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IPS - Inter Press Services

• JAPAN: Becoming International, But Not Quite
  Forget dropping names or slipping the hostess a bill or two. It's luck that's important in snagging a reservation at Dhaba, an average-priced Indian restaurant that has become such a must-go place for Tokyo residents that guests are limited to a maximum stay of two hours.
• REFUGEES: Liberians Struggle to Cope With Fleeing ...
  Albertine Yahwah sits on a hard wooden bench, cradling her little baby in her arms. The 20 year-old walked from the Ivory Coast with her two children and her husband to reach this small town across the border in Northern Liberia.
• THAILAND: Online Censorship Triggers Fear among Bl ...
  When he is not designing another house for this city's sprawling urbanscape, a Thai architect in his mid-forties worries about another run-in with this kingdom's cyber police.
• U.S.: Prisoners Coordinate Statewide Strike via Ce ...
  In what some are calling the largest prison strike in U.S. history, inmates in the state of Georgia coordinated a strike across multiple prison facilities using pre-paid cell phones.
• JAMAICA: Priceless Native Plants Vanishing in the ...
  The recent successes of local medicinal researchers have turned the spotlight on local laws that fail to protect Jamaica's rich biological diversity.

Scoop - NZ

• Cliche of the Week from Chris Pash - journalist, c ...
  Life is a restless revolving door as we endlessly swap or discard our business leaders, sports stars and entertainers (Main article is here: http://bit.ly/hHpLGd)
• NZRFU clears Andrew Hore to fight in Taranaki pub
  All Black hooker Andrew Hore has been given permission by the NZRFU to participate in one or more fights in or around his local hotel The Drencher’s Arms over the Christmas / New Year period. Hore, who has a record of 23 and 18 in bouts where security staff did not intervene, told reporters he was “ ...
• ECB prepares for Spanish financial crisis
  The ECB said it would raise its subscribed capital by €5bn (£4.2bn) to €10.76bn, the first increase since the launch of the monetary union. "Basically they are insuring themselves in case they have to step up bond purchases, and that probably implies Spain," said Julian Callow from Barclays Capit ...
• Afghanistan in review
  With the release of President Barack Obama's review of his administration's Afghanistan strategy review, the editors of AfPak Channel asked our own contributing experts to weigh in on the state of the war in Afghanistan. Below is a brief "review," ..
• Wellington events website not feeling so great
  The Wellington City Council has decided to close one of its websites and to stop publishing one of its monthly publicity booklets. The Feeling Great website, which says it is a Wellington City Council initiative, describes itself as “Wellington’s guide to recreation and events.” But the counci ...

Independent - London

• Leaked cables reveal Allen Stanford concerns
  US diplomats expressed concern about the business dealings of Allen Stanford three years before the collapse of his financial empire amid allegations of fraud, according the latest leaked embassy cables posted on the WikiLeaks website.
• Video: Malaysia bus crash kills 26 tourists
  A Malaysian tour bus carrying mostly Thai tourists has crashed near Malaysia's Cameron Islands, killing at least 26.
• Groom murders bride and best man at wedding
  A bridegroom gunned down his new wife, his best man and then himself after announcing to horrified guests that he had a "surprise" for them.
• Strong earthquake shakes south-east Iran
  A strong earthquake rattled south-eastern Iran, leaving a number of buildings damaged.
• Senators urged to back Russia treaty
  President Barack Obama lobbied senators by phone yesterday to back an arms treaty with Russia that he has called a national security imperative, as a top Senate Democrat conceded "house-by-house combat" would be needed to win enough Republican votes to prevail.

Rogue Government.com

• Feds want reporting for high-powered rifle sales
  The federal agency that monitors gun sales� wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
• Thousands try to storm govt building in Belarus
  Thousands of opposition supporters in Belarus tried to storm the main government building to protest what they claim was large-scale vote-rigging in Sunday's presidential election, but they were driven back and beaten by riot police.
• Food safety bill heads to House after constitution ...
  This is the second time the Senate has passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food.
• Pythagoras, a math genius? Not by Babylonian stand ...
  Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.
• Govt 'creating vast domestic snooping machine'
  The government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots, The Washington Post reported Monday.

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

• Interest rates 'will have to rise sixfold in two y ...
  It will bring financial pain to seven million home owners with floating interest rates who will see a jump of almost £200 on a typical monthly mortgage payment. Charities have already warned that repossessions are likely to rise next year and the threat of a succession of quick interest rate rises ...
• Embalmed Head of France's King Henri IV Found
  A team of scientists say they have positively identified an embalmed head, presumed lost in the chaos of the French Revolution, as that of King Henri IV of France who was assassinated in 1610. The head was apparently lost after revolutionaries desecrated the graves of French kings in the royal bas ...
• Brazil: Man Kills Bride, Best Man, Self at Wedding ...
  A bridegroom fatally shot his new wife, his best man and then himself after announcing to horrified guests that he had a "surprise" for them, authorities said Monday. Witnesses reported that 29-year-old Rogerio Damascena, a sales manager in Camaragibe, outside the northeastern Brazilian city of Rec ...
• Iran 6.5 Quake Kills 7 Buries Many
  The death toll from a magnitude-6.5 earthquake in southeastern Iran rose to 7, with officials fearing that it will continue to climb, state-run Press TV said Tuesday. Felt as far away as the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the quake was particularly strong between the cities of Zahedan and Bam. It st ...
• UK: Big freeze: Travel Plans of a Million People i ...
  Christmas travel plans for more than a million people were thrown into chaos as snow and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc at Britain's airports. Arctic conditions forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights from terminals up and down the country on what is traditionally the busiest weekend ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Pandora's?
  Sven Ortmann has an interesting site, Defence and Freedom, which he proclaims is "about the defence against external threats and about the defence of civil liberties. Most topics are about the art of war, military history or military technology." Anyway, Sven posted the bon-bon above.
• Canada : Battleground for Israel
  Avi Lewis : "There's no wave of anti-Semitism in Canada?"Scott Reid : "No, no, no, no, absolutely not. It's funny I've heard people who have criticized us saying that we think this but there is absolutely no spike in the kinds of anti-Semitic incidents that I think appall us." Con MP Scott Reid is C ...
• Flaherty. An idea a minute.
  It's just that we can't keep up to his ever changing timepiece. Last June, the provincial and federal governments said they would look at a three-pronged reform: financial literacy, regulatory changes to give the private sector more freedom to offer low-cost savings options and gradually enhan ...
• "Glenn Beck in sequins"
  Sportwriter Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette is a national treasure. Numerically-challenged former hockey coach and professional loudmouth Don Cherry, not so much.
• How to win friends and influence people . . .
  Hardeep Puri was asked to remove his turban at airport security, Indian media report THE BEEB has a delightful account on how the US insists on groping turbans worn by Indian diplomats who have diplomatic immunity to that kind of thing. This, after subjecting the Indian ambassador to a search earlie ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox Attacks LGBT History Bill As "Propaganda" From ...
  Fox & Friends recently hosted Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson to bash a California bill that would require inclusion of LGBT history in textbooks. Carlson falsely suggested that the bill wouldn't teach "what actually happened" in history, and asserted the bill would not curb bullying of gay stu ...
• Fox Guest Baselessly Portrays Net Neutrality As "S ...
  Fox News guest Seton Motley claimed that net neutrality means "discrimination of content" and "socialism for the Internet" that would prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from "manag[ing] the network." In fact, net neutrality does not discriminate against lawful content, and the Obama adminis ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• Senate Passes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal, the ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• "Shadow Lending" and the Financial Crisis
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• CIA chief in Pakistan flees after suspected ISI ex ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Washington's Dirty Tricks: Bugging The United Nati ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• From Bush to Obama - America's Fiscal Collapse
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Merchants of Fear
  The Economist, in a bit of ironic understatement recast the current American loss of confidence as "The Redistribution of Hope". they pointed out that 87% of the Chinese and 50% of the Brazilians think their country is on the right track whereas only 30% of Americans hold that opinion. But if we per ...
• How Jerry Brown Saved the World
  I had a bad case of the blues. My woman up and left me, my daughter is a juvenile delinquent, my cat does nothing but complain. I needed to be taken to another place. Sitting under a tree in the park, playing my zither, I was approached by a beautiful hippie chick with a set of bongo drums. No, ...
• Shared Sacrifice: Where's Wall Street's Share?
  The theme in Washington these days is "shared sacrifice." Many of the country's most prominent political figures are insisting that the public must get used to sacrifice. This means giving up some of the benefits, like Social Security and Medicare, that they have come to rely upon. The shared sa ...
• Manchin Chooses Family Party Over the Nation's Bus ...
  I have seen Senator Joe Manchin out on the holiday party circuit in Washington and did have a very full conversation with him about DADT at one particularly high powered evening -- but parties are not the same as voting on nationally significant legislation. This just in from Politico's Ben Smith ...
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TruthOut

• Waiting for Superrich-Man
  The Rich Victim - the Penthouse Punk, fighting the evil, totalitarian government on behalf of the common man - has been the symbol of the new, "counterculture" Republican Party amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Paul Krugman shines a spotlight on the "Angry Rich," who see g ...
• Cover-Ups, Coups and Drones - A Holiday Sampler of ...
  Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable. The transparency, which WikiLeaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand, UK and Yemen over issues of torture at Guantanamo, civil ...
• Homelessness Besets More Women. How to Respond?
  Women are the fastest-growing group of people facing homelessness. Organizations, such as one in Los Angeles' skid row, try a multipronged approach to helping homeless women, starting with housing. Los Angeles -�Citrus trees grace the second-floor terrace here, where elegant teak tables and chairs ...
• Ethics and Credibility at the American Economics A ...
  In a few weeks, Economists will gather in Denver at the annual meeting of the American Economics Association (AEA) in a ritualized search for truth, jobs, fame and even romance.read more
• News in Brief: Senate Democrats May Pass 9/11 Heal ...
  Senate Democrats May Pass 9/11 Health Care Billread more

Planetsave

• High Carcinogenic Chromium Levels Found in Many Ci ...
  (Yet another environmental toxin in unacceptably high concentrations….) An analysis of 35 U.S. cities’ tap water has found that 31 one of these water sources contain exceedingly high levels of hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen.The study is the first of its kind ever to be released to the publi ...
• Saying Thank You to Climate Leaders Worth Over $1 ...
  11:149. This is basically the ratio of pro- and anti-climate legislation lobbying expenditures in 2009. The oil and gas industry put in $175 million. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce put in $123.3 million. And pro-environmental groups put in $22.4 million. ExxonMobil, alone, spent more money on lobbying ...
• Last-Minute Gifts (Environmentally Friendly or Env ...
  If you haven’t noticed, I haven’t covered Christmas that much yet. Just a post on a few green gift ideas (well, really, it was one idea but options from a few organizations) and a post on Climate Counts’ Striding Shoppers campaign. I have to say, I’ve been avoiding Christmas a little bit this year… ...
• Lost Generation?
  Beautiful video, a must watch. For anyone who cares about anything.
• Global Dimming [VIDEOS]
  This is a great video recently shared by one of our readers in the comments. It seemed worth more than a share in the comments, so here it is. Very interesting. You’ve heard of global warming, but what about global dimming? Considerable reductions in solar energy reaching the Earth, globally. This i ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Yay, No Government Regulations: We love poison wat ...
  Yay, Alabama...Clean water...maybe. The Environmental Working Group releases the first nationwide st
• Tyco Electronic Subsea Communications Goes Green
  The design for Tyco Electronic Subsea Communications new manufacturing center in Newington incorpora
• S. 3874: To Amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to R ...
  US Senate http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s3874es/pdf/BILLS-111s3874es.pdf [Draft of this act
• Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in d ...
  Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities via Probable carci
• Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
  Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registr

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Palast Arrested - Busted by BP in Azerbaijan by Gr ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 20 December, 2010 “Here in A
• Chris Hedges: Obama is a "Poster Child for the Dea ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 20, 2010 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• Michael Parenti: The Panama Deception + US imperia ...
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org December 20, 2010 Image
• Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of “Ene ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 20 December, 2010 Imag
• Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail by Chris ...
  Image by Collin David Anderson via Flickr by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig D

Axis of Logic

• Medieval helpdesk - Science & Technology
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• Private Links in Lawmaker’s Trip Abroad - United S ...
  WASHINGTON — When Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, visited Honduras early this year to congratulate the newly elected president, the congressman showed up with an unusual delegation. There at his side was not just the typical collection of Washington foreign policy aide ...
• Venezuela: Who Dominates the Media? - Bolivarian R ...
  It is commonly reported in the international press, and widely believed, that the government of President Hugo Chávez controls the media in Venezuela.  For example, writing about Venezuela's September elections for the National Assembly, the Washington Post's deputy editorial page editor and columni ...
• WikiLeaks Cables Show Why Washington Won't Allow D ...
  The polarization of the debate around WikiLeaks is pretty simple, really.  Of all the governments in the world, the United States government is the greatest threat to world peace and security today.  This is obvious to anyone who looks at the facts with a modicum of objectivity.  The Iraq war...
• Spanish parliament votes to extend dictatorial pow ...
  20 December 2010 Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero’s Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) government has extended to January 15 the “state of alert” imposed upon 2,200 air traffic controllers on December 4—placing them under military control. The move confirms that the attack on the controllers is an ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  If she didn't give all the profits to a charity like Fisher House, she's just a garden-variety hypocrite. "When Sarah Steelman was Missouri state treasurer, her signature issue was "terror free" investing. ... The Rolla Republican, who announced this month that she is running for the U.S. Senate in ...
• House Repugs Vote to Help Pedophiles Rape Little G ...
  Yes, they did, too. And they included all four of Kentucky's rethuglican congress critters: Geoff Davis, Brett Guthrie, Hal Rogers and Ed Whitfield. Kentucky Democratic members John Yarmuth and worthless DINO Ben Chandler voted against helping pedophiles rape little girls. From TPM: On Thursday nigh ...
• Republican "Fifth Column" Infliltrated Financial C ...
  From a 2 part series by RJ Eskow at Campaign For America's Future I just emailed these links to all my Republican friends... wanted to see how any of them would understand what he was saying or even knew there WAS a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission as well as how they would try to spin it into a ...
• "No Labels" Helps Uncover Left/Right Divide
  Writers often say when attacked from both sides of a controversy that they must be doing something right. No doubt, the sponsors of the new political but non-partisan group calling itself "No Labels" feels the same way. � No Labels is a group that advertises itself as a platform for pragmatic proble ...
• Treating our military like so many toy soldiers
  One of the topics I have returned to over the years I have been blogging is the signature injury of the war in Iraq -- Traumatic Brain Injury. I first got the bit in my teeth a few years ago when the Johns Hopkins study of TBI was released. The Hopkins study confirmed the anecdotal experience of cli ...

Care 2

• FCC poised to adopt network neutrality rules
  New rules aimed at prohibiting broadband providers from becoming gatekeepers of Internet traffic now have just enough votes to pass the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Santa's Little Helpers (Cute Pet Pics) Take ''Awe' ...
  Just as elves help Santa, our pets help us get through the day sometimes. Here are seven photos of pets in elves outfits or other costumes, helping us smile amidst the often hectic holidays. This is Ralph dressed as a Christmas elf. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• Finally the Truth
  A Hamas Leader Admits That Israel Killed Mostly Combatants In Gaza. Now that the truth has been admitted by the Hamas leadership�that as many as 700 combatants were, in fact, killed�the Goldstone Commission is obliged to reconsider its false conclusionSubmitted by Alexandra R. to Society & Culture ...
• Change Senate rules January 5th
  To all members of the Senate in the 112th Congress: Make the filibuster real. Require Senators who filibuster to stay on the floor and explain to the American people why they think they are right and a majority of Senators are wrong. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it ...
• Bob Chorush - Born Free - Sold Out
  In August 2003, 11 wild elephants were captured in Swaziland. Seven were shipped to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, part of the San Diego Zoo, and the others to Tampa Florida�s Lowry Park Zoo Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Health Care and the Wages of Sin
• Cover-ups, Coups, and Drones – A Holiday Sampler o ...
• The Looming Debt Ceiling Shakedown
• Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, The Great Fear
• Taking a Moral Stand Outside the Obama White House

Paul Krugman

• Zombiegenesis: A Better Picture
  More about the myth of soaring government employment.
• Social Security on the Table?
  Let's hope not.
• Base Money and Inflation
  Paleomonetarism, still wrong.
• Birth of a Zombie
  The public employment surge that wasn't.
• Ireland the Model
  Shining example, no less.

No Quarter

• The 12 Days–Irish Style + Open Thread
  Many have had fun with what it would be like if the 12 Days of Christmas actually played themselves out in real time. But this one really cracked me up. This is about how it would go in my house, only even more complicated with two dogs and a spouse who is allergic to feathers.
• Joe Biden Old Blighty Cold Bitten
  As Joe Biden labels Assange a “hi-tech terrorist,” Old Blighty’s Assange problem continues to manufacture details, such as how Assange the Australian national released the Climategate emails of 2009 (this is a fiction), and the Assange supporters continue to live in snowy denial in Great Britain. It ...
• A Miracle Of Music
  I just saw the most incredible story about a man named Derek Amato. Back in 2006, he hit his head on the bottom of a swimming pool. The result of that brain injury was the gift of music. That knock on the head unleashed a musical ability that qualifies Mr. Amato is a savant. Unbelievable. [...]
• Daggers
  Ed. Note: How to hear Larry Johnson on tonight’s John Batchelor Show.   Triangulation, Obama style, means disdaining both the Republicans and the Democrats and then signing legislation that is forced upon you by a victorious Republican Party that is in ascendance for the next two years. It is good t ...
• Julian Assange is A Black Pot
  * Bumped Up * I suspect you will be shocked by news that Julian Assange and his team are upset because of leaks to the media–I REPEAT, LEAKS TO THE MEDIA–about tawdry details in police reports regarding Assange’s sexual behavior. Incriminating police files were published in the British newspaper tha ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Staying on Track With NAVTEQ This Christmas!
  We can see a lot of benefits to keeping up to date on the road which is why we decided to run this sponsored post on the behalf of NAVTEQ. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How to Choose Wine with a Natural Cork
  Real Cork Inside is a new program that helps consumers choose natural cork in the wine bottles they buy. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• New Lemur Species Discovered in Madagascar
  This October there was a wonderful discovery in Madagascar when a new lemur species was discovered. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 7 Bizarre Foods that Involve Eating Live Animals
  Humans are well-known for their inhumane eating habits, consuming their food while the animal served is still alive. Read more... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Pandemic of 1917
  It was not long ago that humans experienced the greatest pandemic ever known. Ironically, in spite of more deaths than could be counted, few today know much, if anything read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• WikiLeaks XXIV: Security for Radioactive Materials ...
  Yemen as careless about security for nuclear materials as Libya.
• South Korea: Seeking Reunification by Live Fire?
  This week North Korea looks like the more rational of the two Koreas.
• Why Would U.S. Urge U.N. to Allow Iraq a Nuclear E ...
  How does this help the United States?
• Nuclear Disarmament: First Line of Defense Against ...
  Earth's rarity as a planet that supports advanced life is argument enough to handle it with care.
• Cynical Maneuvering by Democratic Leaders Quashes ...
  Democrats push through yet another anti-Palestinian resolution.

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

• US envoy lauds N Korea 'pragmatism'
  Praise follows North's decision to avoid retaliating against South Korea's controversial live-fire artillery exercise.
• Iraqi PM unveils partial cabinet
  Nouri al-Maliki submits shortlist to parliament in major step towards forming government nine months after polls.
• Israeli fighter jets attack Gaza
  Air raids appear to target fighters in several parts of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory.
• Iran hangs opposition group members
  Alleged supporters of Sunni-Muslim group that has claimed suicide bombings executed, while film director is sentenced.
• Russia warns US on START treaty
  Russian FM says draft nuclear deal cannot be changed as US president tries to rally Senate support for its ratification.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Weighing the Risk of a Chemical in Tap Water
  Public health experts differ on whether the levels reported by an environmental group are cause for significant concern.
• Do Digital Billboards Waste Energy?
  Digital billboards have hundreds if not thousands of LEDs that are illuminated day and night, a report points out.
• Engine Makers Sue to Block E15 Fuel
  Engine makers argue that the E.P.A. has not taken sufficient steps to ensure the safe introduction of the fuel, a blend that is 15 percent ethanol.
• On Our Radar: Environment Trumps Politics, Dalai L ...
  Tibetans can wait five to 10 years for a political solution, but climate change is a problem that cannot be put off, the leader is quoted as saying.
• A Fake vs. a Real Tree
  The freshly cut pine-scent-and-sap variety may be a better environmental choice.

Dot Earth News

• Polar Scientists Discuss Polar Bear's Fate
  Scientists focused on the Arctic discuss how warming is affecting polar bears.
• 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?

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

• Decline and Fall … (Maybe) Dec 20
  We’re on our own. It’s official. The House of Representatives completed what the Senate began (which seems like the wrong way around). The giveaway to millionaires, also known as the Obama-Republican tax bill, is now law. The grand total is now $900 billion in tax cuts, a large sum of which comes fr ...
• Veterans for Peace Protest at the White House
  This is a very powerful presentation. Naturally, those in power do not want us to hear from these Veterans. Please take a few minutes to listen, and then, please spread the news.
• South Korea, Wassup with that?
  You don’t tug on Superman’s cape You don’t spit into the wind You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you don’t mess around with Rim, da do da do… Everybody had a schoolyard bully as they were growing up and he was usually given a wide berth.  The reason was not [...]
• Snitch apps for your cell phone
  There are now two ways for Americans to get involved in the war on terror and feel good about reporting their fellow Americans. DriveMeCrazy, developed by Shazam co-founder Philip Inghelbrecht, allows users to report drivers for numerous, minor infractions. The new Patriot App for the iPhone allows ...
• Truth Telling and the End of Democracy
  by Michael I. Niman, Perhaps the biggest revelation to come out of the Wikileaks story doesn’t emanate from leaked documents themselves but from the Obama administration’s reaction to the leaks—a reaction that bares a disdain for democracy and a free press naked for the world to see. The “leaked cab ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• NAACP Protests 'Secession Ball' Marking Civil War ...
• Congress Heads for Holiday Overtime
• Media Withdraws From Covering Complex Afghan War
• NY cabbies to wear bullet-proof vests
• Human Rights Campaign to Rest After DADT Repeal?

Institute for Policy Studies

• South Korea: Seeking Reunification by Live Fire?
  This week North Korea looks like the more rational of the two Koreas.
• The Lineup: Week of December 20-26, 2010
  Sanho Tree points out some under-reported risks posed by the latest WikiLeaks document dump.
• WikiLeaks: Caveat Lector
  Keep these questions in mind when reading the cache of leaked State Department cables.
• 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?

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

• Thanks to Marler Clark Clients Who Lobbied and Tes ...
  Listed here are victims of foodborne illness who have traveled to Washington, D.C to testify or lobby for food safety: Jeff Almer (MN) – Jeff testified in 2009 to The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. His mother, Shirley died in 2008 from complicat ...
• Food Safety Bill Leaves Senate with Unanimous Cons ...
  Perhaps the President will bring the Bill with him to Hawaii for Christmas - It's a short flight from Seattle.  Thanks to Republican and Democratic Staff for this great Summary of the House and Senate version of the Bill: Noteworthy · S. 510 is intended to respond to several food safety ou ...
• Sally Jackson Raw Milk Cheese Linked to E. coli Il ...
  According to William Keene, Oregon State Epidemiologist, last week initial lab test results of a Sally Jackson cheese sample taken from a wedding were PCR (polymerase chain reaction) positive, indicating DNA likely linked to the outbreak strain. Today, those results have also been culture confirmed ...
• Marler Clark Donates $5,000 to Medway High School ...
  A new scholarship at Medway High School has been announced today. The Food Safety Law Firm, Marler Clark, donated $5,000 to found the Powers Family – Marler Clark Scholarship for students who are interested in pursuing higher education in a science field. The Seattle, Washington-based law firm rep ...
• Senate Saves Food Safety Bill
  I just received this message from the Senate: “Prior to adjourning, the Senate passed H.R.2751, as amended by the text of S. 510 (with Tester/Hagen Amendment) minus the offending blue slip provisions. The House now needs to vote to pass.  It then needs to be signed by the President."

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 12.21.10
  Tesla catches Christmas spirit, gives away hundreds of Roadsters It's not what you think. West Virgina McDonald's to feature 2 plug-in charging stations Fill up while you fill up. ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.20.10
  Fox News attacks first Nissan Leaf owner, engages in a lot of hate Yikes. Report: Cadillac working on plug-in hybird version of SRX Wonder if it real, or if we'll ever see it. ...
• 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 ...

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!

• Part II...Feminists Debate on the Sexual Allegatio ...
  As more details emerge about the sex crimes allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, we host a debate between two feminists: Jaclyn Friedman argues the sexual-assault allegations shouldn’t be dismissed just because they’re politically motivated while Naomi Wolf says, by going after As ...
• 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.

Digg Green

• Researchers discover human immune system has ...
  New research by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences reveals that the immune system has an effective backup plan to protect the body from infection when the 'master regulator' of the body's innate immu ...
• Steam tornado [Pic]
  Steam coming off a geothermal area and forms into a 30-foot high tornado.
• A total lunar eclipse and winter solstice coi ...
  With frigid temperatures already blanketing much of the United States, the arrival of the winter solstice on December 21 may not be an occasion many people feel like celebrating. But a dazzling total lunar eclipse to start the day might just raise a few chilled spirits.
• Solar panels, anti-freeze beetles in space ...
  San Diego engineering students recently sent a weather balloon up 80,000 feet to near space to study the effects of solar power, climate change and even the survival rate of anti-freeze beetles. The launch, sponsored by the California Space Grant Consortium, is the fifth of its kind for UC San ...
• 25 Pictures of Animals Sitting Like Humans ...
  Cats are people too, you know.

Invisible Opportunity

• Winter Solstice Total Lunar Eclipse Explained &#82 ...
• The Psychopath’s Kettle Is Boiling
  Like the frog in the kettle, the most notorious criminal gang in the world is coming to a boil. Their games are over and paybacks reside just over the horizon. The Elitist’s One World paradigm is wracking apart under internet exposure, astounding failures in climate change, cap and trade, profligate ...
• Iran reportedly in nuclear fuel swap negotiations
  Iran is in negotiations with France, Russia, Turkey and the United States on a nuclear fuel swap deal that Teheran hopes will curb sanctions levied against it, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. According to the report, Iran would send 1,000 kilograms of low-enriched uranium and all of its 30 kilog ...
• Der Spiegel 1974 – New Ice Age Approaching
  By P. Gosselin An increased frequency in extreme weather events, a cooling North Atlantic, and growing Arctic sea ice were viewed as signs of climate change. The odds of a warmer climate in the future, according to one scientist, were “at best 1 in 10,000″ (see below). That’s what Der Spiegel wrote ...
• SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scien ...
  By Marc Morano More than 1,000 dissenting scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 2010 321-page ...

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

• President Obama More Tightfisted With Clemencies T ...
  It would be a travesty for President Obama to lag behind President Bush when it comes to helping reunite families in time for the holidays.
• 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.

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

• Metal-Screened Print Studio is an Industrial Marve ...
  This office / print production building is a striking structural design with nothing to hide. Designed by young firm AMID.Cero9 for the print company Diagonal 80, the project has received a lot of attention for the unique way it creates a highly controlled production space. The raw yet delicate, hig ...
• LAST CHANCE to Win $250 Worth of Green Goods From ...
  LAST CHANCE TO WIN! Summer Rayne Oakes is one of the fresh faces pushing the green movement forward – an eco-model, social entrepreneur, author, editor, and designer, this girl has got it going on! We’re giving away some of Summer’s favorite green picks to one lucky reader – and it could be you. Yo ...
• Reclaimed Walnut Table Boasts a Built-in Planter
  Aside from being gorgeous, this elegant table has two green features that have us oohing and ahhing over it. Designer Emily Wettstein uses reclaimed walnut and steel to craft each piece, and to make matters even cooler she incorporates a removable planter right into the center that can be filled wit ...
• Hand-Cranked LED Lantern Emits Nostalgia But No Fu ...
  There’s something nostalgic about old kerosene lamps that evokes thoughts of camping around a cozy fire – until you remind yourself of all of the respiratory problems the toxic fumes can give you. Well designer Lee Leong Chye of the Little Thoughts Group has reworked the iconic light fixture with al ...
• Berkeley’s Gather Restaurant Serves Up Local ...
  Gather is a restaurant located at the heart of the sustainable food movement in Berkeley, California. It is housed in the greenest building in Berkeley, The David Brower Center. The chefs serve up local seasonal fare from some Bay Area favorite farms like River Dog and Devils Gulch paired with biody ...

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

• Girl Chimpanzees May Use Sticks as Dolls
  In a fashion similar to human girls, some young chimpanzees seem to play with sticks as if they were dolls. The findings, reported in the Dec. 21 Current Biology, are the first documented evidence of boy and girl primates in the wild playing differently with their toys. Though these patterns’ origi ...
• Lunar Eclipse Monday Night Will Cast Rare Shadow o ...
  A total lunar eclipse will be visible (weather permitting) across North America Monday night, just in time for the longest night of the year. This will be the first time a lunar eclipse has fallen on the winter solstice since 1638. The Earth’s shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 a.m. EST ...
• Video: New X-ray Camera Sees Through Melting Metal
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience714586424001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A new high-speed X-ray video camera, now the fastest in the world, can see through molten metal and watch weld-weakening flaws form in real-time. The $670 ...
• 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. ...

PakAlert

• Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: 9/11 Pentago ...
  TV host, Jesse Ventura, former Navy Seal, former Governor of Minnesota, on a one hour documentary on prime-time American television, makes an open and shut criminal case tying Cheney, Rumsfeld and officials throughout the US government with complicity in the planning, execution and subsequent cover- ...
• Western Forces buildup for Korean Attack
  Four Multi-role Frigates and two air defense destroyers from Canada will meet up with an undisclosed contingent of Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy vessels for what is assumed to be preparations for action on the Korean Peninsula. The UK, Canada and Australia have some 90 Fast-Attack aircraft th ...
• Globalists Can Win Cyber War, But Not Information ...
  The establishment has been desperately trying to implement legal control over the Internet. They're attacking freedom of speech and the open Internet from all angles; through government tools, corporate methods, and even the courts. All three of these methods are converging in the WikiLeaks case, bu ...
• Is AIPAC a Hex on America?
  I hope that's some food for thought. One can't help but correlate AIPAC's logo with their intrusive, entangling mission which they have very effectively foisted on the American people. Don't be fooled by the onslaught of propaganda designed to divert your attention from obvious facts. The other dime ...
• How the Animated Series G.I. Joe Predicted Today’s ...
  G.I. Joe is an iconic cartoon TV show that marked an entire generation of young boys during the 80s. Most fans still recall the main characters and the epic gun fights. But what about the storyline? A look at the TV series in today’s context is quite a strange experience: Many of Cobra’s “far-out” p ...

Andy Worthington

• Lawyers for Ahmed Belbacha, Guantánamo Prisoner an ...
  In an attempt to bring to an end a nearly four-year deadlock in the case of Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian prisoner in Guantánamo, lawyers at the London-based legal action charity Reprieve have “started high court proceedings to force the British government to disclose information that they say could ...
• Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of &#82 ...
  In disturbing reports from the US, it appears that Private First Class Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of leaking the Afghan and Iraqi war logs, the US diplomatic cables and the “Collateral Damage” video, which have dominated headlines globally since WikiLeaks began making t ...
• Tell the UK and US Governments We Need A Deadline ...
  From the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, based in the home borough of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, comes news of the latest information regarding Shaker’s return from Guantánamo, via an exchange in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Anas Sarwar, the Labour MP for Glasgow Ce ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Mummified Forest Found on Treeless Arctic Island
  "Surreal" remnants of a prehistoric forest have been discovered on a now treeless island in the Canadian Arctic.
• 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.

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 British National Party Relaunches American ...
  A racist organization from Great Britain that once boasted a lively U.S. presence before it was routed eight years ago is back again. The American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP) was once a serious player in white nationalist circles. The group was created in the late 1990s to raise mo ...
• AFA’s Fischer Doubles Down on Anti-Gay Lies
  Like a desperate gambler who simply can’t make himself fold an obvious losing hand and instead increases his bet, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association apparently has concluded that the best defense for being caught in lies is to further inflate them. The Southern Poverty Law Center last ...
• A Poll of Their Own: Family Research Council Takes ...
  Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council (FRC), was on the attack again today. In a live event broadcast from the FRC political arm’s website, Perkins announced that a new FRC poll had found that almost 63% of “active duty and retired military families oppose overturning the p ...
• AFA’s Fischer Recycles Lies in Support of Anti-Gay ...
  For those who perpetrate lies about gays and lesbians, old habits are apparently hard to break. Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s loquacious director of issue analysis for government and public policy, responded on Nov. 26 to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s publication a few days ea ...
• Arkansas House Speaker Salutes Failed Racist Candi ...
  Outspoken white racist Billy Roper, the neo-Nazi founder of White Revolution and former deputy outreach coordinator at the now-defunct National Alliance (NA), failed miserably Nov. 2 as a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas. But he did get a nice consolation prize: a letter from the speaker ...

change: org.

• FDA Reveals How Many Antibiotics Factory Farms Rea ...
  Earlier this summer, the Food and Drug Administration issued a draft document calling for an end to the common practice of pumping farm animals full of unnecessary antibiotics. This month, the FDA has, for the first time, revealed the true extent of antimicrobial drug use by the American livestock i ...
• Would You Like Underpaid Employees with that Sandw ...
  Working in the fast food industry is tough; workers face the lowest wages possible, high turnover rates, and little respect. One group of sandwich slingers in Minnesota is working overtime (not literally though) to change all that. Back in October, 200 workers at 10 Jimmy John's locations lost an el ...
• Virginia Lawmaker Wants No Gay People in the Natio ...
  There is always that guy at the party. The guy who gets really drunk and angry and tries to wrestle someone playing Xbox (it happens). He ruins the party for everyone. We all know that guy. This weekend, after 17 years, "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" (DADT) was finally repealed by Congress. Twitter, Facebo ...
• Anti-Trans Bias and Arresting Victims in the D.C. ...
  Chloe Alexander Moore, a 25-year-old transgender woman living in D.C., says that she pepper-sprayed a man in self-defense after he hurled transphobic comments at and pushed her. He then tackled and seriously hurt her as she tried to get away to safety, at which point Raphael Radon revealed himself a ...
• 500 New Yorkers Take on the Smithsonian's Censorsh ...
  There's hardly a city that's more culturally accepting than New York. And many residents of the city that never sleeps are now showing just how devoted they are to artistic expression -- both inside and outside of the state. Museum Mile was filled with about 500 protesters yesterday. They were march ...

Common Dreams -News

• Assange Confirms Wikileaks Holds 'Bank of America' ...
  LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday the Swedish women who have accused him of sexual assault had got into a "tizzy" about the possibility they had caught a sexually transmitted disease from him.Assange told the BBC that one account of what happened in August -- the month at the ce ...
• McConnell and GOP Slam START, But Facts Don't Back ...
  by Jonathan S. LandayWASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell detailed Monday on the Senate floor his reasons for opposing New START, the nuclear arms reduction accord the Obama administration negotiated with Russia. Many of his assertions don't check out. Here is an assessment of th ...
• The Year Washington Became “Business Friendly”
  by Robert ReichHistory will record 2010 as the year Washington became "business friendly." Not that it was all that unfriendly before. Some would say the bailouts of Wall Street, AIG, GM, and Chysler were about as friendly as it can get. In addition, Washington gave windfalls to drug companies ...
• 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 ...

Lifehacker

• Swype Gesture-Based Android Keyboard Now Available ...
  Android: Swype used to be available only to those who managed to luck into a fairly restricted beta. Now it's open to anyone whose phone happens to meet the hardware requirements. More��
• Set Up a Home Surveillance System with FaceTime Re ...
  We recently shared a way to use your home computer as a surveillance system using FaceTime and an AppleScript that auto-answered incoming calls. It turns out, though, that FaceTime already has a hidden feature that does just that. More�� ...
• Divvy Splits Up and Organizes Windows on Windows a ...
  Windows/Mac: Divvy takes Windows 7's window-lock Aero Snap powers to the next level—originally on Macs, and now on Windows, too. Using a small Divvy windows, or keyboard shortcuts, you can line up your app windows any which way you want. M ...
• An Argument Against Giving Your Boss a Holiday Gif ...
  What are the chances your boss will really like the gift you're buying for them out of self-imposed obligation? Give them thanks at Thanksgiving instead, suggests career blogger Penelope Trunk, or go with a handwritten note or general good che ...
• Microsoft Quietly Drops Annoying Genuine Advantage ...
  Microsoft has a good number of extra templates and add-ons available for its Office products, but getting to them requires the download of a validation tool, then a check against whether your Office product is "genuine" or not. No longer, it s ...

Water Privatization

• P.E.I. needs to protect its public water: report
  The Council of Canadians is calling on the P.E.I. government to take a stand to protect the Island's public water and sanitation services.
• 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

Guardian

• Cable says sorry after claim he can bring down coa ...
  Danny Alexander says coalition will stand firm over £81bn cuts as business secretary is secretly recorded saying government is trying to do 'too many things' in terms of reformsVince Cable was forced into an embarrassing apology last night after being secretly recorded saying he could "bring the gov ...
• Heathrow says delays will continue
  �� Problems at Heathrow set to continue beyond Christmas �� Severe weather warnings remains in place �� Why is it so cold this winter?10.50am: Reporting from Heathrow is not easy. The authorities there don't allow the media to take pictures or record interviews with passengers. Here's audio of BBC L ...
• Assange defends extradition fight
  WikiLeaks founder says he is not obliged to return to be questioned over sexual assault allegations Julian Assange today defended his decision not to return to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual assault, saying he did not need to be "at the beck and call of people making allegations". ...
• Toyota to pay $32.4m in extra fines
  Toyota Motor Corp agrees to pay US government record figure in additional fines over handling of safety crisisToyota Motor Corporation has agreed to pay the US government a record $32.4m (£20.9m) in additional fines to settle an investigation into its handling of two recalls at the heart of its safe ...
• Portugal faces lower credit rating
  �� Moody's puts Portugal under review �� Agency concerned about 'long-term vitality' �� Interest on Portuguese government debt hits 6.46%Portugal was hit with the threat of a credit rating downgrade this morning over fears that its austerity cutbacks will hurt economic growth next year.Just days aft ...

McClatchey

• Senate readies for showdown over New START arms tr ...
  WASHINGTON — The Senate plans a critical vote Tuesday on the Obama administration's nuclear arms treaty with Russia, as Russia warned lawmakers not to alter the treaty's terms and the White House stepped up lobbying.
• WikiLeaks: Cable tied Israel to killing of top Syr ...
  It was late in the evening of 1 August 2008 in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous when the sniper fired the fatal shot. The target was General Muhammad Suleiman, President Bashar al-Assad's top security aide. Israelis, the US embassy in Damascus reported, were "the most obvious suspects" in the assa ...
• Secessionist ball: No one will be posing as slaves ...
  CHARLESTON, S.C. — More than 100 protesters carrying signs decrying racism and the Confederacy gathered Monday night outside an auditorium in this city as 400 people dressed in Civil War-era costumes arrived for a gala to mark the 150th anniversary of South Carolina signing the documents that plunge ...
• McConnell slams START, but facts don't back him up
  WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell detailed Monday on the Senate floor his reasons for opposing New START, the nuclear arms reduction accord the Obama administration negotiated with Russia.
• VA takes steps to deal with mounting Lejeune water ...
  WASHINGTON — Responding to heightened publicity and an uneven smattering of decisions on claims, the Department of Veterans Affairs will begin training a specialized cadre of workers this week to handle disability claims related to historic water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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

• Graham Claims Dems Pushed DREAM Act To Make Republ ...
  This past Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) railed against Democrats for using the lame duck session simply to make Republicans “look bad.” More specifically, Graham announced on CBS’ Face the Nation that Democrats pushed the DREAM Act simply to hurt the GOP’s reputation amongst Latinos: The last t ...
• GOP Delays Confirmation Of Obama Nominee Because H ...
  The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that the Obama administration has been trying to cajole Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into writing down loan principal for troubled homeowners. Incoming House Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL), however, is not on-board with the effort. ...
• Reports: Palestinians ‘Separate And Unequal& ...
  A couple of recent reports provide important information on the reality of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and highlight again the imperative of ending that occupation. The first, Unsafe Space: Israeli Authorities’ Failure to Protect Human Rights amid Settlements in East Jer ...
• Christie Says ‘Day Of Reckoning’ Force ...
  CBS’ 60 Minutes ran a segment last night on the fiscal nightmare currently underway in most of the states across the country. Faced with plummeting tax revenue and a rising demand for services in the wake of the Great Recession, many states are staring at huge fiscal holes (and most are constitution ...
• Why Are ‘Creeping Sharia’ Cranks Advis ...
  Max Blumenthal has a deeply reported new piece, The Great Islamophobic Crusade, tracking the growth of the network of think tanks and front groups cultivating and exploiting hostility toward Muslims and Islam for conservative political gain: Erupting so many years after the September 11th trauma, th ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Bliss It Is To Be Alive With YouTube
  Because it has allowed me to look at the following clip and think that for those people, there at that time: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" I don't know. I find watching the thing to be monumental. I've got a similar post here.
• Assange Arrested - Related Story: "Has release of ...
  So Julian Assange has met with police to discuss the almost assuredly bogus Swedish charges against him (one from a pro-imperialism in Cuba sleaze-bag), but it will be months before it's decided whether he can be extradited on those charges. And, let's remember, all you creeps (like the illiterate, ...
• Will the Stacy Bonds case change anything?
  Remember those heady days when the unelected bush II regime's massive incompetence and racist indifference to the sufferings caused by Hurricane Katrina made some people think that he was finished? Remember when stephen harper's contemptuous treatment of Parliament was so glaring that even Andrew C ...
• Sister in Spirit
  It's not a new story, and this post has no new information. It's just been bugging me since I read about how the harpercon government is removing funding from this worthy initiative (to give it to the RCMP to set-up their own missing persons database that will not even have a focus on Aboriginal wom ...
• Video Evidence of Ottawa Police Association in Ass ...
  At the link is shocking footage of Ottawa Police Association president Stephen Boucher, attempting to assault 3 pedestrians. As you can see things don't turn out the way Boucher had expected. Boucher's behaviour makes these quotes now seem less inexplicable. Here he is blubbering about the fall-out ...

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

• Ok Go Explains There Are Lots Of Ways To Make Mone ...
  Over the last few years, we've covered many of the moves by the band Ok Go -- to build up a fanbase often with the help of amazingly viral videos, ditch their major record label (EMI), and explore new business model opportunities. In the last few days, two different members of Ok Go explained a bit ...
• Law Professor Explains How Even When A Site Copies ...
  Berkeley law professor Jason Schultz has filed an excellent amicus brief in one of the many Righthaven lawsuits, pointing out that using an entire article does not preclude fair use (pdf), and then going on to explain why the use of an entire article in this particular case (which Righthaven brought ...
• Kodak Getting More Patent Aggressive: In Legal Fig ...
  About a year ago, we were disappointed to see Kodak start to sue mobile phone companies for patent infringement, wondering if this was a sign of trouble at the company. As we've seen in the past, when big companies start filing patent infringement lawsuits, it's a sign that they're having trouble i ...
• DailyDirt: Peak Coal And Other Energy-Related Stor ...
  Nuclear fusion technologies always seem to be about 30 years away from practicality. Meanwhile, cheap fossil fuels keep getting an extended life span. But it looks like the predictions of Peak Coal may be kicking in again -- though, new mining techniques might still throw a wrench into the estimate ...
• Myth Debunking: ISPs Are Profiting From 'Piracy'
  One of the popular claims from entertainment industry supporters, who somehow want ISPs to be liable for file sharing, is that "ISPs profit from file sharing." We hear this over and over again. But there's little evidence that's true. It's not like most internet users wouldn't have internet acces ...

VacTruth

• Take Off the Billion-Dollar Blindfold
  Would you buy an unlabeled bottle of vitamins from a health food store? Would you give those vitamins to your child? Would you trust a stylist who didn’t ask about your own wishes for your appearance? Would you have confidence in a salesperson’s ability to give you sound advice about [...]
• 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.

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

• The LaRouche Show, December 18, 2010
  Sudan Is a Nation, Not a British Zoo! Waging War for National Sovereignty—Strategic Updates, Reports from Africa
• The LaRouche Show, December 11, 2010
  Exciting Perspective from the Pacific, on Defeating the British Imperial System
• The LaRouche Show, December 4, 2010
  Glass-Steagall or Die! The Principle of Production, e.g. Agriculture
• The LaRouche Show, November 27, 2010
  Sovereignty and the NAWAPA Approach
• The LaRouche Show, November 20, 2010
  The Dope on Dope, Inc.: Defeating the Inter-Alpha War Against the World

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: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• 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 [...]

treehugger

• Put Deposits On Everything, Even Street Furniture
  Images credit Vincent Wittenberg and Guy Königstein Deposits are a wonderful tool; I have previously suggested that It's Time for Deposits. On Everything. Dutch designers Vincent Wittenberg and Guy Königstein have carried the principle a step further, to street furniture. ...Read the full s ...
• The Axes of Public Peeing - a Novel Way to Look at ...
  Image credit: Laura Norén (the full image is available on The Society Pages) Some time ago, I asked whether peeing in public was green. With issues ranging from nasty smells to social disapproval, it's clear that the appropriateness of peeing in public is a far from cut-and-dry matter. We have ...
• Is the Wikileaks Saga the Biggest Crypto-Environme ...
  image: Jose Mesa/Creative Commons As 2010 comes to a close, the time for giving thanks for all those small green steps that we've collectively taken over the past twelve months now past by a couple weeks, ever media outlet is trying to make a bullet-pointed list of the year's high- and low-ligh ...
• The Most Popular Posts in Cars and Transportation ...
  We've now reached that time of year when we traditionally look back at the past 12 months and try to see what caught your attention among the hundreds and hundreds of articles published on TreeHugger. From a Jaguar electric car to a man single-handedly building his own subway system to a tin ...
• Desalination Plants To Hit $87.8 Billion in Invest ...
  Photo by prilfish via Flickr Creative Commons Desalination technology -- turning brackish or salt water into fresh water -- has been a hotly debated issue for years. The main problem is that the technology is incredibly energy intensive, and there for financially and environmentally expensive. ...

Biosingularity

• Toxic House Cats?
  Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease when transmitted from a pregnant mother to the unborn fetus, potentially resulting in stillbirth, brain damage, or long-term eye damage that can lead to blindness. Even worse, it’s extremely common in a most common animal, the house cat—and it’s easily transmissibl ...
• The code for survival
  When cells are exposed to life-threatening stresses, they take quick action to save themselves. Among other defenses, they start manufacturing proteins that perform critical tasks such as repairing DNA. Researchers at MIT and the University of Albany have now discovered one way that cells boost prod ...
• Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
  In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do ...
• Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
  By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t human ...
• Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
  If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, a d ...

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

• Russia, India sign oil, gas, nuclear energy deals
• "What happens in Belarus belongs to the sovereignt ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes that the presidential elections in Belarus belong exclusively to the “internal affairs of Russia’s neighboring state.” However, he has voiced hope that Belarus will follow on the path to democracy.
• Russia's Mission Control to readjust ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles).
• Russia, India sign design contract for prototype m ...
  Russia and India signed a contract on Tuesday to jointly develop a design for a new fifth-generation multirole fighter.
• Russian photo correspondent arrested in Minsk begi ...
  A photographer from a St. Petersburg newspaper sentenced to 15-day jail term in Belarus for participating in Sunday's opposition riots in Minsk has declared a hunger strike and demands a meeting with the Russian ambassador, Ekho Moskvy radio station said on Tuesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Mission Control to readjust ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles).
• 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.

Pruning Shears

• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Is it me or are the deaths of American soldiers not being reported as prominently these days? Seems like back in 2006 the death of seven Ameri ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Destruction of GM Sugar Beet Crops Delayed Followi ...
  An appeals court has delayed the destruction of genetically modified (GM) sugar beet crops until December 23 to give the court time to decide whether they should be uprooted, as ordered by a recent ruling.Click here to read this article
• Senate OKs Food Safety Measure Again
  The Senate on Sunday night cleared a food safety package, curbing earlier fears the popular bill would die by the end of this session as a result of a procedural error by upper chamber lawmakers.Click here to read this article
• Turning Agriculture From Problem to Solution
  Global agriculture contributes in the region of 17 percent to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, but according to the World Bank, climate smart agriculture techniques can both reduce emissions and meet the challenge of producing enough food for a growing world population.Click h ...
• The Witch Hunt Against Assange Is Turning into an ...
  Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration's reported plan to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for conspiring with Army Pvt. Bradley Manning to obtain U.S. secrets strikes at the heart of investigative journalism on national security scandals.Click here to read this a ...
• Migrant Farm Workers: Fields of Tears
  TERESA VEGA'S first son was two when a flood carried rubbish, dead animals and disease through the canals of Oaxaca, her desperately poor home state in southern Mexico. The boy started vomiting, got diarrhea and ran a fever. There was a doctor a few hours' walk away, but Ms Vega and her husband, Mar ...

fotoFrontera

• Fotografías de caballos I (Equinos de Pura Sangre)
  ¿Le gustan a usted los Caballos Pura Sangre? Me imagino que 9 de cada 10 personas han contestado que sí. Pues para todos ustedes, presentamos el inicio de nuestra serie sobre estos hermosos equinos. En total, son más de 40 fotografías, pero empezaremos con 7 de ellas. No se pierda nuestras actualiza ...
• Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año III (8 elemen ...
  Ya estamos en la recta final del 2010 y lo que más anhelamos en el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, es que nuestros suscriptores y visitantes en general, tengan las mejores imágenes para compartir en estas fiestas especiales de Diciembre con todos sus amigos y familiares. Para ver más imágenes de esta s ...
• Retratos de mujeres hermosas I (Lindas como las fl ...
  Como tributo especial a la belleza femenina, les tenemos el día de hoy una pequeña colección con 4 retratos de mujeres hermosas. Si después de haber visto estas fotografías, desea ver más imágenes de nenas lindas, haga usted click aquí.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas l ...
• Wallpapers de música disco I (Imágenes de Colores)
  Para cerrar con broche de oro este año 2010, les tenemos nuevas colecciones con imágenes muy bonitas. Ejemplo de ello, es esta serie titulada 'Wallpapers de música disco (Imágenes de Colores)'. Esperando que les gusten, sigo preparando nuevas colecciones...Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ...
• Colección especial con 100 imágenes de amor (recop ...
  Como parte de nuestras recopilaciones de Fin de Año, tenemos para ustedes nuestra colección especial de imágenes de amor que contiene más de 100 elementos de corazones, flores, wallpapers, dibujos vectoriales, rosas, postales y mucho más. *Todas son imágenes de alta resolución.Nota: Haz click aquí o ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• Pick one
  I’ve been asked to submit a post for inclusion with a bunch of other posts to honor the late “Jon Swift.” I pulled 17 urls of posts I did this last year that didn’t suck too much, then narrowed that pile down to these semifinalists: Guilty until proven innocent [March 4] Universally available, inten ...
• Less compulsive with a hint of resent
  The compulsion to blog grows weaker. Politics drove much of what you’ve read here, and in the absence of politics, I find I have less to write about but what really killed this blog the last couple of days was my reviewing the past year’s output for a post to submit to a Jon Swift [...]
• 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. - [...]

Public News Service

• AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recov ...
  AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recovery Tucson, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Department wants Congress to eliminate federal protection for the endangered Mexican gray wolf and turn the controversial program over to the state. Conservation groups say the result could be extinction fo ...
• A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests
  A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests Phoenix, AZ - A coalition of groups, including several active in Arizona, are asking President Obama for a holiday gift: making federal rules for National Forest land strong enough to "stand the test of time." New rules are expected next month. Comments from ...
• Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations
  Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations Phoenix, AZ — Tis' the season for charitable giving and legal experts say that means there are also scammers out there, so they advise taking a moment to check out any charity before you donate. Comments from attorney Beverly Salhanick (Sal-HAN-ick).
• Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ ...
  Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ Sun Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is getting kudos for its work on designating Solar Energy Zones (SEZs) on public lands in a new report from The Wilderness Society. Specifically, the Brenda area in western Arizona is profiled as a ...
• Flagstaff Council Votes to Support Uranium Mining ...
  Flagstaff Council Votes to Support Uranium Mining Ban Flagstaff, AZ – A ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon has the support of the Flagstaff City Council. Members voted 6-to-1 this week to support a federal proposal to withdraw a million acres around the national park from mining for the nex ...

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

• Uthman Badar: WikiLeaks exposes foreign policy's d ...
  WikiLeaks exposes foreign policy's dark side - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The writing is on the cables. Leaked US diplomatic cables that is, the publication of which by WikiLeaks and the ensuing reaction from various parties around the world re-affirm some concerning realities t ...
• White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting ...
  White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting of black actor as Norse god | Film | guardian.co.uk: "'It [is] well known that Marvel is a company that advocates for leftwing ideologies and causes,' the site reads. 'Marvel frontman Stan 'Lee' Lieber boasts of being a major financier of leftwing ...
• Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindica ...
  Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindicates U.S. Diplomats | FPJ: "The WikiLeaks vs. the US government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret US documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media organizations. Many of us shook our heads with a mixture of disgu ...
• Misión Milagro: una operación de ojos a cambio de ...
  Misi�n Milagro: una operaci�n de ojos a cambio de adoctrinamiento � ELPA�S.com: El Gobierno de Venezuela, con la ayuda de médicos cubanos, puso en marcha a finales de 2005 un proyecto llamado Misión Milagro. Su objetivo consistía en recoger por toda América Latina a personas de bajos recursos con pr ...
• Bryce Edwards : Foreign meddling laid bare - Natio ...
  Bryce Edwards : Foreign meddling laid bare - National - NZ Herald News: "The Wikileaks US Embassy cables given to the Herald on Sunday provide a fantastic insight into the governance of New Zealand and the role of foreign diplomats here. Political scientists and historians will pore over these cabl ...

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

• Waste separation container
    It is important to separate our waste attentively to help recycling (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/recyclable.html) as much as possible and thus prevent the use of new raw materials. Make sure not to mess it up with general waste, since this goes to a combustor. Pure organic waste (recy ...
• Traditional Chinese garden in a modern City
    Sydney’s Chinese garden is a perfect place to enjoy a beautiful day with the family. It was initiated in 1988 by the local Chinese community to celebrate Australia’s bicentenary. Today this small ecosystem (glossary/wildlife/ecosystem.html) (glossary/wildlife/ecosystem.html)delivers a bit of f ...
• 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 ...
• Sea Shepherd
  The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit (directory/categories/Non-profit%20Organisations) organization based in Washinton, United States. They use direct action techniques in international waters to protect sealife. The group uses (sometimes aggresive) actions like ramming and disabl ...
• Richmond Bridge
  Richmond Bridge in Richmond, Tasmania is Australia’s (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.html) oldest known large stone arch bridge. It was built by convict labour and completed in 1825. On 25 November 2005 the bridge was included in the National Heritage (glossary/categories/wildlife/nat ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Leaked Presentation Shows How Carriers Can Deliver ...
  ShareThisLeaked Presentation Shows How Carriers Can Deliver Tiered Internet Services 20 Dec 2010 As all eyes turn to the Federal Communications Commission as they prepare to vote on the net neutrality proposal, a leaked presentation outlines how cellular carriers can roll out a fee-based tiered Inte ...
• Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store
  ShareThisApple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store 21 Dec 2010 Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store earlier today. The app used to be available here. (Here’s t ...
• WikiLeaks cables: Syria believed Israel was behind ...
  ShareThisWikiLeaks cables: Syria believed Israel was behind sniper killing 21 Dec 2010 It was late in the evening of 1 August 2008 in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous when the sniper fired the fatal shot. The target was General Muhammad Suleiman, President Bashar al-Assad's top security aide. Isra ...
• Anti-terror squad arrest 12 men 'plotting to cause ...
  ShareThisAnti-terror squad arrest 12 men 'plotting to cause Christmas shopping carnage' --Plot believed to involve 'multiple' locations 21 Dec 2010 Christmas shoppers and partygoers are feared to have been the target of 12 men who were arrested by anti-terror police early yesterday. The suspects, ag ...
• Latest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison Food
  ShareThisLatest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison Food --DHS Uncovered Plot to Attack Hotels and Restaurants Over Single Weekend 20 Dec 2010 CBS News reports the latest terror attack to America [the next false flag] involves the possible use of poisons - simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and r ...

Daily Loaf

• Movie review: Joel & Ethan Coen’s True Grit, starr ...
  CL Contributor Kevin Hopp checks out Hollywood's latest attempt at a Western as was surprised at what he found. He also promises to never use the phrase "true grit" after this review.
• Top 10 sexiest interviews of 2010 (NSFW)
  Sure your fancy “career” in sales or finance or janitorial services may pay more than mine. You may even have such benefits as “a retirement plan” or “health insurance” or “a desk,”  but I get paid to interview the most sultry women on the planet about sex.  So, as 2010 comes to an end and [...]
• Do It Today: Hard Rock Cafe opens, Straight No Cha ...
  Tampa's own Hard Rock Cafe opens today. The 10-man a cappella act Straight No Chaser performs a holiday-themed concert.
• Lightning blow by Hurricanes 5-1
  The Tampa Bay Lightning came in to Monday night ahead of the ninth-place Carolina Hurricanes by six points in the Eastern Conference standings and riding a three-point winning streak; both were numbers they hoped to extend. The Bolts accomplished that goal, blowing by the Carolina Hurricanes 5-1. ...
• Hailing a water taxi: The dream of a ferry across ...
  "A lot of 20somethings say, ‘Oh yeah, I’d love to be able to take a boat over to Tampa and party.’” But all he gets from officials, says Rand Moorhead, is indifference.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• African Asylum Seekers in Israel
  Debbie Herdan is a former Tel Aviv resident who was very active in the organization Hagar and Miriam, which works with African women in Israel who are either pregnant or have recently given birth.  Debbie worked with Eritrean, Sudanese and Darfurian asylum seekers for several years and writes that t ...
• 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, ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Britain: Has the Loop Current stopped?
  The Loop Current which gives Britain a moderate climate has stopped, says a noted scientist with years of experience in analyzing it. If so, the ramifications are staggering. The current weather in Britain is the coldest in 100 years. Is this a one-time anomaly or a precursor of things to come? He b ...
• Portugal to install pumped hydro
  Hydroelectric power has been around for a long time. With pumped hydro, water is pumped up to a reservoir during times of excess power production. When power is needed, the water is released to power turbines and create electricity, and it is available almost instantly. This is increasingly importan ...
• US Navy preparing for climate change
  Rear Admiral David Titley, director of the US Navy climate change task force, sees failed states with millions of angry migrants, as well as the Bering Strait becoming as important as the Straits of Hormuz. The Pentagon fully believes that climate change is happening (quick, someone tell the Republi ...
• Michael Vick wants a dog
  Michael Vick hung dogs that performed badly in the dog fighting ring “by placing a nylon cord over a 2 X 4 that was nailed to two trees located next to the big shed.” He also “drowned approximately three dogs by putting the dogs’ heads in a five gallon bucket of water.” He lied to [...]
• Joe Biden is a pompous ass
  VP Biden says Assange is a “high tech terrorist.” Really? Terrorism is generally understood to include the deliberate targeting of civilians and noncombatants for death or injury. Thus, Assange is not even remotely a terrorist by any definition and Biden should be ashamed of himself, if he’s capable ...

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

• The Panama Deception
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBkuHEZ0nKU
• Illuminati III: Murdered by The Monarchs
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNE_CbWiAIY
• Mind Control and the New World Order by Al Neal
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPDWtqOfCoU
• MOHAMED ATTA & THE VENICE FLYING CIRCUS
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Nwq9ZGgoQ
• The Royal Assassination of Lady Diana
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcITJ9wD2a0

The Air Vent

• Fixing the basic AGW calcs II
  This comment was left in the thread of Judith Curry’s blog.  It is an explanation of the problems introduced when the simple black body sphere estimate for basic forcing is not used.  While Tomas makes the point that the solution is nonsense, these things can still be estimated and do have uses so ...
• Fixing the basic AGW calculations
  Derek Alker, has kindly offered what is definitely the most skeptical thing I’ve ever posted here.  Please don’t interpret this as my work in any way as my views on these things differ, but as I have no time  at least it will make for interesting discussion.  Derek has obviously put a  huge amou ...
• 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?

Focal Point

• Help Rick Smith Help The Homeless and Hungry this ...
  My friends at the Rick Smith Show ("Where Working People Come to Talk") are camping out in a supermarket parking lot in sub-zero temperatures to collect food and donations for needy people in their community. Please help them out: Homelessness and poverty continues to plague the region. That' ...
• 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 ...

Inside Facebook

• After Critiquing Facebook, Google Researcher Paul ...
  Paul Adams, the Google user experience researcher who critiqued Facebook in a lengthy report over the summer, is leaving the search giant to join them. His report is said to have accelerated the Groups product, which launched earlier this fall after Facebook went into “Lockdown” to finish it. Earli ...
• What Might Zuckerberg’s Visit to Baidu Mean, If An ...
  Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is not shy about his interest in China, despite the site being blocked in the country. Beyond studying Mandarin, and visiting during the holidays this year, he’s said specifically that he wants to find a way for Facebook to enter the world’s large ...
• Facebook for iPhone 3.3.3 Updates Notifications In ...
  The recently released version 3.3.3 of the Facebook for iPhone mobile app has been released. It includes an updated notifications interface, the restored ability to post as Page you admin, and various performance, reliability, and memory improvements. However, this release freezes more than previous ...
• From Germany to Russia: A Model for Facebook’s Wor ...
  One of Facebook’s most surprising victories to date, offering proof of its viability worldwide, has been its spread eastward through Europe. The expansion began in the west, spreading through the United Kingdom to France, Italy, even the Czech Republic. Many of these markets had their own social net ...
• Facebook Expanding E-Commerce Services to Match Ne ...
  When Facebook launched its developer platform in 2007, many expected e-commerce applications to take off — the idea was that people would want to find and share products with each other on Facebook, and complete purchases. Instead, simple sharing applications and social games were the hits. By the e ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Waiting for Superrich-Man http://bit.ly/ ...
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  truthout: Cover-Ups, Coups and Drones - A Holiday Sampler of What WikiLeaks Reveals About the US http://bit.ly/i35LJ7 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Homelessness Besets More Women. How to R ...
  truthout: Homelessness Besets More Women. How to Respond? http://bit.ly/eQ4aiu #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: E.J. Dionne Jr. | Why Progressives Need ...
  truthout: E.J. Dionne Jr. | Why Progressives Need CEOS - Really http://bit.ly/gesJQl #Truthout #p2 #p2b
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  truthout: Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail http://bit.ly/i297hD #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• Julian Assange - a Christmas story
  Rachel Stephens argues that this Christmas people should "celebrate the continuing tradition of Christ, who railed against the law makers of his time in an attempt to bring love, hope and justice", by supporting and following the example of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in vowing "to spread the t ...
• Who is the real Barack Obama?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that Barack Obama's transformation from a progressive before becoming president to an anti-progressive president is probably due to his having no firm principles in the first place, a matter that has led him to internalize the Washington political culture where expediency an ...
• What US House Resolution 1765 tells us about the p ...
  Sama Adnan argues that efforts to educate the US public about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the need for a just solution to this conflict will remain incomplete and essentially toothless without pro-peace political actions committees that raise funds for congressional candidates who push for ...
• 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.

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

• “Is Wikileaks wicked or hallowed?” by ...
  The world media is currently awash with sensitive, sensationalized and classified information. Many ‘unknowns’ are now known. Politicians, especially from ‘civilized and developed world’ and those from ‘wicked and doomed world’, have though in different taste and manner, their dirty linens in the ag ...
• On The (NEW) Direction of the AfroSpear….
  Thank you to ALL of you who have responded to the post concerning changes here; those of you who asked how you can help and those of you who sent along good wishes. We need them. We need an active “group” of monitors, posters, people who are committed to tracking comments that we receive and [...]
• sat’day riddymz
    Dedicated to the “First Lady of Soul” – Ms. Aretha FRANKLIN!
• 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 ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

• EnviroLeaks : 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

• NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
  Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...
• 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 ...

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

• Sportsmen protest New Mexico Antelope hunting syst ...
  New Mexico's system for doling out licenses to hunt pronghorn gets a poor grade from the state’s hunters.
• State trust lands serve public
  Some Western states still fund their schools partly through their state trust lands.
• May your holidays be bright
  High Country News takes Christmas break; visitors on wheels, recent books by HCN writers; corrections.
• Infinite problems, small solutions
  In The Fate of Nature, Alaskan reporter Charles Wohlforth ponders how to save the planet, starting with Alaska.
• Excavating John
  Kate Niles' wry and compassionate novel The Book of John tracks the travails of an archaeologist named John Gregory Wayne Thompson.

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

• Julian Assange Feeling the Heat? In New Interview ...
  (if you cannot see video above click here) While Wikileaks head Julian Assange seems cool on the outside, his rantings seems to suggest that he is beginning to feel the pressure.� In an interview with the Times of London Assange lashed out at everybody, both friend and foe. Especially at the ...
• Defeated Congressman Sues Susan B Anthony List For ...
  From now on when ever you see the word loser in the dictionary you might see a picture of soon to be former congressman Steve Driehaus, D-Ohio.� Driehaus is blaming the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List for his shellacking in November, going so far as to sue the PAC in federal court for "chara ...
• Poll Reveals The Frightening Popularity of Revolu ...
  By Barry Rubin There�s a lot of interesting material in the Pew Foundation's latest poll of the Middle East, a survey that focuses on attitudes toward Islamism and revolutionary Islamist groups. The analysis that accompanies the poll, however, is�not very good, so here is mine. For exa ...
• Brother of Muslim Harry Potter Actress Cops Plea ...
  In a brand new case of attempted "Honor Killing, the brother of Afshan Azad, a 22 year British Muslim who has appeared in four Harry Potter films as Padma Patil, a classmate of the boy wizard, copped a plea to assaulting the young woman.� Afshan was dating a Hindu man, against the wishes of her ...
• Government Electric Car Subsidies are Simply Cash ...
  Much of the electric and hybrid car business is in the US are subsidized by the US Govt.In 2010, one fourth of GM and Ford�s hybrids were purchased by the federal government.� Nissan got a $1.4 billion dollar loan from the feds to develop their electric car, the Leaf.� Several thousands of dollars ...

The Real Agenda

• Tratado START: Un Ejército Mundial bajo el Poder d ...
  Por Mark Matheny Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Sin que el ciudadano medio se de cuenta, el plan para el desarme completo y total en un mundo supuestamente pacífico continúa su camino. Conocido como el Tratado START, el orden del día para entregar el control militar total a las Naciones Unidas está llev ...
• ONU evalúa Opciones de Regulación de Internet
  iTnews Las Naciones Unidas está considerando la posibilidad de establecer un grupo intergubernamental de trabajo para armonizar esfuerzos mundiales por los responsables políticos para regular Internet. La creación de dicho grupo cuenta con el respaldo de varios países, encabezados por Brasil. En una ...
• Net Neutrality: Last Step Towards Complete Tyranny
  World Wide Web lock down begins in the USA By Robert McDowell Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government’s reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agen ...
• No Science supports ‘Hottest year on Record& ...
  Britain set to register some of the coldest temperatures ever. By Christopher Booker We have lately heard much of the claim that 2010 will turn out to have been “the hottest year on record”. No one has done more to promote this belief than Dr James Hansen, head of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space ...
• START Treaty: One Army under United Nations Power
  By Mark Matheny With little notice from the average joe on the street, the plan for complete and total disarmament in a supposedly peaceful world continues its way toward completion. Known as the START Treaty, the agenda to turn over total military control to the United Nations is being carried out ...

Wind Watch

• 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, ...
• MOH targets ill effects of turbines
  In recent years, the burgeoning wind energy industry has been able to count as an ally public health officials in Ontario � but that may soon change. Dr. Hazel Lynn, the chief medical officer of health in Grey and Bruce counties, is laying the groundwork for what would be the first Ontario-based stu ...
• 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 ...
• Blade comes off wind turbine at Perkins High Schoo ...
  PERKINS TOWNSHIP � Wind turbines that power Perkins High School are shut down after a blade detached from one of the machines on Monday evening. No one was hurt when the blade came off the rotating hub of the northernmost turbine, one off three at the school at 3714 Campbell St. This was the second ...
• Integrating wind and water power, an increasingly ...
  PORTLAND, Ore. — The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration, the largest of 16 U.S. Department of Energy pilot projects, is under way in five Northwest states. It seeks ways to balance the region’s huge base of hydroelectric power with its fast-expanding collection of wind farms. With a budget o ...

Not My Tribe

• Revisiting the Weather Underground’s 1970 pa ...
  Former Weatherman Bill Ayers, now a respected professor of education, was recently nominated for emeritus status but ran into trouble when a right wing blogger complained that a 1970 underground publication coauthored by Ayers, Prairie Fire, had been dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Rober ...
• John Pilger – The War You Don’t See
  We call it the Iraq War, as we did the Vietnam War, but America’s wars aren’t so-named in the host countries. It’s the Iraq Invasion, not War, and Afghanistan Invasion really, now Occupation, Decimation and Holocaust. Journalist filmmaker John Pilger subscribes to the theory that if a public is let ...
• It’s Obama’s tax cut for the rich
  It seems just an election ago that Candidate Obama objected to the Bush Tax Cuts which launched a new gilded age. Now that those grievously unfair giveaways are up for extension, President Obama is not just a cheerleader, he’s the pitcher, with relief pitcher Clinton in the final inning. Obama pushe ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Shirley they can't be serious!
  9-11 Victim Families Criticize Napolitano Comments http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011290030 No f-ing way! Shirley they can't be serious! (Sorry, couldn't resist) They are still playing the 'family members hate us' card?! ... Even though the thing they are supposedly debunking is a campaign started ...
• Of Course, WTC7 Never Existed!
  "Every now and then I meet somebody [..] asking me about this Building 7, but I have no evidence that this really occured!" ~ Joe Lieberman Now this is what you call denialism! As if denying WTC7's demolition isn't bad enough, Joe Lieberman seems to be denying it even existed! So what about all t ...
• The 9/11 Truth Experiment
  Here is a proposed experiment from a new "debunker" on YouTube, "Humantidote": Stand under it holding torches huh? As AE911Truth.org mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti just recently stated:"Fire can't melt steel except in the controlled circumstances of a blast furnace, or with a welding torch, or wi ...
• Truthers are Broken Records Because 'Debunkers' Ca ...
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog weighed in today on the recent radio interview conducted by Rosie O'Donnell with 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine and engineer Tony Szamboti. Pat states, "It's the usual bit of nuttery; the program leads in with a lie: 'How many buildings collapsed on 9-11 ...
• Debating With Larry Silverstein's Friend Andrew G. ...
  The following is an email exchange I had with Andrew G. Benjamin earlier this month. I did not obtain permission to post the emails, but I don't have to. Comments in red were not sent in the emails. Andrew G. Benjamin: I may have some useful info. Can't figure out if you a pro 9-11 Conspiracy, t ...

Fooducate

• Last Post on Yogurt for 2010 [Funny Video]
  We’ve written a lot about yogurt recently. We love yogurt. It’s really good for you. But sometimes it seems that industry is hammering on this one nail way too many times. And too hard. Many brands are dding all sort of additives that detract from the nutritional value of the original product. And ...
• Are Omega-3 Enriched Foods Worth The Extra $$$?
  We all know omega-3 means healthy. Men need 1600mg per day, and women 1100mg. Most of us are not getting enough. Food industry to the rescue:  we’re seeing lots of foods boasting added omega-3. There is usually a premium price attached to these enriched products. But is the extra money we pay worth ...
• FiberOne Yoplait – Zero Guilt? Not So Sure…
  Fiber is an important nutrient. Good sources of fiber are fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. We need 25 grams a day, but most of us fall short on this number because we don’t eat enough of the above. That’s why many food companies today push fiber into their processed products. Yogurt is a healt ...
• 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 ...

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

• Nukak’s desperate plea to return home
  Many Nukak have been forced to flee their forest homes, and now live in refugee camps outside the forest. © Arnau Blanch/Survival A leader of the Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee. ’We wan ...
• Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil e ...
  Penan mother and child, Sarawak, Borneo. © Survival International The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
• 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 ...

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.

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Iberdrola Renewables Announces PPAs with ComEd and Ameren

Business Wire (press release)

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iberdrola Renewablestoday announced it has sold the output of its New Harvest Wind Power Project being constructed in Iowa to Commonwealth ...

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Federal approval for 110MW solar power tower in Nevada

BrighterEnergy.org

The facility is designed to provide enoughrenewable energy to supply 75000 households with electricity, using solar thermal power technology. ...

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Elevance Renewable Sciences Raises $100 Million in Series C Financing

PR Newswire (press release)

21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ElevanceRenewable Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has raised $100 million in its Series C financing round. ...

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Congress Approves Renewable Energy Grants for Another Year

The Lipman Times

The program covers up to 30 percent of the installation costs of solar, wind or otherrenewable, sustainable energy sources. Also in the world of renewable ...

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Global Ecology Corporation Receives Investment From South African Partners

Marketwire (press release)

MONTCLAIR, NJ--(Marketwire - December 21, 2010) - Global Ecology Corporation ( PINKSHEETS : GLEC) ( OTCQB : GLEC) ("GEC") announced today that it has ...

American Ecology Upward Momentum Looks to Continue (ECOL)

Benzinga

SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for American Ecology (NASDAQ: ECOL) on September 20, 2010 at $14.75. In approximately 3 months since that trend was...

Peter Fingar to Keynote Business EcologyInitiative Conference 'Optimization ...

PR Newswire (press release)

For more information on the conference visit http://www.business-ecology.org/pr. At the inaugural Optimization for Innovation conference, executives, ...

Bacoor mayor rallies LMP to focus on health,ecology

Manila Bulletin

... Municipal mayors across the country are set to follow the lead of their league president in focusing on health and ecology-friendly concerns in 2011. ...

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Hexavalent chromium: Chemical found in drinking water of 31 US cities

Christian Science Monitor

The chemical hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium 6, has been found in the drinking water of 31 US cities. Chromium 6 was at the heart of the lawsuit ...

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Gloucester water pressure returning slowly; boil order continues

Wicked Local Gloucester

By Staff reports While the Western Avenue break has been repaired, water pressure has been returning more slowly than expected. This is because only one of ...

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Bacteria found in Town of Clay water

NewsChannel 9 WSYR

Clay (WSYR-TV) - The Town of Clay recently announced to its residents that bacteria had been found in its water supply during routine testing. ...

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Southbound US 169 reopens

Kansas City Star

Southbound US 169 reopened earlier today after it had been closed for several days while crews repaired a water main break. Inspectors with the Missouri ...

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