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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Swaziland/HIV: Community caregivers administer MDR ...
  Hoseya, Swaziland, Dec 15 (IPS)- Ntombikayise Mabelesa (36) is a recovering multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB patient from Hoseya in the southern part of Swaziland.
• MIDEAST: Israel Now Builds Separation Wall With Af ...
  After the separation barrier against Palestinian territories, Israel has begun to build a new wall, this one to keep migrants from Africa out. The new wall is coming up on the Egyptian border, and with Egyptian support.
• BIODIVERSITY: Dying Beneath the Calm Waters
  At first glance, Lake Constance, trapped between Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, looks as peaceful as ever. But under the lake's apparently placid waters, a dramatic change is taking place - one that threatens to obliterate much of local biodiversity.
• Death Penalty Alive and Well in the Gambia
  The appeal by the Gambia's former Chief of Defence against his death sentence for treason is being heard during December. An amendment to the country's drugs and human trafficking laws could mean many more capital cases come before the courts.
• ENERGY: Cleaner Coal Technology Heats Up in Pakist ...
  As a dutiful new bride, Rubina Ikram moved into her in-laws' home lugging a huge dowry that consisted not only of clothes, furniture and linen, but also a wide array of electric appliances – from a DVD player to a washing machine.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

• Video: Bangladesh inferno kills 25, injures over 1 ...
  A fire at a multi-storey garment factory near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has killed 25 people and injured more than 100 others.
• Video: Gunman kills himself at Florida school meet ...
• Norway accused of funding abuse in Burma
  The Norwegian government has been accused of complicity in illegal land seizures, forced labour and killings, by investing national funds in international companies that operate inside Burma on projects where widespread abuses are alleged to have taken place.
• Suicide attacks kill dozens in southeast Iran
  Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in southeastern Iran today, killing dozens of people at a Shiite mourning ceremony, state media reported.
• New general strike brings Greece to a halt
  A new general strike hit Greece today, grounding flights and disrupting hospital and transport services as unions protested against freshly approved labour reforms amid painful austerity and rising unemployment.

Rogue Government.com

• Ireland: Safe Sales Soar as Worried Bank Customers ...
• British Household Debts Reach Record High
• Afghan Ultraviolence: Petraeus Triples Air War
  November is ordinarily the month when the air war in Afghanistan — and really, the whole American-led campaign — ratchets down for the winter. This November, with Gen. David Petraeus in charge of the war effort, things have been different. Radically different.
• Regulators exist to ‘serve the banks,’ next House ...
  Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, the incoming chairman of the House banking committee, suggested Congress and federal regulators should play a subservient role with banks.
• JP Morgan Admits To, Reduces Massive Silver Short ...
  In the latest example that virtually every conspiracy theory is almost always inevitably proven to be fact, the Financial Times reports that JP Morgan, the firm targeted by thousands of “tin foil hat” wearing, conspiratorially-oriented “gold bugs”, has cut back on its US silver futures.

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

• WikiLeaks.org resurrected in US of A
  Whistleblower back in 'land of the free' Wikileaks.org has reappeared in the US of A, after American outfit Dynadot picked up the site's DNS service. On December 3, WikiLeaks' primary URL vanished after its previous DNS provider, the US-based EveryDNS, terminated its service. According to EveryDNS ...
• Email protected by Fourth Amendment, says appeals ...
  Police must obtain a warrant before accessing emails stored by internet service providers, a federal appeals court has ruled in a landmark decision that also struck down part of a 1986 law that allows warrantless interception of some digital data. The unanimous decision (PDF), from a three-judge pa ...
• US Army 'to issue every soldier with a smartphone'
  Any phone you like, trooper: iPhone, Droid, WinPho7 The US Army is working on plans to issue every one of its soldiers with a smartphone - either an iPhone, Android device or perhaps even a "Palm Trio" [sic]. Windows 7 was not mentioned. The Army Times reports on the military smartphone plans, w ...
• UK.gov braces for possible Wikileaks hacklash
  Bail denial for Assange 'may spark DDoS attack' UK government websites are bracing themselves for an attack from Anonymous. Failure to grant Julian Assange bail at a hearing due to take place on Tuesday could be enough to push pro-Wikileaks activists - who have already attacked Mastercard, Amazo ...
• Anonymous turns attack drones against fax machines
  From cyberspace to Office Space Pro-Wikileaks hacktivists have begun targeting the fax machines rather than the websites of firms who have withdrawn services from Wikileaks. As part of the new Leakflood mission, activists have been encouraged to send faxes to Amazon, MasterCard, Moneybookers, PayP ...

The Galloping Beaver

• The tough road is accepting your opposition at the ...
  Have you read James Travers yet? No? Do it now. I don't like coalitions any better than the next person, but if it guarantees anything, it guarantees that my vote actually has more impact. Yeah. And what Montreal Simon said.
• Health update . . .
  SCIENCE DAILY has a report worthy of your attention. It seems that an aspirin a day is rather beneficial for avoiding or minimizing cancers:A daily low dose of aspirin significantly reduces the number of deaths from a whole range of common cancers, an Oxford University study has found.The 20% drop i ...
• Pandora's?
  Sven Ortmann has an interesting site, Defence and Freedom, which he proclaims is "about the defence against external threats and about the defence of civil liberties. Most topics are about the art of war, military history or military technology." Anyway, Sven posted the bon-bon above.
• Now cracks a noble heart.
  Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
• Canada : Battleground for Israel
  Avi Lewis : "There's no wave of anti-Semitism in Canada?"Scott Reid : "No, no, no, no, absolutely not. It's funny I've heard people who have criticized us saying that we think this but there is absolutely no spike in the kinds of anti-Semitic incidents that I think appall us." Con MP Scott Reid is C ...

Media Matters for AmericaImage by Getty Images via @daylife

• Fox Business' Gasparino Clings To Myth That Tax C ...
  In a New York Post column, Fox Business correspondent Charles Gasparino pushed the myth that businesses have "been hoarding cash instead of hiring" because of "the likelihood for higher taxes." In fact, as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has noted, "ncreasing the after-tax income of busin ...
• 20th Century Repeal: Fox News Attacks Es ...
  Continuing their war on the progressive accomplishments of the 20th century, Fox News is now attacking as illegitimate the estate tax, which was established in its current form in 1916. According to the proposed framework agreed to by President Obama and congressional Republicans, the tax would onl ...
• Conservatives Ecstatic Over Health Care Ruling Leg ...
  Conservative media are praising a federal court decision striking down a portion of the Affordable Care Act, with Fox's Peter Johnson Jr. saying people should give the judge's opinion to their children, their church, and their synagogue because "this is the Constitution." However, other federal jud ...
• Limbaugh Repeatedly Calls First Lady "Michelle, My ...
  For years, Rush Limbaugh has referred to first lady Michelle Obama as "Michelle, my�belle." But in recent months, Limbaugh has repeatedly called Obama "Michelle, my butt"�and then acted�as though he misspoke.Limbaugh Frequently Refers To First Lady As "Michelle, My Butt" Limbaugh Attacks "Michelle ...
• Fox Hosts Finally Find A Health Care Ruling To Rep ...
  On December 13, Fox News' evening shows devoted significant time to discussing and at times cheerleading a federal judge's ruling that a portion of the health care reform law is unconstitutional. By contrast, these hosts almost completely ignored two previous rulings upholding the law.Fox Evening H ...

Global Research.ca

• THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• VIDEO: Double Standards: The Nobel Prize and Julia ...
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• A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivat ...
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• Genetically Modified Mosquitos
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• America's "Coercive Diplomacy". Washington Threat ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Holbrooke Not a Bulldozer and Had Six Relationship ...
  There are two themes that seem to find themselves in much of the emerging commentary on the life and impact of Richard Holbrooke. The first is that he was a "bulldozer" and the second that "well, he had a bad relationship with Karzai so couldn't do much with him." This morning in the New Republi ...
• Why America's Two Economies Continue to Drift Apar ...
  America's two economies are getting wider apart. The Big Money economy is booming. According to a new Commerce Department report, third-quarter profits of American businesses rose at an annual record-breaking $1.659 trillion - besting even the boom year of 2006 (in nominal dollars). Profits have ...
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• The Why-Should-I-Get-Out-Of-My-Chair Gap in 2012
  In the 2010 midterm elections Democrats suffered from a so-called "enthusiasm gap." If Dems agree to the tax plan just negotiated by the White House with Republican leaders, they'll face a "why-should-I-get-up-out-of-my-chair" gap that will make 2010's Dem enthusiasm seem like a pep rally by comp ...
• Jeff Goldberg: Aid To Israel Is US "Stimulus Spend ...
  The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg does not like all this talk about cutting aid to Israel or, at least, linking it to compliance with US requests to end the occupation. But, he reminds us, such thinking is wrong because aid to Israel "is a form of stimulus spending, since that $3 billion was going to ...

TruthOut

• "Giant" Holbrooke Failed on Afghan War
  President Barack Obama hailed Richard Holbrooke, who died Monday, as “one of the giants of American foreign policy.” The President’s kudos reflected the Establishment gravitas that Holbrooke, the special envoy overseeing U.S. policies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, had acquired in his long career — fa ...
• Halliburton Offers Nigeria $250 Million in Exchang ...
  Nigerian authorities said Tuesday they may drop bribery and corruption charges against Halliburton and former Vice President Dick Cheney over bribes company executives paid to government officials in Nigeria during Cheney's tenure at the oil services firm in exchange for securing contracts to build ...
• GOP-Dominated Congressional Shutdown Caucus Increa ...
  Some Republicans, like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, look back at the 1995 government shutdown debacle as a cautionary tale of the practical and political costs of shutting down the federal government. Others view it as a how-to guide for the 112th Congress.read more
• Froma Harrop | Madoff's Saddest Victim
  Bernard Madoff went to jail for his stupendous financial con. His eldest son, Mark, has gone to oblivion, having hung himself from a dog leash on the second anniversary of his father's outing as perpetrator of a $20 billion con. read more
• Anonymous Words: An Interview With Operation Payba ...
  PayPal was a tough target. The latest web firm to face Operation Payback DDoS attacks for withholding donations to WikiLeaks was prepared for the well-publicized flood on its server. After hours of blasting PayPal on Friday, the "hacktivists" associated with a loose network called Anonymous, slowed ...

PlanetsaveImage via Wikipedia

• NASA: November 2010 Hottest November on Record, 20 ...
  Yes, yes, it’s winter and it’s getting colder, especially here in Europe where I’m living. But November actually turned out to be the hottest November on record globally, according to the latest data from NASA, and 2010 is looking like it will be the hottest year on record after all, despite the fa ...
• High Speed Trains Pollute Less
  Spain is home to the Alta Velocidad Española train service, which operates high speed trains at up to 300 kilometres per hour on dedicated tracks throughout the country. And according to a new study published in the journal Transportation Research Record these AVE trains consume 29 percent less ener ...
• What Happened in Cancun? 10 Summaries
  I know, Cancun was another roller coaster ride in international climate change negotiation and policy and you’ve probably had a tough time getting a clear picture of what went on there and what the final results are. I’ve been delaying writing a summary piece on the important climate conference for ...
• Phoenix Can Make Positive Steps Forward
  An Arizona State University press release described the words “enormous uncertainty” as being greatly applicable to the current condition of Phoenix’s climate and water supply. Reservoirs have dropped to their lowest ever levels, drought has continuously plagued the state, and the forecasts suggest ...
• Earthquakes Could Hamper Carbon Sequestration
  Carbon sequestration is one of a number of proposed solutions to minimizing the ejection of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and thus mitigating the growing climate change and warming currently taking place. However according to Stanford geophysicist Mark Zoback there is a major point being overlo ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Cooling Off
  The State Water Board rebuffed DWP's effort to water down new cooling policies at plants like i
• Fed aid sought for Chesapeake land conservation
  BALTIMORE (AP) — More federal aid is needed to conserve an additional 2 million acres called f
• Water Quality Purification Through Homa Therapy
  After the origin of life in water everything of living organisms is sustained by water. Not only bio
• Theory of Mood Disorder + Apples
  You are eating an apple. For KT’s sake, an organic apple. An organic apple you dove to catch from a
• CBO Cost Estimate: S. 3874, Reduction of Lead in D ...
  Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12017/s3874.pdf S. 3874 would amend

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The dirty little tax cut Obama signed off on By Je ...
  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com Dece
• Ten Thoughts About Julian Assange and WikiLeaks by ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 15 December, 2010 Imag
• On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvres? by ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 14 Decem
• U.S. Builds Military Alliance With Japan, South Ko ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism D
• Wikileaks: Prelude to a new wave of ‘legal’ repres ...
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 14 December, 2010 This wikileak

Axis of Logic

• Latin America recognizes Palestine - Palestine
  Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay recognize Palestine within 1967 green line armistice boundary. A curious turn of events is taking shape in Latin America, one that demonstrates at least two levels of international change. The leaders of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have stated their recognition of ...
• Airport Welcome Back. Heathrow Terminal 5 - Music ...
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• Status Report on Project: AGUA FOR HAITI - Axis Sp ...
  AGUA FOR HAITI NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS Early this year, Axis of Logic launched AGUA FOR HAITI, a project to send bottled, potable water to the people of Haiti from Venezuela. The project began as a response to their lack water due to the earthquake. We intensified our efforts with the...
• Ozymandias comments on Racism in Europe - Choice R ...
  Ozymandias comments on The resurgence of nationalism in the European Union "Actually, it's more racims that nationalism which is back in Europe. Here in France, "thanks" to Sarkozy and his team of fascist ass-lickers, people are not ashamed anymore of being racist, and there are more & more of ...
• Lawyer for Assange: US has empanelled secret grand ...
  14 December 2010 As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was preparing to appear today before a London court to appeal a judge’s denial of bail, his attorney Mark Stephens warned that Sweden had instigated legal proceedings in order to hand Assange over to the US authorities. Speaking with interv ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Only right wing noise, it seems, is news
  Could it be that the mainstream media's own hostility toward the rise of right wing extremism is actually helping the far right advance its plans to take over the country? That thought occurred to me last summer as I watched the wall-to-wall coverage of Glenn Beck's self-indulgent "Restoring Honor" ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  They're just not that into you, Silvio. "Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has narrowly won a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament by 314 to 311, prompting street protests. In Rome, violent clashes have left 50 police officers and at least 40 protesters injured. The marchers set fire to ca ...
• Kind Of Close To Home For Me
  Probably not of much interest to many but having fought wildland fires for most of my working life it galls me that any government could or would act like this. Instead of Honor Ceremony, Israel Bars Entry to West Bank Firemen Ceremony to honour firefighters cancelled after Israel denies entry permi ...
• "In Defense of Government"
  We have to do this, because Obama won't. Kai Wright at The Nation: ... the debate on Capitol Hill this week is about something more-a larger fight to which Republicans eagerly rise, and from which the president continues to shrink. It's a fight over whether government is a force for good or evil in ...
• A Tautology Rooted in Ideology
  A day after Federal Judge Henry Hudson handed down his ruling that found the individual mandate component of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, he is drawing considerable criticism from all quarters. The criticisms I started reading this morning were enough to get me to read the whole thing, ...

Care 2

• Possible ice volcano spied on giant Saturn moon
  Scientists said Tuesday they have found the best evidence yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn's giant moon Titan. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, such a volcano on Titan may spew ice and hydrocarbons instead of molten lava. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Christmas Cat Cartoon (video)
  Simon's Cat is back with a holiday installment. This time, kitty's curiosity is captured by the new Christmas tree. What does your pet think about holiday decorations?Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Human Brain Stem Cells Grown in Rats
  Stem cells from the human brain that were transplanted into the brains of newborn rats have matured and are able to function just like native rat cells. Submitted by Tarequl I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Nearly 40,000 voices of outrage at plans to cull b ...
  Thousands of objections have been sent to the government about its latest plans for a badger cull in England. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Protests erupt as Italian PM Berlusconi wins vote ...
  Premier Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back confidence votes Tuesday in the Italian parliament, narrowly surviving one of the toughest fights of his political life. But violent protests greeted his victory, as rioters torched cars, smashed windows and claSubmitted by John Cause to World �|� �Note-it ...

Smirking Chimp

• Weird Tax Myths #1: Tax Cuts Create Jobs
• Is Virginia Court's Health Ruling an Inadvertent P ...
• WikiLeaks: For Better or Worse - or Both?
• One President's Secrets — and the Media That Keeps ...
• The Rehabilitation of George W.: A Bush League Aff ...

Paul Krugman

• Invincible Ignorance
  All bad things must be the government's fault.
• The SPECTRE of Inequality
  One million dollars!
• Microbe Economics
  Ah-choo.
• The Doom of Broder
  The center has spoken.
• Orwellian Centrism
  Making hippies the villains, retroactively.

No Quarter

• Commerce Clause, Ain’t Santy Claus
  Sorry I’ve been off the net. Working at a military base this week. I am assuming you caught the news that a Virginia District Court judge by the name of Hudson has ruled a key provision of Obama care “UNCONSTITUTIONAL.” Here’s the key news: A federal judge declared the foundation of President Barack ...
• Tuesday Open Thread [Update]
  NOTE: Our comments software is still acting up. I have submitted a second support ticket and hope to get help tonight. We apologize for your inconvenience, and hope you’ll try these steps: 1) Reboot your computer and empty your browser cache, and 2) Try using another browser type, such as Firefox or ...
• “Then Give Us Our Money Back”
  You may think the title refers to the current tax battle currently going on in Congress as they decide if our taxes will go way up in 2011, or stay the same (and by the way, maintaining the same rate does not equal a “tax cut.” That is the media p[laying semantics.). But no, this [...]
• Attack of the Zombie Republicans: Part 8
  Reprinted from The Daily Beast with the express permission of John Batchelor. Re-published at his radio show’s blog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
• Who Really Deserves to ‘Pay’ for Bernie Madoff’s F ...
  NOTE: In a following article, I discuss the suicide of Bernie Madoff’s son: “Mark Madoff’s Suicide.” Bernie Madoff is back. While news of deficits, tax packages, currency devaluation, and the like capture the business headlines, is there any doubt that far more people in our nation are interested an ...

Environmental Graffiti

• How an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb Could Wipe Out A ...
  The effects caused from an electromagnetic pulse bomb can be devastating. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Julien Berthier's Incredible Unsinkable Ship
  The incredible designs of Julien Berthier range from an unsinkable ship to a chapel made with an upside down swimming pool. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How You Can Protect Yourself from Pandemic Bird Fl ...
  Avian iInfluenza is one of many influenza strains that has been infecting people all over the world for centuries and longer. So what makes bird flu so serious? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• California's Fire Fighting Jets and High Speed Rai ...
  Fighting fires from planes is nothing new, but nothing comes close to the fire-snuffing capacity of a former freight jet. Then again, high-speed rail is cool too! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Missouri High School Student Discovers New Impatie ...
  How an 18-year-old high school senior discoverd a unique species of the beautiful impatiens flower on his trip to China. 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

• Is the Military Still in Charge in Pakistan?
  A civilian government is currently in power in Pakistan. But is it really in charge?
• Lighting the Terrorist Fuse
  Is the FBI fighting terrorism or encouraging it?
• Is Iran President Ahmadinejad Trying to Out-Suprem ...
  The time may come when Iran's Supreme Leader is forced to surrender his power to the president.
• WikiLeaks XX: Chavez -- First Citgo, Now Burger Ki ...
  Venezuela tests the fast-food waters.
• The Celtic Tiger Follows the Asian Tigers to Extin ...
  The failure of the Irish miracle, argues columnist Walden Bello, may signal the end of an era of miracles.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Suicide attack hits Iran mosque
  At least 38 people killed and dozens injured after a suicide bombing near a mosque in the Iranian city of Chabahar.
• Many dead in Australia boat crash
  Officials say at least 27 killed after vessel carrying asylum seekers crashes near Christmas Island.
• ICC names Kenya violence suspects
  International court releases names of six people, including finance minister, suspected of perpetrating deadly violence.
• Report links Kosovo PM to crime
  Council of Europe report alleges Hashim Thaci headed a crime ring that smuggled drugs, weapons and human organs.
• Cuba refuses dissident exit visa
  Cuba denies activist Farinas permission to travel to France to collect the European Union's top human rights prize.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Chernobyl to Open to Tourists
  Ukraine will open the sealed zone around the doomed Chernobyl nuclear reactor to visitors beginning next year, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry declared. The nuclear reactor exploded nearly 25 years ago.
• Does China Face a "Peak Coal" Threat?
  China's ravenous appetite for energy puts the country at risk of 'peak coal,' when demand for coal will outstrip domestic production capacity, a growing number of experts believe.
• A Detailed Look at Indian Point's Environmental Ef ...
  More than 90 percent of the striped bass that hit the protective screens in the Indian Point nuclear plant's cooling system survive, but only 38 percent of the alewives do, according to a new environmental impact statement. That fact is one of many contained in the more than 623-page document, wh ...
• Green Heating? Not So Impossible After All
  Over the course of the last decade, Kristianstad's government has orchestrated a conversion from mostly oil heating to green fuels like biomass, food processing waste and wood pellets.
• River Advocates Fret That PCBs Will Linger in Huds ...
  State environmental officials and others worry that the E.P.A. may allow General Electric to cap more of the chemicals in the river sediment rather than dredge and remove them.

Dot Earth News

• Beyond Political Science
  Two views on how to overcome paralyzing political divisions on climate and other issues framed by science.
• Does Science Need More Republicans?
  Would the world be better off if more Republicans became scientists?
• Young Witnesses Look Past Cheers at Climate Talks
  A student sees lots of talk and little action despite proclamations of success in climate negotiations.
• 'Whispering Fire on a Crowded Planet'
  A cartoonist rips into the weak underbelly of the Cancún climate agreement.
• Consensus Emerges On Common Climate Path
  Generating late-night cheers, and a few complaints, Mexico produces a text that could be the seed of a new global climate agreement.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• A New Week of Link Dump: Gnosis Whacks Gawker; Fed ...
  Before Wikileaks there wuz Hyperlinks: Lots of em. Let's lead off with the best thing in America: Prisoners Strike in Georgia - NYTimes.com. GO CHAMPS! Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence Anyone can have a Tumbr hit! kim jong-il looking at thing ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Don’t mourn, organize! Detroit looks to unseat th ...
  Keith Johnson, current president of Detroit Federation of Teachers has sold his soul to the privatization establishment.  Detroit teachers fight for a straight slate to unseat him!  Picture of Keith Johnson, the rancid Randi Weingarten and Robert Bobb breaking bread and breaking teachers, students a ...
• Billionaire tells Citizens – “Suck it up!”
  “Besides sucking it up on the Bush tax cut extension, you are being required to suck it up on a Social Security tax holiday, the first step to making Social Security dependent on the general fund of the Treasury for its survival…” By Numerian posted by Michael Collins What is it with these billionai ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Clinton attacks slow Haiti quake progress
• Bill Clinton urges 'objective' Haiti recount
• In bid to break Taliban, US embraces more firepowe ...
• Bill Clinton urges 'objective' recount in Haiti
• US lawmakers to act on Obama tax deal

Institute for Policy Studies

• Lighting the Terrorist Fuse
  Is the FBI fighting terrorism or encouraging it?
• The Lineup: Week of December 13-19, 2010
  Anupama Joshi and Robert Gottlieb weigh in on the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act while Donald Kaul offers his take on Obama's controversial deal with the GOP on the Bush tax cuts.
• Toxic CEO Pay Story
  For a new generation of Angelo Mozilo wannabes, the sky is still the limit.
• Cancun, Climate Change, and Congress
  IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham talks climate on The Real News.
• Deal on U.S.-Korea Trade Would Expand Excessive In ...
  The White House's proposed U.S.-Korea trade deal would expand corporations' rights to bypass public interest regulations.

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

• ANOTHER VIEW: Where have America’s middle-cl ...
  By Tracy Emblem – For the North County Times American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report. These profits are the ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 11/30/10 – 12/10/10
  Tip: Make sure to let your teams know that they can see what Issue Organizing Team’s they belong to or join new ones by clicking on the “Update your Profile” link at the bottom of ...
• Support PDA with Your Holiday Shopping!
  Support PDA with Your Holiday Shopping! PDA’ers, Do you know that wearing a hat can help you reduce your carbon footprint? People lose heat through the exposed parts of the body, so wearing a soft knit skull-cap ...
• Video: RNN – Will Progressive Democrats in ...
  Donna Smith: Social Security benefits are under attack and concern is whether the “man in the White House” will fight back More at The Real News
• Video: Rep. Jan Schakowsky on the Deficit Commiss ...

Marler Blog

• The Raw Milk Beat Goes On: A Look at the Literatu ...
  Producing Cheese Safely Unlike fluid raw milk producers who have been the subject of intense conflict with regulators for many years, artisanal and specialty cheesemakers that use raw milk have maintained a relatively good relationship with state and FDA regulators in the US.   According to their w ...
• Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database - Video
  Visit Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database for a search.
• The Raw Milk Beat Goes On: A Look at the Literat ...
  Microbiology Johnson (2001) reviewed the microbiology of cheese products and noted the complexity of the subject because of the great diversity in cheese manufacturing and ripening protocols, as well as composition of the different cheese types.  The 60-day aging rule is based on the theory that pa ...
• The Raw Milk Beat Goes On: A Look at the Literatur ...
  Regulation of Raw Milk Cheeses in Other Countries Canada regulates cheeses made from raw milk similar to the US, except for Quebec where raw milk cheeses can be manufactured without 60-day aging if strict rules for milk quality and veterinary inspections of cattle herds are followed.  In 1996, foll ...
• The Raw Milk Beat Goes On: A Look at the Literatu ...
  Definitions Before embarking on a discussion of the 60-day curing criteria for cheeses made from raw milk, it is important to understand the definition of cheese styles and differences in regulation.  Cheese was originally developed by human societies as a method to preserve milk.  In the US, chees ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 12.15.10
  Better Place CEO: "Biggest obstacle to electric cars is auto industry" Technology, schmenology. NASCAR buddies up to ethanol for 2011 season Will the stands smell of corn? ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.14.10
  GM CEO: Toyota Prius is a "geek-mobile" that "I wouldn't be caught dead in" Jealous much? Note to Akerson: Two milion-plus who have bought a Prius. Just FYI. CR: Toyota Prius a better buy than Chevy Volt, ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.13.10
  Video: Bill O'Reilly talks EVs with David Letterman Pinheads and patriots sort of agree on electric cars. The Revenge of the Electric Car trailer is here! A two-minute tease is now available ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Oodle goes after Craigslist with social classified ...
  The company that runs the Facebook Marketplace is exporting its technology to the open Web.
• Avaak still trying to crack home Webcam market
  New version of ultra-small Internet-connected monitor camera finally gets motion sensor.
• Life in the Chromeosphere
  The hardware isn't ready and the OS is still beta, but Chrome OS notebooks look poised to steal the Netbook market from Microsoft.
• DivX plug-in does Flash video better than Adobe
  Add-on to Adobe's own add-on uses graphic processor and better software to play video with less CPU overhead.
• Chrome Web Store a gift for developers, a sea chan ...
  Google's Chrome Web Store could be a boon for Web developers, and one more nail in the coffin for traditional software.

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

• Two-year-old Survives Internal Decapitation ( ...
  Two-year-old Micah Andrews, of Phoenix, Ariz., is lucky to be alive after his skull was separated from his spine in a car accident last August.
• Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Univ ...
  Our cosmos was "bruised" in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background
• To classify humanity is not that hard
  The standard figure is that 85% of genetic variance is within continental races, and 15% is between them. You can see some Fst values on Wikipedia to get an intuition.
• Santa Claus risks health by flying all night, ...
  Every year Santa Claus and his team of elves and reindeers stay awake for days and nights so he can deliver presents to children all over the world for Christmas – but he could be putting his and their health at risk.
• 2,400-Year-Old Pot of Soup Unearthed
  Archaeologists excavating an ancient tomb in the Chinese city of Xian have unearthed a 2,400-year-old bowl of soup still thick with ingredients. When ingredients are identified, it will be possible to put together a recipe, allowing archaeologists to taste a dish that may have been popular long ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Weaving Like Drunks into the Event Horizon
  By Les Visible Everyone wants to know what to do. As a wise Chinese sage once said, “The way to do is to be”. Of course, that same Chinese sage left town when he couldn’t take the state of the culture anymore. I want to point out something that I think is of critical importance [...]
• INSIDE JOB; SWEDISH BOMBS
  The ‘terrorist’ explosion in Sweden, on 11 December 2010, was presumably the work of the military, using some brainwashed patsy. The Swedish media reported on 12 December 2010: A few hours before the explosions in downtown Stockholm, someone in the Swedish military contacted a friend to warn them to ...
• Viruses and the GM Insect “Flying Vaccine&#8 ...
  Brandon Turbeville Activist Post While it is generally clear, even to the relatively uninformed, that government and corporations have become one and the same, the extent to which this is the case is still largely unknown amongst the general public. Likewise, the extent to which this merger is affec ...
• RFID – Electronic Pick Pocketing WREG News C ...
  Contactless credit card skimming a real danger. Another news report where Identity Stronghold shows how easy it is to scan or skim all credit card data without touching you. The RFID chips make the card vulnerable.
• David Kelly: Papers which could finally force full ...
  By Miles Goslett Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since ...

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

• U.S. Drug Czar Learns Wrong Lesson From Teen Drug ...
  Study makes it clear that clear that education and regulatory restrictions are more effective than prohibition and criminalization, but the drug czar draws the wrong conclusions.
• Nice People Use Drugs
  New campaign pushes for an honest discussion of and approach to drug use in our society.
• The Prospects for Drug Reform in This Country Have ...
  The persistent failure of drug war policies and generational change are turning reformist ideas once considered taboo into mainstream thinking.
• Budding Prospects: Youth Activists Push Marijuana ...
  Fueled by serious funds, young advocates of legalization are poised for big gains.
• 'Operation Ivy League' Police Drug Sting: We're Ta ...
  The Columbia bust is all hype and PR and will do nothing to stop drug use on our campuses or in NYC.

Twilight Earth

• WTF?! EPA Says RIP to Bee’s.
  EPA knowingly OK’s Bayer’s bee-killing pesticide. Related Links: The full Grist article whose text is in the cartoon. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees The Bayer Kills Bees! website. (They also kill democracy!) Yep, that’s Bee from the environment ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• 7,000 Shipping Containers Used to Create Bazaar in ...
  Read the rest of 7,000 Shipping Containers Used to Create Bazaar in Kyrgyzstanhttp://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: bazaar, bishkek, Car ...
• Mexico Announces Largest LED Streetlight Project i ...
  LED lights are coming to Mexico in a big way — Quintana Roo’s Estate Governor Félix González Canto recently announced during the UN climate change conference in Cancun that the municipality of Othón Blanco will replace 25,507 streetlights with energy-efficient LED versions. The announcement, whic ...
• INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Waterstudio’s Koen Olthuis on ...
  Read the rest of INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Waterstudio’s Koen Olthuis on FLOAT!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architectur ...
• Long Beach Recycling Center Recycles Itself!
  We all know what recycling centers do best – recycle – but one such facility in Signal Hill, California, took things one step further by recycling itself! The old building, an unusable manufacturing structure, has been replaced by a new, energy-efficient building made of recycled/recyclable metal. T ...
• Intoxicating Recycled Wine Bottle Candles Make Gre ...
  Soothing candles make a wonderful gift for anyone you know who deserves some relaxing aromatherapy, but it takes a lot of energy to create the glass containers that hold them. Not so with EkoMiko candles. Created by actress and environmentalist Izabella Miko (of Coyote Ugly and Deadwood fame), the l ...

Pogue's Posts

• Here's a Thought: Rollover Megabytes
  A Twitter follower comes up with a good idea: rollover megabytes for data on cellphones, like rollover minutes.
• Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone's Unsung Hero
  People carry their phones around in pockets with keys and change. People drop these things, toss them, scrape them. Why on earth don't they get totally scratched up?
• A Happy Holidays Songfest
  An update of David Pogue's holiday song parodies.
• The Mysteries of Naming Tech Products
  A reader wonders why some technology companies name their products with a string of incomprehensible numbers and letters.
• Is It Big Brother or Just an Algorithm?
  When Gmail tells you you've forgotten to attach something, after saying in a message that you would, is that creepy or smart?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Massive Volcanism May Have Caused Biggest Extincti ...
  SAN FRANCISCO — The greatest extinction in the history of life may have been caused, in part, by ozone-depleting gases spewed in a massive volcanic eruption, a new study suggests. Geologists have found surprisingly high amounts of the elements fluorine and chlorine in Siberian lavas dating back 250 ...
• First Volcano Sighting on Saturn’s Most Earthlike ...
  Three icy volcanoes line up on Saturn's moon Titan, giving some of the best evidence yet that explosive eruptions are possible on worlds beyond Earth.
• How to Test What Really Happened After the Big Ban ...
  A new test that takes data from several realms of physics could explain what really happened in the first sliver of a second after the Big Bang. Most cosmologists believe the universe burst from an extremely dense, hot state around 13.7 billion years ago, and has been expanding and cooling ever sin ...
• Cheap DIY Camera Systems Perform Amazing Photograp ...
  All images © Linden Gledhill. See Also: Zoom In on Top 8 Ultrahigh-Resolution Science Panoramas 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes Microscope Shows Cells in 3-D
• Canadian Microbes Give Clues for Life on Icy Moons
  SAN FRANCISCO — A sulfur-loving microbe in the Canadian arctic could draw a blueprint for scientists searching for life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. “Ultimately when we go to Europa, we’ll want to be able to tell if there’s any biological activity at all,” astrobiologist Damhnait Gleeson of NASA’s ...

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

• Ten Thoughts About Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
  1. Since its founding in December 2006, WikiLeaks, which was established as, essentially, a secure information clearing house for whistleblowers around the world to provide sensitive information, some of which would then be released to the public, and which was reportedly set up by “Chinese disside ...
• Guantánamo: A Dismal Week for America
  Just when it seemed that President Obama’s paralysis regarding Guantánamo couldn’t get any worse — with any further trials or prisoner releases apparently on permanent hold because any other course of action would be politically inconvenient — the House of Representatives and the Director of Nation ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser: $1000 Needed to Support My G ...
  Please support my work! Regular readers will know that, every three months, I ask for financial support to help me continue the work I began five years ago — researching the stories of the Guantánamo prisoners, publicizing the ongoing plight of the men still held, and reporting assiduously on ...
• Report on “A Day for Shaker Aamer” and ...
  After two screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary film I co-directed wth Polly Nash — at UCL onThursday evening, and at Roehampton University on Friday — it was more than I could do to get down to Nine Elms for 12 noon on Saturday and the start of “A Day for [...]
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures: Seven Supergreen U.S. Government Buildin ...
  NoneA subterranean labyrinth in the Rockies, breathing curtain walls by San Francisco Bay, and a Manhattan sky park highlight the U.S. government's drive to cut down its prodigious use of energy.
• Killer Alien Weed May Threaten Biggest Animal Migr ...
  An invasive weed was recently found spreading through southern Kenya—and it can kill both native vegetation and the animals that depend on it for survival, scientists warn.
• New Chemistry, Less Energy Could Yield Greener Cem ...
  Making cement is one of the world’s most carbon-intensive endeavors, but German researchers think they’ve mixed a better building solution.
• Mystery of Slow Earthquakes Solved?
  Unfolding over days or even months, the little-understood quakes may help prevent the big ones.
• Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010: Editors' Picks
  NoneA fish with "hands," a T. Rex leech, and a self-cloning lizard are among National Geographic News's picks for the weirdest new species in 2010.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Party like it's Orwell's 1984
  This summer, I read George Orwell’s paranoid dystopia novel, 1984. I have no idea how I managed to graduate from high school, let along college, without reading it, but, there you go. (And, all literary genius aside, I’m so glad I wasn’t friends with Orwell. Somehow I doubt he was ever the life o ...
• Landmark Ruling Last Week that YOU may not have he ...
  Zach Carter takes note of recent ruling in a case that shows pretty clearly how the banks, not just Wells Fargo BUT all banks, purposely rigged their overdraft system against you: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than EverA landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's out ...
• 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...

SPL Center

• David Duke, Huffing About Sexual Mores, Calls the ...
  Now that he’s gaining in years, former Klan boss and longtime white supremacy advocate David Duke, who in his youth gained a notorious reputation as a womanizing playboy, is apparently now shifting to a more traditional role of moralizing geezer. Witness his most recent video “lecture,” wherein he p ...
• Lie about ‘Illegal Alien Voters’ Goes Viral on the ...
  Nativists were primed to believe something dastardly was afoot with the approaching 2010 elections. ALIPACâs William Gheen warned that undocumented immigrants were planning to commit massive voter fraud with the help of the Democratic Party machine. An Arizona group called Ban Amnesty Now put out an ...
• Extremist ‘Patriot’ Pastor Videotapes ...
  Radical conservative Pastor Stephen Andersonâs personal antigovernment reality-TV show has unveiled a new episode. Reprising a âroleâ he created and played last year, the firebrand leader of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., once again had a video camera rolling during a routine police t ...
• Newest Extreme Right Demand: Bring Back McCarthyis ...
  Between 1950 and 1954, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy led one of the most notorious political witch-hunts in U.S. history. Aided by the parallel activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), McCarthyâs anti-communist crusade divided politicians, captivated the media, and fanned ...
• Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
  Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same ...

change: org.

• Medical Marijuana Activists Fight for New Trial in ...
  California anti-prohibition activists say a prosecutor with an ax to grind has convicted a man for illegally selling medical marijuana in a state where its legal to sell medical marijuana. They say it is the second time that San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has tried Jovan Jackson on simil ...
• Apple: Stand Strong Against Homophobia and Anti-Ga ...
  Heard of the Manhattan Declaration? It's a document and campaign started by Watergate felon Chuck Colson to organize conservative religious leaders in opposition to same-sex marriage. Signers of the declaration, which include prominent conservatives from a broad swath of faiths, say that while they ...
• Victory! Obama Appoints High Level Diplomat for Da ...
  There is a sense of excitement and hope among Darfur advocates today after the Obama Administration announced the appointment of Dane Smith as the Senior U.S. Diplomat for Darfur. This is a great victory for Darfur activists and the people of Darfur. A Change.org petition calling for a high level di ...
• Iowa Activists Are "Ready to Rumble" with Factory ...
  Elections bring a change of regime. It's not just the politicians who get voted in that matter, but their advisors and the appointments they make to various government agencies at all levels. In Iowa, Governor-Elect Terry Brandstad just appointed a new head of the state's Department of Natural Resou ...
• 1 Simple Way to Save the Arctic National Wildlife ...
  If you didn't know that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just turned 50, don't worry, there is still time to get a nice gift. What ANWR really needs is a status update —and not on Facebook. A growing campaign is calling on Obama to designate ANWR a national monument to help keep it out of reach o ...

Common Dreams -News

• USAF Blocks Media Sites over Wikileaks
  The US Air Force has blocked access for computers on its network to at least 25 websites that published sensitive diplomatic documents released by the Internet site WikiLeaks, a spokeswoman said.Major Toni Tones, a spokesperson at Air Force Space Command in Colorado, said on Tuesday that the website ...
• 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 Univ ...
• Rabbis Say 'No Housing for Arabs'
  by Mya GuarnieriHundreds of Israeli rabbis have signed a religious edict forbidding Jews from renting or selling homes or land to Arabs and other non-Jews. The public letter instructs Jews to "ostracise" those who disobey the order, which is widely viewed as an attack on the country's Palestinian ci ...
• British Police Look to Water Cannons to "Deal With ...
  The Metropolitan police is considering its tactics after rioters attacked officers with metal poles, smashed windows and even vandalised a car carrying the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during protests against rises in university fees.''The Met Police obviously have to look at how they sho ...

Lifehacker

• Most Popular DIY Projects of 2010
  Whether it's to save money or just because you love that do-it-yourself feeling of accomplishment, we all love to make stuff. Here are our most popular DIY projects of 2010. More��
• From the Tips Box: Snow Shovels, Blocking Social N ...
  Readers offer their best tips for shoveling snow effectively, blocking social media content on other pages, and keeping your luggage safe (without expensive locks). More��
• Remains of the Day: Internet Use Catches Up with T ...
  Microsoft's search engine Bing launches an easier way to search for flights, dropping "maybe" from RSVPs is an anti-flake feature, and internet usage in America finally beats out TV consumption. More��
• Cyberduck 4.0 Beta Released for Windows [Downloads ...
  Windows: Cyberduck, our favorite FTP application for the Mac, just released a Windows version complete with all the features familiar to Mac users: drag-and-drop file transfer, integration with other applications, Google Docs and Amazon S3 sup ...
• LinkedIn Resume Builder Takes the Hassle Out of Up ...
  It's difficult enough keeping your resume up-to-date, let alone keeping it in sync with your LinkedIn profile. To help, LinkedIn Labs offers a new way to automate the resume-building process. More��

Water Privatization

• Research and Markets: GCC Power & Water Desalinati ...
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "GCC Power & Water Desalination Industry Overview 2010" report to their offering.
• Sparkling or flat? Sustainability book club says, ...
  Two weeks ago, the Macalester College Sustainability Book Club met over sandwiches and tap water to discuss Elizabeth Royte's latest book, "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It." In "Bottlemania," Royte -- a veteran environmental writer who previously authored "Garbage Land" and ...
• Gov’t to rehab Agus-Pulangi at a cost of P3 billio ...
  The government plans to rehabilitate the Agus-Pulangi hydropower projects in Mindanao instead of pushing for its privatization
• War of words over water at Westhill: Barlow debate ...
  In 1809, Joel Barlow wrote, “If we estimate its magnitude by the length of its course and the quantity of water it throws into the sea, it is much the greatest river that has hitherto come to our knowledge.” The same could be said as a metaphorical statement about the debate team from the high schoo ...
• Gov't to rehab Agus-Pulangi at a cost of P3 billio ...
  MANILA - The government plans to rehabilitate the Agus-Pulangi hydropower projects in Mindanao instead of pushing for its privatization.

Guardian

• Phone hacking 'approvedby top NoW executive'
  High court papers lodged by Sienna Miller's lawyers contradict paper's insistence that a single 'rogue' journalist was involvedLawyers have secured explosive new evidence linking one of the News of the World's most senior editorial executives to the hacking of voicemail messages from the phones of S ...
• Unemployment rises to 2.5m
  Today's data � fuelled by a drop in public-sector employment � will fan fears that Britain could suffer a 'jobless recovery'UK unemployment has risen back over the 2.5 million mark, fanning fears that Britain is suffering a "jobless recovery".The number of people out of work in Britain rose by 35,00 ...
• Radical NHS reforms to go ahead
  Health secretary to press on with plans, described as the biggest reorganisation since the NHS was set up, despite oppositionAndrew Lansley, the health secretary, announced today that the government will push ahead with radical plans to shake up the NHS � the biggest shift in power and accountabilit ...
• It's the 2010 Bedside Guardian advent calendar
  The Bedside Guardian brings together the best articles from a tumultuous year in Britain and abroad. Here are some of our favouritesGarry Blight
• Sweden challenges Assange bail
  Prosecutors want WikiLeaks founder to remain behind bars until extradition is decided despite £240,000 in guaranteesThe high court will hold a hearing tomorrow on a Swedish appeal against bail for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.The 39-year-old Australian, who is wanted for questioning in S ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Exceptionalism and the left
  Is America "exceptional"?
• HIV patient 'cured' with stem cell procedure
  Doctors in Berlin, working with an American patient with both HIV and leukemia, have declared in a peer-reviewed journal that they believe they have cured both illnesses. It would be the first time an HIV patient has been cured.
• Hugo Chavez may get new legislative powers
  Venezuelan President Hugo Ch�vez asked parliament Tuesday to grant him sweeping legislative powers, for the fourth time since he took office in 1999. The request comes just weeks before a new national assembly with a much greater opposition presence is due to be inaugurated.
• Judge narrows Alaska's case against BP for North S ...
  A state judge has made a key ruling that could spare BP paying hundreds of millions to the state due to suspended oil production in the aftermath of the company's major 2006 spills on the North Slope.
• Head injuries in youth sports are target of Califo ...
  California athletes in youth sports from high school football to children's soccer or basketball could be affected by new legislation proposed to stop early return to competition after a major head injury.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

• The WonkLine: December 15, 2010
  Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest public policy news. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   National Security “President Obama met for nearly two hours with top national securit ...
• Coburn: Medicaid Recipients Should Pay More For He ...
  The Hill’s Julian Pecquet reports that in light of Judge Henry Hudson’s ruling to invalidate the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is passing around an old Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report touting the deficit savings of eliminating the requirement. The rep ...
• HAMP’s Flop Continues As 21 Percent Of &#821 ...
  When last we visited the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) — which is the Obama administration’s signature foreclosure prevention program — it was badly sputtering, spending little of the money allocated to it. More borrowers were being booted from the program mid-stream than were receivin ...
• Right Panics As START To Start Tomorrow – Ge ...
  In a last gasp, Frank Gaffney and others on the extreme right held a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday to urge Senate Republicans to oppose the New START treaty. Their efforts look doomed. Despite throwing gobs of money into an anti-START campaign and having an incredibly favorable politica ...
• Reid Pledges To Hold Senate In Session Until Janua ...
  Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) practically guaranteed that he would bring Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to a vote before Congress adjourns, suggesting that the Senate would take up the measure once it passes in the House. Reid warned Republicans that he was prepared ...

thwap's schoolyard

• A Liberal-NDP Coalition is the Best We Can Hope Fo ...
  The corrupt harpercons are trying to ram through some more stupid pro-crime legislation (or they're purposefully dangling legislative garbage before the opposition parties knowing that they'll reject it so that they [the harpercons] can yammer and howl about how the opposition parties are "soft on c ...
• Mining Industry P.R. Hacks
  Before John Mackay's private members' bill C-300 to deprive federal funding to Canadian mining companies found guilty of criminal behaviour abroad went down to its preordained defeat at the hands of our corporate controlled political system, the intertubes were filled with nauseating puss-balls, emp ...
• Nauesating Canadian Hypocrisy on Haiti
  The latest abomination: Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says the international community "cannot do everything in Haiti" and urged the country's leadership rivals to respect the democratic process "with respect and calm." ... it's important for the people of Haiti to assume their respo ...
• I Guess it's Safe to Say That All Ottawa Cops are ...
  Via The Fifth Column: "'Circle wagons,' union boss tells officers. Colleagues being 'stomped on' need support: Boucher" In an interview Thursday night, union leader Steve Boucher said he sent the e-mail to remind officers to keep their heads up, serve with pride and look after each other on the j ...
• 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• DC Circuit finds federal employees have more prote ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision on Friday that offers federal employees more protection from discrimination than employees in the private sector currently enjoy. The decision is Ford v. Mabus, No. 09-5041 (DC Cir. 12-10-2010). Richard Ford worked for ...
• NWC Responds to Letter from Whistleblowers
  Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) received a letter from whistleblowers concerning our position on the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372).  Please take the time two read the two response letters.  The first letter is from Dr. Frederic Whitehurst ...
• NWC Board Members Respond to Letter from Whistlebl ...
  Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) received a letter from whistleblowers concerning our position on the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372).  Please take the time two read the two response letters.  The first letter is from Dr. Frederic Whitehurst ...
• NWC's Lindsey Williams receives "Restore Integrity ...
  Lindsey Williams, Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), received the “Restore Integrity Award” from Popular, Inc. In its announcement today, Popular, Inc., captioned its award to my colleague by saying: Attorney Lindsey M. Williams, Advocacy Director for the National Whist ...
• Truck safety whistleblower wins ARB remand
  Barrett Riess worked for Nucor Corporation as Traffic Department Manager from August 4, 2002, until Nucor discharged him on January 15, 2007. He worked in Grapeland, Texas. He had no discipline until he was fired. James Landrum, Grapeland Division Vice President and General Manager, was Riess’s supe ...

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

• Why Are Rosetta Stone & Google Hiding Details In C ...
  Paul Levy has been staying on top of a rather important aspect of the ongoing Rosetta Stone/Google lawsuit over whether or not Google is liable for trademark infringement over keywords ads that might point to counterfeit copies of Rosetta Stone software. So far, Rosetta Stone has lost badly and it ...
• Cuba Tries To Create Its Own Wikipedia, But Might ...
  A few months back, we reported that Fidel Castro had apparently become a big fan of the internet, now that he's "retired" and spends a lot of time surfing the web. It wouldn't surprise me if that's part of the reason that Cuba is apparently trying to launch its own sort-of Wikipedia -- but which yo ...
• As Expected, Bluebeat's 'Psycho Acoustic Simulatio ...
  About a year ago, we wrote about the somewhat bizarre case of a website called Bluebeat.com that claimed to legally be selling Beatles MP3s for $0.25. Of course, EMI disagreed and sued. Bluebeat's explanation was that it wasn't selling actual copies of the original music but had re-recorded the so ...
• DailyDirt: Materials That Make You Go Hmmm
  We've come a long way from the Bronze Age, folks. Nanotubes and metal foams may soon become commonplace materials. Petroleum-based plastics are sooo boring now. Okay, not really, it could make a comeback just like Gorilla Glass. Materials never really go out of style, and here are a few links to ...
• George Clinton Sues Black Eyed Peas; Apparently He ...
  A few years back, we pointed to this wonderful interview with funk legend George Clinton (and the second half is with hip hop legend Hank Shocklee, which makes it even more interesting), all about music sampling, where Clinton claims sampling's "cool" and "good." He says "it's a whole new music -- ...

VacTruth

• Christmas Time 2010
  A message from Vactruth.com to keep on “keeping on” in order to bring to light the ‘pseudo science’ that surrounds vaccines, vaccinations, and loss of sovereignty and self-determination in the care of our health, bodies, and children.
• Police Arrested Twelve Year Old Boy for Refusing V ...
  A twelve year old boy was arrested by police after refusing to be vaccinated at school. Since when have schools become doctors?
• Possible 400 Dead as UK Government Betrays Parents ...
  Toddlers are to be inoculated against six diseases at once in a bid to boost vaccination rates. Recently uncovered evidence suggests as many as 400 children have died from a vaccine and 21,000 experienced an adverse reaction in the UK alone.
• How Government and Pharmaceutical Companies Gamble ...
  After a high number of dangerous vaccine reactions, these vaccines were pulled from a recent vaccine campaign.
• GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts To Boost HPV Va ...
  By financing cancer research experts and support groups they can manipulate the market to benefit themselves. GSK is financially influencing experts in attempts to change current medical practices and diagnostics in the early detection of cervical cancer.

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Still recovering from a weekend of Santarchy madness.  Also, I just got back from the Really Free Market here in DC, which went off amazingly well considering the absurdly cold weather. Between all the activities and the pesky day job I probably still owe people some responses.  I’m working on it. ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, December 11, 2010
  Exciting Perspective from the Pacific, on Defeating the British Imperial System
• The Crucial Strategic Issue of This Moment: A Lot ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 48
• What Is Sinn Féin? The American System versus Brit ...
  By Paul Gallagher Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 48
• A Vacancy at the Top
  By Tony Papert Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 48
• A Matter of Principle: Alexander Hamilton's Econom ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 48

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

• Adrian Grenier Supports Global Clean Water Project ...
  In an exclusive interview, Adrian Grenier speaks to the global water crisis and why he supports charity: water. Video: Emma Grady. In New York City last night, actor and environmental activist
• Brussels Sprouts are Back in Style
  Photo: notonthehighstreet Gone are the days when Brussels sprouts evoked a family groan at dinner. Now sprouts are being hailed as a hang-over cure (more on that later), a cancer fighter and a trendy food. One farmer is so committed that he farms 2,000 acres of them, with half a million ...
• People Shooting at Wind Turbines in Michigan, Else ...
  A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan's Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wasn't an easy find, though. Seems shooting bull ...
• Americans Losing Interest in Killing Wildlife For ...
  Photo via American Hunter Whether it be lurking through the brush with a bow in search of deer, or picking off wolves with a high-powered rifle from the comfort of a helicopter, Americans have a long history of hunting for sport -- but this love-affair with killing animals has apparently been fi ...
• "New Car Smell" May Have Caused Hit-and-Run On Cyc ...
  Well I am just never buying a Mercedes sedan now. Look what happened to the Rich Vail Fund Manager [who] Hits Cyclist And Runs, Gets Off Because Charges Might "Jeopardize His Job". Now Martin Erzinger's lawyers are claiming that he might have been overcome by the fumes from the "new car smell" in hi ...

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

• Russia celebrates Foreign Intelligence's 90th anni ...
  President Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Russian spies on their professional holiday, the 90th anniversary of the country's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
• WikiLeaks everywhere
  The secret diplomatic documents published on the WikiLeaks website may affect the image of the United States as a diplomatic partner. This publication has been criticized around the world.
• Abkhazia to push for refugee registration at Genev ...
  The former Georgian republic of Abkhazia will press for the UN to register Georgian refugees on its territory at security talks in Geneva, the delegation's chief Vyacheslav Chirikba said on Wednesday.
• Strasbourg court sets deadline for Russia on Litvi ...
  The European Court of Human Rights has given Russia a deadline before March 16 to provide information on the murder case of poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko.
• Dmitry Medevedev visits Skolkovo
  On December 14, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the hi-tech hub of Skolkovo to take part in the “Go Russia!” forum

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Civilian nuclear deal enables U.S., Russia to 'dev ...
  One practical application of a new civilian nuclear accord between Russia and the United States could be the joint development of nuclear reactors, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
• Russia to launch new global navigation satellite i ...
  A new-generation Russian Glonass-K satellite was delivered on Tuesday to the Plesetsk Space Center, where it will be launched later this month.
• Vatican says use of solar energy effective in Holy ...
  The Vatican has said its two-year experiment of using solar panels on the roof of the Pope Paul VI Hall was effective, the Vatican's radio announced on Friday.
• Russia to pull out of Kyoto deal
  Russia opposes the renewal of the Kyoto protocol and will not sign an extension to the climate treaty, Russian envoy Alexander Bedritsky said on Friday.
• Russia's Skolkovo, Intel to sign cooperation agree ...
  The Skolkovo foundation, which supervises the eponymous innovation hub outside of Moscow, and American technology company Intel will sign a cooperation agreement in Moscow on Thursday.

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

• Book Review of "Meat: A Benign Extravagance"
  "This book is a masterpiece: original, challenging and brilliantly argued. Simon Fairlie is a great thinker and a great writer."Click here to read this article
• GE Mosquitoes Soon to be Released in Malaysia
  Malaysia is on the brink of field testing GE mosquitoes in a small town in the state of Pahang, a short distance from Kuala Lumpur. Click here to read this article
• Astroturf Libertarians are the Real Threat to Inte ...
  There's a wide cyberwar being fought. The weapon used by both state and corporate players is a technique known as astroturfing. An astroturf campaign is one that mimics spontaneous grassroots mobilisations but which has in reality been organised. Click here to read this article
• WebMD, Not the Independent Health Source You Expec ...
  In a shocking report published earlier this year, BNET exposed how WebMD's online test for depression is rigged for profit: "Feeling depressed? Cheer yourself up by taking WebMD's comical new depression test. It's sponsored by Eli Lilly (LLY) - maker of the antidepressant Cymbalta - so they must k ...
• Whole Foods and Trader Joe's Throwing Out Millions ...
  Wal Mart is the largest purchaser of organic food in the U.S. surpassing likelier suspects, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. And the retail giant has one-upped them again by enacting a company-wide donation policy on short-dated or mildly damaged foods while the top two natural food chains let perfectl ...

fotoFrontera

• Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año (Imágenes Navideñ ...
  Nuestra serie 'Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año 2010 (Imágenes Navideñas)', presenta ya su tercera parte y lo hace a lo grande con 11 wallpapers en alta definición que usted podrá disfrutar, admirar y compartir. Si se perdió usted las primeras partes de esta colección, le anexo a continuación los ac ...
• Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año III (Esferas y Re ...
  Ya está aquí la tercera parte de nuestra serie 'Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año 2010 (Esferas y Regalos)'. Aproveche al máximo nuestros recursos y pase estas fiestas de manera inolvidable en compañía de su familia. Para ver los paquetes número 1 y 2 de esta serie, navegue hacia abajo o haga usted c ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXX
  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][29][30]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la ima ...
• 25 fotografías de chicas santa claus muy navideñas
  Como regalo especial para todos los caballeros, tenemos en exclusiva y antes que nadie una bonita colección de 25 fotografías de chicas vestidas como Santa Claus. Este fin de año, decora el monitor de tu computadora con estas hermosas mujeres navideñas. Felices Fiestas y gracias por su preferencia.N ...
• 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Fair Food in Our 21st Century Economy
  Last Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) held the last of a series of joint workshops on “Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy.” This particular workshop was held at the USDA in Washington D.C. and focu ...
• Drug amounts for food animals now reported by FDA: ...
  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a report last Thursday (Dec 9, 2010) that 13.1 million kilograms of antimicrobial drugs were sold or distributed for use in food-producing animals in 2009 in the United States (pdf). Why is this important? It represents the first time the FDA has repo ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Jesus ants come to the Walker
  The Washington Post mourns Holbrooke’s passing. I can think of no indictment more damning. - They just put out a stamp honoring Ronald Reagan. I’ll have to buy and use some just so I can take my mail to the window to watch them hand cancel the most clueless president of the modern era. - [...]
• Things fall apart, cont.
  -8°. The little icy stars on the windows were my first clue. Glad I finally got around to shutting the bedroom window before going to bed last night. The Metrodome still looks like a pie crust this morning which is why the Vikings will be playing the Giants in Detroit tonight. No clue why the [...]
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations
  Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations Phoenix, AZ — Tis' the season for charitable giving and legal experts say that means there are also scammers out there, so they advise taking a moment to check out any charity before you donate. Comments from attorney Beverly Salhanick (Sal-HAN-ick).
• Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ ...
  Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ Sun Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is getting kudos for its work on designating Solar Energy Zones (SEZs) on public lands in a new report from The Wilderness Society. Specifically, the Brenda area in western Arizona is profiled as a ...
• 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 ...

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

• John John: Narco News: An Exclusive Interview with ...
  Narco News: An Exclusive Interview with Julian Assange on the Eve of His Arrest: "The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, gave an exclusive interview to Brazilian journalist Natalia Viana of the online publication Opera Mundi on Monday. (Viana, 2004 graduate of Narco News’ School of Authentic Jour ...
• Georgia Prison Strike Hits Third Day | News One
  Georgia Prison Strike Hits Third Day | News One Georgia — On Thursday morning, December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike became the biggest prison ...
• Attempts to prosecute WikiLeaks endanger press fre ...
  Attempts to prosecute WikiLeaks endanger press freedoms - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: "During the Bush era, I frequently wrote about escalating attacks by the U.S. Government on press freedoms. The Bush DOJ vowed to prosecute whistleblowers while steadfastly refusing to do the same for the high-le ...
• James Moore: I am Julian Assange
  James Moore: I am Julian Assange I am Julian Assange. I want information so that I can hold my government accountable. If my country acts improperly and in my name, I want the proof. I want to know if there actually is no evidence proving weapons of mass destruction. I want to know if America is w ...
• Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorshi ...
  Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation Over the past few weeks, we here at EFF have watched as whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has fueled an emotionally charged debate about the secrecy of government information and the people's right to know. We hav ...

Pensieve

• Trujillo in Siege, Violence Imminent
  Photo by samiq Armed “peasants”, alleged narcos, pro-Zelaya activists and assorted foreign troublemakers have laid siege to the city of Trujillo, Colon, for 11 days. The people of Trujillo are desperate as the only road to the city is blocked by protesters. Armored vehicles with cash for banks, truc ...
• 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 ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 15/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Big organic
      Organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) brands should be available for everyone – people should be able to find and afford organic products. But consumers and activists are nervous about big corporations taking over organics brands. Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Gro ...
• Environmental News 10/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Grow your own vegetables
  Help the environment and save some money! Get your own veggie patch. Grow your own vegetables instead of buying them at the supermarket. It’s fun, easy and cheap! This way, you get rid of the pesticides (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html) in your food and the plastic wrappings that come with it. Fi ...
• Don’t be a tosser
  Recycle (directory/categories/Recycling), recycle, recycle! We can’t say it enough. City councils offer bins and facilities to help your separate your waste. So don’t be a tosser! Recycle! Photo by: Manja Louman  

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• WikiLeaks: Julian Assange sex assault court case b ...
  ShareThisWikiLeaks: Julian Assange sex assault court case branded a 'show trial' 15 Dec 2010 The Swedish authorities are turning the sexual assault case against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, into a "show trial", his lawyers claimed. Mark Stephens attacked the decision by the Swedish authori ...
• CITGO Launches Venezuelan Floods Relief Effort
  ShareThisCITGO Launches Venezuelan Floods Relief Effort (citgo.com) 14 Dec 2010 Torrential rains over the past two weeks have caused floods and mudslides across much of Venezuela, forcing more than 100,000 people out of their homes. Out of great concern for the victims of this tragedy, CITGO and its ...
• Iran lawmaker says dozens killed in blast - IRNA
  ShareThisIran lawmaker says dozens killed in blast - IRNA 15 Dec 2010 An Iranian lawmaker was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency that dozens of people were killed in an explosion outside a mosque in a southeastern Iranian city on Wednesday. "The blast happened in front of a mosque in ...
• Senate to Pass $858 Billion Bush-Era Tax Cut Measu ...
  ShareThisSenate to Pass $858 Billion Bush-Era Tax Cut Measure 15 Dec 2010 The U.S. Senate today is poised to pass President Barack Obama's $858 billion proposal to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels, cut payroll taxes and extend expanded jobless benefits. Majority Leader Harry Reid said ...
• Lawyer: Julian Assange forced to return to 'Dicken ...
  ShareThisLawyer: Julian Assange forced to return to 'Dickensian conditions' at Wandsworth prison --Assange remains in jail as Sweden appeals against bail decision 14 Dec 2010 Sweden tonight decided to fight a British judge's decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent m ...

Daily Loaf

• Do It Today: (Really) old-fashioned holiday events ...
  Take a trip back in time by way of the Baltimore Consort and the Victorian Christmas Stroll at the University of Tampa.
• Dissecting Dexter: Season 5, Episode 12 “The Big O ...
  That’s it? No surprising deaths? No last-minute game changers? Maybe Team Dexter was unable to deal out a harsh finale blow this season like they did last year. Maybe they just couldn’t do it again to us and Dexter, who went through a lot this season and seemed to liven up toward the end of [...]
• Join CL’s Beer Club at New World Brewery – Tuesday ...
  Do you like beer? How about free beer? Then come to CL’s next monthly Beer Club event at New World Brewery in Ybor (and conveniently located right across the street from our office), on Tuesday, December 21st. Sample different craft beers and an offering from Blue Moon at no charge, then grab a ...
• Movie and news Links for Tues., Dec. 14, 2010: Gol ...
  Today's must-check links from the worlds of movies and news, courtesy of CL Contributor Anthony Nicholas.
• Brett Favre’s penis pics: what not to do when sext ...
  The do's and don'ts of sexting for men.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• On Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s release
  By Rebecca Vilkomerson Video of Adeeb Abu Rahmah being released On a personal note, I remember very clearly the weekend that Adeeb was arrested. I was still living in Israel, and a friend from Anarchists Against the Wall was arrested with him.  This friend was detained for over 24 hours, blindfold ...
• Letter from an Israeli military prison
  from Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Ed’s Note: As I participated in the December 10th TIAA-CREF Day of Action on Human Rights Day, I felt I had gained a new holiday to my calendar. At the end of the day, as I was unwinding, I received this letter from imprisoned leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah over email, and saw ...
• Please Help the Enrichment Learning Program at the ...
  Dear Friends, We are appealing to you to ask your assistance in operating a learning enrichment program for the children of the cave-dwellers’ community of Umm-Fakra. For the last two years we have assisted in conducting an enrichment programs for children in the Bedouin communities of Umm El-Kheir, ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Check to see if your Gawker password was hacked
  Mine was. This includes all their sites; Lifehacker, io9, and more. If your account was hacked and you use that password elsewhere, you need to change it at all other sites that use it. Slate has the super-useful form. Put in your email or username and it’ll tell you if it was hacked.
• Zero energy house generates excess energy, charges ...
  This concept house uses solar electric and solar thermal to generate more power than it uses. A prototype will be built in Berlin next year.
• Obama believes in compromise, but only with the ri ...
  Because he never compromises with the left, now does he?
• When will Americans discover irony?
  Andy Carling writing for New Europe on the US State Department announcing World Press Freedom Day in D.C. next May. They bill it as a celebration of empowered citizens reporting news even if doing so could embarrass or anger governments, saying “we are concerned about the determination of some gover ...
• Police must not be seen as arm of the state, says ...
  Police fear becoming the focus of public anger at government cuts and that repeated clashes with demonstrators risk damaging their reputation, a top officer has told the Guardian. Hello? The police always have been the arm of the state and of the ruling class, but the pretense has been otherwise. I ...

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

• Conspiracy Of Silence: The Franklin Cover-up
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPKpP4XpGCM
• This Day In History – December 15
  37 â Nero, Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68), was born. 1791 â The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly. 1890 â Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. c. 1831), died. 1921 – In Kansas the Kansas national guard was called out to subd ...
• Blood with Daniel Ellsberg viral 2006 ~ 911 was Bu ...
  One of many interviews I had done with Mr Ellsberg. ON this particular occasion Ellsberg was especially candid on his “theories” regarding 911. The day after this interview; Ellsberg must have recieved a lot of heat. He asked for “redactions” postumously, as if we were NBC.  The interview went mega ...
• Think tank: Chances dimming for Patriot Act reform
  By David Edwards Monday, December 13th, 2010 The USA PATRIOT Act is up for renewal in February, but civil libertarians wanting major changes shouldn’t get their hopes up just yet, says a libertarian think tank. In a letter (.pdf) to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) last week, Attorney General Eric Holder p ...
• Elected tea partier Allen West calls for mass cens ...
  The government should censor news agencies that report on US documents leaked by websites like WikiLeaks, according to a tea party-backed Republican who will soon represent the 22th district congressional of Florida. Speaking with an online radio station, Rep.-elect Allen West said that attacks on t ...

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

• CA Judge OK's Festivus as Legit Religion
  A California judge signed off on Festivus as a legit religion: Locked up in a California jail, Malcolm Alarmo King wanted healthier meals. In an argument apparently made to a friendly court, he won a ruling from Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson that he should be fed double-portion kosher . ...
• Julian Assange: "Krill to the Baleen of the Femini ...
  Who won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2006? Whoever it was, it should have been Julian Assange for this self-description: Thu 29 Jun 2006 : Krill to the baleen of the feminine Krill: small, crunchy, easily sucked in... [Photo credit: Hanjeanwat, Creative Commons.]Read More
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook for Android v1.5 Mobile App Finally Gives ...
  Facebook for Android v1.5, the latest version of the Facebook mobile app for Google’s platform, is now available in the Android Marketplace. It adds Chat and push notifications, two features sorely lacking from previous releases and heavily requested by users. We’ll go over the new features now, and ...
• Facebook’s Performance Ad Rates In Key Markets: A ...
  Performance advertising rates in the largest countries on Facebook are showing some mostly unsurprising trends. Ads in North America and Western Europe cost the most per click, up to around $1.00, with uneven but significantly lower numbers in most other markets. Perhaps most strikingly, advertisers ...
• PostPost Turns Facebook Links into a Socially Cura ...
  Data management company Tiger Logic recently released PostPost, a custom real-time internet newspaper made up of links a user’s friends and Pages have shared on Facebook. It makes it easy to consume, Like, share, and comment on longer form content such as news articles and videos. PostPost is design ...
• Facebook’s Top 10 Status Update Trends of 2010 Ref ...
  Facebook posted a blog today revealing the top 10 status update trends over the past year. Interesting, many of these pertained to youthful fads like Justin Bieber and the acronym HMU (“hit me up”) but also there were several that reflected Facebook’s increasingly global reach with references to the ...
• Adopt, Care for a Virtual Child, Donate with UNICE ...
  The United Nationâs Childrenâs Fund, or UNICEF, created a Facebook application called Help a Child. It allows users to care for a virtual child, through buying virtual goods that it requests. The difference from most games is that this money is actually a donation towards UNICEF projects in the real ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Thanks @MegTady -- Mere Hours Left to Sa ...
  truthout: Thanks @MegTady -- Mere Hours Left to Save Net Neutrality http://bit.ly/eV7t9T
• truthout: Halliburton Offers Nigeria $250 Million ...
  truthout: Halliburton Offers Nigeria $250 Million in Exchange for Dropping Charges Against Cheney, Company http://bit.ly/eC2wnS #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: "Giant" Holbrooke Failed on Afghan War h ...
  truthout: "Giant" Holbrooke Failed on Afghan War http://bit.ly/fzU2ML #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: What Bernie Said, Part I http://bit.ly/f ...
  truthout: What Bernie Said, Part I http://bit.ly/fo0IDQ #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Edgy Europe Wonders: Who Will Be Next? h ...
  truthout: Edgy Europe Wonders: Who Will Be Next? http://bit.ly/hdjw7N #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• No such thing as justice in the Holy Land – Palest ...
  Stuart Littlewood views a recent tour of the Republic of Ireland by a delegation of Church leaders from Palestine during which they described in meetings with Irish politicians the situation in their homeland under Israeli military occupation and the plight of the dwindling Christian community there ...
• Obama's last card – will he play it?
  Alan Hart argues that, with the help of pressure from the European Union, US President Barack Obama could be nudged into signalling the end of American tolerance of Israeli crimes and violations of international law, or else the US can look forward to sharing Israel’s growing international isolation ...
• Shameful traits of the USA and Israel
  Paul J. Balles views two shameful traits shared by the US and Israel and represented in the views of Joseph A. Klein: abhorring criticism and diverting attention from their own faults when criticized by levelling the same criticism at others.
• Israel's war on Jerusalem children: 1,200 arrested ...
  Jonathan Cook reports on the brutality meted out by Israeli police to Palestinian minors, some as young as seven years old, including arrests, interrogation without the presence of a lawyer or parent, and physical violence.
• 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 ...

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

• On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvr ...
  Decreased Appetite & Increased Termination Risk before the Main Course As I have said before I am not ready to analyze or talk about Wikileaks’ recent exposé. It’s still too early, and so far too little with too insignificant implications has been released. I am still waiting for the highly revealin ...
• A Parody for You: ‘Grandma Got Molested at the Air ...
  By Donny Aldridge- Singer, Songwriter & Political Satirist A friend sent me the following music clip; too real yet too funny. Enjoy it, let it be another reminder of how low we’ve stooped as a society, and keep up the spirit of resistance.   This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Pleas ...
• 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 [...]

Afro Spear

• Who Shall Leadeth The AfroSpear?!
  I just finished watching a documentary on Wikileaks & Julian Assange.  At the (premature) end of the doc, one of Assange’s collaborator’s bemoaned the fact that the collective had broken down over an individual’s insistence on releasing the more dramatic info, too quickly, as opposed to a more meas ...
• 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 ...

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

• EnviroLeaks – Coming Soon…
  Watch this space for more information. Secure email in advance to farnish [at] hushmail [dot] com Nothing is as it seems…
• 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 ...

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

• How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Ep ...
  In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive a ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• Edge on Terror - Sweden Reels Following Nearly Dis ...
  On December 13, Swedish intelligence officials say they are “98 percent” certain about the identity of the man who detonated a bomb in central Stockholm on December 11. Prior to the weekend blast, the suspected suicide bomber was unknown to Sweden’s national security apparatus. While authorities are ...
• The Rocky Recovery - Wall Street Quietly Creates a ...
  When Florida retiree Gladys Walker fell behind in paying taxes on her modest Pompano Beach home, she had no idea one of America’s biggest banks and a major Wall Street hedge fund engaged in frenzied bidding for the right to collect her debt—all $768.25 of it.“I just couldn’t come up with the money,” ...
• The Tobacco Lobby and the Case of Corporate Genoci ...
  I write to praise your recent investigation of the global tobacco lobby (see see The Tobacco Lobby Goes Global, Page One, November 29, 2010). As you wrote, this pernicious industry’s product is the planet's leading source of preventable death. It is responsible for the deliberate death of millions a ...
• Islam on Edge - Anwar Ibrahim’s Islamic Agenda
  The list of prominent U.S. admirers of Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s former Deputy Prime Minister, on trial for corruption and sodomy, is impressive. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, former President of the World Bank James Wolfensohn, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Letters of support o ...
• Authors on the Road - Edwin Black to Speak in New ...
  Award-winning author and journalist Edwin Black is scheduled to speak in New York City�on his latest book, The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust, a book that adds to his body of work which includes volumes such as Banking on Baghdad and Internal Combustion that�chronicle the i ...

High Country News

• It was written on the wind
  Remembering the untimely death of a "downwinder" brother from New Mexico.
• High Country Views: Anticline deer decline
  Emilene Ostlind talks with former federal biologist Rollin Sparrowe about energy development on the Pinedale Anticline and its impact on wildlife.
• Tips for tapping into your wild marketer
  Tongue-in-cheek suggestions inspire the Western would-be entrepreneur.
• Nothing "wise" about advocating poaching
  No matter how much you hate wolves, you don't have the right to "shoot, shovel and shut up."
• Ranchers can fight global climate change, one acre ...
  The great grasslands and rangelands of the West are a perfect place for carbon sequestration.

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

• Joe Miller is Dead, Will Someone Tell Him To Lie ...
  Will somebody tell Joe Miller to lie down already, is election effort is dead as a doornail? At this point in time, his continuing efforts to get a judge to side with him is as sad as Willie Mays' feeble effort with the New York Mets in 1973, every time you see it you just want to cringe. What's eve ...
• The Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Why It Continues
  By Barry Rubin When people ask me why the Arab-Israeli conflict is so misunderstood, the best and simplest way to explain is by citing the central problem; the contrast between reality and what seems logical to those who live in a far-off land that operates by different political rules, have ...
• Voters To Congress-Secure The Border Before Amnest ...
  Once public opinion polls show how out of touch with voters are the progressives in congress. While Senator Reid is still playing around with the Dream Act, Rasmussen was asking voters what they thought about illegal immigration. By a large majority, voters want congress to get control of our border ...
• Newsbusted: How al Queda Plans to Use Obamacare
  Its Tuesday, that means its time for the latest dose of Newsbusted from Newsbusters.org,� the three� minute news video responsible for more Danny Thomas-type Spit takes than any other video on the internet. In this week's episode you will learn of al Queda's plans to use Obamacare for their adv ...
• The IRS Declares Israel is a Terrorist State, So T ...
  The fact that the Obama administration is not a big fan of the First Amendment show itself every time Kathleen Sebelius threatens a company that speaks out against Obamacare.� But there are other ways they fight against people's right of free speech, the heavy hand of the IRS. This past August ...

The Real Agenda

• Marcado desde o nascimento: Embriões Codificados
  Fox News Versão Português Luis R. Miranda Em filmes futuristas como “Aliens 2″ e “12 Macacos”, os presos são controladas com códigos de barra para fácil identificação. Mas a realidade hoje é ainda mais selvagem: Os cientistas têm proposto o uso de código de barras para codificar embriões ...
• Marcados desde el nacimiento: Embriones Codificado ...
  Fox News Versión Español Luis R. Miranda En las películas futuristas como “Aliens 2″ y “12 Monos”, los presos son controlados con códigos de barras para facilitar su identificación. Pero la realidad de hoy es aún más salvaje: Los científicos han propuesto códigos de barras para embriones hu ...
• Parem o Financiamento da Fraude do “Aquecime ...
  Por Phyllis Schlafly Versão Português Luis R. Miranda Os profetas e os propagandistas do aquecimento global antropogénico, que gostam de viver em grande estilo com o dinheiro dos outros, se reuniram em Cancún, no México, onde as temperaturas de janeiro geralmente ficam em torno de 80 graus Fahrenhei ...
• No más financiamiento a la estafa del ‘calen ...
  Por Phyllis Schlafly Versión Español Luis R. Miranda Los profetas y propagandistas del calentamiento global, que disfrutan de vivir con estilo usando el dinero de otras personas, se reunieron en Cancún, México, donde las temperaturas de enero por lo general rondan los 80 grados Farenheit. Dios debe ...
• Halt All Funding for ‘Global Warming’ ...
  The global warming prophets and propagandists, who enjoy living in style on other people's money, gathered last month in the plush resort of Cancun, Mexico, where January temperatures usually hover around 80 degrees. God must have a sense of humor because Cancun was hit by its coldest temperature in ...

Wind Watch

• Integrating wind and water power, an increasingly ...
  PORTLAND, Ore. — The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration, the largest of 16 U.S. Department of Energy pilot projects, is under way in five Northwest states. It seeks ways to balance the region’s huge base of hydroelectric power with its fast-expanding collection of wind farms. With a budget o ...
• Plans for turbines anger some Urbana residents
  URBANA â Roy Douglas knows it will not be too long before his family loses its five-generation farm to encroaching development â he has already sold part of it to the University of Illinois, and the school owns hundreds of acres across the street. But right now, he is more worried about losing the h ...
• As wind power expands, so do threats to bat popula ...
  GWEN IFILL: For those stations not taking a pledge break, The NewsHour continues now with an unexpected windmill problem in the Pacific Northwest. It’s part of our series, NewsHour Connect, which showcases the work of our colleagues in public media. Ed Jahn of Oregon Public Broadcasting, reports. ED ...
• MOH targets ill effects of turbines
  In recent years, the burgeoning wind energy industry has been able to count as an ally public health officials in Ontario � but that may soon change. Dr. Hazel Lynn, the chief medical officer of health in Grey and Bruce counties, is laying the groundwork for what would be the first Ontario-based stu ...
• 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 ...

Not My Tribe

• Berlusconi “wins” an election, riots i ...
  A taste of things to come, Silvio, a not very gentle reminder that your adoring public don’t really like you. In case there’s need for further reminders, remember when you got hit in the face with a church? Sweet.
• TeaBag RepubliScum get to kill more Americans thro ...
  Just the way they want it. They’re too yellow to shoot us down in the street for being disabled and poor. So they do it by challenging what little health care is available to us. And because they’re RepubliKlans, they’ll do it in the name of Jesus and call the rest of us blasphemers if [...]
• Violent fight, unholy sight, Machine gun fire ligh ...
  screams of the wounded men, writhing in pain. Details work day and night burying the slain.. all their murders done in Christ’s Holy Name, Jesus looks down, and He weeps… Jesus looks down and He weeps. Ok, so that story bugs me every year, they tell it ad nauseum, about the British and Germans takin ...
• Birther Soldier contesting orders based on Stupidi ...
  Army Doctor from Greeley Colorado is contesting his orders to Greater VietRaquiStan based on the Retarded conspiracy theory advanced by Fox news and everybody else who is upset that a Black man is president of the United States. People who protested being sent into the meat-grinder based on the very ...
• Wikileaks information freedom fighter denied bail ...
  Although reporting of the CableGate leaks is taking a backseat to Julian Assange’s arrest, the Wikileaks media powertrain has grown into a monster truck. Nothing like a jailed dissident to illuminate tyranny. And of course the oppressiveness of the private sector is unveiling itself, as Assange poin ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• This should be a laugh...
  It seems Michael Shermer is making a documentary about 'conspiracies'. My Day in Dealey Plaza: Why JFK was Killed by a Lone Assassin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shermer/my-day-in-dealey-plaza-wh_b_796812.html There is no more to the Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory than there is that Presid ...
• Coming Soon to an Airport Near You - Thanks to 9/1 ...
  You've heard about the passenger who opted out of a full-body scan (a.k.a. "a virtual strip search") and was subjected to an intrusive and humiliating pat down. "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," passenger John Tyner told Transportation Security Administration workers in San Diego. Wel ...
• Airport Body Scanners Safe, Experts Say (Ignore th ...
  Airport Body Scanners Safe, Experts Say http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=646395 ... Yeh ... I heard Corexit is safe too ... and depleted uranium ... and the swine flu vaccine ... and the 9/18/2001 ground zero air ... Of course, one body scan isn't gonna kill you ... it's a cum ...
• Neighbourhood Irrationalist
  'Neighborhood Rationalist' has tried to debunk me over at "the official blog for the growing Facebook group, '9/11 conspiracy theories are BS'", a facebook group with 1,217 members (we have more than that just in Ae911truth!). As I pointed out recently, people who call themselves 'rationalists', u ...
• Stuck in the Left-Right Paradigm...
  Huffingtonpost has written an article about Andrew Napolitano revealing himself to be a truther, and the majority of comments on the article are supportive of 9/11 truth. One comment however that wasn't was this one. Here's where 9/11 conspiracy theory breaks down for me as a practical matter: the ...

Fooducate

• Are You Buying Old Food at the Grocery Store?
  This is a guest blog post by Eric Burkett. It originally appeared on Delish.com Care for a glass of year-old orange juice? How about some pre-washed, bagged spinach picked almost two weeks ago? A five-month-old apple? Month-old meat? If, like most folks, you buy your produce and food at grocery ...
• Yoplait Reformulates. Giving Away 1 Million Cups
  Big marketing move for General Mill’s Yoplait brand this week. The yogurt giant has reformulated its “Original” line of products by fortifying them with calcium and vitamin D. Calcium has moved up from 20% of the daily value to 50%, as has vitamin D. Yoplait is also giving away 1 million cups of yo ...
• Baby’s First Solid Food – What Should it Be?
  Almost every parent has a scrapbook photo of baby’s inaugural sitting at the high chair, trying out a solid (actually mushy) food for the first time. Rice cereal has long been held as the first food to add to a baby’s diet: When infants are ready for solid food, experts say, start them first on [. ...
• 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 ...

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• 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 government rejects high-profile court rul ...
  Four years later, the Botswana government continues to reject the High Court ruling. © Survival Four years on from a court victory which saw the Kalahari Bushmen win the right to live on their ancestral lands, the Botswana government has issued a statement flouting the ruling. In 2002, the Bo ...
• 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 ...
  

   

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  Renewable-energy program has chance of extension

  Los Angeles Times

  - Dec 14, 2010

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  (Al Seib, Los Angeles Times / December 15, 2010) By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times A federal stimulus program that has helped keep renewable-energy projects ...

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  Green: Imagining a Renewable Utah

  New York Times (blog)

  - Dec 15, 2010

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  Many states currently have quotas for reliance on renewable electricity, but the highest is California's at just 33 percent. Yet how much renewable energy ...

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  Charlotte's garbage going to renewable energy

  WLOS

  - Dec 15, 2010

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  CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) -- Charlotte will divert its household garbage from landfills to a renewable energy project that will turn it into fuel for electricity ...

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  Renewable Energy and Your Farm

  Utica Observer Dispatch

  - Dec 15, 2010

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  By Anonymous Farmers and landowners from the Central New York region are invited to attend the “Renewable Energy and Your Farm” conference on Wednesday, ...

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  Ecology and Environment, Inc. Delivers Record Revenue for the Quarter

  GlobeNewsWire (press release)

  - Dec 15, 2010

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  15, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ecology and Environment, Inc. (Nasdaq:EEI) reported record revenue of $42.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, ...

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  DOE Continuing Work at GP Site

  KGMI

  - Dec 15, 2010

  - 2 hours ago

  The State Department of Ecology will be doing more work at the Georgia-Pacific cleanup site on the Bellingham waterfront starting today. ...

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  Global Ecology Corporation Announces New Water Treatment Venture in South Africa

  Marketwire (press release)

  - Dec 15, 2010

  - 33 minutes ago

  Global Ecology CEO Peter Ubaldi said, "This is a major opportunity to help the people of Africa with insufficient water resources gain access to fresh water ...

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  IBNLive-Siemens Ecovative Awards 2010

  Moneycontrol.com

  - Dec 15, 2010

  - 1 hour ago

  These initiatives could range from use of green energy to ecology preservation and protection, lowering pollution to resource recycling, and more. ...

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  MDOT: Blue Water Bridge may reopen today

  Detroit Free Press

  - Dec 15, 2010

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  By ELISHA ANDERSON and MATT HELMS The Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron could be back up and running later today. Every effort will be made to open Highway ...

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  Judge slams 'sloppy' smelt rules

  Stockton Record

  - Dec 15, 2010

  - 52 minutes ago

  The ruling will not have an immediate impact on how much water can be pumped out of the Delta, west of Stockton. But it requires the US Fish and Wildlife ...

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  Plymouth Twp. repairs water mains but work impacting traffic

  The Detroit News

  - Dec 15, 2010

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  Plymouth Township — Crews have repaired a water main that broke Tuesday afternoon at Ann Arbor and Sheldon roads, but related work means only one ...

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  Rates Heading Up for DeKalb County Water and Sewer

  Patch

  - Dec 15, 2010

  - 4 hours ago

  By David Pendered | Email the author | 5:51am Water and sewer rates are set to climb in Dunwoody and throughout DeKalb County in each of the next four years ...

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