3 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

Fooducate

• Nutri-Grain, Fake Color, and Why Do American Kids ...
  Take a look at the two packages for Kellogg’ Nutri-Grain cereal bars. One is made here for us. The other is made in the UK for Europeans. Both use food coloring to achieve a more “strawberry-ish” color. In the UK, the coloring is achieved using beetroot. But in the US, the coloring is Red No. 40, [ ...
• Three Reasons Your Food is Now Safer
  If you ever got food poisoning that had you out of whack for a few hours, days, or something even worse, rejoice. Yesterday, the Senate passed an overhaul of the Food Safety Bill, for the first time since World War 2! A lot has changed in the American food supply since those days. The FDA did [...]
• Is the Vitamin D Craze Over Now?
  In the past few years, sales of vitamin D supplements have soared. More and more people have been tested for vitamin D deficiencies, and many doctors advised their patients to up their intake. But this trend may be coming to an abrupt halt. Today, the non-profit, non-affiliated, Institute of Medici ...
• PowerBar Energy Bites – Mostly Marketing Sound Bit ...
  Powerbar is a high end brand owned by Nestle Nutrition and sold mostly in sports shops. It positions itself as an athlete’s friend. What started as bars has expanded to gels, protein supplements, and now “Energy Bites”. From PowerBar, here are Energy Bites’ key features: Provide More Energy to Mus ...
• 40% of Shoppers: Healthy Food Tastes Bad
  Earlier this month Catalina Marketing released a consumer insight report demonstrating how difficult it is for consumers to shake old habits and to start buying and preparing healthy foods. Some of the interesting stats from the report: 4 out of 10 shoppers believe that healthy foods does not tast ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Rancher defies court order – Brazilian Indians sti ...
  Nearly all Guarani, such as this woman's community, have seen their land taken for ranching or sugar cane production. © F. Watson/Survival A beleaguered Indian community in Brazil which has been cut off from the outside world by the rancher who has taken over their lands is still imprisoned, d ...
• Peru releases footage of uncontacted tribe
  A group of Nanti people from Peru. © Survival Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, Indepa, has released footage of uncontacted members of the Nanti tribe living in the remote Peruvian Amazon. The footage was taken during an expedition led by Indepa to the Kugapakori Nahua Nanti Reserve in sou ...
• Kalahari Bushman appeals to African Commission
  Moeti's grandmother Xoroxloo died of thirst © Survival A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help. 

Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference e ...
• Canada endorses UN Declaration on indigenous peopl ...
  Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival Canada has endorsed the UN Declaration on indigenous peoples three years after the declaration was approved by the General Assembly. In a statement released last Friday, Canadaâs Indian and Northern Affairs department said, âThe Government of Canada wou ...
• International NGOs unite against oil giants
  Uncontacted Indians' territory in Peru is being invaded by oil companies. © Anon Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru. ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• Obama isn’t about compromise
  People, Obama is not and never has been a left winger.  Nor is he a Nixonian or Eisenhower Republican, that would put him massively to the left of where he is and to the left of the majority of the Democratic party. Instead his a Reaganite, something he told people repeatedly. Until folks get it [.. ...
• Municipal finance quick-hits
  Forcing bondholders to take a haircut is politically attractive compared to gutting the schools, police, fire and road maitenance bugets. And once a few communities make the decision to forgo the credit market by defaulting, most marginal communities will be shut-out from the credit markets by high ...
• Leadership
  I don’t normally write about leadership.  Somehow it’s become a niche subject: either the subject of some banal business book, or discussed by the military.  It seems remote from politics or even economics because we live in an elite consensus society, where leadership is rare because the price of ...
• Off to Vegas tomorrow
  Vacation time.  By my count, my first actual vacation in over 20 years (ie. I’m not adding a few days on to what is essentially a business trip.)  Will see how the backscatter machines/patdowns go.  If they go too badly this may be the last time I visit the US unless I’m being paid very [...]
• Theatre but no solutions
  Advocating sending in the Army while knowing the Army will never be invited allows one to dodge proposals that would significantly harm the cartels in Mexico by crimping their logistics.

Age of Autism

• Thimerosal (Mercury-based Preservative in Flu Shot ...
  We encourage you to learn more about the mercury based vaccine preservative Thimerosal, as it is in the news during flu shot season. HERE is the material data safety sheet so that you can make informed healthcare decisions for yourself...
• Andy Wakefield Reports on Arizona 5: Recovered Aut ...
• Best of AofA: Jake Crosby on Kev Leitch's Jab in t ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Last week's post about a ubiquitous commenter in the vaccine safety denialist community by JB Handley caused quite a storm in the blogosphere, especially at a blog called LBRB. We thought we'd re-run one of Jake Crosby's...
• Holiday Cooking Tips from Cook It Allergy Free
  Kim Maes runs a wonderful, colorful, useful site called "Cook it Allergy Free" that is a blast to read and loaded with hint and tips for keeping your family safe and happily well fed despite food allergies. She ran a...
• Autism From a Flu Shot? The Ominous Clue From Kann ...
  By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Seventy-three years ago, Elizabeth Peabody Trevett, a pediatrician and pioneer in promoting mass vaccination for infants, gave birth to a boy named John who became the seventh child ever diagnosed with autism. She presumably...

Global BDS Movement

• BNC endorses findings of London session of Russell ...
  Occupied Palestine, 30 November 2010 - "May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence‟, pleaded intellectual Bertrand Russell at the first meeting of the citizens' War Crimes Tribunal that investigated US war crimes during its war on Vietnam.1 At a time when little was known in the wider public abo ...
• Veolia and Alstom feel the heat – BNC calls for in ...
  Occupied Palestine, November 2010 - Veolia and Alstom, the two French companies involved in the construction and management of a tramway linking west Jerusalem with illegal Israeli colonial settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory, described by the UN Human Rights Council as a “clear violation ...
• Palestinian civil society reaffirms support for pe ...
  Occupied Palestine, 23 November 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) urges the French government to immediately cease all undemocratic, repressive measures against its own conscientious citizens who promote or engage in non-violent boycotts, divestment an ...
• OECD hires services from extremist Jewish settler ...
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• Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on ...
  � Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  � Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more

Farm Wars

• Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock: S51 ...
  Tune in and listen to Ernie and I discuss S.510 during the first hour!
• S 510: Three Blind Mice and a Willful Act of Treas ...
  After all pursuant to § 7 of the Constitution, bills of taxation must issue from the house and what we have here is a willful act of TREASON on the part of the Senate and all the supporters of this legislation.
• Meet Bernie! Bernie just loves TSA…
• You might be a domestic extremist if…
  Folks, I jest don't know what's happening in this country. Evidently, if you don't take kindly to having your private parts either fried or groped, you are a domestic extremist.
• Submit meekly to TSA, then mob the nearest store – ...
  People will mob stores and go through police blockades like they are nothing to get the latest deal at stores, yet complain about and are afraid to peacefully stand up and say no to TSA scans because it is inconvenient to insist on their rights, so they willingly submit to irradiation and gropes to ...

Open Your Eyes News

• TSA: All fliers are now checked
  Washington Post – Every passenger who flies in American skies is now being checked against a list of people who pose a terrorism risk, Transportation Security Administration head John S. Pistole said Tuesday. The announcement that 197 air carriers, including 127 that fly internationally, are partici ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day – Sea Level Rise and ...
  Successful prediction of levels of solar activity suggests that prediction of other phenomena driven by solar activity might also be successful, and useful. Sea level rise is a concern of some people. President Obama said in June 2008 that his nomination in the Democratic primaries was “the moment w ...
• Commonly used antidepressants may raise heart dise ...
  Daily Telegraph – Old style anti-depressant drugs were linked with a 35 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease, the study found. However, newer drugs were not associated with a rise which may signal that the older drugs may be causing the effect rather than the depression itself. The re ...
• Wikileaks – Cables Describe Scale of Afghan ...
  New York Times – From hundreds of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest man is a distinct outlier. Describing the likely lineup of Afghanistanâs new cabinet last January, the American Embassy noted that th ...
• New Orleans-3 Injured In Gulf Oil Rig Explosion
  Wtov9-Three people were injured — two badly burned — in an oil rig explosion Wednesday in Bayou Perot, La., WDSU in New Orleans reported. The U.S. Coast Guard received a report at about 10:15 a.m. Central time, that three people were injured on the rig, which is roughly 20 miles south-southeast of N ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• An acre for an acre: Farmland preservation measure ...
  Before the real estate bust, tract houses were a booming crop in California's farm belt. Parts of the Central Valley were turning into a bedroom community for the Bay Area. So three years ago, Stanislaus County, which has a $1-billion...
• Arctic waters open for "cautious" leasing after 20 ...
  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's announcement about a "cautious" approach to offshore oil development opens the door to leasing new waters in the Arctic after 2012 and clears the way for full review of a proposed new exploratory well in the...
• Judge orders Monsanto to uproot genetically modifi ...
  A federal judge has ordered Monsanto to tear up 256 acres of genetically modified sugar beets in Oregon and Arizona that were to be used to produce seed for the 2012 crop. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey...
• Obama unveils scaled-back oil-drilling plan
  Citing the lessons of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Obama administration reversed course Wednesday and pulled plans to open the eastern gulf and portions of the Atlantic coast to oil and gas exploration. "We need to proceed with...
• Fabio stars in electric vehicle PSA
  Think electric vehicles are hot? Just imagine how steamy things could get with Fabio thrown in. Nonprofit advocacy group Plug In America has done just that, casting the ageless male model in its newest ad touting the benefits of driving...

water.org

• Join a conference call with Damon’s Water.or ...
  Join A Conference Call With Matt Damon’s Water.org (Look to the Stars) – This is your chance to hear first-hand from Matt Damon’s Water.org about their work in Tigray, Ethiopia, the impact their programs are having on peopleâs lives, and their plans for the future in this region. Read full Look to t ...
• Student to swim 10-miles for water (Water.org)
  Carman-Ainsworth High student plans 10-mile swim to raise funds for global effort (Flint Journal/ Mlive – November 29, 2010) FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan – Erick Skaff is using his skills in the water to raise money for a clean water cause around the world. The 17-year-old Carman-Ainsworth High School s ...
• Rec.fm makes online shopping charitable (Benzinga)
  Rec.fm Makes Online Shopping Charitable This Holiday Season (Benzinga – November 26, 2010) – New fundraising platform Rec.fm (http://rec.fm), today announced a special holiday promotion that doubles the amount of money consumers can earn for their favorite charities. Rec.fm normally gives 51% of its ...
• Matt Damon: Here’s My Problem with the Snugg ...
  Matt Damon: Here’s My Problem with the Snuggie (TMZ) - Damon got all bundled up for AOL’s “You’ve Got…” series — in which he shows off some of the worst Xmas gifts he’s gotten over the years (including a stuffed animal his kids won’t even touch). But the coolest gift Damon thinks you can give is a ...
• Keep up with Water.org Haiti projects (ONE)
  Keep up with Haiti water projects in real time (ONE) – As advocates and activists, a lot of our support comes from actions that we take in front of our computers. Once we type in our names for a petition or click on a link, the issue is gone â unless we take the steps [...]

Before It's News

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• Improving_Food_Security_by_Strategically_Reducing_ ...
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

• GOP Senators Pledge to Block All Democratic Legisl ...
  So much for that whole "the American people did not vote for gridlock" thing. Mere hours after President Obama's bipartisan meeting with Congressional leadership, the Associated Press reported that "Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually->Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't � ...
• Why WikiLeaks Is Good for Democracy
  Information is the currency of democracy. -Thomas Jefferson Since 9/11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that "state secrets" will not be shared with citizens. **Good Read**Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
• Opposition to New START Pits Republicans Against T ...
  It's not just the Obama administration against which Republican senators under the guidance of Jon Kyl pit themselves when they oppose New START. In fact, perhaps bewitched by Tea Party-style incoherence, they've also placed themselves in the --> Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Sudan Set to Split Despite Egyptian Moves
  "The US is dead-set on seeing the emergence of an independent state of Southern Sudan to achieve political aims on the African continent," Hani Raslan, expert in Sudanese affairs at the semi-official Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies-->Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Annual Fox News War On Atheists Has Begun!
  As America's premier Christian newsroom, Fox "News," in marching in tune with the Christian anthem "Onward Christian Soldiers," is actively fighting the war against those godless atheists who dare to "promote" their godless views on billboards or other ->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• New Report Estimates 980 Gigawatts of Solar Energy ...
  The Solar Energy Industries Association has released a report that�predicts global solar energy capacity to reach 980 GW by 2020. read more
• More Solar: California Welcomes Another Solar Farm
  Do in large part to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program for clean energy projects, California's solar generating capacity is growing at a tremendous rate. read more
• PG&E Cuts First Rebate Check To A California Taco ...
  A Taco Bell franchise in Albany, California has become the first commercial business to receive a rebate check from Pacific Gas and Electric for investing in a solar thermal water system. read more
• City Solar Maps: Making it Easier for Americans to ...
  Solar maps are popping up in major cities across the United States. The comprehensive online maps, think Google Maps for solar power, are designed to provide valuable information for residents contemplating solar power.� The maps provi ...
• World War II Airfield Could Become First Solar Par ...
  Rockspring Property Investment Managers LLP has announced plans to construct a solar park on a disused World War II airfield in Buckinghamshire, England. read more

News Blaze

• Yoga Could Help Improve Prison Environment- New St ...
  Putting karma into incarceration may provide health and safety benefits New research at the University of Leicester is examining the potential of yoga to benefit prisoners and staff - by helping them get in touch with their spiritual side.
• Republicans for Environmental Protection Celebrate ...
  Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), a national grassroots organization of stewardship-minded Republicans, is pleased to join in celebrations of the Environmental Protection Agency's 40th anniversary.
• UN-AU Mission Investigates the Deadly Incident At ...
  The incident took place as the Doha peace negotiation team, headed by Qatari Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Abdulla Al-Mahmoud and AU-UN Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassol�, was meeting with civil society representatives at the university, located in
• MotiBagh Gang Rape Needs Proactive Actions to Ma ...
  Decision to deploy night police patrolling at unsafe areas where most of the crimes repeatedly take place, installing CCTV cameras, stringent guidelines to BPO companies to follow safety measurement deployment of women will help alleviate reports on
• UN Launches Patrols to Head Off LRA Rebel Violen ...
  Another UN operation, Protection Shield, carried out in cooperation with the DRC army in South Kivu province, has achieved 'a notable success,' as shown by a sharp decrease in violence from the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
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• Castro Speech database

libcom

• Roaming Marches Disrupt Oxford - Personal Account
  castle.jpg Marches of hundreds (mainly school students) disrupted Oxford City Centre, briefly occupying County Hall, Barclays, Lloyds, and Castle Mound (see the photo), disrupting traffic, and roaming th ...
• Against the reform, another revolt! Updates on stu ...
  Last night the Chamber of Deputies approved the Gelmini reform. 307 votes in favour, 252 against, 7 abstained. The reform will be passed over to the Senate on 9th December for its 3rd reading, then to the Chamber of Deputies again for the final vote. ...
• Student protests - what next?
  students_7.jpg After another successful day of action yesterday, we look at what lies next for the growing movement against the UK government's austerity measures of cuts to services and rising fees. ...
• More student protests sweep Italy
  italy.jpeg In the same week that saw students occupy the Colosseum and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy today has seen more occupations, street battles and blockades of railway stations by students oppos ...
• November 30th day of action against cuts and fees
  newcastle.jpg Tens of thousands of students will walk out of class for the third time in as many weeks today during a national day of action against cuts and tuition fees. Protests ...

Free Range International

• Rules of Engagement
  I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
• Healing Ulcer
  After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
• Afghanistan Summary
  This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
• On The Border
  The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]
• Inchon
  Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
  To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
• COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
  Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
• INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
  So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
• Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
  The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
• America’s Entitlement Elitists
  America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Brian Wilson, musician (encore), (Nov, 28, 2009)
  This week, an encore presentation of one of our most memorable interviews from 2004 -- the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, the young California group that went head to head against the Beatles in the 1960s.
• Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the AFN (Dec 6, 200 ...
  He is one of Canada's most influential and powerful aboriginal leaders, yet few Canadians know anything about him. He's a new face on the landscape and this week, he's our guest in his first major interview.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 9, 2010)
  This month marks four years since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. There have been few dull moments during that time and certainly no lack of controversy. This week, with a new year starting and new issues facing his government, the Prime Minister is our guest.
• Bruce McCulloch, Comedian (Jan 16, 2010)
  He was one of the creative geniuses behind the 1980's TV hit The Kids in the Hall, and now he, and they, are back. But what about those intervening years? What did he learn and how has it changed him? This week, we find out.
• Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expert ( ...
  How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.

Scotts Contracting

• Win Green Home Makeover 12/31 Deadline
  Audition to WIN a Home Green-over! Audition now for a $20,000 home green-over from Green Works with green living expert Carter Oosterhouse. Apply Now ›
• Video-How Wind Turbines Generate Electricity-
  Wind Power Animation This animation discusses the advantages of wind power, the workings of a wind turbine, and wind resources in the United States. It also describes how wind power is used in small- and large-scale applications. http://www.energysavers.gov/your_home/electricity/index.cfm/mytopic=10 ...
• Concentrated Solar Power
  Many power plants today use fossil fuels as a heat source to boil water. The steam from the boiling water spins a large turbine, which drives a generator to produce electricity. However, a new generation of power plants with concentrating solar power systems uses the sun as a heat source. The three ...
• Your business received a 5 star rating
  On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:52 AM, MerchantCircle Ratings wrote: Rating Alert Dear Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Missouri, A visitor to your MerchantCircle business listing page gave your Holly Hills business a 5 star rating. You … Continue reading →
• GOP plans strategy to stymie EPA
  Dec 1, 2010 Politico Robin Bravender Get ready for a string of up-or-down votes on the Obama administrationâs environmental record. Republicans plotting their offensive against the Obama administrationâs environmental policies are eyeing a powerful weapon that would force the Democratic-held … Conti ...

The View From Abroad

• Your Vote Didn’t Count Last Tuesday
  Fed policy decision cancels out the voice of voters.
• Grand Rapids Woman Harassed by Fair Housing Do-Goo ...
  if America is so free why can't you advertise for a "Christian" roommate?
• Statist Policies Cause More Harm Than Good
  A sure fire way to make a situation worse is to involve the government.
• Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
  The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Opposition to New START Pits Republicans Against T ...
  In the rush to thwart President Obama, Republicans trample their own values.
• WikiLeaks IX: Wires Show U.S. Embassy Actually Got ...
  WikiLeaks' latest document dump runs the gauntlet from gossip to outstanding diplomatic intelligence.
• 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.
• Kashmir: Obama and the Vale of Tears
  Kashmir is the key to resolving crises in South Asia and Afghanistan, argues columnist Conn Hallinan. Why is the Obama administration avoiding the issue?

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Policy ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight With ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Discus ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ensu ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Internation ...

Iranian.com

• Why Can't Arabs and Iranians Just Get Along?
  Topping all these layers of religious and ethnic difference lie harsh political realities. The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are tradi tional monarchies dominated by ruling families; the Islamic Republic of Iran is a revolutionary, popu list state with republican forms resting on a theocratic base ...
• Leaked Cable Reveals US-Israeli Strategy for Regim ...
  According to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, in August 2007 the head of Israel's intelligence agency urged US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, R. Nicholas Burns, to join with Israel in carrying out a five-part strategy to implement regime change in Iran.read more
• Esfahan Is Almost As Polluted As Tehran
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• Contrary to Wikileaks release, Iran is hugely popu ...
  The latest batch of Wikileaks revelations give the impression that, next to Israel, it's the Arab states that are most energetically pressuring the U.S. to attack Iran. In terms of the real threat to Iran, that's definitely putting the cart before the horse.read more
• WikiLeaks a blow to a nuclear Iran
  The WikiLeaks circus has been in the news for several weeks, but it has turned bizarre in the past few days ("International Subversives," Commentary, Thursday).read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Best Research Corporate Money Can Buy
  As I have blogged previously, the whole notion of fluoride being safe and good for teeth is based on decades of corporations paying researchers to produce the scientific results they want – and burying research and firing and blacklisting scientists whose studies show otherwise. A Systematic Corpora ...
• Water Fluoridation: a Corporate-Inspired Scam
  As Christopher Bryson outlines in his 2004 book Fluoride Deception, the decision to deliberately dose US municipal water supplies with a potent industrial toxin was basically a corporate scam dreamed up by Alcoa, GM and Dupont in the thirties and forties to stem a tide of lawsuits related to death a ...
• Fluoride: the New Lead
  It took decades to “prove” that even low-level lead exposure caused mental retardation and behavioral problems in children. In 1973 when I graduated from medical school, there was a mountain of compelling evidence of the terrible things lead in paint and auto exhaust was doing to kids. However under ...
• The Age of Stupid
  The very last film in our Reel Earth film series was the British movie The Age of Stupid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/. It's actually a series of extremely thought provoking vignettes. I found the film quite sad, as the plot concerns a 2055 archivist in a world where the arctic ice sheet ha ...
• The Age of Stupid
  The very last film in our Reel Earth film series was the British movie The Age of Stupid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/. It’s actually a series of extremely thought provoking vignettes. I found the film quite sad, as the plot concerns a 2055 archivist in a world where the arctic ice sheet has ...

Doug's Darkworld

• KOREAN NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES
  December 2nd, 2010. During American and South Korean naval manoeuvres in the Yellow Sea near North Korea a nuclear explosion occurs, sinking a dozen major warships including the American carrier USS George Washington. At least ten thousand American and South Korean sailors and servicemen are killed, ...
• FBI FOILS OWN TERRORIST PLOT AS STUNNED NATION REE ...
  It’s hard for me to look at the news these days without cringing, so why not share with my readers! The first non-news of the day is the FBI foiling a “terrorist plot” to blow up a Christmas Tree ceremony in Portland with a car bomb. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it, a Somali born teenager tried [...]
• Should the USA Nuke North Korea?
  A commenter recently suggested that the obvious solution to the North Korean “problem” would be to simply nuke them out of existence. Well, maybe not those exact words, but the basic suggestion was to attack North Korea using nuclear weapons. The North has a huge well dug-in conventional military, w ...
• Through Thick and Thin
  It’s been a rough week, what can I say. First, the Veterans Day hangover. Being a veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write [...]
• It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s ...
  On Monday evening a helicopter near Los Angeles filmed what appeared to be a rocket or missile launch some 35 miles west of Los Angeles. The government immediately denied any knowledge of a missile launch, and after much speculation in the media and on the Internet, a few days later the case was sol ...

FourWinds10

• Happy dolphins update on Hutchison-Lazaryan freque ...
• Lab Evidence Refutes BP's and Fed's Deceptions - T ...
  Evidence Refutes BP's and Fed's Deceptions In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. Laboratory test re ...
• University Group Raises Concerns About BP Oil Spil ...
  Over the Labor Day weekend, the Perdido Bay Mullet Festival in Lillian, Alabama had to do something it's never had to do before -- substitute catfish for mullet. Why? Because, according to event organizer Bill Cornell, the company that supplies the mullet for the annual festival "didn’t feel good ab ...
• WATCH: Feds Says It's Illegal to Dig in the Sand
  VIEW VIDEO http://www.thefoxnation.com/justice/2010/09 /20/watch-feds-says-its-illegal-dig-sand � Sept. 21, 2010
• Reign of Eco-Terror, False Flags, or Strange Accid ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Cellulosic Ethanol Reality Begins to Set In
  Join the forum discussion on this post Delusional Mandates It is hard to believe that just a few short years ago, Congress mandated a massive increase in usage of cellulosic ethanol. This was remarkable, because no commercial cellulosic ethanol facilities even existed at the time. But people like ...
• Rank the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010
  Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010 is now open and will remain open until Christmas: The top 10 survey: what were the biggest oil stories of 2010? They listed about 40 stories; I pulled out a list below that I think is worth debating ...
• Addressing Oil Company Subsidies
  Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent essay on the elimination of the VEETC, the major ethanol subsidy in the U.S., some ethanol supporters argued for continuing the subsidies because oil companies receive subsidies. There are many versions of the oil subsidy argument – some of ...
• Taxpayer Subsidized Ethanol Exports May Bite Indus ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Ulterior Motives Behind the Ethanol Pipeline? Ethanol producers in the Midwest have lobbied for support to build a pipeline to ship their ethanol to the East Coast. As I have argued, given that the market for ethanol is nowhere close to being saturated in the ...
• Addressing the Ethanol Rhetoric Over the Expiring ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Ethanol Rhetoric Ramps Up It has been interesting to watch the flurry of ethanol rhetoric since the recent elections. With the $0.45 per gallon subsidy (called the VEETC) and the ethanol tariffs both set to expire at the end of next month, both sides feel ...

Discovery Educator Network

• 21centuryedtech - home
  Tags: scratchby: Cheryl Lykowski
• iPad and iPod Touch Handouts | Teaching with Techn ...
  Comments:Special education resources for use with an iPad and iPod Touch. Handouts provided in PDF format. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, teaching, technology, ipodby: Dean Mantz
• "I Don't Get It" - How to Get Your Students Thinki ...
  Comments:Nice list of web 2.0 tools that provide opportunity for creativity and engagement. - Dean MantzTags: thinking, creativity, education, web2.0, tools, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• Wix.com advent created by ktenkely based on Kinder ...
  Tags: advent, wix, ilearn, KellyTenkely, web2.0, tools, education, elementaryby: Dean Mantz
• Bright ideas
  Comments:Site developed in Australia provides a wealth of Web 2.0 tools, integration ideas, and tutorials for successful engagement. - Dean MantzTags: blog, Web2.0, education, library, resources, tools, ideas, creativity, learningby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Exclusive Recipes from the White House Holiday Men ...
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Abigail Adams was the first to use one of the state rooms in the White House for something other than its intended purpose. She will always be remembered for hanging her laundry in the East Room. Following in her footsteps yesterday, the current first lady turned the ...
• 5 Options for Maxing Out on Omega-3s (and Maybe Pr ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In a brand-new study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Harvard researchers found that a certain form of omega-3 fatty acids called DHA can help protect you from the gum disease periodontitis. The scientists believe the anti-inflammatory action of ...
• Government Takeover of Your Garden? What the Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—On Tuesday, the Senate passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) and finally instituted provisions that will, hopefully, make Salmonella-tainted spinach and poisonous peanut butter things of the past. Though it's intended to make our food system safer, the bill has ...
• The Nickel Pincher: Invest a Little Time in Homema ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Stocks are the good cook's secret weapon. They impart a rich flavor to your dishes and allow you to get every last shred of goodness out of bits of foods that would otherwise be discarded or composted, such as bones and vegetable peels. Stocks can be made for the cost of the ...
• New Vitamin D Guidelines Call for Triple the D
  RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—The National Institute of Medicine has spoken: Scratch another nutrient from the list of those that promise eternal life, or at the very least protection against cancer, heart attacks, and strokes. The panel that looked at 1,000 published studies to come up with the ne ...

big think

• Financial Planners And The Art Of Shell Cracking
  Yesterday my boss asked me a question out of the blue.  “Didn’t you used to sell stocks?” “A long time ago,” I said. And with that, he began to tell me the story of an orphan IRA he had that had been floating around the ether of the financial services world for over twenty years, shuffled from ...
• 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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• Tax Cut Rorschach
  Tax cuts are in the eye of the beholder. The House voted today 234 to 188 to extend the Bush tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year. The vote was mostly split along party lines, with Democrats voting for the extension and Republicans voting against it. Democrats say they’re voting to ...

Information Liberation

• Harper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileak ...
  In a shockingly flippant comment to a Canadian television news anchor Evan Solomon of the CBC News Network on live TV, Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today called for the assassination of...
• The Unintended Humor in Wikileaks Criticism
  Sheldon Richman, in the Christian Science Monitor (*Bradley Manning isn*t a Criminal; He*s a Hero,* Nov. 29),* raised the issue of the American public*s right to know about government operations overseas for which they *could suffer retaliation.** Ex...
• The Proper Response to Wikileaks
  President Obama is wrong, and Secretary Clinton is wrong. Those remoras of state at CNN, FOXNews, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR and many Congressmen are all wet in their frantic response to Cablegate, and Wikileaks in general. I*ll admit the U...
• Homeland Security Admits That It's The Private Pol ...
  We've been quite concerned about the legality of Homeland Security's domain name seizures -- especially in cases where they took down sites that had a ton of legitimate content, such as various hip hop blogs, with no due process and no adversarial he...
• Mainstream Press Seems To Think Fighting For Civil ...
  We've already pointed out how many mainstream newspapers and magazines have been mocking the concerns of people who are upset by the TSA's new search procedures. And, of course, the latest is that the press has decided this story is over because not...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nationa ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
• Stealing Democracy?
  G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

• Sifting Through the Fallout from Wikileaks
  The ongoing release of U.S. diplomatic communications by the Wikileaks organization is “embarrassing” and “awkward,” said Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates yesterday, but its consequences for U.S. foreign policy are likely to be “fairly modest.” “I’ve heard the impact of these releases on our for ...
• Kim Philby on Truth in Diplomatic Cables
  As confidential U.S. diplomatic documents continue to enter the public domain, it is worth remembering that not everything that is written down in a government document, even (or especially) in a classified document, is necessarily true.  “Truth telling” involves a bit more than trafficking in offi ...
• Nuclear Physicist Sam Cohen
  Nuclear physicist Sam Cohen died Sunday at age 89, the Washington Post reported in an obituary today. Cohen, a veteran of the Manhattan Project, conceived, designed and advocated development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation anti-personnel weapon. He cordially despised the Federation of American ...
• Airport Passenger Screening, and More from CRS
  Noteworthy new documents from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf). “Changes in Airport Passenger Screening Technologies and Procedures: Frequently Asked Questions,” November 23, 2010. “North Korea’s 2009 Nuclear T ...
• The Race to Fix the Classification System
  The massive disclosure of a quarter million diplomatic records by Wikileaks this weekend underscores the precarious state of the U.S. national security classification system. The Wikileaks project seems to be, more than anything else, an assault on secrecy.  If Wikileaks were most concerned about wh ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Santa Claus Science
  Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicolas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas. Call him what you will, at this time of year, for children who celebrate everywhere, many questions of a scientific nature arise and parents squirm in their efforts to answer them. Now, Gregory Mone, a contributing editor at Po ...
• Latest scientific discoveries
  Forget fruit and veg. Lose weight and cut the booze to reduce cancer risk People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease. UK trialling testing sugar-coated salt on roads Although they’ve been usi ...
• Science snips
  Yet more science news snippets from David Bradley Related Posts:Periodic Table of Science BloggersMicrobial BioremedySpectral LinesHappy New YearCassini-Huygens newsScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
• Climate change and digital music
  Information technology has a carbon footprint, that’s beyond doubt. Now, writing in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Christopher Weber, Jonathan Koomey and Scott Matthews in the US in work supported by grants from Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation have calculated that ...
• Six science books for the holiday season
  Six science books for the holiday season subjects as diverse as molecular biology pioneer Sydney Brenner, the question of antimatter, how scientists can better explain their research to non-scientists, a history of the chemical elements, scientific feuds and how innovators exploit business and techn ...

RFF Library

• Coalition Letter: Allow Ethanol Supports to Expire
  Coalition VEETC (John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) http://cei.org/sites/default/files/Coalition%20VEETC%20Opposition%20Letter%2011%202010.pdf [H/T: Competitive Enterprise Institute] A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing t ...
• Draft Resolution of the Ocean Protection Council o ...
  California Ocean Protection Council http://tinyurl.com/2g4fuks [From an E&E Daily story by Colin Sullivan, subscription required] A 55-inch sea-level rise by the end of the century combined with a devastating 100-year storm could mean more than $100 billion in property damage and place nearly half a ...
• On the Road to Prosperity? The Economic Geography ...
  World Bank / by Mark Roberts, Uwe Deichmann, Bernard Fingleton and Tuo Shi http://tinyurl.com/29hse58 Over the past two decades, China has embarked on an ambitious program of expressway network expansion. By facilitating market integration, this program aims both to promote efficiency at the nationa ...
• Climate Proofing Infrastructure in Bangladesh: The ...
  World Bank / by by Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huq Khan, Md. Sohel Masud, Manjur Murshed Zahid Ahmed, Nandan Mukherjee, and Kiran Pandey http://tinyurl.com/2espkrv Two-thirds of Bangladesh is less than 5 meters above sea level, making it one of the most flood prone countries in the world. ...
• Climate Change, Agriculture and Poverty
  World Bank / by Thomas W. Hertel and Stephanie D. Rosch http://tinyurl.com/32afs9g Although much has been written about climate change and poverty as distinct and complex problems, the link between them has received little attention. Understanding this link is vital for the formulation of effective ...

Scientific American - News

• Poison Nil: Mono Lake Bacterium Exhibits Exotic Ar ...
  Life as we know it is remarkably diverse and adaptive, permitting organisms to gain a toehold in some of the most outwardly inhospitable places on the planet. But it tends to rely on a tidy, predictable array of six nutrient elements, a modest alphabet of basic biology that leaves open the possibili ...
• WikiLeaks Breach Highlights Insider Security Thre ...
  The ongoing WikiLeaks expos� not only circulated hundreds of thousands of secretive government documents , it has also swiftly prompted changes to the system designed to share access to them. On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department cut off a military computer network's access to its files, dramatic ...
• How Will WikiLeaks Transform Mainstream Media?
  In one bold stroke, the secrets-divulging group WikiLeaks underscored just how easy technology has made it to both steal confidential information and disseminate it globally. Its release of more than 250,000 U.S. embassy cables online November 28 represents the largest set of confidential docu ...
• For the Good of the Gut: Can Parasitic Worms Treat ...
  In 2007, parasite immunologist P'ng Loke sat down for lunch at a University of California, San Francisco, cafeteria with an inquisitive man who had called him earlier that week. Their chosen topic of conversation would deprive many people of an appetite, but the scientist and his guest shared an i ...
• Astronomers Get First Peek at Atmosphere of a "Sup ...
  Someday in the coming years, if astronomers finally succeed in locating a virtual Earth twin outside the solar system--a tiny dot of a world at a temperate, life-enabling distance from a sunlike star--the achievement will hardly be cause for resting on observational laurels. Instead another race wil ...

RAWA News

• Villagers claim deaths, complicating Afghan push
  Associated Press: Locals in this southern Afghan valley have accused U.S. Marines of regularly killing civilians since they launched an aggressive campaign against the Taliban here over a month ago — claims the Marines say are untrue and fueled by insurgent propaganda. But the Marines acknowledge th ...
• Karzai pardons criminals, drug dealers: WikiLeaks
  AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the release of numerous dangerous criminals and drug traffickers detained by US-led coalition forces, leaked American diplomatic cables revealed Tuesday. American officials said they had repeatedly rebuked the president and Afghan attorney general Muham ...
• Hungry for Some Truth on the Afghanistan War
  Huffington Post: When will the Obama administration stop damaging its credibility by denying the failure of the Afghanistan War? It seems every day we get another report showing that the Taliban’s momentum continues despite President Obama’s massive troop increase. But, somehow, the administration's ...
• Good Cop, Bad Cop: Afghanistan’s National Po ...
  CBS: While the Afghan army has made some strides in recent years, the national police force has developed a reputation for drug abuse, illiteracy and desertion. Earlier this month The New York Times reported that up to 19 Afghan police officers from southwest of Kabul defected to the Taliban en mass ...
• AFGHANISTAN: Women remain prisoners
  IRIN: Over 80 percent of Afghan women, particularly in rural areas, are illiterate and have very little or no awareness about their human rights, including the right to a fair trial, according to aid agencies. For a woman to refer a case to the police or a prosecutor is widely believed to be pointle ...

frogblog

• Don’t be so self-deprecating, Idiot/Savant
  Idiot/Savant from NoRightTurn blogged today in response to his nomination for Amnesty International’s  Aotearoa NZâs Human Rights Defender Award saying: While I’m flattered, its clear from the list that I do not belong on it. The other nominees are doing real work which changes th ...
• No time to take in the view on Waterview
  Things are not looking good for the Environmental Protection Authority. We supported the bill that will properly create the agency but with considerable reservations, and already it is clear that community groups wanting to participate in EPA processes are being hamstrung by the imp ...
• A new Green baby
  Amidst the tragedy of the last few weeks I have been blessed by the miracle of new life. Two weeks ago, my wife Meghan gave birth at home to a gorgeous baby girl, Zoe Elizabeth. She’s my second (and last!) child and I’m stoked that she’s happy and healthy, as is mum. Like the Chines ...
• For Andrew Little and all EPMU staff and members
  For Andrew Little and all EPMU staff and members Kia Ora Koutou, On behalf of all the MPs, members and staff of the Green Party we want to extend our deepest sympathy and our solidarity to you all. Words are inadequate to express our immense feelings of horror, devastation and helpl ...
• NZ Youth Delegation: Our best reps at Cacun
  I’ve been meaning to blog on the Cop16 UN Climate Change Conference that kicked off in Cacun yesterday, but there hasn’t been much news forthcoming other than the traffic jams that kept delegates and foreign dignitaries trapped in buses for hours yesterday. Luckily, New Zealand has ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
  The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...
• As Western Civilization Lies Dying
  The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
• Is Perfect Research Possible
  Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
  No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
• Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
  Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The Latest From Glenn B.
  Email of the day, from a regular correspondent: Glenn Beck was in rare form last night....For all practical purposes, he claimed that the fall of the Roman Republic — and the roots of the Roman Empire and its version of National Socialism — was precipitated by redistribution of wealth, by land-grab ...
• Afghanistan Shocker: Corruption is Rampant
  According to the New York Times, embassy cables from Afghanistan describe it as a "looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest man is a distinct outlier." But hey — at least there are occasional victories. Remember the mayor of Kabul, who got tossed in ja ...
• Who Gets Blamed for Higher Taxes?
  Jon Chait responds today to a David Leonhardt column suggesting the Democrats will inevitably get blamed if the Bush tax cuts expire and everyone's taxes go up: The idea here is that, if taxes go up, Democrats will get stuck with the blame because everybody knows Republicans hate taxes. It's not th ...
• Chart of the Day: Tax Cut Fever
  Speaking of tax cuts, I thought everyone should see a nice picture that compares the Obama position with the Republican position. As you can see, under the Obama plan (in blue) everyone gets a tax cut. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, your average middle class household gets a cut of $9 ...
• Barack Obama: President, not King
  Email from a moderate lefty friend: We crossed the Tipping Point yesterday. Last night L told me she's "over" Obama and thinks he's in over his head, politically. Up until yesterday, she was a die-hard supporter/defender. I'm nearly there. I don't think he or his advisors have any idea how fast hi ...

Insanity Report

• IC 213: The Day After 4 Loko
  Topics for the show: The first show after the 4 Loko Podcast Party Rules for drinking How did we not die or get Herpes in College? Lebron goes back to Cleveland Kriss hates personal fouls and the lax punishment for fighting in the NFL Obama is caving on the Bush Tax cuts? WikiLeaks leaks the [...] ...
• Someone Get Julian Assange a Hot Cup of STFU
  Every time WikiLeaks drops thousands of “shocking leaked government documents” on the web, people ask me to comment on it. I guess because I always talk about politics, I’m supposed to care about this stuff. Well the truth is I don’t. I guess I don’t understand why I should be shocked that these cab ...
• Someone Get Julian Assange a Hot Cup of STFU
  Every time WikiLeaks drops thousands of “shocking leaked government documents” on the web, people ask me to comment on it. I guess because I always talk about politics, I’m supposed to care about this stuff. Well the truth is I don’t. I guess I don’t understand why I should be shocked that these cab ...
• Movie Review: Faster
  Finallyâ¦the Rock has come BACK… to making adult films.  And itâs about time.  Itâs been a while since we saw Dwayne Johnson in a film where he was just some big, mean guy who hurts people.  Johnsonâs last few films have left some of his earlier fans wondering if they would ever see him in [...] ...
• IC 212: The Chitlin Circuit 4Loko Podcast Party P ...
  Topics for the show: We continue with the marathon show talking about all kinds of random things Lebron James as the Kanye West of the NBA The Art of talking shit in Basketball The President goes hard in the paint A Diary of a Tired Black Man and the problem with men who are bitter [...]

Simple Climate

• China-US conflict reveals central climate issue
  Current climate negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, suggest that economic growth-obsessed nations should focus more on recognising and accepting their environmental responsibility.
• Simple Climate poll part 2: One-liners and metapho ...
  Vote for your favourite from six more scientists' attempts to help me clearly communicate climate change, and discuss how effective they are.
• Methane release undermines CO2 emissions slowdown
  Despite a 1.3 percent CO2 drop from 2008 to 2009, atmospheric greenhouse gas levels reach a record thanks in part to natural methane release, likely from warming in the Arctic.
• Pick the best Simple Climate change explanation
  So far this year 26 scientists have provided Simple Climate with straightforward explanations of climate change situation. Help choose the best of seven explanations of the underlying physics in the first stage of the poll that will select a reader's favourite by the end of the year.
• Extra satellite records settle tropospheric warmin ...
  Additional sets of data have been vital in correcting the initial measurements of the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth, which showed no warming trend, to match other records demonstrating climate change. That's according to a review of 40 years of tropospheric temperature research by a t ...

e!Science News

• Relationship-strengthening class improves life for ...
  Expectant parents who completed a brief relationship-strengthening class around the time their child was born showed lasting effects on each family member's well being and on the family's overall relationships, according to a recent Penn State study. read more
• Kicking the habit: Study suggests that quitting sm ...
  Quitting smoking is certainly healthy for the body, but doctors and scientists haven't been sure whether quitting makes people happier, especially since conventional wisdom says many smokers use cigarettes to ease anxiety and depression. In a new study, researchers tracked the symptoms of depression ...
• Smoking may thin the brain
  Many brain imaging studies have reported that tobacco smoking is associated with large-scale and wide-spread structural brain abnormalities. read more
• Stigma deters those with alcohol disorders from se ...
  Despite the existence of effective programs for treating alcohol dependencies and disorders, less than a quarter of people who are diagnosed actually seek treatment. In a recent study by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health researchers report that people diagnosed with alcoholism at ...
• Researchers find mathematical patterns to forecast ...
  Researchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) and the Universidad de Sevilla (US) have found patterns of behaviour that occur before an earthquake on the Iberian peninsula. The team used clustering techniques to forecast medium-large seismic movements when certain circumstances coincide. ...

unEarthed

• For The Cost Of a Few Cupcakes...
  Superfund site in Idaho On Dec. 11 the federal Superfund program turns 30. Which means? Time for cupcakes! Actually, the cupcakes arrived early -- on Wednesday -- when environmental groups including Earthjustice delivered th ...
• West's Waterways Still Soaked in Pesticides
  Let's face it, the U.S. is awash in pesticides and some are quite deadly to America's wildlife. The Environmental Protection Agency is the government group responsible for signing off on pesticides before they are allowed for use and is supposed to stop the really bad ones. In going about this tas ...
• In Cancun On A Mission of Urgency
  (Editor's Note: Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal are blogging from the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Mexico. This is their first dispatch.) It is with some urgency that my colleague Erika Rosenthal and I have come to Canc�n to participate in the U.N. climate n ...
• Something's Fishy
  Photo: NOAA On the eve of Thanksgiving, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission filed court papers arguing that they shouldn’t be held accountable for the steep population col ...
• Let's Hear It For New York, New York...
  New Yorkers should be proud of their lawmakers today. On their first day back in session, members of the New York State Assembly voted to approve a temporary moratorium on the controversial form of gas extraction known as hydra ...

Brave New Climate

• The arithmetic adds up to nuclear
  Yesterday, The Australian newspaper published an Op Ed piece by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook, entitled Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind, which discusses our recent paper in Energy. The print (dead tree) version of the article even had the graph shown here included! However, the editor h ...
• Nuclear is the least-cost, low-carbon, baseload po ...
  This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also [.. ...
• The effect of cutting CO2 emissions to zero by 205 ...
  Guest Post by Dr Tom M. L. Wigley. Tom is a a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and former Director of the CRU. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. For his list of papers and citations, click here (hi ...
• SNE 2060 – a multi-source energy supply scenario
  In this post, I develop a hypothetical multi-energy-supply scenario for global low-emissions electricity in ~2060. The assumed energy mix is 75 % nuclear fission and 25 % non-nuclear sources, with fossil fuel use virtually eliminated except where it is used with carbon capture and storage. The % ann ...
• Systems modelling for synergistic ecological-clima ...
  For those interested in my current science research directions, I’ve just been funded for another 4 years by the Australian Research Council as a Professorial “Future Fellow“, to continue my work on stochastic systems modelling and scenario optimisation. Here are some details on the project: Title: ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Republicans Are Herd Animals
  The tea bag caucus, it turns out, got over One Billion in PORK. Whoda thunkit…
• Republicans Won’t Be Happy Until…
  Republicans won’t be happy until everyone in America is either a billionaire, or living in their car. These sadistic bastards would rather watch Americans freeze to death because their unemployment ran out than make billionaires pay more taxes. I hope Satan has an extra hot place for every single Re ...
• Republican Election Strategy for 2012
  Here it is… “Elect Republicans and then we will then stop sabotaging our nation’s economy.” How many will buy it?
• Only in America – Treason Pays
  Only in America does a political party (Republicans) score political points by trying to destroy presidents of the opposite party. In today’s world, halting the economic recovery, and neglecting to watch nukes in Russia is “good” political strategy.  Lowering taxes on corporations that are already ...
• Sorry Sarah
  The staff at RepublicansAreADisease.com would spend a little time mocking you if you weren’t such low hanging fruit. By all means keep it up! Guess what Sarah. I can see the Russians kicking our nuke inspectors out as I type….

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

• EXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE ~ Ben Bernanke: Public En ...
  In this new music video, for the song "Mr. Big Shot" by Pilot Rai, we feature leading members of the Global Banking Cartel: Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and Jamie Dimon. We also feature the cartel’s puppet president, Barack Obama.
• Revolution Roundup #2: As Mass Rebellion Spreads T ...
  The Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO) rages on... Over the past few days the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria and Portugal have all held massive demonstrations against the Global Banking Cartel.
• High Frequency Terrorism: How the Big Banks and Fe ...
  By David DeGraw & Max Keiser The stock market plunge on May 6th was an act of domestic financial terrorism in America. A day that will live in infamy.
• The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s ...
  Democracy is devolving into fascism before our eyes, the "iron law of oligarchy" is once again asserting itself. You cannot have a concentration of vast wealth and Democracy at the same time, and we currently have the greatest concentration of wealth in history...
• Take Action! How We Can Save OUR Economy
  AmpedStatus has joined a new coalition to fight for economic justice. We are sick of reporting upon the crimes of Wall Street and watching our future go up in flames without any accountability or measures being taken to defend against blatant criminality. The Wall Street Elite have controlled our po ...

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• Israel’s deadliest fire: Eli Yishai must go
  If Israel’s PM doesn’t show his racist and incompetent Interior Minister the way out immediately â he should face consequences, too. Israelis and international forces are still fighting the fire that started yesterday morning on the Carmel Mountain near Haifa. 41 people, most of them from Israel’s p ...
• Zionist, Yes; Progressive, maybe
  When push comes to shove, many progressive Zionists will let their Zionism trump their progressiveness by Jerry Haber I have never accepted the view that “progressive Zionist” is an oxymoron (well, there goes half of my readership). For one thing, “progressive” or “liberal” (synonymous, for the p ...
• Yediot: security establishment warns of a Palestin ...
  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 ...
• Watch: Joseph Dana discusses Wikileaks, new media ...
  Watch 972’s Joseph Dana in an interview for GRITtv “There’s a lot of Palestinian Gandhis,” says writer and filmmaker Joseph Dana.  But up until recently, it was nearly impossible for everyday people around the world to hear their stories. That’s changing with social media, he points out, and with t ...
• Maariv: Israel signs major security agreement with ...
  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 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Water Market Reports online through the National ...
  Water market reporting is now available at www.nationalwatermarket.gov.au, Water Minister, Tony Burke, announced today.
• $492,000 to expand the Tasmanian devil insurance ...
  Efforts to establish a healthy Tasmanian devil insurance population have been bolstered with $492,000 from the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Grants scheme.
• Irrigation infrastructure efficiency grants progr ...
  South Australian River Murray irrigation operators are invited to apply for Australian Government funding to improve water efficiency and return water to rivers and wetlands.
• Television recycling free of charge
  People in regional South Australia and Broken Hill will be able to drop off their broken and obsolete TVs free of charge under an initiative sponsored by the Australian, South Australian and New South Wales Governments.
• 1800 new affordable homes for Victorian communiti ...
  Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Tom Ice- Foreclosure Champion and Finalist for Flo ...
  As most of you are aware, Tom Ice and his team at Ice Legal have been very, very effective in this Foreclosure War that we’re all in.  The entire system of justice and the larger efforts to protect our courts and our clients have benefited from their appeals, depositions and the other excellent leg ...
• Service of Process Problems Are The Next Boot To D ...
  If you’re not already examining them closely, make it a habit of getting out the magnifying glass and scrutinizing all documents related to service of process.  Have a read on this new opinion and consider how we’ve just ignored one of the most important players in all of this…and particularly so i ...
• Another MASSIVE victory- Curious Implications!?!
  One of the issues we’ve been hammering about for some time is the fact that virtually every affidavit submitted in support of summary judgment of foreclosure in Florida does not comply with the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Specifically, I’ve virtually never seen an affidavit that complies with ...
• Awesome Capacity Transcript And a Terrifying Video
  CAPACITYTRANSCRIPT TERRIFYING VIDEO Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Our Government Tossed Out Billions of Dollars of O ...
  I guess we’ve lost the ability to be angry anymore in this country, but give this a read…. After years of stonewalling by the Fed, the American people are finally learning the incredible and jaw-dropping details of the Fed’s multi-trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and corporate America. Sen. Be ...

abelard - news

• spain's failing socialists forced into right wing ...
  Socialist dogma bites the dust in the face of reality.
• new evidence for cosmological constant | science a ...
  Albert Einstein - what a man! Even his so called "biggest blunder" helps to explain why the universe is as it is.
• will ireland accept the stitch up? | economics new ...
  Why do banks, in this case the ECB, always bleed those having problems? This bailout looks very unhelpful to Ireland, but what else can it do while still trapped in the Eurozone?
• labour and liberals and eugenics - the clown and b ...
  Origins and driving force behind so many of recent UK Labour/Socialist politicians, or why socialist make the poor poorer.
• government interference in net freedom of speech | ...
  Government or their subsidiaries starting to take unreasonable control over Internet freedom of speech.

The Parallel Parliament

• Nip and Cut
  Well, Movember is over. The effort by some 80 MPs, their staffs and security guards on the Hill came out of nowhere in late-October and became the talk of the Commons for a month. Barely even mentioned a year ago, Justin Trudeau helped to bring the effort to Ottawa and it created some interesting dy ...
• They’re Just Tea Leaves
  I walked into the House of Commons early yesterday and ran into a couple of journalists waiting to talk to any MP they could find about their thoughts on the by-elections. It was supposed to be Michael Ignatieff’s “Waterloo,” according to pundits, yet the mood of the journalists was sombre at best. ...
• Ever Met A Prince?
  While the political and journalistic worlds will be over-examining the tea leaves left over from yesterday’s by-elections, the results themselves don’t show any defining trends. The Conservative win in Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette was predicted, but Julian Fantino’s slim margin of victory in Vaughan ...
• Carry Protection
  There’s something about Armatec that gets to me. Its talented engineers spend their time designing systems that protect our troops as they are ferried across the rugged terrain of Afghanistan in armoured personnel carriers. They are operating in a niche that, regardless of one’s opinion of the war i ...
• It’s A Crime
  Normally, I wouldn’t weigh in on a by-election, opting to let democracy run its course. Trouble is, the current political slugfest underway in Vaughn, Ontario has some remarkably undemocratic aspects to it. Julian Fantino is the star candidate for the Conservatives in the contest, but for most campa ...

Vaccine Awakening

• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
• Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
  by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
• Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
• Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
  By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...
• Doctor-Heroes Standing For Better Vaccine Science
  by Barbara Loe Fisher The cry that was heard around the world in the early 1980's, when mothers and fathers realized an old, crude pertussis vaccine was killing and damaging the brains of their children, is being echoed today by new generations of parents struggling to raise vaccine injured childre ...

2020 Science

• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Forum ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it comes to technology ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend a good portion of my “inst ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: Feed ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation being organized by the Ri ...
• Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heated pr ...
  Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But on my initial ...
• Spiders, silk and a transgenic goat – the complex ...
  Last week while at the NISE Net network-wide meeting, I was fortunate enough to see a preview of part of NOVA’s forthcoming series Making Stuff. The series focuses on the wonders of modern materials science. But rather than coming away enthralled by the ingenuity of scientists, I found myself breaki ...

Reader Supported News

• Nigeria 'to Charge Dick Cheney' in Alleged Bribery ...
  The report begins: "Nigerian authorities plan to file charges against ex-US Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal allegedly involving energy firm Halliburton, a spokesman for the anti-graft agency said Thursday." Former Vice President Dick Cheney in a cowboy hat, 06/15/09. (photo: Pub ...
• House to Vote on Tax Cuts for Middle Class Only
  "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Wednesday that the House will vote Thursday on a bill to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts - but not for higher-income Americans." A plan to vote separately on tax cuts for the middle class has 'been on the table,' Steny Hoyer said, 12/01/10. (photo ...
• Republicans Block School Lunch Bill
  "House Republicans have temporarily blocked legislation to feed school meals to thousands more hungry children." First Lady Michelle Obama talks with students as they taste fresh vegetables at an elementary school in Miami, 11/22/10. (photo: AP) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Nigeria 'to Charge Dick Cheney' in Alleged Bribery ...
  The report begins: "Nigerian authorities plan to file charges against ex-US Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal allegedly involving energy firm Halliburton, a spokesman for the anti-graft agency said Thursday." Former Vice President Dick Cheney in a cowboy hat, 06/15/09. (photo: Pub ...
• House to Vote on Tax Cuts for Middle Class Only
  "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Wednesday that the House will vote Thursday on a bill to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts - but not for higher-income Americans." A plan to vote separately on tax cuts for the middle class has 'been on the table,' Steny Hoyer said, 12/01/10. (photo ...

War Resisters League

• Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea - ...
  President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the Kore ...
• IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
  Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
• Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
  Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
• International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
  Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...
• March for Justice on October 2!
  What: One Nation Working Together Who: A broad-based national coalition of labor, racial and economic justice groups, community organizations, and antiwar organizations. Where: Washington D.C. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial When: Saturday, October 2 Dear fellow War Resisters, As the U.S. expen ...

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) ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
• Obama's Indecent Interval
  Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
• Divide and Conquer
  At an upcoming conference in London, the Afghan government will unveil its plan to bring the Taliban rank and file back into the political fold -- and plead for international assistance for its new initiative. 

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• NEB should reject unsustainable Mackenzie gas proj ...
  Government refusal to implement panel recommendations undermines sustainability Sierra Club Prairie Ecojustice ...
• New Pembina analysis shows Canada falling behind t ...
  Pembina Institute 2 Dec 2010 OTTAWA — Detailed analysis released today by the Pembina Institute examines the structure and significance of the Obama Administration's plans to start reg ...
• CAPP withdraws yogurt ad in response to Sierra Clu ...
  Sierra Club Canada 30 Nov 2010 Ottawa – Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) Council has ruled the contents of the tar sands tailings ponds are “essentially like yogurt” in response to a ...
• Pembina Institute to release new analysis of U.S. ...
  Experts available to comment on the upcoming U.S. EPA regulations and their implications for Canada in advance of a technical briefing on Thursday Pembina Institute ...
• Alberta Shines As Minister Withdraws Bill 29
  The bill threatened the natural integrity of Alberta's parks CPAWS Southern Alberta CPAWS Northern Alberta ...

Stop NATO

• U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan Wa ...
  Stop NATO December 2, 2010 U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan War Rick Rozoff Over 150,000 foreign troops from more than fifty nations will spend another Christmas in Afghanistan. The tenth since the U.S. and Britain invaded the nation on October 7, 2001 and the North Atlantic Treaty Or ...
• U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain ...
  Stop NATO November 24, 2010 U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance Rick Rozoff This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preside ...
• Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
  Stop NATO November 22, 2010 Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force Rick Rozoff The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the wa ...
• NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
  Stop NATO November 19, 2010 NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Operations Rick Rozoff As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unveils its first 21st century strategic doctrine in Lisbon this week, its first ground war and war outside Europe is in its tenth year with no end in sight. Th ...
• World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its ...
  Stop NATO November 9, 2010 World’s Sole Military Superpower Extends Its Reach: Radio interview with Rick Rozoff on the In Context show. http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46842 Click arrow on lower right hand of page. Click to enlarge: U.S. Unified Combatant Commands: Northern Command, South ...

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Intel Hub

• Israel Faces Child-Abuse Claims
  Al Jazeera An international children’s rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them. The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affa ...
• Japan Confirms Detection of Avian Flu In Dead Bird ...
  23,000 chickens to be slaughtered in Shimane after avian flu detected in dead birds The Mainichi Daily News The Shimane Prefectural Government began to slaughter over 23,000 chickens at a poultry farm in the prefecture on Nov. 30 after five found dead there the previous day tested positive for highl ...
• NASA Discovery Redefines Life As We Know It
  The Intel Hub On Thursday December 2nd, NASA held a press conference regarding breakthroughs in the field of astrobiology. The findings were startling to say the least. Felisa Wolf-Simon is a NASA astrobiology research fellow for the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Felisa Is part of ...
• 1,000-Man Militia Being Trained In North Somalia, ...
  By KATHARINE HOURELD NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – In the northern reaches of Somalia and the country’s presidential palace, a well-equipped military force is being created, funded by a mysterious donor nation that is also paying for the services of a former CIA officer and a senior ex-U.S. diplomat. The As ...
• Lieberman Has Power To Shut Down Websites With A P ...
  Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Senator Joe Lieberman, the man behind legislation to give President Obama a kill switch for the Internet in the move towards a Chinese-style government controlled world wide web, now has the power to shut down websites with a mere phone call, as was underscored yester ...

FRS

• Philippine government negotiator and Luis Jalandon ...
  BBC News Asia-Pacific, 2 December 2010 Peace talks have been suspended since 2004 Representatives of the Philippines government and of the country’s Communist Party are meeting in Hong Kong to find a way to reopen peace talks. The government’s chief negotiator Alexander Padilla is meeting with Luis ...
• Nepal: With India on the UN Security Council, UCPN ...
  (IANS) With India assuming a seat on the UN Security Council after 19 years, Nepal’s opposition Maoist party will have to do some quick rethink of its old strategy of projecting the southern neighbour as its arch enemy. As the former guerrillas ready for a fresh round of deliberations at their centr ...
• National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Minda ...
  Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos, Spokesperson, National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Mindanao November 28, 2010 “This vicious systemic exploitation and oppression, which has compelled the Filipino people to rise in revolution, is the root of un-peace. Therefore, true sovereignty from imperialist domi ...
• Brazil: Two articles on the struggles of the Yanom ...
  Survival International: Yanomami and Yekuana Indians of northern Brazil held a protest this week to denounce the illegal invasion of Yanomami land by goldminers and to demand that the authorities take action to remove them. The protest took place outside the office of FUNAI (the Brazilian government ...
• WikiLeaks: Abbas and Egypt knew about Israel&#8217 ...
  November 30 2010 Reuters Jerusalem – Israel conferred with the Western-backed Palestinian leadership and with Egypt ahead of its 2008-2009 attack on the Gaza Strip, leaked US diplomatic cables quote a senior Israeli official as saying. The disclosures, made by the WikiLeaks site, presented a possibl ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Getting shot at by Israelis in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
  Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine. So today we expressed our solidarity by painting messages of support on a wall in Beit Hanoun and demonstrating against the ongoing siege of Gaza. Despite this entire event being completely peaceful on our end, Israelis shot ...
• My mum interviewed by Salem News
  A lovely story by Salem News in which my mother is interviewed. It is indeed the boundless, unconditional love that she gave to me that is responsible for any good deed I have done in my life. If only every child were given the same, we would have a better world within one generation.� Thank [...]
• Truth Behind Blockade of Gaza – As Revealed ...
  News Release – For immediate release – Thursday, October 21, 2010 Due to Gisha’s Freedom of Information Act Petition on Gaza Closure: Israel Reveals Documents related to the Gaza Closure Policy à After 1.5 years of obstruction, today Israel revealed the procedures governing the closure of Gaza and t ...
• Road to Hope convoy stalled at Egyptian border
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Road to Hope convoy stalled at Egyptian border The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy continues its role in the international community’s collective mission to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver desperately needed aid to the people of Palestine in Gaza.  The convoy c ...
• Road to Hope Convoy Press Release – November ...
  PRESS RELEASE 1 November 2010 Road to Hope (R2H) Convoy in Positive Dialogue with Egyptian Officials Access to Gaza via Egypt looking likely � Arriving at the Libyan/Egyptian border on 26 October, 2010, the Road to Hope Convoy continues to wait at the border.   However, over the last two days increa ...

StillSmallVoice

• Hello, gentle reader.
  It is a testament to how badly I am running my life that I pull up in December and still have vacation days. Ask any one. This never happens. And so I'm taking the next few Fridays off, and you should do. Enjoy your long weekend break from me, and I shall do the same.
• Christian patriarchy suggests girls skip school
  It gets worse. You can read about the movement here. You can read more about Vision Forum here. You can order one of their books here. And thanks, Sharon, for the link. Flickr photo
• Is it art? Or is it blasphemy? And does it matter?
  A Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibit on gender and sexual identity is minus one installation after protests moved the museum to remove a�video of an ant-covered Jesus.� The video was the particular�bane of The Catholic League, which called it "hate speech," and certain members of Congres ...
• My first Hanukkah present arrived!
  My friend Audrey sent it to me! I'm assuming there will be more to follow? No? I'm handing out the chocolate gelt�right now, and wishing everyone within the sound of this blog a Happy Hanukkah!
• The most boring day?
  A British-trained�computer scientist says that was April 11, 1954. Do you agree? I'd have to say it was March 3 of this yar. You? Flickr photo

Associated Content

• Department of Defense Has Stopped Expelling Gays f ...
  The last expulsion happened on Oct. 21, yet the current political climate may not change the actual law for the next two years.Contributor: William Browning Published: Dec 02, 2010
• Qatar Voted Home of 2022 FIFA World Cup
  Qatar is the recently announced host for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Here is some information about this Middle Eastern country.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Dec 02, 2010
• NASA's Newly Discovered Life Form Not Extraterrest ...
  You just knew that when scientists uncovered the existence of a new life form in the universe that it was going to be in California, home of new trends and bizarre lifestyles, Hollywood imaginations and philosophic creativity. And so it has come...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Dec 02, 2010

  Blacklisted News

  • Goldman Sachs Regularly Borrowed From 2 Different ...
  • Federal Reserve May Be `Central Bank of the World' ...
  • Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate ...
  • Federal Reserve's 'astounding' report: We loaned b ...
    $9 trillion in funds to borrowers such as Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, largely at interest rates below 1 percent.
  • Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs
    Device fingerprinting is a powerful emerging tool in this trade. It's "the next generation of online advertising,"

  The Intelligence Daily

  • Ghost in the Machine: Secret State Teams Up with A ...
    By Tom Burghardt The secret world of “cyber situational awareness” is a...
  • In the Wake of Victory
    By John Michael Greer This has not been an easy week for believers in a brighter future. As I write...
  • US War Casualties Pass 100,000
    By Michael Munk US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan under Commander-in-Chief...
  • U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan Wa ...
    By Rick Rozoff Over 150,000 foreign troops from more than fifty nations will spend another...
  • The New York Times Endorses Haiti’s Coup d’Etat “E ...
    By Stephen Lendman No matter for The New York Times, a notorious voice for wealth and power. On...

  My AntiWar

  • Government Reports Violations of Limits on Spying ...
  • US Troops Take Hard Line to Tame Rebels of Sangin
  • When It Comes to Assange Rape Case, the Swedes Are ...
  • MP Congratulates Aswat al-Iraq on Seymour Hersh Aw ...
  • US Concerned Over Falklands Military Action

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Exclusive: Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strateg ...
    Summary: According to the cable, Dagan continued the meeting by enumerating Israel's "five pillar" strategy on Iran, which he urged that the US and Israel both implement: 1. Political Approach 2. Covert Measures 3. Counterprolifiration 4. Sanctions 5. Force Regime Change source: Raw Story ...
  • Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World?
    Summary: The “Iranian experts” treated the Saudi and Egyptian rulers’ hatred of Iran as a vindication of the U.S. and Israeli governments’ demonization of Iran. Not a single “Iranian expert” was capable of pointing out that the tyrants who rule Egypt and Saudi Arabia fear Iran because the Irania ...
  • Russians Refuted U.S. Claim of Iranian Missile Thr ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Nov 30, 2010 (IPS) - A diplomatic cable from last February released by Wikileaks provides a detailed account of how Russian specialists on the Iranian ballistic missile programme refuted the U.S. suggestion that Iran has missiles that could target European capitals or intend ...
  • Iran offers to hold OPCW workshops
    Summary: OPCW headquarters in The Hague, the NetherlandsTehran has been pushing for the founding of an international support network for the victims of Chemical Warfare (CW). source: Press TVread more
  • Experts cast doubt on Iran missile cache
    Summary: The Musudan is now playing a starring role in reports this week prompted by WikiLeaks' release of U.S. diplomatic cables. One of the documents says that Iran has obtained 19 of the missiles from North Korea, prompting news reports suggesting that the Islamic republic can hit targets in ...

  The Daily Galaxy

  • "Limits of Organic Life": NASA to Search for 'Wei ...
    Yesterday's announcement by NASA of the discovery of the possibility of arsenic-based life in Mono Lake fits hand-in-glove with NASA's strategy to expand the search for life beyond Earth to extreme non-carbon-based life. No discovery that we can make in...
  • Ancient Buried Lakes of the Sahara
    An ancient lake bed 350 kilometers long has been discovered beneath the sands of Egypt's vast Sahara desert. Geologist Ted Maxwell at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, and colleagues examined high resolution pictures (shown below)...
  • The Weekend Debate: NASA's Mono Lake Discovery
    “There is basic mystery, when you look at life. Nature only uses a restrictive set of molecules and chemical reactions out of many thousands available. This is our first glimmer that maybe there are other options,” said Dimitar Sasselov, an...
  • Antarctic Fires
    A team of scientists studying Antarctic ice cores have found surprising evidence of a fluctuating pattern of carbon monoxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere caused by biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere over the past 650 years. The researchers, led...
  • From the X Files Dept: Mystery Air Force Spacecraf ...
    Air Force Space Command says Vandenberg Air Force Base has begun landing preparations for the unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle that has spent seven months in orbit is set to return to Earth at Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of...

  Natural News

  • Radiation scientists agree TSA naked body scanners ...
    (NaturalNews) The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA's naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked body scanners. These include Dr Russe ...
  • New York City to deploy more emergency ambulances ...
    (NaturalNews) The City of New York recently launched a new emergency services pilot program that seems more like something out of a science fiction movie than a real-life initiative. According to a recent New York Times report, the city has begun deploying two emergency ambulances in response to 911 ...
  • Oh Mylanta! Yet another Johnson and Johnson recall
    (NaturalNews) On Wednesday, Johnson and Johnson (J&J) announced yet another recall of two more of its over-the-counter (OTC) drug products. The company has issued a recall for 12 million bottles of its heartburn medicine Mylanta and nearly 85,000 bottles of its antacid liquid AlternaGel, because the ...
  • New vitamin D recommendations promote nutritional ...
    (NaturalNews) Earlier this week, the Institute of Medicine finally got around to reluctantly admitting that people need more vitamin D. Raising the daily intake recommendation from 200 IUs to 600 IUs still leaves most people pitifully vitamin D deficient, and a flood of scientific research that has ...
  • Poor labeling on children's medications causing ov ...
    (NaturalNews) Parents who give their children over-the-counter medicines need to be highly cautious when doing so, say researchers from the New York University School of Medicine. Many children's cough and cold medications, as well as analgesic and gastrointestinal medicines, are often inconsistentl ...

  Threat Level

  • Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
    Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. “The recent dissemination by Wikileaks of thousands of State De ...
  • Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Card ...
    Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows. The document, obtained by security researcher Christopher Soghoian, ...
  • Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial
    LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities in the first-of-its-kind game-console–modding criminal trial abruptly dropped their prosecution here Thursday, “based on fairness and justice.” “The government has decided to dismiss the indictment,” prosecutor Allen Chiu told the judge shortly before the jury was t ...
  • No Deal in Xbox Modding Case, Trial Begins
    LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities in the first-of-its-kind Xbox modding trial opened their prosecution here Wednesday, hours after the judge called a recess to give the government time to reach a plea deal or dismiss the case. The government decided to forge ahead in the landmark trial after U.S. Di ...
  • Salaries of WikiLeaks Staffers to Be Revealed in N ...
    Expenses and salary earnings for paid WikiLeaks staff will be revealed for the first time in a report expected to be published by the end of this year, according to Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for the secret-spilling organization. Hrafnsson, speaking Wednesday in London on a panel discussion at ...

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • Wikileaks Confirms McCain Dangerously Wrong on Geo ...
    Assessing the impact of the Wikileaks revelations, Fareed Zakaria concluded the confidential cables actually show "the skills of U.S. diplomats." Overall, Zakaria was reassured that "the State Department works" and by "an American diplomatic establishment that is pretty good at analysis." But in o ...
  • The "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another" President
    In January 2009, President Obama journeyed to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional Republicans on the stimulus. Unbeknownst to the President, Minority Leader John Boehner had already instructed his entire GOP caucus to vote "no" on the bill they were to discuss with Obama. Now, history is repea ...
  • The Prosecution of Wikileaks
    Just because you can leak embarrassing, classified national security information doesn't mean you should. And just because the American government may be able to prosecute someone for it doesn't mean they should, either. But in the case of the Wikileaks, prosecution - to the extent that U.S. law a ...
  • The Wikileaks of President McCain
    To be sure, Wikileaks' release this weekend of a quarter million diplomatic cables is a devastating blow to the national security interests and foreign policy of the United States. And the secret assessments they contain regarding U.S. allies and potential partners like Germany's Angela Merkel ("av ...
  • Oregon Plots Reveal Dual Terror Threats
    This weekend, Americans learned of a new domestic terror threat in Oregon. According to the FBI, Somali-born student Mohamed Osman Mohamud planned to detonate a bomb during the annual Christmas tree lighting in Portland. But while all eyes are now fixed on the tree lighting plot, down the road in ...

  Blackspot News Feed

  • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
    In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
  • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
    By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
  • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
    When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
  • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
    Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
  • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
    Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

  Consortium News

  • Iran-Nuke NIE Stopped Bush on War
    A US intelligence estimate refuting claims about Iran's nuke plans killed George W. Bush's war option, reports Ray McGovern. November 22, 2010
  • Pat-Down Fury vs. Perfect Security
    America's post-9/11 hysteria may finally be abating as over-the-top airport security outrages the public, says Ivan Eland. November 23, 2010
  • A Dark Humor Pervades US Politics
    Victorious Tea Party Republicans bring to Washington not just their ideas but their own curious reality, observes Don Monkerud. November 22, 2010
  • Obama's Frantic Mideast Peace Gamble
    President Obama begs Israel's Likud government to return to peace talks, offering many incentives, notes Lawrence Davidson. November 22, 2010
  • America's 'Christian Nation' Myth
    A new poll finds a majority of Americans believing the Founders created a "Christian nation," laments Rev. Howard Bess. November 22, 2010

  CounterPunch

  • :
  • Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
  • Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
  • Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
  • Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...

  Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • The roof is now the field (Eva Bartlett, Inter Pr ...
    "We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now," says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip. "Our family is large and thankfully what we grow feed ...
  • Children in Silwan (aic)
  • Palestinians: Israel has chosen West Bank settleme ...
    The United States should openly blame Israel for the "collapse" of the peace process, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday, in one of the bleakest assessments yet on Middle East ...
  • Gazan flowers headed to market in Holland because ...
    This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the "beginning of the export season" in the Gaza Strip. "The export season" entails the continuation of a short-term program, sponsored ...
  • Denounced as a traitor: the Holocaust survivor who ...
    Amid the winding, cobbled streets and art galleries of the holy city of Safed, an ancient stone house has become the centre of a seething tension that some say threatens to open up a new ...

  Water - AlterNet

  • Meet the Billionaire Couple Who Took Over Californ ...
    California's wealthiest growers have ensured that their crops get better -- and cheaper -- water than the people who tend them.
  • How We Lost Our Best Opportunity to Ensure Safer D ...
    We failed to heed the advice of one of the most important reports. Now, dams being built follow no social or environmental standards at all, not even the World Bank's modest ones.
  • Goodbye Fiji Water? Bottling Company Announces It' ...
    The bottled water company is at odds with Fiji's military junta and has announced they're closing their operations. Here's why that's good news.
  • Climate Change Could Cause Half the World to Lose ...
    Climate change scientists believe that a mass global movement to "decarbonize" human activity in order to stay below this temperature is virtually impossible.
  • EPA's Choice This Week: Crucify Appalachia or Stan ...
    After forty years of reckless devastation and criminal violations, the fate of clean water and human rights in the Appalachian coalfields is now in the hands of Lisa Jackson.

  Public Citizen in Texas

  • Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz welcome party ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz, the new Region 6 EPA Administrator welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • 5th Circuit says Sandy Creek does not comply with ...
    Last week, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals awarded a major victory to Public Citizen and Sierra Club in their long standing efforts to block the Sandy Creek coal plant near Waco when it ruled that developers improperly started construction without adequate clearance under the federal Clean Air ...
  • Alliance for Clean Texas Town Hall Meeting in Vict ...
    The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT) hosts another town hall addressing TCEQ sunset. Filed under: Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ Tagged: alliance for a clean texas, clean air, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
  • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • ERCOT Launched the first phase of NODAL
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas ran its “one day-ahead market” under the new nodal configuration yesterday and say that, as of last night, the old zonal market has been laid to rest forever. Nodal is a market redesign and technology upgrade designed to enable location-specific pricing at m ...

  Unexplained Mysteries

  • How often do we lie about going to church ?
    Survey results over 40 years have suggested that up to 22% of Americans lie about going to church. It is believed that 23% of Americans regularly atte...
  • Ancient site of retired gladiators discovered
    An ancient site in Turkey is believed to be the land where gladiators would have lived when they retired. We believe that gladiators retired and live...
  • New rifle uses radio-controlled bullets
    A new US army rifle that will soon go in to operation uses state-of-the-art radio-controlled bullets. The futuristic rifle is able to fire at targets ...
  • Mystery of the green fireballs solved ?
    A series of green fireball sightings in Australia 4 years ago could have been a case of ball lightning. While the possibility exists that the objects ...
  • Radiation ripples suggest many Big Bangs
    Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that the Big Bang might not have been the first or last. Radiation ripples have been discovered that are...

  Grassroots

  • New Map Shows Concentration of Factory Farms
    Subheadline:� Food & Water Watch Analysis Finds Livestock on Factory Farms Grew by 20 Percent in 5 Years Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Food & Water Watch (a Grassroots International ...
  • International Solidarity Cools the Planet
    cancuns.jpg by Sara Mersharead more
  • Rural Women (and Men) Lead the Way in Ending Viole ...
    707729276_d8407e6648_t.jpg � � Today, November 25th, is observed around the world as the International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women. Grassroots International joins women and men everywhere�in calling for an end to all violence � int ...
  • A New Kind of Disaster in Haiti in the Midst of St ...
    un_haiti_tent.jpg Haitian peasant leader, Chavannes Jean Baptiste, put it best: �Haiti is going from disaster to disaster.��He was talking about debilitating disease among displaced people in squalid living conditions, tropical storms destroyi ...
  • How peasant farmers feed the planet
    2010_brazil_site_visit_053.jpg read more

  Climate

  • Warming Could Double Food Prices
    Source:� AP Climate change is a "threat multiplier" that could double grain prices by 2050 and leave millions more children malnourished, global food experts reported Wednesday.
  • India Hopes Climate Auditing Scheme Will Get U.S. ...
    Source:� Reuters An Indian proposal on how rich and poor nations report their actions to fight global warming could help get the U.S. on board for a broad agreement on climate change.
  • Lakes Warming Across the Globe
    Source:� New York Times The worlds largest lakes are warming along with the air -- and sometimes at faster rates -- but the intensity of the warming trend differs strikingly around the globe.
  • EPA Head Lisa Jackson is Prepared for Battle
    Source:� Washington Post Not many Environmental Protection Agency administrators are likely to belt out a Stevie Wonder tune when discussing the importance of air quality. read more
  • Toyota to Make Plug-in Hybrids in China
    Source:� Green Car Congress The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. plans to begin assembling plug-in hybrids in China by 2012.

  GreenBiz

  • Switching to Efficient Lighting Could Save U.S. $9 ...
    A new report looks at the impacts from banning incandescent lightbulbs in 100 countries, finding billions of dollars in potential savings in the U.S. and China, as well as significant carbon reductions.
  • A Primer for Navigating the Energy Management Land ...
    Business leaders increasingly are involved with companywide or multiple-site energy management programs and tools, yet understanding the vendor landscape can be very confusing. This high-level primer divides vendors into nine categories to help companies organize and visualize the 100+ energy manag ...
  • Hospitals Failing to Adopt Energy Efficient Techno ...
    A survey of healthcare professionals finds widespread undervaluing of the energy and cost savings from greening hospitals, even while the majority recognizes the importance and urgency of making healthcare more energy efficient.
  • How Albertsons Achieved Zero Waste at Two Grocery ...
    Now diverting more than two millions pounds of garbage from local landfills, the two Santa Barbara stores have also achieved a goal of making their waste stream "revenue neutral," meaning the combined savings and new revenue streams created by going zero waste are offsetting the cost of handling i ...
  • When 9 Miles per Gallon is a Step in the Right Dir ...
    The EPA's proposed new mileage standards for semi-trucks -- all the way up to 9 mpg -- would actually represent a huge leap forward for fuel efficiency and for the environment.

  Reuters Global

  • It was news, but not as we know it…
    "We end a week of fiction," NASA's Dwayne Brown said.
  • Denuclearising Pakistan
    At about the time WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables, including one related to a secret attempt to remove enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor, a top Pakistani military official held a briefing for journalists that focused on U.S.-Pakistan ties.
  • WikiLeaks Scandal: Is the United Nations a Den of ...
    U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has dismissed suggestions that her diplomats are part-time spies, as suggested by the latest batch of documents released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
  • Wikileaks on Pakistan
    In the Wikileaks reports, the most significant feature for Pakistan may be evidence of rising tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran
  • Are the Taliban distancing themselves from al Qaed ...
    "For the first time, a member of the former Taliban government blames Osama bin Laden for the Sept. 11 attacks."

  Booman Tribune

  • Playtime is Over
    I mean, yeah, you have the high ground, but what are you going to do with it? Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a new dialogue, renewed partisan fury engulfed the Senate on Wednesday, as Republicans threatened to block ...
  • Serious Question
    I wonder if Condi didn't sign it because she doesn't agree with it, or whether the old guys didn't bother to ask. Discuss
  • Selling Off The American Dream
    Happy Holidays to everyone making a Million or more in salary. You have the money to buy whatever your heart desires. For the rest of us? Well, let's just say that many people (especially those losing their unemployment benefits) are in the market -- to sell: With three young children, Kevin H ...
  • Quote of the Day
    It goes to out-going CREW director Melanie Sloan. "It is a sad day for America when the Department of Justice declines to take action against a senator who has violated the law as blatantly as Sen. Ensign," said Melanie Sloan, executive director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Was ...
  • Not Supporting Deficit Recommendations
    If Kent Conrad supports the Deficit Commission's recommendations does that make those recommendations 'bipartisan'? I don't think it does. It shouldn't surprise anyone that that commission couldn't come up with recommendations that can win bipartisan support. The two parties disagree too much. F ...

  European Tribune

  • European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 3 ...
    �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1910 French engineer and...
  • Thursday Open Thread
    Winter's Tale talk......
  • Double Or Bust
    The FT has an article up on five potential scenarios for the eurozone. The first...
  • European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 ...
    �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1891 - birth of...
  • Wednesday Open Thread
    It's December...

  Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

  Therapy News

  • Meeting China’s Mental Health Care Needs
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though China’s economy is rapidly developing, its mental health infrastructure is not keeping pace, according to a feature in the New York Times. Having access to therapy, counseling, and even support groups can go a long way in helping people cope, heal, and strength ...
  • Females and Males Handle Adolescent Turbulence Dif ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s a cliché to say so, but too often we forget: everyone is different. We respond to stresses in different ways and bring different personal histories to everything we encounter. Even in something as seemingly-universal as teenage angst, there’s plenty of variation. ...
  • Therapy at the Doctor’s, or Primary Care at the Th ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Access to therapy and counseling is an important component of health care in its most basic sense. So how do we incorporate better access into our current system, which distinctly divides mental and physical health? Training primary care doctors in some of the mental ...
  • Working with Chronic Pain
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  Mountaintop Removal

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  5+ quakes - 7 days

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  China Dialogue

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  • Addressing an adaptation dilemma
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  AlterNet Top Stories

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  Threat Level

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  War is a Crime.org

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  Grist - News

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    Many of us only reluctantly accept one of life’s toughest lessons. In the course of doing our very best to make a better world–decades all blood, sweat and tears in the face of hideous odds–we may discover ourselves really fouling a few things up. The road to hell, etc., etc. Never realizing our mis ...
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  Solari

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  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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  AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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    (Flickr/Adam Fagen) Statuary Hall. The new Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has ordered the construction of a new women's bathroom closer to the House chamber. At the moment, women have to take a two-minute walk across Statuary Hall to reach the nearest ladies' room.
  • "He Needed a Girl, And He Snatched Me Up."*
    Nicki Minaj, a rapper who has so far fashioned a career out of guest-spots on other albums but is finally promoting her own, appeared on Regis & Kelly today. But instead of just getting to promote her album as a professional, Philbin swatted her on the ass and made an uncomfortable sex joke about ...
  • Our Touch-y Feel-y Troops.
    There was never any question that Republicans, led by John McCain, would kick up a fuss during today’s Senate hearings on whether to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." The only question had been what their strategy would be -- what to do in light of the recently released report by the Department of Def ...

  Buzzflash

  • Pope Should Give Book Money to Children Who From P ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The Pope's made $6 million from his books. To prove that he's not disconnected He should the give royalties to children who From priests were never protected.read more
  • Five Reasons to Care about Haiti’s Sham Elections
    BILL QUIGLEY AND NICOLE PHILLIPS FOR BUZZFLASH Haiti needs legitimate leaders right now.  Unfortunately, the elections set for November 28, 2010 are a sham.  Here are five reasons why the world community should care. First, Haitian elections are supposed to choose their new President, the entire ...
  • "Controversy Follows Sarah Palin Clubbing Fish to ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45181.html#ixzz16gHTPKwu The epitome of today's conservative---all for me, nothing for you!  "A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation ...
  • Republicans Want to Turn America Into a Third Worl ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am14 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_gays_in_military The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ...
  • Seeking Republican Patriots: How Reining in Anon ...
    PAUL LOEB FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT Does Olympia Snowe really want to be the target of waves of anonymous attack ads in support of some conservative primary challenger? Wouldn't a retiring George Voinovich prefer to leave some shards of our democracy off-limits to being sold to the highest bidder? Coul ...

  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • More Joe Lieberman-caused Internet censorship
    Does anyone care that the Connecticut Senator is single-handedly suppressing political content from the Internet?
  • Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
    The Connecticut Senator pressures Amazon to block Americans from viewing WikiLeaks documents
  • The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics
    Applying the principles used to condemn Julian Assange would sweep up many political and media figures
  • WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secret ...
    The strident reactions to the whistleblower site highlight some important attributes of our political culture
  • Two more Iran nuclear scientists attacked with bom ...
    Whoever is responsible for assassinating civilian scientists is guilty of terrorism in the purest form

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

  • Santa Claus Science
    Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicolas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas. Call him what you will, at this time of year, for children who celebrate everywhere, many questions of a scientific nature arise and parents squirm in their efforts to answer them. Now, Gregory Mone, a contributing editor at Po ...
  • Latest scientific discoveries
    Forget fruit and veg. Lose weight and cut the booze to reduce cancer risk People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease. UK trialling testing sugar-coated salt on roads Although they’ve been usi ...
  • Science snips
    Yet more science news snippets from David Bradley Related Posts:Periodic Table of Science BloggersMicrobial BioremedySpectral LinesHappy New YearCassini-Huygens newsScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Climate change and digital music
    Information technology has a carbon footprint, that’s beyond doubt. Now, writing in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Christopher Weber, Jonathan Koomey and Scott Matthews in the US in work supported by grants from Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation have calculated that ...
  • Six science books for the holiday season
    Six science books for the holiday season subjects as diverse as molecular biology pioneer Sydney Brenner, the question of antimatter, how scientists can better explain their research to non-scientists, a history of the chemical elements, scientific feuds and how innovators exploit business and techn ...

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • FTC Releases Promising Report Urging Improved Inte ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2010ACLUThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a promising report today on consumer privacy advocating for the implementation of strong protections for Americans' online activity and urging Internet companies and other industries that handle personal information ...
  • Coalition Demands to Put Access to Quality Afforda ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2010Food & Water Watch - EuropeProposals from the European Commission to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013 show signs of fairer distribution of subsidies, according to the coalition. [1] Despite this positive development the communication came ...
  • Americans United Criticizes Smithsonian For Caving ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2010Americans United for Separation of Church and StateA video that was part of an art exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., should not have been pulled at the behest of government officials and aggressive religious groups, says Americans ...
  • FDA to Hold Hearing on Food Dyes, Children's Behav ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2010CSPIThe news that the Food and Drug Administration, in response to CSPI's 2008 petition, will convene an advisory committee meeting to discuss the link between food dyes and children's behavior is welcome and overdue. Yellow 5, Red 40, and other commonly used ...
  • Action Alert: NYT's Iran Missile Fizzle
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2010Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)A November 29 New York Times article alleging that Iran possesses powerful missiles with "the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe" appears to rest on incredibly shaky evidence--amounting to a German newspaper a ...

  Common Dreams-Views

  • FCC Chairman Announces Fake Net Neutrality Proposa ...
    by Josh SilverThis morning, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he will finally seek a vote on President Obama's top tech issue, "Net Neutrality." Except for one problem: according to the New York Times, it's not even close to the real Net Neutrality that Pr ...
  • Hillary Gets Wiki-Served
    by Robert Scheer Hillary Clinton should cut out the whining about what the Obama administration derides as “stolen cables” and confront the unpleasant truths they reveal about the contradictions of U.S. foreign policy and her own troubling performance. As with the earlier batch of WikiLeaks, in thi ...
  • ‘Disaster Capitalism’ Comes to Ireland
    by Robert E. Prasch“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – Mark Twain read more
  • America's Hitler?
    by Bruce LuskeAmerica's Hitler won't come to us (and soon enough, after many of us) sporting a mustache and military garb. Rather, she is likely to be wearing lipstick, a skirt, high heels, and, as Sinclair Lewis warned, will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. And she'll be smiling and win ...
  • The Vagina Dialogues
    by Eve EnslerVagina is the most terrifying word, the most threatening word, in any language of any country I have ever been to. Even when the vagina is worshipped in theory, as the yoni is in India, it is denigrated in practice. It is more reviled and feared than words like plutonium, genocide and s ...

  Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Bad Hippies! No December Afghanistan Review For Yo ...
    By Steve Hynd Karl Eikenberry is the latest administration official to tell us that the thorough review of progress that Obama promised the nation a year ago when he ordered the Afghan surge will instead be just a rubberstamp of "staying the course" for another Friedman Unit. I won't prejudge the De ...
  • Subliminal Messaging On Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd A report last week by veteran Af/Pak analyst Ahmed Rashid, nicely timed for the Lisbon summit at which NATO rolled out its "aspirational" date of 2014 for an Afghan transition, says that Afghan president Hamid Karzai has never been so anti-Western and anti-American in his views. In an ...
  • Taliban Negotiator Was Imposter, Received "A Lot O ...
    By Steve Hynd It sounds like something from The Onion, but it's by Dexter Filkins in the NYT: For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the tab ...
  • In Afghanistan, The Occupation Is The Problem
    By Steve Hynd Your Af/Pak "must-read" for today is by analyst Alex Strick van Linschoten, who lives in Kandahar. In a piece entitled "Five Things David Petraeus Wants You To Believe" he sets out the problems with Petraeus happy-talk about "momentum" in Afghanistan. It's essentially un-excerptable so ...
  • If 2015, Why Not Now?
    By Steve Hynd The editors of the UK's Independent newspaper are making a lot of sense: Nato's new policy of disengagement is neither as clear nor as quick as it should be, but it is a welcome recognition that the end state in Afghanistan is never going to be perfect and that an open-ended commitment ...

  Water Wars

  • Gov.-elect Bentley to host dinner for Alabama cong ...
    Several of the Republicans in the delegation publicly backed Bradley Byrne over Robert Bentley in the final hours of the GOP primary runoff.
  • Water Wars
    Nearly 50 years after Seneca Indians saw about 10,000 acres of their Allegany Territory flooded in order to construct the Kinzua Dam, the Seneca Nation will announce its intention to operate electricity generated from waters at the dam.
  • Fiji water wars
    Mark Lacter: L.A. billionaire Stewart Resnick has pulled the plug on Fiji Water's only production plant after the tiny Pacific Ocean island nation raised the company's tax rate,
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • A climate journey
    As the world prepares for the Cancún summit, John Vidal visits people on the frontline of the battle against global warming.

  WordPress | Economics

  • Housing Prices
    The conversation turned to real estate on a recent Saturday run when I shared my opinion that many s
  • Tax The Rich?
    Sounds like a great way to deal with the deficit. Except, it doesn’t work. The rich people hav
  • This government has pissed away HOW many trillions ...
    And NOW it’s a problem? Oh sure, I believe these communists will try. Sure they will.
  • The long tail of the law
    "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More" For those of our reade
  • Unemployment Benefits Ending
    I’m tough on unemployment benefits. I admit it. While I believe that folks should get what the

  Electronic Intifada

  • Palestinian property destroyed as Israeli settleme ...
    Israeli bulldozers and armed soldiers implemented a swath of demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures for more than a week in multiple areas across the West Bank including E ...
  • Corporations found guilty at Russell Tribunal seco ...
    On 22 November a jury of international experts announced their verdict that compelling evidence shows corporate complicity in Israeli violations of international law. The verdict f ...
  • WikiLeaks exposes Egypt's duplicity in Gaza siege
    CAIRO, Egypt (IPS) - More than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks include statements made behind closed doors that could prove emba ...
  • Targeting Silwan's children
    Earlier this year, "Mahmoud" came home to see a letter with his name on it, instructing him to come to the Russian Compound prison facility in Jerusalem. The 15-year-old Palestinia ...
  • Book review: excavating Palestine's "Hidden Histor ...
    In his new book Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean, Basem Ra'ad unearths new renderings of religious, historical and cultural material and offers rea ...

  Afghanistan Sun

  • 'US was urged to quash 'foreign contract ...
    WikiLeaks' recently released secret cables have revealed that former Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar was in panic over a scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" to entertain them in northern parts of the country, ...
  • Afghanistan steeped in monumental corruption
    A new set of leaked US diplomatic cables portray Afghan President Hamid Karzai as paranoid, with an 'inability to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state-building' and paint a picture of Afghanistan steeped in corruption.
  • US freezes assets of three Pakistani terrorists
    The United States has slapped sanctions against three of Pakistan's most wanted terrorists associated with Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LJ) and Jaish-e Mohammed (JEM) held responsible for deadly attacks in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  • Cables Shed Light On Complex U.S.-Afghan Ties
    The leaked WikiLeaks cables highlight two pervasive challenges the U.S. faces in Afghanistan: corruption and dealing with President Hamid Karzai.
  • Soldier accused in Afghan death at mental facility
    A Fort Carson soldier was so eager to fight "the bad guys" in Afghanistan that he shot and killed a Taliban member who was sleeping in a jail cell, military prosecutors said Tuesday. Th...