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• ECUADOR: Farming in the Shadow of the Volcano
  On a clear day, hundreds of families pull over in their cars and snap pictures of the column of smoke spewing out of the Tungurahua volcano in central Ecuador.
• LATIN AMERICA: Quality Jobs Urgently Needed for Ri ...
  Programmes to reduce the unemployment rate among young people in Latin America and the Caribbean should be a priority for countries in the region, said experts, trade unionists and government representatives meeting in the Chilean capital.
• Gains in Kandahar Came with More Brutal U.S. Tacti ...
  The Barack Obama administration's claim of "progress" in its war strategy is based on the military seizure of three rural districts outside Kandahar City in October.
• Dire Development Issues Converge in the Drylands
  Few are aware that close to one billion people in over 100 different countries are suffering from or severely threatened by intense desertification. Yet awareness is crucial, for it is human behaviour that has led to the proliferation of hyper- arid, uncultivable drylands over the past few ...
• EDUCATION: Meet TESSA, Ugandan Teachers' Best Frie ...
  BEATRICE Namuzibira's class of 90 pupils is not even considered a large one, compared to classes in other schools. Universal primary education has filled classrooms beyond capacity across Uganda, putting a strain on teachers.

Scoop - NZ

• NZer Of The Year Nominations Overlook Real Estate
  Many real estate industry observers are shocked that recent nominations for the New Zealander of the Year awards have failed to recognize the stellar achievements of a leading Harcourts consultant. Daryl Cosgraves has just been awarded the Harcourts International Consultant of the Year, the NZ Co ...
• WikiLeaks Conjures Litvinenko’s Ghost
  We keep hearing there’s nothing in the WikiLeaks cables we didn’t already know – this from people who, more often than not, are frothing at the mouth about Julian Assange’s alleged “treason” and “anti-American” villainy. Of course, if these cables are no big deal, then the charge of having done grea ...
• China Overbuilding to 'Hit a Wall'
  The overdependence on new real estate in China, when the demand isn't there, will cause the nation to eventually "hit a wall," hedge fund manager James Chanos told CNBC Friday. “Construction is 60-plus percent of GDP, compared to exports of 5,” said Chanos, who is the founder and president of Kyn ...
• Offensive Smithsonian Exhibition and Hysteria
  I read with interest an item from the Los Angels Times which derides the Smithsonian Institute for failing to stand up to homophobic bullies
• Cancun agreement builds towards global climate dea ...
  Governments in Cancun, Mexico, have chosen hope over fear and put the building blocks back in place for a global deal to combat climate change. For the first time in years, governments put aside some major differences and compromised to reach a climate agreement.

Independent - London

• Ghost village sale shows off Spain's demise
  Nestled into the green highlands of northern Spain, the small village of Valdelavilla seems like an idyllic place, except for one small detail: it doesn't have any inhabitants.
• Soros vs Murdoch: The battle for the soul of Ameri ...
  Who knew that Rupert Murdoch and George Soros, two billionaires of not so tender years, had it in them? But consider.
• Hospital 'set up' for Putin visit, doctor tells TV ...
  A cardiologist is in serious trouble with his local authorities after telling Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that he had been conned while on an official visit to a regional hospital.
• Kashmir torture is a thing of the past, says India
  The chief minister of Kashmir has insisted that the use of torture, alleged in the latest leaked diplomatic cables which claim that Indian security forces had over many years beaten and electrocuted prisoners it suspected were linked to insurgents, is a thing of the past.
• Feared Mafia fugitive played agony aunt
  One of the Sicilian Mafia's most feared figures bragged of his ability as a lover, and even advised his underlings on their love lives.

Rogue Government.com

• N.Korea says war with South would go nuclear
  North Korea warned that another war with South Korea would involve nuclear weapons, as diplomatic efforts continued Friday to ease high tensions over its atomic ambitions and deadly artillery attack.
• CIA Gave Torturers $5 Million Legal Shield
• Bank's secret plans
  Some big banks are cooking up a secret plan to alleviate some of the pain the Federal Reserve inflicted yesterday when it proposed to cut so-called swipe fees by as much as 89 percent, The Post has learned.
• Waiting To Exhale: Climate Criminals Want To Tax E ...
  The rabid religious environmental zealots are wild-eyed and completely mad but many of them are well meaning fools.
• IMF chief worried about Europe domino effect
  The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday he was worried that EU leaders' piecemeal approach to Europe's debt crisis was encouraging markets to pick off weak countries one by one.

Innovation Canada

• Celebrating Arctic research
  When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...
• 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

Signs of the times

• Extreme Weather Wreaks Havoc in Europe
  Berlin -- Heavy overnight snowfall grounded about 450 flights and caused major delays at German airports Friday, forced schools to close and left highways clogged with traffic after scores of accidents that killed at least two people and injured dozens. Snow also hindered flights in the neighbour ...
• UK: Goalkeeper Commits Suicide After Fiancee Cheat ...
  A young goalkeeper hanged himself after his fiancee cheated on him with his teammate - who is the older brother of Chelsea star John Terry. Dale Roberts, 24, killed himself after his 25-year-old partner Lindsay Cowen had an affair with his Rushden and Diamonds teammate Paul Terry, reports the Dail ...
• California: '40-Year-Old Virgin' Actor Malil Gets ...
  An actor who appeared in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" has been sentenced to life in prison with possible parole for stabbing his ex-girlfriend more than 20 times. Shelley Malil was sentenced Thursday by San Diego County Superior Court Judge Harry Eilas in suburban Vista. The prosecutor says ...
• Potential Celiac Patients Show Signs of Disease
  Patients who are diagnosed with "potential" celiac disease appear metabolically similar to those who actually have the disease, researchers say. Among 29 "potential" patients, 24 were classified as having the disease on metabonomic analysis, Ivano Bertini, MD, of the University of Florence in Italy ...
• Swarm Satellite Mission to Try to Sense Ocean Magn ...
  European scientists are going to try to measure the movement of the oceans by tracing their magnetism alone. The effort will be achieved using three super-sensitive spacecraft called Swarm, which should launch in 2012. The magnetic signal of the tides sweeping around the globe has been seen befo ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Happy 75th!
  WIRED has an article by Jason Paur, "75th Anniversary of the Plane That Changed Everything". It's a commemoration of the first flight of the DC-3. The aircraft hit a "sweet spot" as a design, and changed how people traveled world-wide, and showed the airlines how technological improvements added to ...
• The Stud . . .
  Two priests died at the same time and met Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said, "I'd like to get you guys in now, but our computer's down. You will have to go back to Earth for about a week, but you can't go back as priests. What'll it be?" The first priest says, "I've always wanted to ...
• My people. My enemy.
  The latest installment of the Harper party "Father Knows Best" endless onslaught to pull the chain on the rights guaranteed with Canadian citizenship. The Harper government is bracing for a backlash over a border security agreement it is negotiating with the United States, anticipating it will s ...
• Bennie's Bedazzled . . . .
  Check out Bennie's leer at the 0:56 mark and tell me he's not having impure thoughts . . . .
• A South Sea Cruise . . .
  JALOPNIK has the details. Sure glad I wasn't there.

Media Matters for America

• PolitiFact's "Lie Of The Year" Is One Of Fox's Fa ...
  PolitiFact recently named "a government takeover of health care" as its 2010 "Lie of the Year" -- a lie that Fox News hosts and contributors have repeatedly promoted.PolitiFact: "Government Takeover Of Health Care" Is The "Lie Of The Year" PolitiFact: "Government Takeover Of Health Care" Is T ...
• Right-wing Media Continue To Cheer For Government ...
  Right-wing media figures used bills currently under consideration in Congress to continue to cheer for a government shutdown. Conservative media had previously welcomed the possibility of winning a Republican majority in Congress in order to shut down the government, "just like in '95 and '96."Cons ...
• Baier Claims Dems Circumvented Legislative Process ...
  Fox News anchor Bret Baier disingenuously claimed that Democrats circumvented the legislative process by "dumping" everything into a single spending bill. In fact,�similar omnibus bills are regularly used in the legislative process.Baier Claims Dems Bypassed "Normal Process" To "Dump" Everything In ...
• Image via WikipediaDéjà Vu: Right-wing Media Up In Arm ...
  For the second year in a row, right-wing media have complained that Time magazine did not choose the Tea Party as Person of the Year, despite the fact that the Tea Party was chosen as one of four "Runners-Up."Conservative Pundits Attack Time For Not Choosing Tea Party As Person Of The Year Bi ...
• Fox's Johnson Jr. Falsely Claims Avastin Is An Exa ...
  Fox & Friends' Peter Johnson Jr. continued Fox's campaign against health care reform, this time by claiming the FDA approval process for the cancer drug Avastin was a sign of "Obamacare rationing" and by falsely suggested that the decision is being made based on cost. �However, the FDA does not con ...

Global Research.ca

• The Internal Organizational Structure of Wikileak ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US Government Sues All Companies Involved in BP Oi ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Dear Readers: Help Media Remain Independent!
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Financial Shocks in Europe and America: Explosion ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• WIKILEAKS: Selection of Global Research Articles
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Corker's Price on Nuclear Warhead Safety is Bigotr ...
  The New START Treaty isn't just about a bilateral arrangement with Russians to keep their and our nuclear warheads under tight management. It is really about momentum in reversing the dramatic erosion of controls on a whole range of WMD materials. If the US does not move START forward and vali ...
• Tell the President: Stand Up to the Hostage-Takers ...
  Republican hostage-takers got President Obama to go along with their tax cuts for the wealthy by threatening to raise taxes on the middle class and blocking even modest stimulus funds for our struggling economy.� Now the Republicans have identified their next hostage:� They're going to threaten to ...
• The Noose Tightens For AIPAC ++ Brooklyn Bundler ...
  The Forward reports on some new filings on the AIPAC espionage/sex/blackmail case. (And here is JTA on same) Steve Rosen, pushing with all his might for a $20 million payoff, asserts that there are other occasions (other than the one for which he was indicted) in which AIPAC trafficked in govern ...
• Leapfrogging Barriers to a Two State Deal
  I'm coming out of the closet as a fan of David Makovsky. Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy -- and for the last couple of years, he has been quietly agitating to get people in ...
• Glenn Beck v. Fareed Zakaria on Terrorist Muslims
  A duel between talk show hosts on the question of how many of the world's Muslims are terrorists. On his CNN program GPS last Sunday, Fareed Zakaria called bunk on Glenn Beck for his estimate of 10% -- mainly by comparing that total (157,000,000) to the number of terrorist attacks committed in a yea ...

TruthOut

• Why the "Lazy Jobless" Myth Persists
  During the recent fight over extending unemployment benefits, conservatives trotted out the shibboleth that says the program fosters sloth. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., for instance, said added unemployment benefits mean people are "encouraged not to go look for work." Columnist Pat Buchanan said expand ...
• Gains in Kandahar Came With More Brutal US Tactics ...
  Washington - The Barack Obama administration's claim of "progress" in its war strategy is based on the military seizure of three rural districts outside Kandahar City in October. But those tactical gains have come at the price of further exacerbating the basic U.S. strategic weakness in Afghanistan ...
• We Want You Out: An Open Letter from the Afghan Y ...
  Voices for Creative Nonviolence representatives in Kabul are privileged to be meeting with representatives of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV), a group of teenagers based in Bamiyan, Afghanistan who campaign to promote nonviolence. As the Obama administration releases its December review o ...
• Robert Reich | The New Tax Deal: Reaganomics Redux
  More than thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan came to Washington intent on reducing taxes on the wealthy and shrinking every aspect of government except defense. The new tax deal embodies the essence of Reaganomics. It will not stimulate the economy. A disproportionate share of the $858 billion deal ...
• John Pilger | Protect Assange, Don’t Abuse Him
  Forty years ago, a book entitled The Greening of America caused a sensation. On the cover were these words: "There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual." I was a correspondent in the United States at the time read more

Planetsave

• Great White Sharks (10 Friday Photos)
  Photo Credit: protecttheoceans via Flickr For me, sharks, with their beautiful look and power, are one of the most interesting animals. Often, people describe them as a ugly, brutal animals that are dangerous. The other awful case is that some people eat them, which is thousands times more cruel tha ...
• Environmental News: California Chemical Bill, Self ...
  More environmental news from around the internet. Will California Swallow A Poison Pill This Christmas Season? When the author of a landmark piece of green legislation withdraws his support for a program he himself created and demands its withdrawal, it’s a pretty sure sign that industry interests h ...
• Global Warming News: Communicating Climate Science ...
  Global warming news of the week (other than what we reported already). Desertification is Greatest Threat to Planet, Expert Warns Desertification and land degradation is “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and “a threat to global wellbeing”, according to the UN’s top drylands official ...
• The Future of the Earth in 127 Hours
  It shouldn’t be this hard to kick the coal habit. Unfortunately, fighting against billionaires and their subsidy-driven profits takes some time. Don’t fret, we’ll come out of it clean. …we just may be a bit bloody and limb-less. Related info: Ecopolitology’s Coal article archive My Coal cartoon arch ...
• Wind Turbines May Be Benefit for Crops
  The benefit of wind turbines is going to be a very long debate that carries on for many years, but new research led by a researcher at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and his co-researcher from the University of Colorado could swing the balance of discussions just a little bit. Accordi ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Summary Report for Sub-Sea and Sub-Surface Oil and ...
  Operational Science Advisory Team, Unified Area Command; prepared for Paul F. Zukunft, RADM, U. S. C
• Congratulations on the Wetlands Family Day
  Waihola couldn’t have put on better weather for the family  day that the Society held on the 2
• Journey through Waihola’s wetland (Taieri Herald, ...
  Journey through Waihola’s wetland Taieri Herald 30 Nov 2010 The magnificent view from within the wet
• A Well-Earned MPA Victory!
  After years of debate, Point Dume has been designated as a Marine Protected Area by the state of Cal
• Swedish City Goes from 100% to 0% Fossil Fuel Heat
  Some folks aren’t going to like the way this story goes, but Kristianstad, Sweden (pop. 80,000

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The New York Times: A Curious Case of Change of He ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 17 Decem
• Chris Hedges: Hope is an Action
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 16, 2010 Image by Collin David Anderson via
• Up Against the Fence: Hedges, Ellsberg, Gagnon and ...
  by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes December 16, 2010 Image by Collin D
• U.S. Prepares For New Decade Of War In Asia by Ric ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism D
• Peace in Our Time: Obama's Munich, Part II by Stev ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com December 15, 2

Axis of Logic

• Wikileaks: Documents Confirm US Plans Against Vene ...
  State Department documents published by Wikileaks evidence Washington's plans to "contain" Venezuela's influence in the region and increase efforts to provoke regime change A substantial portion of the more than 1600 State Department documents Wikileaks has published during the past two weeks ref ...
• The Debate Continues: Author Dave Stratman replies ...
  Editor's Note: We appreciate the ongoing debate between author Dave Stratman and Axis of Logic Reader, Remy Waller in the Reader Comment section of Stratman's critique of the film documentary, "Inside Job". They continue their earlier exchange with this discussion on corporate bailouts and tax break ...
• Obama’s AfPak review: Endless war in face of mass ...
  17 December 2010 The Obama administration’s review of its strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan produced the predictable conclusion that the war and occupation will go on indefinitely, despite mass opposition from the American people. That is the core message of the perfunctory five-page statemen ...
• Julian Assange granted bail - World News
  17 December 2010 Julian Assange was granted bail at the High Court in London on Thursday. The WikiLeaks founder, who has not been charged with any crime still less found guilty of one, was still not released for several hours. Assange only walked out the front door of the High...
• Supporters liken Bradley Manning’s detention to to ...
  Next House intel chairman calls for Manning's execution The soldier accused of leaking secret US documents to secrets outlet WikiLeaks is being held in conditions that could amount to torture, his supporters say. US Army Private Bradley Manning has been detained in solitary confinement s ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• North Korea Would Approve
  When we talk about Liberal Democracy, when we refer to American Democracy, when we think about how America is different, what we mean is a nation, a society, that does not permit atrocities like this: DOES AMERICA REALLY OPPOSE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? Glenn Greenwald's recent post on the appa ...
• CNN abdicates all claims to journalism by throwing ...
  This is just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong, wronger, wrongest. More wrong than ham at Passover. � Serious journalism operations simply don't team up with partisan political players for presidential debates. Not serious journalism outfits that want to continue to be taken seriously, ...
• I told you there would be pushback for drone attac ...
  About the time the United States started escalating the drone attacks across the Afghan border into Pakistan, I started arguing that overreliance on drones is a really bad idea, that they were being misused and ought to be used for gathering SIGINT instead of for armed aerial incursions into the ter ...
• The Lie of the Year
  PolitiFact has done the dirty work for me by keeping track of the myriad lies of the shameless, feckless assholes in DC for the last year and determined which one was the biggest, most shameless lie of them all. I shall be eternally grateful to them for that, because I don't have time for a three-we ...
• Our biggest worry about North Korea isn't the nuke ...
  There is a lot of debate an analysis right now being undertaken by high-minded people regarding the tensions between North and South Korea, but while serious people debate the health of Kim Jung-Il and the future of the hermit state, South Korean citizens who work with North Korean defectors have a ...

Care 2

• Stop Glenwood From Trapping Wolves ! PLEASE TAKE A ...
  In Glenwood New Mexico the decision was made to trap wolves of a specific pack, and put them into captivity. This pack of wolves has become a problem because they are feeding off the livestock of some people but they got their first taste of a dead cowSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• Where translocation triggered leopard-human confli ...
  A new research paper, published in the latest edition of Conservation Biology, links this exponential increase in attacks to a large-scale translocation project. In 2001, 86 leopards were captured in the area and many relocated in a forest 39 km awaySubmitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �No ...
• Update On The Horrible Dogpound In Costanza (Roman ...
  Save the Dogs' intervention last September, when the grim killings in the Costanza dog pound were filmed for the second time in three months, has stopped Alfmob's criminal actions. The infamous company of dog-catchers, managed by men close to the syndicatSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Not ...
• URGENT!!! Donations Needed for "Operation Smile"
  For as little as $240US or just $20US a month you can help provide a cleft lip surgery that will transform the life of a child! There are lower donation options available on site. Please Note, Take Action & Forward -- TY!Submitted by Third Eye Open to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
• Tigers on the prowl: Saving big cats through art
  The project, 'Artiger - Art for the Tiger', features 50 artists, 50 corporate houses and installations of tigers spread across 52 public locations in the capital to save the big cats which are threatened by a combination of factors in their habitats. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...

Smirking Chimp

• The Death of the Moderates: Extreme Problems Requi ...
• Just-Released IRS Data Show Effects of Our Radical ...
• Citizens United: As Bad As You Thought It Was
• First in the hearts of his countrymen? Bringing Ge ...
• An Indecent Man: Bill O'Reilly's Shameful Campaign ...

Paul Krugman

• They Have Made a Desert
  No production, but the currency is stable!
• Chinese Confusions
  No feasible choices are feasible.
• When Will The Fed Tighten?
  Not for a long, long time.
• Fannie Freddie Forked Tongue
  An awesome commissioner catch.
• Build We Won't
  Decrepitude creeps.

No Quarter

• Santa, This Year I Need a Coat
  What a gloomy and heartbreaking measure of our current economic situation. Check this out. The millions of letters sent by children to Santa Clause end up at post offices and reviewed (as is possible) by “staff elves.” This year there are fewer requests for bikes, computer games, and other hot toys. ...
• Terrorist Threat to DC Metro?
  Obama Administration has a problem. DOD is circulating an unclassified document detailing recent surveillance of DC’s subway system and warning its employees about a possible terrorist threat to the subway system. However, this info, to my knowledge, has not been conveyed to the public. This violate ...
• Harry Reid Blinks
  Business as usual in Washington ended tonight. Harry Reid pulled the pork laden spending bill that, if passed, would have locked the Republicans into a massive budget deficit for the next year. Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill after several Republicans who had been ...
• Open Thread [Update]
  Update: Are any of you watching C-Span? I’d like reports on the latest. I just heard that Reid made a procedural maneuver to avoid Sen. Jim DeMint’s plan to have the entire omnibus bill read (which would take @ 60 hours), because Reid learned that Republican support for the bill is falling away. Wha ...
• All It Takes Is Taking That Step
  Recently, I wrote about some of the opportunities available to provide toys to children around the holidays. Of course, children need much more than that, especially those whose families are being hit so hard by this economy (my friend, Pat Racimora, has an awesome toon about this very issue). Somet ...

Environmental Graffiti

• What Exactly Is an Essential Oil?
  If you're even remotely interested in aromatherapy, it’s likely you've heard a lot of talk about essential oils and their healing properties. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 7 Facts and Fictions about Wine Corks
  The facts and fallacies concerning wine closures. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Green IT: Our Expectations as Users
  A perception of an IT environmental paradise may be reality if design schemes are peered with infrastructural requirements that drive data and operators. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• The Panther Chameleon, a Master of Disguise
  Panther Chameleons are exotic, beautiful and also very finicky creatures that are becoming very popular as pets. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Artic Walruses' Trek May Be Defining Global Wa ...
  A trek of walruses may be occurring now, but a warming trend has been prompting their migration for some time now. 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

• It's True: Sweden Was Too Good to Be True
  Sweden suffers its first suicide bombing.
• Richard Holbrooke: A Statesman's Statesman -- if Y ...
  When it came to realpolitik, he could make Henry Kissinger look like a liberal.
• WikiLeaks XXII: Once a Beacon of Freedom to Africa ...
  Drug enforcement in Ghana targets only the small dealers.
• The China-Philippines-U.S. Triangle
  Newly suspicious of China, the Philippines is tilting again toward the United States.
• Q. So What Are You Fighting For? A. Ah'm Fightin' ...
  To insurgents, invasion will always trump ideology as the reason they resist.

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

• Pressure mounts on Cote d'Ivoire
  UN warns against violence as France threatens sanctions if incumbent Laurent Gbagbo does not surrender power by weekend.
• UN to probe Haiti cholera outbreak
  World body is set to launch investigation into source of the epidemic, which many Haitians blame on UN peacekeepers.
• Nigeria drops Cheney graft charges
  Anti-corruption watchdog drops charges against former US vice-president and Halliburton after settlement reached.
• Sudan 'could give up' southern oil
  Government ready to give up share of oil wealth if South Sudan votes against independence in January, president says.
• CIA's Pakistan chief recalled to US
  US spy agency has sent its top official in Islamabad back home, after lawsuit exposes his identity to enemy fighters.

Green Inc. - NYT

• An Efficient Way to Play Madden Football
  Playing Madden NFL 11, the popular EA Sports video game, consumes roughly six times more electricity on the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 than on the Nintendo Wii, according to engineers who carried out a study.
• Climate Questions and Fox News
  The media watchdog Media Matters cites an e-mail from an editor cautioning reporters not to say that the planet has warmed without adding that the relevant data has been called into question.
• Officials Designate Public Lands for Solar Project ...
  Some 22 million acres in six states would qualify.
• The Energy Future Ain't What It Used To Be
  An Energy Department forecast projects that the price of natural gas and electricity will remain relatively low over the next quarter-century.
• A Grolar Bear? The Perils of Shrinking Arctic Ice
  At least 22 species are at risk of hybridization, which could break down the defenses for survival, a study warns.

Dot Earth News

• Pondering a Polar Predator in Retreat
  Facilitating a strategic retreat for an ice-loving bear in a warming world.
• 'Prudent Vigilance' Sought On Synthetic Life
  A presidential commission gives a cautious green light to commercial work programming the genetic code for self-replicating organisms.
• U.S. Energy Choices and Global Climate Plans
  A new forecast of American energy choices reveals opportunities and challenges ahead.
• An Energy Menu That Works for the Long Haul
  What will it take to end America's long bipartisan slumber party on energy innovation?
• Beyond Political Science
  Two views on how to overcome paralyzing political divisions on climate and other issues framed by science.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
  Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• The Systematic Propulsion of the Patriotic Agenda ...
  By Shah Baig By the end of World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed, innocent civilians (Adam Roberts Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 52, no. 3, June–July 2010, pp. 115–136). This statistic has been  ignored by the media and the government of the United States to support t ...
• Fire Teachers, Reappoint Rhee!: Legend of the Fall ...
  After announcing that U.S. education is a complete failure, unlike the Golden Era of the 1950s, on The Colbert Report , former DC chancellor Michelle Rhee has brought her celebrity crisis tour to CNN where she charged, once again, that public education is a failure based on recent PISA scores, ranke ...
• Mighty Bernie has struck out. We’re on our own
  Michael Collins An effective movement for real change should express the positive values of the vast majority. Of fundamental importance, it requires citizens who trust elected and appointed official only while those officials prove their fidelity to the peoples’ interests and the laws of the land. ...
• Chicago’s Mayor Daley says let pension funds go ba ...
  Speaking on a Global Metro Summit panel at the University of Illinois-Chicago with Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Daley appeared to indicate that allowing the pensions to go bankrupt so they could be reorganized was something he believes could happen. “ ...
• The Hypocrisy of Christmas‏‏ in America
  www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please Join us this Thursday December 16th at 7:30 PM EST. If you cannot listen LIVE you can listen on Archive! America continues to be a quagmire of hypocrisy. The vast majority of the American populous is continually programmed by a tainted past they seemingly ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• South Korea drill no threat to North: US
• Xe Services, formerly Blackwater International, so ...
• Thune: I Would Never Vote For The DREAM Act
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• The Payroll Tax: Just Another Tax?

Institute for Policy Studies

• Recklessness with Nuclear Waste
  Hanford remains one of the most contaminated zones in the western Hemisphere.
• 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.

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

• Sally Jackson Raw Milk Cheese Distribution List fo ...
  Whole Foods, (GTN) (RSQ) (PRN), Great Ciao, Provista Specialty Foods Inc., Ideal Cheese, Aniate Cheese, Cavanioles Gourmet, Marion St. Cheese Market, The Herbfarm, Tomales Bay Foods, Farmstead Inc., Quality Cheese, Rays Boathouse, Savout, Kirkland Met Market, The Cheese Shop, Madison Market, Di Brun ...
• Food Safety Law Book by James F. Neale and Angela ...
  In one of those moments when I thought; “I should have done that first,” Jim and Angela have done a great job and making Food Safety Law more that a bit(e) interesting. As I said in the foreward: “For those not acquainted with my neighborhood, Food Safety Law will help you navigate the roads and g ...
• Sally Jackson Cheese recalls all cheese due to lin ...
  In what has hit the dozen mark of raw milk and/or raw milk cheese outbreak and/or recall 2010, this press release landed in my inbox as I was packing to head home to Seattle from Washington D. C.� According to a press release by Sally Jackson Cheese of Oroville, Washington, the company is recalling ...
• Yea, we don't need a Food Safety Bill - Settlement ...
  Being in D.C. this week allowed me both to do my day job of being a lawyer and my other day job of trying to put myself out of business (I do blogging at night). Thanks to the lack of function in politics here, retirement is not yet in the cards for me. I did, however, do a series of confidential ...
• Food Safety Bill may die a painful death
  It is late here in Washington D.C. (also known as an alternative universe).� It snowed all day making getting to meetings with Senate and House Members (and a few reporters) somewhat problematic (except for riding the cool trains between House and Senate offices and the Capitol).� In the last two da ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 12.17.10
  A visit to Think City's electric car U.S. production plant in Eklhard, Indiana Who's ready for an EV madeo. in the U.S.? First Nissan Leaf owner sums up his drive time Choice quote: "Yesterd ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.16.10
  On the irrationality of buying a plug-in vehicle Why buying an EV is ca-razy. Ford's retooled Michigan Assembly ready to build electrics, hybrids and more It's like a Swiss Army plant. ...
• Report: Nissan, Mitsubishi will work together on s ...
  Filed under: Mitsubishi, Nissan, Electric Following reports that Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will open a new, efficient global small car plant in Thailand, rumors that MMC and Nissan are talking about a 50-50 joint company in 2011 are a lot more interesting. Automotive News is reporting t ...
• 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, ...

Rafe's Radar

• Cash is dead, says Dwolla
  Can an Iowa-based start-up undercut PayPal--and credit cards--by charging only a 25-cent-per-transaction fee?
• 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.

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!

• Meet our 100,000th Facebook Fan: Barunesh Chandra
  Barunesh Chandra says it was through his interest in the Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy that led him to Democracy Now!, after finding the interview Amy Goodman conducted with Roy on the conflict in Kashmir several months ago on the Internet. âI am a big fan of Arundhati ⦠I fi ...
• ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to t ...
  Despite being granted bail, WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange remains imprisoned in London, awaiting extradition proceedings to answer a prosecutor’s questions in Sweden. He hasn’t been formally charged with any crime. His lawyers have heard that a grand jury in the United States has been ...
• 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 ...

Digg Green

• The 100 Top Science Stories of 2010
  Every year DISCOVER sorts through the scientific accomplishments of the past 12 months, and assembles a list of the coolest experiments, most brilliant discoveries, and most world-changing events. As you page through the countdown to the #1 science story, we think you'll come to the same conclu ...
• X-rays From Lightning
  Using a custom-built camera the size of a refrigerator, Florida researchers have made the world’s first crude pictures of X-rays streaming from a stroke of lightning.
• Opportunity Rover Finds Fresh Crater on Mars ...
  The Mars rover Opportunity has just rolled up to a fresh new crater that could hold clues to when and why Mars dried up.
• A cure for baldness could be available in 5 y ...
  For the first time, scientists in Germany have grown hair follicles from stem cells. The feat has brought scientists a step closer to creating a cure for baldness. The study used cells taken from...
• Exploring how partners perceive each other’s ...
  Some of the most intense emotions people feel occur during a conflict in a romantic relationship. Now, psychologists show that how each person perceives the other partner's emotion during a conflict greatly influences different types of thoughts, feelings and reactions in themselves.

Invisible Opportunity

• A Transmission from the Invisible Planes
  If your idea of loving someone is to give them things in place of the love, you’re going to have a front row seat through the years to what that policy accomplishes. In the age of black materialism you’re going to find all kinds of people who insist that you should give them things, because [...]
• Global Warming Causes Kidney Stones
  You really couldn’t make this stuff up! Kidney stones are one of the most painful urological disorders. They’re also one of the most common. One in 10 people will experience the pain of passing a kidney stone at some point in their lives. New research says where you live may put you at higher risk [ ...
• Is Your Doctor Being Paid and Manipulated by the D ...
  By Dr. Mercola Many people are still completely unaware of the many ways in which they are being manipulated into taking dangerous and unnecessary drugs. There’s the $5 billion direct-to-consumer marketing, of course, which is rather obvious. But physicians also play a major role, and the manipulati ...
• ‘Israel involved in Kosovo organ trade&#8217 ...
  Jonathan Ratel, who serves in Kosovo as part of the EU’s rule of law mission, has announced that the seven suspected Kosovons working as physicians for a clinic called Medicus in the capital, Pristina, belong to an international network that trades in the organs of people suffering from extreme pove ...
• US lies about Flight 253 “crotch bomber&#822 ...
  The US government who lied for wars in other resource-rich countries are lying about what happened on Delta Flight 253 with an alleged underwear/crotch bomber. Below is a summary of facts reported at this time… Before the flight to the US: * Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab traveled to Yemen to meet with â ...

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

• The War on Drugs Is a War on Poor People
  America doesn't have a drug problem. It has a poverty problem. Policy reform -- as salutary as it often is, and like the drug war before it -- risks mistaking symptom for cause.
• Marijuana Has Rocked the West Coast, And Now New E ...
  The political landscape for pot in the Northeast is changing dramatically, with bright prospects in many states.
• 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.

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

• Beautiful Christmas Tree Created From Recycled Mat ...
  Using recycled polyester strapping (PET), designer and former Inhabitat contributor Kyle Martin created an incredible Christmas tree that can also be occupied! Part art, part furniture, part sustainable design, and full-on festive and fun — this no-chop, holiday tree alternative is the perfect way t ...
• Clever LED Lanterns Inspired by the NYC Subway
  A number of Inhabitat writers are based in Inhabitat writers NYC, so we’re definitely digging these subway-inspired lanterns designed by Brooklyn-based Jeff Mayer. Featuring a colorful LED light, these are in fact the same lanterns used by the NYC engineers underground in the subway tunnels, but hav ...
• Inhabitat Green Gift Guide: Cozy Knit Gifts
  If the weather outside is frightful (it is in our neck of the woods), everyone on your holiday list will find receiving warm knit gifts delightful! Our selection of cozy green presents is filled with ideas that are inherently sustainable because they’re practical items that almost everyone needs dur ...
• Liberty Bottles: USA Made From 100% Recycled Alumi ...
  New versions of the reusable water bottle are popping up left and right, however it can be hard to keep track of all the things we’re supposed to be looking for in a good reusable bottle. But here’s a new release we’re happy to add to the mix – Liberty Bottles out of Yakima, Washington are a [...]
• You’re Invited to Inhabitat’s Holiday ...
  We’re throwing a green holiday bash and you’re invited! To ring in the holiday season, Inhabitat is teaming up with Philips and the Environment Showroom in NYC, to kick off a festive evening of cocktails, delicious (vegan) hors d’oeuvres, and glimmering conversations – and we hope to see you there ...

Pogue's Posts

• Phone Service Out? Call Customer Service, Of Cours ...
  A reader shares an exchange she had with Qwest customer service.
• Amazon Provides a Dose of Humor
  Some of the best laughs on the Internet come from Amazon reader reviews.
• 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.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Missing Black Holes Cause Trouble for String Theor ...
  By John Timmer, Ars Technica The results continue to pour out of the LHC’s first production run. This week, the folks behind the CMS detector have announced the submission of a paper to Physics Letters that describes a test of some forms of string theory. If this form of the theory were [...]
• Opportunity Rover Finds Fresh Crater on Mars
  SAN FRANCISCO — The Mars rover Opportunity has just rolled up to a fresh new crater that could hold clues to when and why Mars dried up. This image was downloaded from Opportunity at 10 am Pacific time on Dec. 15 and presented in a press conference at the American Geophysical Union meeting Dec. 16. ...
• DIY Biotech Hacker Space Opens in NYC
  A cadre of science entrepreneurs recently opened Genspace, the world's first government-compliant community biotech laboratory. The bedroom-sized facility was two years in the making and, for a $100-per-month membership, anyone can use the space for whatever experiments they dream up.
• Cultural Evolution Could Be Studied in Google Book ...
  Google’s massive trove of scanned books could be useful for researchers studying the evolution of culture. In a paper published Dec. 16 in Science, researchers turned part of that vast textual corpus into a 500-billion-word database in which the frequency of words can be measured over time and spac ...
• Rare Brain Disorder Prevents All Fear
  A middle-aged woman known as SM blithely reaches for poisonous snakes, giggles in haunted houses and once, upon escaping the clutches of a knife-wielding man, didn’t run but calmly walked away. A rare kind of brain damage precludes her from experiencing fear of any sort, finds a study published ...

PakAlert

• 25 Signs That The Coming Financial Collapse Is Now ...
  So will we reach a tipping point soon? Well, the following are 25 signs that the financial collapse is rapidly getting closer....
• Video: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (Mus ...
  This video was originally created to be part of an art exhibit for Exposed the Art Project http://www.exposedtheartproject.org , a multimedia collaboration raising awareness of social issues. The group decided that the message in the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America shouldn't be put on hold. So he ...
• Hidden History of Polio Vaccine
  Most of this information was played down and few people know the story of the polio vaccine debacle. Instead, the public has been brainwashed to believe that the Salk and Sabin vaccines were, indeed, wonder drugs of the modern era.
• Henry Kissinger was a “Soviet” Agent
  In other words, Henry Kissinger worked for both Rockefeller and the KGB. The Rockefellers are Illuminati central bankers. All intelligence agencies -- MI-6, Mossad, CIA, KGB -- ultimately serve the central bankers not their national homes.
• Missing WikiLeaks: All roads lead to Tel Aviv
  I made sure to buy The Guardian – one of five newspapers publishing the documents. With remote control in hand, I was browsing through Sky News, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera and Press TV. To the best of my recollection, it was Sky News which caught my eye. The breaking news referred to a planned Israeli nuc ...

Andy Worthington

• Summoning Up the Spirit of Ronnie Lane: The Triump ...
  Those of you who know me as the world’s most incessant commentator on Guantánamo and related issues in the “War on Terror” — or, of late, as a fierce opponent of the coalition government’s plans to butcher the British state — may be surprised to find me writing a music review, but back in 2005, [.. ...
• Video: 15-Year Old Tells UK Government Why It Has ...
  As the last legislative hurdle to the government’s savage cuts to university funding fell in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening, the determination of Britain’s young people to resist the plans to raise tuition fees from £3,290 a year to £9,000 a year, and to cut 100 percent of the funding to ar ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Best Pictures: Nat Geo Photo Contest Winners, 2010
  NoneFrom a charging buffalo to an erupting volcano—see the winning pictures of the 2010 National Geographic Photo Contest.
• New Oil—and a Huge Challenge—for Ghana
  The massive Jubilee field begins producing oil this week, but with revenue from the site come concerns about the risk of corruption and environmental compromise.
• Presented By:
• 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.

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

• Racist CCC’s Comic Book Complaint: The Gods Must b ...
  The white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is calling for a boycott of the upcoming movie âThor,â based on the Marvel comic book story and directed by Kenneth Branagh. One would think that a film fantasy about a Nordic god (played by blond, blue-eyed Australian actor Chris Hemswort ...
• With ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Movement Growing, New SPL ...
  The so-called “sovereign citizens” movement — men and women who believe they are exempt from most state and federal laws, regulations and tax codes — is spreading like a prairie fire. While many of these are tax resistors or perpetrators of “paper terrorism” – the filing of nuisance liens and such – ...
• Rap-Loving Promoter Creates Whites-Only Facebook C ...
  It looks like Facebook. It apparently works like Facebook. But the Terms of Use, not to mention the name, might give you a clue that this definitely isnât Facebook. Meet AryansBook.com. âAryanBook [sic] is a racialist, WHITE ARYAN PRIDE Social Network for Whites Only! Niggers, Jews, Mexicans, and Mu ...
• Assessing Muslim Terrorism: Lies, Damn Lies and Gl ...
  Are you prepared to believe there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world? You have a choice: You can take Fox News commentator and radio host Glenn Beckâs word for it â or you can insist on proof. Pausing in the midst of a meandering condemnation of the mainstream mediaâs failure to take him ...
• Another Anti-Gay Activist Warns About Gays in the ...
  Just when it seemed the controversy over high-tech body scanners and âenhancedâ pat-down procedures at airports couldnât get weirder, along comes Eugene Delgaudio, a Loudoun County, Va., lawmaker who claims federal transportation officials were motivated to implement the new procedures by the âhomos ...

change: org.

• NYC Cabbies Label Blacks and Latinos: Personae Non ...
  If your black or Latino and you're planning on traveling in New York City, I suggest you fill your pockets with lots of subway and bus tokens because you're going to find hailing a cab next to impossible. The fact that it is frustratingly hard to get a NYC cab to stop for you if you are a person of ...
• San Francisco: Not a Treat for Urban Farmers
  San Francisco is arguably the greenest city in America. San Fran leads the nation in supporting organic food, clean energy, and eco-friendly transportation. But ironically, one set of environmentalists have an extremely tough time taking root in San Francisco — urban farmers. San Francisco's antiqua ...
• Government Takeover of Health Care is 'Lie of the ...
  What makes a great sound bite but has no factual basis? Used by news organizations and politicians alike? Conjured up by a political strategist? It's the phrase "government-takeover of health care," which just won Politifact's "Lie of the Year" award. It's not surprising that Politifact, the indepen ...
• Save New York City's Carriage Horses From Slaughte ...
  The holidays are New York City's carriage horse industry's most lucrative season. Personally, I don't see the charm in being pulled around a city park or through traffic by a sad, overworked horse. And nothing kills the romance quite like thinking about what happens to those horses when they can no ...
• Save Ghana's Railway Dwellers
  You live in one of the poorest countries on earth, with one of the worst quality-of-life indexes in the world, among the top five worst inflation rates on earth, at the bottom of the global list of a per capita GDP. Living in Ghana could be easier. But for the country's urban poor, it's about to get ...

Common Dreams -News

• CIA Chief in Pakistan Leaves after Drone Trial Blo ...
  by Declan WelshThe CIA has pulled its station chief from Islamabad, one of America's most important spy posts, after his cover was blown in a legal action brought by victims of US drone strikes in the tribal belt.read more
• Gains in Kandahar Came with More Brutal US Tactics ...
  by Gareth PorterWASHINGTON - The Barack Obama administration's claim of "progress" in its war strategy is based on the military seizure of three rural districts outside Kandahar City in October.But those tactical gains have come at the price of further exacerbating the basic U.S. strategic weakness ...
• Red Cross Briefed US on Indian 'Torture' in Kashmi ...
  NEW DELHI - The International Committee of the Red Cross provided US diplomats in 2005 with evidence of the systematic use of torture by Indian security forces in Kashmir, leaked US diplomatic cables revealed Friday.In a confidential briefing, the ICRC told the diplomats of 177 visits it had made to ...
• US, Last Holdout on Native Rights Declaration, Rev ...
  by Matthew O. BergerWASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was reversing the U.S.'s position and endorsing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.The reversal comes three years after the U.N. adopted the measure in 2007, despite being opposed by th ...
• Obama Gets His Tax Deal, Reanimating Reaganomics
  by John NicholsSupply-side economics prevailed-at least politically-late Thursday, as the US House grudgingly approved President Obama's deal with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts for billionaires, creates broad estate-tax exemptions for millionaires and shapes economic poli ...

Lifehacker

• From the Tips Box: SD Cards, Flat-Top Scanners, an ...
  Readers offer their best tips for formatting SD cards, using flatbed scanners, and getting discounts on gifts. More��
• This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
  This week we turned Gmail into your central communication hub, spent a week living entirely in Chrome OS, did a whole lot of work strengthening our passwords, and much more. Here's a look back. More��
• Stop Firefox from Automatically Entering "Wor ...
  The "Work Offline" mode in Firefox can be useful if you don't have an internet connection, but Firefox annoyingly enables it automatically whenever you lose connection, even for a second. Here's how to disable that behavior. More�� ...
• Knoword Is a Fun Way to Test (and Expand) Your Voc ...
  As you trudge through the last few hours of your Friday, consider easing your boredom with Knoword, a fun game that tests and improves your vocabulary through a definition-based game. More��
• Step Away From Your Desk for a More Focused Enviro ...
  If you're tired of constant distractions while working at your desk and losing focus as you switch between tasks, the simplest solution might be the best one: move. More��

Water Privatization

• Canada-EU Trade Talks Put Canada's Water Up for Sa ...
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 16, 2010) - Canada's already challenged public water systems are under threat from a broad free trade agreement being negotiated by Canada and the European Union (EU). A new report released today, Public Water for Sale: How Canada will privatize our public water s ...
• 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 ...

Guardian

• Sudanese president 'stashed $9bn in UK'
  Speculation that Omar al-Bashir siphoned $9bn in oil money and deposited it in foreign accounts could fuel calls for his arrestOmar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has siphoned as much as $9bn out of his impoverished country, and much of it may be stashed in London banks, according to secret US d ...
• Airports on alert after dummy bomb
  Security 'periodically being tested' by scouts who have targeted the regions, counter-terrorism officials have saidCounter-terrorism officials have warned that airport security is being tested by terror scouts, amid fears that regional airports have been targeted for dummy bomb runs.The Guardian has ...
• Captain Beefheart dies aged 69
  Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, dies after complications from multiple sclerosisAvant-garde musician and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, has died aged 69.Van Vliet died of complications from multiple sclerosis at a hospital in Northern California, i ...
• Kosovo's PM denies 'mafia' claims
  Council of Europe report accused Hashim Thaci of leading criminal organisation linked to organ traffickingKosovo's prime minister has strongly denied allegations that he was the leader of a "mafia-like" criminal organisation with links to organ and drug smuggling.Hashim Thaci used a live broadcast o ...
• Thompson: Britain needs a Fox News
  BBC's director general says rules on impartiality on television are outdated in internet era and advocates opinionated journalismMark Thompson, the BBC's director general, said British broadcasters should be free to launch an equivalent to Fox News in the UK because existing rules to guarantee impar ...

McClatchey

• Videotaped killing of grieving Mexican mother stir ...
  MEXICO CITY — A mother campaigning to bring the confessed killer of her 16-year-old daughter to justice was herself gunned down Thursday night in view of a closed circuit television camera, leaving images that shocked Mexicans over the impunity of the killers.
• Senate plans showdown votes Saturday on 2 big issu ...
  WASHINGTON — The Senate plans crucial votes Saturday on two of the year's most incendiary political issues: repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians and revamping immigration laws to help put children of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
• Hot trend: Recycling wasted heat to cut emissions, ...
  WASHINGTON — A new hospital is being built near Princeton, N.J., that won't depend on the local electricity grid, won't pump out the normal amount of greenhouse gases and won't pay peak prices for electricity.
• Obama administration issues science guidelines at ...
  WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday released its long-delayed scientific integrity guidelines, intended to ban political interference in science.
• Why the Census may be bad news for Missouri Democr ...
  WASHINGTON — The Census will make clear on Tuesday what has been speculated about in Missouri political circles for a while: The state could lose a congressional seat effective the 2012 elections.

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

• Why The Individual Mandate Is Not Like Forcing Eve ...
  It’s expected that Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida will rule in favor of the plaintiffs in the multi-state lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, marking a second win for repeal advocates. During yesterday’s hearing, V ...
• Despite Gov.-Elect Scott’s Education Disaste ...
  Even before Gov.-elect Rick Scott (R-FL) officially grabs the reins in his troubled state, he is making it abundantly clear that he plans to push for radical changes to the education system. Chief among his plans is a cockamamie scheme to give school vouchers to essentially any student whose parents ...
• Sen. Corker Threatens Reid: If You Bring DADT Repe ...
  This afternoon, as momentum began to build for repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) threatened that if Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) brings up a vote to repeal the ban, Republicans would not support ratification of the New START treaty. Referring to DADT a “partisan” and “poli ...
• With Omnibus Dead, How Will The Government Fund He ...
  Last night, citing overwhelming opposition from Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) dropped the omnibus spending package that included some $1 billion in funding for health reform and instead opted for a much smaller continuing resolution (CR) to extend federal spending authority i ...
• Meghan McCain Says GOP Should Get Behind DREAM Act ...
  Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a cloture motion on the DREAM Act, setting up a vote that will take place tomorrow. It still remains unclear — if not unlikely — that the legislation will attract the 60 votes needed to limit debate. One lawmaker who isn’t even on the list of ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Weisbrot: Wikileaks and Haiti
  A good read. People who do not understand US foreign policy think that control over Haiti does not matter to Washington, because it is so poor and has no strategic minerals or resources. But that is not how Washington operates, as the WikiLeaks cables repeatedly illustrate. For the state departm ...
• Yawn! Peter Mansbridge asks "Afghanistan: Was it w ...
  A tired, lame-ass, deluded conversation ensues. (With apologies to Steven Staples of ceasefire.ca who tried to tone-down the rah-rah nonsense.)
• A Belated Appreciation For a Jim Coyle Editorial
  I was working on a lot of stuff when this came out: "Political contempt paves way for public disgust" ... Give it a read. Coyle details some of the worst examples of contempt for democracy, thuggery, and boorishness, exhibited at the federal, provincial, and local levels, and hopes that at least a ...
• Two Commenters at the National Post or "Someone is ...
  Argh. The scum-bag, money-losing, propaganda rag, the National Post has an article about Rob Ford mouthing-off about another subject he knows nothing about. It's one of the least objectionable of his utterances, except for the implications in his simple-minded recommendations. Ford states that if it ...
• Post-NATO Afghanistan Chaos
  In another discussion I felt compelled to say that after NATO leaves, the Karzai government will likely collapse. I think the significance of that should be my post for the day. When NATO leaves the whole rotten edifice they constructed will come crashing down. And it will be NATO's fault. NOT the ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Bunny Greenhouse urges correction of S. 372
  When the Iraq was was about to begin, Bunny Greenhouse alone challenged the legality of awarding no-bid, no-compete, cost plus contract to Haliburton. The Army swiftly retaliated and she lost her career and position as the Army Corps of Engineers top procurement executive. Today Bunny spoke out ...
• Dr. David Lewis says "Fix S. 372"
  My client, Dr. David L. Lewis, is issuing an open letter today urging the House of Representatives to correct the "the grievous and manifold shortcomings in S. 372 before voting on it." He also urges his fellow citizens to join him in taking action to share his concerns with their representatives. ...
• Kohn recalls "sad day" under Espionage Act
  Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, wrote a history lesson published today by England's Guardian. Responding to recent calls to prosecute WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning under the 1917 Espionage Act, Kohn recounts how the Espionage Act was actually used. "The l ...
• Julia Davis says "NO" to S. 372 flaws
  Julia Davis is an award winning screenwriter and published photographer. She is Vice President of Fleur De Lis Film Studios, and the LA Homeland Security Examiner for Examiner.com. In her column today, she decries the flaws in S. 372, the Senate's version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement ...
• 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 ...

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

• US Banning Books: Unauthorized Catcher In The Rye ...
  We were among those who were absolutely horrified when a US district court banned the US publication of a book called Coming Through the Rye by Fredrik Colting (using the pseudonym JD California), which was an attempt (a poor one, by many reviewers' accounts) to write a sequel to JD Salinger's iconi ...
• Judge In Limewire Case Wants To Explore How Much F ...
  With Limewire officially shutting down following its (totally expected) legal loss earlier this year, you might have though the case was totally over. However, the record labels quickly claimed that with the loss, Limewire should have to pay a billion dollars, which seemed a bit extreme. In typica ...
• Homeland Security Presents 'Evidence' For Domain S ...
  Earlier this week, we noted how the owners of the various hiphop blogs and Torrent-Finder, the torrent search engine, that were seized by Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group still hadn't been provided the details on why their domains were seized. However, that's no l ...
• Deep Packet Inspection Firms Trying To Turn Net Ne ...
  It's been around for a few years, but those of you who follow the net neutrality debate may have seen the following "example" here or there of what various ISPs would like to do to the internet if they could: Basically, the idea is that, if they could, ISPs would like to charge you for what y ...
• So After Torturing Bradley Manning For Months, US ...
  This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months -- a condition that much of the world has deemed to be torture -- and looking for ways to use a computer hacking law to charge Julian Assange, rumors are that officials have offered Bradley Manni ...

VacTruth

• A Judge Sees Through The Emperor’s New Cloth ...
  Child welfare services had applied for a ruling to have four siblings immunized, despite their parents’ decision not to allow the treatment. Have we finally found a judge brave enough to rule with a conscience?
• 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.

BroadSnark

• Beliefs as Barrier
  I understand and respect the choices that many people within the anarchist community make.  I love the self expression and weirdness that is embraced in how people dress or act.  I completely respect the decision to be a vegan, to avoid chain stores, to criticize suburban homogeneity…. But there is ...
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Saudi Arabia's Terror: What Hillary Clinton Knows
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• Sovereignty Trumps the Euro; Irish and Germans Mus ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• A Russian Dialogue with LaRouche & Friends: The Cu ...
  Dialogue with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and others Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• Science's Next New Undertaking: What Makes Sense?
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• EIR Features LaRouche Dialogue with Russian Edior ...
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• Last Minute Gift Idea? Try a BPA-Free Tea Maker
  Image: Takeya Today was the perfect day to try out my Takeya tea maker: it's snowing out, I'd rather be cozied up in bed with a good book, and I'm pretty close to putting some USB-heated gloves on. So the perfect cup of hot tea seemed like a smart idea, and I was totally right. ...Read the full ...
• Tesla Motors Will Make $60 Million From Toyota's E ...
  Photo: Toyota Good News for Tesla Fans The Tesla Model S is still pretty far from dealerships, and the Roadster sales aren't quite enough to carry the company on their own (especially in this tough economy). But Tesla's been looking high and low for others sources of cash (the
• Eagles Flourish in Sanctuary, Hints at Species Com ...
  Photo credit: Alaskan Dude/Creative Commons On a ridgetop preserve in Pennsylvania, conservationists and bird watchers gathered for the annual count of migrating bald eagles. It's a tradition that has persisted for 76 years—since the founding of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. This year, howeve ...
• Bobby Jindal's BP Spill Response a Big $200 Millio ...
  Photo by me, Brian Merchant When I was down in the Gulf, one of the first things I reported on was Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's plan to construct giant islands to protect the barrier islands from the incoming oil slick. The plan sounded highly dubious from the get-go, and I couldn't find a ...
• Bicycles vs Cars vs Trains: Interesting Trends via ...
  Image: Screenshot of Google NGram Viewer for "Bicycle, Car, Train, Bus" This morning, my Twitter stream was quickly filled with tweets about this new tool from Google that allows one to search for words within the large Google Books collection. Called the Google Books Ngram Viewer, the tool h ...

Biosingularity

• New Drug Cures Hard-to-Treat Hepatitis C
  Patients who fail current hepatitis C virus HCV treatments have few other options except trying the same drugs again, but an experimental antiviral drug is poised to change that.When the drug telaprevir was added to standard treatment with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin, which are also antivirals, ...
• Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human g ...
  Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a ...
• A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer
  Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for ...
• Lesser-known C-diff a bigger hospital threat than ...
  Theres good and bad news on the “superbug” front. In community hospitals in the Southeast, an easily spread bacterium appears to have overtaken the widely feared MRSA as the most common hospital-acquired infection. But a pilot project in Ohio found that pushing hard on simple things such as hand was ...
• Light Switches for Neurons
  Just five years ago, scientists at Stanford University discovered that neurons injected with a photo-sensitive gene from algae could be turned on or off with the flip of a light switch. This discovery has since turned hundreds of labs onto the young field of optogenetics. Today researchers around th ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Kremlin Christmas tree delivered to Moscow
  A Christmas tree to be installed on the Moscow Kremlin's central Sobornaya Square has been delivered to the capital.
• Main news of December 17
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Russian Soyuz craft docks with international space ...
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
• Russian Soyuz craft docks with international space ...
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
• Putin reassures Russian whistleblower doctor by te ...
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday made a phone call to a whistleblower cardiologist and told him not to worry about revealing the real situation at a hospital Putin visited in November.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian Soyuz craft docks with international space ...
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
• Russian Mission Control loses, regains communicati ...
  Russia's Mission Control Center lost contact with the International Space Station for about three hours on Thursday before resolving the problem.
• 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.

Pruning Shears

• Building the shadow Internet
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The rise of Internet-enabled mobile devices has had some interesting consequences. On the face of it, smart phones and tablets are a boon. They allow people to access email and web sites anywhere, not just when tethered to a deskto ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Everything Is Negotiable, Except with Nature
  The UN's big climate conference ended Saturday in Cancún, with claims of modest victory. "The UN climate talks are off the life-support machine," said Tim Gore of Oxfam. "Not as rancorous as last year's train wreck in Copenhagen," wrote the Guardian. Patricia Espinosa, the Mexican foreign minister w ...
• Homemade Prosperity: How to Get Out of the Consume ...
  It should have been a high point in my life. I had just successfully defended my dissertation and had three potential job opportunities. But I found myself pacing around our cabin or walking the hills of my family's farm, alternately weeping and hurling invectives into the country air. Bob and I wer ...
• Obama's War: Failure, Not Progress, in Afghanistan
  The White House is using its December review to try to spin the disastrous Afghanistan War plan by citing "progress" in the military campaign, but the available facts paint a picture of a war that's not making us safer and that's not worth the cost.Click here to read this article
• Mythbusting: Cheap Food Does Not Equal Higher Qual ...
  For decades, the federal government has watched idly while a few gigantic companies grabbed ever-greater control of the food industry. As big players gobble smaller ones, they concentrate power at the top of the food chain -- and apply relentless pressure to cut costs, giving rise to many of the thi ...
• Young Farmers Need Help from the USDA - and the Ne ...
  More and more Millennials are rejecting Cubicleville and instead opting for hands-on professions, including farming -- and not a minute too soon. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Imágenes navideñas animadas con movimiento .gif (I ...
  Continuando con nuestras tradiciones de Navidad y Fin de Año 2010, les traemos la segunda parte de nuestra serie sobre 'Imágenes navideñas animadas con movimiento .gif para tu blog o para Facebook'. En esta ocasión, tenemos para todos ustedes más de 30 imágenes padrísimas que usted puede compartir c ...
• Volcanes, montañas y nevados IV (9 imágenes panorá ...
  Para ver más fotos de esta serie, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guar ...
• Animales increíbles II (Fotomanipulaciones en Phot ...
  Para ver más foto manipulaciones, escoja un número [1][2][más]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarl ...
• Las flores de mi jardín IV (10 imágenes de uso lib ...
  Para ver más fotos de flores, escoja un número a continuación. [1][2][3][4]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su ta ...
• Imágenes navideñas animadas con movimiento .gif
  Como regalo especial para todos ustedes, les tenemos antes que nadie una bellísima colección con más de 40 imágenes animadas con movimiento para Navidad. Son archivos .gif que usted podrá usar en sus blogs, páginas y sitios web. No olvide también compartirlas con sus amigos en sus redes sociales com ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Looking at Food System Issues through a ‘Food Just ...
  I first came upon the term “food justice” from an organization in Oakland called People’s Grocery led by Brahm Ahmadi and others who were fighting against an unjust food system in the “food desert” of West Oakland. At the time, it was an area that left residents with liquor stores and [...]
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• High dudgeons
  Sorry about the lack of posting but I’ve been too livid about the Assange rape allegation fatwa on Michael Moore to post anything these last 24 hours. Yes, this is about politics and that’s why I didn’t post about it, but no, that doesn’t mean I have much patience with so-called progs who strut arou ...
• $, but no ¢
  From reader Jeff an interesting video on the history of wealth: Other than Hans Rosling sounding disturbingly like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, it’s a fascinating video that unfortunately concludes with a pie in the sky scenario for the future that would be true if only the rich were not busy build ...
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Sho ...
  Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Shopping for Tots Phoenix, AZ – There's only one more weekend left for holiday shopping, and if you're looking for gifts for preschoolers, experts say you can give your kids an advantage in later life, while at the same time saving money, by steering away fro ...
• 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 ...
• Pitfalls to Privatizing Parks?
  Pitfalls to Privatizing Parks? Phoenix, AZ - A state commission plans to recommend that Arizona consider privatizing some of its state parks to save money. Others say the result may instead be higher costs and less public benefit. Comments from Cristie Statler, director, Arizona State Parks Foundati ...
• Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Defi ...
  Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Deficit Phoenix, AZ – Workers and seniors nationwide and in Arizona are protesting a proposal from the President's Fiscal Commission to reform Social Security with "progressive" benefits and a raised retirement age. Comments from Karen Marie-Stella, AARP ...
• ‘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 Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
  AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...
• Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Fa ...
  This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintainin ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Does President Abbas have the power to dissolve th ...
  Does President Abbas have the power to dissolve the Palestinian Authority?: "In a rare confession the President added that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is 'deluxe... five-star and inexpensive'; he did not ask who is responsible for reducing the cost for the occupiers and converting it ...
• ARLO LOOKING CLOUD: PSYCHOLOGICAL LAMB ON WAY TO S ...
  Arlo Looking Cloud ARLO LOOKING CLOUD: PSYCHOLOGICAL LAMB ON WAY TO SLAUGHTER by Janis Schmidt What we have here is failure to communicate. More accurately, we have a total unwillingness to communicate. The real family of Arlo Looking Cloud were quite surprised to learn that Arlo’s request for a n ...
• Evo Morales: US intelligence lacks intelligence
  Bolivian President Evo Morales at Cancún Climate Summit
• Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion ...
  Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting Activists :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Seizing on this overbroad definition of "material support," the US government is now moving in on political gr ...
• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #334
  B.C. Indian bands give thumbs-down to Enbridge pipeline - The Globe and Mail Several B.C. Indian bands have rejected Enbridge ENB-T offer of a stake in its controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, throwing new hurdles before the project that would ship oil sands bitumen to Pacific Rim markets. WikiL ...

Pensieve

• Colón Protesters Voluntarily Disperse
  Minutes before being forcibly removed by a large group of Honduran police and military, the protesters that had laid siege to the city of Trujillo for 11 days voluntarily dispersed. Had they not, at the very least, there would have been violence. Iâm glad to have been wrong in overestimating the zea ...
• 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 ...

Green Times

• Australian pelican
    The Australian pelican has a wingspan of up to 2,5 meter and often reaches a weight of 13 kg. But the most impressive significance is his huge beak, which is the largest among all birds. Those fantastic species need protection. Have a look at our directory to find Non-profit Organisations (direc ...
• Christmas and Summer School Holidays Ideas
  Ah, the long hot days of summer! But what to do with your kids over Christmas and the Summer School Holidays – we have some answers…
• Environmental News 13/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Use organic milk and eggs
  Many people think that drinking milk and eating eggs is harmless to the cows and chickens. Unfortunately, this is not true. The animals living in factory farms are having an awful and short life. Make sure you buy organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) milk and eggs, which is less harmfull ...
• Environmental News 09/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• N.Korea vows to strike back if South holds island ...
  ShareThisN.Korea vows to strike back if South holds island drill 16 Dec 2010 North Korea's military threatened Friday to strike back with deadly firepower if South Korea goes ahead with a live-fire drill on the border island of Yeonpyeong. The North "will deal the second and third unpredictable self ...
• Obama approves Bush-era tax cut extension
  ShareThisObama approves Bush-era tax cut extension 17 Dec 2010 President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon signed into law a two-year-across-the-board extension of Bush-era tax cuts, just one day after the House approved the legislation. The bill includes a 2% rollback of Social Security payroll taxe ...
• Obama signs over $858 billion in tax-cuts for weal ...
  ShareThisObama signs over $858 billion in tax-cuts for wealthy By Lori Price 18 Dec 2010 GOP-pwned Barack Obama signed over nearly one trillion dollars to his corpora-terrorist paymasters and GOP overlords. Oh, btw: Shell Oil got a big tax break in this bill, as well. While signing the treasonous Bi ...
• UN mulls internet regulation options
  ShareThisUN mulls internet regulation options --WikiLeaks sparks push for tighter controls�17 Dec 2010 The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. Establishment of such a group has the ...
• U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLea ...
  ShareThisU.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks 16 Dec 2010 Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts ...

Daily Loaf

• Letter from a gay soldier: A powerful testament to ...
  HuffPo ran one of the most powerful testaments to the insanity of DADT that I have ever read — made more powerful by the measured anger of the writer, a gay soldier about to ship off to Afghanistan.
• Cynical and Southern: Number of sexual partners — ...
  I have always lived by a policy of cold hard truth. As long as my boyfriend is healthy and clean, I am uninterested in his past. I hope he allows me the same luxury.
• Foodie shopping Guide: Gourmet and international m ...
  A guide to gourmet and international markets where you can find tasty items for your personal enjoyment and holiday entertaining needs, as well as unique gifts for foodie friends.
• Book Review: What the World Will Look Like When Al ...
  This is a beautiful book. You should read it. I won’t say that it will change your life, but I will say that you will probably reread a story over and over again in one sitting and then sit there, thinking and feeling about it, way past your bedtime.
• Reindeer Gone Wild: Final Two Nights For Adult-The ...
  You know these characters but you’ve never seen them like this. The reindeer that pull Santa’s sleigh are kicking back, cracking jokes, flirting and spillling juicy gossip about their portly employer in Carrollwood Players’  ”The Eight: Reinder Monologues,” a play that finishes its run this we ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Israeli government thanks Palestinians for help wi ...
  By Jesse Bacon ..By not recognizing their names and refusing them entry for award ceremony in their honor. . This should remind us just how arbitrary the whole edifice of permits and checkpoints is that it can keep out people who helped contain the horrible fires and prevent worse disaster. I am als ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Picower estate to pay $7.2 billion in Madoff settl ...
  That amount is the entire amount the trustee asked for in the lawsuit and is also that entire amount that Picower withdrew. In another settlement, the family of Carl Shapiro settled for $650 million. So, if these were ill-gotten gains, is anyone going to prison? Or is that just so for the little peo ...
• Polizeros podcast. Afghanistan Strategy Review. Ac ...
  Josh Mull talks about the Afghanistan strategy review, the third of Obama’s Administration, where the withdrawal date got moved forward from 2014 to June 2011. This could indicate the elites now understand the war is no longer winnable, even as we carpet bomb that country and destroy villages to sav ...
• Don’t trust the cloud for all your data
  Adam Curry on the demise of delicious (and Yahoo Buzz, as well) and why we need to take steps now to insure that our online data is not vulnerable to a service going down. If the stories that are being posted are true, then once again we see the perils of trusting the cloud. Years [...]
• Vertical farming
  The Economist remains unconvinced that vertical farming is viable, given the cost of artificial indoor light. Indoor growing works superbly as long as there is just one floor because light can come in through the roof. But artificial light is essential when there is more than one floor. However, one ...
• US cities in peril
  Detroit police patrols in 20% of city: expect bankruptcy in 2011 Camden, America’s second most violent city, lays off half of police department. If police stop patrolling an area then organized crime will move in and take control, just like in favelas in Brazil. Don’t think it can’t happen here. Pol ...

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

• Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Loaded Gun Slips ...
  Secret Tests At LAX, O’Hare, Newark Show TSA Screeners Missed Guns, Bombs ABC News (video) Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight. He didn’t realize he had forgotten to remo ...
• Warning Global systemic crisis – First quarter 201 ...
  GEAB N°49 is available! Warning Global systemic crisis – First quarter 2011: Breach of the critical threshold of global geopolitical dislocation - Public announcement GEAB N°49 (November 16, 2010) - http://www.leap2020.eu/geab-n-49-is-available-warning-global-systemic-crisis-first-quarter-2011-breac ...
• Sacred Knowledge? Ancient Egyptian Math Identical ...
  In 2008 mathematician and author Michael S. Schneider put together a video explaining how mathematics used by Ancient Egyptians is identical to the math used in computers today. The Ancient Egyptians figured out how to do multiplication without memorizing times tables, and how to do long division wi ...
• Holiday Terror Warning Cites Car Bombs and Small A ...
  Authorities Worry About Christmas Attack For ‘Psychological Impact’ 22 comments By RICHARD ESPOSITO Dec. 17, 2010 Federal law enforcement terror bulletins have become as much a part of the holiday season in the past decade as egg nog and department store Santas. // More Video Watch: NYPD Holds Drill ...
• UN mulls internet regulation options – WikiL ...
  Wait…. Didn’t WikiLeaks HELP the UN? uhhhhh??? By John Hilvert on Dec 17, 2010 – itnews.com The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. Establishment of such a group has the backing of ...

The Air Vent

• Lazy Redux – part Deux!!
  So in my last lazy post I asked, What is the amount of warming you expect for the next 100 years?  Thirty five comments before morning.. LOL, There were so many opinions, many with statistically significant trends.  I wonder how it is that someone like me who reads endless papers blog’s and opinio ...
• On line
  Our article on Antarctic temperatures has finally made it on line: Some results and ALL of the code is archived here: http://www.climateaudit.info/data/odonnell/,  the SI can be down loaded from that link. A detailed analysis is presented of a recently published Antarctic temperature reconstruction ...
• Question
  I wonder what readers really think.  What is the amount of warming you expect for the next 100 years? Do you have any opinions on this?
• 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 ...

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

• 2010: The Year Facebook Passed $1 Billion, and May ...
  For years, the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley was that social networks were expensive to run, and didn’t make much money. So as Facebook grew by hundreds of millions of users over the past few years, many people wondered if it was in financial trouble. Revenue, however, appears to have double ...
• Christmas Titles Show Up on This Week’s List of Em ...
  While a new game called Monster Galaxy leads this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, the Christmas apps are the real story, including . With just eight days left until the big day, we’re bracing for a great many more apps than have shown up so far. Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain [.. ...
• Wildfire Launches Social Media Measurement Tool
  Wildfire launched a social media measurement tool called the Social Media Monitor today. The new service is set up on a web site to allow visitors to compare the performance of Facebook and Twitter accounts and will soon also include Places check-ins and overall fan/follower engagement. In an exampl ...
• Facebook Memories Shows Users a Year by Year Summa ...
  Facebook users got an early look at a new feature this morning called Memories which lets users browse Facebook activity for each year since they joined. One of the accidentally revealed prototypes, Memories utilizes a navigation bar to lets user jump between years and view counts of each year’s s ...
• Facebook’s New User Registration Tool for Websites ...
  Facebook has officially launched its new “registration tool” for third-party websites. This powerful plugin allows websites to insert a single line of code to create a registration form which pre-populates fields with a user’s Facebook data. We expect widespread adoption of the tool because it will ...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

• Zionist lobby's new orders for Obama
  Alan Hart argues that new instructions issued to President Obama by Israel through its stooges in Congress, in the form of House Resolution 1734, might be a sign of panic that the White House is about to end its veto of UN Security Council resolutions which are critical of Israel and/or call for the ...
• Apartheid Israel-style: law to keep Jews and Arabs ...
  Jonathan Cook reports on a draft apartheid law, currently going through the Israeli parliament, which would enshrine in law the right of Jewish community associations to accept only Jews, making it impossible for Israel's Arab citizens take up residence in Jewish neighbourhoods.
• Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
  Gilad Atzmon explains why it is essential for the pro-Palestinian movement "freely to explore the true nature of the ideology that drives the Jewish state and Jewish politics", and to acknowledge that the Jewish ideological, political and cultural discourse is "foreign to universalism and to the ide ...
• 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• The New York Times: A Curious Case of Change of He ...
  Seeing the Light, Sanctioned Illusionary Game, or … I am going to stay true to my pledged position on Wikileaks related topics, and stick with questions rather than hasty analyses and interpretations. I’ve been highly puzzled by the recent position of and statements by the New York Times on Wikileak ...
• 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 ...

Afro Spear

• BAR: Who Is the FBI Really Trying to Entrap?
  A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The FBI’s war of entrapment amounts to a huge extortion scheme targeting the American people. The object is to terrify the public into surrendering their civil liberties in a twilight struggle with a mostly nonexistent domestic enemy. “These are high crim ...
• 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!

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

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  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 : Now Live
  EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...
• 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 ...

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

• Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
  If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources, powerful search tools, and no shortage of sites where people can voice their opinions. At the same time, though, the web can be overwhelming. Hundreds of links turn up in a Google search. Relevant inf ...
• 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 ...

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

• Ocelots in Arizona?
  The first confirmed ocelot sighting in Arizona in 50 years spurs an update of a federal recovery plan.
• The lessons of Butte, Montana
  During the labor struggles of the early 20th century, rough-and-tumble Butte, Mont., survived as a community because of -- rather than despite -- its ethnic diversity.
• 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.

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

• Why Does Obama Think It's So Urgent to Try (and fa ...
  By Barry Rubin After meeting U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell,�EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton (whose last great idea was Western unilateral disarmament during the Cold War) said: "We believe that urgent progress is needed towards a two-state solution... that end ...
• POOR BABY! - WikiLeaks "Leaker" Bradley Manning is ...
  According press reports, Bradley Manning the� former US intelligence analyst who is believed to have supplied the confidential data Wikileaks may be loosing his cognitive abilities in prison. Manning, was arrested seven months ago and is being held at a military base in Virginia. He faces a court m ...
• You Won't Believe What They Claim Global Warming C ...
  When last we left the official crazy list of things Moonbats say global warming causes it contained� Incredible shrinking sheep, Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean, Surge in fatal shark attack, Boy Scout tornado deaths, Severe acne, Global conflict,� Beer tasting different, Suicide of farmer ...
• Newsbusted: The Truth Behind NASA's Search For Ali ...
  Its Friday, that means it's time for� Newsbusted from Newsbusters.org,. the very special Christmas/ New Years edition. In this week's episode you will learn of non-lesbians Oprah Winfrey and Gail Kings new Christmas product, how Bernie Sanders motivated Star Wars creator� George Lucas to refin ...
• The 8th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog A ...
  �In order to recognize the excellent work some of our fellow bloggers have been doing, RWN has put together the "8th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards." More than 250 bloggers were invited to vote for their favorite blog in numerous categories and these are the ones who responded (i ...

The Real Agenda

• UN mulls internet regulation options
  WikiLeaks sparks push for tighter controls.  Brazil supports internet takeover. ITNEWS The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. Establishment of such a group has the backing of sever ...
• Let the Unemployed Starve and the Ill Perish
  when someone is accused of having done something wrong, the reply offered usually is something like, "What was done complied with all legal requirements." But "right" has never been defined as "conforms to law," because thoughtful people have long noticed that the law itself can be a great crime, an ...
• Obama: Not Passing Tax Deal could end Presidency
  The Hill In urging lawmakers to vote for his tax deal, President Obama is using one of his go-to lines from the healthcare debate, according to a Democratic lawmaker. Obama is telling members of Congress that failure to pass the tax-cut legislation could result in the end of his presidency, Rep. Pet ...
• El Derrame de Petróleo de BP: La Conspiración que ...
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Las grandes corporaciones son responsables de la destrucción del medio ambiente, eso es simplemente un hecho. Si no lo creen y no creen en teorías de la conspiración, sujetense los pantalones y el sombrero, porque este artículo se los va a volar lejos, muy lejos. ...
• The BP Oil Spill Conspiracy You Didn’t Hear ...
  Big corporations are responsible for the destruction of the environment, that is just a fact. If you don't believe it and don't believe in conspiracy theories, hold on to your pants and hat because this article is going to blow them far, far away. Everyone still remembers the British Petroleum (BP) ...

Wind Watch

• Wind project divides Bourne residents
  BOURNE â With two public meetings under their belts, the backers of the New Generation Wind project spent Monday night’s Cape Cod Commission subcommittee hearing addressing concerns including health issues and the financial impacts of their seven proposed turbines. A mix of supporters â wearing the ...
• Urbana council, residents hit UI over wind turbine ...
  URBANA â Some city council members on Monday night said they were frustrated that a University of Illinois wind turbine project is moving along without consulting city officials or adhering to a new zoning ordinance. Diane Marlin, D-7, said the UI’s plans for up to three 400-foot wind turbines in un ...
• Windmill noise plan raises stir
  Neighbors of wind farm developments planned in Tippecanoe County are unhappy that officials are considering relaxing the sound limits previously set. After months of wrangling, the county commissioners approved a final wind energy ordinance in August. But the board is now revisiting the document and ...
• Birds vs. wind turbines
  What happens when one environmental interest interferes with another environmental interest? That is the question being looked at by Audubon interests, especially in the areas close to the Lake Erie shoreline, and wind power interests looking to promote green energy sources in the same area. Monday, ...
• Connecticut residents take turbine tour
  Falmouth has been praised locally and at the state and national levels for erecting Massachusetts’ first municipally-owned wind turbine at its Wastewater Treatment Facility of Blacksmith Shop Road. But it also has faced a backlash of anger from residents living near the turbine who have complained a ...

Not My Tribe

• Compared to George W. Bush, Obama demonstrates W d ...
  Can you hear it? Media voices this morning are giddy with Obama’s extension of tax cuts for the rich. Or is it the Christmas season? Today I suppose would be the time to apologize to those you vilified in ’08 for cautioning that Barack Obama was not the change you wanted to believe in. I [...]
• Tis the season for conspicuous consumption.
  First, connoisseurs of the history of Jesus would know that He was born in a barn. Nothing about flying reindeer, dancing snowmen, or a huge elf. Or trees. There was a little bit of Grinchiness this year on the part of the U.S. Forest service, because of the global warming, the massive swarm of pine ...
• To the so called “Conservatives”: Merr ...
  You know how the Adam Smith/Reagan/Ayn Rand brainwashed disciples preach that “A rising tide lifts all boats”. What they don’t mention is the Rich have it rigged so their Wage Slaves can’t afford a God-Damn boat. They’ll also get some Really Stupid Morons like the TeaBags and any other non-wealthy p ...
• Shocking Gag-Zette Headline!
  Poverty spread in County since 2000. Oh My. The Gagzette is now recognizing that there are actual poor people in the city.And County. That’s the shocking part of the news. For those who aren’t in Colorado Springs, and don’t know, that would sound like they’ve got their heads buried so far up their c ...
• La Migra officer killed in shootout (maybe with th ...
  With “bandits” who prey on “illegals”. Aside from the racist snipe about La Migra actually PROTECTING the poor stupid “illegals” in a paternalist… nah “Fraternal” manner, kind of like an elder sibling, a Big Brother if you will. The only bandits I know of who routinely prey on migrant workers are Am ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Holocaust Denial [Updated]
  Un-TruTV: Fear vs. Fact on Ventura’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/22/un-trutv-fear-vs-fact-on-venturas-conspiracy-theory/ Funny how the Anti-Defamation League and the SPLC love to associate anything anti-establishment with holocaust denial, yet when you expose future ho ...
• Anonymous really are frickin' stupid!
  I've never cared much for 4chan. The place is so full of hate and immaturity it puts JREF to shame. It's like some pathetic cult of sick, perverted, shallow, dehumanized geeks. The first time I visited the site I stumbled upon a disgusting, graphic photo of some old man having sex with a dead body ...
• Action Alert: Send This Letter to Any Architects a ...
  As AE911Truth has stated before, "Its easy! Just look them up in the phone book or on the Internet and send them an email (like the one below)." 1,388 architectural and engineering professionals calling for a new 9/11 investigation Hello, Here is the website of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Tru ...
• Mr Irrational
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog made a post today praising these so-called "sensible conclusions" of a blogger calling himself Mr Rational: So how can this notion be applied to the 9/11 truth movement? The following is a common example of special pleading (e.g., How can the govt. continue ...
• Why doesn't the TSA use dogs trained to sniff out ...
  "a dog can detect dynamite through dirty diapers, or C4 through smelly socks. Whether providing explosives sweeps for a large venue or a smaller security detail, bomb dogs are more economical and effective than other methods of searching. Here are several reasons:"(link to source article is below) S ...

Fooducate

• Visualizing Portion Sizes
  This is a guest blog post by Larry Istrail Estimating portion sizes is arguably the most important, yet difficult aspect of approximating your daily caloric intake. Simply stated, the inability to assess serving sizes yields inaccurate caloric estimations and potentially less weight loss, or more we ...
• FTC to Dannon: Cut the BS Health Claims
  Our second yogurt post this week, with good news for consumers. Dannon, which has been aggressively marketing its Activia line of yogurts, will stop making unsubstantiated health claims effective immediately. This, according to a $21M settlement with the FTC: The Dannon Company, Inc. has agreed to ...
• 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 [. ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Tribe reveals new evidence of uncontacted Indians ...
  Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner A tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has revealed new evidence showing that there are uncontacted Indians living in the area of the planned Belo Monte mega-dam, and has warned that these Indians are seriously threatened by the p ...
• Success! USA is final country to support tribal ri ...
  All countries that opposed the Declaration, including Australia, now support it. It is a small step in creating real change for tribal people like this Aboriginal boy. © John Miles/Survival The United States has formally endorsed the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, meaning t ...
• Survival calls on Obama to support the UN Declarat ...
  The UN Declaration sets standards by which governments' treatment of indigenous people can be judged. © 1996 Fiona Watson/Survival To mark tomorrow’s opening of the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Survival has called on President Obama to support the UN Declaration on the rights of indi ...
• Borneo tribesman arrested in palm oil conflict
  Oil palms planted on recently-deforested land, Sarawak © M Ross/ Survival An Iban tribesman in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following an argument with workers from a palm oil company. Tribesman Liam Rengga denies the charges, and ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

• US government announces extension to gulf drilling ...
  The Obama administration will maintain a long-standing oil drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida after considering loosening it before the BP spill, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
• A fatal, familiar chain reaction
  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster were both caused by a string of human errors, says Geoffrey Lean.
• We can't avoid another Deepwater disaster
  In the desperate hunt for oil, danger and human error make a deadly cocktail, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Brazil's Libra oil field may be biggest in America ...
  The Libra oil field in Brazil may be the biggest discovered in the Americas for more than 30 years, according to the country's industry regulator.
• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.

Ian Welsh

• Afghanistan’s 22% GDP Security Services
  If any nation that the US did not like and was not propping up spent 22% of its GDP on defense and projects to continue to spend at that level for most of a decade when its only enemy is an internal light infantry insurgency, the American foreign policy establishment would be very quick to [...]
• The Torture Culture
  Ok, here’s the deal.  Torture does not work to get information.  Period.  You do not torture people to get information, you torture people to send information, or rather, to send a message. What is that message? We Torture People That’s all the message is. America is a torture culture.  The majo ...
• The Torture Culture
  Ok, here’s the deal.  Torture does not work to get information.  Period.  You do not torture people to get information, you torture people to send information, or rather, to send a message. What is that message? We Torture People That’s all the message is. America is a torture culture.  The majo ...
• The Kabuki Congress and Presidency
  Ok, another edition of pointing out the painfully obvious. Most votes in Congress are Kabuki.  There was never any chance that Bush tax cuts weren’t going to be extended, and this was obvious far before the election, for example.  Unions were never going to get the Employee Free Choice Act. Also, ...
• The Kabuki Congress and Presidency
  Ok, another edition of pointing out the painfully obvious. Most votes in Congress are Kabuki.  There was never any chance that Bush tax cuts weren’t going to be extended, and this was obvious far before the election, for example.  Unions were never going to get the Employee Free Choice Act. Also, ...

Age of Autism

• Ben Goldacre, Can We Have it Straight Now about Wa ...
  By John Stone Nearly a year after the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council (GMC) brought in its findings on fact against Andrew Wakefield, John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch, one of Wakefield’s principal adversaries, doctor and Guardian newspaper journalist Ben Goldacre,...
• Win Enjoy Life Foods Boom Choco Boom Bars at Age o ...
  One lucky person will win a sample of the new, yummy chocolately bars called Boom Choco Boom from Enjoy Life Foods, makers of allergy friendly foods. The rice milk bar is a wonderful change from dark chocolate. Add gluten free...
• Katie Wright: Mt Sinai Autism Environment Conferen ...
  “No questions!” bellowed Dr. Phil Landrigan. “We just listened to a very lengthy speech and I would like to ask a question,” I said into the microphone planted in the aisle of the auditorium (ostensibly so people COULD ask questions.)...
• BREAKING NEWS: Dodd's Draft Falls Short of Necessa ...
  Breaking News: The Combatting Autism Act Reauthorization Bill from Senator Dodd's Office (D-CT) will be introduced this afternoon, and it will include some changes from draft we saw on Tuesday. Over 70 autism organizations representing thousands of autism families across...
• State Legislatures: “Overwhelmed by Autism”
  By Anne Dachel While I’m not an expert on economics or politics, I’m getting a pretty clear idea of what the future will be like for autism in America. Consider that no U.S. health official has expressed alarm over the...

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Renewable-energy grant program gets renewed for a year

Los Angeles Times

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times A popular federal incentive program that has helped boostrenewable-energy projects has been extended another year. ...

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ICC approves 3 renewable energy contract proposals

Bloomberg

By AP CHICAGO (AP) — Invenergy LLC, a Chicago-basedrenewable energy firm, says the Illinois Commerce Commission has approved its plans for three long-term ...

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In the zones

High Country News (blog)

You've got to hand it to Ken Salazar: Never before has an Interior Secretary been so methodically driven to make US public lands safe for renewableenergy ...

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Christmas for Renewables

Energy Collective

It's a tribute to the increased scale of renewable energy that the price tag for the one-year extension of these three incentives is as high as it will be. ...

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Grays Harbor's Lee Napier winsEcology Environmental Excellence Award

Access Washington

Her leadership of this group is one of the reasons the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has selected Lee Napier for its Environmental Excellence ...

Lake Tapps water deal finalized

TheNewsTribune.com (blog)

The state Department of Ecologysigned off on the water rights package in September, but presented the official agreement to Cascade's board during a ...

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Designs that shape the way we think of ecology and comfort

Asahi Shimbun

BY NAOKI TAKEHATA STAFF WRITER Trash bags on which the kanji characters "go" (to protect) and "mi" (beauty) are printed (Naoki Takehata)Stools and lights...

SOCAR's Ecology Department presents new internet page

APA

SOCAR's Ecology Department presented its renewed web site www.socar.az/eco www.socar.az/eco. According to APA-ECONOMICS, this internet meets international ...

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Congress moves to reduce lead in drinking water

Washington Post

By JIM ABRAMS AP WASHINGTON -- Congress on Friday sent President Barack Obama a bill that would significantly reduce exposures to lead in drinking water. ...

Indictment puts Detroit waterdept. future in question

Michigan Radio

The federal government identified 13 scams in which waterdepartment contracts worth tens of millions of dollars were steered to a friend of former mayor ...

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Interior secretary signs Navajowater settlement

Bloomberg

By CRISTINA SILVA - Fri Dec 17 21:33:54 GMT 2010 By AP LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ten of thousands of Navajos will finally enjoy running water in their homes under a ...

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Storms Lead to Strong WaterOutlook

KMJ Now

By Justin Red Water officials say recent storms have given California the best early-seasonwater-supply outlook in half a decade. The Department of Water...

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