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Thomas Paine

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Monday, December 13, 2010

13 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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

Independent - London

  • Kosovo premier claims victory in first poll since ...
    Kosovo's prime Minister, Hasim Thaci, claimed victory last night as exit polls put the ruling PDK in the lead in a historic parliamentary election, the first since the unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008.
  • Vatican says leaks do not reflect views of Holy Se ...
    The Vatican described the most recent leaks from US cables yesterday as a matter of "extreme seriousness". The cables from the US embassy at the Vatican describe its leadership as out of touch, and criticise their refusal to allow officials to testify before an Irish commission investigating child a ...
  • New centrist group gives reluctant Mayor Bloomberg ...
    The powerful mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, moved yesterday to extinguish renewed speculation that he could put his hat in the 2012 presidential ring while touting his own vision of ending partisan squabbling in Washington better to govern the country.
  • Vladimir Putin finds his thrill on 'Blueberry Hill ...
    So far in 2010, he's fired a crossbow at a whale from a speedboat, driven across Siberia in a Lada, and flown a plane over a burning forest to douse the flames with water. This weekend, it was time for Vladimir Putin to reveal a more artistic side, taking to the stage at a charity auction to play t ...
  • Spaniards pin their hopes on a ticket to better ti ...
    This could have been the year when 70-year-old Joaquin Rodríguez didn't play the Christmas lottery. It would have been the first time he skipped the world-famous "El Gordo" gamble in 50 years, but stranger things have happened in Spain recently. The left-leaning prime minister turned his back on th ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Lieberman: NYT may have committed crime by printin ...
    Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the New York Times may have committed a crime by publishing classified documents provided by WikiLeaks and called for the Justice Department to investigate.
  • Bank of America Settles In Bid-Rigging Case
    Bank of America will pay $137 million in restitution for its part in a nationwide scheme that included bid rigging and other anti-competitive practices that defrauded state agencies, cities and towns, school districtss and nonprofits in the purchase of municipal bond derivative, Connecticut's at ...
  • Judge denies WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange bail
    A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail on Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after Assange vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
  • E-Mail Has Turned Us Into Lab Rats
    Increasing levels of information overload from computer and smart phone screens cause a “bottleneck” in the brain and prevent any deep thought, according to Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.
  • Military One Step Closer to Battlefield Holograms

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Papua New Guinea - Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - Boug ...
    Date-Time: Monday, December 13, 2010 at 01:14:43 UTC Monday, December 13, 2010 at 11:14:43 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 6.563°S, 155.658°E Depth: 144.8 km (90.0 miles) Region: BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Distances: 40 km (25 miles) SSE of Araw ...
  • Assange in the Grasp of U.S. Empire
    Julian Assange has entered the firm embrace of the U.S. Empire after publishing diplomatic cables that embarrassed the United States and many countries around the world. Great Britain and Sweden are close U.S. allies who have started a Kabuki False Justice Dance that will deliver him to the U.S. war ...
  • Japan to Shift Its Military Strategy Toward Threat ...
    In what would be a sweeping overhaul of its cold war-era defense strategy, Japan is about to release new military guidelines that would reduce its heavy armored and artillery forces pointed northward toward Russia in favor of creating more mobile units that could respond to China's growing presence ...
  • Worldwide demos called in support jailed WikiLeaks ...
    US President Barack Obama on Saturday offered his strongest condemnation yet of WikiLeaks' "deplorable" documents dump, as supporters of Julian Assange called for demonstrations to press for release of the website's founder. In a call to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Obama "expressed ...
  • Skin is no barrier to BPA, study shows
    Finding suggests handling store receipts could be significant source of internal exposure Bisphenol A readily passes through skin, French scientists report. Best known as an estrogen-mimicking constituent of some plastics and resins, BPA is also found in a large share of cash register receipt paper ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dear Westboro Baptist Church:
    Allow me to put this in the only terms that you hateful, homophobic, god-bothering, bible-thumping lunatics could possibly understand. "For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind" Hosea 8:7 And before anyone gets their panties in the bunchiest of bunches, I do not condone for one second w ...
  • Skimming in the quagmire
    Wikileaks via Der Spiegel: "In 2009, the German government transferred €50 million ($66.14 million) to the Afghan Army National Trust Fund. The money from Germany was intended to "improve the operational capabilities and development of the ANA (Afghan National Army)," according to the publicity mate ...
  • Democracy in action . . .
    THE GUARDIAN HAS A REPORT, "WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers" that merits your attention. Next week should be of interest as Anonymous' cohort keeps at it. Can they get enough computers together to rattle Amazon, Visa and MasterCard?Anonymous leaders began dist ...
  • No. I don't think Flanagan was "joking"
    Who hasn't uttered something untoward at some point? Something that, if the words are taken literally, contain an ominous meaning. Balbulican raises a good point. Perhaps Flanagan was speaking in outrageous exaggeration. But, I don't think so. Despite his scramble to retract his statement the foll ...
  • Slave beatings and lynchings to follow ...
    This is jaw-dropping astounding. Unless you are like me and believe that the Tea Party is nothing more than an extension of this. South Carolina is about to celebrate the fact that that state seceded from union with the United States because it was about to have slavery removed from its very slave ...

Media Matters for America

  • "I Now Hope This Deal Fails": Conservatives Divide ...
    In the wake of last week's announcement of a compromise between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans on the extension of the Bush tax cuts, the leaders of the right-wing media has fractured into a camp that supports the deal and a camp that fervently opposes it.Gingrich, Kristol, ...
  • Perkins Falsely Suggests DADT Repeal Lac ...
    In a Washington Times op-ed, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins falsely suggested that repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" lacks support from military officials and the public. In fact, numerous military officials and an overwhelming majority of Americans support repealing Don't Ask, ...
  • War on Facts: Fox & Friends Falsely ...
    On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson interviewed author Brad O'Leary to rebrand Fox & Friends' fake "War on Christmas" campaign as a "War on Christianity." During the segment, on-screen text read, "The War on Religion? Stimulus: No Funds To Religious Facilities"; but in fact, faith-based ...
  • Will Fox Admit Obama Isn't A "Radical Ideologue"?
    Fox News and Fox Business hosts and contributors have repeatedly attacked President Obama as a rigid ideologue who is unwilling to compromise. With their own network now reporting liberal criticism of Obama for reaching a compromise with Republicans over extending the Bush tax cuts, will they now a ...
  • Fox Falsely Claims Child Nutrition  ...
    On�America Live�John Stossel falsely�claimed�that the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act -- which aims to increase access to child nutrition programs and reduce childhood obesity -- will increase the deficit by $4.5 billion. In reality, the bill is deficit neutral.Stossel�Claims�Child Nutrition Bill Wil ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • It's the Political Economy, Stupid
    The title is directed at myself. I maintain that the Obama tax deal is not awful economics. I've become convinced that it is awful politics. Ultimately awful politics dictates catastrophic economic policy. Some progressives used to say Bill Clinton was weak and timid in pursuit of liberal goal ...
  • Tom Friedman to Israeli Government: Suck On This!
    Excellent Friedman column today. It's ostensibly even-handed, telling Israelis and Palestinians that we have better things to do with our depleted financial resources than giving it to them. But, inasmuch we give hardly anything to the Palestinians and Israel is our largest aid recipient, he's on ...
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  • President Obama Gets Leading Proponent of Social S ...
    That could have been the lead of a front page Washington Post news story reporting on a press conference in which former President Bill Clinton touted the budget deal that President Obama negotiated with the Republicans. Remarkably, President Clinton's record on these issues was never mentioned in t ...
  • Hillary At Brookings: At Last, An Even Handed Spee ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at Brookings yesterday. Frankly, there was not much news in the speech. Her main message was that the administration is not giving up on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations although she offered no blueprint for the future. Nonetheless, I liked this speech b ...

TruthOut

  • Spotlight Cancun: Kyoto Protocol Post Mortem
    This week the world stands by as international negotiators in Cancun appear to be writing the post mortem for the Kyoto Protocol. It seems likely that an alternative track first proposed in Copenhagen – the Copenhagen Accord – will replace the top-down U.N. centered approach to climate change that h ...
  • To Hell or Connaught: The "Free Market" Puts Irela ...
    Johnny O'Broderick was my first direct ancestor to emigrate from Ireland to the United States, eventually sending back enough money for his wife, Mary, to book passage and follow him a few years later.read more
  • Tax Cuts
  • Pilot Protests Underscore Passenger Safety
    Several hundred pilots from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) picketed Newark Liberty International airport on November 22 and Houston airport on November 23 with signs reading "Who's Flying Your Plane?" The union also scheduled a picket for December 1 at the Chicago O'Hare hub of the world's ...
  • Were Bush's Iraq Policy Opponents Off Target?
    In his recently published memoir "Decision Points," former president George W. Bush devotes a chapter to defending his deeply controversial Iraq policies. He dismisses the argument that he intended to establish Iraq as part of an imagined American empire or to gain control of the country's oil. Were ...

Planetsave

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

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Axis of Logic

  • WikiLeaks rival emerges - Media Critiques
    The pressure on WikiLeaks is increasing. DN.se reveals that several key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assan ...
  • Latest Israeli bombing plunges Gaza into darkness ...
    The Electronic Intifada, 10 December 2010 Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip's only power plant, plunging the territory -- which already suffers from frequent outages -- into darkness. Media reports said the air st ...
  • Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe mulled pla ...
    Colombian 'military plan for FARC'    Latest US cable revealed by WikiLeaks say former Colombian president mulled sending troops to capture Venezuelan rebels. Latest US cable revealed by WikiLeaks say former Colombian president mulled sending troops to capture Venezuelan rebels ...
  • ALBA and the Promise of Cooperative Development - ...
    Existing international economic institutions and relations operate in ways detrimental to third world development. That is why eight Latin American and Caribbean countries—led by Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia—are working to build the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a regional initiative ...
  • Christmas Story - Mary and Joseph in Palestine 201 ...
    Times were tough for Joseph and Mary.  The real estate bubble crashed.  Unemployment soared among construction workers.  There was no work, not even for a skilled carpenter. The settlements were still being built, financed mostly by Jewish money from America, contributions from Wall Street specul ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Don't ban him; publicize his visit so he will be greeted by lots of those very angry protesters. "(British) Home Secretary Theresa May has said she will be "actively looking at" whether a controversial US pastor should be banned from entering the UK. But Terry Jones, who threatened to burn copies of ...
  • The Race To Full Blown Owellianism
    I hate these glimpses of the really ugly future that's in store for those of us not fortunate enough to have been born filthy rich or amoral and unscrupulous enough to have stolen or exploited our way to riches. Not too sure the UK hasn't taken the lead with this one. �Of course in this country, we' ...
  • Ten Years Ago: Bush v. Gore
    December 12, 2000. We were in the car, somewhere in Missouri, when we heard the news on the radio. The old media coverage was pathetically bad. Before we had easy access to blogging we really only had bumper stickers for our own unrestricted public sarcasm. Stevens, J., dissenting SUPREME COURT OF ...
  • Wall Street's Major Competition?
    Money laundering scandal rocks Vatican Bank After their exposure as a worldwide pedophilia ring, you just had to wonder what else this gang was into. �Looks like the Wall Street banksters may have some real competition in the race to own everything in the fricking world these days. �At least a Vampi ...
  • Because Punishing the Unemployed Isn't Enough
    Keep in mind that this egregious cruelty is being proposed by President Obama's former budget director. Anybody still have doubts about what Obama has in mind for Social Security? From Digby, staying on top of the plutocrats: Peter Orszag really has it in for the social security program. We already ...

Care 2

  • Julian Assange, freedom of the press, and open gov ...
    One of the world�s greatest champions of free speech, free press, and open government has been arrested for unperverted perversion on behalf of a country whose citizens ironically have a reputation for libidinous behavior and cultural liberation. Maybe Submitted by John Cause to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • NY Becomes First State to Impose a Moratorium on H ...
    Today, New York became the first state to stand up to big oil and gas by imposing a formal moratorium on any new drilling using the controversial technology of high volume hydraulic fracturing - or "fracking" - prohibiting it from proceeding in the stateSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note ...
  • Tell state officials to approve the nation's first ...
    On December 16th, the California Air Resources Board will vote on the proposed landmark cap-and-trade program to reduce global warming pollution. Urge the members of the California Air Resources Board, before the Dec. 15 deadline, to strengthen andSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Protection of Children's Rights ! PLEASE TAKE ACTI ...
    This petition aims to increase the realization of the rights of children, particularly those in need of special protection, through capacity building for government and civil society, targeted social services, and meaningful child participation. Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� ...
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ! PLEASE ...
    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the fundamental and international agreement on what human rights are, and so must be known and applied throughout the world.Submitted by Cher C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Christmas Jihad
    Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post. Waiting on a brief on the Stockholm attack. For now, what I have from Stratfor is that it a ...
  • Not Ready for Richard Holbrooke to Go
    From my blog, Washington Note. [NQ Editor's Note: SoS Hillary Clinton has been twice to the hospital, yesterday and today.] ……………………………………………. Richard Holbrooke has been one of my most important touch points in Washington and has been a close friend, adviser, and in recent years — a partner in sorti ...
  • A Sarah Palin Christmas
    Don’t kill the messenger. I’m just reporting what I saw. Last night we hosted a Christmas Party at our house for the nurses who work for my wife. My wife is a nurse manager and has a staff of 67 (the fact that no human being should have to write fitness reports on 67 people [...]
  • It’s the Weekend! * Open Thread
    I just blew a fuse while watching Fox News’s “Fox News Watch.” So here goes. My RANT against the news media: Get a load out of this: Speaking about the coverage of the death of Elizabeth Edwards, the narrator on Fox News’s “Fox News Watch” said this: “the hounding press takes a rare pause and [...]
  • Big Dog to the Rescue
    Do you think Aretha had Bill Clinton in mind way back when she sang this, channeling Barack Obama?

Environmental Graffiti

  • Cadbury Wishes For A Chocolate Christmas
    Christmas is a time for giving – and for the folks at Cadbury it’s apparently been a time for making wishes come true! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Iconic Blondes Created from Chewed Gum
    Bubblegum art is nothing new, unless, like Jason Kronenwald you decide to use the gum as paint, recreating the faces of famous blondes with amazing ingenuity. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • How Long Would It Take for a Deadly Virus to Wipe ...
    The recent AMC production "The Walking Dead" raises the specter of a worldwide viral pandemic in which the world's population is decimated by a killer disease. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Facts About Pearl Harbor: The Worst Day in U.S. ...
    Sixty-nine years ago, on December 7,1941, the Japanese navy carried out an insensate act. Here are 7 facts about this extremely unfortunate day in U.S. history. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The 12 Plankton of Christmas
    A festive look at some amazing microscopic creatures. They come in the shapes of candles, trees, the three wise men - and more! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • CIA Aircraft Shell Companies; FAA notices 119,000 ...
    via Evergreen B747 Supertanker�� : The World�s Fastest, Largest Aerial Firefighting And Multi-Use Application Vehicle Going back to 2005:C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights - New York Times While posing as a private charter outfit - "aircraft rental wi ...
  • New Hong Videos! Including Today's Blizzard People ...
    Adventures today in the Minneapolis blizzard including snowshoes! I posted an uncut snippet I shot at the Pittsburgh G20 with some nice interviews as riot police from Palm Beach County mass up for crackdowns, gassing and overall uselessness. Part of this was used in 'Democracy 101'. Just a few ...
  • Mort Zuckerman, Charter Member of Generation of Sw ...
    I've noticed that the shadiest old men of the Establishment frequently make political arguments that boil down to 'GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS'. For example, the corrupt paleo-reaganite federal judge in Minnesota who tossed the Shepard Road RNC lawsuit said he didn't care about illegal government ...
  • Infowars & Elite Deviance from Archbishop Romero t ...
    “There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nothing hidden that will not be made known. Everything you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight; what you have whispered in locked rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.” – Luke 12:2-3 - (WikiLuke?) Teh Latest f ...
  • Military Contracts December 8 2010
    The Great Deflation hits some sectors moar than others. It looks like Raytheon is getting to overcentralize the damn crypto devices which someday shall FAIL yet again. Unless of course a Raytheon goon sellz the keyz out the backdoor and everyone covers it up. Contracts Announced by The U.S. Departme ...

Daily Censored

  • The Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award Nomi ...
    Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored Announces The Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award Nominations are being accepted for the Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award. These submissions can be published or unpublished articles, or works in progress that express the ideas behind the origi ...
  • Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics ( Levaquin, Cipro, Ave ...
    By John Fratti Quinolones are currently one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antiobiotics. They are very powerful medications used to treat many types of infections such as respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, and sinus infections. The two most commonly prescribed fluoroquinol ...
  • How Can We Tell In What Direction We Are Headed, I ...
    We have all been there at one time or another.  You are watching a TV show, sitting in your favorite chair.  Maybe it was not as exciting as it promised to be.  Inevitably, however, you fall asleep.  Eventually you wake up and an entirely different show is displayed as you attempt to reorient yourse ...
  • Robert Bobb must resign! Detroit Schools
    We Celebrate Our Huge Victory in Court, and Demand that Bobb Resign Now!  Submitted to the December 9th DFT General Membership Meeting  Whereas: 1.      In a huge victory this week for the people of Detroit, most especially our city’s students and teachers, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Wendy Bax ...
  • You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up
    The first bit of disturbing news came as I tuned into NPR this a.m. Now that cholera is actually spreading into the Dominican Republic, somebody found vaccine that they didn’t know they had. “The Pan American Health Organization has discovered far more vaccine is out there than previously thought.” ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

Marler Blog

  • The Raw Milk Beat Goes On: A Look at the Literatur ...
    Introduction Some say raw milk cheeses are being beat-up by US regulators this year. Indeed, if there was a Food Safety Zodiac, 2010 would be the Year of the Cheese (shell eggs a close second). Whatever the underlying explanation, the number of cheese-related illnesses and recalls in 2010 appears ...
  • Think about the egg you are ordering this morning ...
    For anyone that does not think that politics can be front and center in decisions on the safety of our food, order your eggs “sunny side up” and sit down with Lyndsey Layton’s front page story in the Washington Post “Unsafe eggs linked to U.S. failure act” at your local diner this morning. You may ...
  • A Food Safety Fish in a Northwest Puget Sound Pond
    When I was asked by King 5 anchor, Jean Enersen, to talk about food safety history, I never thought she had video of 18 years ago too:
  • New numbers on burden of foodborne illness in the ...
    A few weeks ago I was looking at the 2009 FoodNet data and started thinking about the upcoming release of new numbers on the burden of foodborne illness in the United States.  As you might recall in 1999 Mead and colleagues published estimates of the annual burden of foodborne illness in the U.S. T ...
  • Jasper County Missouri resident dies of E. coli af ...
    John Hacker of the Carthage Press reports that a Jasper County resident died earlier this week from E. coli food contamination and the Jasper County Health Department is investigating other possible cases that might be related to a single family gathering over Thanksgiving weekend. Jasper County He ...

AutoblogGreen

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • Nobel Prize winning Geneticist discovers his ...
    The irony was not lost on Britain’s top scientist, Sir Paul Nurse, who has just become president of the Royal Society.
  • Amelia Earhart's Finger Bone Recovered?
    A tiny bone fragment could provide crucial information about the fate of Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 73 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
  • Stem cells linked to muscular dystrophy
    For years, scientists have tried to understand why children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy experience severe muscle wasting and eventual death. After all, laboratory mice with the same mutation that causes the disease in humans display only a slight weakness. Now research by scientists at the ...
  • New Skintight Astronaut Suit Could Reduce Bon ...
    Researchers at MIT are working on a prototype for a skintight bodysuit that will help astronauts mitigate bone loss while outside earth’s orbit. Made of elastic mesh, the suit applies pressure on the bones, much like what gravity does to landlubbers down here.
  • 'Superscope' yields first glimpse of Double Q ...
    The E-Merlin radio telescope array, recently upgraded with fibre-optic technology, has yielded its first image - of the intriguing Double Quasar.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Royal Lizard Emporium of the Feckless Doom
    By Les Visible It was good to see the Duke and Duchess of Excess, shocked and shaken by the proximity of possibility, which is right up ahead but due to royal myopia, Charles and Chlamydia can’t see shit, otherwise the mirror would have clued them to their pretensions a long time ago. It’s like the ...
  • The Testing of Chaos before the Opening of the Por ...
    By Les Visible The times they are compressing. They are densifying, if I can say that. They are pressing down, grinding in, vibrating wrath upon the centers of resistance within. In my case it is approaching the comical and absurd and we’ll get to that. In other cases it has entered the realm of the ...
  • BUSTED – WIKILEAKS WORKING FOR ISRAEL
    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Despite ...
  • Tensions With India Grow After US Cheers TSA Gropi ...
    by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2010 US State Department officials are cheering tonight after TSA workers in Jackson, Mississippi subjected the Indian Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar to an “enhanced pat-down” on the grounds that she was wearing a sari, traditional Indian garb. Homeland Sec ...
  • Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Homosexual
    Christine Dell’Amore National Geographic News Published December 3, 2010 Male birds that eat mercury-contaminated food show “surprising” homosexual behavior, scientists have found. In a recent experiment in captive white ibises, many of the males exposed to the metal chose other males as mates. Thes ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for Gree ...
    Even if it isn’t growing season where you live, your green thumbed friends and family will love getting these fun gardening gifts this holiday season. We’ve got a whole list of unique eco gifts for watering, planting, tending, harvesting and composting. Better yet, we’ve even included a range of awe ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Win a Way Basics Charlotte Table & Stool ...
    If your kids love hosting get-togethers of their very own, then this colorful Charlotte Table Set is the perfect spot for them to serve up air tea and cookies for their best friends and Teddy. This week we’ve teamed up with Way Basics to give away one of these adorable table sets (worth $140), whic ...
  • COP16: Art in the Climate Change Village in Cancun
    Read the rest of COP16: Art in the Climate Change Village in Cancunhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cancun, Climate Change, climate ...
  • Inhabitat Holiday Gift Guide: Green Gadgets!
    Do you have a gadget geek to shop for on your gift list this year? If you’re struggling with all the tech options out there, take a breath and relax because we’ve compiled an excellent selection of gifts specifically geared towards gadget savvy folks. From super luxe watches carved from sustainab ...
  • Will the Fashion Industry Ever Stop Obsessing Over ...
    If thereâs one trend thatâs held up over the years, fur has definitely been unfaltering â and this winter season is no exception. As many of use settle into the early stages of what’s set to be a series of cold months, fur has been making a major comeback as one of the seasonâs statement [...]

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • Torture and Abuse on the USS Bataan and in Bagram ...
    Cageprisoners has just posted an excerpt from My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban government’s ambassador to Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks, who was seized by the Pakistani authorities a few months later. Handed over to the US authorities, he was one of a number of ...
  • Cageprisoners Discusses the Repatriation of Aafia ...
    Yesterday, Cageprisoners, the British NGO that works to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the “War on Terror,” announced that it had “helped spearhead roundtable talks with senior members of the Pakistan government over the repatriat ...
  • On Human Rights Day, A Call to Release Shaker Aame ...
    Today is the 60th anniversary of Human Rights Day, declared by the United Nations in 1950 to mark the adoption by the UN of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — essentially, the founding document of the human rights movement — on December 10, 1948. To mark the occasion, and, I think, to highl ...
  • On Human Rights Day, Public Figures Call for World ...
    Public figures, intellectuals, former prisoners and human rights activists have today, Friday 10 December, issued a statement calling for an international ban on long-term solitary confinement and prisoner isolation. Supporters of the statement include US academic Noam Chomsky, US author and poet Al ...
  • Heroes and Villains in the Tuition Fees Vote
    In case anyone would like to send congratulations to MPs who bucked the party line in yesterday’s vote on raising tuition fees from £3,290 a year to £9,000 a year and withdrawing all funding from arts, humanities and social sciences — or something less complimentary to the Liberal Democrats respon ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Throwing a Real Tea Party
    Funny or Die pretty much sums up what we are dealing with when we talk about the Tea Party: A slightly misogynist message (Probably a bit NSFW, too) to another aspect of the Tea Party that we have to deal with below... Passed around on Facebook... Composer By:Ben Schmit
  • Tales From The Crypt - Tax Cuts and Bond Markets E ...
    Markets screeched in horror at the mere mention of conservative ideas like tax cuts, a GOP "free market" and glibertarian favorite stump speech talking point that should be laid to rest permanently: For the past several months, we've been told by various Serious People that European governments wer ...
  • Reaganing - Even Liberals will Drink to This!
    For a little levity during this political season, watch the 30 Rock episode titled "Reaganing." If you don't have access via on-demand, check it out: http://www.nbc.com/30-rock/video/reaganing/1255493\ There are tons of laughs, but the jelly bean bit will make any politico crack up! Enjoy...
  • 2010 New Milford Awards - Your Vote Counts!
    Grab a beverage and help us toast another banner year in New Milford history. While we won't be applauding most of the award winners, we can still say "cheers" as we raise our glass to their achievements. Make like Bridgeport: vote early, vote late, no official ballot necessary, and write-in nominat ...
  • rope-a-what?
    Wow, our chattering class sure loves horse races, doesn't it?Even when there's not a pony in sight.Guess what? Richard Blumenthal remains ahead of Linda McMahon! By about the same, comfortable but not Delaware-style oh-my-god-we-can't-possibly-pull-the-lever-for-the-crazy-lady-wide margin as he ha ...

SPL Center

  • Violent IKA Activist Lashes Out Again
    Jarred Hensley is a white supremacist who likes to hurt people. He did prison time for it. And now he’s figured out a way to hurt people and even break a country’s laws without having to do jail time. Along the way, he’s also caused something of an international uproar on the Internet. Hensley is a ...
  • Racist British National Party Relaunches American ...
    A racist organization from Great Britain that once boasted a lively U.S. presence before it was routed eight years ago is back again. The American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP) was once a serious player in white nationalist circles. The group was created in the late 1990s to raise mo ...
  • Religious Right Claims Gay Advocates to Blame for ...
    More than a little rhetorical contortionism is required to follow their logic, but according to several better-known leaders of the religious right, responsibility for the recent wave of suicides of gay teens rests largely with⦠gay-rights activists. The argument goes something like this: Young hom ...
  • Racist Novel Glorifying Assassination of SPLC Staf ...
    It should surprise no one that former hate group leader Kyle Bristow has self-published a white nationalist novel that features the graphic assassination of a character based on a prominent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) figure. After all, Bristow has an ax to grind with the SPLC and first attai ...
  • A Poll of Their Own: Family Research Council Takes ...
    Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council (FRC), was on the attack again today. In a live event broadcast from the FRC political arm’s website, Perkins announced that a new FRC poll had found that almost 63% of “active duty and retired military families oppose overturning the p ...

change: org.

  • Update: Kansas City Mayor Keeping 'Close Eye' on I ...
    “No citizen, especially the elderly and children, should be needlessly threatened or harmed by the figures that are sworn to serve and protect them” -- so says Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser in an email regarding the SWAT raid on the home of JeTuan Jones last month. I reported on the raid last we ...
  • One Million E.U. Citizens Demand a Frankenfood-Fre ...
    If you haven't noticed, we're big believers in the power of petitions here at Change.org. So just imagine our excitement upon learning that more than one million people from the European Union raised their collective voice by signing a petition to demand a moratorium on the introduction of genetical ...
  • Senegalese NGO Taps Power of Peer Pressure To Figh ...
    Over 3,000 people from over 700 villages recently gathered in Kolda, Senegal for one huge party. But they weren't celebrating a holiday. Instead, they were celebrating and cementing their mutual commitment to stop the practices of trafficking young girls and women into forced marriage and female cir ...
  • ASPCA Challenges Shelters to Save More Lives
    The ASPCA issued a friendly challenge to shelters across the country: From August through October 2010, save at least 300 more lives than the same period last year. The shelter who went above and beyond that benchmark and got the most dogs and cats into homes would win $100,000. Last week, the chall ...
  • Who Wants to Turn Brooklyn into a Big Parking Lot?
    What is one of the absolute worst uses of land, environmentally speaking? A surface parking lot. In other words, the type of parking lot you see in front of Wal-Mart—one level, not above or below any buildings. (They're also just plain ugly...can you think of anything uglier than a large, surface pa ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Liu Xiaobo's Words of Peace, Social Change, and Op ...
    Following are highlights of the address made to a court by Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo during his trial for subversion in December 2009. The transcript was due to be read on Friday by Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann at a ceremony in Oslo marking the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu.read more
  • Cold War vs. Modern Day US Propaganda
    Most propaganda images from the Cold War look outdated now, but the idea of embedding a message in Cold War style could be more relevant than ever in propaganda of the modern. With a little hate here and a little fear-mongering there, could the raging positions of mainstream pundit ...
  • UN Rights Boss Concerned at Targeting of WikiLeaks
    GENEVA - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay voiced concern on Thursday at reports of pressure being exerted on private companies to halt financial or Internet services for WikiLeaks.Pillay said that taken together, the measures could be interpreted as an attempt to prevent WikiLeaks ...
  • Obama Lashes Out Amid Calls to Free Assange
    WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his strongest condemnation yet of WikiLeaks, as supporters of Julian Assange demonstrated for his release.In a call to the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the US President ''expressed his regrets for the deplorable action by WikiLeaks'', the White Hou ...
  • Worldwide Clamor for Worker Rights to Organize
    by David Moberg From the prisons of Iran to the ports of California, the cry went out Friday—let workers organize. International Human Rights Day, observed on Dec. 10, increasingly is an occasion to recognize labor rights as a distinctive, critical part of human rights, as recognized in the Uni ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Thaçi claims Kosovo election victory
    Exit poll puts Thaçi's party six percentage points ahead of its main rival, the Democratic League of Kosovo Kosovo's incumbent prime minister last night claimed to be the victor of the first general election since the province declared independence from Serbia in 2008, even though official results h ...
  • UN climate deal binds all nations
    All major economies agree to cut emissions and establish a fund to help nations most vulnerable to climate changeThe UN climate change talks produced a modest deal today that for the first time commits all the major economies to reducing emissions, but not enough to meet their promise of keeping the ...
  • How old is too old for a trapper hat?
    How old is too old for a trapper hat? Do you really need a new Christmas party dress? Email your sartorial dilemmas to ask.hadley@guardian.co.ukI, a normally safe and sensible 46-year-old woman, am finding myself curiously drawn to this season's trapper hat. Should I resist this urge to avoid mutto ...
  • Picasso was just a big show-off
    Picasso's gift of millions of euros' worth of paintings to an electrician may add up to one last tilt at art's windmillThere is something tiresome about Picasso. Jonathan Jones put his finger on it in�a piece in the Guardian last month. "Each work by Picasso is a unique piece of�autobiography," he s ...
  • MI5 offered Finucane files to inquiry
    Leaked dispatches strengthen Finucane family's demands for inquiry into collusion between UFF gunmen and security forcesMI5 has said that it is prepared to hand over sensitive files on one of the most high-profile murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles carried out by loyalist gunmen working wi ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Christie Todd Whitman Cautions Republicans Against ...
    Appearing on Fareed Zakaria GPS this morning, former New Jersey Governor and EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman (R) cautioned Republicans against overreaching in the new Congress, noting that they’re already “misinterpreting this election” by “standing up and saying ‘no’ to everything.” “This i ...
  • Banks Gave Heavily To Scott Brown As He Watered Do ...
    When negotiations over the Dodd-Frank financial reform law reached their final stages, Democrats were desperate to find a few Republican votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. Ultimately, three Republicans senators — Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Susan Collins (R-ME) — s ...
  • The Cancun Compacts: Nations Of World Choose Hope ...
    The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. “Confidence is back,” announced Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon at the conclusion of climate talks in Cancun at 3 am. “Hope has returned.” Restoring hopes crushed by the collapse last year of Cope ...
  • CEOs Receiving Gold-Plated Health Packages As Most ...
    From Gary Strauss at USA Today comes this quite shocking story about how some employers are preserving gold-plated health insurance plans for top CEOs just as millions of workers “face rising health insurance costs and dwindling benefits“: Though millions of workers face rising health insurance cost ...
  • Outgoing Sen. Bennett Says Some Republicans Would ...
    Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pushed a vote to postpone consideration of the DREAM Act, giving the Senate a chance to take up the House version of the bill next week and hopefully pick up a few Republican votes in the meantime. Without the support of at least a handful of Repub ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Open Letter to Jim Judd: Do You Have Fucking Shit ...
    The lack of introspection is breathtaking: Former CSIS director Jim Judd went so far as to complain that judicial rulings and public naiveté were paralyzing his spies – specifically lamenting that Canadians were prone to “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and “paroxysms of moral outrage.” Guarded in publ ...
  • Dear Hillary Clinton: STFU
    Apparently, Ms. Clinton called WikiLeaks' revelation of US diplomatic shenanigans "an attack on the international community." Seriously. The USA spies on the UN Secretary General, launches illegal wars, and somebody exposing their crimes is the "aggressor"? Go back to lying to the 'hard-working whi ...
  • Taxing the Wealthy Part II
    Just a further thought from my earlier post today: If, in this idiotic "war on terror" we have been asked to sacrifice so many rights and freedoms, ... indeed, if so many Canadians believe that protesters willingly renounced their rights and freedoms by showing up the day after the vandalism at the ...
  • Liberal Win in Winnipeg North a Sad Day for Canada
    I'm working on a bigger post about CSIS director Judd's shit-headed comments about Canada's "Alice in Wonderland" mentality about terrorism. But for now, I'd just like to say that unless you were a fan of the explosion of homelessness, and the decline of our public health care system under Chretien ...
  • Tax Corporations, Tax Wealth, Tax the Highest Inco ...
    Here's something your beleaguered working-class blue n' white collar stiffs who voted for Rob Ford might understand. Some people have been making out like bandits for the past couple of decades, and they haven't exactly been doing anything productive for society to earn their keep. Stephen Gordon, ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Senate Passes S.372: A Bad Deal for Whistleblowers
    On December 10, 2010, the Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) by unanimous consent. After a careful review of S. 372, the National Whistleblowers Center, the Federal Ethics Center, and the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition strongly recommend that the bill not ...
  • Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act fails Ho ...
    The Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act included provisions to give workers modern whistleblower protections in mines, and in all workplaces governed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It would fix the terribly weak protections of Section 11(c) of the OSH Act. On Wedn ...
  • MSPB reports on the federal whistleblower predicam ...
    This week, the federal Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) released a report that it had submitted to President Obama last September. The report reviews hurdles federal employees have to jump before they can win a case of whistleblower retaliation. It is called Whistleblower Protections for Federal ...
  • Sen. Dorgan, in farewell speech, remembers Bunny G ...
    Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is retiring this year, after 30 years in Congress. Sen. Dorgan served as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC). In an address on the Senate floor last week, he reviewed the Committee's hearings on contracting waste, fraud and corruption in Iraq and Afgha ...
  • 7th Circuit to appoint counsel for tax whistleblow ...
    In an unusual move, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has decided to appoint a lawyer for Milwaukee tax whistleblower Mike DeGuelle (pictured). Tax.com reports today that  DeGuelle blew the whistle on a prolonged tax cheating scheme by S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. The scheme included ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Dark Helmet's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week. ...
    We're going to try something new for a bit to see how it works. Lots of blogs put up weekly summaries of the posts they want to promote the most, and we've considered doing something like that as well. However, after thinking about it, we decided it might be more fun to have a member of the wider ...
  • Should Superhero Superpowers Be Considered Propert ...
    We've had many, many debates around here over the question of whether or not "intellectual property" is actually property. So it seems like many of you might enjoy this article, sent in by johnjac, where some attorneys with way too much free time on their hands discuss whether or not superpowers pos ...
  • A Look Back: Remember When Camera Phones Were A Du ...
    Earlier this year, I bought both a point-and-shoot camera and a new smartphone. The point-and-shoot is decent, though I had lots of trouble with the manufacturer, who originally sold me a busted camera, and then charged me to fix it (yay). However, I've noticed lately that I'm perfectly happy just ...
  • Netflix's Move From DVDs To Streaming Shows The Ma ...
    We've pointed out many times in the past that exceptions to copyright (such as fair use and the first sale doctrine) may actually be a lot more important than copyright itself in "promoting the progress." For example, we've highlighted CCIA's study that uses the identical methodology used by the en ...
  • Is The CIA Hosting A Wikileaks Mirror?
    Whatis42? points us to an interesting post on Reddit, which is initially just highlighting a Google heatmap showing the locations from which people are searching for the term "wikileaks." Not surprisingly, the hottest spot on the heatmap is the Northern Virginia, Washington DC area. Shocking, I kn ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
  • By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
  • By: FutureEmergency.com
    [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
  • By: Gina
    It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...

treehugger

  • Picture Painting Chimp Earns Fame, But Not Freedom
    Photo: O Globo For most of his 27 years, Jimmy the chimpanzee has been kept under lock and key, allowed only to dream of the world beyond the confines of his enclosure at a small zoo in Rio de Janeiro. With no companion and little to do to pass the time, Jimmy had become understandably depressed ...
  • A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drin ...
    Photo: David de Rothschild Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker shouldn't miss, and are also just plain fun. On ...
  • A Roof of Hot Air Makes a Picnic Pavilion the Perf ...
    Image via Reflex Déco From Dutch designers Overtreders W comes "Het dak dat opgaat in rook," or the "roof that goes up in smoke." It's a fitting name, since this innovative picnic pavilion consists not only of the usual tables and chairs, but also of an inflatable roof, filled with hot air heat ...
  • James Beard Foundation Launches Sustainability Ini ...
    Photo: David Barrie You won't find a chef in this country that doesn't hope that one day they will get the honor of a James Beard Award. It's the Emmys of chefdom and as an avid gastronomical enthusiast you can't help but to look for the award on the wall of your favorite high-end eatery. Most ...
  • Support Safe Cosmetics & Score EWG's Sweet Holiday ...
    Photo: EWG Environmental Working Group's (EWG) Skin Deep Cosmetic Database is my go-to source when researching and reviewing beauty products. They brought us the Toxic Dirty Dozen, the truth about shocking chemicals in popular perfumes, and much, Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

  • Wandering Tumor Cells Predict Poor Outcome
    Women with metastatic breast cancer who have no tumor cells circulating in their blood after the first round of treatment live longer than those who do, French researchers report.Circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, are cells that break off from a tumor and escape into the bloodstream. These cells can ...
  • Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
    Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
  • Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

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

fotoFrontera

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

Center for a Livable FutureDevils Punchbowl Waterfall at Arthurs Pass in ...Image via Wikipedia

  • Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
    Charles Benbrook, PhD, visiting CLF’s offices earlier this week, sat down with CLF staff to discuss a wide variety of topics, including the future promise of organic farming. Following his keynote lecture at the Polly Walker Ecology Fund, the Livablefutureblog asked the Organic Center’s Chief Scient ...
  • Is There a CAFO in Your Neighborhood?
    National consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch (FWW) just released the latest version of its Factory Farm Map, which charts the concentration of factory-farmed animals across the country and their subsequent affect on human health, communities and the environment. As most factory farmer ...
  • CDC responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance testi ...
    The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, confirms that the CDC “feels there is strong scientific evidence of a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans.” Frieden offered the CDC’s position in his response to a lette ...
  • JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
    Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
  • Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
    While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...

Norwegianity

  • Metrodome roof collapses
    Links for the snowbound: Video of the Metrodome roof collapsing under the weight of accumulated snow $1.7 trillion in lost home equity in this most perfect of all perfect banana republics Phelpsians show up for Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral Nixon on drunken Irish, crazy Italians, obnoxious Jews, and in ...
  • It’s official
    Just went to dig the car out and then discovered that the snow is deeper than the clearance on my car. We are officially snowed in. Play it back on a loop and you’ll have the true north version of a winter video. Since taking this mini-movie a semi-tractor trailer has moronically gotten stuc ...
  • Snowbound
    An old cartoon I just found that’s still worth sharing because it’s actually really funny. - Taylor with a clip distilled from Bernie’s eight-hour denunciation of Obama’s latest compromise from hell. I’m denying myself the pleasure of watching it, but I don’t think I’ll slip back into political bond ...
  • The dream lives on
    And the post-political blogging tributes keep rolling in, this latest gift from our resident poet-in-comments memorydejavu who on his recent visit from Alaska left me this: Since I don’t wear suits but have been in jail, I’m guessing the guy in the striped shirt is me, even though I have never ever ...
  • Flog-ola
    I’ll be watching basketball on TV so yeah, I’m a cultural wasteland in the making but for those of you with some art in your heart, here’s two recommended gigs: Big Sky: Time Friday, December 10 · 7:30pm – 10:00pm Location 42nd Ave Station  4171 Lyndale Avenue North Minneapolis, MN Created By Skyso ...

Public News Service

  • Flagstaff Council Votes to Support Uranium Mining ...
    Flagstaff Council Votes to Support Uranium Mining Ban Flagstaff, AZ – A ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon has the support of the Flagstaff City Council. Members voted 6-to-1 this week to support a federal proposal to withdraw a million acres around the national park from mining for the nex ...
  • Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Program ...
    Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Programs Phoenix, AZ – Most states have maintained funding for pre-kindergarten programs despite their budget problems. A new report from the Pew Center on the States says Arizona is an exception, having totally eliminated funding for early childhood progra ...
  • ‘Tis the Season for Medicare Drug Plan Sign- ...
    ‘Tis the Season for Medicare Drug Plan Sign-Up Phoenix, AZ – The deadline for open enrollment for the Medicare “Part D” prescription drug plan is fast approaching. December 31st is the last day to sign up. Comments from State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) counselor Stephanie Langguth (L ...
  • Pioneering Pair of AZ Schools Take "Green" Matters ...
    Pioneering Pair of AZ Schools Take "Green" Matters into Their Own Hands Phoenix, AZ – Hundreds of Arizona K-12 students are taking part in a program called Eco-Schools which involves projects like recycling, planting and energy reduction in schools. The program is free and is being hosted in the Un ...
  • 2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family& ...
    2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family” Phoenix, AZ - Many families looking to adopt children are going overseas to places like Russia to find children. Meanwhile, Arizona has 2,500 children in the foster care system waiting for a “forever family.” Comments from Sarah Melick, adoption specialis ...

Center for Food Safety

  • USDA Aims to Commercialize Genetically Engineered ...
    This week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) led a coalition of farmers, activists, and consumers in a public comment campaign addressing USDA’s latest plan to commercialize illegal GE Roundup Ready Sugar Beets (RRSB).  Last month, USDA released a proposal aimed at commercializing RRSB in spite of in ...
  • Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
    Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...
  • Senate Passes Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food Safety Applauds New Power for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment Seen as a Win for Small, Local Food Producers and Processors, Consumers The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passing of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) in the U.S. Senate.  The bill which passed the Sen ...
  • Public Says No To Transgenic Fish, Demands Mandato ...
    Nearly 400,000 Citizens Send Letters to FDA Demanding Labeling of GE Fish COMMENTS CITE MATERIAL CHANGES, AS WELL AS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS As the comment period on the labeling of a controversial genetically engineered salmon came to a close yesterday, the Center for Food Safety ...
  • USDA Proposing Interim Planting of Illegal, Geneti ...
    In August, a Federal court ruled that USDA’s approval of genetically engineered (GE), “Roundup Ready” sugar beets was unlawful, concluding that USDA had failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the impacts of this crop on farmers and the environment, such as the biological contamination of non-GE c ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindica ...
    Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindicates U.S. Diplomats | FPJ: "The WikiLeaks vs. the US government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret US documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media organizations. Many of us shook our heads with a mixture of disgu ...
  • When Interpol Cares about Sexual Assault - SpeakEa ...
    When Interpol Cares about Sexual Assault - SpeakEasy To come back to earth… It seems we only care about women’s bodies when there’s a political point to be proved. Feminist lawyers had to fight for years for the Criminal Court to take rape in Bosnia and Congo seriously. Feminist journalists wrote fo ...
  • The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks :: www.uru ...
    The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks :: www.uruknet.info :: & [salon.com] Just look at what the U.S. Government and its friends are willing to do and capable of doing to someone who challenges or defies them -- all without any charges being filed or a shred of legal authority. They've blocke ...
  • Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the ...
    Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian 'Never waste a good crisis" used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official re ...
  • Israel’s Jim Crow « Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the ...
    Israel’s Jim Crow « Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Under Jim Crow, the South was a democracy for whites which offered inferior roles and rights to Blacks. The latter’s inferiority was even codified in a founding document of the Republic, which defined a Black slave as equal for ...

Pensieve

  • Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
    This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...
  • President Lobo vs. Free Speech
    President Lobo is threatening to deny naturalized Hondurans their citizenship if they oppose him. He is twisting the Honduran constitution to do this. This is the article he is citing, which on the surface looks reasonable: âARTICLE 32: Foreigners cannot perform in the country international or nat ...
  • Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of Peac ...
    Too often we are desensitized to the brutality of war. We are tempted to think that we couldn’t function if we let the pain of the world into our lives. But we shouldn’t forget that in the midst of the worst pain, there can be hope. This message by a survivor of war in Iraq [...] Related posts:Whe ...
  • Monetary Crisis Video
    With the US printing money and calling it “quantitative easing”, this video is even more ironic. The US is doing precisely what they were condemning the Chinese for last week, and we all lose from it. But at least it’s catchy. Let’s toast some marshmallows as Rome burns. Like the previous one, this ...
  • TSA Patdowns, Animated in Taiwan
    In their now traditional irreverent style, animators in Taiwan’s Next Media Animation explain the completely insane new travel laws. I’m glad that when I go to the US these days, either I drive, or I ride a bus. Related posts:They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha! Immigration Only a Dream Schadenfr ...

Green Times

  • Blue penguins
    There are many places in Australia (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.html) where you can see (blue) penguins in the wild. When you see one, don’t use the flash on your camera! A flash can blind the penguin and make it dangerous for them to go back in the water. Also, try not to dist ...
  • Sea Shepherd
    The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit (directory/categories/Non-profit%20Organisations) organization based in Washinton, United States. They use direct action techniques in international waters to protect sealife. The group uses (sometimes aggresive) actions like ramming and disabl ...
  • Sea Shepherd
    The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit (directory/categories/Non-profit%20Organisations) organization based in Washinton, United States. They use direct action techniques in international waters to protect sealife. The group uses (sometimes aggresive) actions like ramming and disabl ...
  • Richmond Bridge
    Richmond Bridge in Richmond, Tasmania is Australia’s (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.html) oldest nown large stone arch bridge. It was built by convict labour and completed in 1825. On 25 November 2005 the bridge was included in the National Heritage (glossary/categories/wildlife/natu ...
  • Tiger quoll
    The tiger quoll, also known as the spotted quoll, is Australia’s largest carnivorous marsupial. Their habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html) is in the East of Australia – parts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. One of the two subspecies is classified as endangered (wildlife/en ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Stockholm blasts: Police search Bedfordshire prope ...
    ShareThisStockholm blasts: Police search Bedfordshire property 13 Dec 2010 A property in the UK is being searched as part of the investigation into the weekend's bombing in Sweden, in which one man died, police have said. A search warrant was executed at a property in Bedfordshire, under the Terrori ...
  • Assange accuser wrote of need for revenge against ...
    ShareThisAssange accuser wrote of need for revenge against cheating lovers 13 Dec 2010 Julian Assange’s Swedish lawyer has delivered his strongest broadside yet against the prosecution of his client for r-pe and misconduct, telling an English newspaper that the case is based on lies and conscious co ...
  • European Amazon websites down after attack by Wiki ...
    ShareThisEuropean Amazon websites down after attack by WikiLeaks supporters 13 Dec 2010 The European websites of online retailer Amazon.com were knocked out for hours on Sunday night after an apparent attack by WikiLeaks supporters. It is the latest attack in recent days on companies that have stopp ...
  • Sweden suicide bomber: Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly ...
    ShareThisSweden suicide bomber: Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly was living in Britain --'MI5 is now investigating possible links with extremists in Luton, whether the bomber was radicalised at the university and claims that he was helped by an extremist group in Yemen.' [Holy convenience, Batman!] 12 De ...
  • WikiLeaks founder: Pentagon plans prosecution
    ShareThisWikiLeaks founder: Pentagon plans prosecution --Assange makes comments in interview taped before U.K. arrest 12 Dec 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who angered Washington by releasing secret cables, said in a documentary on Sunday he faced prosecution by the United States and was dis ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Wikileaks Conspiracy Quote of the Day
    “This is starting to remind me a little bit of Robert Anton Wilson. Even the squirrels in the trees are in on the conspiracy. What conspiracy? You know, the conspiracy” (from the comments at Chicagoboyz) Wikileaks as US or Israeli psyops. Glenn Beck implicates Sarah Palin in his WikiLeaks conspiracy ...
  • Wanking bankers
    An expat Irishman unloads on the thuggish, greedhead banksters and corruption that cratered his country’s economy. Definitely NSFW!
  • Nanny government says hybrids and EVs needs to mak ...
    Clearly the populace is too dumb to make allowances when their EV (or hybrid running on the electric motor) is silent and thus pedestrians might not hear you coming, so in the future such vehicles will now have noise-adding “features” thanks to our over-protective nannies in Congress. Ptui. I’ve dri ...
  • Proctor & Gamble quits soap opera advertising for ...
    The inventor of soap operas will no longer be advertising on them and instead will be focusing on social media. Why spend huge amounts of money on expensive TV ads that use a shotgun approach to reaching potential product buyers when you can reach them one-on-one at a lower price? If a mega-advertis ...
  • Construction of Europes largest off-shore wind far ...

Coteret

  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...
  • Maariv: How to build another nuclear reactor witho ...
    Like most of the world, Israel is facing a major energy crisis. Our population is growing and per-capita energy consumption is on the rise. Nuclear energy is emerging as the solution favored by the government, as reported in a December 8 2010 Maariv feature [full translation at the bottom of this po ...
  • Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, ...
    Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of clothing to a customer.  The refusal stemmed from the fact that the buyer was “just a Jew.”The Jewish bu ...
  • Yediot: “Security establishment” warns ...
    This appears to be a General Security Service (GSS) leak: The scenario that the security establishment is preparing for is threatening. The scenario envisions the security prisoners launching a hunger strike, setting fire to their cells, trying attack the guards, severing all contact with the prison ...
  • Maariv “exclusive”: Israel and Brazil sign major s ...
    This appears to be a major agreement: Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Security in the Defense Ministry Amir Kain signed the historic agreement for security cooperation between the two countries a few days ago.  Brazil’s intelligence affairs minister signed the agreement on the Brazilian sid ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – December 13
    1636 â The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. 1867 â Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six. 1903 – Great Britain want ...
  • New Japanese defense plan emphasizes threat of Chi ...
    TOKYO – Revising a defense strategy shaped by the Cold War, Japan will soon release a new military plan designed to address China’s increased threat, particularly in waters surrounding southern Japanese islands, according to media reports. Several Japanese newspapers this weekend outlined the main p ...
  • Boy of 12 hauled out of class by police over David ...
    A schoolboy trying to save his youth club was hauled from class after his plan to protest outside David Cameron’s constituency office was spotted – by anti-terror police. In an astonishing over-reaction, 12-year-old Nicky Wishart was warned he faced ARREST. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “The pol ...
  • Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predic ...
    Proof that the NEW WORLD ORDER has been planned by the elite. Robert Welch, Founder of The John Birch Society, predicted today’s problems with uncanny accuracy back in 1958 and prescribed solutions in 1974 that are very similar to Ron Paul’s positions today. This is proof that there are plans in pla ...
  • WikiLeaks cables: Russia ‘was tracking kille ...
    Russia was tracking the assassins of dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned but was warned off by Britain, which said the situation was “under control”, according to claims made in a leaked US diplomatic cable. The secret memo, recording a 2006 meeting between an ex-CIA bureau chi ...

The Air Vent

  • Judith Curry on CO2
    Judith has yet another nice post on CO2 sensitivity.  Her blog has quickly gained celebrity status although I’ve heard complaint that too may ‘skeptics’ are visiting. I’m not sure why a questioner is a bad thing. My guess is that several here could add to the conversation.  It will be interesting ...
  • Cancrap
    Ya can’t stop stupid. Global accord on climate change hailed as breakthrough Some bullet points on the Cancun agreement: - Following the lead of the United States, Canada has pledged to reduce its emissions by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020. Short of massive economic collapse or starting wide ...
  • OLMC 10, What does it mean…
    In the background Andy Revkin is preparing an article on our paper.  He was looking for both Ryan and Nic’s emails and asked Steve McIntyre and I for them.  I put him in contact and then suggested that Ryan and Nic should tell more of our story as there is a bit of spin going [...]
  • The Reviews
    Ryan O’Donnell The most pervasive theme in the âDoing It Ourselvesâ thread was what the reviews said. Rather than respond individually, I thought it would be best [read: less work for me!] to do a post on it. This post will focus on the comments that required changes to the manuscript. With one exce ...
  • Warpspeed – Steig Confirms O’Donnel Re ...
    Real Climate is comprised of the best of the best, after this there can be no question.  Steig, who just recently left a request for a copy of the paper: Back when Ryan O had written comments at RC, I said something like “I encourage you to submit this work for publication.” I’d glad to [...]

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, December 6th, 2010 Square Enix Gifts Facebook Players With Its Iconic Bird in Chocobo’s Crystal Tower Old and New Games Mix on ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Ubisoft, Storm8, Playfish, Kabam, and Playdom. Lead Artist (San F ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Privacy, Community Council, DST, ...
    Congress Censors Privacy Hearing – In a strange incident, Ohio Democrat Rep. Zachary Space asked Columbia University Law School Professor Eben Moglen to censor his remarks during a hearing on online privacy to avoid specific criticism of Facebook. The hearing was for the House Subcommittee on Commer ...
  • Platform Update: OAuth 2.0 Migration, Open Graph T ...
    Facebook has announced updates to several planned migrations and support for video and audio Open Graph tags in its weekly Platform update to the Developer Blog. Also, as of today, the November 2010 Rollup, POST for Canvas, and JSON Encoding Empty Arrays migrations are enabled by default for new app ...
  • Comparison: Cardpool and Plastic Jungle Exchange F ...
    Two companies, Cardpool and Plastic Jungle, are competing to become the preferred way to exchange unwanted gift card for Facebook Credits. This week, both unveiled new functionality that allows users to enter a gift card’s code and have the Credits deposited in their account that same day. There is ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Private reality, media and information manipulati ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the problems of private realities – the fact that "there are people who do occasionally attain power whose private realities are fantasy driven" and the fact that "most individual realities are ... the artificial creations of a manipulated information environment brought ...
  • Farewell to Afghanistan
    Sama Adnan considers the crippling impact of the US intervention in Afghanistan on the American economy and society, highlighting among other things that while President Obama has cut federal salaries in order to save 2.5 billion dollars a year, the US continues to spend 100 billion dollars annually ...
  • Israel’s racist rabbis: wave of edicts urge "Hate ...
    Jonathan Cook views the vile racism disseminated by prominent Israeli rabbis, from edicts prohibiting the renting of homes to gentiles, to justifications for murdering Palestinian babies, to utterances defining non-Jews as talking animals and equating them with donkeys whose sole purpose is to serve ...
  • And what will Santa bring the kiddies of Gaza?
    As Christmas approaches, Stuart Littlewood remembers the besieged and starving people of Gaza – many of whom have to scavenge through rubbish tips for food to survive – forgotten by religious leaders and the "criminals who inflicted ... savagery and torment, and continue to deny them their human rig ...
  • Obama to Netanyahu: "You win"
    Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama's admission that he has given up trying to persuade Israel to freeze illegal settlement building proves that the makers of the USA's Middle East policy "are Israel’s leaders and their lobby in the US … not the man who occupies the Oval Office in the Wh ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • JFKto911.info
    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
    I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...
  • Wikileaks: Governments Apologising In Advance For ...
    Well, it seems that a few politicians have been saying rude things about each other, and now they are really desperate to cover it all up. I don’t know; we expect “our” representatives to be paragons of virtue and then damn Wikileaks spills the beans. Bad Wikileaks! On the other hand, given the shit ...
  • Operation Christmas Child: Christian Fundamentalis ...
    Somewhere in the minds of millions of children there exists a place where Christmas is every day, and gifts appear beneath the eternal tree and at the foot of the magical fireplace whenever their back is turned. In the hearts of millions of children the joy of giving is equally precious as the joy o ...
  • McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
    When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...
  • CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
    CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...
  • Medill Students: Audience Research Should Drive Hy ...
    At the Block By Block "community news summit" in September, operators of locally focused websites came together to share what they knew and learn from their peers. Almost all of them were looking for advice on how to support their sites financially. Here's a start: "Sustaining Hyperlocal News: An A ...
  • MIT Unveils Civic Tools for Communities Affected b ...
    Last Friday, MIT Center for Future Civic Media's director Chris Csikszentmihalyi formally released extrAct, a suite of Internet-based databasing, mapping and communications technologies for use by communities impacted by natural gas development. extrAct is targeted not only at communities and lan ...
  • Innovation Strategy #1: Don't Take 'No' for an Ans ...
    This past week, Tom Grasty and I were invited to the Paley Center as part of "The Next Big Thing: The New News Entrepreneurs." We were asked to present Stroome before an extraordinary audience stuffed with CEOs, COOs and presidents of some of the world's most important media companies. During on ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Arrest Made in Wikileak Attackers Should be Wake-u ...
    News today from Holland indicates that teen-aged boy is now looking at six years in jail after he confessed to cyber attacks against Mastercard and Visa credit card companies over their cancellation of WikiLeaks accounts. The young man was grabbed by the Dutch hi-tech police while he slept in The Ha ...
  • Wikileaks Criminals Reminds One of Wikipedia Crimi ...
    The current mess over Wikileaks, and what appears to be a growing criminal enterprise, complete with cyberwarfare retaliation, brings to mind another Wiki problem in our world--namely, Wikipedia. Does Wikipedia have a policy against those with criminal records manipulating and editing its pages? The ...
  • After the Holocaust - Holocaust Survivors Demand J ...
    In November, the U.S. attorney in New York indicted 17 people for allegedly defrauding programs funded by Germany for Holocaust survivors and administered by the Claims Conference. Six of those charged were Conference employees, including some who supervised these very programs for many years.It is ...
  • The Deaf Edge - Gallaudet University's Identity St ...
    After two protests which rocked Gallaudet University, positive changes are being made but Gallaudet University still does not fully embrace Deaf culture and respect American Sign Language.� The selection of Catherine Murphy as the Director of Public Relations at Gallaudet University recently is anot ...
  • Health Edge - Research Shows that Cleaniless, Rath ...
    Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among adults may negatively influence the immune system, a new University of Michigan School of Public Health study suggests. The paper is titled, “The ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Strangest Antisemite of Them All: The Bizarre ...
    By Barry Rubin No serious thinker has done more harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings were an important inspiration for Adolph Hitler and Nazism. Yet far from being an antisemite, Nietzsche was one of the most pro-Jewish German writers of his time. How can this ...
  • Steven Colbert Discovers the Truth About Egyptian ...
    Last week we covered that authorities in Egypt placed the blame for recent Red Sea shark attacks on the Jews. We're am not talking about the lawyer kind of shark either. An Egyptian official has claimed that a shark that killed one person and left four others injured in Egypt could have been place ...
  • Today's "Progressives" Repeat the Mistakes of Yest ...
    By Barry Rubin History does not simply repeat itself, wrote Karl Marx. It often happens that a phenomenon's first round�is a tragedy; the second round is a farce. So is it today as thousands of young people devote themselves to extreme left-wing causes, including the destruction of their own ...
  • Anti-Semitic Nixon Tapes Released ---But Just Like ...
    The Team of President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger are seen as heroes in the American Jewish community. They are the team who started a military airlift that saved Israel during the Yom Kippur war and went to nuclear alert to intimidate the Soviet Union to stay out of the co ...
  • Obama Knows Best? The U.S. Government is Telling ...
    By Barry Rubin Yes, it is as bad as it seems. When Secretary of State Hilary Clinton protests the fact that the Syrian government lied to her about its missile supplies to Hizballah, she instructed those meeting with the Syrians on their talking points. It is amazing how the Obama Admin ...

The Real Agenda

  • Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex-Nazis
    NYT After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly ...
  • Airport Scanners Waves Tear Apart DNA
    by Terrence Aym While the application of scientific knowledge creates technology, sometimes the technology is later redefined by science. Such is the case with terahertz (THz) radiation, the energy waves that drive the technology of the TSA: back scatter airport scanners. Emerging THz technological ...
  • Zimbabwe Army Intended to Displace Villagers to ge ...
    Wikileaked documents show military planned to uproot as many as 25,000 Suzanne Persard The military’s intentions are outlined in a document  originating from the Harare Embassy detailing the area of conquest as a “government reserve area,” thereby justifying the mass displacement of these villagers. ...
  • Fraudulent Climate Accord Passed in Cancun
    Bolivia rejected the two documents of the deal, saying they amounted to a blank check for developed nations because the commitments set were in documents which had not yet been published. Solon also challenged the validity of the agreement, saying the rules stipulated it could not be passed when on ...
  • Alarmistas do clima propõem esterilização e infant ...
    A superpopulação é um mito. Dados da ONU indicam claramente que a população se estabilizará em 2020 e, em seguida, cairá dramaticamente depois de 2050 de uma forma natural. Como The Economist relatou: "A fertilidade está diminuindo e o número de membros da família está diminuindo, como no Brasil, na ...

Wind Watch

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

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Energy Drink or Sport Drink? How About Neither.
    Nice writeup last week in NY Times about sports drinks, energy drinks, and athletes. Our position is well known by now, 99% of the US population do not engage in athletic activity so intense that they would need a special liquid to recover lost bodily fluids, salts and electrolytes. Basically, it’s ...
  • Draw Everything You Eat
    We came across the Food Illustrator website from the UK a few weeks ago and thought this was a cool idea. Graphic designer David Meldrum has taken upon himself to artistically capture the food he eats every day. As an illustration. For an entire year. Talk about calorie counting to the extreme! Wel ...
  • Mindful Chewing: How To Cut Your Calorie Intake in ...
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Koontz Everyone knows that there are enormous health and dietary benefits to eating more slowly. In this post, I’ll talk about a laughably easy technique you can use to help you cut your eating speed and caloric intake in half – perhaps more. Best [...]
  • New Weight Watchers PointsPlus Program Encourages ...
    Just after Thanksgiving, and right before the December holidays and guilty January, Weight Watchers has introduced a new point system. For the millions who have already memorized the points of their favorite dishes and snacks, this may cause a bit of a headache. But after 13 years with the old syst ...
  • What is Expeller Pressed Oil and Why Does it Matte ...
    Ingredient list aficionados (OK, geeks) like us come across interesting phrases and wordings in product packages. In some cases, the fancy words mask a simple ingredient, trying to create an aura of sophistication or health (100% pure evaporated cane sugar syrup is basically…sugar). But sometimes th ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • The Real Wiki Hero
    by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
  • WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...
  • Put a Little Palast in Your Stocking
    from Greg Palast For Chanukah, Christmas, Hajj 2010, Kwanzaa or whatever lights your candle, why not give the (tax deductible) gift of Truth? My latest disguise - fooled you? This year we have a few suggestions for Holiday gift-giving from the Palast Investigative Fund store: A Palast Gift Ca ...
  • Debt Vultures Shot for ChanukahLiberia is saved bu ...
    by Greg Palast for In These Times We got’m. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday, the financial vultures, the carcass-chewers who were preying on the dirt-poor African nation of Liberia, gave up. Two shadowy vulture funds, which had won a $43 million court judgment against Liberia, agreed to accept ...
  • The Family JewelsA Veteran’s Story
    by Greg Palast In 1930, when my father was an 8-year-old kid in Chicago, he asked his older brother why people were outside in the cold snow in a long line. His brother Harold said, "It's a bread line. They don't have anything to eat. They're hoping for bread." My father ran to his mother's bedro ...

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

  • Meet Author Kim Stagliano for Book Signing in Huds ...
    Thanks to the staff at The Learned Owl bookstore in Hudson, Ohio for hosting this book event. There are few places more charming than Hudson for the holidays, where we lived for six years. Hope to see you there! KIM...
  • AofA Contest! Blinged out Puzzle Piece Tote from B ...
    TAMMIE has won this black tote back from Bling is the New Black! Don't forget that they can make an Age of Autism logo T or tote too, and 10% of proceeds supports us for that design. I met Tanya...
  • Charlie Dyer of KNEWS Interviews Kim Stagliano Aut ...
    Listen to a 20 minute interview on KNEWS' "conversations" with Charlie Dyer. Charlie asked really thoughtful questions, I think you'll enjoy the interview. It's about 20 minutes long. I like phone interviews. No makeup. No wardrobe fuss. I was sitting...
  • Measles in the United Kingdom - The “Wakefield Fac ...
    Here is an exceprt from Dr. Ed Yazbak's "Measles in The UK - The Wakfield Factor." Read the full article at Vaccination News. ...In the UK, the government withdrew the importation license for single vaccines a few months after Dr...
  • Autism Waiver Cuts Spell Catastrophe in Indiana
    Editor's Note: Steven Higgs, who runs the excellent Autism and the Indiana Environment blog, has written a powerful piece on how "impending cuts in the Medicaid Autism Waiver will devastate the lives of Indiana citizens with autism and other disabilities...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Chicago police expand use of Tasers
    Chicago Breaking News – A new report shows that Chicago police used Tasers to subdue nearly 700 offenders over 12 recent months, a dramatic increase that reflects the department’s decision earlier this year to expand its use of the weapons. In a wide-ranging annual report issued today, the Independe ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Do deep ocean temp ...
    GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 29, 1254, 3 PP., 2002 Richard S. Lindzen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Recent papers show that deep ocean temperatures have increased somewhat since 1950, and that the increase is compatible with the predictions of coupled G ...
  • Winter Back Pain Due To Lack Of Vitamin D
    One India – Back pain has grown to be a common problem among people [e]specially with the advent of the IT industry. It has been noticed that in Winter back pains are worse and it grows with the severity of the season. Research has roves [proven] that the cause of winter back pains is the [...]
  • Low vitamin D not linked to semen quality
    Reuters – Vitamin D deficiency is taking blame for a growing list of health problems. Weak sperm, however, may not be one of them, hints new research. “There has been increasing interest in the importance of optimal vitamin D concentrations in recent years, and low vitamin D has been associated with ...
  • One million petition EU to halt GM crop approvals
    Reuters- Campaigners presented a petition of more than a million signatures to the EU executive on Thursday, demanding a halt to approvals of new genetically modified (GM) crops. The petition is seen as a test case for the “European citizen’s initiative,” introduced under the EU’s new constitutional ...



To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Huaneng pulls HK IPO as Cancun hurts China renewables
Reuters Africa
- Dec 13, 2010
- 3 hours ago
By Leonora Walet and Donny Kwok HONG KONG, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Huaneng Renewables Corp, China's No.3 wind company, pulled its up to $1.3 billion initial ...
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India to Achieve Solar Power Target
Wall Street Journal
- Dec 13, 2010
- 3 hours ago
About a tenth of India's 167-gigawatt installed generation capacity is based on renewable sources. A major part of the renewable capacity is wind-based, ...
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US Sen Harkin: Statement on renewable fuels tax credits
IowaPolitics.com (press release)
- Dec 13, 2010
- 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement on the inclusion of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) and the ...
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Iowa Renewable Fuels Group Won't Push Ethanol Mandate
Wallace's Farmer
- Dec 13, 2010
- 7 hours ago
Last year the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association introduced a bill in the Iowa Legislature which would have required that all gasoline sold in Iowa contain ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
$10000 donation to create UMES fund
Delmarva Now
- Dec 12, 2010
- Dec 12, 2010
... of Maryland Eastern Shore graduates are starting The Loretta and Daniel Savoy Fund for Human Ecology to help future students defray tuition bills. ...
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The Boat Company fined for Mist Cove oil spill in Sinclair Inlet
Access Washington
- Dec 10, 2010
- Dec 10, 2010
BELLEVUE – The owner of a 24-passenger cruise ship faces a $15500 Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) fine for an oil spill earlier this year into ...
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Book Review: Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Dec 11, 2010
- Dec 11, 2010
Ecology and Socialism spares no political party or clownish agenda, eviscerating Barack Obama's limp carbon trading market and puncturing Al Gore's vile ...
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Why is ecology important to agriculture? Ask the Plataspids.
Biofortified
- Dec 12, 2010
- 19 hours ago
by Joe Ballenger on 12 December 2010 Before moving to the southern US, I lived in Iowa. If there's one thing Iowa's known for, it's known for our row crops. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Southbound US 169 remains closed due to broken water main
Kansas City Star
- Dec 13, 2010
- 41 minutes ago
Kansas City Water Services department will have a better idea later this morning as to when they will be able to make repairs to a broken water main that ...
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N. Fort Myers boil water notice
Wink News
- Dec 13, 2010
- 30 minutes ago
Lee County Utilities reports a precautionary boil water notice due to a 10” water main break. The following area is affected: The west side of US 41 from ...
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Home Freezes Over After Water Main Break
fox4kc.com
- Dec 13, 2010
- 49 minutes ago
A Kansas City home now looks like an igloo thanks to a water main break. It happened Saturday night near 96th & Wornall. Jasyn Randazzo said water was ...
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State looks for input on future of Roanoke basin
NewsOK.com
- Dec 13, 2010
- 5 hours ago
RALEIGH, NC (AP) — North Carolina officials want the public's input about efforts to plan for future water use in the Roanoke River Basin. ...
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