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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, December 11, 2010

11 December - RSS SnapShot Pt 2

Maria Otero, Under Secretary of State for Demo...Image via Wikipedia

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Why Assange and Wikileaks have won this round
    The odd thing about Wikileaks is that their success has been assured, not by what they leaked, though there is some important information there, but by their enemies. The massive and indiscriminant overreaction by both government and powerful corporate actors has ensured this, and includes but is no ...
  • What is legal and what is just are two different t ...
    Just saying. A lot of people seem to have forgotten that. While we’re at it, you either believe that human rights should be inalienable, or you don’t.  That doesn’t mean they can’t be taken away, it means that any time they are taken away it is automatically unjust. Next: governments exist to serve ...
  • What is legal and what is just are two different t ...
    Just saying. A lot of people seem to have forgotten that. While we’re at it, you either believe that human rights should be inalienable, or you don’t.  That doesn’t mean they can’t be taken away, it means that any time they are taken away it is automatically unjust. Next: governments exist to serve ...
  • The folly of another surge
    We'll waste another couple thousand Western lives, untold thousands of Afghani lives and half a trillion dollars banging our head into that wall instead of admitting that American power has real limits, especially in areas that are objectively tertiary interests.
  • An American Future
    So, I’m peering into my looking glass today, or rather tonight, as the snow eddies down, the first snowfall of winter, and it’s winter I see for America, and for the world. It’s clear at this point that America is only the shell of a democracy, and instead is run by a self-perpetuating oligopoly who ...

Age of Autism

  • Yellow Dirt
    By Lee Camp The last time I was at our local library I noticed the book Yellow Dirt, An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pastenak (HERE) in the recently published display. I was...
  • Congrats to The Pilot House in Acoustic4Autism iTu ...
    The Pilot House is a fantastic org offering direct support and services to families in Fairfield County, CT. We are members of The Pilot House and I can't say enough about how important they are in our community in providing...
  • Look Them in the Eyes -- Is Color Change a Clue to ...
    By Teresa Conrick Megan, my daughter born in 1993, came into the world with beautiful BLUE eyes. In the picture here, right before her 5th birthday, you can see just how blue they were. Megan had been diagnosed with autism...
  • AofA Contest Blinged Out Sparkly Autism Puzzle Hea ...
    Another contest! This is from our friends at Bling Is The New Black. They make several autism designs, including the AofA logo, and 10% of proceeds come to us. This shirt is a ladies size XL, in a soft cotton,...
  • WINNERS! 1001 Tips for Parents of Autistic Boys (a ...
    Contest is CLOSED! It pays to have friends in high places! Tony Lyons, Publisher at Skyhorse is also the father of a daughter with autism and an author. His colleague Ken Siri has a boy with autism. They teamed up...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Iceland exits recession
    Guardian – Decision to force bondholders to pay for banking system’s collapse appears to pay off as economy grows 1.2% in third quarter. Iceland’s decision two years ago to force bondholders to pay for the banking system’s collapse appeared to pay off after official figures showed the country exited ...
  • TV Watching Is Bad for Babies’ Brains
    USNews – Babies who watch TV are more likely to have delayed cognitive development and language at 14 months, especially if they’re watching programs intended for adults and older children. …it’s surprising that TV-watching made a difference at such a tender age. Babies who watched 60 minutes of TV ...
  • Ireland cuts minimum wage, PM’s salary
    AFP â Ireland’s minimum wage and the salary of Prime Minister Brian Cowen were amongst cuts voted through by parliament on Friday in an emergency law that forms part of the budget for the indebted eurozone state. The “financial emergency measures in the public interest” bill, part of the austerity m ...
  • Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Per ...
    Live Science-Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests. At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the size of Great Britain, and ...
  • China raises bank reserves 3rd time in a month
    Reuters – China’s central bank on Friday raised the amount of money the country’s lenders must keep on reserve for the third time in a month, following a spate of robust data that strengthened the case for policy tightening. The latest step to raise the reserve requirement ratio (RRR), aimed at mopp ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • More global trade means more forest pests
    Along with U.S. manufacturing jobs, you can count another victim of global trade: American trees. The most destructive forest pests from abroad are arriving at an accelerated pace, according to a new study. Between 1990 and 2006, new ones were...
  • Colorado ditches coal
    As part of a groundbreaking plan to reduce pollution from power plants, Colorado's Public Utilities Commission has decided to replace all coal-fired power plants in the Denver area. It's the first time a state has moved to shutter coal-burning plants...
  • Two spills in six months dump 1,300 gallons of oil ...
    It's not quite the Gulf Coast, but Salt Lake City has developed a persistent problem with oil spills. On Wednesday evening, the federal Department of Transportation ordered Chevron to temporarily close a pipeline running through Salt Lake City following the...
  • Schwarzenegger praises Sunrise Powerlink transmiss ...
    The Sunrise Powerlink transmission line finally broke ground Thursday morning as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and more than 100 protesters looked on. The ceremony was held at a remote site near Boulevard called Rough Acres, where the San Diego Chargers once...
  • Coal mine near Bryce Canyon?
    Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit with the Utah Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to stop the opening of a 440-acre coal mine near Bryce Canyon National Park. Utah's Board of Oil, Gas and Mining approved the mine in...

water.org

  • Teacher provides a wider world view (St.CharlesPat ...
    French Teacher Provides a Wider World View (St. Charles Patch) – Delaney organized a fundraiser in November to benefit Water.org, a charitable organization that provides clean water and sanitation to people in developing nations. “It’s amazing, because I got the students in my French classes involve ...
  • Know your charity (NBC)
    How to know where your money goes when you donate to charities this holiday season (NBC Action News) KANSAS CITY, Missouri – [Keith] Stamm is the chief operator for Water.org . The nonprofit group is based out of Kansas City, but it pushes to give clean drinking water to people all over the world. H ...
  • Holiday gifts that give back (CBS)
    Holiday Shopping for Gifts that Give Back (CBS – WOWKTV) CHARLESTON, WV – For a health or sports nut, a water bottle is a simple gift that can help others as well. Actor Matt Damon is pitching “hope in a bottle,” in which 100 percent of the profits go directly to Water.org, one of the [...]
  • Join a conference call with Damon’s Water.or ...
    Join A Conference Call With Matt Damon’s Water.org (Look to the Stars) – This is your chance to hear first-hand from Matt Damon’s Water.org about their work in Tigray, Ethiopia, the impact their programs are having on peopleâs lives, and their plans for the future in this region. Read full Look to t ...
  • Student to swim 10-miles for water (Water.org)
    Carman-Ainsworth High student plans 10-mile swim to raise funds for global effort (Flint Journal/ Mlive – November 29, 2010) FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan – Erick Skaff is using his skills in the water to raise money for a clean water cause around the world. The 17-year-old Carman-Ainsworth High School s ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The Bigger Story Behind Anti-Semitism in Texas
    Republican activists have taken aim at one of their own: House speaker Joe Straus. Straus is a moderate. He's also Jewish. Maybe you can see where this is headed.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ban Says Preventing Genocide is a Global Responsi ...
    Promoting such understanding is one of the main roles of the Office of the Secretary-Generals Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, which was set up in 2004 in recognition of the international communitys collective failure to prevent orSubmitted by Sally G. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • SYRIA Getting Away Legally With Assaulting Women
    Equal rights for women is still just a dream for many Syrian women.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Israel imposes Sharia law
    Since religious courts would not permit intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews, and would demand conversion, and since wishing to marry a Jew would automatically disqualify a gentile from conversion to Judaism, this seemed like a neat solution.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Defending Palestinian solidarity
    The Electronic Intifada finds itself at the centre of a storm as a pro-Israel group applies pressure to have a grant from a Dutch foundation withdrawn. This assault on our freedom of conscience is about much more than our website. Ali Abunimah reports.Submitted by Anne B. to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • USA, Euro Zone and India Try to Hoodwink Nepal
    Everything is a facade to trick and hoodwink. We at RGSD wish to put an end to all this double dealing, double talk and massive fraud. The sad part is that this milieu, malady or corruption is now a global phenomenon. Every society, nation and peo
  • Ring 8 Honoring 'Wounded Warriors' at 24th annual ...
    RING 8 has donated a table of eight to the Wounded Warriors Project at the veteran boxing group's 24th annual RING 8 Holiday Event and Awards Ceremony, Sunday afternoon (12:30-5:30 PM/ET), December 19 at Russo's On The Bay in Howard Beach, NY.
  • Burundi Turns to Build a Sustainable Economy After ...
    Burundi was for decades torn apart by largely ethnic fighting between Hutus and Tutsis, in which hundreds of thousands of people died, and it was the first country, together with Sierra Leone, to be targeted by the UN Peacebuilding Commission when i
  • Revealing the True Cost of Renewable Energy
    The US has 279 million acres of land with large volumes of oil and natural gas below. Consumers are not aware of this because media and government focused public attention on the need for adopting renewable energy sources.
  • NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt for Pl ...
    Scientists hope the research not only will provide a better historical picture of the birth and evolution of Earth, the moon and Mars, but also allow researchers to better explore what happened in our solar system's beginning and middle stages

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Wi-Fi signals are damaging trees, states Netherlan ...
    While not the first, PC World is one of the most recent to report that Wi-Fi signal radiation has a negative impact on tree health. Based on Wageningen University within the Netherlands, Wi-Fi radiation is a definite contributor to alterations in sapling development, also as bleeding and fissures i ...
  • December 9th day of action against cuts and fees
    middlesex-university-occu-005[1].jpg Tens of thousands of school and university students will walk out of class again today another national day of action against cuts and tuition fees. ...
  • Greece - declaration from the student assemblies a ...
    students-athens.jpg Declaration of the national coordination meeting of the student assemblies and occupied universities - 03/12/2010 After the massive national demonstration of to ...
  • Statement on the Goldsmiths Occupation
    I was among those supporting a real occupation of Goldsmiths this week. A large group of students, staff and supporters agreed before the library was occupied that only a significant disruption of the normal functioning of the university would contribute to bl ...
  • Russian Antijob Site Downed by Robots
    Site attacked by bots - because bosses don't like content. The Russian site "AntiJob" is a place where disgruntled workers can expose bad working conditions in the firm. It has been under heavy bot attack since Nov. 7. Despite the fact t ...

Free Range International

  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
    Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...
  • Long Live King and Queen Obama!!!!
    Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn’t Michelle Obama live like a queen? The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela. A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage ...
  • Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
    To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
    Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...

Scotts Contracting

  • 2010 Holiday Light Recycling Drive
    StLouisGreen.com Holiday Light Recycling Drive Happening now through January 31, 2011 People are encouraged to recycle old holiday lights and extension cords. All unworkable holiday lights, whether from your tree or outdoor decoration, can be taken to participating Walmart, Goodwill, … Continue read ...
  • Guest Post: Trash Reduction: A 30-Day Plan for Eve ...
    Trash Reduction: A 30-Day Plan for Every Homeowner by: Gerald Arnolds is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer for Accredited Online Colleges. Day 1: Do some necessary homework. Before you can start to reduce … Continue reading →
  • Analysts say ignoring global warming will cost the ...
    Nov 19, 2010 Portsmouth Herald Deborah McDermott Nov. 19, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) — Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a three-part look at the conference, "Sustainable Future: How Can our Nation Turn the Corner on the Economy and the Environment, and can N.H. Lead ...
  • GLOBE Alliance Will Advocate for Sustainability
    GLOBE Alliance Will Advocate for Sustainability Worldwide The Global Leadership in Our Built Environment Alliance has issued a call for partners to help fight climate change by advancing sustainable design. By:Stephani L. Miller The U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council (W ...
  • Green by Necessity is China’s New National P ...
    China’s New National Plan: Green by Necessity Tags: Alternative EnergyBest PracticesCase Studieschinalow carbon economyPolicySustainabilityTransportationUrban EconomicsWater November 29, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig China’s new national 2011-2015 economic plan–essentially also its green blueprint–is now ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • White House plans more Iran sanctions
    Gary Samore, the Obama administration's top nuclear nonproliferation official, acknowledges that Iran may be trying to manipulate the West by moving slowly on negotiations. The Obama administration said Friday that it was planning additional economic sanctions against Iran and acknowledged that ...
  • Iran airs new confession by woman in stoning case
    TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state television — an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the cas ...
  • بیانیه جبهه ملی ایران به مناسبت نوزدهم آذر، روز جه ...
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  • وعده ها و تعهدها در دیدار محرمانه با امریکائی ها
    خبرگزاری های بزرگ جهانی، آغاز به انتشار گزارش هائی کرده اند که بموجب آنها تیم مذاکره کننده اتمی جمهوری اسلامی به سرپرستی "جلیلی" دبیر شورای عالی امنیت جمهوری اسلامی، در جریان سفر به ژنو در سوئیس، با هیات نمایندگی امریکا، جدا از مذاکرات جاری read more
  • Iran’s Other War
    Iran�s most repressed religious minority is also its largest. Members of the community are routinely imprisoned, frequently executed, banned from universities, and ruthlessly repressed economically. Tens of thousands have been murdered by one regime after another. The current government�the Khomeini ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Politics of Obesity
    There is a lot of focus in the mainstream media on the growing epidemic of obesity in western countries. The media pretty universally places the blame on individuals. Overweight adults are guilty of “poor lifestyle choices.” While obesity in children is blamed on the failure of the parents to contro ...
  • Going Non-Corporate
    (from Lyn Webster – www.pigtitsandparsleysauce.co.nz) For me the most interesting part of Lyn's presentation was her wrap-up, where she talked about the strong temptation to resume buying commercial products when she used up her first homemade batch. Not because they are any better than the homema ...
  • Making Non-Corporate Choices
    America's pre-eminent consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader frequently talks about the last two generations growing up "corporate" in their attitudes and lifestyle choices. An important aspect of growing up “corporate” is automatically giving into constant pressure from t ...
  • The Best Research Corporate Money Can Buy
    As I have blogged previously, the whole notion of fluoride being safe and good for teeth is based on decades of corporations paying researchers to produce the scientific results they want – and burying research and firing and blacklisting scientists whose studies show otherwise. A Systematic Corpora ...
  • Water Fluoridation: a Corporate-Inspired Scam
    As Christopher Bryson outlines in his 2004 book Fluoride Deception, the decision to deliberately dose US municipal water supplies with a potent industrial toxin was basically a corporate scam dreamed up by Alcoa, GM and Dupont in the thirties and forties to stem a tide of lawsuits related to death a ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Ron Paul on Wikileaks: Lying is Not Patriotic
    I normally don’t publish guest articles, but this week I’m on a  roll. The Time Traveller post was just for fun, today’s post is deadly serious. I was writing my own post on Wikileaks, when I came across Congressman Ron Paul’s latest words on the subject. He covers the situation quite nicely, and s ...
  • Wednesday, December 8th: Pretend to be a Time Trav ...
    Yes, it’s that time of year again! International Pretend to be a Time Traveller Day 2010! Yes, all Wednesday, participants  in this event will pretend to be a time traveller visiting the current era. The only “rule” is participants must never tell anyone they are a time traveller.  I’ve more or le ...
  • Random Notes in the Margins
    A couple of topics that I was unable to squeeze a whole blog post out on, but nonetheless wanted to say something. And yes, in some cases below I am simplifying or not adding obvious codicils: 1.  Germany’s Chancellor Merkel claims that “multiculturalism has failed.” She didn’t exactly define her t ...
  • KOREAN NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES
    December 2nd, 2010. During American and South Korean naval manoeuvres in the Yellow Sea near North Korea a nuclear explosion occurs, sinking a dozen major warships including the American carrier USS George Washington. At least ten thousand American and South Korean sailors and servicemen are killed, ...
  • FBI FOILS OWN TERRORIST PLOT AS STUNNED NATION REE ...
    It’s hard for me to look at the news these days without cringing, so why not share with my readers! The first non-news of the day is the FBI foiling a “terrorist plot” to blow up a Christmas Tree ceremony in Portland with a car bomb. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it, a Somali born teenager tried [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How the RFA Wastes Your Tax Dollars – Part II: Bla ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post In Part I we saw that the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) pays for shoddy studies and then cites them to fear-monger into getting more tax dollars. Hypocritically, when they are challenged with a critical point on ethanol, they attempt to cast doubt by ques ...
  • How the RFA Wastes Your Tax Dollars – Part I: How ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Over the next two posts, I will examine some of the tactics used by the Renewable Fuels Association to justify keeping the $6 billion ethanol subsidy that was made almost entirely redundant when the the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was passed into law in  200 ...
  • Book Review: The Impending World Energy Mess
    Join the forum discussion on this post I actually had low expectations for The Impending World Energy Mess by Robert L. Hirsch, Roger H. Bezdek, and Robert M. Wendling. Not because I thought Robert Hirsch and company would put out a sub-par book, but rather I have read so many peak oil books that I ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Reality Begins to Set In
    Join the forum discussion on this post Delusional Mandates It is hard to believe that just a few short years ago, Congress mandated a massive increase in usage of cellulosic ethanol. This was remarkable, because no commercial cellulosic ethanol facilities even existed at the time. But people like ...
  • Rank the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010
    Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010 is now open and will remain open until Christmas: The top 10 survey: what were the biggest oil stories of 2010? They listed about 40 stories; I pulled out a list below that I think is worth debating ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Compiled List of The Top Online Presentation Tools ...
    Comments:Collection of websites and apps to be used as alternative presentation options. - Dean MantzTags: tools, presenting, web2.0, appsby: Dean Mantz
  • Social Studies Sites
    Comments:Great collection of American History, World History, and geography resources. - Dean MantzTags: history, livebinders, socialstudiesby: Dean Mantz
  • IEAR App Awards Official Nomination Sheet
    Comments:Here is a great list of App awards from iEAR.org All are listed by curriculum area, elementary/secondary level, and iTunes link is provided for each app as well. - Dean MantzTags: apps, iear, education, ipad, curriculumby: Dean Mantz
  • ge.tt | gett sharing
    Comments:Alternative to drop.io for sharing files via a single drop on the web. - Dean MantzTags: filesharing, sharing, web2.0, tools, gett, file, education, technology, PLC, PLN, learningby: Jennifer Dorman
  • Google Earth Activities | Hajjar Elementary School ...
    Tags: google earth, google, earth, activities, elementary, google_earthby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Radically Simple
    Throughout her culinary career, chef Rozanne Gold has given much thought to the notions of simplicity and sophistication in cooking. read more
  • Season's Sweetenings: How to Avoid a Holiday Sugar ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s that time of year, when visions of sugar plums (or sugar cookies) dance in your head. Which leads to that other vision, the one that involves the weight scale, where the numbers keep going up. But great holiday baking doesn’t have to throw your healthy, low-calorie e ...
  • Marriage Keeps Wives Fit; Husbands Get Flabby
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Women in relationships always seem to get the short end of the stick. Study after study has found that women put on weight after they get married and have a difficult time losing it after they have children. But a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology ...
  • Prep for Guests, Tidy Up Any Holiday Mess, Using G ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâResearch released in 2010 has severely tarnished the tidy image of household cleaners, even the store-bought "green" cleaners. Many contain neurotoxic solvents, synthetic fragrances linked to hormone abnormalities, and other ingredients linked to an increased risk of cance ...
  • Death Risk Lowered by Eating Orange and Dark Green ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You may have heard of beta-carotene, but what about its cousin, alpha-carotene? In a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers analyzed the data on over 15,000 participants in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Follow-up ...

big think

  • Eternal Life: Italian Mosaics of the First Christi ...
    According to Giorgio Vasari’s Lives , Domenico Ghirlandaio—whose frescoes graced the walls of the Sistine Chapel before those of his apprentice, Michelangelo—once called the art of mosaics as “vera pittura per l’eternita” or “true painting for eternity.” Joachim Poeschke’s Italian Mosaics: ...
  • Haptic Braille: A Portable, Mouse-Like Braille Rea ...
    We've previously looked at several examples of Braille-centric design for the blind. Haptic Braille is an ingenious concept by Korean designer Baek Kil Hyun – a portable Braille translator and scanner. The mouse-like device is equipped with an optical character recognition (OCR) system and tex ...
  • George Lakoff Explains To Progressives Why Some Tr ...
    After reading George Lakoff’s diary “Untellable Truths” over at Daily Kos this morning, which methodically described why the progressive wing of the Democratic Party always seems to get the short end of the stick, I had to switch gears and put the topic I’d planned to write about on the back burner ...
  • How the World Searched with Google in 2010
    Since it's birth in 1998, Google has become our gateway to the Web (its supremacy threatened somewhat now by Apple and Facebook). It processes over 1 billion search requests every day, each request giving an inkling of what matters to people in the moment. In 2010, 65% of daily searches were ...Read ...
  • Shameless Self-Promotion!
    I have a new book out!  It's Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for our Future. Here's a review/blurb: Peter Lawler is today’s wisest guide through the conceptual thicket of dignity, virtue, and democracy in America. His usual wit and charm are on display in ...

Information Liberation

  • Federal DHS officer pretends to be real cop, pulls ...
    AJC.com reports: House had no authority to enforce Georgia's traffic law, however, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, he 'repeatedly activated the emergency blue lights on his federal police vehicle and pulled over motorists." He then would ca...
  • A Criminal's a Criminal, No Matter How Powerful
    The state, in legal theory, is the entity that claims the sole right to define what is lawful or criminal activity in a given territory. Perhaps just coincidentally, the state tends to judge the actions of its official agents and favored clients b...
  • The Art of Not Being Governed
    I figure part of my job around here is to call attention to new books that relate in some way to the libertarian tradition * that is, to the history of libertarian thought. One such book was first published a little over a year ago, in September 2009...
  • Assange Espionage Act Indictment 'Imminent'
    The Espionage Act of 1917 may face its first serious charge and by extension serious challenge in years, as lawyers for Julian Assange say that the US is preparing to indict the whistleblower under the act. The act was originally used to arrest an...
  • Competition enters the Wikileaks marketplace
    The new project, *Openleaks,* has been under way for some time and will be launched Monday. DN.se has spoken to individuals behind the new site and the message is clear. *Our long term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whi...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Govt Response to Wikileaks Said to Cause More Dama ...
    The U.S. Government insists that the classification markings on many of the leaked documents being published by Wikileaks and other organizations are still in force, even though the documents are effectively in the public domain, and it has directed federal employees and contractors not to access or ...
  • Treasury Classification Guide, and Other Resources
    The Department of the Treasury has recently produced a consolidated classification guide, detailing exactly what kinds of Treasury information may be classified at what level and for how long.  It is in such agency classification guides, not in high-level government-wide policy statements, that the ...
  • Publishing Classified Info: A Review of Relevant S ...
    “There appears to be no statute that generally proscribes the acquisition or publication of diplomatic cables,” according to a newly updated report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service, “although government employees who disclose such information without proper authority may be subject to p ...
  • CRS Seeks Guidance on Using Leaked Docs
    After its access to the Wikileaks web site was blocked by the Library of Congress, the Congressional Research Service this week asked Congress for guidance on whether and how it should make use of the leaked records that are being published by Wikileaks, noting that they could “shed important light” ...
  • Intelligence and Border Security, and More from CR ...
    Noteworthy new products from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). “Securing America’s Borders: The Role of the Intelligence Community,” December 7, 2010. “Hamas: Background and Issues for Congress,” December 2, 2010. “U.S.-Australia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation: Issues ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A few facts about asbestos
    Today, medical journal The Lancet has publicly criticised the Canadian government for its attitude towards asbestos, saying that although Canada will not expose its own citizens to asbestos, it will continue exporting the deadly substance to developing nations [Canada accused of hypocrisy, Lancet]. ...
  • What is nature worth?
    Each hour 3 species vanish forever, we’ve lost a fifth of the planet’s coral reefs, almost a third of its mangrove forests, and half of the world’s wetlands. But, how do you count the cost? Perhaps a business perspective is needed. If we considered the natural world as providing products and service ...
  • Searching for scientific abbreviations
    Ambiguous abbreviations and acronyms are annoyances when it comes to text search and data mining. As a writer-editor, I was always taught to spell out the long form (LF) of a short form (SF) at first mention in a document so that the reader would know that when I mentioned EBV I was referring to [.. ...
  • Santa Claus Science
    Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicolas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas. Call him what you will, at this time of year, for children who celebrate everywhere, many questions of a scientific nature arise and parents squirm in their efforts to answer them. Now, Gregory Mone, a contributing editor at Po ...
  • Latest scientific discoveries
    Forget fruit and veg. Lose weight and cut the booze to reduce cancer risk People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease. UK trialling testing sugar-coated salt on roads Although they’ve been usi ...

RFF Library

  • CBO Cost Estimate for S. 3973 Diesel Emissions Red ...
    Congressional Budget Office As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on November 30, 2010 http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12018/s3973.pdf SUMMARY S. 3973 would reauthorize and amend the diesel emissions reduction program administered by the Environmental Protec ...
  • Global Climate Change
    USDA, Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/GlobalClimate/#2010-12-10 This briefing room highlights the ERS climate change research program, which builds on extensive expertise on the economics of land use, land management, technology adoption, conservation program design, and b ...
  • 2010 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration
    US Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/os/2010/12/101203ethanolreport.pdf The market for ethanol fuel in the United States is still unconcentrated, with 160 firms nationwide either producing ethanol or likely to be in production within the next 18 months, according to the Federal Trade Commi ...
  • The North Sea Countries’ Offshore Grid Initi ...
    European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity http://tinyurl.com/2a9ddtv A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today by 10 North Sea countries. The ten countries have committed to work together to identify and overcome the regulatory, legal, market, planning and technical issu ...
  • Investor Risks from Development of Oil Shale and C ...
    Ceres / David Gardiner & Associates http://www.ceres.org/Document.Doc?id=652 [From Executive Summary] As the United States pursues the goal of increased energy security, discussions about unconventional fossil fuel sources, such as oil shale and coal-to-liquids (CTL), have re-emerged. With technolog ...

Scientific American - News

  • Farming the Future: GM Crops Recommended as Key Pa ...
    Agricultural innovation has long sustained the world's masses with an abundance of low-cost food, thanks to the success of the mid-20th century's Green Revolution, which brought industrialization and high-yield grains to India, Mexico and many other developing countries.A prosperous global populatio ...
  • Clearing and Present Danger? Fog That Nourishes Ca ...
    The Earth's tallest trees, California redwoods, rely on characteristic coastal fog to reach their towering heights--and that fog may be diminishing, according to new research. [More]
  • Zoo Illogical: Ugly Animals Need Protection from E ...
    Zoos are like fancy hotels, albeit without the fluffy pillows and individually packaged soaps, or so says Daniel Frynta, an ecologist at Charles University in Prague. Only the "richest" animals get to check in. And if an endangered species gets a room, he says, it might just survive.Frynta defines a ...
  • Cat Disease Threatens Endangered Monk Seals
    Hoku endured some rough days before he died last spring. Three dogs chased him off one of his resting beaches, and he battled a minor tsunami that left him wedged between a pair of boulders in a lava field far from shore.Observers noticed him looking thin in the few months before fishermen found him ...
  • Pending U.S. Food Safety Bill Promises More Accoun ...
    Where did your most recent meal come from? Whether or not it was the supermarket, a nice restaurant or nearby drive-through, its contents probably came from not just one U.S. locality but a smattering of states--and countries. Just which ones, though, neither you nor the people who sold, packaged ...

RAWA News

  • Karzai pardons criminals, drug dealers: WikiLeaks
    AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the release of numerous dangerous criminals and drug traffickers detained by US-led coalition forces, leaked American diplomatic cables revealed Tuesday. American officials said they had repeatedly rebuked the president and Afghan attorney general Muham ...
  • Hungry for Some Truth on the Afghanistan War
    Huffington Post: When will the Obama administration stop damaging its credibility by denying the failure of the Afghanistan War? It seems every day we get another report showing that the Taliban’s momentum continues despite President Obama’s massive troop increase. But, somehow, the administration's ...
  • Good Cop, Bad Cop: Afghanistan’s National Po ...
    CBS: While the Afghan army has made some strides in recent years, the national police force has developed a reputation for drug abuse, illiteracy and desertion. Earlier this month The New York Times reported that up to 19 Afghan police officers from southwest of Kabul defected to the Taliban en mass ...
  • Hundreds demand justice in war-blighted Afghanista ...
    The Associated Press: Several hundred demonstrators, some holding photographs of victims of three decades of war, shouted for justice and peace .... In recognition of International Human Rights Day, about 300 people participated in a demonstration in the capital, Kabul, organized by the Social Assoc ...
  • NOT WORTH IT: Every Predator drone in Afghanistan ...
    Rethink Afghanistan: With millions of Americans out of work, you'd hope that our elected officials would be focused on putting people back to work instead of wasting money on war. If only. While it takes an act of God to get unemployment insurance benefits extended for people who lost their jobs, po ...

frogblog

  • General debate, December 11, 2010
  • Happy Christmas Minister; what about child poverty ...
    It seems Paula Bennett has been reading my Christmas message. She asked me to sing some of it in the House yesterday. However I wasn’t in the House for the purpose of entertaining the Minister. I wanted to know if she was prepared to meet with the Alternative Welfare Working Group, whose report wa ...
  • Defend Wikileaks against US government attacks
    Prominent Australians, including Green Senator Bob Brown, have signed an Open Letter to Julia Gillard asking her to provide assistance to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the face of the attacks he is facing, including threats of assassination. The letter says “such calls cannot ...
  • Food: Community gardens are a great idea
    I had a wonderful evening last night, speaking about food security and the local food movement at a meeting at New Brighton in East Christchurch.
  • Interesting answers to hard questions (for public ...
    Sometimes it can be tricky being a senior public servant. The Department of Conservation senior management just fronted up to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee for the Department’s ‘financial review’. This is the Department’s accountability mechanism to Parliamen ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 10 December 2010
    The long arm of the law has caught up with me. After an excessive amount of turkey caused me to forget about my jury duty assignment last month, I'm now assigned to a jury pool for the week before Christmas. Hopefully judges and lawyers don't really want to work very much that week, so demand for ju ...
  • Is Cash King?
    Jamelle Bouie writes about the social safety net: If I were designing a welfare system from scratch, it would completely dispense with vouchers and stamps, and basically be a system of direct cash transfers to the poor and working-class, in the form of a negative income tax or some other method. As ...
  • Ask Not For Whom the Door Revolves
    From DealBook: A decade ago, a former Treasury secretary, Robert E. Rubin, left the Clinton administration to become a senior adviser and board member at Citigroup — collecting a $10 million a year paycheck with no management responsibility. On Thursday, Peter R. Orszag, President Obama’s first bud ...
  • Tax Revolt Still Alive and Well at Age 32
    Just a quick note. A few years ago it was all the rage to suggest that the era of the tax revolt was over. Mark Schmitt's argument shortly after the 2006 election was typical: "Just as the tax revolt era had a beginning," he wrote, "so will it have an end. And there are indications that the end migh ...
  • Bring 'Em On?
    Should Democrats have negotiated an increase in the debt ceiling as part of Obama's tax cut package? You'd think so, but apparently Harry Reid is actually eager to have a debt ceiling fight: The theory goes something like this: Republicans will demand sharp spending cuts in return for lifting the d ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 215: Popeyes Chicken, STDs and Politics
    Topics for the show: Popeyes chicken buffet Going to the doctor’s sucks Westboro Baptist Church takes their protesting to a new disgusting level Ignoring the attention whore that is Sarah Palin Liberals who whine about the President and nothing else Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Falling For the Palin Trap
    Sarah Palin is an idiot.  This is a well known fact.  We have video, audio and even “literary” (if you can call it that) evidence of this.  She’s now the punch line of any joke.  “Two guys walk into a bar and…..Sarah Palin” BWAHAHAHAHAHA We know this.  She’s not to be taken seriously.  Which is [... ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Failing For the Palin Trap
    Sarah Palin is an idiot.  This is a well known fact.  We have video, audio and even “literary” (if you can call it that) evidence of this.  She’s now the punch line of any joke.  “Two guys walk into a bar and…..Sarah Palin” BWAHAHAHAHAHA We know this.  She’s not to be taken seriously.  Which is [... ...
  • The Incessant Whining of Liberals
    By now you’ve heard from liberals/progressives across the country about the latest “cave in” by President Obama on the Bush Tax Cuts.  I’ll be honest.  I’m shocked.  Not by the perceived “cave in” but rather by the utter lack of grip people bitching have on reality.  Yes…bitching. I realize that som ...
  • The Douchetastic Bill Maher
    “I thought, when we elected the first black president, as a comedian, I thought two years in, I’d be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?” Maher said. Instead, Maher said we’ve got “President Wayne Brady.” I’m by no means overly sensitive.  I think we’ve established that.  On face v ...

Simple Climate

  • Cloud and plant data raise climate projection conf ...
    The cooling effect of clouds will get weaker as the planet warms, while plants' cooling effect will get stronger, findings published this week show, but despite the apparent contradiction the data provides enhanced confidence in climate models.
  • What can we do about climate change?
    All year on Simple Climate scientists have suggested steps we can take to tackle climate change, so here's a roundup of what we can do, regardless of what happens in Cancún this week.
  • Simple Climate poll part 3: Getting personal
    Choose from explanation 13-20 out of 26 scientists' attempts to clearly communicate climate change on my blog this year, with these efforts focussing on how best to explain the phenomenon to people.
  • Marshland massacre by sea rise is avoidable
    Rate of sea level rise looks more important for wetland survival than the rises themselves – although the fact the world looks set for at least its third warmest year ever in 2010 is not a good omen.
  • China-US conflict reveals central climate issue
    Current climate negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, suggest that economic growth-obsessed nations should focus more on recognising and accepting their environmental responsibility.

e!Science News

  • HOXB7 gene promotes tamoxifen resistance
    A gene target for drug resistance, a triple-drug cocktail for triple negative breast cancer, and patients' risk for carpal tunnel syndrome are among study highlights scheduled to be presented by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists during the 33rd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer ...
  • A double block of blood vessels to starve cancerou ...
    A novel strategy of blocking the growth of blood vessels with antibodies should result in improved treatment of cancerous tumors. read more
  • Sign languages help us understand the nature of me ...
    A recent study of the use of metaphors in spoken language and various sign languages shows that certain types of metaphors are difficult to convey in sign language. The study, "Iconicity and metaphor: Constraints on metaphorical extension of iconic forms," to be published in the December 2010 issue ...
  • FReD can help explain how a bee sees!
    Bees can see colours but they perceive the world differently to us, including variations in hue that we cannot ourselves distinguish. read more
  • Circulating tumor cells predicted recurrence, deat ...
    The presence of one to four circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of early-stage breast cancer patients almost doubled patient's risk of cancer relapse and death, and five or more CTCs increased recurrence by 400 percent and death by 300 percent, according to Phase III results of the SUCCESS t ...

unEarthed

  • Editorial: Fate of Gray Wolves - And ESA - In Cong ...
    Based on today's editorial, the gray wolf -- and other creatures defended by the Endangered Species Act -- have no finer friend than The Arizona Republic. Here's what the Republic had to say about attempts in Congress to gut the ...
  • I Brake For Cute Animals
    The classical "great chain of being" as depicted in Didacus Valdes' "Retorica Christiana" in 1579. Rose Eveleth has an interesting piece on the National Resource Defense Council’s OnEarth blog about zoos choosing to house onl ...
  • Court Upholds Nation's Strongest Effort To Curb Cl ...
    This afternoon. the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals swatted down big polluters' attempts to block this nation's most important progress on cutting climate change pollution. This court decision is a huge victory for clean air in Am ...
  • Friday Finds: More Money Means More Problems
    BPA was recently discovered in cash. Photo courtesy of stock.xchng BPA found in cash BPA, that ubiquitous, hormone-disrupting chemical that's made its way into everything from baby bottles to can liners, can now also be fou ...
  • If You Build It, They Will Come - And That's The P ...
    One of the vexing problems associated with urban sprawl is the associated, call them ancillary, maybe secondary, effects that no one takes responsibility for. In this particular case, we speak of traffic. It's a particularly s ...

Brave New Climate

  • Idea: financing large capital cost electricity pro ...
    Guest post by Dr Gene Preston. Gene has had a long career as a power system engineer, performing generation planning, transmission planning, and distribution planning for Austin Energy. He is currently doing transmission studies for wind developers. He wrote all his own modeling software including t ...
  • Monthly Argument debate: climate change – is ...
    Remember this? Want to see me go head-to-head in a ‘bar room brawl’ with Jim Green and a representative from Friends of the Earth (Cam Walker)? Want to see on what I agree — and disagree — with Arthur Dent (formerly Albert Langer) on energy options for the future and the possibility of nuclear energ ...
  • Media reactions to the Energy paper – part 1
    It’s been fascinating to watch the media reaction to our Energy paper on how carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. It has certainly stirred a lot of interest, and the timing was admittedly celestial, because two other reports on electrici ...
  • The arithmetic adds up to nuclear
    Yesterday, The Australian newspaper published an Op Ed piece by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook, entitled Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind, which discusses our recent paper in Energy. The print (dead tree) version of the article even had the graph shown here included! However, the editor h ...
  • Nuclear is the least-cost, low-carbon, baseload po ...
    This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also [.. ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Obama Just Lost 2012
    Caving this time cost you your job. Extending tax cuts for the filthy rich while giving crumbs to the starving makes me sick to my stomach. Just giving the Republicans everything they want without so much as a whimper. Barry, you are not a Democrat. In fact I want my money back.
  • Republicans, Don’t Listen to David Stockman
    If you are a Republican, you had better not listen to David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director that created the trickle down fantasy. If you accidentally listen to what he says, you would realize that more tax cuts, the main plank in the Republican platform is insane. He is not happy with President ...
  • Raise Taxes or Cut Taxes?
    Raising taxes, and spending the money wisely, and on programs that promote economic fairness, stimulates the economy. Cutting taxes on the filthy rich stimulates hoarding, and not the economy. They should teach this in kindergarten. Every single billionaire makes sure the media that serves him teach ...
  • Economic Treason
    The Republicans plan on retaking the White House by performing endless economic treason. Regardless what the president, and the Democrats do to repair our struggling economy, the Republicans will stand in the way. The can count on a corporate controlled press to never call them out for filibustering ...
  • Republicans Are Herd Animals
    The tea bag caucus, it turns out, got over One Billion in PORK. Whoda thunkit…

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

+972

  • On the rise of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel
    By Shalom Boguslavsky Over the past decade or so, the religious Zionists and the ultra-Orthodox have joined forces to push for an Arab-free greater land of Israel. The racist ideas of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, once considered marginal, have gained new power as they are expressed by important ultra ...
  • Celebrating human rights in Tel Aviv while the IDF ...
    Before the first heavy rains hit Israel yesterday, thousands people gathered in central Tel Aviv to mark international Human Rights Day. The occasion brought together various Israeli NGOs and thousands of concerned citizens in the spirit of presenting a face of Israel that supports human rights and ...
  • Palestinian leader’s letter from Israeli pri ...
    Abdullah Abu Rahmah, the unarmed struggle leader from Bil’in who was put in prison by Israel for his political actions, and is now kept there even though he finished serving his sentence, has published a public letter for the International Human Rights Day. No matter what you think of the conflict a ...
  • The Israeli Gaza flotilla inquiry is a sham
    The Turkel Committee (investigating the legality of Israel’s lethal response to the Gaza Flotilla in May of this year) is not only a transparent sham, it also undermines what little faith remains in the Israeli system’s ability to scrutinize and correct its own mistakes.     Noam has previously po ...
  • New survey of Jewish and Arab Israelis by Saban Ce ...
    New Saban Center survey shows complicated but important data and some opportunities.

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Truly Mind Boggling Disclosures of Documentation E ...
    I run a tight, very organized and fairly lean organization.  In these unfortunate economic times, I could grow fast and manage a large operation, but I want to do things correctly and be able to keep my eyes on everyone and my hands in all my files.  Quite simply, I don’t want things to grow [...]
  • A Foreclosure-Based Economy
    We all need to continually challenge the absurd notion that completing foreclosures (even if the documentation and right to foreclose was true and accurate) is in the best interests of society. We need to advance the discussion and focus on the basic economics….foreclosed homes are a bigger liabilit ...
  • Wall Street Profits Obscenely While Middle America ...
    This should make you insane…or angry…or motivated to go out and do something…. Huffington Post Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Chaos At The Courthouse- Law Firm Collapse Causes ...
    It’s time for all Floridians and in fact all Americans to wake up and understand the enormous price we’re all playing for the chaos the lenders and criminals from Wall Street have caused us all. The most specific example comes from yesterday’s Palm Beach Post…..foreclosure sales still going through… ...
  • Supreme Court Reminds Again That Complaints Must B ...
    Hot off the Presses, Just Yesterday, The Florida Supreme Court released a Brand New Announcement reminding the foreclosure mills that there were certain rules that they should probably think about following….if they didn’t mind and if it weren’t too much trouble.  I love this little quote found in ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Christmas Lights at Parliament
    It’s magical and always inspirational. Each year, Parliament does a terrific job of making the buildings and grounds festive and welcoming. It’s obvious that those visiting Ottawa during the Christmas season are in for a real treat, but most don’t think of what a difference it makes to MPs. The few ...
  • Santa Claus Joins Ranks Of The Homeless
    Just in time for the global environment meetings in Cancun, Mexico, this country’s Environment Commissioner delivered a harsh report on the Conservative record in battling climate change. As it was being released, the Harper government was being awarded three “Fossil of the Day” awards. Alas, from b ...
  • The Great Reversal
    So, Barack Obama caved in to the wealthy. He likely had to if he hoped to win re-election, but still his recent decision has left a bitter taste in many mouths. By going back to the Bush tax cut era, where the wealthy just got a whole lot richer, the President has set in motion [...]
  • For Women, A Chance At Last
    The narrative on women’s issues in the modern age has dominated its fair share of political attention in this past year. With the government’s attention on maternal health for the G8 meetings, concern over human trafficking, the primacy of women’s concerns over the loss of the gun registry, and the ...
  • “Thanks For Coming”
    You know something is essentially broken in politics when a clear case of human need in society is passed off by a government that attempts to hide behind legislation in order to absolve itself of just plain humanity. Such is the case with the some 400 Nortel pensioners on long-term disability who, ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    My son Alex (13) and I have had a long-standing head-to-head on video games – should he be allowed to play first-person shooter games?  For those of you not plugged into the the gaming community, these are the games where you play out scenes and scenarios from the first person perspective of someon ...
  • US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safety R ...
    The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal – hopefully ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Salt [ ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Forum ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it comes to technology ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend a good portion of my “inst ...

Reader Supported News

  • Assange Accuser May Have Ceased Co-Operating
    The report begins: "Anna Ardin, one of the two complainants in the rape and sexual assault case against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has left Sweden, and may have ceased actively cooperating with the Swedish prosecution service and her own lawyer, sources in Sweden told Crikey today." ...
  • 6 Companies That Haven't Wussed Out of Working Wit ...
    "Giants like PayPal, Amazon, Visa and MasterCard almost instantly crumbled under government (and p.r.) pressure to drop WikiLeaks, depriving the site of vital funding sources and online platforms. But other companies, some of them small, independent start-ups, have decided to risk the wrath of Joe L ...
  • US Is Gearing Up for Even Heavier Civilian Presenc ...
    "The US may be planning for a large scale military withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2014, but there's every indication a significant diplomatic corps will remain in the country long afterwards." US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, right, confers with Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US f ...
  • The Significance of Bernie Sanders' Filibuster
    Sen. Bernie Sanders had been on the Senate floor for over 8 hours as of this writing, in a stalling session resembling a filibuster against Obama's tax proposal. Had it been a true filibuster Sanders would have been blocking Republicans from conducting business or speaking. Sanders vowed he would co ...
  • Fox News Memo: How to Spin Public Option
    The article begins: "At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News' controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network's journalists not to use the phrase 'public option,' Instead, Sammon wrote, Fox's reporters should use 'government option' ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • White House Intensifies Military Buildup In Poland
    Stop NATO December 10, 2010 White House Intensifies Military Buildup In Poland Rick Rozoff Immediately on the heels of reports in the Guardian and other Western news media that the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization has crafted a strategy to intervene with nine army divisions in the Baltic ...
  • NATO Develops Plans For Military Confrontation Wit ...
    Stop NATO December 8, 2010 NATO Develops Plans For Military Confrontation With Russia In Baltic Rick Rozoff This week plans for U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization military intervention in the Baltic Sea region gained attention after information from American State Department cables released ...
  • U.S. And NATO Allies Escalate Military Buildup Aga ...
    Stop NATO December 6, 2010 U.S. And NATO Allies Escalate Military Buildup Against Iran Rick Rozoff The new Strategic Concept adopted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its summit in Lisbon, Portugal on November 19-20 reiterated the U.S.-led military bloc’s determination to expand military ...
  • North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military ...
    Stop NATO December 3, 2010 North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military Alliance Against China And Russia Rick Rozoff On December 1 the U.S. and its South Korean military ally completed four days of naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea where China claims a 200-mile exclusive economic zone. The U. ...
  • U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan Wa ...
    Stop NATO December 2, 2010 U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan War Rick Rozoff Over 150,000 foreign troops from more than fifty nations will spend another Christmas in Afghanistan. The tenth since the U.S. and Britain invaded the nation on October 7, 2001 and the North Atlantic Treaty Or ...

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Intel Hub

  • A Government by The Fascists for The Fascists
    S. Paul Forrest Activist Post A fascist state exists where a nation begins to allow the control of its government by corporatism, single party political interests, and law enforcement that reaches beyond the normal necessity of such.  There are many other defining characteristics of a fascist condit ...
  • Police Enter Home on Trumped Charges, and Execute ...
    Jason Douglass Infowars.com Police violence during routine domestic visits are on the rise. Elderly citizens have been ‘tazed’ while attending their grandchildren’s quinceaneras and pets have been nonchalantly put down for barking while their masters are savagely beaten for demanding Constitutional ...
  • Dems Pull Fast One With Food-Safety Bill
    By Sarah Foster © 2010 NewsWithViews.com Legislative “Sausage-Making” Brings Food Bill Back to Life WASHINGTON – It didn’t take long for Democrats in the House to figure a way around the constitutional roadblock that halted the advance of S. 510: The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, following its ...
  • The Face Of Courage
    IMVA By Dr. Mark Sircus Just minutes after finishing yesterday’s newsletter I opened up a link sent to me by a friend in England. Open it only when and if you are ready to read one of the most disgusting stories you will ever read. It’s about a young girl named Hollie with Down syndrome [...]
  • FAA Loses Track of 119,000 Planes, Possible Pretex ...
    Editors Note: This is very suspicious. The government is clearly trying to establish a way that terrorists could possibly attack our country. The public outcry against the TSA is so great that the only way they will be able to continue their molesting ways is if there is some sort of terror attack t ...

FRS

  • An Open Call to the “Left Establishment&#822 ...
    [A broad range of activists have issued a call to the mainstream "Left Establishment" which has dutifully shepherded all they can into ongoing support for Obama, and into ongoing de-activation of activism against the imperialist system, wars, and onslaught on oppressed people, working people, immigr ...
  • New Orleans: In split verdict, 3 cops convicted o ...
    In Wake of Glover Verdicts, What’s Next for New Orleans’ Troubled Police Force? by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica December 10, 2010 One of the most striking moments in the federal civil rights prosecutions arising from the death of Henry Glover came when Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann, a police officer lauded in ...
  • India: 150 Political Prisoners Start Indefinite Hu ...
    COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, New Delhi 10/12/10 PRESS RELEASE On the Occasion of International Human Rights Day— In solidarity with the Political Prisoners in Medinipur Central Jail, West Bengal, India who has started their Indefinite Hunger Strike on 10th December! Nearly 150 p ...
  • Srinagar, Kashmir: Protests of Occupation’s ...
    [The Obama administration gives no recognition to the just struggles of the people of Kashmir, and opposes even any consideration of Kashmir as an unresolved international issue. On November 15, this stance was reported:  "US Ambassador Timothy Roemer, commenting on the UN excluding Kashmir from lis ...
  • India arrests Kashmir teacher for exam on unrest
    By AIJAZ HUSSAIN The Associated Press Friday, December 10, 2010 SRINAGAR, India — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir arrested a college lecturer Friday on charges he gave his students an English exam filled with questions attacking India’s crackdown on demonstrations in the disputed region. India c ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • ‘Why I am not writing on Palestine Think Tank anym ...
    Through the fog of deception – By Nahida âWhy I am not writing on Palestine Think Tank anymoreâ PeaceMonger asked ââ¦Nahida, what happened to your article from last year on Palestine Think Tank? â ============================================= In April 2010, after years of association, contribution a ...
  • The Strategy of Recognizing Our Enemies, or Why We ...
    The second category of enemies are those who on the surface would appear to be allies - our esteemed fellow conservationists. Unfortunately, Sea Shepherd is the "Lady of the Night" of the conservation movement. Many of our allies do agree with our objectives in the daytime but they don't want to be ...
  • TJP Liberty Report from Gaza – Ken O’K ...
    Virtually unreported by the western propaganda machine is the almost daily shootings of Palestinians in the so-called “buffer zone”. This land happens to be the best agricultural land in Gaza and in a state of siege in which 80-90% of the population is reliant upon aid to survive, these shootings ar ...
  • Getting shot at by Israelis in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
    Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine. So today we expressed our solidarity by painting messages of support on a wall in Beit Hanoun and demonstrating against the ongoing siege of Gaza. Despite this entire event being completely peaceful on our end, Israelis shot ...
  • My mum interviewed by Salem News
    A lovely story by Salem News in which my mother is interviewed. It is indeed the boundless, unconditional love that she gave to me that is responsible for any good deed I have done in my life. If only every child were given the same, we would have a better world within one generation.� Thank [...]

StillSmallVoice

  • A blue Christmas service
    The Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James of New Haven is hosting a Blue Christmas Service at 7 p.m. on Thursday. You can read more here.
  • What time is it?
    Why, it's time to enjoy another Friday off, that's what time it is! In the meantime, do enjoy the video. And have a agood day.
  • Though it's not official....
    ...Pres. Obama has all but quit smoking. Did you ever smoke? I did, as a child, sitting in the backseat while my parents puffed away in the front seat. It was kind of hard to avoid. I quit when I got big enough to drive my own, smoke-free car. In fact, I never smoked voluntarily. You? Flickr photo
  • It's Chri$tma$ bonu$ time!
    Let me get this straight. By giving more money to titans of business, they'll give me more money? Trickle-down what? And taxing them fairly would make them so angry they'd take their business elsewhere? Yeah. Didn't think so. Forgive me. I'm not a math major. Flickr photo
  • The country's most charitable cities
    Is your city on the list? Sadly, mine isn't. AP photo

Associated Content

  • Elizabeth Smart's Captor Found Guilty of Kidnappin ...
    The jury's rejection of the insanity defense in the Brian Mitchell trial follows a trend in recent years toward favoring retribution over treatment.Contributor: Angie Mohr Published: Dec 10, 2010
  • Riots in London Over Deficit Reduction Tactic Incr ...
    Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla's motorcade was attacked by rioters in London. What began as a peaceful protest against higher education tuition rates that were tripled by Parliament, turned into a full scale riot. America may face similar....Contributor: R. D. Lamont Published: Dec 10, 2010
  • Westboro Baptist Church Conspires to Protest at El ...
    While freedom of speech and expression are constitutional freedoms everyone has, what is the moral or legal standing to slander a public figure at her funeral? Can Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church legally picket Elizabeth Edwards' funeral?Contributor: JC Torpey Published: Dec 10, 2010
  • Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010 ...
    Barbara Walters has chosen General David Petraeus as the most interesting and compelling person of 2010. The choice was revealed last night on her "10 Most Fascinating People of 2010" special. The veteran news personality....Contributor: Hartley Engel Published: Dec 10, 2010
  • Prince Charles Attacked by Student Protesters in L ...
    While en route to a variety show in central London Thursday, the Rolls Royce carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla was attacked by a band of student protesters, reports CBS News. The couple was....Contributor: Hartley Engel Published: Dec 10, 2010

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, December 6-10, 2010
    This week, Doctor Tentacle appears to be planning an invasion of Central America. Once again, our resident artist Baarbarian has summed up five of this week's most outrageous stories in one illustration. As always, if you are the first to correctly identify all of them in the comments section, you ...
  • Video: Smallest Li-Ion Battery Ever Created Swells ...
    Findings could lead to better batteries By building the tiniest functional lithium-ion battery ever, researchers at Sandia National Laboratory have explained why these power sources are so short-lived: their parts engage in an atomic-scale contortion act that leaves them weakened and susceptible to ...
  • FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floate ...
    It’s never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don’t float free. Outside the ISS, they’re always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it’s a two-person spacewalk, oftentimes th ...
  • Making Something From Nothing: Researchers Find Th ...
    It is often said that you can’t get something for nothing, but a handful of scientists from the University of Michigan would beg to differ. Theoretically speaking, they say, you can conjure particles from a vacuum under the right conditions. All you need is an ultra-high-intensity laser, a particle ...
  • Scientists Use Stem Cells To Create Mice With Two ...
    Using stem cell technology, scientists have produced male and female mice from two fathers, a breakthrough that could conceivably allow same-sex couples to have their own genetic children. The multi-generational technique combines genes from the chromosomes of two male mice and uses surrogate mothe ...

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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The escalating covert attacks on Iran
    Summary: Car Bomb With a limited number of options, the Americans may have no realistic alternative to engaging with Iran in a serous tension-reduction dialogue. Direct negotiations are decisively advantageous as they may help the Americans withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan without a loss of fa ...
  • Swedish FM Carl Bildt: Iran sanctions won't work, ...
    Summary: Bildt and Mottaki Bildt disagreed with Clinton’s view, expressed in our exclusive interview with her two days before, that the international sanctions regime had brought Iran back to the table and was thus having an effect on the Iranian leadership’s decision making. “They were at the t ...
  • Iran talks take small step forward
    Summary: There is no reason why US diplomats should interpret the two-day talks as reflecting a setback at all, since it created an opportunity to talk to Iran directly and set the stage for further talks with more concrete agendas. source: Asia Timesread more
  • UAE Wants UN To Lift Iran Sanctions - UAE Foreign ...
    Summary: "We want the Security Council to go back and end the sanctions on Iran, but we want Iran to help in this as well," Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said. source: Wall Street Journal read more
  • US-Iran Talks: A Good Start
    Summary: Although the first two days of talks this week didn’t accomplish much, it’s critically important that the talks are happening, and both Iran and the United States are making positive noises about them. source: The Nation, USAread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Daily Galaxy 'Holiday' Contest -Win a Free $50 ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
  • Sci/Space/Tech Geeks: Earn $5 Today for Joining ID ...
    Earn a $5 sign-up bonus and a chance to win an iPad! Join an influential group of Business Decision Makers/Influencers, IT Professionals, Tech Enthusiasts and Gamers shaping the future of technology. Earn cash for every survey you take, drive the...
  • Space X 'Dragon' Launch Marks New Space Era: 1st P ...
    Space X, a private company, led by a founder of Internet giant PayPal, has launched a spacecraft this morning in a vivid 'Next Era' demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral...
  • 'Weird' Galaxy with a Cold-Quasar Center Discovere ...
    NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a strange, distant galaxy cluster about 8 billion light-years from Earth with a cosmic quasar core that is amazingly cold. This particular quasar is called 3C 186, making it the most distant galaxy cluster...
  • "Trillions of Earths Orbiting Red Dwarfs" - Presen ...
    "There are possibly trillions of Earths orbiting these stars." -Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum. Van Dokkum also said that the red dwarfs they have discovered are over 10 billion years old, which means they've had enough time for complex...

Natural News

  • Obama's Evergreen Revolution a ploy to push GMOs
    (NaturalNews) The Obama Administration is working towards a second "Green Revolution" in agriculture known as the "Evergreen Revolution". This sequel to prior agriculture industrialization efforts in India in the mid-20th century is being heralded by some as the next step in sustainable food product ...
  • Hospitals to begin publicly reporting preventable ...
    (NaturalNews) Millions of preventable infections occur at U.S. hospitals every year, and hundreds of thousands of patients needlessly die or become severely diseased from them. And up until now, hospitals have not been required to disclose this information to the public. But a new government initiat ...
  • Parents can't seem to figure out right medicine do ...
    (NaturalNews) More than 60 percent of all parents give their children the wrong dose of liquid medicines, potentially placing their health at risk, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia, and presented at the International Pharmaceutical Federation in ...
  • US life expectancy falls as failure of conventiona ...
    (NaturalNews) U.S. life expectancy has dropped yet again, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. While overall life expectancy slipped from 77.9 years to 77.8 years, the report uncovered a surge of deaths from ch ...
  • GMO canola contaminates majority of land on organi ...
    (NaturalNews) Just as many in the natural health community have been saying for years, a recent report out of Australia explains that genetically-modified organisms (GMO) are fully capable of spreading to and contaminating nearby non-GMO and organic crop fields. In the first case of its kind in Aust ...

Threat Level

  • Joining Pro-WikiLeaks Attacks Is as Easy as Clicki ...
    In a Web 2.0 twist in the ongoing attempts to punish Visa, Mastercard, Amazon and PayPal for cutting off donations to WikiLeaks, those seeking revenge by turning their computers into a traffic-flooding zombie no longer even have to download software. Instead they can just visit the right webpage and ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing ...
    A Goldman Sachs programmer was found guilty on Friday of stealing high-speed trading software from his former employer. Sergey Aleynikov, 40, was found guilty in the Southern District of New York on one count of stealing trade secrets and one count of transporting stolen property. He is scheduled to ...
  • Pro-WikiLeaks Attacks Sputter After Counterattacks ...
    The attacks by pro-WikiLeaks supporters against companies that cut off services to the secret-spilling website have fallen into disrepair Friday, as the attackers attempt to decide the future of the so-called “Operation Payback.” Much of the organization and communication among the group, which call ...
  • Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad
    DoubleClick, the Google-owned ad technology, has been distributing malware in an online ad served through a number of websites, according to the security researcher who says he discovered the attack. The malware infects users who visit a page where an infected banner ad is displayed. It’s installed ...
  • Copyright Troll Demands Drudge Report Domain Name
    One of the litigation scare tactics employed by copyright troll Righthaven is it routinely demands allegedly infringing sites to forfeit their domain names. But in private, civil copyright litigation, there is no legal basis for such a demand, even if an allegedly infringing website is ultimately fo ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Billionaires, House Dems Spotlight Estate Tax Give ...
    One day before the House Democratic caucus voiced its opposition to President Obama's tax cut deal with Senate Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi focused on the estate tax as adding insult to injury. But Pelosi isn't alone in shining a spotlight on an estate tax proposal that would drain the U.S. Tr ...
  • The Republican War on the States
    For years, American federalism has been characterized by "red state socialism," the one way flow of federal dollars from blue state taxpayers to red state recipients. For example, Sarah Palin's home state of Alaska ranked third in federal tax dollars received per dollar of taxes paid by state resid ...
  • FDR on Pearl Harbor, Taxes and Sacrifice
    It is sadly ironic that President Obama held a Pearl Harbor Day press conference to defend his surrender to Republicans over the extension of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. At a time when the United States is fighting two still-unpaid-for wars, facing staggering budget deficits and struggling to em ...
  • Blanche Lincoln's Revenge
    Perhaps the worst part of President Obama's very bad deal on taxes concerns the estate tax. After all, what Ezra Klein deemed "noxious" is a $7 billion annual giveaway to the heirs of the largest fortunes in America. It is estimated that only 0.11% of estates and just 40 family farms and businesse ...
  • Meet the Winners of the Class War
    Back in 2006, billionaire Warren Buffett lamented, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Now with President Obama's capitulation imminent on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich, average Americans will once again be the big ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • NYT Stokes Fears of Iran
    By hyping claims about North Korean missiles in Iran, the New York Times continues its fear mongering, writes Ray McGovern. December 2, 2010
  • The Right's Power of Media Money
    In recent decades as the Right poured money into media, the Left opted for other strategies that failed, reports Robert Parry. December 2, 2010
  • Gitmo Detainees Given Risky Drug
    Guantanamo Bay prisoners were forced to take an antimalarial drug with risky side effects, say Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye. December 3, 2010
  • Flush Republicans Play Hardball
    Backed by money and media, the Republicans flex their political muscle against weakened Democrats, notes Michael Winship. December 2, 2010
  • A Full Body Scan for the US Empire
    U.S. officials are furious about the WikiLeaks breach of secrecy, but the disclosures seem like fair turnabout to Phil Rockstroh. December 2, 2010

CounterPunch

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Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • The wicked witch west of Fort Worth, Comanche Peak ...
    The planned $15 billion expansion of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant suffered a critical funding setback in Congress this week when cuts in the House-passed version of the federal spending bill eliminated loan guarantees that Dallas-based Luminant have said were vital to the plan’s viability. ...
  • Join us at the 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Par ...
    If you haven’t already pre-registered to celebrate the holidays at the 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Party, do so now.  It is coming up soon and this year it is hosted by 10 great organizations. Fiesta Gardens  (2100 Jesse E. Segovia St., Austin, TX 78702) Thursday, December 16th, 2010 from ...
  • Texas State Climatoligist talks about Texas and Cl ...
    Texas is not immune to the effects of increasing greenhouse gases, according to the state climatologist, John Nielsen-Gammon, of Texas A&M University’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Nielsen-Gammon also says the international science on climate change is fundamentally sound despite challeng ...
  • The EPA’s new Tailoring Rule
    The Environmental Protection Agency issued a 100-page proposal, the “PSD and Title V Permitting Guidance for Greenhouse Gases” for public review and feedback in mid-November, providing two weeks  for responses by a Dec. 1 deadline. Finalized terms will be put in place by Jan. 2, 2011, in accordance ...
  • Melissa Sanchez at Old Settlers Music Festival 200 ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Mellisa enjoys cooking in the rain

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Teenager films "alien" in back yard
    A 16-year-old from Australia has filmed a mysterious creature moving around in his back yard. Alex player claims to have had four encounters with what...
  • Kazakhstan to develop elixir of life
    Kazakhstan's president has urged scientists to concentrate their efforts on finding a cure for ageing. 70-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev said in a stat...
  • Body of gladiator discovered
    The remains of a huge gladiator from 1600 years ago have been discovered by workmen in York. The gladiator would have fought for his life in an amphit...
  • Japanese Venus probe fails to enter orbit
    Japan's Akatsuki probe has failed to enter orbit around Venus and will have to wait 6 years to try again. JAXA have set up a committee to try and work...
  • Cat calls police in middle of the night
    A cat in Swansea was found to be responsible for dialling 999 in the small hours of the morning. The cat's owner Howard Moss was awoken by officers ba...

Grassroots

  • Setting the Standard for Global Resource Rights De ...
    4420078955_43729050f0_b.jpg The United Nations designates December 10 as International Human Rights Day. At Grassroots International, we give special recognition to the efforts of our partners and allies around the world—but for them, it’s jus ...
  • "Miami Rice": The Business of Disaster in Haiti
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. Grassr ...
  • The global forum “For Life, Environmental and Soci ...
    viamarch.jpg By�Cloc/The Via Campesina(Cancún, 5 December 2010) One idea dominated the opening and first working day of the global forum �For Life, Environmental and Social Justice�, organized by La Via Campesina and its allies at their camp i ...
  • New Map Shows Concentration of Factory Farms
    Subheadline:� Food & Water Watch Analysis Finds Livestock on Factory Farms Grew by 20 Percent in 5 Years Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Food & Water Watch (a Grassroots International ...
  • International Solidarity Cools the Planet
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Climate

  • In Cancún, a Roar of Indignation From Bolivia
    Source:� NYT Green �If, from here, we send the Kyoto Protocol to the rubbish bin we are responsible for ecocide and genocide because we�ll be sending many people to their deaths,� he said.
  • Czech Senate Slaps 26% Tax on Solar Energy
    Source:� PV Tech News The Czech Senate has approved a new law, which will add a 26% tax on solar energy production over the next three years, as well as 32% tax on carbon credits awarded to solar companies.
  • Kuwait Offers to Invest €600 Million in French Nuk ...
    Source:� Wall Street Journal French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund has offered to invest ��600 million in French state-controlled nuclear engineering firm Areva for a 4.8% stake in the compa ...
  • Renewable Energy Grant Program Extension Likely
    Source:� AP A large bloc of House and Senate Democrats rallied behind a Treasury Department plan for renewable energy, bolstering the chances of the cash grant program being extended in the tax cut package.
  • Tax Bill To Extend 45-cent Ethanol Credit One Year
    Source:� Reuters A tax-cut bill in the Senate will extend the 45-cent a gallon ethanol tax credit -- the major subsidy for the biofuel -- for one year, said two ethanol industry sources

GreenBiz

  • Target Lays Out First Green Goals: 10% Emissions a ...
    Since adding recycling bins at its stores for the first time earlier this year, Target has finalized a set of company-wide goals covering emissions, water and more.
  • P&G Unveils First North American Zero-Waste Plant
    Procter & Gamble has announced its first zero-waste-to-landfill manufacturing plant in North America in the latest move towards its goal of becoming a zero-waste company. The company has already achieved zero-waste status for eight manufacturing facilities in other regions, including Belgium and ...
  • Target Sets First Emissions and Waste Goals
    Since adding recycling bins at its stores for the first time earlier this year, Target has finalized a set of company-wide goals covering emissions, water and more.
  • The Power of One: Coca-Cola
    Bryan Jacob, energy and climate protection manager for Coca-Cola, is in charge of Coke's global effort to reduce the greenhouse gases that are emitted by the company's 10 million vending machines and coolers.
  • U.S. Government Launches Clean Energy Export Push
    Eight U.S. government agencies have teamed up to assist renewable energy and energy efficiency exports by providing new funding, easy access to resources and other support.

Reuters Global

  • China’s rebalancing act puts consumer to the ...
    China's consumption has been growing. Quite fast, in fact. Yet it still acounts for just a third of GDP, compared with around 60 percent in Europe and about 70 percentin the United States. But that is starting to fundamentally change. A Reuters Special Report by Alan Wheatley, "The Chinese Consumer ...
  • This year’s Nobel winner on the importance of a go ...
    The most important thing that ever happened to newly minted Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa? It wasn’t the news two months ago that he had won the prize for literature, or the first time he ever published a book. It was, he said, learning how to read.
  • Pakistan talks up al Qaeda/Taliban split
    Pakistan is talking up the possibility of a split between the Taliban and al Qaeda as it tries to refocus the debate over Afghanistan into end goals rather than the means of getting there.
  • Does Germany need Europe?
    Jim O'Neill, the new Goldman Sachs Asset Management chairman who is famous for coining the term BRICs, reckons he know why Germany might not be rushing to bail out all the euro zone debt that is under pressure. Europe is not as important to Berlin as it was.
  • Ivory Coast puts Africa’s credibility on the ...
    Ivory Coast's election has put African and U.N. credibility on the line and could raise concerns over whether deals to end other African post-election crises have established a new model for leaders to emerge as the winner from elections even if they lose them.

Booman Tribune

  • Levi, Enovid, and the Death of Marriage
    I like how the National Review wants to make Levi Johnston the poster boy for the decline of marriage among high school educated middle Americans. Why not Bristol? And what exactly is a low-quality marriage? I thought that the problem with mindlessly marrying your high school sweetheart was that ...
  • Clusters and Networks
    David Brooks is an insufferable jackass. I have no use for his designation of 'cluster' and 'network' liberals. But he does come close to approximating the truth with this bit: The big story of the week is that Obama is returning to first principles, re-establishing himself as a network liberal ...
  • Remembering John Lennon
    John Lennon was killed when I was in sixth grade. My Spanish teacher kept a memorial for him up on the chalkboard for the rest of the year. She was cool. What were you doing when you heard John was dead? I feel old. Discuss
  • GOP Good Will is Obama's Strategy?
    In an article in the Washington Post today, one primarily about the contentious split between Senator Chuck Schumer (yeah, that Chuck Schumer, hardly a leading progressive in the Senate) and President Obama regarding the tax deal Obama cut with the Republicans (Schumer hates it, btw) is this interes ...
  • What I See Happening
    My careful reading of this is that the Republicans are open to some small tinkering with the Estate Tax to appease House Democrats but that there won't be much movement from the deal the White House hashed out with Senate Republicans. Personally, I think the fiscally responsible thing to do is ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Overcoming Anxiety in an Anxious Era
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Along with depression, anxiety is a very common reason for people to find a therapist or counselor to work with. A combination of stress and worry, anxiety often prevents a person from relaxing and feeling safe. This underlying tendency can be exacerbated when global ...
  • Access to Care Does Not Guarantee the Care Will Wo ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The new health care bill will expand the number of children who have access to counseling, therapy, and mental and behavioral health care, including treatment for ADHD. But a new report suggests that Medicaid-funded ADHD treatment, though more accessible, has not been ...
  • Winter, Grief and the Dark Night of the Soul
    By Beth S. Patterson, MA, LPC, Grief & Loss Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beth and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile O guiding dark of night! O dark of night more darling than the dawn! O night that can unite A lover and loved one, A lover and loved one moved in unison. -From the ...
  • “Plan” for Your Relationship to Survive and Thrive ...
    By Lori Hollander LCSW-C, BCD Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lori and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Will your relationship with your partner, husband or wife just “endure” through the holidays or will it thrive? I know. You’re thinking, “Are you ser ...
  • Marriage Counseling Success Story
    By Dana Vince, LMHC, Infidelity / Affair Recovery Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Dana and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile This is the first in a series I am starting. The series is going to involve couples stories. Some of them will be success stories, and some of them not. But ea ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Share Your Story To Help Stop Mountaintop Removal ...
    Care2.com (blog) Share Your Story To Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining Care2.com (blog) ... of mountaintop removal mining. The Mountain Heroes series is a chance for all Americans to hear the stories of people who live near mountain top removal ...
  • EPA won't release Spruce Mine alternatives study - ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) EPA won't release Spruce Mine alternatives study Charleston Gazette (blog) And we've also noted the promise of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson (above) that her agency's handling of mountaintop removal issues would be a model of ... and more��
  • Successful and reviled Massey CEO retires in weeks ...
    Kansas City Star Successful and reviled Massey CEO retires in weeks BusinessWeek But environmental activist Larry Gibson, who has long battled Massey and the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, said there was one thing ... Massey CEO Don Blankenship to retire Dec. 30Bloomberg Massey CEO Do ...
  • Ask Umbra's Book Club: Would you blow up a mountai ...
    Ask Umbra's Book Club: Would you blow up a mountain to save a bird species? Grist Magazine Freedom delves into the thorny subject of mountaintop-removal coal mining, and also touches on wind power and natural gas. In case you haven't finished the ... and more��
  • MOTM presents $5500 to App Voices - Boone Mountain ...
    MOTM presents $5500 to App Voices Boone Mountain Times “The money will help us end mountaintop removal coal mining, transition our region towards using more renewable energy and energy efficiency, ...

Memeorandum

  • Bill Clinton Holds Forth on Tax Plan, for Starters ...
    Michael D. Shear / New York Times: Bill Clinton Holds Forth on Tax Plan, for Starters  —  WASHINGTON — They have been foes and they have been, kind of, friends.  And on Friday afternoon, President Obama and former President Bill Clinton walked unexpectedly into the White House briefing room for a ...
  • The White House's case for the tax-cut deal in one ...
    Ezra Klein: The White House's case for the tax-cut deal in one graph  —  They're circulating this around the Hill:  —  It's also worth nothing that those numbers could end up looking a lot better — say, if the payroll-tax cut gets extended next year, which many think likely - or …
  • Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser, Bill Clinton Takes ...
    RealClearPolitics Video Log: Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser, Bill Clinton Takes Control  —  Former President Bill Clinton gave a statement after his meeting with President Obama about his tax compromise with the Republicans.  However, after his statement, Clinton began to call on and take questions ...
  • Navy Sets World Record With Incredible, Sci-Fi Wea ...
    John R. Quain / Fox News: Navy Sets World Record With Incredible, Sci-Fi Weapon  —  U.S. Navy engineers at the Office of Naval Research prepared and test-fired a slug from their rail gun in a 2008 test firing.  On Friday, December 9, the ONR will attempt to break its own record.  —  A theoretical ...
  • Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president ...
    Allahpundit / Hot Air: Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president again  —  The depressing truth: Given the alternative, it really would be great news.  —  I can't do justice to what you're about to see.  The spectacle of the president bugging out of his own press conference to go to a Chri ...

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China Dialogue

  • “There is no alternative to the UN”
    Robert Orr is assistant secretary-general at the United Nations. As Cancún moves into its final hours, he tells Meng Si and Lu Sicheng there is still everything to play for.Robert Orr is assistant secretary-general for policy planning in the executive office of the secretary-general of the United Na ...
  • In Mali, the growing reality
    As climate change takes hold, the entire debate about Africa and aid will shift from one dominated by charity and post-imperial responsibility to one framed primarily around environmental justice, writes Madeleine Bunting.Ten years ago, I ended up on the mud flats of the Nile delta with a water engi ...
  • Seeing the wood
    Climate-change negotiators are right to focus on forests – they offer a path to adaptation as well as carbon storage, Lu Zhi tells Yang Fangyi. Lu Zhi is the founder of China’s Shan Shui Conservation Center and professor of conservation biology at Peking University. In conversation with Yang F ...
  • The multilateral zombie
    Sick but not quite dead, the UN climate process stumbles on. Credible global strategies for reducing emissions must be readied for the moment the politics change, argues Alex Evans.A year on from Copenhagen, things aren’t looking good. Immediately after the 2009 negotiations, some of the more optimi ...
  • Moving past Mexico
    Whether the Cancún climate summit succeeds or founders may not matter, writes Andrew Pendleton. Long-term progress depends on national politics.The last time Cancún played host to a major inter-governmental summit was in 2003. Then, the fifth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation colla ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 5 of the Newest and Craziest Genetically Modified ...
    The future of our global food supply is laden with seeds, and most recently animals, modified for human consumption. You may be surprised to see what's on the horizon.
  • Putting Reproductive Rights and Population Growth ...
    Written by Carmen Barroso for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.This post is published as part of our series in recognition of International Human Rights Day 2010 on Friday, December 10th.  Read more International Human Rights Day 2010 posts ...
  • The Tragic Death of the Aral Sea
    Large swathes of the Aral Sea has ceded to what is now known as Aralkum desert -- one of the most shocking man-made environmental calamities of the 21st century.
  • Is President Obama Suffering from Stockholm Syndro ...
    Two memes are circulating in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s seeming surrender to the Tea Party GOP on a two year extension of Bush the Second’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and a deep cut in inheritance taxes in exchange for a one year continuation of the unemployment insurance needed by ...
  • Senate Tables DREAM Act, Endangered Hunger Striker ...
    Imbued by the House of Representatives vote on the DREAM Act last night, 19-year-old University of Texas student Lucy Martinez watched from her wheelchair as the Senate moved 59-40 today to table their vote. The Senate may now have a week to deliberate, but the debilitated Martinez has passed the pr ...

Threat Level

  • Joining Pro-WikiLeaks Attacks Is as Easy as Clicki ...
    In a Web 2.0 twist in the ongoing attempts to punish Visa, Mastercard, Amazon and PayPal for cutting off donations to WikiLeaks, those seeking revenge by turning their computers into a traffic-flooding zombie no longer even have to download software. Instead they can just visit the right webpage and ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing ...
    A Goldman Sachs programmer was found guilty on Friday of stealing high-speed trading software from his former employer. Sergey Aleynikov, 40, was found guilty in the Southern District of New York on one count of stealing trade secrets and one count of transporting stolen property. He is scheduled to ...
  • Pro-WikiLeaks Attacks Sputter After Counterattacks ...
    The attacks by pro-WikiLeaks supporters against companies that cut off services to the secret-spilling website have fallen into disrepair Friday, as the attackers attempt to decide the future of the so-called “Operation Payback.” Much of the organization and communication among the group, which call ...
  • Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad
    DoubleClick, the Google-owned ad technology, has been distributing malware in an online ad served through a number of websites, according to the security researcher who says he discovered the attack. The malware infects users who visit a page where an infected banner ad is displayed. It’s installed ...
  • Copyright Troll Demands Drudge Report Domain Name
    One of the litigation scare tactics employed by copyright troll Righthaven is it routinely demands allegedly infringing sites to forfeit their domain names. But in private, civil copyright litigation, there is no legal basis for such a demand, even if an allegedly infringing website is ultimately fo ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Special Report: STD fears sparked case against Wik ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) The two Swedish women who accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual misconduct were at first not seeking to bring charges against him. They just wanted to track him down and persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to several people in conta ...
  • Miley Cyrus's image hits a new low. Or, is it high ...
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Home video of singer Miley Cyrus using a bong apparently to smoke the hallucinogenic herb salvia hit the Internet on Friday, capping a year which has seen the teen star throw aside her squeaky clean Disney image.
  • India says 43 militant camps in Pakistan: cables
    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India has told the United States there were 43 militant camps in Pakistan, including 22 in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and that little had been done to permanently shut them down, the latest set of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables showed.
  • UPDATE 1-Jury hears opening salvos in Goldman secr ...
    * Aleynikov had no criminal intent to harm bank -- defense
  • Attorney General Eric Holder defends anti-terroris ...
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday strongly defended undercover sting tactics like those used last month to capture an Oregon man charged with trying to plant a fake bomb at a holiday festival.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #459 (Russia edition)
    Son of CIA double spy strikes deal with FBI. Moscow warns UK of tit-for-tat expulsions. Kim Philby honored by plaque at Moscow FSB HQ. Continue reading →
  • Even more underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    It appears increasingly likely that Sweden will extradite Julian Assange to the United States, where the WikiLeaks founder will face espionage charges. But the WikiLeaks revelations keep coming, although not all of them receive the worldwide media attention that they deserve. Take for instance the d ...
  • News you may have missed #458
    More arrests of alleged Russian agents in Georgia. Iran defector says Tehran hosted N. Korean techs. Spy scandal MP helped second Russian woman stay in UK. Continue reading →
  • Some spy news in the shadow of WikiLeaks’ re ...
    The WikiLeaks revelations continue, and so does the global news storm concerning the whistleblower site. Obviously, the news value of the WikiLeaks disclosures is unquestionable. However, there are notable intelligence-related developments taking place outside the now-familiarWikiLeaks context. Con ...
  • FBI allegedly looking for Russian spy inside NSA
    American counterintelligence investigators are allegedly trying to uncover at least one Russian-handled double agent operating inside the US National Security Agency (NSA), according to information published on Wednesday. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Updating Mohamed Harkat's Persecution
    Updating Mohamed Harkat's Persecution - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article explained. Like in America, Canada is waging war on Islam, Mohamed Harkat one of many victims used for political advantage to incite fear and mask Ottawa's support for US imperialism and war on terror, a bogus one affectin ...
  • The Dictatorship of America's Aristocracy
    The Dictatorship of America's Aristocracy - by Stephen Lendman Obama's capitulation to Republicans on Bush era tax cuts and other lavish benefit extensions to wealthy Americans earning over $250,000 annually is the latest example of American Aristocracy's power over Congress, the courts, and preside ...
  • AUDIO: Peter B. Collins Show: Two Powerful Anti-Wa ...
    News and Politics from the Left Coast by Peter B. Collins on December 10, 2010  PBC podcast 200 [1:25:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Activist/author David Swanson returns to talk about his latest book, War Is a Lie and Rev. Susan B. Thistlethwaite on her new book, Dreaming of Eden ...
  • ON THE DETENTION OF KUWAITI FAYIZ AL-KANDARI
    Fayiz al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti citizen, has been a detainee in Guantanamo since 2002 after being captured by Pakistani forces and sold into US custody. Despite over 400 interrogations, suffering through endless hours of torture, including but not limited to beatings, sleep deprivation, threats and forc ...
  • LET'S GET THE TRUTH OUT ON THE BUSHES
    George W. Bush's new memoir is getting lots of press buzz as he and other family members rehabilitate their reputations. Which is why it's important that people arm themselves with the truth about the Bushes and the damage they have done -- a reality best explained in our three-book set: Lost Histor ...

Grist - News

  • Climate talks make progress as Bolivia demands mor ...
    by Agence France-Presse. CANCUN -- The world's climate negotiators on Thursday inched toward compromise on fighting deforestation and assisting poor nations, even as Bolivia's firebrand leader demanded more aggressive action. With one day left for the U.N.-led talks in Mexico, South African Pres ...
  • Guarded hope at U.N. climate talks
    by Agence France-Presse. CANCUN, Mexico -- Negotiators on climate change were raising their hopes Sunday after signs of modest progress in Mexico, but a dispute over the future of the Kyoto Protocol threatened to derail momentum. The 194-nation talks at the Caribbean resort city of Cancun were ...
  • Cancun climate talks hit bump thanks to Japan and ...
    by Agence France-Presse. CANCUN, Mexico -- World climate talks struck a sour note on their third day Wednesday as Japan was accused of weakening the campaign for a post-2012 treaty by retreating from the landmark Kyoto Protocol. With negotiators laboring to unblock a complex, interlinked two-tr ...
  • Obama extends drilling ban in wake of BP spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to expand oil exploration off U.S. coasts and, in the wake of the BP spill, will extend a deepwater drilling ban in certain areas through 2017, the administration said on Wednesday. The move, announced by Inter ...
  • Worldchanging’s bright green contribution
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Rumors have been floating around for a while, but on Monday the unfortunate fact became public: the sustainability news and advocacy site Worldchanging is shutting down. The 501c3 non-profit will dissolve by the end of the year, though the hope is to preserve its seven-year o ...

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Time - Top Stories

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    Though his win was a victory for the GOP, Kirk's political incentives now require the long-time moderate to run to the left as he begins a six-year effort to hold a traditionally blue seat. But how much slack will Senate Republicans cut him?
  • Amanda Knox's Appeal: A Friendlier Venue This Time ...
    Since Amanda Knox was convicted last year of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher, the tide of public opinion in Italy has turned in her favor. As her appeal trial gets underway, could Italy's change of mind help set her free?
  • Will Your Baby Cost You a Raise?
    The studies show that the wage effect can have a significant impact on when women chose to have children, as well as what professions they pick
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    Halle Berry and Barack Obama and millions like them are the products of one black parent and one white one. And yet it's a conclusion that almost no one ever reaches. Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds

Farming Pathogens

  • Vote Farming Pathogens
    Farming Pathogens post ‘The Alan Greenspan Strain’ is nominated for a 3 Quarks Daily award for political blogging. Public voting is open today until 11:59pm EST. Vote here. The successful nominations out of the round of public voting will be judged by Lewis Lapham, of Harper’s and Lapham’s Quarterly ...
  • Grainmorrah
    I gave the following presentation Friday night at Give & Take, an interactive show and tell happy hour held monthly at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. Both informative and a lot of fun. Even our ancestors, without a smartphone among them, played like kids on the harvest moon. But fair warning: histo ...
  • Help/Harm
    Many of us only reluctantly accept one of life’s toughest lessons. In the course of doing our very best to make a better world–decades all blood, sweat and tears in the face of hideous odds–we may discover ourselves really fouling a few things up. The road to hell, etc., etc. Never realizing our mis ...
  • Virus Dumping
    Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...

Suzie-Q

  • Happy Holidays!
    Ray Charles — Merry Christmas Baby, at The Monastery Of Ettal, Germany, 1979.
  • Blowing Billions on War While American Workers Go ...
    by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe, The Huffington Post,  Dec 5, 2010 When asked by USA Today‘s pollsters last week, sixty-eight percent of Americans said we worry that the cost of the Afghanistan War hurts our ability to fix problems here in the U.S. This week, we learned just how right we were ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian T ...
    By Noam Chomsky, In These Times, Dec 2, 2010 It is hardly a secret that for 35 years the U.S. and Israel have stood virtually alone in opposition to a consensus on a political settlement that is close to universal. Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-m ...
  • War Dominated US Foreign Policy Is Destroying the ...
    Join Peace Vet-Led Protest at White House on December 16th by Kevin Zeese, Dissident Voice,  December 9th, 2010 The White House is in the midst of a strategic review of Afghanistan. This review is coming at a time when the reality is hard to ignore: Afghanistan cannot be won, the cost is escalating ...
  • Government Seizes All of Glenn Beck’s Precious Gol ...
    Government Seizes All of Glenn Beck’s Precious Gold WONKETTE by Riley Waggaman 9:07 am December 9, 2010 An activist California judge legislating from the bench has frozen the assets of Superior Gold Group, one of many NASCAR gold coin dealers who advertise The Solution to Weimar Hyper Inflation on G ...

Solari

  • Printing Money of Not?
    The Daily Show With Jon Stewart The Big Bank Theory Continue reading the article . . .
  • Sting: If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
  • The Era of Mega Banks
    American banking system still backing over $13 trillion in assets with a negative deposit insurance fund. 7,760 banks but 19 banks make up 50 percent of the asset base. The growth of the too big to fail bank is something that is modern to this era.  In the 1990s there were fewer than 40 institutions ...
  • Retirees: Get Ready to Live on $190 a Month
    By Blake Ellis Are you prepared to live on $190 a month when you retire? For most Americans in their 50s, that’s all the personal savings they’ll have to look forward to during retirement, according to Wells Fargo’s annual retirement survey. The survey, which polled nearly 2,000 middle-class America ...
  • Clinton on Transparency
    Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. ~ US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, January 21, 2010

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Second thoughts by 2 major boosters of the Af-Pak ...
    Summary:   Guest author Bernard Finel discusses yet another think-tank report giving prescriptions for the Af-Pak War.  But this one is a surprise, a serious walk-back by one of the powerful institutional advocates of our foreign wars.  Perhaps they’re cutting their losses and gearing up for t ...
  • The insight that must precede reform of America: t ...
    Summary:  The last few weeks have produced news confirming that the Constitution is dead, the still heart of the Republic.  Realistic planning for reform must start with that grim fact or remain pie-in-the-sky fantasy. From the mailbag:  “There is only one peaceful solution to our great crisis, f ...
  • The story of the early 21st century: the future a ...
    Summary:  This is the first in a series looking at the US and global situations.   Here  we look at one of the large processes ending the post-WWII era — the leveraging and deleveraging of the developed nations.  It’s as much a psychological and political process as an economic one.  It’s a ...
  • The latest jobs news, watching the recovery in act ...
    Summary:   Corporate profits are strong.  Spending by the rich is skyrocketing (look at art prices).  The Republican’s top objective is extending the tax cuts for the rich and cutting social security and medicare benefits for everybody else.  So the economy must be doing fine, with excellent jo ...
  • The home-grown aspect of the jihadist menace
    Summary:  Much of our home-grown terrorism results from the government’s careful nurturing, clearly seen in the many cases since 9-11.  It’s yielded a full harvest:  a fearful and tame public.  Here are some of these stories. Domestic jihadist terrorists since 9-11 comes in several forms.  Mo ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • BHP tried to sabotage mining deal: WikiLeaks
    ABC – A WikiLeaks cable has revealed that mining giant BHP Billiton tried to sabotage a $21 billion deal between rival miner Rio Tinto and China’s state-owned aluminium corporation, Chinalco. The cables sent from Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan’s chief of staff to US officials describe how BHP “played ...
  • Report shows level of corruption on the rise in Tu ...
    TODAY’S ZAMAN,-A survey by Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) has revealed that people in Turkey are facing an increasing level of corruption. TI announced the results of its 2010 Global Corruption Barometer in a 29-page report. This survey, in which 91,500 people were interviewed in 86 co ...
  • Iceland exits recession
    Guardian – Decision to force bondholders to pay for banking system’s collapse appears to pay off as economy grows 1.2% in third quarter. Iceland’s decision two years ago to force bondholders to pay for the banking system’s collapse appeared to pay off after official figures showed the country exited ...
  • TV Watching Is Bad for Babies’ Brains
    USNews – Babies who watch TV are more likely to have delayed cognitive development and language at 14 months, especially if they’re watching programs intended for adults and older children. …it’s surprising that TV-watching made a difference at such a tender age. Babies who watched 60 minutes of TV ...
  • Ireland cuts minimum wage, PM’s salary
    AFP â Ireland’s minimum wage and the salary of Prime Minister Brian Cowen were amongst cuts voted through by parliament on Friday in an emergency law that forms part of the budget for the indebted eurozone state. The “financial emergency measures in the public interest” bill, part of the austerity m ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Afghanistan Review – A Show Without any Substance
    A few thoughts on the Obama Administration’s Afghanistan Strategy Review that is currently under way and expected to be publicly released within the month: As already noted in the press, the strategy review will conclude that progress is being made, but more tough months of fighting lay ahead. Â ...
  • Wiki-Developments
    1. Pakistani newspapers have been caught fabricating news stories based on alleged Wikileaks data. Joshua Keating expresses surprise this didn’t happen sooner. 2. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has weighed in on the Wikileaks issue, criticizing the US for putting pressure o ...
  • 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 cere ...
  • Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize
    Tomorrow is the day when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo. (Has it only been one year since Barack Obama received the prize and made his surprising speech? It seems like decades.) Obviously it is deplorable on its own terms that the Chinese government continues to imprison the winner, Liu Xi ...
  • WikiLeaks XVII: Nigerian Extortion Butts Up Agains ...
    A brief, but interesting, cable released by WikiLeaks on Thursday offers some insight into how international pharamaceutical company Pfizer conducts itself in legal business overseas. The embassy dispatch from the Nigerian capital Abuja describes a meeting between US diplomats, two Pfizer lawyers, ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: A Conspicuous Lack of Dog-Whistle ...
    As Jamelle and Brendan Nyhan correctly observe, the president making filibuster reform a major priority would go a long ways towards reconnecting the Professional Left to his administration. The reason is because liberals, unlike conservatives, conspicuously lack dog-whistle politics. If the presid ...
  • The Little Picture: Déjà Vu.
    (Flickr/Brent Danley) Former President Bill Clinton, who today conducted the White House press briefing to voice his support for Obama's tax deal.
  • No One Will Cut the Queen's Budget.
    Across the pond, our special friends in the United Kingdom are facing a snipey debate over budget cuts. This includes increases on student tuition that have sent young folks into the streets, where they attacked a limousine carrying the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall: On Regent Street ...
  • The U.S. Senate Alignment Chart.
    Happy Friday. -- Jamelle Bouie and Adam Serwer
  • Limiting Access to Abortion.
    Via Kay Steiger, the Guttmacher Institute rounds up the ways in which states are curbing access to abortion in advance of the establishment of health-care exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. Many states already restrict the ways in which private insurers can cover abortion, but some states ...

Buzzflash

  • The Rich Get Richer and the Young Go Into Deep Deb ...
    DAVID MASCIOTRA FOR BUZZFLASH The average young American graduates college with $24,000 in debt, according to the Student Debt Project (Link: http://www.projectonstudentdebt.org/). Before Americans in their twenties even have the opportunity to gain independence and fully enter adulthood, they must ...
  • What the Unrich Can Afford for the Holidays: Roadk ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH It's the most... wonderful time... of the year. And the most frantic and anxious and mind numbing and expensive. The rewarding part is my on- going seasonal side job as a lumpy elfin holiday gift consultant, where it is an honor and a privilege to be able to pass along some ...
  • So Much for Left Wing "Solidarity" in South Americ ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH In Oliver Stone's recent documentary South of the Border, leftist regimes in Latin America are depicted rather idealistically.   In country after country, Stone interviews the region's leaders who criticize the United States and present a common anti-imperialist front.  ...
  • Randall Terry's Super Bowl Sunday Super Anti-Abort ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH The extremist anti-abortion activist is hanging out with future Speaker Boehner's staff, criticizing impotent mainstream pro-life groups and urging anti-abortion activists to join him in supporting the airing of a graphic anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl. Randall ...
  • Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytim ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH As the recession grinds on, politicians in most industrial countries have an incentive to make exaggerated claims about the supposed coming economic recovery. Some say the recession is over. Obama is in the group that claims we're on "the road to recovery," while other nat ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • A few facts about asbestos
    Today, medical journal The Lancet has publicly criticised the Canadian government for its attitude towards asbestos, saying that although Canada will not expose its own citizens to asbestos, it will continue exporting the deadly substance to developing nations [Canada accused of hypocrisy, Lancet]. ...
  • What is nature worth?
    Each hour 3 species vanish forever, we’ve lost a fifth of the planet’s coral reefs, almost a third of its mangrove forests, and half of the world’s wetlands. But, how do you count the cost? Perhaps a business perspective is needed. If we considered the natural world as providing products and service ...
  • Searching for scientific abbreviations
    Ambiguous abbreviations and acronyms are annoyances when it comes to text search and data mining. As a writer-editor, I was always taught to spell out the long form (LF) of a short form (SF) at first mention in a document so that the reader would know that when I mentioned EBV I was referring to [.. ...
  • Santa Claus Science
    Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicolas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas. Call him what you will, at this time of year, for children who celebrate everywhere, many questions of a scientific nature arise and parents squirm in their efforts to answer them. Now, Gregory Mone, a contributing editor at Po ...
  • Latest scientific discoveries
    Forget fruit and veg. Lose weight and cut the booze to reduce cancer risk People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease. UK trialling testing sugar-coated salt on roads Although they’ve been usi ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Equality California Disappointed with Failed U.S. ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2010Equality California (EQCA)Today in a 57-40 vote, the U.S. Senate voted against a motion to proceed to debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a provision to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the discriminatory federal policy that prevents ...
  • Senate Republicans Block Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Rep ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2010People For the American Way (PFAW)In a procedural vote today, the Senate failed to end a filibuster on the Defense Authorization bill, which included a repeal of the discriminatory Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has asked for Con ...
  • U.S. PIRG Statement on the Redirection of High-Spe ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2010US PIRGStatement of U.S. PIRG Senior Tax and Budget Analyst Phineas Baxandall on the U.S. Department of Transportation's redirection of high-speed rail funds from Wisconsin and Ohio, where new governors have indicated they will not use the finds. The Departme ...
  • CCR GTMO Attorneys Call Government Recidivism Clai ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2010Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantanamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal cases and resettlement efforts, issued the following statement: ...
  • Day 4: Another DREAM Shattered by Filibuster Abuse ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2010Common CauseToday's Senate inaction on the DREAM Act is another death-by-filibuster, permitting senators to keep their heads in the sand on one of our thorniest national challenges: what to do about millions of young men and women, foreign-born but living in ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Jury for Tacoma Trident Peace Activists Still Out
    by Bill QuigleyThe federal criminal trial of five veteran peace activists facing several charges was recessed until Monday after their jury announced late Friday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on one of the counts. The Tacoma Washington trial has been going on since Tuesday. The fiv ...
  • President NAFTA Backs President Shafta
    by Jeff CohenIt was a stunning spectacle yesterday when former President Clinton took the podium from President Obama in the White House briefing room to help shove the Obama-GOP tax deal down the throats of Democratic activists and Congress members. It was a fitting spectacle too (carried liv ...
  • The Long March: Steps Toward a Global Uprising
    by Ronnie CumminsOn a beautiful sunny morning, marching down the Avenida Tulúm, our five thousand strong brigade of climate change activists, armed with colorful flags, hats, signs, and banners, supercharged with lively music and drummers, are making our voices heard: "Cambie el sistema, no el clima ...
  • Whose Side Is the White House On?
    by James K. GalbraithIn a speech given on November 20, 2010 at the ADA Education Fund’s Post-election Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School, Galbraith asks who Obama is really working for, and demands that progressives seek leaders who will fight the good fight. read more
  • A Flood of Drone Strikes
    by Fatima BhuttoWith governments like Pakistan’s current regime, who needs the strong arm of the CIA? According to Bob Woodward's latest bestseller Obama’s Wars, when Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, an obsequiously dangerous man, was notified that the CIA would be launching missile strikes fr ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Top Analysts Blame American Intransigence In Not T ...
    By Steve Hynd It has long been the conventional wisdom among D.C.'s "very serious people" that the U.S. must use military force to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table "on our terms". It's the whole point of NATO's Lisbon agreement and of Petraeus' strategy in Afghanistan since it's perhaps th ...
  • The partisan tribal war and the war in Afghanistan
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I have said here more than once the circus in Washington DC is not about ideology but is tribal warfare. Juan Cole takes a look at why the conflict in Afghanistan no longer appears to be news. So here’s the reason the whole bloody Afghanistan war is off the radar: it isn ...
  • For Afghanistan, A Wind Of Change From Washington
    A Guest Post by Keith Boyea The Washington political winds have changed, but unless you closely observed such things, you may not have felt the breeze. Yesterday, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a well-connected Washington DC think tank, released a report on Afghanistan titled, Respon ...
  • Bad Hippies! No December Afghanistan Review For Yo ...
    By Steve Hynd Karl Eikenberry is the latest administration official to tell us that the thorough review of progress that Obama promised the nation a year ago when he ordered the Afghan surge will instead be just a rubberstamp of "staying the course" for another Friedman Unit. I won't prejudge the De ...
  • Subliminal Messaging On Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd A report last week by veteran Af/Pak analyst Ahmed Rashid, nicely timed for the Lisbon summit at which NATO rolled out its "aspirational" date of 2014 for an Afghan transition, says that Afghan president Hamid Karzai has never been so anti-Western and anti-American in his views. In an ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • SENATE PASSES WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION ENHANCEMENT ...
    POGO just received word that the Senate has passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2010 (S. 372) by unanimous consent. The passage of S. 372 in the Senate follows a decade-long struggle to strengthen whistleblower protections for federal employees....
  • Federal Procurement Update: A Meeting of the Contr ...
    This morning OFPP Administrator Daniel Gordon and George Washington University Professor Steven Schooner spoke at a contracting meeting entitled “Federal Procurement Update.” Moderator Gail Bassin of JBS International presided. I attend many such conferences and meetings to learn about the...
  • Are No Child Left Behind-Funded Tutors Ripping Off ...
    Several studies of the No Child Left Behind Act’s performance in raising student achievement through federally-funded “supplemental education services” (SES)—i.e. tutoring—for low-performing schools have shown that it is having a negligible effect. “Third-party evaluations of these services are find ...
  • MSPB Report Highlights Whistleblower Challenges
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) released a new report this week entitled "Whistleblower Protections for Federal Employees." According to the Board's press release, "this is the first MSPB report to address in such depth the legal challenges that whistleblowers...
  • Federal Service Contract Inventories: A Failure to ...
    The federal government continues to operate on the fictitious and unsubstantiated assumption that all federal services performed by contractors are provided as a cost-savings to the American taxpayer. POGO conducted an empirical study, soon to be published, that puts the...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homelessnes ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe and st ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling the Tr ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have whil ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadians “may underestimate security threat”
    The Harper government is worried about Canadian opposition to its plans to more closely integrate Canadian and U.S. border security efforts (Steven Chase, “Ottawa crafts plan to ward off criticism over U.S. border deal,” Globe and Mail, 10 December 2010). As the Globe and Mail reports, the Departmen ...
  • Commons supports nuclear disarmament
    The House of Commons gave its unanimous consent to a motion in support of nuclear disarmament on December 7th. New Democrat MP Bill Siksay moved: That the House of Commons: (a) recognize the danger posed by the proliferation of nuclear materials and technology to peace and security; (b) endorse the ...
  • “No one believes in Afghanistan any more”
    European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told the United States in 2009 that “no one [in the EU] believes in Afghanistan any more,” according to a U.S. account of the meeting leaked by WikiLeaks (“‘No one believes in Afghanistan any more:’ EU leader in WikiLeaks cable,” Globe and Mail, 5 December ...
  • WikiLeaks: France went to bat for Omar Khadr
    U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveal that France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, asked the U.S. to consider releasing Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Kouchner, who played a founding role in the international humanitarian NGO Médecins sans frontières, personally ...
  • Political attacks
    We are under attack from the Harper Conservatives. Please make your contribution now to help us stop Harper’s plans to spend $16 billion on the F-35 stealth fighters.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Living With Kevin: Day Two
    This morning I arose to aroma of eggs cooking on the stove and toasted organic cheese in the broiler. I came out of my room to Kevin creating a meal for champions! It was a meal full of protein, fiber, carbs and dairy. Everything you need to start a day off right. Then we went to [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-7-10
    Today, Kevin reveals why the constitution doesn’t matter anymore and how you can help crush the tyranny once and for all! Plus, find out how you could go on a cruise to the Bahamas FREE and win $500 today JUST by listening to THIS show!! Self Help: Eat The Good Stuff The Safe Way To Lose Weight Get ...
  • Playboy Playmate Feels Overexposed After TSA Scan
    December 7th, 2010 AOL News By: David Moye A former “Baywatch” beauty is feeling overexposed after going through what she says was a humiliating body scan by Transportation Security Administration agents at Los Angeles International Airport. Donna D’Errico, who was the Playboy Playmate in September ...
  • Good Nutrition Can Save Your Sight
    December 7th, 2010 Natural News By: James Schreiber Healthy eating can reduce not only health care costs, but also the deterioration of the quality of your eyesight for years to come. A 2009 study published in Ophthalmology has revealed that a combination of a low glycemic index diet with nutrients ...
  • Natural Ways to Clear Up Acne
    December 7th, 2010 Natural News By: Danna Norek Acne is a problem that doesn’t just affect teenagers, but also affects millions of adults as well. Drugs used to be the preferred method to clear up acne, but there are many natural methods that work very well. Natural methods are preferred, since the ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.

War in Context

  • The age of political apathy is ending
    “Off with their heads,” shouted demonstrators crowding round the Rolls Royce carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to a West End theater last night. Even if he didn’t fear for his life, Britain’s heir to the throne was reminded of the fate of his namesake, Charles I, last time Britons violent ...
  • Case against Assange begins to unravel
    As much as the mainstream media has willingly promoted the narrative of Julian Assange as a bad-boy rock-star type figure who has innocent groupies throwing themselves at his feet, the fact is, a rebellious enterprise such as WikiLeaks naturally attracts individuals who themselves have a rebellious ...
  • A cyber shot heard round the world
    When the stalwart pillar of the establishment, the New York Times, publishes a serious report on Anonymous, it’s fitting to conclude — as does John Perry Barlow from the Electronic Frontier Foundation– that the group has indeed fired a “shot heard round the world.” They got their start years ago as ...
  • From Judith Miller to Julian Assange
    Jay Rozen says: “Our press has never come to terms with the ways in which it got itself on the wrong side of secrecy as the national security state swelled in size after September 11th.” Noting that the New York Times did eventually look back at its own role in the build-up to the war in [...]
  • Iranians want nuclear arms, US survey finds
    Agence France Presse reports: Many Iranians are worried about international nuclear sanctions but also want the country to have atomic weapons, according to a survey by a US institute revealed Wednesday. The poll, carried out by Charney Research for the International Peace Institute, a New York-ba ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Which way to the feedback?
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is an interesting new study by Lauer et al. entitled “The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern PacificâA Regional Model Study” [hereinafter Lauer10]. Anthony Watts has discussed some … Continue reading →
  • OSU’s Dr. Lonnie Thompson pushes gloom and d ...
    This is an OSU press release, timed to appear in Eurekalert for Cancun’s COP16 on December 8th, and reposted here verbatim, including the all caps headline. Even though the “melting on Kilimanjaro due to global warming” has been fully debunked … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged ...
    Now with Escherisms! Josh from Cartoons by Josh writes: I thoroughly enjoyed all the helpful comments on both your blogs about Kev’s  4 legged climate table. I have tried to put a few of them in… the result was of … Continue reading →
  • Quick, somebody slap a carbon tax on this new plan ...
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