orders to shoot to kill. The regiment's elite troops are poised to foil any al-Qaeda bid to cause Mumbai-style carnage amid Britain's Christmas crowds. The ...
  • Michael Shermer's Projections
    Michael Shermer has responded to Anthony Halls confronting of him in his usual way. After listing aload of NWO theories, Shermer writes... Nevertheless, we cannot just dismiss all such theories out of hand, because real conspiracies do sometimes happen. Instead we should look for signs that indicat ...
  • Circular Rationalism
    In several Youtube debates I've had on a variety of different subjects, I've noticed the debunkers/skeptics have a number of vague buzzwords that they like to throw around. They include: 'Reason''Rationality''Debunked by Science''Freethinker' The third one is a common dismissal. "Those 9/11 truthers ...
  • Freudian Projection of Irrelevance
    I don't like stooping to their level, but I'm fed up with debunkers downplaying the credibility of 1300 Architects and Engineers and all the other technical experts in the truth movement. Let's consider the icons of their 'movement' ... A couple of gossip artists with a blog that makes The Daily Mir ...

Fooducate

  • Draw Everything You Eat
    We came across the Food Illustrator website from the UK a few weeks ago and thought this was a cool idea. Graphic designer David Meldrum has taken upon himself to artistically capture the food he eats every day. As an illustration. For an entire year. Talk about calorie counting to the extreme! Wel ...
  • Mindful Chewing: How To Cut Your Calorie Intake in ...
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Koontz Everyone knows that there are enormous health and dietary benefits to eating more slowly. In this post, I’ll talk about a laughably easy technique you can use to help you cut your eating speed and caloric intake in half – perhaps more. Best [...]
  • New Weight Watchers PointsPlus Program Encourages ...
    Just after Thanksgiving, and right before the December holidays and guilty January, Weight Watchers has introduced a new point system. For the millions who have already memorized the points of their favorite dishes and snacks, this may cause a bit of a headache. But after 13 years with the old syst ...
  • What is Expeller Pressed Oil and Why Does it Matte ...
    Ingredient list aficionados (OK, geeks) like us come across interesting phrases and wordings in product packages. In some cases, the fancy words mask a simple ingredient, trying to create an aura of sophistication or health (100% pure evaporated cane sugar syrup is basically…sugar). But sometimes th ...
  • Soda, Surplus, and Food Stamps: A Short History
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Bowman Simon Lately there has been a lot of hoopla in the Big Apple about the federal food stamp program, now officially known by the snappy acronym SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.) Over 41 million Americans (and 1.7 million New York City resi ...

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

  • Botswana president in racist outburst against Kala ...
    President Khama accused the Bushmen of living a ‘life of backwardness’ © Survival In an astonishing outburst, Botswana’s president has described the Kalahari Bushmen as ‘primeval’, ‘primitive’ and ‘backward’. Speaking at the country’s largest diamond mine, President Khama accused the Bushmen ...
  • Brazilian expert sounds warning for uncontacted In ...
    Uncontacted Indians in Brazil seen from the air during a Brazilian government expedition, May 2008. © Gleison Miranda//FUNAI One of Brazil’s leading experts on isolated Indians has warned that loggers could trigger violent conflict amongst uncontacted tribes on the Peru-Brazil border. José Car ...
  • New films on Guarani plight mark UN Human Rights D ...
    Survival has released two films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians © Fiona Watson/ Survival Survival has today released two short films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians in Brazil, to mark UN Human Rights Day (December 10th). The film âOne must have courageâ reveals t ...
  • Double ‘green energy’ threat to Borneo tribes’ rai ...
    Construction is already under way at the Murum dam site. © Survival International As environment ministers from around the world meet in Mexico for the UN climate change conference, tribes in the rainforests of Borneo are facing a double âgreen energyâ threat as hydroelectric dams destroy thei ...
  • Dozens wounded following police raids on Easter Is ...
    Rapa Nui woman wounded by a rubber bullet © DC RapaNui At least 25 people have reportedly been injured after police evicted indigenous inhabitants from buildings on Rapa Nui, widely known as Easter Island. Since August this year, Rapa Nui people have occupied a number of buildings on land the ...

Greg Palast

  • The Real Wiki Hero
    by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
  • WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...
  • 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 ...


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GE Clean-Energy Portfolio Hits $6 Billion
EarthTechling
- Dec 11, 2010
- 30 minutes ago
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Planned Power Line for Renewable Energy Draws Praise in California
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- Dec 10, 2010
- 11 hours ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger extolled the virtues of a new high-voltage power line that will bring solar and other renewable electricity to the San Diego area. ...
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Missouri turns to forests for renewable energy
Bloomberg
- Dec 10, 2010
- 20 hours ago
The rejection captures the challenges posed by a 2008 mandate from Missouri voters requiring investor-owned utilities to use more renewable energy, ...
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North American photovoltaic market predicted to double in 2011
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- Dec 08, 2010
- Dec 08, 2010
Renewable energy lobbyists on Wednesday held a press conference to warn that the failure of Congress to extend a key financial incentive would be disastrous ...
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Human Habitat

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Book Review: Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Dec 11, 2010
- 6 hours ago
Ecology and Socialism spares no political party or clownish agenda, eviscerating Barack Obama's limp carbon trading market and puncturing Al Gore's vile ...
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The Boat Company fined for Mist Cove oil spill in Sinclair Inlet
Access Washington
- Dec 10, 2010
- 17 hours ago
BELLEVUE – The owner of a 24-passenger cruise ship faces a $15500 Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) fine for an oil spill earlier this year into ...
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Putin, Kiviniemi to discuss trade, Baltic Sea ecology
ITAR-TASS
- Dec 09, 2010
- Dec 09, 2010
MOSCOW, December 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will leave on a three-day trip to St. Petersburg on Friday to meet Finland's Prime Minister ...
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Department of Ecology holds public hearing on Burien Shoreline Master Program
Highline Times
- Dec 09, 2010
- Dec 09, 2010
The Department of Ecology will either approve Burien's SMP, deny it, or send it back to the city with revisions. This process has sparked considerable ...
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Water main break in Belleville closes ramp on Route 21
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
- Dec 11, 2010
- 57 minutes ago
BELLEVILLE — A water main break on Route 21 northbound is has closed the northbound ramp to Exit 6 leading to Belleville Turnpike, according to the ...
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Jars of Clay | Christian Music Group helps provide clean water to Africans
On Public Speaking
- Dec 11, 2010
- 2 hours ago
Multi Platinum Christian Music Group Jars of Clay has recently achieved their goal of providing clean water to 1000 communities in Africa. ...
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Crestwood reaches deal in tainted drinking water lawsuit
Chicago Tribune
- Dec 10, 2010
- 16 hours ago
Crestwood will pay residents $500000 to settle one of the class action lawsuits filed against the south suburb for secretly pumping contaminated water to ...
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No escape from water treatment
Hi-Desert Star
- Dec 10, 2010
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By Rebecca Unger YUCCA VALLEY — Hi-Desert Water District next week will reveal what it will ask property owners to pay as members of a new assessment ...
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