29 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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NewsWise

• Coma and General Anesthesia Demonstrate Important ...
  The brain under general anesthesia isn't "asleep" as surgery patients are often told -- it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three neuroscientists who have published an extensive review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma, in the Dec. 30 issue of The New England Journa ...
• Doctors Should Be Required To Disclose Sleep Depri ...
  An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that sleep-deprived physicians should not be permitted to proceed with an elective surgery without a patient's informed, written consent.
• Genetic Risks for Stroke: International Study Grou ...
  Researchers from the Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine are coordinating an international team of scientists working to identify genes or gene variants that may make a person more likely to have an ischemic stroke.
• How to Cure a New Year's Hangover
  Exercise and B vitamins can help cure a hangover, but coffee won't help.
• Protein Involved in Cystic Fibrosis Also Plays Rol ...
  A team of Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers has discovered that a protein involved in cystic fibrosis (CF) also regulates inflammation and cell death in emphysema and may be responsible for other chronic lung diseases.

Natural Health News

• The Best Fitness Routines Fit Your Personality
  Researchers have speculated that your exercise routine may be easier to stick to if it fits your personality. According to Live Science: “Decades of psychological research have boiled down human personality to five different components: conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism ...
• Cordless Phone EMFs Trigger Heart Rhythm Abnormali ...
  An international team of researchers recently discovered that in some individuals, the 2.4 GHz pulsed signals emitted by a cordless phone system produce significant disruptions in cardiac rhythm. The researchers demonstrated that 40 percent of healthy volunteers in their study showed marked increas ...
• What You Can Do if You Build Your Own Musical Inst ...
  A medley of recognizable songs performed on a custom-built PVC Pipe Instrument.
• Base Jumping Under the Sea
  A fictional video showing what it would be like if Guillaume Nery took a dive at Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world.
• Which are More Dangerous -- Alternative Medicines ...
  A recent survey led found four deaths between 2001 and 2003 that were associated with use of alternative treatments in Australia.� However, according to health and nutrition expert Dr. Gary Null, deaths associated with use of dietary supplements or alternative medicine are rare compared to the deat ...

Antemedius

• The Facade Is Crumbling
  Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where no one wanted to read books. Orwell warned of a state of permanent war and fear. Huxley warned of a culture diverted by mindless pleasure. Orwell warned of a state where every conversation and thought was monitored an ...
• A Year of Fall and Decline
  The fall and decline of an empire can take many years, but certain "benchmarks" (as imperial courts have been known to call them) can measure the progress in one year alone. Take, for example, the year 2010. This year opened with the United States Supreme Court claiming further power to rewrite the ...
• Dead-Enders In The Fight Against Full Civil Rights ...
  The Nuns used to say that doing the right thing was its own reward. If they were indeed right it is a good thing, as in this political climate there have been very few rewards for doing the right or just thing. Specifically I am talking about the Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court. Back in April of ...
• Karl Rove Behind Push To Prosecute Julian Assange?
  Roger Shuler is a former journalist who, according to his bio at OpEdNews lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and works in 'higher education'. Shuler goes on in his bio there to say that "I became interested in justice-related issues after experiencing gross judicial corruption in Alabama state courts. T ...
• Emperor Waits In Wings With Waterboard
  Originally published at Asia Times Oh! spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead. - Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, Act III "He will not be going back to that cell once occupied by Oscar Wilde." Eventually he didn't. But little did Mark Stephens, on ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Merry Christmas
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson To all OJers everywhere who celebrate it, Merry Christmas, and to everyone a joyous holiday season.  It is snowing large wet flakes here in DC on Christmas morning.  In my case, my wife and I drove down on Thursday to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and drove ...
• Artistic Death Penalty for Iranian Director Jafar ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A stark reminder that freedom of expression is indeed a precious thing: Jafar Panahi is one of the most acclaimed film directors in the world. Admirers like myself were horrified and astonished at the news, announced yesterday, that Jafar Panahi had been ...
• More from Jack Goldsmith on WikiLeaks
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Today at Lawfare: If DOJ tries to prosecute Assange, we will see more and more scrutiny of double standards in the treatment of traditional media leak solicitors (NYT etc.) v. Assange, and of double standards in the treatment of high-level U.S. governmen ...
• Sovereigntism in a Nutshell
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From a new pamphlet, Why Does Sovereignty Matter to America? Merry Christmas from the folks at the Heritage Foundation: [T]oday, our sovereignty faces new threats. International organizations and courts seek to reshape the international system. Nations are to give up ...
• The Hypocrisy of Julian Assange
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford It is with great concern that I hear about this because it puts Julian and his defence in a bad position. I do not like the idea that Julian may be forced into a trial in the media. And I feel especially concerned that he will be presented with the [...]

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• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
• Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
  Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
• Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
  Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...
• BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
  You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...
• Britain buried under coldest dump of "global warmi ...
  From Benny Peiser's clmate newsletter, some highlights: The Met Office, using data generated by a £33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past...

My Care2 Picks

• A Holiday Greeting
  Here is my list (swallowed for too many links, and of course it's only a partial list that I threw together) posted to a Climate Progress story about trees dying from bark beetles:Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Who Can Help Tackle the Afghan Conundrum
  The hope to crush the resistance of radical groups in Afghanistan is not materializing while the scheduled withdrawal of the Western coalition from the country is drawing closer ( Does this remind you of France leaving Vietnam and the USA taking over? )Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-i ...
• Massive China Dig Reveals How Evolution Conquered ...
  A vast body of paleontological evidence points to the Permian-Triassic period transition, which occurred approximately 250 million years ago, was the largest extinction event in historySubmitted by Christoffer IsNotMyAlias to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Atlantic disaster - Ice Age ahead?
  Have you heard about a climate change? I mean the the scientific data coming from the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean.The Atlantic gulf-stream conveyed warm tropical water to Northern Europe. This pattern has changed and the ocean rapidly cooling. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� � ...
• Iran Election and the Twitter Revolution
  2009/06/18 Far from being a "revolution" fanned by Twitter and Facebook, these (un)social media networks delude only themselves, some of their followers, the western media networks.Opposition to democracy in Iran comes from the west.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Angry Indian News

• Latest Right-Wing Freak-Out: Obama Wants To Give M ...
  Latest Right-Wing Freak-Out: Obama Wants To Give Manhattan Back To Native Americans | TPMMuckraker: "Yesterday, the right-wing blog World Net Daily took it a step further in a post called 'Obama to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Chinese Journalist Death 'Must Be Investigated' | ...
  Chinese Journalist Death 'Must Be Investigated' | Humanitarian News: "Media rights groups are calling for a thorough investigation into the death of a Chinese journalist this week.The investigative... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Brazil encourages more black people to join diplom ...
  Brazil encourages more black people to join diplomatic corps | World news | The Guardian: "Brazil's government wants the people in its embassies to look a little more like the people in the street.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Detained journalist questions right to freedom of ...
  Detained journalist questions right to freedom of speech for Palestinians | World news | guardian.co.uk: "An independent West Bank journalist detained for five days by Palestinian security forces... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Israeli secret report on inhumane conditions of de ...
  Israeli secret report on inhumane conditions of detainees disclosed: "GAZA, (PIC)-- Haaretz newspaper published a confidential report prepared by the Israeli association of jurists revealing the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• USDA GMO Policy
  Monsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.
• The Vote Is In: Congressional Mafia Rams Food Safe ...
  Food Safety legislation passes! Codex, here we come...
• Bribery and Graft abound as Reid attaches S.510 to ...
  S.510 Fake Food Safety bill was passed quickly late Sunday afternoon; a vote taken when the Senate could be assured few were watching or even aware that the vote on the criminalization of independent and family agriculture was taking place.
• Food Safety Sneak Attack! Passed by Unanimous Cons ...
  As reported above, the Senate on Sunday night simply took the revised food safety language that was approved by the House in the CR, substituted it to the language of HR 2751, one of the original "Cash for Clunkers" bills from last year, and approved it by unanimous consent.
• Conservation Easements (CEs)*:Read the fine print ...
  A basic Constitutional tenet of private property ownership in America is the landowner’s right to determine the use and disposition of his or her land. This ownership gives the property owner the right to occupy, use, lease, sell, develop, and deny public access to his or her land. Today, lando ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scott Bo ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Affidavit Details FBI "Operation Payback" Probe
  ShareThisAffidavit Details FBI "Operation Payback" Probe --4chan, "Anonymous" targeted over "severe" attacks on PayPal 29 Dec 2010 As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, the FBI has raided a Texas busines ...
• FBI raided Texas firm in probe of hackers' attack ...
  ShareThisFBI raided Texas firm in probe of hackers' attack on PayPal: report 29 Dec 2010 The FBI raided a Texas business and seized a computer server that investigators suspect was used to launch a cyber attack on PayPal after it froze WikiLeaks' account, according to documents posted by The Smoking ...
• Foreign banks got majority of Fed crisis fund
  ShareThisForeign banks got majority of Fed crisis fund 27 Dec 2010 Some of the world’s strongest banks have profited from an emergency credit facility set up by the US Federal Reserve to shore up confidence in the global financial system, according to a Financial Times analysis of data released by t ...
• NASA's Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay ...
  ShareThisNASA's Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay $500 million more for it 26 Dec 2010 Thanks to congressional inaction, NASA must continue to fund its defunct Ares I rocket program until March - a requirement that will cost the agency nearly $500 million at a time when NASA is struggling ...
• Obama administration preparing executive order to ...
  ShareThisObama administration preparing executive order to authorize indefinite detentions By John Burton 23 Dec 2010 The Obama administration is drafting an executive order, scheduled for release early in 2011, which authorizes indefinite detention without charge of prisoners currently held at Guan ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
• Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
  Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
• Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
  Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...
• BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
  You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...
• Britain buried under coldest dump of "global warmi ...
  From Benny Peiser's clmate newsletter, some highlights: The Met Office, using data generated by a £33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past...

Mondoweiss

• Cast truth
  The human rights attorney Michael Sfard on Cast Lead, at Coteret (original in Hebrew at Ynet): Operation Cast Lead was our second war of independence. In the first, we freed ourselves of 2,000 years of living under and being oppressed by foreign regimes. In the second, we broke the shackles of ...
• Only Jews get to say it
  People are talking about Jeffrey Goldberg's very late epiphany that Israel is not much of a democracy for Palestinians and this clashes with American values. He cited both discrimination against Palestinians inside Israel and in the occupation: [T]here's very little Israel's right-wing government ...
• Lanny Davis dismisses U.N. report on Ivory Coast b ...
  Lanny Davis is a symbol for me of everything that's wrong with the new establishment. A, It's just as bad as the old establishment, in that it supports rightwing dictators in out of the way places, for cash; B, It's a new establishment in that it's permeated by the Israel lobby. Justin Elliott at Sa ...
• ‘Weekly Standard’ shows that Palestine ...
  Last night Chris Matthews kept saying that WikiLeaks shows that the Arab leaders want us to "take out" the Iranian menace. And Jim Zogby was on, along with a docile Richard Engel, and he patiently but forcefully said, No, an Israeli strike on Iran or an American strike on Iran would be "devastating" ...
• Gaza Two Years Later: War is never over
  "Let it go for God's sake," one would suggest. "Two years passed; just move on." Though quite infuriated by how simple it can be thought of, I can somehow see their point. We, people of Gaza, seem to be still whining over the losses of the war. Objectively speaking, it is pretty justified to find [. ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Health Matters Part 2
  BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...
• VRM: Health Matters Part 1
  A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper/Hypothyroidism needs to redouble their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Produces T3 & T4 hormones (Iodine Atoms). Iodine helps regulate metabol ...
• VRM: The Dark Side of The Vitamin K Shot
  Apart from the trauma inflicted on a newborn of getting the shot, the amount of Vitamin K injected into newborns is 20,000 times the needed dose. The injection also contains a preservative, Benzyl alcohol, that can be especially toxic for your babyâs delicate, young immune system. A parent has to k ...
• VRM: UK Institutes Brand of Medical Martial Law Wi ...
  As of January 1st, 2011, all children in the UK, upon reaching the age of 1, will be subject to a one stop, 6 vaccine assault. In what is being labeled ‘Super-vaccination’ day, babies will now get a series of 3 injections in one visit, a combination of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella [...]
• VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
  PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner for ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

• Hostages Press Release
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• Shooting Star
  16 December 2010Six years ago this week, I was packing for my first trip to Iraq.� Been a long road. Earlier this week, the annual Geminids meteor shower was a beautiful sight to behold.� Using 4 cameras, I made about 3,600 photos over the Andaman Sea.�� Due to computer issues, I�ve been able to re ...
• Ripley’s Believe it Or Not
  14 December 2010 Ripley�s Believe it or Not has asked to publish one of my photos in their next book.� This photo was made in Sangin, Afghanistan during the last time I was with British forces.� Sangin is the most dangerous place in the country.� The enemy is good and the fighting is serious.� The ...
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• American Arrogance
  13 December 2010 There have been many comments about American arrogance.� During my travels to 48 United States and over 50 countries -- most of those states and countries multiple times -- some themes have emerged.There is a pervasive sense in the United States that we are THE best.� I've seen this ...

The Killing Train

• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
• A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
  Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
• Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
  After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...
• "Santa" Ford just stole 1000 jobs from the future
  Yesterday's headlines in Toronto newspapers were about how Rob Ford and City Council repealed the $60 vehicle registration tax. The Toronto Sun went as far as painting a beard on a picture of Ford, calling him Santa, and referring to the tax repeal as a christmas gift to Toronto. Another advance aga ...
• Spinning the leaks
  My daily routine these days includes going to the Wikileaks twitter feed (twitter.com/wikileaks), which took me to this story in the UK Guardian about how Saudi Arabia proposed an Arab force to invade Lebanon. The Guardian is definitely the best site on the Wikileaks, and for data in general - they ...

treehugger

• China Will Cut Rare Earths Exports by 10% in 2011
  Map: NASA, public domain. Good Thing "Rare Earths" Aren't That Rare... They say that in life, timing is everything. It's now starting to look like the re-opening of the Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California has excellent timing. During the past decade, China has dominated the market as ...
• Penguins Hop on the Scale for Climate Research (Vi ...
  Photo credit: es0teric/Creative Commons Though the Adelie penguin is numerous—with more than five million individuals stretched across 38 colonies—their native habitat is changing rapidly. To keep track of how the birds are handling this change, scientists have built a special scale. Using a ...
• High-Tech Hidden Cameras Film Polar Bears Close Up
  Bear meets camera. Screenshot from BBC.com Trying to get up close and personal with the world's largest land carnivore can be a tricky, and dangerous, endeavor. Even some of the hardy high-tech cameras the BBC dispatched to the frigid reaches of Norway didn't fare too well -- but they captured ...
• Planet 100: Is it Time to Solar the Sign? (Video)
• Human's Dominant Relation to Earth Is a Violent, C ...
  photo: LeonardoBoff.com A coda to the news from earlier in the day that environmental degradation and pollution in China in 2008 totaled about 4% of GDP for that year: Tierramérica is running an interview with Leonardo Boff, theologian, environmentalist and a professor at Brazil's State Univers ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Two decades behind bars (Pt. 2)
  Thiha Yarzar spent nearly 18 years as a Burmese political prisoner, moved between five different jails where he was tortured and placed on death row
• Mon party holds pre-parliament meeting
  Mon party which won 16 parliamentary seats in the November 7 elections held a two-day meeting discuss on the constitution and the new parliaments
• Forced refugee return angers UN
  More than 150 Karen refugees forcibly returned to conflict zone on Christmas day as UN agency criticises Thai government policy
• Two decades behind bars (Pt. 1)
  Thiha Yarzar spent nearly 18 years as a Burmese political prisoner, moved between five different jails where he was tortured and placed on death row
• Canada offers Suu Kyi honorary citizenship
  Canada invited Burma’s newly free democracy leader to visit to accept honorary citizenship, one of a list of accolades during years under house arrest.

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Environment preview of 2011
  The 'greenest government ever' has an opportunity to live up the title while climate change will be back in the spotlight as hope grows once again for a global deal.
• The green hijack of the Met Office is crippling Br ...
  The Met Office's commitment to warmist orthodoxy means it drastically underestimated the chances of a severe winter, says Christopher Booker.
• Environment review of 2010
  The year started badly after the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit and got worse with the 'climategate' scandal and the largest oil spill in US history. But it was a good year for tigers and wildlife.
• It's 'the hottest year on record', as long as you ...
  Much of the data cited to support warmist claims is pure conjecture, says Christopher Booker.
• The climate bugaboo is the strangest intellectual ...
  Christopher Monckton says that perspective was sorely missing at the Cancun climate conference.

National Geographic | Environment

• Can Geothermal Energy Pick Up Real Steam?
  Developers say we have a 'window of opportunity' to mine heat from Earth’s white-hot core, but lagging investment and environmental questions pose significant obstacles.
• New Species Photos: Fangless Snake, Bald Bird Near ...
  NoneScientists working in Asia's Mekong River Basin are finding new species of bats, birds, snakes, and more at a "staggering" rate.
• Magma Chamber Surprisingly Close to Hawaii's Surfa ...
  The source of Hawaii's copious lava has been found to be closer to the surface than any other known magma chamber, a new report says.
• Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera—A First
  The first x-ray images of a lightning strike have been captured by a new, refrigerator-size camera, researchers say.
• Green Design Spree Aims to Trim U.S. Government's ...
  The U.S. government, the nation's biggest energy user, aims to use $4.5 billion in stimulus funds to make federal buildings into "a proving ground for what works" in clean, efficient power.

Jurist - Legal Research

• US denies Poland request for assistance in secret ...
  [JURIST] The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights [advocacy website] announced Tuesday that the US government has refused to provide legal cooperation to Polish prosecutors investigating whether Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile, JURIST news archive] was tortured in a secret ...
• Kazakhstan parliament approves plan for presidenti ...
  [JURIST] Both houses of the Kazakhstan Parliament [official website] on Wednesday agreed to hold a referendum proposing to extend the term of President Nursultan Nazarbayev [official website; BBC profile] to 2020, bypassing two presidential elections. Nazarbayev's current term is set to expire in 20 ...
• Microsoft co-founder re-files patent suit
  [JURIST] Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Tuesday filed an amended patent infringement complaint [complaint, PDF] against Apple, eBay, Google [corporate websites] and eight other corporations claiming the companies misappropriated technologies patented by Allen's now defunct Interval Research Corp ...
• China releases anti-corruption report
  [JURIST] China's chief administrative authority, the State Council, released a report [text] on Wednesday outlining steps to fight corruption and build a cleaner government. The report recognizes that corruption remains a concern and states the aims of the Chinese government are to build a perfect s ...
• Judge rules mentally disabled immigrants facing de ...
  [JURIST] A federal judge ruled last week that US Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) [official website] officials must provide representation to two mentally disabled immigrants [JURIST news archive] who are challenging deportation proceedings. The ruling was a landmark decision in immigration ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A Primary Challenge to Obama?
  The apoplexy of loud liberals probably won't be enough to spur a credible primary challenge to President Obama. That's because Obama enjoys extremely high approval ratings among African Americans, who are not likely to desert him for anyone else, because the White House and the Democratic National C ...
• WikiLeaks: One Analyst, So Many Documents
  To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secr ...
• After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
  In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
• I Am a Blogger No Longer
  This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
• Billy Joel Explains the Election
  What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COAT re ...
• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Iranian General Murdered in Israel’s Ayalon Prison ...
  Hold on to your hats because this post is going to be a wild ride.  New and astonishing developments in the case of Prisoner X, known to a source within Ehud Barak’s inner circle as Ali Reza Asgari, retired Iran Revolutionary Guard general and former deputy defense minister. I exposed the name of P ...
• Wikileaks: State Department Lied, Denying Dubai As ...
  List submitted by Dubai to State Dept. of credit cards used by Mossad killers On February 25, 2010, State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley lied when he told a press conference that he wasn’t aware of any request from Dubai for assistance in tracking the Mossad killers of Mahmoud al-Mabouh.  T ...
• New Mossad Chief Makes Nice to Brits
  Israel’s new Mossad chief, Tamir Pardo (who was named here days before his official appointment, breaking an Israeli gag order) has, according to the Telegraph’s Gordon Thomas (known for spinning a few fancy fictions about the Mossad), arranged for a meeting next month with his British counterparts ...
• Horowitz’s Seattle Bus Ad: Taking Leave of His Sen ...
  One of my readers has provided the graphic for the ad David Horowitz proposed displaying on Seattle Metro buses.  And I think finally the man has truly taken leave of his senses.  Let’s leave aside the fact that there have been no bus bombings in Israel for years.  But who in their right mind cla ...
• Seattle Metro Bus Ad Controversy: King County Susp ...
  Like a good general, I have a rule I try to follow about blogging: I try to choose the terrain on which I will fight.  I like the terrain to favor me.  If my opponent chooses to fight on their terrain, I prefer not to engage unless I think it’s favorable to me.  That’s why [...] Related posts:S ...

Ode Magazine

• Ode's top 10 positive stories from 2010
  By: EmilyAviles Good news rarely makes the headlines... except in Ode. To celebrate 2010 - and anticipate more good news to come in 2011 - here are Ode's 10 most positive stories from the year that was. 1. Fixing the fr ...
• How peace entails dropping ego and desire
  By: PeaceCorso Sathya Sai Baba, born as Sathyanarayana Raju, on 23 November 1926, is a popular Indian guru, spiritual figure and educator. He is described by his devotees as an avatar, godman, spiritual teacher and miracle worker. Sathya Sai Baba has said: Peo ...
• Miyako: A picture of pursuit
  By: Anne Thomas As I watch the many fundamental changes sweeping the world, I find that the young people I teach are either completely taken up with them, or pretty overwhelmed. And I have found among my university students that most often their focus on change lie ...
• The independent bookstore that could
  By: Jeremy Mercer One can’t help but feel the past decade has been Biblically awful for independent booksellers. There was the plague of big chain stores like Barnes & Noble who introduced heavy discounts on bestsellers that couldn’t be matched by smaller stores wi ...
• The goal of history is peace
  By: PeaceCorso I’d never thought of history having a goal, per se, have you? Consider these words from educational philosopher and dean of Yale Law School Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 - May 17, 1977): "The goal toward which all history tends ...

OpEd News

• Jodi Picoult's House Rules
  An autistic teen demands stringent rules of his family and becomes fascinated with forensic science shortly before he is accused of murder. Picoult's 17th novel delivers well-defined characters, intriguing monologues, and vivid portrayals of autistic behavior. Courtroom scenes show the importance of ...
• Tea Party Congress: U.S. Constitution is Gods Wor ...
  Reading a copy of the Constitution given away by my Congressman at a local street fair, I noticed something on the cover that didn't look familiar. This could be the sub text of the new Republican House majority
• You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up!
  How could this happen? Is there no justice in this world? A nice honest business man who made himself rich by selling Ronald Reagan commemorative coins, NASCAR collectors plates and over sized matchbox cars has been accused of ripping someone off?
• How the Occupation Got me Into Jon Stewart's Rally
  A Palestinian and a Jew adventure on the way to attend Jon Stewart Rally. They meet obstacles solved by their experience in the Middle East Conflict.
• Julian Assange, My Parents and the Espionage Act o ...
  Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, describes the link between Julian Assange, the Wikileaks situation, and his parents.

Switchboard

• A model for chemical disclosure--what can the oil ...
  Earlier this year, I blogged about lessons that the oil and gas industry could learn from new processes that some hospitals are putting into place to deal with medical errors and accidents, including how information is disclosed to interested parties. Now there is another industry tha ...
• Texas Home Alone: Another Court Rejects Challenge ...
  Texas just lost another round in its bizarre and solitary quest to block the first carbon pollution control requirements under the Clean Air Act, which take effect next week.   The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in New Orleans, rejected the State’s request for a “stay” of one of the k ...
• Salazar's Gift to the Nation - Saving Our Last Wil ...
  In 1960, American author Wallace Stegner  wrote, “We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”  To read Stegner' ...
• Need a New Year's Resolution? Help Stop Overfishi ...
  As I gaze across the local fishmonger’s display, I’m always amazed at the abundance of seafood.  A mound of chipped ice covered in shimmering fillets of salmon, cod, haddock, fluke, swordfish, and tuna.  It seems like a menagerie of marine ecosystem health, but it's mostly a mirage.  ...
• My favorite posts of 2010, from the very personal ...
     I love writing this blog and, if I could do only this for a living, I probably would.  I like that it makes me pay attention to what’s going on in my professional world, encourages me to think about the implications, introduces me to fellow travelers, and allows the all-too-rare sa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Random Sports Catch-up: Cricket, Plymouth Argyle o ...
  I’m recently “returned” to Oregon from a week + in Kitsapland, hanging out for five days with my partner’s family, followed by an impromptu three-night stand with my fleet of cousins.  The latter was a non-stop holiday gala with excellent food, political debate, and, oh yeah, soaked with alcohol o ...
• Woof
  For some reason this reminds me of John McKay’s comment immediately after he had coached Tampa Bay to one in a string of 26 straight losses, and he was asked what he thought of his team’s execution. He replied he thought it was a good idea. Related posts:Oooooh, My Arm! Brief Thoughts on the Atla ...
• Yet Another Random Links Post…
  A few links of note: China’s DF-21 anti-ship-ballistic missiles are reportedly approaching operational capability. Oh, and China has built a prototype for a new stealth fighter-bomber, the J-20. My Defense Statecraft syllabus is up. Craig Hooper and Chris Albon look at the difficulties associated w ...
• Mandatory HOF Ballot Post
  My yays: Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven* Robbie Alomar Jeff Bagwell Barry Larkin Edgar Martinez Mark McGwire Tim Raines Larry Walker *Anyone who argues in comments against Bert Blyleven, or attempts to apologize for someone arguing against Bert Blyleven, will be summarily banned for life. ...
• What Would a Post-Masculinized Military Look Like?
  On the road home from South Carolina I posted notice of Laura Sjoberg’s critique of militarized masculinity in her analysis of DADT-repeal discourse. Now that I’m settled in, I’ve realized it’s the comments thread on that post where the real action is and I feel compelled to throw in my two cents. L ...

Desert Research Institute

• Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
  Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
• Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
  An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
• DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
  DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
• DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
  DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.

Earth Techling

• Gulf Oil Boom Recycled Into Volt Parts
• New Wind Power For Michigan In 2011
• Hydroleaf Concept Purifies Solar Water
• Image via WikipediaGoogle PowerMeter Gains New Hardware
• Wind Turbines May Benefit Farm Crops

National Law Journal | U.S.

• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: How to keep the 'cloud' from ...
  Companies have a duty to understand and control data stored with third-party vendors.
• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Tweet this: Social networkin ...
  Courts have mined employees' Facebook and MySpace sites for evidence during litigation.
• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Discovering Europe: How to n ...
  Matters are complicated further in the European Union by the fact that each member country — and sometimes, local jurisdictions within those countries — can implement privacy and protection rules differently.
• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: E-discovery for the small li ...
  Techniques to address the fear that arises from the uncertainty of proper preservation and the demands for cost efficiency when handling litigation in smaller matters.
• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Searching through backup tap ...
  It used to strike fear in the heart, but new technology has simplified matters considerably.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
  Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
• Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
  November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
• Investigating the US Gas Boom
  I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...
• Under the Influence of Fracking?
  In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
• Speaking Out on Water Issues
  Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...

News Blaze

• U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Zimbabwe's Attorney Gene ...
  Appointed by President Robert Mugabe, Tomana has selectively prosecuted political opponents and their perceived supporters in an effort to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes and institutions.
• Shumenov Training Camp Notes From Kazakhstan
  'The Unification,' presented by Goossen Tutor Promotions and KZ Event Productions in association with Universum Box-Promotions, will feature Shumenov and WBO Light Heavyweight World Champion Juergen Braehmer (36-2, 29 KOs) putting their respective
• California Adopts Updated Cigarette Tax Stamp to ...
  The upgraded tax stamp introduces a number of new security features, including special inks and a counterfeit and tamper-resistant design. The newly designed stamps will help simplify authentication and discourage tax stamp counterfeiting.
• Yoga Studios Offer Free Yoga for The Unemployed
  When the national unemployment rate is around 10 percent, it is believed that yoga will help reduce stress, bring calmness, improve concentration and make the unemployed feel good about themselves.
• U.S. Government Focuses on Power Plants and Oil Re ...
  The U.S. government continues to use federal regulatory powers to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, most recently focusing on power plants and oil refineries. The two industries produce nearly 40 percent of emissions in the United States.

environment 360

• Honeybee-Destroying Mites Are Targeted Using Genet ...
  UK scientists have developed a genetic technique to cause the self-destruction of a deadly mite that has played a role in the decimation of honeybee populations worldwide through so-called colony collapse disorder. In laboratory tests, researchers at the University of Aberdeen and the UK’s Nati ...
• As the Arctic Ocean Melts, A Refuge Plan for the P ...
  With the Arctic Ocean heading toward a largely ice-free state in summer, scientists are looking for areas that may help preserve ice-dependent creatures. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, geologist Stephanie Pfirman talks about the need for a refuge north of Canada and Greenland that resear ...
• Booms Used in Gulf Oil Spill to be Recycled in Pro ...
  The plastic booms used to absorb oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year will be recycled for use as parts in the plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt. General Motors officials say the recycled oil extracted from the booms will be converted into 100,000 pounds of plastic resin pellets that ...
• Digital Billboards Consume Large Amounts of Energy ...
  The growing number of digital billboards on U.S. roads and highways consume large amounts of energy and are creating a wide variety of electronic waste, according to a new report. The new study says the typical digital billboard consumes about 30 times as much energy as the average American househol ...
• In China, a New Transparency On Government Polluti ...
  The Chinese government has begun to make environmental records available to the public, empowering green groups and citizens as they try to force factories — and the Western companies they supply — to comply with the law. BY CHRISTINA LARSON

Red Ice Creations

• Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera - A First
  The first x-ray images of a lightning strike have been captured by a, well, lightning-fast camera, scientists say. The pictures suggest a lightning bolt carries all its x-ray radiation in its tip. During recent thunderstorms in Camp Blanding, Florida, the camera's electronic shutter "froze" a lightn ...
• 10 New Year's Re-Solutions For Non-violent Rebelli ...
  As the United States edges closer to becoming a third world country; anger, frustration, and cynicism continue to mount in the minds of the American population. In fact, a recent Pew Research poll showed that 80% of baby boomers are pessimistic about America's future. This pessimism seems warranted ...
• Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and g ...
  Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it all becomes. For example, did you know there's a global FDA power grab agenda hidden in the Food Safety M ...
• CNN: 10 ways a digital Big Brother can be good for ...
  The opening passage from George Orwell's "1984" depicts a guy hustling up a stairwell that's plastered with giant posters of a man's face staring at him. "It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move," Orwell writes in the classic dystopian novel. ...
• Winter Solstice, Total Lunar Eclipse & Ursid Meteo ...
  An extremely rare astronomical event is slated for this coming Tuesday, as a total lunar eclipse occurs on the same day as the winter solstice. The last time this occurred was in 1638 and it won't happen again until 2094. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes through Earth's shadow. The ...

Russia Today

• Russian Santa faces $300 fine
  Russian Santa Clause – Father Frost – has received an unusual surprise for the New Year holidays. He has been fined ten thousand rubles, or about $300, for violations of fire safety requirements.
• Belarus releases all arrested Russians
  Local authorities have freed eleven Russian citizens detained during opposition riots after the presidential elections on December 19.
• Blizzard replaces freezing rain in Moscow
  A blizzard has struck Moscow following a devastating freezing rain and worsened the situation on the roads.
• Dreadfully appealing – a place where Geiger counte ...
  The Chernobyl zone is to be officially opened for tourists in 2011. According to Ukrainian news agencies, safe routes have been developed and are ready to be operated.
• Jolly Christmas descends on Russian capital
  Church services are in full swing in the Russian capital, gathering thousands of believers for Catholic Christmas celebrations.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• The Paracast: “In Search of the Men In Black ...
  This past Sunday (12/26/10) Gene Steinberg and co-hosts Chris O’Brien and Greg Bishop speak with Tim âMr. UFOâ Beckley , Claudia Cunningham, and T. Allen Greenfield about the ubiquitous “Men In Black” (not the movies) and the role they play in the paranormal. As a subject, I know very little abou ...
• Faster Not Better?
  When talking about interstellar probes in the mainstream, the matter of speed always come up. Usually that speed is the speed of light, and how at the present we can’t obtain that with our current state of rocket technology. But at Paul Gilster’s Centauri Dreams blog, ideas flow like clear, clean wa ...
• The Great False Wall of China
  From io9′s Mad Science: Scientists in China were able to make a “false wall” in an incredible demonstration of illusion optics. Find out why you shouldn’t believe your eyes anymore, thanks to physics.China has been in the business of building walls for a long, long time. Recently, they’ve added a ne ...
• Lloyd Pye: In Defense of Zecharia Sitchin
  From Paranormal Utopia: Zecharia Sitchin was an author famous for “The Earth Chronicles” series of books about the writings of the ancient Sumerians (circa 5,000 years ago) as he interpreted them. He was one of perhaps 200 people in the world, if that many, who could translate cuneiform, the symboli ...
• Horse Shoe Shaped UFOs
  Here’s something you don’t see every day, horse shoe shaped UFOs. Here’s a disclaimer though, the first video could be CGI and the second could be the planet Venus. Both are interesting. … Horse Shoe UFO Seen From A Plane ] … Fiery Horse Shoe UAP Seen From The Ground The embedding code was removed, ...

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against human ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't � ...

The Freeman

• Peter Boettke Discusses Mises on EconTalk
  FEE trustee Peter Boettke, professor of economics at George Mason University and a regular lecturer at our Advanced Austrian Economics Seminar , speaks about the life, work, and legacy of Ludwig von Mises on the podcast series EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts. It’s well worth listening to. Also, the ...
• Congress Adjourns
  “The House and Senate adjourned for the year on Wednesday evening, closing a two-year term that holds the odd distinction of being both historically busy and epically unpopular.” (Washington Post) âNo man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. â âJudge Gideon Tuck ...
• Watch for Budget Debate in 2011, Obama Says
  “President Obama is predicting a ârobust debateâ next year over the size and shape of the federal budget.” (USA Today) Or will it end up a debate over the rate of growth? FEE Timely Classic “Does Government Always Have to Grow?” by Stephen Davies
• Inside Insider Trading
  Insider trading is something we hear a lot about these days. To most people, the practice smells of foul play, and federal law restricts it. But the inside story of insider trading is something very different, as we shall see. The alleged ill effects on shareholders in particular and on the economy ...
• Tariffs and Freedom
  A historical episode that opponents of consumer sovereignty—that is, opponents of free trade—frequently cite to support their case for high tariffs is late nineteenth-century America. Pat Buchanan, for example, in his book The Great Betrayal asserts about the 1800s that “Behind a tariff wall . . . t ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Skills for journalists: Again, the question
  What skills does today’s journalist need to have? I do not think this question has only one answer. In a comment on a blog post by Robert Hernandez, Michael Grimaldi wrote: The highest skill of journalism is knowing the number of questions to ask, how many people of whom to ask them, and then rep ...
• Data journalism and programmer journalists
  Some good stuff on this topic: Debate over journalism’s required skills gets heated, by Robert Hernandez: I do not believe you need to master programming to succeed in journalism. I do believe you need to respect and understand the power of each and every craft, not just programming, but photog ...
• Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
  Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
• Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
  I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...
• Online video, links, and people: Putting it all to ...
  I spend a lot of time speaking (and thinking) about online video — both journalism video and the broader YouTube varieties. When we think about how people use online video — and by “people” I mean mostly North Americans in the college and university student age group — we have to consider sharing. ...

Facing South

• Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
  By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
• YOU are the answer
  Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
• New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
• Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
  Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
• How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
  By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...

Worldpress - Africa

• U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
  In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Zimbabweans Still Suffering
  On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
• Native People: Eastern Woodlands
  Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
• Fur Trade
  Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
• Canadian Pacific Railway
  Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
• World War II
  Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Our five favourite ways to use up leftover turkey
  It’s easy to stop yourself from, say, cooking too much pasta or rice, but it’s harder to cook just the right amount of turkey since they’re a fixed (or at least minimum) size. Leftovers are no bad thing though – they just get a bit dull if it’s turkey sandwiches every day… Individual turkey and [... ...
• How can I reuse or recycle Brussels Sprout stalks/ ...
  Long time Recycle This-er Lizzy has asked about “the big brussels sprout stalk thing”: Any ideas for the big brussels sprout stalk things? Oh, and can you eat the leaves that are sometimes on top? I think the easiest thing to do here would be to reduce in the first place – don’t buy sprouts [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle a broken plastic sledge ...
  We were walking in the woods down the road the other day when we got a bit overexcited – there was a plastic sledge in the undergrowth under a holly bush! We’re far too grown-up to buy a sledge for us to play with but a found one? weeeeeee! When we pulled it out, we [...]
• Reducing waste after Christmas – our top tip ...
  So the big day is nearly upon us again. Hopefully you’ve already been busy upcycling random stuff into Christmas presents and recycled Christmas decorations – it’s easy to keep the green theme going after Christmas too. Give away unwanted gifts & replaced items Don’t wait until you spring clean – de ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old kitchen fat?
  Since we do what we’re told by our water company, we don’t pour meat fat from cooking down the sink – we scrape/pour it into an old plastic container instead. The gross pot full in the picture is a combination of lots of fat from lots of different meals for the last couple of months, [...]

Mondoweiss

• Cast truth
  The human rights attorney Michael Sfard on Cast Lead, at Coteret (original in Hebrew at Ynet): Operation Cast Lead was our second war of independence. In the first, we freed ourselves of 2,000 years of living under and being oppressed by foreign regimes. In the second, we broke the shackles of ...
• Only Jews get to say it
  People are talking about Jeffrey Goldberg's very late epiphany that Israel is not much of a democracy for Palestinians and this clashes with American values. He cited both discrimination against Palestinians inside Israel and in the occupation: [T]here's very little Israel's right-wing government ...
• Lanny Davis dismisses U.N. report on Ivory Coast b ...
  Lanny Davis is a symbol for me of everything that's wrong with the new establishment. A, It's just as bad as the old establishment, in that it supports rightwing dictators in out of the way places, for cash; B, It's a new establishment in that it's permeated by the Israel lobby. Justin Elliott at Sa ...
• ‘Weekly Standard’ shows that Palestine ...
  Last night Chris Matthews kept saying that WikiLeaks shows that the Arab leaders want us to "take out" the Iranian menace. And Jim Zogby was on, along with a docile Richard Engel, and he patiently but forcefully said, No, an Israeli strike on Iran or an American strike on Iran would be "devastating" ...
• Gaza Two Years Later: War is never over
  "Let it go for God's sake," one would suggest. "Two years passed; just move on." Though quite infuriated by how simple it can be thought of, I can somehow see their point. We, people of Gaza, seem to be still whining over the losses of the war. Objectively speaking, it is pretty justified to find [. ...

Media Consortium

• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvision ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After DREAM ...
• Mobile TV Coming to 20 U.S. Markets by 2011
  The Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint effort by U.S. broadcasters, recently announced its roadmap for its mobile TV network. The roll-out plans to have 20 U.S. markets covered by the end of 2011. And we should see mobile TV-compatible devices by the second half of 2011. Could it be true? A real, ...
• Clyde Bentley updates his timeline for newspapers ...
  Three main points from this post that are important. 1) "For newsrooms that are behind on mobile—and the vast majority of them are,” said Bentley, “the mobile web site is most important thing they need to catch up on. When you’re using a mobile device, you should get taken to mobile site. Technicall ...
• Jonathan Stray » Does journalism work?
  "Journalism has no theory of change — at least not at the level of practice. I’ve taken to asking editors, “what do you want your work to change in society?” The answer is generally along the lines of, “we aren’t here to change things. We are only here to publish information.” I don’t think that’s ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• US administration explains why polar bears are 'th ...
  The administration of President George W. Bush was correct in 2008 to label the polar bear as ‘threatened’, but not ‘endangered’, under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) – and it should stay that way, said the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) yesterday. The FWS was responding in a lawsuit ch ...
• Should we proscribe placebo prescribing?
  It sounds more like a question for philosophy than for medicine: if you know a placebo is a placebo, is it still a placebo? Definitions of placebo often involve it being a ‘sham’ or a ‘dummy’ treatment. But a Boston-based team has been trying to see if they can elicit a placebo effect when their ...
• Senate ratifies nuclear arms deal
  The US Senate has ratified the New START treaty, a nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the US that has been a key foreign policy objective for US President Barack Obama. The decision paves the way for a new round of bilateral nuclear inspections, which ended in 2009 when the 1991 START I tr ...
• Wales to lose nearly half its universities
  The number of universities in Wales must be cut from 11 to at least 6 by 2013, the body that funds higher education in the principality said yesterday. Since 2002 the Welsh government has encouraged universities to voluntarily collaborate and merge and has provided funding for them to do so. But ...
• Shining light
  A technique that enables scientists to control the behaviour of cells using flashes of light has been named Method of the Year 2010 by the journal Nature Methods. Optogenetics, as it's called, has already been used by neuroscientists to show which nerve cells fire when a sleeping mouse wakes. The ...

new geography

• 2011: Jobs Vs The Deficit
  The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today's record-setting red ink is a result of unrestrained government spending — especially stimulus spending. And the idea tha ...
• Washington Opens The Virtual Office Door
  On December 9, President Obama signed into law the Telework Enhancement Act, a bill designed to increase telework among federal employees. Sponsored by Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD), Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the legislation gives federal agencies six months to establish a ...
• Deal Or No Deal? General Motors' IPO
  Those who are looking for a feel-good stimulus story, notably members of the Obama administration, cite the recent initial public offering (IPO) in which the federal government sold off 28 percent of its General Motors shares for about $15 billion. When the government-owned shares went public, Pres ...
• Demography vs. Geography: Understanding the Politi ...
  Demography favors Democrats, as the influence of Latinos and millennials grows. Geography favors the GOP, as the fastest-growing states are solid red. A look at America’s political horizon. In the crushing wave that flattened much of the Democratic Party last month, two left-leaning states survived ...
• Greetings From Recoveryland: Ten Places to Watch C ...
  Like a massive tornado, the Great Recession up-ended the topography of America. But even as vast parts of the country were laid low, some cities withstood the storm and could emerge even stronger and shinier than before. So, where exactly are these Oz-like destinations along the road to recovery? If ...

GM Watch

• Europe, Japan GM canola threat
• Europe, Japan GM canola threat
• Europe, Japan GM canola threat
• Australia: Murray blasts Redman on GM contaminatio ...
• USDA recommends "coexistence" with Monsanto: We sa ...

spiked

• RIP Denis Dutton
  A friend and fan of spiked who took ideas and the world wide web seriously.
• A year of intellectual rebels and misanthropic moa ...
  spiked readers and writers name some of the men and women who helped to improve humanity’s lot in 2010 – and some of those who didn’t.
• When economics becomes freaky
  The movie of the best-selling book is a popular taster of a worrying obsession with individual behaviour.
• A queer take on Italian family life
  Loose Cannons is an uplifting film about Italian traditions and sexuality, but it ends up looking like a clichéd pasta ad.
• Our Brave New World of Malthusian madmen
  From Burgess’s Wanting Seed to Huxley’s Brave New World, the wacky Malthusian ideas of dystopian literature are now everyday beliefs.

Cryptogon

• Living Earth Simulator
  I seriously need a Magic 8 Ball category. Via: BBC: It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth – from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases ...
• 2010 Worst Year for Bank Failures Since 1992 (Savi ...
  Via: Washington Post: More banks failed in the United States this year than in any year since 1992, during the savings-and-loan crisis, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Amid high unemployment, a struggling economy and a still-devastated real estate market, the nation is closing out t ...
• 80% OF ANTIBIOTICS SOLD IN U.S. USED FOR LIVESTOCK ...
  Via: Center for a Livable Future: Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely d ...
• U.S. Changes How it Measures Long-Term Unemploymen ...
  Via: USA Today: So many Americans have been jobless for so long that the government is changing how it records long-term unemployment. Citing what it calls “an unprecedented rise” in long-term unemployment, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), beginning Saturday, will raise from two years t ...
• Number of Multifamily Households at Record as Peop ...
  Obviously, the economy is playing a big part in this, but I wonder how many households choose this route even though they aren’t broke? This is the default setting for billions of people. Update: Pew Research Center: The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household: Another factor has been the ...

The Economic Collapse

• Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of ...
  Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns ...
• America’s Message To The Rest Of The World: ...
  Have you ever seen pictures of extravagant wealth from places such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi and wondered where in the world they got all that money from?  Have you ever read news stories that talk about China lending us hundreds of billions of dollars and wondered how they could possib ...
• The Working Poor
  As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be "low income". Millions of American families are finding that they can barely ma ...
• Christmas Stories
  If you and your family are blessed and prosperous this holiday season, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because there are tens of millions of other Americans that are desperately hanging on by their fingernails.  The Christmas stories that you are going to read bel ...
• Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About ...
  All over the Internet, Republican pundits are declaring that extending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy and Democrat pundits are declaring that ending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy. Well, you know what? Nothing will save the U.S. economy. The U.S. government is g ...

Desertification

• Desertification Photos (Google / Desdemona Despair ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification Desdemona Despair: Photo gallery: 50 Doomiest Photos of 2010 By Jim The three most frequently represented events are the Pakistan flood (seven photos), the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill (ten), and desertification/ freshwater … Continue reading →
• UAE: green technology and renewable energy (Google ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/uae-urged-to-tap-solar-power-2010-12-28-1.335015 UAE urged to tap solar power Emirates among states with high carbon footprint By Staff The UAE is on the list of states with high carbon footprint. Sea water desalinatio ...
• Mongolia: desertification, deforestation due to ov ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2010/12/28/nomad-green-mongolia-on-the-brink-of-eco-catastrophe/ Nomad Green: Mongolia On The Brink Of Eco-Catastrophe Mongolia is a land locked country with long and freezing winters and hot and drought prone summers ...
• Niger: more than 15 in 100 youngsters suffering fr ...
  CHILD NUTRITION SITUATION IN NIGER REMAINS ALARMING, UN-BACKED SURVEY WARNS New York, Dec 28 2010  5:05PM Although humanitarian aid to Niger has saved the lives of tens of thousands of ill-fed children, the nutritional situation remains alarming with more than … Continue reading →
• How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House? (Peakmom ...
  Seen at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVNAgrbQz4&feature=related Peak Moment 87: In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

• The Center’s Impact in 2010
  The true value of an investigative story is not measured in Web hits, media partners or awards – it’s whether our reports help improve the world. By that yardstick, the Center for Public Integrity’s work showed clear impact in 2010:
• Health Care Fraud Cases Drop Despite Bigger Budget
  The official line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the most recent data on the agency’s activities show that its efforts and ballooning budget have actually produced fewer results.
• Public Insight Network Offers New Opportunities fo ...
  In early November, the Center for Public Integrity launched our partnership with American Public Media's Public Insight Network or PIN — a group of over 90,000 people (and counting) that have signed up to be "citizen sources" to help journalists all around the country.
• DuPont Penalized For Hiding Chemical Health Risks ...
  When the Environmental Protection Agency settled on Dec. 6 a major enforcement action against DuPont Co., for failing to report possible health risks involving its chemicals, it wasn’t the first time. In 2005, the company also resolved EPA assertions that it hid the dangers of a toxic chemical, agre ...
• EPA Reminds Republicans Cap-and-Trade Used to be G ...
  The Obama administration is turning the tables on Republican foes of climate regulation, demonstrating not only that cap-and-trade works — it significantly reduced acid rain — but that the program was started by one of their own, George H. W. Bush.

backofthebook.ca

• Justin Bieber does his bit for the Canadian econom ...
  By Frank Moher My New Year's resolution for 2011 is to like Justin Bieber. I'm quite serious. My first reaction to the news that The Bieber caused a near-riot when he appeared at a Kitchener, Ont. mall on Boxing Day, there to buy some shades (because, after all, his future really is so ...
• Battle of the Bigots
  A white supremacist group called The Council of Conservative Citizens is outraged that Marvel has cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor, because he is foxy.  I mean, black.  They probably don’t appreciate that foxy black men exist in the world, but it is definitely the blackness that they are ...
• WikiLeaks’ Canadian secrets not all that sec ...
  By Frank Moher I can tell from our logs that a lot of people are still looking to find out what Wikileaks' purloined cables have revealed about Canada, but the answer remains: Not a whole lot. Little enough, in fact, that it's possible to run the Canadian content all in one ...
• Hang the holidays
  By Bev Schellenberg What has happened to our celebratory schedule? It seems it was only a few weeks ago I bought a witch hat and cape for my daughter, a baron costume for my son, and carved a pumpkin. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago. Now here I ...
• The security perimeter: It’s Aliiiiiive!
  By Alison@Creekside Well, it's back. The "one security perimeter" deep integration SPP/FTAA zombie, now with new and improved emphasis on security. You're shocked, I'm sure. Like it ever really died. The re-animators just learned not to dig it up and parade it around in parliament too often ...

Worldnews

• Soccer: Arsenal held by Wigan, Chelsea edge B ...
  LONDON - Arsenal drew 2-2 at 10-man Wigan to miss the chance to draw level with joint Premier League leaders Manchester United and Manchester City, while Chelsea ended a run of six matches without a win by grinding out a 1-0 victory against Bolton on Wednesday. France defender Sebastien Squilla ...
• Chelsea rebounds, downs Bolton; Arsenal held ...
  PRINT EMAIL ARTICLEURL FACEBOOK DIGG TWITTER RSS SHARE Chelsea ended their dire run with a 1-0 home Premier League win over Bolton Wanderers but Arsenal, seeking to go joint-top with a win, conceded a late equalizer in a 2-2 draw at 10-man Wigan Athletic on Wednesday. It was a miserable night f ...
• Auto industry recalled 20 mn vehicles in 2010 ...
  WASHINGTON: Automakers recalled about 20 million vehicles in 2010, led by high-profile recalls by Toyota that prompted new scrutiny of the auto industry's safety record. The number of recalls this year was the largest in the United States since 2004, according to an analysis of federal data by ...
• Patel asks Cabinet to take a call on Air Indi ...
  Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel, who held a series of meeting with the government's senior leadership, to canvas support for Air India, has another hurdle to cross ahead of the Cabinet meeting tomorrow. He is scheduled to meet Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises (HIPE) minister Vilasra ...
• Who Should Be Liverpool Manager In January? ...
  Should Hodgson be sacked & who should be his replacement? Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Following Liverpool's stunning defeat by Wolves at Anfield, we want to know who YOU think should be the club's manager when the January transfer window opens....

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Colder temperatures, more heart attacks
  When temperatures dip during cold snaps, your body notices.
• PROGESTERONEinjection [Hikma Farmaceutica]
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• ABILIFYtablet [REMEDYREPACK INC. ]
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• Well: Tim Gunn's Advice for Making It Work
  In his role as mentor on the fashion reality show "Project Runway," Tim Gunn listens, consoles, advises and motivates the contestants. Now the fashion guru is offering his sage advice on how the rest of us can "make it work." (Source: NYT Health)
• Observatory: Humans, Like Animals, Behave Fearless ...
  A patient with rare brain damage is unafraid and incautious.

Common Dreams

• Denmark 'Foils Terror Attack' Against Newspaper
  Danish and Swedish authorities have arrested five people suspected of planning a "Mumbai-style" attack in Copenhagen against a newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.read more
• Obama Likely to Pursue Corporate-Tax Cut, Way to P ...
  by David WesselAll signs point to President Barack Obama pursuing far-reaching changes to the corporate income tax, seeking to lower one of the highest statutory corporate-tax rates in the world by eliminating deductions, credits and loopholes.If he proceeds, the administration will insist that any ...
• Season of Hardship Connects Struggling Workers in ...
  by Michelle ChenMillions of Americans barely scraped by this holiday season, stuck in poverty-wage jobs or mired in unemployment. But the latest retail sector reports show that we did manage to shop a little more, perhaps because people are resorting to the material comforts of consumption to make ...
• Army Edits Its History of the Deadly Battle of Wan ...
  by Greg Jaffe The Army's official history of the battle of Wanat - one of the most intensely scrutinized engagements of the Afghan war - largely absolves top commanders of the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and instead blames the confusing and unpredictable nature of war. read more
• US Declined to Cooperate in Dubai Probe of Mabhouh ...
  by Yossi MelmanThe United States declined a request from the United Arab Emirates to assist an investigation into the assassination of a top Hamas commander.Dubai suspects Israel's Mossad agency to have been behind the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhoh in a Dubai hotel in January 2010. Israel has neither ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• 4 Lessons about Solar and Development you can Lear ...
  Ever wonder about electricity use? Well, if you are reading Green Light Distrikt, I’ll bet you have! Last winter, I was saving up for my monthly heat and electric bills and started doing some math. With my late-night FIFA-playing roommate, we were using about 120 kWh of electricity per month.
• A Bad Deal with Hydro-Québec: Should It be Called ...
• Climatologist Ben Santer on the attribution of ext ...
  “When you warm up the planet, you experience that through changes in weather that makes up the climate,” says Dr. Benjamin Santer at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
• Art Wharton - What about external costs of energy ...
  Where does waste = external costs? Dry cask storage area (Photo: NRC)
• Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010

Green House - USA Today

• Modern, green Virginia home is built from dirt
  In Washington, D.C. suburbs, most new houses qualify as McMansions, but not the "Erdhaus" -- a small, super tight, Dwell-like home built of compressed earth bricks.
• Are e-readers greener than old-fashioned books?
  Many shoppers may assume e-readers, a popular holiday gift, are more eco-friendly than old-fashioned books. After all, they obviate the need for all that paper. But are they really greener?
• Will Santa's reindeer survive climate change?
  Santa may need to start looking for back-ups, since reindeer herds are dwindling across much of the Arctic. How much is climate change to blame? That remains a source of debate.
• EPA to soon set greenhouse gas standards for pollu ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which begins regulating greenhouse gas emissions next year, announced Thursday that it will propose industry-specific standards by next December.
• Lower your home's winter heating tab with simple s ...
  Winter officially began Tuesday, so if you haven't already done so, now is a fine time to winterize your home. Even simple, low-cost steps can reduce heating bills.

Prior Art

• Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
  Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...

Peoples Voice

• The Federal Reserve: Stupid Bank Robbers or Robber ...
  By Katherine Smith, PhD “The Federal Reserve isn’t evil because they print our money and make us (the U.S. Taxpayers) pay interest on it. They are evil because, until October 2008, the Fed gave us a no-limit credit card that we used to buy houses, cars, RVs, TVs and DVDs—the “stuff” which, accord ...
• BDS 2010: More powerful than the sword
  Eric Walberg Boycott Divestment and Sanctions is a two-edged sword, bringing relief to starving Gazans, and starvation to the occupier. It was two years ago today, 27 December, that Israel launched its invasion of Gaza, carrying out 22 days of murder and mayhem, killing 1400 and leaving 5400 civi ...
• AP: US report adds details on Cold War Nazi intel
  By Katherine Smith As they say, when you are “over the target,” Expect a “404 - Unfortunately we are unable to locate the page you have requested.” December 26, 2010 The Nazi & Jewish Affair to Remember (November 2010) is published at The Peoples Voice The Nazi & Jewish Affair is an informed-opin ...
• Jesus Was A Capricorn
  By Gary Kohls Kris Kristofferson recorded a John Prine song back in the 1970s entitled “Jesus Was A Capricorn”. I remember resonating with the words the only time I heard it on the radio and have often wondered (but I think I know) why I have never heard it sung again. The essential verses went s ...
• Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Pa ...
  by Stephen Lendman Part II concludes an assessment of Obama's year two. Lessons from the Gulf The aftermath of last April's Deepwater Horizon disaster left Big Oil again triumphant, thanks to the Obama administration's close industry ties, conspiring with BP in the greatest ever environmental c ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• A recipe for greater equality
  The always insightful Alex Himelfarb asks in his latest must-read blog: "What would you think if someone could show that they knew just what it would take to improve our physical and mental health, reduce crime and violence, increase civic trust and participation, reduce teenage pregnancy and drug a ...
• A holiday gift from the CCPA: Enhanced publication ...
  For a limited time the CCPA is opening its entire cache of research free of charge � giving full public access to our publications via a database run by the Canadian Electronic Library. Browse our books, peruse chapters from our education journal Our Schools/Our Selves, and utilize the key-word se ...
• Canada's richest 1% taking more than ever before
  A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends over the past 90 years, revealing the richest 1% took 32% of all growth in incomes between 1997 and ...
• New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
  New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article.
• Let's Do Something About Poverty!
  The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty!, in order to encourage ...

World Wide Hippies

• Yeah, What if Hitler Came Back?
  Busy With Afghanistan, the U.S. Military Has No Time to Train for Big Wars | Politics Daily The risk of being unready for major combat operations is partly a matter of choice: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has directed the military to focus its time, resources and energy on winning the counterinsur ...
• U.S. employers are stealing millions of dollars fr ...
  Wage Theft Is Rampant in America — Is Your Boss Ripping You off? | Alternet There are lots of thieves in this country, as in any country. But no thieves anywhere are more blatant than the U.S. employers who steal millions of dollars from their own employees — often right out in the open, unchallenge ...
• Yeah, but will it be as good as Oceans Thirteen?
  Clooney, UN, Google team up to monitor Sudan using satellite | CNN A satellite surveillance project spearheaded by actor George Clooney’s organization will monitor violence in Sudan during a January vote that could split the country into two. The program will use satellite images to assess the situa ...
• Suicide Attack in Iraq
  Bombers Attack Police Headquarters in Iraqi City | The New York Times Three suicide bombers attacked Iraq’s federal police headquarters in Mosul on Wednesday, leveling the building and killing the top police commander in the northern city, a prominent figure who had escaped several past assassinatio ...
• GOP is Ascaird?
  A Reality Check for the GOP | Truthdig It’s been not quite two months’ time since Republicans won a sweeping midterm victory, and already they seem divided, embattled and—not to mince words—freaked out. For good reason, I might add. Sen. Lindsey Graham captured the mood with his mordant assessment o ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The Game-Changer List
  The Associated Press, as usual, released last week its editors’ poll of the 10 top stories of the year. No. 1, with 54 first-place votes, was the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The congressional passage of health care reform was second with 30 votes. The list by the men and women who actually e ...
• WikiLeaks may spawn new sedition act
  The infamous Sedition Act, which criminalized speech critical of the federal government and which was passed by the Federalists during another of America’s undeclared wars (that time, against France), lasted only three years, from 1798 to 1801. However, if the congressional critics of WikiLeaks fou ...
• “Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for Peace
  While the US may be the world’s single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, million ...
• The Great Fear
  Nine years after 9/11, hysteria about Muslims in American life has gripped the country. With it has gone an�outburst�of arson attacks on mosques, campaigns to stop their construction, and the branding of the Muslim-American community, overwhelmingly moderate, as a hotbed of potential terrorist recru ...
• Statement by Michael Moore on Accusations Against ...
  Excerpt from "Dear Government of Sweden ...an open letter from Michael Moore"I don't pretend to know what happened between Mr. Assange and the two women complainants (all I know is what I've heard in the media, so I'm as confused as the next person). And I'm sorry if I've jumped to any unnecessary o ...

Salon

• Feds probe O'Donnell's spending
  A person with knowledge of a federal campaign-finance investigation says a criminal probe has been opened into whether Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses.
• NFL fines Favre $50,000 for "failure to cooperate"
  The NFL has fined Brett Favre $50,000 for a "failure to cooperate" with the investigation into allegations he sent inappropriate messages and lewd photos to a former New York Jets game-day hostess.
• Israel gets back into the Iran guessing game
  Another day, another Israeli prediction about when Iran will build a nuclear bomb. This time it comes from�Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon, who told Israel Radio:
• Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manni ...
  Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo.� I wrote about this topic twice -- first back in June and then again on�Monday.� The first part of Wired's response ...
• Haley Barbour friend: Yazoo City was that bad
  One of the most striking parts of the Weekly Standard profile of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour published this month was the governor's recollection -- or, more accurately, non-recollection -- of what was going on around him when he was growing up in the segregated South in the 1950s and 1960 ...

SMB News

• Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits cam ...
  For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metre (9 ...
• Kasaba throws spit on the camera
  \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Tycoon’s conviction: New Russian show trial
  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has managed to turn Mikhail Khodorkovsky into an unlikely political martyr.
• Water/garbage: Why these fees have to go up
  Proposed water rate and garbage fee increases don't represent a tax increase, and Rob Ford is right to consider them.
• Federal transfers: New ideas for an old debate
  The provinces are worried about what will happen to transfer payments after 2014 as Ottawa struggles with its deficit.
• Child soldiers: ‘Now you’re one of us’
  Political pressure has to be kept up to demobilize more child soldiers around the world.
• Tarsands pollution: Ottawa tries to ‘up its game’
  A scientific panel declared the government had failed miserably in its duty to regulate tarsands extraction.

Energy Collective

• 4 Lessons about Solar and Development you can Lear ...
  Ever wonder about electricity use? Well, if you are reading Green Light Distrikt, I’ll bet you have! Last winter, I was saving up for my monthly heat and electric bills and started doing some math. With my late-night FIFA-playing roommate, we were using about 120 kWh of electricity per month.
• A Bad Deal with Hydro-Québec: Should It be Called ...
• Climatologist Ben Santer on the attribution of ext ...
  “When you warm up the planet, you experience that through changes in weather that makes up the climate,” says Dr. Benjamin Santer at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
• Art Wharton - What about external costs of energy ...
  Where does waste = external costs? Dry cask storage area (Photo: NRC)
• Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010

EU Times

• Floods bring crocodile warning for Australia’s nor ...
  Flooding in Australia’s tropical north has prompted a warning about crocodiles, with several of the reptiles spotted in swollen waterways, an official said Monday. The flood threat near Ingham in the eastern state of Queensland is easing but acting mayor of Hinchinbrook Shire Council Andrew Lancini ...
• U.N. Group Using Obama’s Family to Make Claims Abo ...
  A little-known United Nations-affiliated organization is using members of President Obamaâs Kenyan family — as well as Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona — to promote the idea that a type of algae is the solution to world hunger. The grandly-named Intergovernmental Institute for the Use of Micro ...
• Putin orders Microsoft off of all Russian governme ...
  Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has issued a decree calling for Microsoft to be taken off all government computers and replaced by Linux. While weirdie beardie open saucers will be cheering, it is worthwhile to point out that Putin is jolly cross with Microsoft at the moment. For a while he ...
• If Obama could put America’s own real interests fi ...
  The headline is not meant to imply that I think he will. As things are he can’t because of the stranglehold on American policy for Israel/Palestine of the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress, the mainstream media and many institutions of state including the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. ...
• Chinese hackers target German government computers
  The number of cyber-attacks on German government computers has risen dramatically in 2010 and authorities suspect Chinese government hackers are behind the assault, the media reported Monday. From January to September this year, about 1,600 such attacks against government computers were counted, the ...

Stonecipher News

• Special Education High School Transition Services
  From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s Offi ...
• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
• Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
  According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
• Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
  This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Venezuela’s Chavez disses democracy — again
  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, one of the last of the dying breed of leaders who still thinks some brand of “socialism” is the key to a resplendent future, has been elected several times himself, but continues to despise democratic elections that don’t turn out the way he planned. He still doesn ...
• Hacked Microsoft Kinect Runs World Of Warcraft Gam ...
  Ever since Microsoftâs game changing Kinect invaded the gaming arena , it has been floating in news for a plethora of reasons : remarkable sales stats , luxurious beingness ,  adorable hacks and groundbreaking game plays. In short, it redefines gaming. Microsoft Kinect Hacks are sprouting from eve ...
• My Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2010
  My Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2010 Join the forum discussion on this post Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2010. I can’t remember having such a difficult time squeezing this list down to 10 stories, because there were many important energy stories for 2010. It was ...
• Mass murder for Allah plot thwarted in Denmark
  Image via Wikipedia AFP: Scandinavian intelligence chiefs said they had foiled a plot Wednesday to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and had arrested five suspects
• Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley: The Earnings Hatche ...
  (Un-) Happy Holidays! Analysts are going all Scrooge on Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Today, Mike Mayo lowered his estimates on the investment banks, as he echoed worries about the credit side of the shops. He writes that the fixed income, currencies and commodities business is the weak spot fo ...

Groklaw

• Paul Allen tries again with suit against Apple, Go ...
  Just meeting the deadline, Allen filed an expanded version of the original suit with more details of how the companies allegedly infringed. The filing also includes 40 exhibits, many of which are screenshots of Web sites with modules highlighted. Here's the filing. [PJ: It's not on PACER yet, so li ...
• Microsoft's Ballmer falls far down list of CEO 'we ...
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fell 65 spots down a list of the top 338 chief-executive wealth creators and destroyers, ranking 73rd in 2010 after boasting the No. 8 spot in 2009. - Nick Eaton, Seattle PI
• SEC Probes Trading in Facebook, Private Firms
  The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the trading of shares in privately held companies that include Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. - WSJ
• Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux
  The fact that Putin has signed the order for this project could be critical: there have been several previous plans for moving parts of the Russian government to using free software, notably in the educational sector, but in practice they have mostly failed to materialise because there has been insu ...
• The consequences of unethical and unprofessional c ...
  In an age of egregious and unethical activities undertaken for personal aggrandizement it is of some satisfaction to recognize that in certain professions there are established national and state standards setting forth rules of professional conduct. For example, the legal profession within all ...

WideShut

• The Awakening and 2011
  Something big is coming; no matter how deep you go in to researching world issues, we are all in this together and need to offer each other support.
• An Economic Assassin: The Blog You Should Follow
  Economic Assassin Graham Sharkey explains what's really going on, how we got here, and where we are headed.
• Growth Halts, Inflation To Rise, House Prices To D ...
  Third quarter growth down, Bank of England fears inflation, and property value continues to fall.
• Dud Bomb Found Before Italian Student Protests
  Random bomb found on train prior to student protests in Rome. Military head says expert bomb, police say not even a detonator.
• December 21, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  Keelan discusses the benefits of organic food, whole food supplements, superfoods and raw milk on this week's show.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Fly Ash Threatens Air Quality of Maryland Communit ...
  Fly Ash Threatens Air Quality of Maryland Community
• Eco-groups file appeal over FirstEnergy case
  Eco-groups file appeal over FirstEnergy case
• End Draws Near for Long, Bitter Superfund Battle
  End Draws Near for Long, Bitter Superfund Battle
• How Will Rising Sea Levels Affect Local Communitie ...
  How Will Rising Sea Levels Affect Local Communities?
• Riverkeeper official responds to council member
  Riverkeeper official responds to council member

Politics in the Zeros

• New arrest in insider trading investigation
  Winifred Jiau was arrested on federal charges of selling insider information to hedge funds for $200,000. This is the latest in a series of arrests, moving up the food chain to the big dogs. There will be obvious pressure on Jiau to tell the feds all she knows in return for lesser charges. Tell me [ ...
• Hybrid truck fleets
  Eaton Coprporation is supplying hybrid trucks to customers worldwide. It’s not just because they want to hug trees, the hybrids save them money too. Benefits include “a drop in fuel usage of 35 percent, extended brake life and a reduction in idle time by 87 percent”
• 10 predictions for 2011
  There will be many bankruptcies by municipalities. Some states will either default or laws will be changed to allow them to file for bankruptcy. Major battles will erupt over underfunded public pensions and be used by conservatives as a proxy for attacking public unions. Major advances in renewable ...
• Scotland on track for 80% renewable energy by 2020
  We can do that here too. We have the resources and know-how. All we need is the consensus and determination to do it. Then we would have copious amounts of clean energy produced with our own resources within our own borders. Scotland already gets 29% of its energy from renewables. By 2020 it will be ...
• Assam tea taste, crop yields affected by climate ...
  The yield for Assam tea is dropping fast despite being grown on more land, and the tea is losing its distinctive flavor. Climate change, as well as changing fertilizer and cultivation methods, are the apparent suspects. With the taste gone, international sales will surely drop. Average temperatures ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• NZ soldiers fired first, says Afghanistan factory ...
  The owner of an Afghanistan factory is disputing the NZ Defence Force's account of a fire fight which killed two civilians.
• NYE party to go ahead in Cathedral Square after al ...
  New Year's Eve celebrations will go ahead in Christchurch's Cathedral Square, the Christchurch City Council has announced
• Firefighters at chemical spill at Ardmore Airport ...
  Firefighters in protective suits are at a helicopter repair depot in south Auckland after about 300 litres of chemical spilled from a storage tank.
• Teen cyclist still in serious condition after acci ...
  A 14-year-old cyclist remains in a serious condition in Wellington Hospital after he was hit by a vehicle in Lower Hutt on Tuesday
• Boy fighting for life after hot pools incident
  An eight-year-old boy who fell into geothermal pools at Kuirau Park in Rotorua is fighting for his life in intensive care

Just World News

• David Swanson's 'War is a Lie'
  My neighbor and friend, the antiwar activist David Swanson, recently published a terrific book that takes on, one by one, all the main myths/lies that warmongers use to try to persuade people that wars are effective, moral, and necessary. The book's title 'War is a Lie' is a subtle reference to (and ...
• JWN revived; Israel's wars described
  My apologies to loyal JWN readers that I haven't posted much recently... Indeed, for most of the past three or four months I have been seriously AWOL as a blogger. It happens. I got really busy with Just World Books-- and also, over both Thanksgiving and Christmas, with family things. (I'm writing ...
• Standoff-ending precedents: The 'USSR' and Iran
  I was just reading the generally sensible 'Talk of the Town' piece on Iran and WikiLeaks that Rick Hertzberg had in the Dec. 13 issue of the New Yorker, that landed on our stoop this afternoon. (Sorry, can't easily find a link for it.) The piece is interesting because-- though Hertzberg seems to ta ...
• Visser's book on Iraq now available for sale!
  Reidar Visser's magisterial 300-page book A Responsible End? The United States and Iraq, 2005-2010 is now available for sale from Amazon. Actually, it's already selling really well there! Long-time JWN readers will be quite familiar with the work of this smart and dedicated European researcher, who ...
• U.S. diplomacy in tatters-- and not from Wikileaks
  Our country's ability to influence events around the world is in tatters-- and this was already the case before the latest round of Wikileaks started to dribble out to the public. Yesterday there were "elections" in Egypt and Haiti, two countries deep within the U.S. sphere of influence. Both electi ...

First Truths

• To Fight Terror, Fight the State
  The U.S. terror state, the mechanism through which the state-corporate power elite butchers thousands of innocents under the auspices of spreading freedom, is no more morally legitimate than than those who strap bombs to their bodies or use IEDs against buses. My latest commentary attacks the ultima ...
• Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
  For the Center for a Stateless Society, I raise objections to IP law and praise networks of free individuals within the context of Facebook.
• Corporate Welfare Disguised As "Free Trade"
  Beware of "free trade agreements," statist pacts that fix the rules for Big Business and cheat consumers. My commentary here.
• QE2: The Fed's Latest Scam
  Like the Bailouts, the new quantitative easement plan that will see the Federal Reserve�buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds is a gift to the big banks at our expense. My commentary is here.
• Getting to Gridlock
  Political gridlock, contrary to the whines of state idolators, would be enormously beneficial to society, but, also contrary to conventional wisdom, the results of yesterday's election will bring no such thing. More on this here.

Media Co-Op

• Devastation, Madagascar
  France's Total and US based Madagascar Oil tangle with military governments to push tar sands projects forward Total's proposed tar sands operation in Madagascar is potentially the dirtiest mining operation its kind in the world, in a region w ...
• Journalists! Pitch your story for 2011
  As we do every month, the Media Co-op will pay two contributors for news features to be published in The Dominion. We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays and video pitches. Pitches are welcome from anyone; priority for payment goes to those who hav ...
• Pancakes for All! Homes for All!
  VANCOUVER - Van.Act hosted a�pancake brunch�today to mark the publicity launch of the February 2011�tent village at the site of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson`s�multi-million dollar bailout for developers. The Olympic legacy at the Athlete's Village still has zero social housing units occupied. Se ...
• "Media is Just the Word for getting the Word Out"
  David Eby, Henry Yu, Tami Starlight, and Harsha Walia Speak Out on Human Rights and Media Last week, on the eve of International Human Rights Day, the Chinese-Canadian National Council and W2 hosted a panel on human right and the media in Vanc ...
• Who Ya Gonna Call?
  The Commissioner of the Environment takes your questions Some might call Scott Vaughan a modern-day Chicken Little. But Vaughan is the federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. He would know better than anyone if the ...

David Seaton's News Links

• New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist's ba ...
  Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed to lo ...
• North Korea or Murdoch: the art is knowing how to ...
  Korean strongman, Kim Jong-il and his son and successor, Kim Jong-un David Seaton's News LinksThere is a lot of speculation, and practically no hard intelligence, as to why North Korea is behaving so strangely of late. Sinking a South Korean ship and killing 45 sailors, showing off their advanced at ...
• Homage to Ireland in Her Hour of Need
  Now that they've gone stone broke and are dirt poor again. Lets send the Irish a big hug and kiss for all the fun they've always provided. Just as a token, this trailer from my favorite Irish theme film, (apologies to John Ford and "The Quiet Man")... Alan Parker's, "The Commitments". You think th ...
• Haitian cholera: opening soon in theaters near you ...
  Haitian VenusA Collier County woman is Florida's first documented case of cholera imported from Haiti. The woman, who lives in southwest Florida, had been visiting family in the region of the earthquake-devastated nation that is at the center of its cholera epidemic.(...)"We really don't anticipate ...
• What is next for Julian Assange?
  We could be spectators for the start of the cyber Great War � and they�ve just knocked over Franz Ferdinand.(...) The difference now is that this battle is extra-national; it isn�t one country against another, so much as an establishment of nations fighting a global insurgency � with the soul of ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EWG Applauds Obama Administration Plan to Address ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. — Just two days after the release of Environmental Working Group's (EWG) analysis of chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) contamination in the drinking water of 31 U.S. cities, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Milestone Measure to Advance Food Safety Passes Co ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The nation’s food safety system is responsible for 3,000 deaths each year, and 48 million illnesses annually , according to newly released data from the federal Centers... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• EWG Tests Show Notorious Carcinogen is Widespread ...
  Contact: Home Full Report Executive Summary Study Findings Industry Tactics Government Failings Progress in California Study Methodology ... [[ This is a content summar ...
• EWG response to EPA’s review of chromium-6 health ...
  December 15th, 2010 Read our Press Release Download PDF. November 23, 2010 Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket Mail Code: 2822T U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460 Re:... [[ This is a content summa ...
• Lawmakers, Researchers, Doctors Reject Schwarzeneg ...
  Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Read our letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Oakland, Calif. – Lawmakers, public health advocates, scientists, public utility managers and medical doctors are demanding that... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Lethal Medical Failure That's Still Recommende ...
  In April, the government of India called a halt to trials of the Hu­man Papilloma Virus (HPV) vac­cine. �This came about because of a civil society-led investigation which highlighted serious ethical violations in at least one trial. In India, civil society groups have long been voicing their conce ...
• Scientists Show that They Can Change People's Mora ...
  Scientists have shown they can alter your moral judgments just by disrupting a specific area of your brain with magnetic pulses. A region of your brain just above and behind your right ear appears to control morality -- a bundle of nerve cells known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ). ...
• Penguin Dilemma
  How will this cute penguin couple overcome the obstacles in their path?
• Manmade Problem Turned Deadlier than AIDS - Is The ...
  Animals in factory farms are given doses of antibiotics -- both to keep them alive in stressful, unsanitary conditions, and to make them grow faster. The practice leads to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as the now-widespread form of staph (MRSA) known as ST398. Federal regulator ...
• Scientific Panel Calls FDA Miserable Failure in Pr ...
  A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee has recommended that the agency take a new look at updated data on mercury amalgam dental fillings that may indicate medical problems for patients. The committee also said that more information on amalgam fillings should be posted for bot ...

JAMA

• Association of Risk-Reducing Surgery With Cancer R ...
• Association of Risk-Reducing Surgery With Cancer R ...
• Regionalized Perinatal Care Systems and Very Low-B ...
• Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care: Th ...
• Law in the Laboratory: A Guide to the Ethics of Fe ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• WikiLeaks: US renewed Indonesia military ties afte ...
  Footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival US government cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Indonesia threatened to derail President Obama’s visit to Jakarta this year unless America reversed its ban on military assistan ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Mega-discontent with the megacity
  This month, 10 years after the Parti Quebecois government hammered together what it claimed would be a unified, streamlined and dynamic Montreal, island residents were asked in an opinion poll how they like it. Their answer: not much.
• Editorial: Bell's $1.3-million fine is important t ...
  In the months after the national Do Not Call List was launched in 2008, millions of Canadians signed up. With their phone numbers now off-limits to telemarketers, there'd be no more calls from salespeople with their rata-tat delivery begging for "just a minute" of their time. Or so they thou ...
• Editorial: Mega-discontent with the megacity
  This month, 10 years after the Parti Quebecois government hammered together what it claimed would be a unified, streamlined and dynamic Montreal, island residents were asked in an opinion poll how they like it. Their answer: not much.
• The ancient story still resonates
  Predictably the Catholic League has responded with a billboard of its own, at the Manhattan exit of the tunnel, showing the same star and stable, but with a message that reads: "You know it's real."
• Concordia owes us an explanation
  Once could have been bad luck. Twice is looking like an unfortunate inability to run a university.

Food World Order

• 11/11 binge & purge: spam the torpedos!
  33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese* wv dept of ag gets grant to study e. coli in beef* salmonella in france: 500 sick from beef patties* carnival splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship* food wrappers leach harmful che ...
• chemicals in fast food wrappers end up in human bl ...
  from allgov: As if the food in fast food wasn’t questionable enough from a health standpoint, it turns out the wrappers used for hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, microwave popcorn, etc. contain chemicals that are leaching into the human body. Researchers at the University of Toronto found that f ...
• city of houston shuts down two radioactive water w ...
  from khou: A radioactive water well that is controlled by the City of Houston, and that serves residents of Jersey Village, is no longer being used, according to the communications director for Houston Mayor Annise Parker. On Monday, a KHOU-TV investigation revealed Jersey Village water well #3 was ...
• 'obama go back' protest by farmers in india
  from gmwatch: Cotton growers in Vidarbha on Friday staged candle-light protests on the eve of US President Barack Obama's visit to the country, seeking to draw his attention to the plight of the agriculture sector in the region caused by American policies. Protests were held under the banner of the ...
• 11/4 binge & purge: frowny fries & waterwars
  san fran passes law banning toys in happy meals* democrat monsanto-lobbyist supported gop candidate* how the 2010 election results will affect health care & freedom* election unlikely to change s510 fate in senate* what the green movement got wrong: a 'turncoat' explains* world bank q ...

CrusadeWatch

• "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj main ...
  source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned T ...
• Sex, lies and money in the church
  source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
• Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
  source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
• Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
  source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
• Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
  source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010  By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ris ...

Whole Truth Coalition

• .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
  Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
• Child Rapists Protected By The State
  In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
• An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
  ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
• Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
  Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
• Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02

The Economic Collapse

• Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of ...
  Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns ...
• America’s Message To The Rest Of The World: ...
  Have you ever seen pictures of extravagant wealth from places such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi and wondered where in the world they got all that money from?  Have you ever read news stories that talk about China lending us hundreds of billions of dollars and wondered how they could possib ...
• The Working Poor
  As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be "low income". Millions of American families are finding that they can barely ma ...
• Christmas Stories
  If you and your family are blessed and prosperous this holiday season, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because there are tens of millions of other Americans that are desperately hanging on by their fingernails.  The Christmas stories that you are going to read bel ...
• Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About ...
  All over the Internet, Republican pundits are declaring that extending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy and Democrat pundits are declaring that ending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy. Well, you know what? Nothing will save the U.S. economy. The U.S. government is g ...

CASSE

• Steady State Economics and the New Congress
  Brent Blackwelder has some interesting ideas for the fight against corruption.
• Top 10 Songs for the Steady State
  Check out this list of top songs with thematic elements of the steady state economy.
• Ecosystem Services: Pricing to Peddle
  Markets are good for several things, but allocating ecosystem services is not one of them.
• Real Economies and the Illusions of Abstraction
  Hazel Henderson, a true champion of the steady state economy, digs deep into the deficiencies of our economic and financial systems.
• A Shift in the Burden of Proof
  The World Bank and other proponents of growth need to prove that growth is actually "economic" instead of "uneconomic."

The Talking Clock

• Review of the Year 2010 (including readers poll re ...
  As the annus brownalis draws to an end and we sit on the dawn of what is bound to be an even worse year, here's our look back at the misery (and rare joy) that made the headlines in 2010. January was a month in which civil liberties took centre stage. In a rare move, this blog praised something f ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 19th December 2010
  Not much Christmas spirit here, I'm afraid. Instead, it is beholden on me to point out that none of the following is made up. Links are provided to all the relevant stories. We start the misery with the Sunday Telegraph which trumpets big with a 'swine flu' story, but I think we all heard enou ...
• Jim Corr: "Top-down engineered financial crash des ...
  I agree with Jim Corr...
• Quote of the Day: 18th December 2010
  "Look at the silly monkey! Look at the shiny keys." - the ever brilliant Mary Ellen Synon cuts through the crap spouted by Cameron and trumpeted in press releases issued by his image gurus... and tells you what his EU budget 'victory' really means. Don't worry Mary... or maybe do, depending on ...
• Quote of the Day: 28th December 2010
  "So my advice to the British is: Hold on, my friends, to the great charters on which your own constitution -- and the American constitution -- stand. Hold on: Magna Carta of 1215, the Petition of Right of 1628, the Bill of Rights of 1689. And fight to destroy the Lisbon Treaty and its oppressive and ...

Facing South

• Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
  By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
• YOU are the answer
  Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
• New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
• Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
  Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
• How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
  By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Trio of False Alarms Put New York on Edge Today’s Terrorism News will be on hiatus until January 3. We’d like to wish all of our readers a happy and healthy holiday season, and we hope to see you in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Lawyers for Ghailani Urge Judge to Dismiss Single Conviction On Friday, lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani, who was acquitted of more 280 counts of murder and conspiracy in November in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, urged … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Lawyers for Zubaydah Ask Poland to Open Investigation Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian detained at Guantanamo, have filed a lawsuit in Poland to request a formal investigation into whether Zubaydah was mistreated at a secret CIA-run prison in the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Guyanese Man Gets Life Sentence for JFK Bomb Plot Abdul Kadir, a former Guyanese politician who was convicted earlier this year for plotting to detonate the fuel system at JFK International Airport in New York, was sentenced to life in … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Virginia Man Arrested After Threatening DC Metro on Facebook A Virginia man was arrested earlier this month and charged with communicating threats via interstate communications after allegedly making threatening comments about bombs on DC Metro trains on Facebook. According to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 29 December 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including the year's coolest animals, our holiday quiz, shape-shifting actors, extreme beer and more
• 2010 review: The year in environment
  It's been a tough year for the environment, as bad news came thick and fast
• Today on New Scientist: 17 December 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: alien trees, living dinosaurs and a jet getting a piggyback
• Closure of UK forensics centre provokes protest
  The announced closure of the UK's Forensic Science Service will harm research, innovation and even the justice system, say forensic scientists
• Today on New Scientist: 28 December 2010
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including the year's biggest physics stories, nature's fastest plants and the world's coolest touchscreen

Tech Drive In

• Readers' Choices - Top 13 Tech Drive-in Stories of ...
  2010 was a momentous year as far as our small little blog is concerned. Well, the most important part is, 2010 marked the beginning of Tech Drive-in, 2010 Feb 17 to be precise. Yeah thats right, we are not even an year old! And we already have a really good readership base and fan following which wa ...
• Minitube - Perhaps the Cleanest Looking YouTube De ...
  Minitube is a flash free YouTube desktop application for Linux and Mac OSX. Minitube is perhaps one of the cleanest looking YouTube desktop client I have ever used in Ubuntu. And the fact that Minitube does not use the Flash player to play videos makes it a really low consumer of your CPU resources. ...
• Getting Things GNOME - Useful Tool to Get Things D ...
  Getting Things Gnome(GTG) is a nice and simple tool to organize and manage your tasks and time efficiently.�GTG uses a very handy text edition system for task creation and edition. The task editor can automatically recognize metadata such as tags and subtasks only by the use of a very simple syntax. ...
• Pinguy OS - Probably the Best Ubuntu Derivative I ...
  Pinguy OS - not many must have heard about it. Pinguy OS is basically a heavily modified Ubuntu with an emphasis on the out-of-the-box functionality of the OS and more importantly on the look-good factor. And I got to tell you folks, on every count, my experience with Pinguy OS was well above averag ...
• Orta Theme for Ubuntu GNOME Just Got Awesomer!
  We had already featured Orta theme in our listing of�top themes to be used with Faenza icon theme in Ubuntu. Orta GTK theme hit version 1.0 today and has become ever more beautiful. The latest version comes with a number of new features and tweaks as well. What's New in Orta 1.0 GTK Theme fo ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Help keep the free alternative media, free!
  If you have benefitted from the information on this blog and wish to see the blog continue in 2011, consider supporting it with a donation. Happy New Year! Bank details: Account name:             Buergermeister, Jane Account number/ IBAN      AT831100015211533300 BIC / SWIFT code         BKAUATWWXXX ...
• Poll shows strong support for reintroducing the D ...
  Every second German wants the D Mark to be reintroduced, according to a poll for Bild newspaper. http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/wirtschaft/2010/12/26/euro-umfrage-bild-exklusiv/deutsche-wollen-d-mark-wieder-haben.html Two thirds or  67% of the Germans surveyed said they were worried about the stabi ...
• Polish prosecutors to publish own report on Smolen ...
  It was one of the worst political tragedies in post-war Europe. The Polish central bank governor, the President and about 90 other top officials were killed in a plane crash in Smolenk on April 10th. In spite of the evidence indicating that the people were not killed as they travelled to a commemora ...
• Smolensk plane crash: Polish president’s rem ...
  Posted Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:02am AEDT Mr Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 other passengers died in the crash. (APTN: ABC News) Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski who died in a plane crash in western Russia in April, expressed doubt as to whether his brother’s co ...
• MERRY CHRISTMAS
  It has been a turbulent year and one that also, at times, seemed to never end. For me, personally, it was perhaps the most surreal year of my entire life and I feel extremely lucky to still be in one piece and owe many people a great deal of thanks for all their help and [...]

Invisible Opportunity

• The Western World’s Murder of Logic and Reas ...
  By Les Visible Does anyone still not know that 9/11 was done by Mossad and the CIA, along with various parties in certain government agencies and sundry? Most of us are not hackers and we don’t deal with secret cables leaked by whistleblowers ‘or’ deliberately leaked after being sanitized in order t ...
• Global Warming Hysteria: We Knew Arctic Cold Would ...
  Wesley J. Smith This is becoming a parody. I noted here recently that ten years ago, an East Anglia climate scientist and others warned that that because of global warming, “within a few years” there would be NO SNOW IN ENGLAND! Poor UK kids would soon only know virtual snow. That didn’t work out ve ...
• ‘Warming’ up to junk science
  By Michael Graham If you spent part of Christmas weekend stuck in a foot of snow – er, make that âclimate fluffâ – you may have found yourself asking âWhatever happened to all that âglobal warmingâ Al Gore kept yelling about a few years ago?â Good question. According to members of the government/sci ...
• Junk science alert: researchers declare alternativ ...
  The headline emblazoned across a new British Medical Journal (BMJ) press release proclaims this alarming warning: Complementary medicines can be dangerous for children! But when you look at the proof that’s supposedly been found documenting life-threatening dangers of complementary and alternative t ...
• ADL: WIKILEAKS VITAL TO ISRAEL’S INTELLIGENCE PROG ...
  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “There is a list, the Bush administration’s “working group” that green-lighted 9/11. Of the five names on it, three are Jews. “ Last week, responding to a deluge of news reports tying Israel to Wikileaks, Julian Assange announced he finally planned to releas ...

Veterans Today

• GOP’s House Budget Chair: Not Wall Street, R ...
  MADISON, WISCONSIN-In a Dec. 28th op-ed for his hometown paper, Paul Ryan discussed the federal budget deficit, the economic crisis and his upcoming role as chairman of the House Budget Committee. Read the article here. Ryan, one of Wall Street’s greatest allies on the hill, notably states that Amer ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1184-10 NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive contract for the fiscal 2010-2015 block buy of Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The fiscal 2010 LCS Flight 0+ ship award amount is $436,852,639. There are additional line items total ...
• The meeting of the morally repugnant and logically ...
  The most important thing to do during a war is to win it and have something left after you've won it. That's fairly obvious -- but, if you combine Geloiocracy with repugnant ideas you come up with crap like that.
• Jeff Gates: A Commonsense Solar Defense
  A Commonsense Solar Defense By Jeff Gates Three days before Christmas, the U.S. Congress authorized $725 billion in defense spending for 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the most since 1945, the last year of World War II. With numbers that large, making comparisons is difficult. Yet consider thi ...
• Connecticut Atty Gen Calls on DoD to Give Veteran ...
  Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has called on the Department of Defense to grant Freedom of Information Act requests from veterans’ organizations seeking information on the misuse of personality disorder discharges. By the CT Health I-Team Service members discharged because of personality disord ...

electric politics

• Priorities
  To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
• Regime Change Politics
  We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...
• The Death and Life of Intelligence Analysis
  Magical thinking drives the Neocons' perpetual efforts to start a war with Iran. Politicians, by and large, fail to apprehend the danger. If it weren't for analysts like Dr. Thomas Fingar — and many others — who have held the line on explaining the real costs of war, we would by now be well and tru ...
• (Unlawful) Targeted Killing
  The U.S. government should not murder people abroad. A simple enough rule, yet in a bizarre, barbaric, and cold-blooded fashion Washington now not only claims the right to murder anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, abroad, including American citizens, but actively carries out such intent with drone ...
• The Power of Imagination
  Harkening back to an earlier age, the prolific and brilliant author and anthologist Michael Sims helps us to understand science, natural history, literature, and all manner of other things. A Renaissance man. In Dracula's Guest he explores through Victorian eyes the universal human fear of the dark ...

PR News

• Corporate America gets bad report card in survey
  NEW YORK: A survey released by StrategyOne shows that American consumers are not happy with the way corporate America has conducted itself this year.
• Top 2010 PRWeek consumer articles
  The most read consumer PR articles this year spanned a variety of topics from account changes and big name people moves to crisis communications.
• Top 2010 PRWeek products and tools articles
  PRWeek is taking a moment to reflect on 2010 by reviewing the most widely read products and tools articles.
• Business Wire offers free webinar series
  NEW YORK: Business Wire is offering a series of free webinars starting in January.
• PR hiring and recruitment on the upswing
  Talent recruiters say the rebound in the job market for PR pros has already started, with much of the strength coming from the senior management level.

The Story Behind the Story

• Understanding the Nine Veils
  Understanding the Nine Veils By A. True Ott, PhD Nearly a decade ago, a dear friend and colleague of mine named Don Harkins authored a wonderfully thought-provoking piece entitled “Slavery and the eight veils.   Prior to Harkins’ untimely death, we discussed this “Eight-veils theory” for literally h ...
• Is there hidden messaging in The Simpson’s c ...
  Today, a friend named Alex sent me this post: Watch this video to understand how hollywood has given us early indications of foreknowledge of falseflag events including 9/11 and Katrina.  Consider the series “V” coming up on Jan 4 such predictive programming, and liken the “red rain” to chemtrails.  ...
• The Bursting Debt Bubble – Power Point
  To see Dr. Ott’s newest power point – and to follow along with his radio broadcast, click here:   The Bursting Debt Bubble This is clearly THE BIGGEST STORY in American History. Spread the word — and Merry Christmas – (no thanks to the treasonous traitors at Goldman Sachs.)  
• UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
  Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...
• Long Live King and Queen Obama!!!!
  Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn’t Michelle Obama live like a queen? The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela. A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage ...

k2p blog

• Japan shelves carbon emissions trading scheme
  Japan joins the growing list of nations who have shelved, postponed or cancelled carbon trading schemes.
• Yellow River freezes early
  677 km of the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia, China, has frozen over on 29th December.
• Solar Cycle 24 is unusually quiet but not unpreced ...
  NASA has made a new reduced forecast for the peak sunspot number and the time of occurrence of the peak for Solar Cycle 24. The peak number has been reduced from 90 to 64 and the time of the peak is unchanged at June 2013.
• Why body temperature is what it is – perhaps
  Mammalian body temperature could be the result of an optimisation between a high enough temperature to ward of fungal species invading the body on the one hand and a low enough temperature on the other to minimise the quantity of fuel needed to support metabolism.
• Japanese fishing firms fight back taxes: “ne ...
  An interesting defence by Japanese fishing firms that bribes paid to Russian officials and deposited in Cyprus bank accounts were properly booked as "expenditures" and therefore not to be taxed as profits!!

Left Foot Forward

• A year of economic uncertainty lies ahead
  The following 12 months will be the year where the consequences of policymakers' decisions and indecision are felt by all. Five questions will dominate economic discourse in 2011.
• Labour wins when it is the future
  2011 must be the year Labour realises the scale of its electoral, political, and philosophical defeat and finally articulates a different future.
• Labour’s ‘no brainer’ case to ca ...
  An exhaustive academic report shows why Labour would benefit from the Alternative Vote. The report argues ""By opposing AV ... the Labour Party is likely to deprive itself of a chance to gain seats"
• A progessive agenda for Wales in 2011
  John Griffiths, Labour Member for Newport East, Counsel General & legislative programme leader, sets out the challenges which lie ahead for the Welsh Assembly.
• 2011: The year political activism and progressive ...
  New campaigning models that are de-centred mean 2011 promises to be a year of immense excitement for grassroots politics in our country, writes Aaron Peters.

Consumerist

• Reader Crafts Effective Complaint Letter, Scores 5 ...
  Reader CMM was able to score a partial refund from CVS after they flubbed up her gift photobook order. Instead of bound and ready books, they handed her husband a pile of loose pages and covers and said "go to town." Some of the pages had minor ink spots on them too. CMM says she then:...sent an e ...
• Skype Offers $1 Credit Voucher Following Massive O ...
  Following last week's 24-hour crash that left millions of Skype customers searching for landlines, the online phone company is offering some token compensation to those who were inconvenienced. Reader Marti forwarded us the following e-mail from the CEO of Skype: To our valued customers: As 201 ...
• Time Warner CSR Agrees Their "Soul Being Sucked Aw ...
  Rachel shares an interesting transcript of a chat she had with Time Warner. She was complaining about how Time Warner automatically raises its rates every year, and, in the end, got the CSR to confirm that they felt their soul was "being sucked away" from having to explain this policy so many times ...
• Reader Thinks He's Discovered Why Kindle Covers Sc ...
  David says he's figured out the reason Amazon's Kindle covers may be making devices lock up. He says metal parts are connecting ports on the device and causing the problems, and that he was able to get Amazon credit for his cover after he escalated his complaint. He writes: After dealing with Ama ...
• Hotels.com CSR Doesn't Tell Us Room Is Non-Refunda ...
  Kate and her friend Crystal recently tried to book a weekend getaway to New York City. They found cheap airfare on JetBlue and a customer service rep at Hotels.com was nice enough to book their hotel room for them over the phone. All was going well until the women needed to cancel their trip. That' ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• GAP Applauds Merit Systems Protection Board Revers ...
  Today, GAP is praising a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ruling last week that reverses a far-reaching November 2009 decision exempting national security positions from protections under the civil service merit system. (Conyers v. Dep’t Defense, 2010 MSPB 2047, December 22, 2010) What a ...
• GAP Statement on WPEA Secret Hold
  The following statement regarding the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act can be attributed to GAP Legal Director Tom Devine: “This holiday season, a Republican senator gave taxpayers a secret Scrooge. After unanimous House approval today, and unanimous Senate approval last month of a stronge ...
• House Passes Food Safety Bill; Whistleblower Prote ...
  The New York Times: House Passes Overhaul of Food Laws After facing numerous setbacks, the Food Safety Modernization Act received final approval from the House of Representatives yesterday with a vote of 215 to 144. President Obama has indicated that he will sign the bill. The legislation ...
• Corporate Whistleblower Protections Included in Fo ...
  Protections Cover Workers in Industries Regulated by FDA; GAP Calls for Similar Rights for Federal Workers to be Passed (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is praising Congress for passing the most comprehensive whistleblower protections for food industry w ...
• FCC Votes on New Internet Access Rules; TSA Questi ...
  Washington Post: FCC Set to Enact New Rules Affecting Internet Access The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote today on a set of rules that would bolster “net neutrality” -- a principle that calls for Internet Service Providers (ISP) to treat all legal Internet traffic equall ...

UK Progressive

• New Years Prediction (I): The Tea Party Conservati ...
  by Robert Reich Next week starts the new Congress, and with it the Tea Party conservatives. What’s their strategy? What will they rally around? They’ll grouse endlessly about government spending but I don’t think they’ll use any particular spending bill to mobilize and energize their grass roots. Th ...
• 2010′s Best Performance Poems – Katie Makkai’s ‘Pr ...
  Remember these names and that you saw them here first. Living in the land of Dylan Thomas, Wales’ greatest poet, I am awed by poetry well written. Even more so by poetry well spoken. Almost two decades ago Bill Moyers produced a series of broadcasts from New Jersey’s biennial Geraldine R. Dodge poet ...
• The Year in Wall Street Investigations
  by Karen Weise, ProPublica It’s been over three years since credit markets started shaking with the early tremors of the subprime crisis, and two years since that spread into a marketwide collapse. Prosecutors, regulators, Congress and journalists have spent the year uncovering the financial shena ...
• US Nor’easter Snow Blizzard in 40 Seconds
  December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo. December 2010 Blizzard via Timelapse. Mike Black Photography used a Canon DLSR on tripod with remote timer taking a photo once every five minutes. Not how often he has to change measuring devices ending up with a yardstick atop the table ...
• MadKane Weighs In On Lame Duck Session with Limeri ...
  by Madeleine Begun Kane Limerick Ode To Bernie Sanders December 10th, 2010 As you know, most of my limericks mock politicians or the media. But today’s verse is in honor of the great Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) The stand he took today in his Senate filibuster of Obama’s tax deal with the Republicans ...

NewsAlert

• As governments go broke, public employee unions mu ...
  The Washington Examiner
• Fundraising Drive Here at Newsalert
  This is the last week of our semi-annual fundraising drive here at Newsalert. Your contributions help pay the bills. If you value the website and the information, think of making a contribution down below. We'd like to thank everyone who has made a contribution. We apologize for these constant messa ...
• The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked
  The American Thinker
• EPA global warming regulations no ‘end run’ around ...
  The Daily Caller reports:The Environmental Protection Agency’s pending global warming regulations are no “end run” around Congress, as many conservatives are charging. This time, Congress is being held hostage by its own laws. The real story is the decades-long campaign by environmentalists to weav ...
• Terrain Shifts in Challenges to the Health Care La ...
  The New York Times

JoNova

• Another test of the BOM vs Corbyn
  Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction appears to be getting noticed (finally). Recently the Telegraph reported on The man who beats the Met Office. But some people (especially outside the UK) don’t seem to realize Corbyn has been doing this for a long time. He started placing bets on his predictions way bac ...
• Merry Christmas
  The immovable wall met the inflexible mind this week. The bitterly cold weather brought out some spectacular cases of cognitive dissonance. The Greg Graven’s who were overcome with passion, and the Monboit’s who were overcome with the complete “suspension of disbelief” whilst hunting for ways to rat ...
• An insight into Hacker-land
  Hacked or leaked? Pointman argues the case for the emails being leaked from inside. Part I of his thesis is that an expert hack takes a lot of money, patience and a rare personality. (And after reading his article I believe him.) In Part II Pointman suggests that there is not a lot of money [...]
• Could the Australian BOM get it more wrong?
  Warwick Hughes has spotted a neat trifecta: whether it be rain, maximums or minimums, the  BOM gets it wrong. For this spring the Australian BOM predicted it would be dry and warm, instead we got very wet and quite cold.  The models are so bad on a regional basis, it’s uncannily like they are almo ...
• Glikson: decends to pseudo-psychology and projecti ...
  Remember the Great Debate between myself and Dr Andrew Glikson?  He’s back – in Climate change denial: The misrepresentation of climate science he calls names, resorts to inventing a mental illness, creates strawmen whom he beats down mercilessly, all the while misrepresenting thousands of scientist ...

ReNew America

• 111th Congress added more debt than first 100 Cong ...
  (CNSNews.com) - The federal government has accumulated more new debt--$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)--during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury...
• Team Obama's dangerous disarmament agenda
  (Frank Gaffney) - Hold on to your hat. No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START agreement by the closest margin of any bilateral arms-control treaty with Moscow than the accord's principal architect served notice of her ambitious plans for further denuclearizing the United ...
• 'Don't ask' survey really didn't ask
  (WorldNetDaily) - The methods used in a survey that some U.S. military leaders have cited to support their plan to allow homosexuals to live their sexual choices openly and remain in the ranks "border on fraud," according to a critic who spoke with WND...
• Hawaii's governor wants to reveal Obama birth info
  (Associated Press) - Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. Abercrombie was a friend of Obama's parents and knew him as a child, and is deeply troubled by ...
• Biggest conservative names bidding goodbye to CPAC
  (WorldNetDaily) - Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February because a homosexual activist group, GOProud, has been invited...

Truth Offering

• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
• Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller and ...
  John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject out th ...
• TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's "The ...
  Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective: �
• Don't Let the Oil Spoil!
  The headlines are all the same these past few weeks: oil spill continues...oil spill worst in history...oil spill won't be contained until August, etc. Today's AP article's opening paragraph reads as follows: "As the crude crept closer to Florida, the risky effort to contain the nation's worst oil s ...
• The Military Dictatorial Complex
  "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 President Eisenhower was rig ...

2012 Blog

• Nanodiamonds / Neanderthals / Seas Still Rising
  Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet – adding weight to the theory of a cometary or asteroid impact event roughly 13,000 years ago. Did volcanoes wipe out the Neanderthals? If so it would be a neat solution, but not one that explains how our forefathers survived (given that we were not as ...
• 5000+1 Bunkers for Moscow
  Russia has some mega-bunkers where presumably indispensable folk can be kept safe, but what about the common people in Moscow? Looks like they will be safe from the [insert SHTF scenario here, but they want us to think nuclear war] as well. Announced a few weeks back on Russia Today are plans to bui ...
• Lunar Eclipse = Quakes?
  The evidence is (perhaps) stacking up. Mitch Battros of Earth Changes Media, as well as many other researchers (even my Facebook status!) suggested that yesterday’s lunar eclipse could cause an earthquake. And it looks like it did: Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the quake occurred about 130 kilo ...
• 2012: Brightest Northern Lights
  According to NASA, 2012 will be the big one for observing the Northern Lights. Scientists say that they “should at least be visible as far south as Rome.” Icelandic photographer Orvar Thorgiersso says “By the year 2012 if you catch the moment the Sun is spewing out solar storms dir ...
• Noah’s Ark / Facebook Game / Bollide Data
  With state-funding, a Christian ministry will build a $150 million theme park, featuring a full-size Noah’s Ark, complete with live animals. There will also be a Tower of Babel. Can’t wait to take my family, and it is aiming to open in 2014. Those 500 million Facebook users now have ...

Facing South

• Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
  By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
• YOU are the answer
  Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
• New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
• Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
  Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
• How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
  By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...

One News Page

• Siphoned funds may have gone into stocks
  Shivraj Puri, Relationship Manager in Citibank, who is alleged to be at the centre of a Rs 200-crore scam, diverted large sums of moneys collected from high net worth individual and corporate clients into accounts opened by him with several brokerage firms such as Religare Securities and ... Report ...
• Pranab rules out systemic failure in Citibank frau ...
  Reported by Hindu 45 minutes ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
• Telangana MPs demand withdrawal of paramilitary fo ...
  Congress MPs from the region are now applying pressure on CM Kiran Kumar Reddy to get Central paramilitary forces withdrawn. Reported by Zee News 45 minutes ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
• Central forces rushed to Hyderabad ahead of Telang ...
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