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IPS - Inter Press Services

• UGANDA: 'Why Waste ARVs on Sex Workers?'
  Sex workers, among the populations most at risk of HIV infection in Uganda, say they are yet to realise their right to health.
• EUROPE: Talking Green, 'Lending Unclean'
  The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is reneging on pledges to support low-carbon economic models in Eastern Europe, and is instead ramping up its lending for fossil-fuel energy projects, critics say.
• ICELAND: Don't Trust Those Fishy Certificates
  New eco-labels on Icelandic seafood are misleading and unregulated, concealing practices that damage the environment, critics say.
• EU Plans to get Smart With Energy
  The electricity grid in Europe is in desperate need of an IQ boost.
• PAKISTAN: Too Many Nets, Too Little Fish
  The last time Moazzam Khan saw sawfish in the Arabian Sea was in 1984. "At one time, salted and dried fish formed a large part of our exports," recalls Khan, director general of the Karachi Fisheries Department. "In the last 30 years, there may be other marine life that may have vanished o ...

Scoop - NZ

• Pentagon: Grim Review of Afghan War
  Violence has reached record levels in Afghanistan, and the resistance to the US-led occupation is more widespread than ever, according to a report issued by the Pentagon. The semiannual report, required by Congress, provides a grim assessment of the US war, now in its tenth year, giving the lie to r ...
• $42.5mil theft from Holocaust survivor funds
  the Claims Conference held its first executive meeting since the revelation of the $42.5 million theft from funds granted by the German government to Holocaust survivors. One would have expected that the fraud would be the focus of the meeting. But the report from the executive vice president sugge ...
• Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in m ...
  Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the ageing process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerati ...
• Next Wikileak: A major US bank
  dmire him or revile him, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world's secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago. Over the last year his information insurgency has dumped 76,000 secret A ...
• Heinberg on Peak Coal in NATURE
  Synopsis. The idea that coal is cheap and plentiful drives much thinking about future world energy consumption. It can explain the resistance of the United States and China to carbon-cutting policies - both countries have lots of coal, and they don't plan to stop using it anytime soon. But is it a ...

Independent - London

• Colonel condemns leaks about Army in Afghanistan
  A former British commander condemned WikiLeaks today for revealing US cables containing concerns about British forces not being "up to the task" in Helmand province in Afghanistan.
• Israel battles biggest wildfire in its history
  The Isreali emergency services are struggling to cope as wildfire sweeps across the north of the country, killing up to 40 people.
• Greece student protest turns violent
  Clashes break out in Athens as students from across demonstrate against education reforms.
• China switches to 'prudent' monetary policy
  China's leadership today called for tighter control over bank lending and other spending next year, a shift in strategy as Beijing fights inflation and tries to guide rapid growth to a sustainable level.
• Key ally in Helmand privately criticised British p ...
  The Governor of Helmand, regularly put forward by London to publicly promote the UK's achievements in Afghanistan, privately complained to the Americans about shortcomings of British policy and the supposed failure to win over local people in a key battleground against the Taliban.

Rogue Government.com

• Hundreds line up in the cold for help heating home ...
  A day after hundreds of people queued up outside a Marietta community center to apply for assistance with heat and power bills, hopeful applicants began lining up again around midnight, waiting in the sub-freezing temperatures for the doors to open Thursday morning.
• MPs may have viewed child porn on parliamentary co ...
  CHILD pornography may have been viewed on parliamentary computers, the New South Wales Speaker has revealed.
• Organ Wagons To Make House Calls
• Group probes TSA’s ‘manipulation’ of opt-out prote ...
  The public interest group Liberty Guard filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Transportation Security Administration Monday to determine why many airport imaging scanners were reportedly shut down and roped off on November 24th, the day of a planned "opt out protest."
• Reid Rolls Dice On Stand Alone Dream Act, Lame Duc ...
  The hopes of an entire generation of young people depend upon how Washington votes on a proposal to pass the Dream Act this week. The chances for passage got tougher today as Senator Harry Reid filed for a vote on the Act as a stand-alone bill.

Innovation Canada

• When good stress turns bad
  Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
• Blowin’ in the wind
• Studying sturgeon
  It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
• Talking Fish
  When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...
• Bridge Building
  You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...

Signs of the times

• S.510 Food Bill Driven By Big Food Lobby May Be De ...
  While over 200 organizations lobbied on the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510), no one seemed to notice an unconstitutional section in the bill until after it passed on Tuesday. That day, Roll Call advised that the bill contained a provision, Sec. 107, allowing the Senate to raise revenues. This ...
• The National Security State Cops a Feel - Taking O ...
  It's finally coming into focus, and it's not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of yo ...
• The Gulf of Mexico is Dying
  It is with deep regret that we publish this report. We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the consequences of the following observations are of such great import and have such far-reaching ramifications for the entire planet. Truly, the fate of the oceans of the world hangs in the balance ...
• Harvard pair sue TSA over screenings
  Two Harvard Law School students are suing the Transportation Security Administration, claiming the so-called "nude body scanners" and intrusive pat-downs used to screen airline passengers are unconstitutional. Jeffrey Redfern and Anant Pradhan claim use of the scanners and pat-downs as primary sc ...
• Nigel Farage: Euro Empire Collapsing, Bailout Rive ...
  Another Eurozone country might need a financial bailout soon. Italy - which is the third largest economy that uses the Euro currency - has started plunging in the same direction as Greece and Ireland. It comes as fresh protests sweep across Europe - with people angry at facing tough cuts to pay for ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Oh... Craig James ...
  I hope you can leave without shit on your lips. The only role you are allowed to have, and I mean allowed, is to be the defender of the democratic functions of all British Columbians. You have failed to protect both the rights and the functions of democracy. Leave with dignity and the ability to ...
• The Canadian "anti-American melodrama" doc dump
  WikiLeaks delivers a four page cable from the American Embassy in Ottawa in 2008 analyzing the increase in "anti-American melodrama" on Canada's "state-owned" television..Lols. *ring* ... *ring* ...."Yeah. Special Agent Joe here."."Hey Joe, you finished that report on the changing dynamic of Canad ...
• Bubble's Buddies strike again . . .
  IF THE POLICE PERFORMANCE WITH THE G8/G20 was less than stellar, now the Ottawa police force is following up with equally egregious behaviour. Unlike the Toronto videos with which the "authorities" could not identify police officers in illegal disguise, Stacy Bonds' torment is something the police c ...
• Thank God! His affair was with a ... WOMAN!
  Another big-buck TV evangelist bites the dust. Bene D has the whole picture.
• At the going down of the sun ...
  Belated condolences and respect to the family and friends of Captain Frank Paul, 28 Field Ambulance, assigned to JTF-Afghanistan Health Services Unit. Capt. Paul was on active service, on a Home Leave Travel Assistance visit, when he succumbed to an illness on 10 February, 2010. Capt. Paul is bei ...

Media Matters for America

• Couric Blames Dems For GOP's Expiration Date On Bu ...
  CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric blamed Democrats for the expiration date of the Bush tax cuts. In fact, Democratic leaders in Congress voiced opposition to the sunset provisions, which allowed Congress to hide the true cost of the tax cut and avoid a filibuster in the Senate.Couric Claimed Tha ...
• Beck Just Makes Things Up About The Federal Reserv ...
  Glenn Beck baselessly claimed that the Federal Reserve would send "almost another trillion dollars, your tax dollars, over to Europe." In fact, U.S. officials have said that there are no plans under discussion to send additional money to Europe.Beck Claims The Fed Will Spend "Another Almost $1 Tril ...
• Beck Cried Wolf About Hyperinflation
  Fox News' Glenn Beck has repeatedly stoked fears that the U.S. would see "massive inflation," stating as far back as 2008 that inflation would go "through the roof" in the "next year." In fact, inflation remained low in 2009 and 2010. Beck Continually Warns of Imminent Inflation April 2008: Buy Co ...
• Conservative Media Rail Against Efforts To Ensure ...
  In recent weeks, Fox News' Glenn Beck has railed against the proposed food safety legislation making its way through Congress, claiming it is a way for the government to "control your food" and ultimately "control you." This is just the latest in a long line of hysterics from conservatives regardin ...
• Fox News' Deficit Reduction Plan: Extend Tax Cuts ...
  Fox News' Megyn Kelly claimed that tax cuts "on the so-called rich" increase federal revenues. In fact, tax experts and economists note that tax rates are not high enough for a tax cut to increase revenues, and President Bush's own economic advisors have said the Bush tax cuts did not raise re ...

Global Research.ca

• Mental Ghettos Weaken the US: People Who Lie to Th ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• How the Oligarchs Took America
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• “Unconstitutional” food bill driven by Big Food lo ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Message from Michel Chossudovsky: Dear Readers, We ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Australia could be drawn into a military conflict ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Call the Bluff
  It is time for the Democratic Party to decide if it represents the middle class or the plutocrats. Mitch McConnell, having playacted bipartisan comity at the White House on Tuesday returned to his office and released a hostage note to the American public. Not even 24 hours after President Obama me ...
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• Do the Deficit Hawks Need to Rely on Xenophobia to ...
  Senator Gregg apparently things they do. He made a point of telling National Public Radio that 40 cents of every dollar the government is borrowing is coming from China. This happens to not be true, but more importantly, China's ownership of U.S. financial assets, like government bonds, depends o ...
• Bill Maher Doubles Down On His Racism
  Bill Maher seriously hates Muslims, which is why he can't resist going back to the subject. The thing that strikes me is how sincere his racism is. You know, some of these rightwingers mouth racist nonsense but are clearly doing it to score points with the mob. (Not the case with, say, Rush Lim ...
• Hanukkah: The Pathos Of Purification
  Hanukkah�starts�today, and the British novelist Howard Jacobson is not amused.�The story of the�Maccabees beating the Syrian-Greeks sounds�suspiciously�like "wish�fulfillment," he writes. The miracle of the oil sounds saccharine. The�songs are dull. Next to Christmas, what Jew is not feeling short-c ...

TruthOut

• Andy Kroll | The New American Oligarchy
  There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It’s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, and raging lies. I'm talki ...
• Call Americans Regressive - Just Don't Call Them E ...
  There’s really no need to parody American politics — politicians parody themselves so well. Take Republican Eric Cantor, a congressman from Virginia who will probably be the majority leader in the House of Representatives in January, and who has rejected the idea of instituting a value-added tax in ...
• The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in Pakistan
  Despite sustained denials by US officials spanning more than a year, US military Special Operations Forces have been conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan, helping direct US drone strikes and conducting joint operations with Pakistani forces against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in north and ...
• DREAM Act Nears Vote; States Push Harsh Immigratio ...
  It's a now-or-never moment for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a conditional path to citizenship for certain immigrant youth. The bill's prospects won't improve with next Congress' influx of Republican legislators, and thousands of undocumented students and their bipartisan supporters ar ...
• As GOP Appears to Win Extension of Bush Era Tax Cu ...
  AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the state of poverty in this country. The Senate failed on Tuesday to advance a bill that would have extended the deadline to file for federal unemployment insurance through next year. This leaves some two million unemployed Americans without jobless benefits after this ...

Planetsave

• Santa Comes & Greens Your Crib (Green Cribs: Holid ...
  I have to admit, I hadn’t heard of “Green Cribs” before, but ran across the “world premiere” of Green Cribs: Holiday Edition recently and while I think it could have gone a lot further, it is a useful enough and funny enough video that I thought it was worth a share on here. As the... Read More...
• Bike Theft and Vandalism Not a Problem for U.S. Bi ...
  Bike theft and vandalism has been a bit of an issue for the world’s biggest bike-sharing program, Vélib in Paris, which has been, nonetheless, extremely successful and dwarfs U.S. bike-sharing programs (so far). But recent research on the matter has found basically nothing to worry about concerning ...
• Bicycling on the Increase, Snowball Effect to Keep ...
  More people are bicycling for transportation purposes these days, a lot more. Bicycling has tripled or increased by an even larger amount in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other big North American cities in the past couple of decades. And what happens when you see mo ...
• Hellish World, by 2060 or Earlier?
  …the limits for human adaptation are likely to be exceeded in many parts of the world, while the limits for adaptation for natural systems would largely be exceeded throughout the world.” How can we get society to act on the imminent threat of catastrophic global climate change if no one really unde ...
• ‘Amazongate’ Disinformer Loses 2 UK Press Complain ...
  Did you hear about “Amazongate” earlier this year. Hopefully not, since it was another faulty attempt at discrediting the sound conclusions of climate scientists all around the globe. But if you did, you may be interested to know that one of its leading proponents, Richard North, just lost two cases ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water Quality in Australia
  Water quality is an important element of integrated water management in Australia, as elsewhere in t
• TVA Coal Ash Spill Aftermath: Arsenic and More Ars ...
  Ken Ward of the Charleston, West Virginia Gazette maintains a fantastic blog called Coal Tattoo that
• Tree Based Watershed Protection: Need For Urban Tr ...
  EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a republishing of a RE Forum piece by Andy Knott, executive director of
• Panel to expand network of stream monitors in Marc ...
  The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is expanding its network of electronic water-quality monitors
• Oil Budget Calculator: Deepwater Horizon Spill -- ...
  The Federal Interagency Solutions Group, Oil Budget Calculator Science and Engineering Team http://t

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Anti-Empire Report: WikiLeaks, Iran, TSA, Terr ...
  by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 3 December, 2010 The Anti-Empire
• The Best Christmas Gift for ALL!! by Philip A. Far ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 2, 2010 Listen, we have Christmas co
• Mental Ghettos Weaken the US by Joel S. Hirschhorn
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org Dec. 2, 2010 So many intelligent
• U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan Wa ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism D
• Is QE2 The Road To Zimbabwe-style Hyperinflation? ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com December 1, 2010 Unlike Zimbabwe, the U

Axis of Logic

• Canada's Harper advisor calls for assassination of ...
  Source: CBS News Network...
• Afghan trainee kills six US troops - World News
  1 December 2010 The killing of six US soldiers by an Afghan police officer is one of the bloodiest in a series of incidents that call into question the US-NATO strategy of turning over combat operations to Afghan forces in 2014. Monday’s “fragging” of US Army trainers took place at...
• Obama administration seeks to criminalize WikiLeak ...
  Obama administration seeks to criminalize WikiLeaks By Patrick Martin 1 December 2010 Top officials of the Obama administration have threatened criminal prosecution of WikiLeaks for its latest release of secret US diplomatic documents. Attorney General Eric Holder, at a press conference ...
• After the Irish bailout: The financial wolf pack t ...
  After the Irish bailout: The financial wolf pack targets new victims 1 December 2010 It is doubtful where there is any greater degree of mystification, in any sphere of economics or politics, than in the way financial market operations are described. The so-called Irish bailout announced la ...
• Police Arrest 153 At Student Protest In London - W ...
  British police made 153 arrests during student demonstrations in London on Tuesday against proposed university tuition hikes, officials said. Police reported the arrests following a day of cat-and-mouse between demonstrators and riot officers that culminated in a violent standoff in the capital's ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Next Two Years, Short Version
  It's too close to true to be funny, but Thers nails it: I must have spilled something in a frickin' hot tub motor or whatever. Anyway I'm just sitting there by the laptop, minding my own beeswax, or I suppose earwax, and a wormhole opens up from THE FUTURE, and a slip of paper whirls and flutters in ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Crack open the Champagne! Nigeria will issue an indictment and an Interpol arrest warrant for former VP Cheney. "Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecu ...
• We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For ... Becau ...
  It's up to us, kids. This White House cannot lead, does not follow and will not get out of the way. Face it: we elected a conservative. Steve Benen wrote a while ago that if a republican president had done everything Obama has done, he would be hailed by republicans as the second coming of Reagan. � ...
• Be Sure Your Spending Reflects Your Values
  From TPM: Worried your donation to the Human Rights Campaign could be diluted thanks to your Target habit and the company's support of anti-gay politicians? The Sunlight Foundation has you covered with their new Checking Influence tool, which analyzes online bank account and credit card statements t ...
• Are y'all ready to buy another goat for my birthda ...
  A few years ago I had a Nigerian coworker who used to tweak his white, suburban co-workers and say in his sing-song voice "you are a very rich man/woman!" when one of us would show up with something new. He delighted in watching them squirm uncomfortably. When he got around to saying it to me I said ...

Care 2

• CHILDREN: Missing & Exploited Children United Stat ...
  Please look for the three Skelton brothers Alexander, Andrew, and Tanner, last seen on November 26, 2010. Alexander was last seen wearing black pajama pants and a grey shirt. Andrew was last seen wearing brown pajamas with orange trim. Tanner was ... Submitted by Ingrid A. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
• CHILDREN: Missing & Exploited Children United Stat ...
  Please look for the three Skelton brothers Alexander, Andrew, and Tanner, last seen on November 26, 2010. Alexander was last seen wearing black pajama pants and a grey shirt. Andrew was last seen wearing brown pajamas with orange trim. Tanner was ... Submitted by Ingrid A. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
• Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says res ...
  Peruvian foraging societies were already chewing coca leaves 8,000 years ago, archaeological evidence has shown.Ruins beneath house floors in the northwestern Peru showed evidence of chewed coca and calcium-rich rocks.Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Justice for Gooch: service dog killed by groomer d ...
  Laurie Crouch is a 23 year old woman who lives with multiple sclerosis from a wheelchair. Her 3 year old pet pit bull and service dog, Gooch was killed October 14, 2010 during a routine nail clip by a groomer who makes home visits. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
• Stop Mass Cull of Himachal Monkeys ! PLEASE TAKE A ...
  The Himachal Pradesh government has backed a farmer outfit's plan to shoot monkeys and other animals on sight in order to prevent damage to crops. Kheti Bachao Sangarsh Samiti (KBSS) is motivating the farmers to apply to conservators of forests andSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

Smirking Chimp

• Train Wreck, Part Two
• 10 Reasons the Deficit Commission Proposal Is Stil ...
• The Unorthodox, Dangerous and Profitable Ideas of ...
• Tomgram: Andy Kroll, How the Oligarchs Took Americ ...
• Pres O: What the F… Don’t You Get About Republica ...

Paul Krugman

• Ireland Agonistes
  Bad news from Dublin.
• Destroying Retirement In Order To Save It
  Freedom's just another word for nothing left to prove.
• Reign Of Error
  Wrong is right.
• The Shrill Has Moved To Europe
  A fine rage.
• Historical Bleg
  Statue of limitations?

No Quarter

• Thursday Open Thread
  Uh oh! House members of the “Tea Party Caucus” are deep in piggy doo-doo from all the earmarks they’re getting! … There’s an imam in Germany who lives in a glass house (i.e., he preaches non-violence yet beats his own wife, breaking her nose and her shoulder) … . . . . . . . [...]
• Who Does Assange Think He Is?
  The fallout continues from the recent 250,000 cables dump of classified information from the State Department by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks infamy. Assange, as noted previously, now has a warrant out for his arrest from Interpol for allegedly raping two women in Sweden. Wow – what a great guy he is ...
• The Atheist Spoiler
  “The Grinch” comes in many forms. This photo is from a newly erected billboard in New Jersey en route to the Lincoln Tunnel. I know what I think of it. What’s your take? Here’s the back story, according to The New York Times. The provocative 14-by-48-foot billboard was rented for $20,000 by American ...
• Fox News Joins the Parade of Fools (UPDATE)
  * Bumped Up * Add Megyn Kelly and Monica Crowley to the list of morons repeating the lie that Hillary Clinton ordered diplomats to spy on the UN. Kelly had Crowley on to comment on the Wikileaks lie that Hillary Clinton “authorized” spying against the United Nations. There is no excuse for this kind ...
• Wednesday’s Open Thread
  Enjoy this smattering of news from ’round the Web and the world … There’s the story about Julian Assange’ “secret life,” and many of you who were using computers in the 1980s will identify with that part of his story … Jake Tapper interviews Doug Liman, the director of “Fair Game” … We follow some [ ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Amazing and Bizarre Artworks by Sebastian Errazuzi ...
  Able to design fashion and furnitur as well as sculptures and public art installations, Chilean Sebastian Errazuziz is an awesome talent in the art world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• What's Causing the Global Obesity Epidemic?
  The global obesity epidemic has been blamed on every myth associated with personal weight; from sedentary living to overeating. What's the real cause? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Amazing Furniture Designs Inspired By Nature
  These unusual future furniture ideas are merely a concept today but they have traces of nature in them. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How Mental Illness Affects Men and Women Different ...
  New research has discovered that mental illness affects the sexes in vastly different ways. These anomalies affect how treatment and prevention should be delivered. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Diabolical Little Dolls by Kristin Tercek
  Kristimn Terceck has discovered a glorious niche for her darkly comic painting of food objects in a highly memorable and unusual way. Brilliant. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Obiang: The Sham Humanitarian
  In Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang preaches humanitarianism and practices human rights abuses.
• Homegrown Fear Mongering
  Targeting Somali youth as terrorists won't make the United States safer.
• WikiLeaks X: Russia -- From Tyranny to Kleptocracy
  Arguably the mafia state of Putin's era is an improvement over Stalin's tyranny.
• Even Obama Wouldn't Trade DADT and Dream Act for N ...
  The price for Republican votes to ratify New START keeps rising.
• Ideas, Identity and Ideology in Contemporary Japan ...
  Sato Masaru is a name virtually unknown outside Japan but inescapable within Japan.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Leaks reveal US doubts on Karzai
  Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal US concerns over President Karzai's character and rampant corruption in his country.
• Israel battles deadly forest fire
  Assistance arrives from other countries as firefighters struggle to put out blaze that has killed at least 41 people.
• Qatar celebrates World Cup bid win
  Frenzied celebrations erupt across tiny Gulf nation after it wins bid to host 2022 football World Cup.
• Guinea confirms Conde as president
  Supreme Court confirms Alpha Conde as winner of November 7 presidential poll, rejecting complaints of election fraud.
• Police detain 'Mexican drug leader'
  Officers arrest Eduardo "El Profe" Valencia, an alleged leader of the Zetas drug gang in the state of Hidalgo.

Green Inc. - NYT

• As Biodiversity Declines, Disease Flourishes
  A study cites evidence involving diseases ranging from the West Nile virus to Lyme disease.
• Taking Square Aim at Critics, E.P.A. Marks Its 40t ...
  "Last month's elections were not a vote for dirtier air or more pollution in our water," the agency's chief declares.
• Deforestation Slows as Brazil Chugs Toward a Goal
  Even as a global climate conference opens with low expectations, some nations are plugging away at meeting their environmental targets.
• A Spin in the Chevy Volt
  A booster of plug-in hybrids shows off his three-month loaner, saying it saves him two and a half gallons of gas a day.
• Corn Belt Senators Defend Ethanol Subsidies
  Sixteen senators sign a letter arguing that home-grown ethanol is preferable to imported oil.

Dot Earth News

• The Real Mother of Invention
  A lawyer turned inventor offers thoughts on the source of innovation and the difference between invention and science.
• Fostering Education for Innovation (and Vice Versa ...
  A push for global progress through education and innovation.
• The Ghost of Kyoto Visits Cancún
  A blunt statement on climate plans by Japan spreads gloom in sunny Cancún.
• Farewell to a Great Web Effort at Worldchanging
  A "bright green" Web site designing the future is shutting down.
• First Seas, Now Trees, Added to Google's Earth
  Google begins to populate its virtual Earth with trees.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Epic European Royalty Water-Stealin 'World Society ...
  The World Society - Definitely not a New World Order Water Corporation? or - All yr water are belong to Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus! http://www.theworldsociety.org/privilege2.html I wonder if these people are having a conspiracy against Lake Superior!! Apparently Jesse Ventura h ...
• The Federal Reserve is laundering money - Xtranorm ...
  For followups & fun I've posted a bunch of vids to youtube (New Madrid MSNBC and Army Corps 1 and 2 ) and a bunch of pdfs to Scribd including all the latest crazy Pennsylvania Homeland Security stuff. Event here: Indymedia having a 2010 Resistance in Review on Friday at Waite House with dinner! TC ...
• New banner image finally - different header layout ...
  Good change, reduces clutter Are those THETANS?! Needs Andrew Jackson vs Banksters! Needs Rocky Taconite American Hero What this place needs is blink tags
• Statecraft Horrorshow! Wikileaks State Department ...
  Ahk a quick link dump here. Wikileaks is expected to drop the big diplomatic cables starting with Der Spiegel . There's a new Wikileaks blog out there - Assange talked to some Arab reporters over videochat so apparently the fuzz hasn't gotten him yet. 2010-11-28: ARIJ Conference | WL Central . Liveb ...
• Teacher! Leave those kids alone - Psychiatric coer ...
  The kids ain't all right, with a steady diet of ennui, blinking lights and stimulants, things are looking grim. I bumped into a pile of research about frequently coercive residential education sites for teens and children. It's a troubling area... I feel quite fortunate I never had an upbringing to ...

Daily Censored

• Mortgage Relief Even Lower than Reported – No Room ...
  Michael Collins In the mean time, AIG got $48 billion and Investment Partnerships another $15 billion, none of which has been paid back. So the score is AIG/Bankers $94 billion – Homeowners $0.71 billion. Quite a deal! What do you get when you cross Tim Geithner and Peter Peterson? Barack Obama; who ...
• The Education Celebrity Tour: Legend of the Fall, ...
  The U.S. is floundering at the bottom of international comparisons of education, and what makes this worse is that in the grand ol’ 1950s, the U.S. was at the topâat least that is one story offered by Michelle Rhee on a recent episode of the Colbert Report. Like the discussion of Waiting for Superma ...
• AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS TRADED WITH THE NAZIS
  CENSORED IN 1982: AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS TRADED WITH THE NAZIS Author Charles Higham, in a shocking expose of American corporate greed, has revealed a disgraceful if not criminal collaboration of some of America’s largest corporations with Nazi German not only before but during World War II. Higham ...
• Welfare for the Elite
  The first thing to note re the much discussed tax cuts is that they are “BUSH TAX CUTS” and they heavily favor the rich and especially the super rich. Most important is to note that the tax cuts failed to stimulate the economy for the last 10 years. Almost equally important is that the tax [...]
• Feds Drop Scandal-Prone Star Witness In Politicize ...
  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s image as a crime-fighting, cost-conscious reformer worthy of 2012 Presidential consideration has taken big hits during the last month.

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US tax cut battle rages on
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Serendipity at the climate negotiations
  In Cancun's UN Global Climate Summit, there is a new generation of economic and climate justice activists in town--fired up and ready to go.
• WikiLeaks: War, Diplomacy & Ban ki-Moon's Toothbru ...
  The Wikileaks documents demonstrate that U.S. diplomacy is not being used to find alternatives to war, but rather pursued in the interests of illegal wars.
• Climate Justice Policy Factsheets
  Climate justice policy factsheets directly from the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico
• Transparency Fundamentalists
  WikiLeaks performs a full body scan of the government, which doesn't want its "junk" touched.
• Wikileaks Shows No "New Mind-Set" in US Foreign Po ...
  IPS expert Phyllis Bennis says that with Hillary Clinton ordering spying on UN leaders, Bush style politics are still around.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• My heartfelt thanks
  A Letter of Thanks to PDA Members With the 2010 election now behind us, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all my friends, allies and supporters at PDA. Those thanks extend ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 11/19/10 – 11/30/10
  Lobby and call in day Lobby day Members of PDA national, state leadership teams and coalition partners will be on the Hill today to distribute Healthcare NOT Warfare packets ...
• Message from PDWV: Progressives Must NOT Abandon O ...
  I fear our disappointment with President Obama is taking us into dangerous territory. Our anger could, in the end, bring unintended consequences that we may long regret. We should reassess our goal in light of the political ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 11/12/10 – 11/19/10
  Conference, lobby days and calls Note: Our OneNationPDA.org site is having technical difficulties. Please hit refresh on your browser if you get an “fatal error” message. Conference: PDA is on the ground at the Pricing Carbon Conference at ...
• November Organizers Call
  56 PDA leaders from arund the country joined us for IOT/AG reports, national news and state reports. It was great call!

Marler Blog

• Where S. 510 is at 11:41 PM Pacific Time
  According to a variety of news sources, Senate Democrats say an error in the Food Safety bill passed Tuesday can be resolved in time to send the legislation to President Obama by the end of the year. Two senior leadership aides confirmed that the bill the Senate approved, 73-25, "inadvertently" cont ...
• Jerry's Deli linked to Hepatitis A risk and it may ...
  The Los Angeles Department of Public Health (DPH) is warning that people who ate sandwiches at the Jerry's Deli near UCLA on certain days in November may have been exposed to hepatitis A and should get vaccinated. "Public Health recommends that patrons who ate sandwiches at the restaurant or who at ...
• Food Safety - why it is a bad idea to poison your ...
  More videos on why it is a bad idea to poison your customers.
• Sarah Palin is right - it is time for Congress to ...
  So, where are we on Food Safety in the USA - specifically S. 510 and H.B 2749?� A good start would be to see my last few posts for details on where I think things are and perhaps some ways out of the mess. Did you ever get the feeling that grown ups are not running our government? Has the food saf ...
• Jon Stewart on Food Safety, Glenn Beck and the Sen ...
  Thank goodness I did not stay up late and watch the Daily Show, I never would have gotten any sleep. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The Food, the Bad and the Ugly www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humo ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 12.02.10
  Report: GM studying how to double or triple Chevy Volt production At a cost of $40,000 per Volt, economies of scale can't grow fast enough. Cracker Barrel to install high-speed plug-in vehicle charging st ...
• Report: GM studying how to double or triple Chevy ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, ElectricEarly Volts reportedly cost $40,000 to build Chevrolet Volt battery pack - Click above for high-res image gallery How's your math? If you have 240,000 "potential buyers" but only 10,000 vehicles to sell them in the fir ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.01.10
  Chevrolet Volt production officially begins today, GM auctioning first one for charity Math and science students in Detroit are the winners. Al Gore admits supporting corn ethanol subsidies was a mistake ...
• Chevrolet Volt production officially begins today, ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Chevrolet, GM, Electric First Chevrolet Volt gets built - Click above to watch the time-lapse video Want to be like Lance Armstrong and get the first available production model of one of the most eagerly-awaited vehicles of the decade? You can, if you're willing to bid ...
• AutoblogGreen for 11.30.10
  Iceland's Northern Lights Energy places order for 1,000 Amp electric SUVs The biggest order in the company's history will take five years to fulfill. Nissan Leaf nabs 2011 European Car of the Year award ...

Rafe's Radar

• Gazaro helps you get money back from Best Buy
  Post-purchase price protection tracking service is good for consumers and retailers.
• Real to announce new media organizer next week
  No longer a major player on the desktop, the media technology company plans a new cloud storage and sync tool for consumers.
• Where Stanford invents self-driving cars
  Take a tour of the automotive lab where professors, students, and industry partners come together to build projects like Stanley the self-driving SUV and the Pikes Peak Audi. Originally posted at The Car Tech b ...
• OtherInBox handles e-mail overload; knows too much
  Very useful e-mail autofiling service is the core of a scary-smart consumer behavior analysis business.
• Tripping tackles travel safety with video intervie ...
  New site helps you welcome world travelers into your home--but only after they pass a video check-in.

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’
  WikiLeaks is again publishing a trove of documents, in this case classified U.S. State Department diplomatic cables. The whistle-blower website will gradually be releasing more than 250,000 of these documents in the coming months so that they can be analyzed and gain the attention they deserve. R ...
• Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, ...
  Noam Chomsky is a Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He is author of dozens of books. His most recent is "Hopes and Prospects." Watch Part I of this conversation TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: Noam, you were continuing your prescription- your advice that ...
• The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
  Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pu ...
• Amy Goodman Interviewed on National Public Televis ...
• MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Interviews Whistleblower W ...
  Following our interview with Wendell Potter, the former chief spokesman for CIGNA, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann invited Potter on his show to discuss the health insurance industry’s attack on Michael Moore and his film SiCKO . Watch here.

Digg Green

• Pheromones a myth in mammals
  Something just didnt smell right to Richard Doty. It was 1976 when the director of the Smell and Taste Center at Penns School of Medicine first started raising a stink about the existence of pheromones.
• California approves use of pesticide linked t ...
  California regulators approved a pesticide Wednesday for use by fruit and vegetable growers despite heavy opposition from environmental and farmworker groups that cited its links to cancer.
• 1/3 of Lead Air Pollution Found in San Franci ...
  In a new study, scientists have gone a long way in underscoring the truly transient nature of pollution. They've found that about "a third of the airborne lead particles recently collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia."
• With shuttle trips ending, what to do with th ...
  The White House has called for a 10-month study of the appropriate 'role and size' of the 64-member astronaut corps after its final shuttle mission next year.
• An Even More Inconvenient Truth [w/vid]
  t’s called CAMM Worldwide. That stands for Connect A Million Minds. The project was started by Time Warner and it’s based around a simple fact: The U.S. now ranks 35th in Math and 29th in Science worldwide.

Invisible Opportunity

• The Shrink Wrapped and Processed Formica Life
  By Les Visible It seems that the most important thing we can do these days is to let go of our apprehensions. This has been especially difficult for me because on Sunday my house and car keys disappeared while, on the same day, Susanne’s car keys disappeared. This was followed by a few more striking ...
• S 510 Food Safety bill now dead in the water due t ...
  By Mike Adams It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively “new taxes” into the bill, and according to the U.S. Constitution, only the House of Representatives can initiate legislation req ...
• TSA Scanners More Dangerous Than Admitted
  Will TSA radiation scanners increase your risk of cancer or other diseases? A group of scientists and professors from the University of California at San Francisco voiced their concern to Obama’s science and technology adviser John Holdren in a well-stated letter in April.The group included experts ...
• The Green Agenda
  This is a great site for quotes on how truth doesn’t matter in the climate debate.  Click on the Green Agenda link at the bottom to see more quotes… However, certain aspects of the modern green movement that is permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the environment. You do ...
• Warren Buffett’s $600 Million INTEREST-FREE ...
  “This enormous growth of incomes at the top is not the result of market forces — there’s some market forces — but it’s largely the result of all these rules nobody knows about,” he tells Dan and Aaron in this clip.The problem starts with government subsidies, says Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• AP's Excellent Drug War Coverage: Cartel Arrests D ...
  The AP is doing crack reporting in its 'impact series' on the drug war; the latest report questions how effective drug busts on cartels really are.
• DEA Criminalization of 'Fake Marijuana' Repeats Mi ...
  We know from marijuana prohibition that law enforcement has no control over the drug market and the criminals who run it.
• DEA Criminalization of 'Fake Marijuana' K2 Repeats ...
  We know from marijuana prohibition that law enforcement has no control over the drug market and the criminals who run it.
• The Big Successes Coming out of California's Legal ...
  The drug policy reform movement showed it could unite behind a common cause.
• The Big Successes Coming out of Californaia's Lega ...
  The drug policy reform movement showed it could unite behind a common cause.

Twilight Earth

• Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
  More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...
• Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
  Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
• Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
  The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...
• Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
  Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...
• Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest
  Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...

Inhabitat

• England’s First Passive House is a Vaulted Green-R ...
  Read the rest of England’s First Passive House is a Vaulted Green-Roofed Wonderhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: clay tile green roo ...
• Eco-Greeting Card Celebrates the ‘International Ye ...
  This holiday season, send your friends and family eco-friendly New Year wishes with new greeting cards by Pöko Design. Designer Petz Scholtus created a connect-the-dots New Year card created from recycled paper and printed with vegetable ink.
• Harvard Engineering Team Working On Biogas-Powered ...
  Biogas is rapidly becoming a popular source of renewable energy, and now a team at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is investigating a method to use methane in laptop fuel cells and batteries. While methane is technically a fossil fuel (as a component of natural gas), it is also cr ...
• Seed Bomb + Slingshot Kit is an Explosive Holiday ...
  L.A.-based Commonstudio (the same folks that brought you Greenaid seedbomb vending) is offering a unique holiday gift for all ages. This 10 pack of seedbombs contains native seeds from your region and even comes with a wooden slingshot for tactical intervention. The best part? The whole kit is only ...
• COP16: Images of Climate Catastrophe the Center of ...
  Read the rest of COP16: Images of Climate Catastrophe the Center of Cancunhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cancun, cancun climate c ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Happy Holidays Songfest
  An update of David Pogue's holiday song parodies.
• The Mysteries of Naming Tech Products
  A reader wonders why some technology companies name their products with a string of incomprehensible numbers and letters.
• Is It Big Brother or Just an Algorithm?
  When Gmail tells you you've forgotten to attach something, after saying in a message that you would, is that creepy or smart?
• 10 Favorite iPhone Apps
  What's on David Pogue's iPhone? He lists his ten favorite apps and more than two dozen runner-ups.
• All Aboard an App for Suburban New York Commuters
  The OnTime app asks one question: what are the two stations of your usual commute. An efficient, time-saving and free app.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Gallery: 10 Visions of the Postnatural World
  See Also: The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space Maps: How Mankind Remade Nature Artist Builds Temple of Science Artist Wants Nuke Waste Dump to Make New Universes Brandon’s Twitter stream, reportorial outtakes and citizen-funded White Nose Syn ...
• NASA Finds New Arsenic-Based Life Form in Californ ...
  When cooking up the stuff of life, you can’t just substitute margarine for butter. Or so scientists thought. But now researchers have coaxed a microbe to build itself with arsenic in the place of phosphorus, an unprecedented substitution of one of the six essential ingredients of life. The bacteriu ...
• NASA Finds New Life Form
  By Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo Hours before its special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living on planet Earth. This changes everything. At its conference today, NASA ...
• Twinkling Stars May Reveal Human-Size Wormholes
  If wormholes big enough to fit a human or a spaceship exist, telescopes should be able to detect any wavering starlight the space-time shortcuts cause while moving in front of a distant star. Star brightness would fluctuate from a wormhole because of gravitational lensing, caused when a massive obj ...
• Dim Stars Triple the Universe’s Stellar Tally
  There are more dim bulbs in the universe than even the most hardened pessimist might have imagined. Astronomers who examined eight relatively nearby galaxies have found evidence of a surprisingly high abundance of faint, low-mass stars — each has about 10 times as many as the Milky Way. Those el ...

PakAlert

• Japan and the United States have launched their bi ...
  Japan and the United States have launched their biggest-ever joint military exercises off Japan's southern islands near South Korea amid growing tensions in the Korean Peninsula.
• The Media & Political Mind Control
  Today the realms of politics, commercial advertising, and news and entertainment media are surrounded by all methods of persuasion-techniques to make people believe either on conscious or unconscious levels. This fact, shall not come as a surprise that ‘mind control’ is a conspiracy theory orchestra ...
• US jobless claims see unexpected rise
  Applications to begin receiving unemployment benefits in the US have climbed more than forecast, indicating the labor market will need more time to improve.
• SURVIVE ANYTHING! Chapter 2: Food Crisis
  Food production is one of the most essential concerns of any society. Without direct availability and ease of consumption, without the consistent flow of agricultural goods, every nation existing today (except the most primitive) would immediately find its infrastructure crumbling and its people in ...
• War on Terror is a Fraud
  Americans are large-hearted people, hardworking problem-solvers. They created a genuine democracy capable of unifying mankind. But their politicians, big business and global warriors have ruined it. Can the Americans save their homeland?

Andy Worthington

• Lord Carlile, Discredited Advocate of Control Orde ...
  A month ago, I wrote an article exploring how fault lines were opening up in the coalition government regarding control orders, a form of house arrest, depriving alleged “terror suspects” of most of their liberties on the basis of secret evidence, and without ever being charged or tried — or, for th ...
• All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “ ...
  In one narrative of the “War on Terror,” President Bush scrapped the protections of the Geneva Conventions — including Common Article 3, which prohibits âcruel treatment and tortureâ and âoutrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.â — for prisoners at Guantána ...
• Guantánamo and the Wikileaks Documents, Including ...
  Despite numerous references to Guantánamo in the 251,287 US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, which deal largely with negotiations to rehouse cleared prisoners who could not — or cannot — be repatriated because of fears of torture or other ill-treatment in their home countries, there has bee ...
• Please Sign Petition Asking Eric Holder to Release ...
  Sign the petition here! Regular readers will know that I have been writing about the incompehensible ongoing detention of Fayiz al-Kandari, one of the last two Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, since last October, when I published a major profile of him, entitled, “Resisting Injustice In Guantánamo: The Sto ...
• The Irrelevance of Wikileaks’ Guantánamo Rev ...
  Following Wikileaks’ release of 251,287 US diplomatic cables, which has, if nothing else, revealed that secrecy and the Internet appear to be mutually incompatible, a handful of media outlets immediately picked up on references to Guantánamo — and the Obama administration’s negotiations with other ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• U.S. Weighs Disclosure Rules for Natural Gas Drill ...
  The Obama administration wants companies to reveal chemicals used in natural gas drilling on public lands.
• Pictures: Medieval Cave Tunnels Revealed as Never ...
  None3-D laser scans are revealing anew the man-made caves under Nottingham, U.K., including dungeons, secret tunnels, bowling alleys, and more.
• Top Ten Videos of 2010: Nat Geo News's Most Watche ...
  You watched, we noticed. See Nat Geo News's best videos of 2010, as measured by viewer interest—a fire tornado, a vampire squid, and more.
• Top Ten Discoveries of 2010: Nat Geo News's Most P ...
  NoneA time-bending earthquake, a fish with "hands," and "Yoda bat" are among National Geographic News's most visited coverage of 2010 discoveries.
• 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season Oddly Active
  "This was a strange, strange season," one expert says, noting that the U.S. seemed to have "hurricane repellent" during high storm activity.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Restoring America’s Awesomeness (Through Truthines ...
  Say what you will about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but they are perhaps the smartest journalists working in comedy, or the most soulful comedians working in journalism. Yes, they are wickedly funny. Yes, they make sometimes jokes best appreciated by a fourteen year-old boy. But Jesus ...
• Rell's Big Spending Bureaucratic Republican Cronyi ...
  Cementing Her Excellency, Governor M. Jodi Rell's legacy: Connected Appointee Gets Immediate Raise www.courant.com Jacqueline Mandyck of West Hartford � a political appointee of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's who had stood to lose her job as a $107,000-a-year deputy commissioner of consumer pr ...
• Thanks, Aunt Myrtle. Now, put the gun down.
  As fun as it would be to keep talking about national politics, it’s probably time to return my gimlet eyes to local politics. (Wait! one last sip: How awesome are Republicans? They may be drunk with victory, but boy, are they mean drunks! http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/gops-top-tax-guy ...
• Even Republicans Love The Pork
  Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1, of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...
• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a Mom ...
  The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan on t ...

SPL Center

• Anti-gay Activist Adds Homophobia to Airport Frisk ...
  As if travelers donât have enough to worry about when they go through airport security, the leader of a prominent anti-gay hate group has added a dollop of his personal agenda to the mix. With the controversy growing over whether the new full-body scanners and more-aggressive pat-down searches are e ...
• Violent IKA Activist Lashes Out Again
  Jarred Hensley is a white supremacist who likes to hurt people. He did prison time for it. And now he’s figured out a way to hurt people and even break a country’s laws without having to do jail time. Along the way, he’s also caused something of an international uproar on the Internet. Hensley is a ...
• Racist British National Party Relaunches American ...
  A racist organization from Great Britain that once boasted a lively U.S. presence before it was routed eight years ago is back again. The American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP) was once a serious player in white nationalist circles. The group was created in the late 1990s to raise mo ...
• Religious Right Claims Gay Advocates to Blame for ...
  More than a little rhetorical contortionism is required to follow their logic, but according to several better-known leaders of the religious right, responsibility for the recent wave of suicides of gay teens rests largely with⦠gay-rights activists. The argument goes something like this: Young hom ...
• Racist Novel Glorifying Assassination of SPLC Staf ...
  It should surprise no one that former hate group leader Kyle Bristow has self-published a white nationalist novel that features the graphic assassination of a character based on a prominent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) figure. After all, Bristow has an ax to grind with the SPLC and first attai ...

change: org.

• Ugandan Politician Behind "Kill the Gays" Bill To ...
  Amy Winehouse might have been denied a visa to enter the United States. But apparently the leading politician in Uganda working to pass a bill that would criminalize homosexuality with the death penalty or life imprisonment is allowed to walk the streets of Washington, D.C., attending an internation ...
• The World's Most Wanted Killer of 2010: Mother Nat ...
  Jess Leber is Change.org's environment editor and is writing from COP-16 in Cancun this week, where 193 nations are meeting from Nov. 29-Dec. 11 in their yearly attempt to forge a new international treaty to tackle the global warming crisis. Among the many benefits of being rich is that you c ...
• Your Local Water Supply Is On Drugs
  San Francisco's bay, rivers, and streams are brimming with drinking water, fresh seafood, and...drugs? Yes, it's true. The city's bodies of water — and most towns' waterways, for that matter — have a drug problem. Leftover pills and other medications ditched in wastebaskets or down the drain frequen ...
• Hate Crime Indictments Illustrate Discrimination's ...
  The Department of Justice quietly made civil rights history late last month, when it employed, for the first time ever, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, to indict three New Mexican men for their suspected roles in the Swastika-branding of a mentally handicapped Nati ...
• We Can Save Housing Assistance for HIV+ People
  Housing issues and a person's ability to manage their HIV go hand in hand. How can people who are homeless or who are struggling to pay rent be expected to manage a chronic disease that involves taking numerous medications several times a day? How can they also eat healthy meals, exercise regularly, ...

Common Dreams -News

• America Needs Real Net Neutrality, Not a False Pro ...
  by John NicholsWhen Barack Obama was running for president, he made Net Neutrality an issue -- pledging to defend the core values of a free and open Internet by assuring that all Americans would have equal access to all websites and to all the promise of this digital age.read more
• The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in Pakistan
  by Jeremy ScahillDespite sustained denials by US officials spanning more than a year, US military Special Operations Forces have been conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan, helping direct US drone strikes and conducting joint operations with Pakistani forces against al Qaeda and Taliba ...
• Hamas Would Honor Referendum on Peace with Israel
  by Nidal al-MughrabiThe Islamist Hamas movement, whose charter advocates the elimination of Israel, would accept the outcome of a Palestinian referendum on a future peace treaty with the Jewish state, its Gaza leader said on Wednesday.Ismail Haniyeh, addressing a rare news conference in the Israeli- ...
• WikiLeaks: Blackwater Was Planning to Hunt Pirates
  by Secret State Department cables reveal that U.S. diplomats were confused over whether they should help the American company Blackwater hunt pirates on the high seas.read more
• Lawyer: Assange is Being Persecuted in Sweden
  LONDON -- The lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that the decision to add the 39-year-old Australian to Interpol's most wanted list shows that his client is being persecuted.Media lawyer Mark Stephens says Assange and his attorneys have not been provided with any information beyond wh ...

Lifehacker

• Chrome to Windows Phone 7 Pushes Links to Windows ...
  Chrome/Windows Phone 7: Got a new-fangled Windows Phone 7 model? Use Chrome as your main browser? Push web pages and copied text from your big-screen system to your mobile device with one click after installing this Chrome extension. More�� ...
• How to Set Up Your Android for Automated Wi-Fi Syn ...
  The AirSync upgrade to doubleTwist and its Android app is really cool—press a button, and music, pictures, and videos sync across Wi-Fi. You can move past the button, though, and have your Android sync everything wirelessly on a regular schedu ...
• Corkboard.me is a Simple, Shareable Sticky Notes W ...
  Corkboard.me is a simple and handy webapp that creates a virtual corkboard of sticky notes. Changes are saved to your personal, auto-generated URL, letting you share your corkboard with anyone. More��
• MacPromo Bundle Brings 10 Time-Saving Apps to Your ...
  Just like the ever-popular MacHeist bundles, MacPromo has just released a bundle of ten productivity apps for the heavily discounted price of $50, including the very popular PathFinder Finder replacement. More��
• The Best Things to Buy in December [Buying Guide]
  In a way, December is the month in which everything is nominally "on sale." But what's really discounted and worth buying, if you're not just buying gifts? These are the items that tend to be cheaper in this cold, cheery month. More�� ...

Water Privatization

• Regulator cites need to control Angat dam
  State-owned Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) on Tuesday stressed the urgent need to control operations of the Angat Dam, including its power component, to help protect and secure water supply in Metro Manila and neighboring towns.
• Selangor MB: Withdraw Syabas License
  SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.
• Council candidate DeSisto outlines his plan for Ta ...
  Tony DiSisto , a candidate for the District 4 City Council seat that represents south Tampa, is campaigning on a 10-point "Tampa Plan." In it, he offers his positions on such topics as the budget, job creation, roads, water management, downtown and culture. In a news release DeSisto e-mailed with hi ...
• Should BN hold the General Election in the early p ...
  SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.
• Union, peasant leaders gunned down; bishops condem ...
  With the toll from extrajudicial killings (EJKs) reaching 22 under President Aquino's term by the count of local human rights group Karapatan, Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano filed two resolutions urging the House of Representatives to probe the cases of the two latest victims.

Guardian

• WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company w ...
  Everydns.net says attack against leaks site endangered other customers' service � effectively pushing site off the webThe US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively "killing" its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following ...
• Snow continues to grip Britain
  Alexandra Topping and Peter Walker with all the latest weather news from around the country as freezing temperatures continue12.38pm: Rail round-up from Dan 'Don't Stop Movin' MilmoThe rail picture remains grim, the Association of Train Operating Companies admitted this morning. Freezing overnight t ...
• US and Japan begin military exercise
  Operation Keen Sword under way as Seoul warns provocation by North Korea will be met with forceJapan and the US began their biggest-ever joint military exercise today, as South Korea warned it would carry out air strikes against North Korea if the regime repeated its attack on Yeonpyeong.Kim Kwan-ji ...
• Schools should offer 'childcare GCSE'
  Schools should also offer a GCSE-level qualification in taking care of children, Labour MP recommends to governmentAll new mothers and fathers should have parenting classes, Frank Field proposed today in a new report for David Cameron.Schools should also offer a qualification "at GCSE level" in taki ...
• Woolas loses court bid to remain MP
  High court rejects former Labour immigration minister's attempts to contest election court ruling he can no longer sit as MP because he made false statements about Lib Dem opponentPhil Woolas, the former Labour immigration minister, has lost his bid to overturn the court decision removing him from p ...

McClatchey

• Texas tops nation in gun silencer sales
  Glen Furtardo knows a good buy when he sees one.
• Napolitano says DREAM Act would aid 'criminals-fir ...
  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano lobbied for the DREAM Act Thursday saying immigration enforcement will be improved if Congress approves the bill that would legalize hundreds of thousands of undocumented students brought here illegally by their parents when they were childr ...
• Veteran accused of Westboro Church stalking faces ...
  Ryan Newell is "Army to the bone," friends and family say of the decorated military veteran who joined the service at 17, lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan and now stands accused of stalking members of a controversial Topeka church.
• NASA scientists find microbes with arsenic in thei ...
  The NASA announcement created an enormous Internet buzz: The space agency was going to reveal Thursday "an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."
• Federal loan program aided California's pension fu ...
  CalPERS was among the big winners in an obscure Federal Reserve loan program aimed at rescuing the nation's troubled credit markets last year.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• A healthy argument for biodiversity
  An apple a day might not keep the doctor away... but if an article in this week's Nature is correct, a little bit of biodiversity might be the trick. The link between biodiversity and health is a topic we've been into previously on this blog - almost two years ago, in fact. That concerned a paper sh ...
• Four degrees of hurt
  It's possible, with the right kind of lighting, to see the ongoing UN climate negotiations as some kind of sealed-in world where Alice in Wonderland logic holds sway. In this world, with the right amount of political will and political acuity, decisions are going to be made that will keep temperatu ...
• Turning animal magic into money
  If you're planning to come to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, don't bring a hunger for bluefin tuna with you; you'll be disappointed. London's Olympic Committee is one of a number of authorities and businesses that have just pledged to play no part in the marketing of bluefin "until the fishery is ...
• China hints at new climate future
  At a recent meeting in Tianjin, there's been intriguing discussion about where the host country, China, is going on climate change. And where it's going is, it seems, towards national legislation to restrict the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. This national law is likely to emerge as part of th ...
• All eyes on France, as tuna wars loom
  Paris and Brussels are presently seeing skirmishes over the fate of what's become the oceans' most iconic creature - the Atlantic bluefin tuna. � This week and next, the French capital hosts the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) - the org ...

The Wonk Room

• Three Tax Ideas That The Debt Commission Left On T ...
  Yesterday, President Obama’s fiscal commission released its final report, which the full commission will vote on tomorrow. The report needs to receive approval from 14 of the 18 commission members to move forward, and thus far nine have said that they will vote in favor of it (the co-chairs, Erskine ...
• DHS Sec. Napolitano: ‘DREAM Act Will Help Us ...
  Today, the White House hosted a conference call with Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano to discuss the DREAM Act. Napolitano, a former border governor, declared that the DREAM Act will actually help DHS enforce the law. According to Napolitano, though the DREAM Act is “not a subst ...
• McCain Exudes Grumpiness At DADT Hearing
  Since President Obama announced his intent to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in this year’s State of the Union Address, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who had previously said that he was open to considering repeal if the military carefully studied the consequences of such a policy change– has vocally oppos ...
• Top Economics Textbook Gets Climate Science And Po ...
  The most popular economics textbook in the United States gives a misleading picture of climate science and policy. A new analysis by economist Yoram Bauman for the Sightline Institute criticizes Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies by Campbell McConnell, Stanley Brue, and Sean Flynn, its 18 ...
• The DADT Hearings In Six Minutes: GOP Talking Poin ...
  This morning, during a hearing about the impact of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and the co-chairmen of the Pentagon’s Working Group study of the policy effectively pushed bac ...

thwap's schoolyard

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Pete Tucker calls on President Obama to pardon Bra ...
  Pete Tucker is a journalist for TheFightBack.org and WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C.'s Pacifica Radio station. This week, he called on President Barack Obama to pardon tax whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. "In addition to a turkey, Obama should pardon a whistleblower this holiday season," Tucker says. H ...
• Charlotte Yee blogs on WPEA problems
  Charlotte Yee worked for the U.S. Department of Labor for twenty (20) years. During her last five years, she served as a manager and a whistleblower against waste, fraud and discrimination.  She was physically attacked by her boss and eventually left federal service for her own safety. Now she is a ...
• Food safety bill will create new whistleblower pro ...
  Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), S. 510. It passed with strong bipartisan support.� The final vote was 73 to 25. My friend Jason Zuckerman has written a detailed analysis of FSMA's new whistleblower protection. Those who need the details about the scope ...
• Father of UBS Whistleblower Makes Personal Thanksg ...
  Today, Ronald Birkenfeld, father of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, made a personal Thanksgiving Day appeal to President Barack Obama for his son to be released from prison. In his letter to the President Mr. Birkenfeld stated, "His separation from his loved ones is extremely painful to our ...
• NWC hosts international visitors
  On November 19, 2010, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) hosted a visit by Middle Eastern officials as part of the State Department's Transparency in Government project for the Near East. The program offered a view of the role of citizens, media and private non-profit advocacy in fostering t ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Wikileaks Says Its Site Has Been 'Killed'
  This is definitely a "developing" story, but apparently the entire Wikileaks.org site has gone down again and the Wikileaks folks are claiming that the domain was "killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks." That's a bit cryptic and Wikileaks has not been above jumping to conclusions at ...
• If Your Company Has A Chief Digital Officer, You'r ...
  Nearly five years ago, we warned that media companies were making a big mistake in hiring "Chief Digital Officers." The problem is that, these days, especially in the media world, thinking digitally isn't a separate silo or a separate job function. It needs to be the thinking throughout the organi ...
• Lieberman Introduces New Censorship Bill In Kneeje ...
  With Amazon dumping Wikileaks due to pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, it seems to have only emboldened Lieberman to shred more of the First Amendment he's supposed to be protecting. First, he has continued pressuring other companies to not host Wikileaks content. This has resulted in Tableau S ...
• DailyDirt: Somewhat Alien Life And Outer Space
  The rumors had it all wrong. Nobody discovered a new lifeform on a different planet or moon -- but a new bacteria was found in California. (Why are all the alternative lifestyles living in California?) Just when everyone thinks we know how nature works, nature throws us a few curve balls. Keeps ...
• Google Won't Recommend Most Popular Searches If It ...
  In the last few months, there's been a growing movement by the entertainment industry to blame Google for "piracy." One of the favorite talking points is the claim that Google is "profiting from piracy," by linking people to sites that point people to unauthorized infringing copies of content, and ...

VacTruth

• Possible 400 Dead as UK Government Betrays Parents ...
  Toddlers are to be inoculated against six diseases at once in a bid to boost vaccination rates. Recently uncovered evidence suggests as many as 400 children have died from a vaccine and 21,000 experienced an adverse reaction in the UK alone.
• How Government and Pharmaceutical Companies Gamble ...
  After a high number of dangerous vaccine reactions, these vaccines were pulled from a recent vaccine campaign.
• GlaxoSmithKline Influences Experts To Boost HPV Va ...
  By financing cancer research experts and support groups they can manipulate the market to benefit themselves. GSK is financially influencing experts in attempts to change current medical practices and diagnostics in the early detection of cervical cancer.
• Colorado State University Plans to Mass Vaccinate ...
  Colorado State University is holding a vaccine clinic with the intent of vaccinating a student body, possibly over 10,000 students due to another death from meningococcal septicaemia. The irony is the student was a recipient of the vaccine and was supposed to be protected.
• Glaxo Smith Kline Brainwashed Doctors About HPV Va ...
  In June 2008 a promotional DVD was sent to every General Practitioner (G.P.) in the UK just hours before the launch of the Cervarix vaccine in the UK. The DVD was posted with the G.P. magazine and was a clever marketing strategy aimed at busy G.P.'s to 'brainwash' them into believing that the Cervar ...

BroadSnark

• Feminism or the Highway?
  Is feminism the only banner under which people can fight patriarchy, or better yet, kyriarchy? Is any act performed with the goal of ending gender oppression automatically feminist? Even if the people doing it don’t identify with feminism?  Even if feminism has consistently slapped them in the face ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Just finished on Thinking Liberty.  Not sure when the podcast will be up.  Love to hear what you think. Related to the discussion gendered caregiving roles, here is a post about how it is harder for an immigrant child to gain citizenship if it is her father, rather than mother, who is a citizen. And ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  If you live in the DC area, we will be having a really free market on Tuesday, December 14th from 7 PM to 10 PM at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW, Wash DC. This Tuesday, November 30th, it looks like I’ll be on Thinking Liberty at a little after 8 PM U.S. eastern standard [...]
• Are all Johns (and Janes) the Same?
  Last Tuesday I linked to an article that really bugged me, but I hadnât quite put my finger on all the reasons why.  It was about a brothel for women that is opening in New Zealand.  The author of the article was predicting that the brothel would be a failure because women “have to be [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Apologies for missing my Thursday post.  I’ll make it up to you. You may have heard that there was a protest in Haiti.  UN peacekeepers are being blamed for the Cholera outbreak that has killed more than 900 people.  What a clusterfuck.  And the media reporting has been hideous. Also a clusterfu ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Webcast: After Tuesday: Last Chance To Av ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 45-46
• LPAC-TV Interview with Sam Vaknin: Obama Is a Mali ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 45-46
• A Call for Resistance to `Fiscal' Fascism, Automat ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 45-46
• Rand Paul's Fascism, for Example: `The Destruction ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 45-46
• Leading Italian Paper: LaRouche's Proposal or Glas ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

• The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
  As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
• بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
  مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
• السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
  اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙØµØ ÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت ÙÙ Ø Ø±Ø¨ Ù…Ù Ø Ø±Ùب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
• Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
  Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
• Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
  Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
• By: Gina
  It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...
• By: Elissa
  I am finding it very difficult to grasp how few(no) people are on here discussing this with great concern and passion for changing it. This entire subject has taken me by storm.

treehugger

• "Operation Monkey" Aims to Kill Marauding Primates
  Photo: jinterwas / CC They're a roving band of macaques who've made a habit of treating crops in northern India as their own private buffet, making more than a few enemies in the process. Now, a militia of fed-up farmers has been formed to put an end to primates' marauding ways, in an effort the ...
• GOP Kills the House Climate Change Committee
  Photo: laszlo-photo, Flickr, CC Given the ideologically polarized state of US politics, it should come as no surprise that in the wake of the party's major victory in the midterm elections, the GOP is closing down the committee designed to address climate change. It's not surprising, no -- reme ...
• Air Pollution Raises Obesity Risk For Young Animal ...
  photo: Eddy Van 3000/Creative Commons Now this research concerns itself with non-human animals (mice specifically), but it does provide interesting insight into the non-diet factors which may be at play in soaring obesity rates and the way environmental pollution influences development: A new s ...
• Amazon Deforestation Rate is the Lowest in Decades
  Photo: Stephen Messenger Over the past several years, the Brazilian government has been tackling deforestation in the Amazon with vigor, and it seems all their efforts are paying off. In an announcement made today, Brazil confirmed that the rate of forest loss over the last year represents the l ...
• Polar Bear Mothers Spotted Swimming With Their Cub ...
  Photo credit: Polar Cruises/Creative Commons In the Arctic, polar bears have recently been observed swimming in icy water while carrying young cubs on their backs. It's the result, researchers explained, of having to swim greater distances to find solid sea ice—and is an innovation that may be ...

Biosingularity

• Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
  In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do ...
• Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
  By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t human ...
• Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
  If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, a d ...
• A SNP Surprise
  Ellen Goode and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found a surprise while studying the human genome: four chromosomal locations with mutations that could lead to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. But the biggest surprise was a number of SNPs on chromosome 8 that seem to act through a different mec ...
• The dark side of oxytocin, much more than just a “ ...
  There’s a chemical that can subtly shift your childhood memories of your own mother. In some people, it paints mum in a more saintly light, making them remember her as closer and more caring. In others, the chemical has a darker influence, casting mum as a less caring and more distant parent. All of ...

CFACT

• No bright prospects for deadlocked treaty
  Prospects are not very bright for proponents of a new climate treaty. A wide gulf persists between rich and poor nations which threatens to keep negotiations deadlocked.
• Exclusive CFACT interview: UN climate chief Pachau ...
  In Cancun, Mexico for the UN Climate Change Conference, CFACT interviewed IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri and questioned him about the lack of any global warming over the past 15 years.
• From Cancun: Leadership is the courage to say no
  With any luck COP 16 will be the last UN sponsored climate conference, and we can all just go home, and focus on what really matters - working towards a better future for all of us - including the future of the least fortunate among us.
• Climate sanity comes to Canada
  On Tuesday November 17th, a little sanity came to the Parliament of Canada. The Canadian Senate killed the NDP sponsored Bill C-311, “The Climate Change Accountability Act.â€Â
• Muddy rivers: Don't blame farmers
  Continuous research and innovation has made today̢۪s farmers the most sustainable in history. Their high crop yields mean they need to farm less cropland to supply food demands. No-till farming reduces soil erosion dramatically. But don̢۪t expect to see crystal clear rivers in good farming count ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• Comfy Trees
  The severe frost which hit Moscow this week with temperatures 10 degrees Celsius lower than normal does not threaten the trees, an expert with the local environment protection department said.
• Medvedev congratulates Russian fans on victory in ...
  President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Russian fans on Russia’s victory in the bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
• Tajikistan concerned over decision to withdraw ant ...
  Tajikistan is concerned over the decision to gradually withdraw anti-terrorist coalition forces from Afghanistan in the coming years, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon said on Friday.
• Rally to protect polar bears to be held in Moscow
  A rally against the Kremlin's plans to legalize the killing of polar bears will be held in Moscow on Saturday.
• Russian Trebs, Titov deposits may require $5-6 bln ...
  The development of the large Trebs and Titov deposits, the license for which Russia's mid-sized Bashneft oil company received earlier this week, may require investment of $5-6 billion, Bashneft Board Member David Yakobashvili quoted expert estimates as saying on Friday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Roscosmos, NASA to seal deal on joint projects
  Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, and NASA are to sign a protocol on joint projects in manned and unmanned space travel, the Russian agency's head, Alexei Perminov, said on Wednesday.
• Ariane-5 puts into orbit 2 communication satellite ...
  The Ariane 5 carrier rocket launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana late on Friday delivered its dual-satellite payload into orbit, the Arianespace satellite launch firm said.
• Soyuz spacecraft to deliver New Year gifts to ISS
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft will bring New Year presents to the International Space Station (ISS), commander Dmitry Kondratyev said on Friday.
• Russia's Binnopharm and GSK to cooperate in vaccin ...
  Russian pharmaceutical company Binnopharm and GlaxoSmithKline will sign an agreement on Friday on transferring technologies and antigen supplies to produce innovative vaccines in Russia, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said.
• Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan
  The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with a crew of three landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday morning, the Mission Control Center said.

Pruning Shears

• Shutting down the Internet, once seizure at a time
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postLast Friday, deep in the middle of a long holiday weekend, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized dozens of web sites. The full list is here, and a common reaction m ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Also see Jim White on the strange dance of Pakistan officially insisting none of this is going on. Corrosively cynical comment omitted.Combat ...
• Make hay while the sun shines
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’ve been blogging for just about three and a half years now, and in the last week or so I have finally seen some movement on the subject of my very first blog post: an appeal for principled conservatives to push back on the civil li ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The drone attacks may not even be legal. If they are not, they may be war crimes. With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the alternative to cal ...
• Tracking the new financial WMDs
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Blogger George Washington (emph. in orig.): Remember, credit default swaps didn’t bring down the economy because they are toxic while all other financial vehicles are pure as the driven snow. CDS brought down the economy because they ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Food Safety Bill, Just Passed in Senate, in Jeopar ...
  Hours after celebrating a rare moment of bipartisanship that saw the Senate pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food safety laws, congressional backers of the legislation realized that it has a potentially fatal technical flaw and that they may not have time to fix it.Click here to read this ar ...
• Climate Change & the Food System
  What is simultaneously one of the greatest contributors to climate change and one of its greatest potential solutions? Believe it or not, it's how we farm and eat. Indeed, food and climate change are inextricably linked. The same global food system that is making us sick, increasing food insecuri ...
• Cancun Can't Last as Long as Mangroves, Can Humani ...
  Cancun, billed as a tropical beach paradise, resembles nothing so much as a waterfront Las Vegas. Casinos, cruise ships and U.S. hotel and restaurant chains have replaced the mangrove forests and threaten to destroy the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, along with the sea life that inhabited these once thr ...
• Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century by ...
  Climate Stabilization requires a Cultural and Political Revolution.Click here to read this article
• The Road to Cancún: Good News on the Climate Crisi ...
  What we are witnessing today, here and everywhere, is the embryonic formation of a New Climate Internationale - farmers, workers, indigenous people, students, and consumers uniting to save the Earth from catastrophic global warming. What we are demonstrating on hundreds of thousands of organic farms ...

fotoFrontera

• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXVII
  Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ent ...
• Fotografías de perros I (10 caninos muy tiernos en ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Quizás también le interese: *Los mejores amigos del hombre y de la mujer también (20 fotos) HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el ...
• Fotografías de comida I (platillos con embutidos)
  Le aseguro que se le hará agua la boca cuando vea estas fotografías de comida. Las frutas, los embutidos y los vinos de mesa, serán los protagonistas de esta rica historia visual. No olvide explorar, disfrutar y compartir nuestros recursos.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver tod ...
• Trenes y locomotoras II (enormes caballos de hierr ...
  Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo para ver más fotos de trenes. [1][2]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes ...
• Las mejores imágenes del mundo parte II (9 fotos)
  Cada día son más y más las personas que buscan en Internet las mejores imágenes del mundo. En el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas lo sabemos y por eso mismo tenemos para usted la segunda parte de esta maravillosa colección que reúne la crema y nata de la fotografía digital. Quizás también le interese... ...

Center for a Livable Future

• CDC responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance testi ...
  The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, confirms that the CDC “feels there is strong scientific evidence of a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans.” Frieden offered the CDC’s position in his response to a lette ...
• JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
  Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
• Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
  While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
• Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
  How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...
• Childhood obesity may have leveled off, but dispar ...
  A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at obesity rates in adolescents comparing income groups and gender in the years, 2001-2007. What they found was potentially alarming. This study reveals that when comparing adolescents under the poverty line (<100% of poverty) ...

Norwegianity

• How much do I hate UPS?
  Let me count the ways: They’ve raised their overnight letter prices to $25 You still have to enter your own data on their ridiculously small standard keyboards on a friggin’ PC If the recipient calls you on Thursday to say they didn’t get the envelope on Tuesday, you cannot follow up without your tr ...
• Massive D
  The corporate media has been touting a study from the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine that downplays the importance of Vitamin D supplements.  Of course they did. Big Pharma doesn’t “own” Vitamin D, therefore doctors should be discouraged from recommending it. Six to eight hundr ...
• Close call
  The links folder was starting to bulge with stories I really felt like sharing and so I started looking at RSS feeds and started adding more links. Then I came to this from Andy Birkey: Bradlee Dean: Keith Ellison is advancing Sharia law through ‘homosexual agenda’ At that point I backed away from t ...
• Kindle calling
  So yeah, about the blog. I’m just not feeling very bloggy lately. I blame the Kindle. Instead of reading with my right eye and fueling my emotional left brain, I’m reading with my left eye now which feeds my rational self and, rationally speaking, I ain’t got squat to blog about. Sure I could rant, ...
• Post turkeytude
  Fleeing early proved wise. I missed the nasty ice storm and it was all salted away before I got home. I tried my best to spread joy and happiness wherever I traveled. In Wilmot that meant zipping through an awesome $70 Three Floyds assortment (Broo Doo, Dreadnaught, Arctic Panzer Wolf) on Wednesday ...

Public News Service

• Pioneering Pair of AZ Schools Take "Green" Matters ...
  Pioneering Pair of AZ Schools Take "Green" Matters into Their Own Hands Phoenix, AZ – Hundreds of Arizona K-12 students are taking part in a program called Eco-Schools which involves projects like recycling, planting and energy reduction in schools. The program is free and is being hosted in the Un ...
• 2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family& ...
  2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family” Phoenix, AZ - Many families looking to adopt children are going overseas to places like Russia to find children. Meanwhile, Arizona has 2,500 children in the foster care system waiting for a “forever family.” Comments from Sarah Melick, adoption specialis ...
• Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...an ...
  Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...and Their Disappearance Phoenix, AZ – The number of small town grocery stores is declining in Arizona, as they compete with superstores in the state's larger cities and shopper attitudes change. But it's a change in the landscape that isn't healthy for ...
• CDC’s ‘Get Smart Week’ Aims to O ...
  CDC’s ‘Get Smart Week’ Aims to Outsmart Bacteria Phoenix, AZ – Arizona has recently joined the list of states that are home to a type of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia (Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase), only existent in one state in 2001. That fact is part of this week’s “Get Smart About Antibio ...
• AZ Gets Ready for the Great American Smokeout
  AZ Gets Ready for the Great American Smokeout Phoenix, AZ – The American Cancer Society’s 35th annual Great American Smokeout is this Thursday, November 18. There are compelling health reasons to quit smoking, and there’s plenty of help available. More than 36 million Americans still smoke daily, an ...

Center for Food Safety

• Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
  Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...
• Senate Passes Landmark Food Safety Legislation
  Center for Food Safety Applauds New Power for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment Seen as a Win for Small, Local Food Producers and Processors, Consumers The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passing of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) in the U.S. Senate.  The bill which passed the Sen ...
• Public Says No To Transgenic Fish, Demands Mandato ...
  Nearly 400,000 Citizens Send Letters to FDA Demanding Labeling of GE Fish COMMENTS CITE MATERIAL CHANGES, AS WELL AS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS As the comment period on the labeling of a controversial genetically engineered salmon came to a close yesterday, the Center for Food Safety ...
• USDA Proposing Interim Planting of Illegal, Geneti ...
  In August, a Federal court ruled that USDA’s approval of genetically engineered (GE), “Roundup Ready” sugar beets was unlawful, concluding that USDA had failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the impacts of this crop on farmers and the environment, such as the biological contamination of non-GE c ...
• Coalition Reveals Immense Opposition To Transgenic ...
  As Comment Period on Approval and Labeling Winds Down More than 360,000 Send Comments to FDA Demanding Action on GE Fish A coalition of consumer, environmental and animal welfare groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers, grocers and chefs held a joint ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Do we live in a dictatorship? � DPAC
  Do we live in a dictatorship? � DPAC: "I always understood that one of the most important characteristics of a liberal democratic state was that it’s government ruled with the consent of its citizens, and without such consent it became a dictatorship. In recent weeks there have …been successive prot ...
• Viola Wilkins: Max Watts 1928-2010
  Max Watts 1928-2010 by jessie boylan Max Watts, who became a well-known personality on the left in Australia, particularly in Sydney, died on November 23. Max was a left-wing freelance journalist, and a solidarity activist with many national liberation struggles including those of Palestine, Ka ...
• Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize ...
  Recordings of Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Digitized by Hoover Archives | Hoover Institution The sound recordings of Rigoberta Menchú that formed the basis of her autobiographical book, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (London: Verso, 1983), compiled by Elisabeth B ...
• The tragic case of the Scott sisters
  The tragic case of the Scott sisters [workers.org] By Monica Moorehead Published Apr 29, 2010 8:21 PM Anyone who still believes that the U.S. is the most democratic and just country in the world has only to examine the shocking case of the Scott sisters to be disabused of that erroneous noti ...
• A. Jay Adler: A Proper Apology to Native America
  A Proper Apology to Native America [sadredearth.com] Though I have been advocating for a few years now an annual day of remembrance of the crimes against Native America, to coincide in historically instructive fashion with Columbus Day, Thanksgiving is, for what should be obvious reasons, a good tim ...

Pensieve

• President Lobo vs. Free Speech
  President Lobo is threatening to deny naturalized Hondurans their citizenship if they oppose him. He is twisting the Honduran constitution to do this. This is the article he is citing, which on the surface looks reasonable: âARTICLE 32: Foreigners cannot perform in the country international or nat ...
• Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of Peac ...
  Too often we are desensitized to the brutality of war. We are tempted to think that we couldn’t function if we let the pain of the world into our lives. But we shouldn’t forget that in the midst of the worst pain, there can be hope. This message by a survivor of war in Iraq [...] Related posts:Whe ...
• Monetary Crisis Video
  With the US printing money and calling it “quantitative easing”, this video is even more ironic. The US is doing precisely what they were condemning the Chinese for last week, and we all lose from it. But at least it’s catchy. Let’s toast some marshmallows as Rome burns. Like the previous one, this ...
• TSA Patdowns, Animated in Taiwan
  In their now traditional irreverent style, animators in Taiwan’s Next Media Animation explain the completely insane new travel laws. I’m glad that when I go to the US these days, either I drive, or I ride a bus. Related posts:They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha! Immigration Only a Dream Schadenfr ...
• Freedom
  Photo by Glen’s Pics These are lyrics that came to me this morning as I was struggling through the paradox of being a “slave to righteousness” versus a slave to sin. Being “slaves” of God is not true slavery, because when we submit to him, he sets us free to do much more than we [...] Related post ...

Green Times

• Don’t be a tosser
  Recycle (directory/categories/Recycling), recycle, recycle! We can’t say it enough. City councils offer bins and facilities to help your separate your waste. So don’t be a tosser! Recycle! Photo by: Manja Louman  
• Surfing Green
  Being one with the waves! Such an amazing feeling… Make sure you keep our oceans and beaches beautiful! So you can enjoy being one with nature. Surfing is also a great way to exercise without feeling that you are exercising. And surf brands are helping in protecting the environment, read our articl ...
• Environmental News 26/11/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 25/11/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• YikeBike
      Grant Ryan – the inventor – gives a presentation at a TED: Ideas Worth Spreading event about maybe the coolest bike you’ve ever seen! The YikeBike is an electric bike (glossary/categories/technology/electric-bike.html) which you can easily fold up. It’s safe, fast and you can ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• US mercenary firms hired Afghan 'dancing boys', Wi ...
  ShareThisUS mercenary firms hired Afghan 'dancing boys', WikiLeaks cable reveals 02 Dec 2010 A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minis ...
• EU Limits On Information Sharing Hinder Air Securi ...
  ShareThisEU Limits On Information Sharing Hinder Air Security - US Officials 02 Dec 2010 European restrictions on the sharing of passenger data among security agencies pose a key challenge to improving airline security in the wake of two thwarted terrorist attacks, U.S. aviation security officials s ...
• House passes tax-cut extension
  ShareThisHouse passes tax-cut extension 02 Dec 2010 As the White House [surrendered to its GOP overlords as usual] and congressional leaders negotiated over extending the Bush era tax cuts, the House Thursday voted to extend the majority of them, continuing tax rates for lower- and middle-income Ame ...
• WikiLeaks' site back with Swiss name after cyber a ...
  ShareThisWikiLeaks' site back with Swiss name after cyber attacks 02 Dec 2010 Whistleblower website WikiLeaks came back online with a Swiss name on Friday around six hours after its wikileaks.org domain name was shut down because it was suffering massive cyber attacks. "WikiLeaks moves to Switzerlan ...
• Wikileaks' DNS pulls plug, citing collateral DDoS ...
  ShareThisWikileaks' DNS pulls plug, citing collateral DDoS damage 03 Dec 2010 Domain name provider EveryDNS has pulled the plug on Wikileaks after giving the site 24 hours' notice that it could not put up with the denial of service attacks the site was attracting. The DNS provider said that it had s ...

Daily Loaf

• Bruins brutalize Bolts 8-1
  Tampa Bay found itself on the bad end of an ugly hockey game, losing to the Boston Bruins by a demoralizing 8-1 final score.
• Do It This Weekend: Fused, Superchunk at Czar, Ma ...
  Superchunk headlines Skatepark of Tampa’s Tampa Am 18-Year Anniversary Party, free great local rock at Jannus, Mambo FICS' Mambo No. 8 fiesta, Fused at Silver Meteor Jobsite's rocking fundraiser at New World Brewery.
• City Council Chair Thomas Scott clarifies quote re ...
  I have to admit to getting my dander up when hearing the accusation that I had somehow misquoted the chairman, when I absolutely quoted him verbatim from our exchange, transcribed from our recorded interview.
• Tampa Bay area live music weekend: Matt Butcher, J ...
  Great music is happening all over town over the next four days and you’re wondering, “What should I choose?” Look no further. Everything you need to know is right here beginning with today. Wanna take a look beyond this weekend? Check out our Upcoming Concerts page. Thursday, December 2 Matt Butc ...
• Top Chef Podcast – All-Stars Ep. 1: Back in the sa ...
  Hear the hilariously irreverent new episode of the Top Chef Podcast where we kvetch about Top Chef All-Stars.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Correction to the disclaimer, and Happy Hanukkah
  By Jesse Bacon On Tuesday, I posted about a free documentary screening. I then edited that post when I learned that the film received Israeli government funding. I provided the disclaimer for folks who are observing the full cultural boycott of Israel, (which my sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace is not ...
• Free documentary on Israeli women soldiers; UPDATE ...
  Check out Link Tv’s Doc Debut feature,where you can watch the entire one hour film,  To See if I am Smiling Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In the award-winning documentary To See If I Am Smiling, the frank testimonials ...
• Midnight raids continue, father of three taken fro ...
  From the Palestine Solidarity Project Early Thursday morning, at approximately 2:00am, Israeli forces from the Gush Etzion military base came to the homes of brothers and National Committee members Yousef and Mousa Abu Maria. Both are also co-founders of the Palestine Solidarity Project. Mousa, whos ...
• Wave of Israeli demolitions culminates in destroyi ...
  Here is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank). Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though in practise, all of the Palestinian territor ...
• Pay cheap, buy local: Israeli farmers strike for m ...
  By Audrey Farber One great thing about Israel is that all the produce comes from nearby â whether Israeli territory or Palestinian territory or Syrian territory or Bedouin lands (I am trying very hard to abstain from political opining regarding where farmlands may or may not lie, but that is inh ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Cheshire home invasion killer says please kill me
  Steven Hayes was sentenced to death today for his role in a horrific home invasion in Chesire CT in 2007 which stunned even hardened homicide and sex crime detectives with its appalling savagery. His sentence was mandatory, so he wasn’t trying to get off with a lesser sentence when he said: “I destr ...
• Spain consortium to build world’s largest wind tur ...
  Each turbine will output a whopping 15 MW, enough to power 10,000-15,000 thousand homes. Wow. The project, named Azimut, finds Gamesa working with 11 other wind and engineering firms as well as 22 research centers. The supermassive turbine is rumoured to cost $33.3 million and it will be built using ...
• Sarah Shroud sings song to her still-jailed friend ...
  One of the captives is her fiancée. “In prison, it became a lifeline for me. Singing got me out of my cell. It was a way to connect with my past, present and future,” she said. “My greatest hope is that Shane and Josh can be in my next video.”
• Madoff trustee sues JP Morgan for “enabling” fraud
  The trustee seeks $6.4 billion in damages. Seeing JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon do a perp walk would be an added bonus. But let’s not forget that Obama and Dimon are buddies from way back in the Chicago days when they were both coming up.
• Democratic governor. Democrats are elitist and gut ...
  Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland Democrats suffer from an “intellectual elitism” that prevents them from adopting the type of populist tone to relate to voters, he said. And while President Obama had made a series of monumental legislative advancements — any one of which would have been “historic” in its ow ...

Coteret

• Yediot: “Security establishment” warns ...
  This appears to be a General Security Service (GSS) leak: The scenario that the security establishment is preparing for is threatening. The scenario envisions the security prisoners launching a hunger strike, setting fire to their cells, trying attack the guards, severing all contact with the prison ...
• Maariv “exclusive”: Israel and Brazil sign major s ...
  This appears to be a major agreement: Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Security in the Defense Ministry Amir Kain signed the historic agreement for security cooperation between the two countries a few days ago.  Brazil’s intelligence affairs minister signed the agreement on the Brazilian sid ...
• Maariv runs some scary gossip on Bibi and “the Bos ...
  Last night, Channel Ten TV News’s Raviv Drucker exposed a letter written to Benyamin Netanyahu in early 2009. The author, one Yisrael Yagel, a former executive in Netanyahu’s 2008 election campaign, penned an indictment of the Prime Minister’s management style, with particular emphasis on the role a ...
• Maariv: Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-P ...
  The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul. The full translation of his report is at the bottom of the post, a ...
• Yediot’s defense analyst on the looming US-Israel ...
  Read this one in full. Alex Fishman is Yediot’s veteran defense analyst. Besides providing a detailed post-mortem of the latest fiasco in US-Israeli diplomacy, he makes a very blunt allegation: Netanyahu is selling out the IDF’s self-defined strategic interests and the good will of the US administra ...

Deadline Live

• Proof That Bomb Sniffing Dogs Are More Efficient T ...
• “This Is A Wholesale Stop & Search!” C ...
• Canadian Television Considered A Threat To U.S. Na ...
• John Bolton Declares Cyber War On WikiLeaks
• This Day In History – December 3
  1818 â Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. 1901 â US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”. 1929 â US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the wor ...

The Air Vent

• Doing it Ourselves
  After ten months of reviews and rewrites we have successfully published an improved version of Steig et al. 2009.  While we cannot publish the paper here, we can discuss the detail.   Personally I’ve never seen so much work put into a single paper as Ryan did and it’s wonderful to see it come to ...
• ??
  Sent to me by email, the Bishop of Liverpool speaks out on consumption and the environment…….? http://beta.policyreview.tv/video/458/2769
• The Politicians of Fryentology
  Anthony Watts is already covering this but I’ve been in a mood lately.  Climate ‘scientists’ are recommending rationing as a method for reducing CO2 output. As the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change, the influential academics called for much ...
• Wiki-liars
  R. de Haan left the video below in the comments thread of reporters asking WikiLeaks why “they” published the CRU emails.  I hate the leftist wikileak SOB’s already anyway and think they should be locked up but the equally leftist reporters and the wiki jerks stand around the microphone declaring a ...
• When Did Arctic Warming Start?
  Guest Post By Arnd Bernaerts as previously posted by Verity Jones at Digging in the Clay. Introduction The posting “Mapping global warming” (Jan. 18, 2010 by “KevinUK”) demonstrated convincingly that âmuch of the claimed global warming is hardly global at all. In fact it looks to be more accurately ...

Focal Point

• Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips Advocat ...
  This sums up everything that needs to be said about the "populist" Tea Party. It's not populist and its values of are antithetical to those of the Boston Tea Party. Last month, Judson Philips, the president of Tea Party Nation, suggested on his internet radio show that only property owners should ...
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• Announcing the 3quarks Daily Politics Prize with J ...
  Ideas blog 3quarks Daily is seeking entries for its second annual political blog post contest. This year's celebrity guest judge is distinguished American writer and editor Lewis Lapham. Last year, historian Tariq Ali had the honor. Submission guidelines: The nominations are opened. Please ...Re ...
• I Can't Believe I Forgot to Have Children: NY Mag ...
  Oh, look, Vanessa Grigoriadis has a another very polished but utterly vacuous feature in New York Magazine. She's marking the 50th anniversary of the approval of the Pill with some very retro reasoning: "Fifty years ago, birth-control pills gave women control of their bodies, while making it easy to ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Tests Engagement Ads for Charities That R ...
  Facebook appears to be working with a number of charities to test a new type of home page engagement ad which shows actions taken by a users friends, including links shared through Facebook Connect websites, as well as Page Likes and in-app actions. The ads for apps or Facebook Connect sites show a ...
• LivingSocial Confirms Big New Round from Amazon, P ...
  LivingSocial got big on Facebook by creating applications that allowed people to list and share their interests, but it transitioned to provide group deals as that concept — led by rival Groupon — exploded. The switch is paying off, as LivingSocial today announced a huge $175 million round of fundin ...
• Facebook Career Postings: Games Partnerships, Ques ...
  Facebook has filled some interesting jobs since our post last week and has added several new positions, according to the company’s Careers Page. Some areas to watch for include recruiting, ad operations, games partnerships, Questions and Latin America. Two interesting positions appear to have been f ...
• New Generation of Practical Apps Launch on Faceboo ...
  Gaming companies have become entrenched on Facebook’s platform, while non-gaming apps have for the most part not broken through. But a new group of more practical, utility-like apps is starting to emerge. In the last few months, we’ve seen a spate of Facebook-connected job hunting sites, professiona ...
• More Info on Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 – Jan ...
  January 25th | San Francisco As we announced recently, Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011, our second conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is happening January 25th in San Francisco. Between new product launches from Facebook, Google, and leading developers in the space, 2011 i ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Who Killed the Euro? http://bit.ly/dKuYv ...
  truthout: Who Killed the Euro? http://bit.ly/dKuYv1 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in ...
  truthout: The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in Pakistan http://bit.ly/gKa8bw #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Call Americans Regressive - Just Don't C ...
  truthout: Call Americans Regressive - Just Don't Call Them European http://bit.ly/eyI9Jw #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: As GOP Appears to Win Extension of Bush ...
  truthout: As GOP Appears to Win Extension of Bush Era Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls fo... http://bit.ly/e2U2ud #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: DREAM Act Nears Vote; States Push Harsh ...
  truthout: DREAM Act Nears Vote; States Push Harsh Immigration Bills http://bit.ly/f5JiTA #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• Is Wikileaks being manipulated by an intelligence ...
  Alan Hart considers the possibility that the whistleblower website Wikileaks is being manipulated by intelligence services to achieve specific objectives, namely to maximize perceptions that Iran is a serious threat in the Middle East and to discredit Muslim leaders who do not share the Israeli-Pers ...
• Wikileaks and the new global order: America's wake ...
  Jonathan Cook argues that the disclosure by Wikileaks of secret US diplomatic cables highlight "Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role" but that "the world's finite resources and its laws of nature promise a much harsher lesson".
• Wikileaks disclosures – a welcome "attack on the i ...
  Gilad Atzmon argues that the disclosure by the whistleblower website Wikileaks of 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables is "a long overdue, necessary attack on an 'international community' of warmongers and war criminals”, one that has shown the US “in bed with the world’s darkest regimes".
• Will the Palestinian Authority declare an independ ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that without strategic communications and public relations plans and competent professionals to implement them, the Palestinians stand little chance of exploiting the few opportunities that might present themselves in 2011.
• On reality and its alternates: Glenn Beck vs. Juli ...
  Lawrence Davidson compares US ultra-conservative commentator Glenn Beck with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – Beck "a charlatan who preaches an alternate reality that affirms the untested, ahistorical and prejudicial assumptions and feelings of millions of Americans", while Assange "a real truth t ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Notes on the Margin-Dec 1
  Setting the Record Straight on Satire v. Fiction, A Few Notes on my Opt-Out Support Session at DCA & A Few Words on  Ron Paul Supporters-Activists My last ‘Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz’ seems to have caused some unexpected reaction. First, it started several e-mails from the media asking whether they ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: DHS-TSA Terror Watch L ...
  Resilient Founding Fathers with Propensity for Resistance among One Million+ Terror Watch List Suspects!   In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not rem ...
• Blows Against the Empire, the Criminalization of D ...
  By way of preface, let me give you a little of my background. I was born a prototypical Southern California working-class surfer boy. As a poor, white kid, I was educated by the California Public School system of the 1960’s and was, therefore, both the avatar of the Liberal Contract of Egalitarianis ...
• Ron Paul Introduces the American Travel Dignity Ac ...
  ‘We Americans Should Never Give Up Our Rights in Order to Travel’  Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the videos of ...

Afro Spear

• “Give Conservatism a Chance” by Jimmie ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 In his book “Itâs OK To Leave The Plantation”, C. Mason Weaver said the next logical step for the civil rights movement is the rise of a black conservative movement. Weaver, a black conservative, former congressional candidate and public speaker, says that hysteria, an ...
• Quote(s) of the Day
              “Just because you cook eggs in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits.”   “The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.” Malcolm [...]
• Rejuvenated Purpose? AfroSpear 2.0
  A few days ago a member of the AfroSpear Google Group asked this question: “It appears that the Afrosphere Google Group has died a slow and unfortunate death. Is the Afrosphere a group in name only? What should be the next steps, if anything for the Afrosphere Google Group?” First, it’s difficult to ...
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• Working Man’s Death
  Some days I hate my job. However I am thankful for it and for the lifestyle and security it provides for me and my family. I appreciate it even more when I watch documentaries like this 4-part series on Aljazeera called “Working Man’s Death”. It provides a glimpse of the harsh realities of the ph ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
  Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
• Conservative Conundrum
  Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
• HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
• Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
  This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
• Truth for Tea Baggers!
  War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….

Unsuitable Blog

• Wikileaks: Governments Apologising In Advance For ...
  Well, it seems that a few politicians have been saying rude things about each other, and now they are really desperate to cover it all up. I don’t know; we expect “our” representatives to be paragons of virtue and then damn Wikileaks spills the beans. Bad Wikileaks! On the other hand, given the shit ...
• Operation Christmas Child: Christian Fundamentalis ...
  Somewhere in the minds of millions of children there exists a place where Christmas is every day, and gifts appear beneath the eternal tree and at the foot of the magical fireplace whenever their back is turned. In the hearts of millions of children the joy of giving is equally precious as the joy o ...
• McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
  This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...
• BT Adastral Plan Wipes Out “Green” Pro ...
  Adastral Park is part of BT’s (formerly British Telecom) Martlesham Heath technology complex, a combination of defence research laboratory and industrial park, situated close to the busy Suffolk town of Ipswich, and adjacent to a large area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You can find Adastral Park b ...
• Monthly Undermining Task, November 2010: The Onlin ...
  Where do you go for information? I guess, because you are reading this as a web page, then your primary resource for information that you need in a hurry (and aren’t we all in a hurry nowadays?) is the Internet. As far as corporations go, online presence has now eclipsed printed and television media ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Medill Students: Audience Research Should Drive Hy ...
  At the Block By Block "community news summit" in September, operators of locally focused websites came together to share what they knew and learn from their peers. Almost all of them were looking for advice on how to support their sites financially. Here's a start: "Sustaining Hyperlocal News: An A ...
• MIT Unveils Civic Tools for Communities Affected b ...
  Last Friday, MIT Center for Future Civic Media's director Chris Csikszentmihalyi formally released extrAct, a suite of Internet-based databasing, mapping and communications technologies for use by communities impacted by natural gas development. extrAct is targeted not only at communities and lan ...
• Innovation Strategy #1: Don't Take 'No' for an Ans ...
  This past week, Tom Grasty and I were invited to the Paley Center as part of "The Next Big Thing: The New News Entrepreneurs." We were asked to present Stroome before an extraordinary audience stuffed with CEOs, COOs and presidents of some of the world's most important media companies. During on ...
• How the FCC is Creating Better Open Data
  In the context of our TileMill project, we’ve been talking about our goal to help make open data from governments more actionable by making it easier to turn GIS data into custom maps. We’re focused on building better tools so people can turn data into custom maps to tell better stories online, but ...
• Scholarship winner wants to help media "explore ne ...
  When a Knight News Challenge grant made it possible to award journalism scholarships to people with backgrounds in computer science, no one -- not even the first scholarship applicants -- knew what career opportunities would be available to "programmer-journalists." Five Knight scholars will grad ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Coal Hazard - Government and Utilities Conspir ...
  Stand before the pond known here in southwestern Pennsylvania as Little Blue Run, and you’ll see nothing that resembles its bucolic-sounding name. The one-time stream is now an industrial pond, filled with arsenic-laced waste from a coal-fired power plant. The pond spans nearly 1,000 acres of rollin ...
• The Edge of Litigation - Banks, Investors, and Hed ...
  Large banks, hedge funds and private investors hungry for new and lucrative opportunities are bankrolling other people’s lawsuits, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into medical malpractice claims, divorce battles and class actions against corporations — all in the hope of sharing in the poten ...
• Book Review - Understanding The American South Sin ...
  The South and America Since World War II. James C. Cobb. Oxford University Press. 2010. 392 pages.Is the South—still—a place apart? Thirty years ago, in Place Over Time, Carl Degler argued for the persistence of a distinctive regional identity notwithstanding the successive waves of modernity that f ...
• Zionism on Edge - The De-Zionization of Anglo-Jewr ...
  Chaim Weizmann would turn in his grave were he aware of the public attacks on the Israeli government by some in the UK Jewish leadership. Mick Davis, the South African-born chief executive of the powerful mining group Xstrata, is chairman of Anglo Jewry’s United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) - the pri ...
• Edge on Economic Crisis - So, You Didn’t Believe t ...
  When the government reported the “recession” had ended during the 2nd quarter of 2009 there were a number of skeptics mocking the “declaration.” And you, were probably one of them. However, so long as we measure economic growth on the quarterly production of “goods and services,” there’s little ques ...

High Country News

• The EPA takes a small step toward curbing greenhou ...
  The EPA's plan to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from standing sources is nothing radical.
• Bill McKibben on High Country News
• Living with wolves takes some practice
  An Alaskan wilderness ranger believes humans can co-exist with wolves, despite anti-wolf hysteria in the Northern Rockies.
• The healthiest landscapes are hidden
  Ranchers help give refuge to wildlife, despite being an endangered species themselves.
• The hunters called -- they want their deer back
  As oil and gas wells increase in Wyoming, the state's deer herds decline.

CounterCurrents

• 10 Skills Needed To Thrive In A Post-Collapse Worl ...
  By Jeffrey Green Remember, knowledge of and skills to produce human necessities will be the only form of wealth creation in a hand-made world. Knowledge is something that no one can take from you. Its the eternal wealth that will help you thrive in a Post-Collapse world. Get Prepared Now!
• Mother Nature Is Not Fooled By Euphemisms
  By Tim Murray We cant fool Mother Nature at any time. Shes not fooled by trendy green euphemisms or oxymorons. Call it economic development or sustainable development, but she has only one word for it---growth. All human activity is subject to her objective measure, and it will be registered as hav ...
• The Warming Of Antarctica: A Citadel Of Ice Begins ...
  By Fen MontaigneThe fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than virtually any place on Earth. These rapidly rising temperatures represent the first breach in the enormous frozen dome that holds 90 percent of the worlds i ...
• Will Irom Sharmila Meet Her Mother?
  By K.P. Sasi Sakhi Devi never visited Sharmila after the fast. There was a deep fear that her emotions after seeing the daughter would break Sharmilas determination. As per the words of Sakhi Devi I am weak hearted. If I see her, I will cry. I do not want to erode her determination, so I have resol ...
• Sri Lanka Execution Video: New War Crimes Claims
  By Channel 4 NewsChannel 4 News reveals new footage of the alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners which promoted a UN investigation last year, as the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse arrives in London

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• BREAKING: Wikileaks Loses its DNS Service Provider ...
  If you tried to go to Wikileaks.org tonight you would have gotten an error message,� that is because its DNS Service provider booted it off at 10PM. Every DNS who provided Wikileaks with it domain name service posted this on its website: EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services t ...
• Helen Thomas is At it Again-Says Those Rich Jews C ...
  Proving once again that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, former White House Correspondent Helen Thomas told an anti-Arab-Bias workshop in Dearboran Michigan that she absolutely stands by her ugly comments about Jews made earlier this year, that they should return to Germany and Poland and went ...
• US Pushed India to Keep Silent About Mumbai Attack ...
  It was a horrible attack, terrorists ravaging the Indian City of Mumbai. Just like America's horrible 9/11 its know by its date 26/11 (November 26th). According to the latest documents released as part of the Wikileaks document dump, the United States Government was pressuring India to keep secret a ...
• Obama's Deficit Commission Calls for Health Care " ...
  President Obama's deficit commission has not been very kind to his signature Obamacare program, not only does it say that the healthcare savings promised by the president are a total mirage, but it reports that to keep Federal Government health care spending in check, the Department of Health and Hu ...
• Why did Obama Administration Honor Mosque Associat ...
  By Barry Rubin Almost a decade after the September 11 attacks,�the U.S. government seem unable to tell the differences between moderate and radical Muslims, much less understand that it should support the former�against the latter group. So when the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom vis ...

The Real Agenda

• La Mafia Narco en Río: “El Estado creó a est ...
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Con gran revuelo hemos escuchado, leà do y visto reportes en los medios de comunicación tradicionales sobre como la policà a y los militares brasileños han tomado posesión del “monte del alemán” -morro do alemão- en Rà o de Janeiro, Brasil. Las imágenes han ...
• Eco-Fascism: Imposed by Law or Government Mandate
  By Phyllis Schlafly Republicans are assuming that cap-and-trade (aka cap-and-tax) is dead because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lacks the votes to bring up the House-passed bill and because this issue proved a loser in the 2010 House races. Like the famous Mark Twain saying, its death may be exa ...
• U.S. to Bailout European Union
  Reuters The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday. “There are a lot of people talking about that. I think the European Commiss ...
• US Senate passes Bill that Outlaws Food Production
  The new Food Tyranny Act — called the “Food Safety Modernization Act” in the U.S. Senate — has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of the food contaminatio ...
• Google Begins Government Sponsored Censorship
  In a damning new lurch towards web censorship, Google’s news aggregator has blacklisted Prison Planet and Infowars despite the fact that both websites are internationally known and now attract more traffic than many mainstream media websites, while Google-owned You Tube has frozen the Alex Jones Cha ...

Wind Watch

• DEP: Vinalhaven turbines too loud
  The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found that three wind turbines on Vinalhaven have exceeded nighttime noise limits and has asked Fox Islands Wind LLC to modify its operations. The small island wind farm has proven controversial since it began operating a year ago, with some neigh ...
• Waubra wind farm buys more properties
  Waubra wind farm operator Acciona has confirmed it has now bought out seven property owners. Director of generation Brett Wickham said yesterday two more properties had been recently purchased by the company. Mr Wickham said post-construction noise monitoring was completed in September. This monitor ...
• Wind resistance: Plans for turbines generate quest ...
  In a time of rising fuel costs, they stand in open fields with blades turning to harvest the wind and turn it into power. But as wind turbines are built, and proposed, in Central Massachusetts, there is growing opposition from some residents who question their value, and worry about possible ill eff ...
• Deaths of rare eagles rises
  The number of eagles killed by turbine blades at one of Australia’s largest wind farms is climbing, with a rare juvenile wedge-tailed eagle the 22nd to die at Woolnorth in Tasmania’s north-west. The farm is killing two protected species at the rate of about 3.2 eagles a year, according to a count by ...
• Wind project divides Bourne residents
  BOURNE â With two public meetings under their belts, the backers of the New Generation Wind project spent Monday night’s Cape Cod Commission subcommittee hearing addressing concerns including health issues and the financial impacts of their seven proposed turbines. A mix of supporters â wearing the ...

Not My Tribe

• Remember Fred Thompson and his Little Red Pickup?
  The one that he had somebody deliver to a short driving distance from his rallies, so he could pretend to be “jes plain folks”? He’s doing Bankster Commercials. Yep. Working for an investment group, who are hawking a “reverse mortgage”. While being a Republican and therefore supporting their loud cr ...
• Army “Revolutionary” XM25 weapon will ...
  The $35,000 rifle fires exploding ordnance, enabling US infantrymen to kill people behind walls or at distances of 2,300 ft. No indication that our soldiers can now SEE behind walls, or at such great distance. Meaning the XM25 will “revolutionize” killing, as military spokesmen say, but probably the ...
• Need another reason to boycott 900 lb bully Amazon ...
  Amazon booted Wikileaks from its cloud server service, at the behest of Zionist warmonger Joe Lieberman. Twittered Wikileaks in reply: “If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books.” The corporate media is already censoring “Cablegate” ...
• Dems pass Monsanto anti real food act
  The corporate US House of Lords, aka Senate, passed Big Agra’s “Food Safety and Modernization Act” which aims to further impede the natural agriculture resurgence while shielding the real sources of food contamination, factory animal farms. Count BOTH Colorado Dems among the corrupt legislators who ...
• Costa Rica, Iraq and the TSA maybe not in that ord ...
  Although I did notice that I put their names in alphabetic order. Just a coincidence. TSA says “Big Brother is always right, STFU you silly peasants”, Costa Rica declares environmentalism “Terror Plot”, and the U.S. Military police are apparently running at least one concentration camp in Iraq where ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Attacks against Geraldo and Napolitano expose esta ...
  As CNN observes ... It's rare that two media watchdogs – one on the left and one on the right – ever agree when it comes to assessing coverage on the cable news outlets. But both the conservative Newsbusters and liberal Media Matters are aiming fire at Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and Judge Andrew Napo ...
• The JFK Assassination Autopsy Cover-up; Only One P ...
  I found this photo (here) that one could consider as a brief "anatomy" of the cover-up. When these photos are juxtaposed with the damning physical evidence, indicating that Kennedy was shot from the front, we are left with the conclusion that the Dallas Doctors, who first saw the victim, correctly ...
• Shirley they can't be serious!
  9-11 Victim Families Criticize Napolitano Comments http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011290030 No f-ing way! Shirley they can't be serious! (Sorry, couldn't resist) They are still playing the family members hate us card?! ... Even though the thing they are supposedly debunking is a campaign started b ...
• Why focusing on WTC7 is not a waste of time...
  Now that FOX news appears to be tiptoeing onto the 9/11 truth train, some people in the truth movement are understandably suspicious. I've been reading the comments over at 9/11 blogger. Some commenters are suggesting this may be a ploy to make it seem like WTC7 is the final mystery, and then debu ...
• The 9/11 Truth Experiment
  Here is a proposed experiment from new "debunker" on YouTube, "Humantidote": Stand under it holding torches huh? As AE911Truth.org mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti just recently stated:"Fire can't melt steel except in the controlled circumstances of a blast furnace, or with a welding torch, or with ...

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Global Solar Energy May Reach 980 Gigawatts by 2020

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... as governments worldwide seek to reduce fossil fuel consumption and cut emissions of greenhouse gases, a group of renewable energy associations said. ...

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Grassley Speaks Out on RenewableFuels Tax

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I'd prefer to support renewablefuels producers based right here at home rather than send them a pink slip." Grassley charged ending the ethanol tax breaks ...

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E2 Morning Roundup: Baucus floats ethanol compromise,renewable power grant ...

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Baucus is throwing a lifeline torenewable electricity project developers. His plan extends – through 2011 – an expiring program that provides grants to ...

Coal's Two-Year High Prompts UK Utilities to Burn Wood: Energy Markets

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Pledges by Prime Minister David Cameron's government to step uprenewable energy use are stoking investment in UK projects to get electricity from biomass ...

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PARIS (Dow Jones)--FrenchEcology Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said Thursday that applications by French companies represent 9% of the 3400 chemical ...

Port of Pasco refuses money from biomass firm

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The eviction followed a state Department of Ecology order to close the plant because the company didn't have required air quality permits. ...

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'No crisis' in DC water

Washington Post

By Tim Craig and Ann E. Marimow The risk of lead exposure in the District's water supply is "fairly minimal," according to the co-author of a report on ...

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Beazer to pay $925000 in waterquality settlement

BusinessWeek

The Clean Water Act requires that construction sites have controls in place to prevent pollution from being discharged with stormwater into nearby waterways ...

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Monterey desalination plant clears hurdle

San Jose Mercury News

California regulators have approved a desalination plant that could convert ocean to drinkingwater on the Monterey Peninsula. The San Francisco Chronicle ...

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Fiji Water Threatens to Pull Out of Fiji

Triple Pundit

By RP Siegel | December 3rd, 2010 0 Comments If Fiji Waterpulled out of Fiji, wouldn't that make it just Water? Would people care? ...

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