3 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Defense Authorization Bill Places Subjective Secur ...
  Congress is still considering the 2011 Defense Authorization bill (S. 3454), and one provision that is drawing criticism is a plan to potentially reduce competition in contracting based on perceived supply chain security risks. Notwithstanding competitive contracting requirements, Section 815...
• Morning Smoke: USASpending.gov to Feature New Subc ...
  Obama administration begins publishing names of federal subcontractors on Web by Carol D. Leonnig [The Washington Post] Budget Cutters Take Aim F-35 Program [CBS News] Pentagon Won't Pay More for Lockheed's $92 Million JSF, Weapons Buyer Says by Gopal Ratnam...
• Small Legislative Victory Heralds Brighter Days Ah ...
  The GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, a bipartisan bill currently working its way through the Senate, would update the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The purpose of the GPRA is to “improve the confidence of the American people in...
• New Report Discloses Recent Investigations by SEC ...
  Twice a year, Inspectors General are required to submit reports to Congress describing their recent audits and investigations, and these reports are made available to the public. In the case of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Inspector...
• Ghostbusters at POGO
  The New York Times ran a story yesterday about a POGO investigation which uncovered millions of dollars that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been giving to medical researchers who use ghostwriters funded by the pharmaceutical industry. POGO sent...

Digital Journal

• Personal injury causes major delay on Toronto subw ...
  As tens of thousands of transit commuters were headed to work during the busy rush hour period, there was a major delay on the Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor-Danforth subway line.
• Mayor Ford aims to cancel Transit City, what it me ...
  With one swoop Mayor Rob Ford declared that Transit City was gone, a project that Toronto's former Mayor David Miller had put into motion with construction already in place.
• Report: Newspaper advertising expected to rise in ...
  A new report on newspaper advertising and operations is dubbing 2011 "the year of return to positive growth." Respondents to a survey expect digital advertising to rise 18.1 percent among North American newspapers.
• Late preterm infants hospital discharge needs easy ...
  Late preterm infants, between 34 and 36 weeks gestation, are often healthy enough to be discharged from hospital just like a full-term infant which benefits both mother and child, a report found.
• American fugitive arrested in Toronto
  An American wanted in the United States for numerous fraud schemes was arrested in Toronto Monday after being in hiding for the past two years.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homelessnes ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe and st ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling the Tr ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have whil ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...

Ceasefire.ca

• WikiLeaks: France went to bat for Omar Khadr
  U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveal that France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, asked the U.S. to consider releasing Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Kouchner, who played a founding role in the international humanitarian NGO Médecins sans frontières, personally ...
• Political attacks
  We are under attack from the Harper Conservatives. Please make your contribution now to help us stop Harper’s plans to spend $16 billion on the F-35 stealth fighters.
• Afghan intervention surpasses Soviet stay
  The duration of the U.S. and allied intervention in Afghanistan now exceeds that of the Soviet intervention of 1979-1989. Sunday, 28 November 2010 marks the 3340th day since U.S. and allied forces entered Afghanistan in order to topple the Taliban government and capture Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Lad ...
• Is the Defence Department feeling the heat over F- ...
  The Defence Department has commenced a public relations campaign to sell the Canadian public on the Harper government’s decision to buy the F-35 fighter (Steven Chase, “PR blitz aims to sell “skeptical public” on need for F-35 fighter jets“, Globe and Mail, 24 November 2010). Roundtables targeting ...
• WikiLeaks strikes again
  After WikiLeaks’ controversial release in October of 400,000 Pentagon reports pertaining to the Iraq war, Washington is gearing up to respond to the release of another batch of secret files. Washington is also doing damage control in preparation for the release of internal documents that may conta ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Canadian Vaccine Company Receives $21 Million Gran ...
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Medicago Inc. has received a $21 million grant from the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build a 90,000-square-foot vaccine-production facility in North Carolina. “This DARPA funding is also perfectly in line w ...
• Vitamin D Controls Genetic Expression for Health a ...
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Vitamin D is especially active in areas of the human genome related to autoimmune diseases, providing yet more evidence that the vitamin plays a critical role in regulating the immune system and protecting against certain diseases. In a study publi ...
• U.S. Senator Caught Admitting That Lame Duck Sessi ...
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson The recent passage of Senate Bill 510, the so-called “Food Safety Modernization Act” took place during the Senate’s “lame duck” session — the time after the fall elections, but before the new members of Congress have been installed, where Congress ...
• Chemicals in Soap Can Harm Children’s Health
  December 2nd, 2010 Daily Mail Chemicals found in cleaning products may be harming the health of children and adults, new research suggests. A study shows that young people who are over-exposed to the soap agent triclosan are more likely to suffer allergies. The chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which is u ...
• Broccoli Extracts Prevent Stomach Disorders
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Extracts from broccoli and plantain may help boost the stomach’s defenses against infection, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool in collaboration with Scottish and Swedish researchers, and published in the ...

Pambazuka News

• Break the Silence Congo week
  The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
• Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
  On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

• Cables from Beirut
  Is WikiLeaks diversifying its cable supply line? As of 8.00PM US Eastern, the WikiLeaks Cablegate site lists just one cable originating from the US Embassy in Beirut. The Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar however, has published two other cables from Beirut, here and here. This might imply that WikiLea ...
• US State Department now afraid of its own shadow
  Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, notes: [D]iplomats as a class very seldom tell unpalatable truths to politicians, but rather report and reinforce what their masters want to hear, in the hope of receiving preferment. There is therefore [in the cables released by WikiLeaks] a ...
• Controversial drug given to all Guantanamo detaine ...
  At Truthout, Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye report: The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called “pharmacologic waterboarding.” The ...
• Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy
• WikiLeaks reveals British government colluded with ...
  The Guardian reports: British and American officials colluded in a plan to hoodwink parliament over a proposed ban on cluster bombs, the Guardian can disclose. According to leaked US embassy dispatches, David Miliband, who was Britain’s foreign secretary under Labour, approved the use of a loophol ...

Watts Up With That?

• “Sahara Solar Breeders” don’t sa ...
  Or, “how to make pie in the sky using our simple recipe”. From the New Scientist, making solar power is just as easy as building a few factories in the middle of the Sahara Desert and then making solar cells … Continue reading →
• Senators petition SecState to freeze climate bailo ...
  Climate-related appropriations grew from $315 million in fiscal 2009 to $1.3 billion in fiscal 2010. CLIMATE: GOP senators decry ‘bailout’ for developing countries Gabriel Nelson, E&E reporter http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/print/2010/12/02/4 Top-ranking Republicans on the Senate Environment and Pub ...
• SOHO – 15 years today
  Dr. Leif Svalgaard advises via email that today is the 15th anniversary of the SOHO(Solar and Heliospheric Observatory). Here’s a story to celebrate one of the most successful space missions ever, still going strong. – Anthony SOHO Celebrates 15 Years … Continue reading →
• Researchers find mathematical patterns to forecast ...
  Via Eurekalert: 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 … Continue reading →
• UK Covered in snow, for the second winter
  WUWT readers may recall this post from last year on January 8th, 2010 All of Britain covered by snow Along with a stunning satellite image. Well, it has happened again, much earlier this year.  See the newest satellite image below. From … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Obama and the DLC by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com December 14, 2010 On the day after the 2010 national elections, Evan Bayh, retiring Senator from Indiana, laid out very clearly the current political and policy program of the dominant power in the Democratic Party ...
• Wiki-Creep Assange, The Scamp – Pvt. Bradley ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com for Truthout/Buzzflash 1 December, 2010 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 bo ...
• The Man In The Bathtub, December 1, 1940 by Philip ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 1, 2010 He was born and raised in a little town just outside of Licata, Sicily. By the time he was 18, the young man was accepted into university in Tunisia, a far more scholastically advanced place than the Sicily of the early 1900s. U ...
• Does socialism exist in the world today? by Eric R ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Eric Ruder SocialistWorker.org Nov. 22, 2010 What most people call “socialism” has very little to do with workers’ control of society–or what a real socialist society would entail. Eric Ruder looks at why. MORE THAN a third of Americans have a positive image o ...
• Obama Needs an Enemy – Or Else, ‘What’s Up, Lame-d ...
  by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net November 27, 2010 How quickly the meteoric prince has fallen to earth, with a thud.  The splashy campaigner has morphed into a cross between Neville Chamberlain, England’s Nazi appeaser, and George Armstrong Custer, rushing to get a ...

Your New Reality

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  The music of Inception gives everything a heavy, slightly sickening edge. Imagine it playing at a wedding. Or a funeral.
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  The 2nd shooter got a real early start in the business. Via Reddit .
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  It's Propaganda, Yes, But Maybe It's From Our Side, To Reassure Us North Korea Can't Defend Itself As war appears to be about to dawn between North & South Korea, if it didn't actually already begin two or three days ago, this very strange indeed video appears on the UK Telegraph site. The Teleg ...
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  I've been trawling through hours and hours of amazing footage shot at early 2003 anti-War On Iraq protests in Sydney. Again and again it smacks me in the face that all of the protesters, including the tens of thousands of Australian school students who marched against the war, knew more about the qu ...
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  Very soon, this could be what you find when you go to your favourite independent news site to load up on truth to help fight the daily barrage of lies. Piracy prosecutions can and will be used to close down news sites. Not CNN or FoxNews of course. I mean the ones that carry actual, real news. ...

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: The charade of Israeli-Palestinian t ...
  Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
  Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• New WikiLeaks revelations show Ireland blocking US ...
  According to the [US] ambassador, "Segments of the Irish public ... see the [Shannon] airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrongdoing in the Gulf/Middle East." IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
  Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Mossad bids farewell to its ‘Superman’ [or: Chief, ...
  The head of the Israeli secret service, who the Egyptians nicknamed "Superman" after the assassination of Hamas senior official al-Mabhouh earlier this year, concluded on Monday eight years at the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia to buy 10 Italian armored vehicles
  Russia will buy 10 Lynx light multi-role armored vehicles (LMV) from Italy's Iveco, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday.
• Japan, U.S. start largest ever military drills ami ...
• Mi-38 helicopter production to begin in 2013
  Russian Helicopters will start production of its new Mi-38 utility transport helicopter in 2013, after resolving engine supply problems with Canadian supplier Pratt & Whitney Canada, Russian state-owned rotorcraft builder Russian Helicopters said on Thursday.
• India conducts BrahMos cruise missile test
  India successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a military base in the northeastern coastal state of Orissa on Thursday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said.
• Russian Air Force to procure 1,500 new aircraft by ...
  The Russian Air Force will procure over 1,500 new aircraft and significantly increase the number of high-precision weapons in its arsenal by 2020, a deputy Air Force commander said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• $5.1 Million Army-Md. Alliance Speeds University R ...
  The Army and Maryland state universities have teamed up to move more research innovations to market. "Too many promising technologies never make it beyond university labs, when they could be commercially viable," says the University of Maryland's, Jacques Gansler, who administers the $5.1 million Ma ...
• Researchers Continue Search for Elusive New Partic ...
  Their findings were published recently in Physical Review Letters. These results are the first of the "new physics" research papers produced from the CMS experiment at LHC.
• New Discovery Prevents Symptoms of Rare Genetic Di ...
  A new study offers hope for children born with a rare genetic disease, according to a paper published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Domestic Violence Victims Receive Free Dental Serv ...
  Nova Southeastern University's College of Dental Medicine is using a federal grant to offer battered women and other DV victims free dental services.
• Keeping Calm in an Anxious Age
  Americans' danger detectors are cranked up way too high these days, but we don't have to be held hostage by our anxiety, according to a new book on coping with stress by a Northwestern Medicine psychologist.

Natural Health News

• For Health Benefits, Try Tai Chi
  The 2,000-year-old Chinese practice of tai chi is a branch of Qigong -- exercises that harness the qi (life energy).� Tai chi has been linked to numerous health benefits, including improvements in the quality of life of breast cancer patients and Parkinson�s sufferers. It has shown promise in treati ...
• Extra Body Weight Actually Decreases Bones
  In the past, doctors had theorized that excess body fat might have one benefit -- it could protect against the bone disease osteoporosis.� But a new study finds that deep belly fat may in fact contribute to osteoporosis. The reason is that fat cells very�likely produce substances that lead to bone ...
• The Secret to Longer Life Could be Selflessness
  Researchers are challenging the notion that human beings are naturally hard-wired to be selfish.� Hard science has begun to show that a capacity to care is wired into human brains and nervous systems.� In fact, the most selfless caregivers are rewarded with greater longevity. Scientists followed a ...
• Overweight Children at Risk of Disease as Teens
  By the time they reach the age of 15 or 16, overweight people who were also overweight as children are already showing signs of future heart disease.� A study has shown that being overweight or obese between the ages of 9 and 12 leads to a higher chance of displaying heart disease risk factors such ...
• Cinnamon's Anti-Diabetes Benefits Get Clinical Tri ...
  A daily dose of two grams of cinnamon for 12 weeks was shown to improve blood pressure and blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.� This study adds to a growing body of research showing that active compounds in cinnamon may have anti-diabetes effects. In the U.S., eight percent of the po ...

Antemedius

• Just When You Think Bush Can Sink No Lower, He Doe ...
  Many Bush critics make the mistake of underestimating him. This is one area where he has surprised with his ability to take a presumably bottomed out status and bottom it some more. Bush’s latest return with the same brash cockiness that has been a staple item recalls the words of a professor of hi ...
• Two Americas: The Over Privileged and The Ignored
  Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated last week that, while a national unemployment figure of roughly 10 percent nationally is alarming enough, the figure is better than double that figure for those Americans without college degrees. While America stands at a dangerous crossroad with a dispa ...
• U.S. Threatening Assange With Prison For Revealing ...
  Maybe because he's from Australia, a U.S. satrap on the far rim of the American Empire, that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange doesn't know that Washington does not allow anyone to steal information unless it orders them to do so. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama hack who will not prosecute CI ...
• Good News For Murfreesboro Mosque! Judge Refuses I ...
  My father loved the law. He loved it because it was an attempt to provide balance without resort to violence. Note the attempt in that sentence, it is important to recognize that justice is not about exact balancing but about a society making a concerted effort to balance the harm done by one person ...
• Stop These Wars or We'll Fill Your Jails
  By David Swanson Here's an easy question: would you rather go to jail for a few hours with a bunch of friends or die? Here's a poorly kept secret: the wars that a majority of Americans want ended are not ending, and the war machine that a majority of Americans want cut back is growing. Here's a situ ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Wikileaks Spawns New Blog (Don’t Forget Judge Garz ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro And why not?  Assuming that the feds don’t catch up with this operation at this rate (by my calculation) we have more than four years of daily document dumps ahead of us.  From Foreign Policy, let’s welcome Wikileaked to the blogosphere. Today’s highlights include ...
• The Hazards of Speaking at the Oxford Union: Will ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I don’t know enough about the facts or the law in the U.K. to know whether there is a serious basis for charging Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa with war crimes arising out of the conflict last year with Tamil Separatists.  But it looks like there will be an at ...
• Cheney to Be Charged with Bribery in Nigeria
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So Business Week reports, noting that Nigeria intends to file a request for a Red Notice with Interpol: Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $18 ...
• Japan Needs to Brush Up on Its Geography
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The quote of the day, from Japan’s failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup (which went to Qatar, much to the surprise of the Americans): Japan, probably the biggest outsider, threw the longest Hail Mary, suggesting it would beam the games into stadiums all ...
• Wikileaks and the Espionage Act
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Harold Koh has warned Wikileaks of the dire consequences to the United States resulting from the publication of over 250,000 classified documents. But I doubt that Julian Assange and Wikileaks cares much about the damage done to our nation from this breach. What ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• TGIF Edition latest issue
  Try these links...the second one may work better to open the page first, then click on the TGIF link in the middle of that page to bring up the PDF: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tgif3dec10.pdf http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment ...
• Breaking: Air Con premise endorsed by Journal of C ...
  In the 2009 release of Air Con (and again in the latest 2010 Climategate edition about to go on sale in bookshops across NZ), one of the points I argued is that Antarctica is not warming uncontrollably or significantly. Earnest...
• RIP, men
  Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
• Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
  Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...
• Mine Blast: Cowardice in NZ Police
  I am staggered that police have so far failed to enter the mine because of poisonous gas. One man with breathing gear could sort this out. Hopeless.

My Care2 Picks

• Court Orders Destruction of Monsanto's Dangerous, ...
  A federal judge has ruled that genetically-modified sugar beets created by notorious Frankenfood-producer Monsanto were planted illegally, without proper environmental review. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said the plantings must now be destroyed, in Submitted by Norm C. to Business �|� �Note-i ...
• Indigenous grassroots delegate Ofelia Rivas, O'odh ...
  We, like all of the indigenous peoples of the world, are the guardians and protectors of Mother Earth, which cannot be sold, given away, nor rented, because she belongs to everyone we demand: No to discrimation, and the disposession of our lands.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �N ...
• Utah Legislators to Brainwash Youth for Fossil Fue ...
  Indoctrination. That is what Utah state lawmakers decided to implement last week. A state committee voted unanimously to recommend the Mineral and Petroleum Literacy Act. This bill would use oil, gas, and mining revenues to develop an elementary schoolSubmitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �No ...
• ACTION ALERT: Tell EPA: Say No To Arch Coal's Meg ...
  Recently, EPA's office in Appalachia took a historic stand against mountaintop removal mining, the most devastating coal mining technique in existence. Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin said that Arch Coal's planned Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note- ...
• GORDON DUFF: WIKI-MURDERS IN IRAN, SIGNAL FALSE ...
  An attack on American forces in the Persian Gulf is being planned. Wikileaks is an integral part of the operation. The operation is staged for the Persian Gulf where American warships are �sitting ducks� for a sneak attack Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Maan News Agency: Official: Settlers set fire to W ...
  Maan News Agency: Official: Settlers set fire to West Bank land: "NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned olive groves near the evacuated settlement of Homesh, near the West... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• The Latin Americanist: Daily Headlines: December 2 ...
  The Latin Americanist: Daily Headlines: December 2, 2010: "* Mexico: Bolivia’s representative at a major climate action conference in Cancun accused wealthy countries of breaking promises to protect... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Alexander Cockburn: Julian Assange: wanted by the ...
  Alexander Cockburn: Julian Assange: wanted by the Empire, dead or alive | News & Politics | News & Comment | The First Post The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlour assassins... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• WikiLeaks is holding US global power to account | ...
  WikiLeaks is holding US global power to account | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian: "Official America's reaction to the largest leak of confidential government files in history is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• How the US media is dumping on WikiLeaks - and cen ...
  How the US media is dumping on WikiLeaks - and censoring the cable disclosures | Media | guardian.co.uk: "Journalists who oppose WikiLeaks are opposed to journalism. Here's Jack Shafer offering some... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Breaking: Air Con premise endorsed by Journal of C ...
  In the 2009 release of Air Con (and again in the latest 2010 Climategate edition about to go on sale in bookshops across NZ), one of the points I argued is that Antarctica overall is not warming uncontrollably or significantly....
• RIP, men
  Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
• Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
  Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...
• Mine Blast: Cowardice in NZ Police
  I am staggered that police have so far failed to enter the mine because of poisonous gas. One man with breathing gear could sort this out. Hopeless.
• MINE BLAST: Australians and Brits among missing
  THe news conference on the NZ coal mine explosion has been told a number of foreigners, including Australians and British nationals, are among the missing.

Mondoweiss

• 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 – from planting through to distribution – by the Dutch government. The program allows a few farmers in Gaza to s ...
• Oh, Canada: Al Jazeera investigates ‘the oth ...
• The big fat national conversation could actually s ...
  IDC is the acronym for California Divestment Initiative. To fully understand the importance of this initiative please hear me out. The Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is the first citizens' effort in the country to appeal directly to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international ...
• The Middle East’s only pretend democracy
  Haaretz notes a recent survey, revealing the hollowness of Israel's claim to be a democracy:A comprehensive survey compiled by the Israel Democracy Institute and reported in yesterday's Haaretz paints a gloomy, worrisome picture... ...Only 17% of the public believes the state's self-definition as a ...
• Watching The Pianist in Gaza
  The Pianist is a movie that tells the disheartening story of a Jewish pianist,� W�adys�aw Szpilman, who struggles to survive during the holocaust along with his family in Warsaw. Although it is primarily the story of one man, the movie instilled in me the notion of the universality of human sufferin ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: UK Institutes Brand of Medical Martial Law Wi ...
  As of January 1st, 2011, all children in the UK, upon reaching the age of 1, will be subject to a one stop, 6 vaccine assault. In what is being labeled ‘Super-vaccination’ day, babies will now get a series of 3 injections in one visit, a combination of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella [...]
• VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
  PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
  Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
• VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
  On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
• VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
  GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• For Thai Readers
  03 December 2010 Merry Christmas Thailand!� I see Christmas decorations in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.� (Though it might be strange for Buddhists.)� I've also seen many Christmas decorations in places like Hanoi, Singapore, and even Jakarta. Two articles featuring my work are in the October and Decemb ...
• The Kopp-Etchells Effect
  17 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The roads are so littered with enemy bombs that nearly all transport and resupply to this base occurs by helicopter.� The pilots roar through the darkness, swoop into small bases nestled in the saddle of enemy territory, and quickly rumble off into the night. A ...
• PFC Bradley Manning's Charge Sheet
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• Just got this Email from Office of Secretary Gates
  Q:� WikiLeaks:� Post-WikiLeaks reaction.� What's your sense on whether the information-sharing climate and environment created after 9/11 to encourage greater cooperation and transparency among the intelligence communities and the military led to these three massive data dumps? And how concern ...
• Perspectives on Afghanistan
  Published: 24 November 2010 Please click here to view the entire Article.   {loadposition user8}

The Killing Train

• Wikileaks Cablegate
  The US Embassy cables put out by Wikileaks are not the truth. Even though I knew it, a part of me was disappointed at how ideological some of the cables were. Take #09TELAVIV1060, "Rep. Wexler discusses Iran with IDF Intelligence". The entire discussion is about the threat posed by Iran to Israel. E ...
• Would anyone be unhappy if Tom Flanagan disappeare ...
  I know I wouldn't... and no, I don't think it's manly. I think it's disgusting.
• Wikileaks Cablegate! Panamanians hope for a succes ...
  I was just peeking around Wikileaks's Cablegate (cablegate.wikileaks.org). This looks like the real thing folks! Take a look at this 1989 cable on Panama for example: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/1989/12/89PANAMA8545.html SUBJECT: PANAMANIANS HOPE FOR A SUCCESSFUL COUP More analysis to foll ...
• Political theory interlude
  Manuel suggested I read Norberto Bobbio, an Italian socialist writer on democracy. So I picked up his "Which Socialism?" In it, Bobbio argues that there's no necessary connection between democracy and socialism. Contrary to what socialists would like to believe, democracy doesn't automatically happe ...
• Canadian democracy - procedural tricks to kill the ...
  Canada's weak climate change bill was killed by the Senate today (see the star article for example). The Harper people's vision for the country isn't compatible with trying to stop climate change. This is known, and unsurprising. What is interesting to me is the procedural trick used to make this c ...

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Lead miners risk health in Karenni state
  Mining peril
• Burma off Security Council agenda
  China accused of blocking discussion of Burma at December session of the Council but officials will be briefed on Nambiar's visit
• USDP turns eyes to Shan state
  Election winners continue to push for support from ethnic groups as USDP representatives court third-placed Shan party
• Generation Wave
  View Photo Album Award-winning photographer James Mackay travelled to the Thai-Burma border to document the underground activist and hip hop group, Generation Wave, as they made the video for their recent single, ‘Never Give Up’. The group, formed in the wake of the September 2007 monk-led uprising, ...
• Captured Karen troops ‘executed’
  Six troops were taken hostage after Burmese army launched an attack last week on a KNU/KNLA Peace Council outpost close to Myawaddy

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Cancun climate summit: Britain's salmon at risk fr ...
  Britain's famous salmon runs are in danger from ocean acidification caused by climate change, scientists have warned.
• Are we freezing because of global warming?
  Climate change could bring Britain ever more extreme weather, says Roger Highfield.
• Cancun climate change summit: 2010 was hottest yea ...
  World has been 0.94F (0.52C) warmer than the 30 year average of 57.2F (14C).
• Amazon deforestation at record low level
  Deforestation in the Amazon has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, the Brazilian government announced on Wednesday.
• Cancun climate summit: UN calls for worldwide phas ...
  Traditional light bulbs should be banned across the world as part of plans to help tackle climate change, according to a new United Nations report.

National Geographic | Environment

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

Jurist - Legal Research

• Federal appeals judge declines to recuse himself f ...
  [JURIST] Judge Stephen Reinhardt [FJC profile] of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday denied a motion [texts, PDF] to recuse himself from the three-judge panel that will hear arguments on Proposition 8 [text, PDF], California's same-sex marriage ban. Proposit ...
• Ohio Supreme Court rejects challenge to lethal inj ...
  [JURIST] The Ohio Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday rejected [opinion, PDF] a challenge to the lethal injection method of execution. In a split 5-2 decision, the court held that there is no basis under Ohio law for litigating the issue of whether the lethal injection process is constituti ...
• ICC urges Central African Republic to arrest al-Ba ...
  [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Wednesday issued an order [text, in French, PDF; press release] requesting that the Central African Republic take steps to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST news archive] and transfer him to the cour ...
• US soldier pleads guilty to firing on unarmed Afgh ...
  [JURIST] Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens pleaded guilty on Wednesday to shooting two unarmed Afghan farmers at a trial held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord [official website]. Stevens pleaded guilty [Reuters report] to aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, wrongfully tossing a grenade out of his veh ...
• Ontario court extends stay allowing enforcement of ...
  [JURIST] The Ontario Court of Appeal [official website] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] that several prostitution-related laws struck down by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (OSCJ) [official website] would remain in effect until April 29, pending an appeal. Justice Marc Rosenberg issued an ex ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• WikiLeaks: One Analyst, So Many Documents
  To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secr ...
• After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
  In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
• I Am a Blogger No Longer
  This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
• Billy Joel Explains the Election
  What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...
• Obama Considers Staff Changes, Ever So Carefully
  Despite urgent pleas from Democrats that he shake up his White House staff, President Obama will proceed with a plan he put in place before the election, one that calls for a careful review the structure of his office before making changes.  Chief of Staff Peter Rouse is leading the review, and Obam ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Assange’s Delusions on Bibi and Mideast Peace, Ama ...
  The problem with writing a blog is that you write one thing one day and by the next it’s overtaken by events and you have to backtrack and take back almost everything you said the day before.  Such is the case with Julian Assange, about whom I wrote that it would be enormous folly for [...] Relat ...
• One-Third of Israeli Support Wartime Concentration ...
  One nugget I overlooked (pg. 142) in the Israel Democracy Institute annual survey which I featured here a day or so ago is this one that Ofer Neiman pointed out to me.  33% of Israelis support placing Israeli Palestinian citizens in concentration camps during wartime.  Only 50% of Israeli Jews opp ...
• U.S. Contemplates Criminal Charges Against Wikilea ...
  I’d hoped that with the demise of the Bush administration we would leave the realm of Really Bad Ideas like the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, criminalizing free speech and being Muslim, etc.  Yes, I know that the Obama presidency has a pretty sordid record of maintaining some of the worst of these laws. ...
• Israel’s ‘Organized Crime’: Mafia and Mossad
  I’ve written here about as assassination and attempted assassination in Teheran a few days ago, which Haaretz’ Yossi Melman attributes to the Mossad.  In these cases, the two scientists were driving in their cars to work with their wives.  They’d pulled into the university parking lot when a motor ...
• Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
  Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.

Ode Magazine

• Keeping it local to rebuild shattered lives
  By: Amanda_TWW A British expatriate, Figen Cakir has lived in Turkey for nearly two decades. She experienced first hand the devastation the Golcuk earthquake had on her community in 1999. More than a decade after, the local people are still rebuilding their lives, ...
• California dreaming becomes a reality
  How Alvarado Street Bakery went from hippie collective to commercially successful co-op. Alvarado Street Bakery makes quality products with co-operative values.Photo: MJ Wickham Alvarado Street Bakery traces its roots to the Red Clover Worker’s Brigade, a 1970s Northern Califo ...
• A planet is a terrible thing to waste
  Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...
• Cosmic salad
  Bring the abundance of nature to your plate. Photo: Pieter de Swart The science of economics revolves around the concept of scarcity. How do you handle something you have too little of, like money? How do you distribute something that isn’t plentiful enough, like food? And how ...
• Fixing the free market
  How co-opsâbusinesses in which the employees are also the owners of the companyâmerge economic growth with social goals. By pooling the production of fair trade farmers such as this cocoa farmer in Peru, Equal Exchange negotiates higher prices for its members.Photo: Equal Exchange ...

OpEd News

• NGO Monitor Targets Truth for Israel
  Israel and supportive organizations target truth to silence it.
• "Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" The Enlightened War Pol ...
  The US denies the allegation of the killings, but admitted that they don't investigate the vast majority of the complaints because they assume them to be "Taliban propaganda." The commander of the Marines is the district says that the Taliban are to blame for "every single instance" of a civilian ca ...
• How to transform the Bush Tax Cuts into the Obama ...
  Democrats have allowed the Republicans to define the income tax issue on their terms. The language is framed to their advantage, and inaccurately at that. With some confrontational spirit, the tables can be turned to the great advantage of the Democratic Party, and more importantly, the Country ...
• Mr. Ignatius, Donate Your Money to OEN
  Mr. Ignatius, if you have at least some remnants of being human, take the money you have been paid for the article and donate it to OEN. You don't deserve a penny for that sh*t and you know it.
• Debt Commission Proves Inept
  Debt commission has totally missed the mark. Who are they working for?

Switchboard

• Editorial Boards Weigh In: Paterson Should Sign Mo ...
  The New York Times and the Albany Times Union today both called on New York State Governor Paterson to quickly sign into law a measure just sent to his desk from the state legislature that would impose a six-month moratorium on the issuance of any new permits for controversial hydrauli ...
• Local Townships In Eastern Long Island Get a Lift ...
  Today I had the privilege of attending the groundbreaking ceremony on the construction of 17 megawatts of new solar photovoltaic arrays (equivalent to powering 1,800 homes) on Eastern Long Island with New York Governor David Paterson. The arrays will span across 7 large parking lots th ...
• Happy 40th Birthday EPA
  On the editorial page of today’s Wall Street Journal, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson celebrated the 40th birthday of the Environmental Protection Agency.   Bravo to EPA on this important milestone. As Administrator Jackson pointed out, “In Los Angeles, smog-thick air was a daily f ...
• India Climate Change and Energy News - November 21 ...
  Climate Change India Seeks to Resolve Climate Disputes in Cancun “India has offered two proposals for the U.N. climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, in hopes of redefining its global image and helping to resolve disputes that have stymied agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, it ...
• How to judge the chemical industry: Deeds, not wor ...
  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made --Jean Giraudoux In my last post I described how the chemical industry lobby killed Senator Feinstein’s effort to ban the toxic chemical BPA in children’s sippy cups and baby bottles...just before hosting a ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• A thinking man’s approach to racialized heal ...
  So long as we’re beating up on Tom Maguire today, I thought I’d draw your attention to yesterday’s avid defense of the vitamin D hype. As most readers are probably aware, seemingly everyone over the past several years has been promoting vitamin D as a magical prophylaxis against cancer, cardiovascu ...
• Bogus Gender-Essentializing Trend Stories
  Have indeed long been a NYT specialty. This week’s, though…basing your latest Dowdesque nutty gender theory on…a scene from a (10 year-old!) TV show is particularly special. Related posts:"What to Read on Gender and Foreign Policy" Thinking About Gender and Security Studies at ISA Yet More On ...
• Blind Squirrels Find Very Tasty Nut
  Congrats to Darcy and the Secret Society on a well-earned Grammy nomination for the superb Infernal Machines. [Infernal Mach Related posts:Jazz Notes Big Media Darcy Epic Related posts:Jazz Notes Big Media Darcy Epic
• TruthOut: Gitmo Detainees Received “Pharmaco ...
  While the world continues to scour over the gossip goldmine that is CableGate, here is a genuinely important and disturbing story about DOD behavior in Guantanamo that just surfaced (through normal investigative reporting): The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantana ...
• Oh, He’ll Find More
  Fred Kaplan is certainly right that McCain’s current excuses for flip-flopping on DADT have been exposed as the utter fraud they’ve obviously always been.    As to whether he’s run out of excuses, definitely not.   He never will.   For this great maverick, self-serving bullshit has always bee ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
• Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
  An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
• DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
  DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
• DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
  DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
• DRI Researcher Authors New Book
  William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...

Earth Techling

• Supercomputers Think About Clean Energy
• Hydrinos A Pie In The Sky Clean Energy?
• Nissan Leaf Europe’s Top Electric Car
• Lufthansa To Lift Off With Biofuels
• Concept Makes Recycling Stations Greener

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Trademark verdict marks yet another loss for Pom W ...
  Pom Wonderful LLC was dealt another punch in its trademark infringement battles against its competitors when a federal judge issued final judgment for Tropicana Products Inc. following a jury verdict last month.
• Beauty care company, in settlement with shareholde ...
  A pair of plaintiffs' law firms teamed up to win unusual concessions for shareholders from beauty products company Alberto Culver Co. in its proposed $3.7 billion acquisition by Unilever.
• SOCIAL MEDIA: How can I motivate my attorneys to b ...
  Far too many law blogs appear, have one post, and then sit idle for months afterwards. Adrain Dayton offers advice to managing partners who want to kickstart their firms' blog presence.
• In documents case, Court appears sympathetic to ex ...
  The high court, which is usually stingy when it comes to the Freedom of Information Act, might actually be poised to hand a rare victory to someone who wants to expand the scope of government disclosure.
• Patent litigant opposes motion to withdraw by adve ...
  Online retailer Newegg Inc. recently made the unusual move of opposing a motion to withdraw by its adversary's counsel. On Nov. 24, Newegg filed an opposition to Jones Day's Nov. 19 motion to withdraw as counsel for Soverain Software LLC in a patent case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fede ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
  November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
• Investigating the US Gas Boom
  I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...
• Under the Influence of Fracking?
  In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
• Speaking Out on Water Issues
  Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...
• DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
  COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...

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

environment 360

• Japan Opposition to Kyoto Extension Casts Pall ove ...
  Japanese officials say they will oppose an extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, calling the treaty “outdated” because it covers only 27 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking at international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, a senior Japanese official told Bloomberg that his ...
• Controversial Drilling Method Gaining Foothold Acr ...
  In a scramble for new sources of natural gas, European energy companies are increasingly turning to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a drilling technique that has generated controversy in the U.S. because of potential harmful environmental effects. In Poland, Halliburton has constructed a well f ...
• U.S. Energy Secretary Urges More Investment as Chi ...
  Noting that the U.S. is losing its edge in energy innovation to China, Energy Secretary Steven Chu called for increased investment and development of clean energy technology. The U.S.’s historical edge in scientific innovation has slipped in recent years, Chu said, with China pulling ahead in severa ...
• Chinese Ban on Free Plastic Bags Has Cut Consumer ...
  Use of plastic shopping bags in China has dropped 50 percent since the government required stores to charge customers for the bags, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden conducted surveys that found that consumers in Beijing and Guiyang used an average of 21 ...
• Canada Introduces Strictest Standards for Lead in ...
  The Canadian government is imposing strict new health standards that would effectively ban the use of lead in toys and other products that children put in their mouths. The new regulations would limit the amount of lead in toys, pacifiers, bibs and other products intended for children under the age ...

Red Ice Creations

• Harvard Scientists Reverse the Ageing Process in M ...
  Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs. Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the ageing process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice ...
• Sweden Officially Declared Dead - Population Aslee ...
  Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, voted for the most sweeping changes to the country's constitution since 1974 on Wednesday, confirming Sweden's place in the EU among a raft of other amendments. The new consititution was passed with the backing of seven parliamentary parties, with only the Sweden De ...
• US Government seizure of the internet has begun; D ...
  As part of a new expansion of government power over information, the Department of Homeland Security has begun seizing and shutting down internet websites (web domains) without due process or a proper trial. DHS simply seizes web domains that it wants to and posts an ominous "Department of Justice" ...
• Report warns Obama about 'new' Dark Ages
  Airplanes would fall from sky, cars would stop, networks fail Two national-security experts have issued a report through the Heritage Foundation that warns Obama administration officials to start working now to prevent – and mitigate the damage from – an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United St ...
• Citizens of Europe Rage Against the Machine
  The international bankster machine seeking to colonize Western nations through debt is now meeting resistance from Greece, to France, to Ireland, to Italy, to Spain, to Portugal, and to the U.K. These new protests in Ireland and Italy follow a crippling 2-week strike in France where citizens took ov ...

Russia Today

• WikiLeaks release: US diplomats redefine “diplomat ...
  Secret diplomatic cables published by the online whistleblower WikiLeaks reveal America's demeaning views of other countries. Perhaps, though, the leaks will cause more embarrassment than security fears.
• Build-up to 2018 World Cup begins…literally
  FIFA has made its decision. Now the work begins for Russia to meet the high standards it has set for itself. The enormous project that lies ahead promises to become the most expensive event in the country’s history.
• We won World Cup on emotions, says Russian bid chi ...
  Russia’s 2018 World Cup bid chief Aleksey Sorokin revealed that the most important condition to win had been hard work for a year and a half, providing numerous presentations, both personal and for different football...
• World Cup will make Russia ‘a real football countr ...
  Russia’s bid got more points than, for example, Britain’s, because Russia needs the World Cup to make it a real football country unlike Britain, where the whole infrastructure, like stadiums, is already there.
• Russia celebrates FIFA’s decision
  Moscow citizens have begun celebrations after Russia won the right to host the 2018 World Cup.

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

• Update: NASA’s Big Announcement
  True to modern form, NASA has announced that a different for of life was discovered; But on Earth. This is huge actually, because it opens up criteria in which alien life could be discovered in various extraterrestrial/extrasolar planets: NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical ...
• NASA’s Big Announcement
  When it comes to NASA, I go by the maxim “Not A Straight Answer”, which I followed since 1977 when NASA denied finding life via the Viking Landers. And I’m not going to mention The Face on Mars, that’s a totally different subject altogether. So when they announced November 29th, 2010 there was a big ...
• Leadership in world green energy another “Sp ...
  Folks in government are calling China’s meteoric rise on the super-power stage a “sputnik moment” for the United States, especially since the introduction of their super-computer this year and the construction of their modern high speed rail service. And although China’s currently the new leader in ...
• It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature
  The above canard from an old 1970s ad campaign may sound corny now-a-days, but in this case it might apply. … Thatâs not a tiny man. That boulder â shot by Icelandic photographer, volcano adventurer and overall awesome guy Ragnar Sigurdsson â stands 15m high, weighs about 1000 tons, and it wasnât th ...
• Texas is UFO Hot-Spot
  A lot of States in the US can probably claim the mantle of most UFO sightings; New York, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida come to mind immediately. But the one state that holds the title lately is one you wouldn’t think of; Texas. A Texas witness reports a slow moving disc-shaped object wi ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• Inflation Doesn’t Pay Anymore
  Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and I have an opinion piece today at Forbes.com titled “Inflation Doesn’t Pay The Government Like It Used To.” Key quote: [T]he bottom line is that inflation’s effect on the national debt will no more be able to resolve the escalating U.S. budgetary problems than would an excis ...
• Fed Rescue Was Broader than Reported
  “The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009.” (Washington ...
• Hitch Arises with Food-Safety Bill
  “A procedural problem is threatening to derail a landmark food safety measure passed by the Senate on Tuesday, sending congressional leaders scrambling to figure out a way to get the bill enacted into law by the end of the lame-duck session this month.” (Washington Post) People still think central b ...
• To the Opponents of Fractional Reserve Banking
  There’s nothing wrong with fractional reserve banking that getting rid of central banking and its various interventions can’t cure.
• Contenders in Tax Debate Dig in
  “Democrats and Republicans are working to reach a deal to extend Bush-era tax cuts that expire at the end of the year, but neither side is budging as negotiations begin in earnest.” (AP) Why would we want politicians to have the money? FEE Timely Classic “The Power to Tax Is the Power to Destroy” by ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Data journalism and programmer journalists
  Some good stuff on this topic: Debate over journalism’s required skills gets heated, by Robert Hernandez: I do not believe you need to master programming to succeed in journalism. I do believe you need to respect and understand the power of each and every craft, not just programming, but photog ...
• Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
  Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
• Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
  I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...
• Online video, links, and people: Putting it all to ...
  I spend a lot of time speaking (and thinking) about online video — both journalism video and the broader YouTube varieties. When we think about how people use online video — and by “people” I mean mostly North Americans in the college and university student age group — we have to consider sharing. ...
• Advice for journalism educators in Africa
  While I was attending the annual Online News Association conference a week ago, one of several great panels I sat in on was titled “From Earthquakes to Coups: Tools for Crisis Reporting.” I’ve been interested in crisis mapping and other crowdsourced efforts during disasters ever since I learned how ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The deficit commission's curious ...
  Date on which President Obama's deficit commission will meet to consider adopting a plan drawn up by its co-chairs, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff and current University of North Carolina president: 12/3/2010 Age to which the plan would rais ...
• Will offshore drilling ban spur wind development?
  Yesterday the Interior Department announced an updated strategy for offshore oil and gas leasing that bans drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years. "As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of less ...
• New push for voter ID laws despite scant evidence ...
  Weeks after winning control of the North Carolina legislature, Republicans have unveiled pieces of their 2011 legislative agenda. While they may have campaigned on jobs and taxes, an entirely different issue tops the priority list of new House Speaker Rep. Thom Tillis: passing a voter ID law. N ...
• Oil spill commission's missing document adds insig ...
  By Ryan Knutson, ProPublica A new document uncovered last week might help to clear up some confusion over comments made by the President's Oil Spill Commission earlier this month when its chief counsel, Fred Bartlit Jr., said, "To date we have not seen a single instance where a human being made a ...
• Is drywall made of coal ash tied to baby deaths at ...
  A 5-month-old baby who had been living in on-base housing at Fort Bragg died over the weekend, bringing to 11 the number of infants who have passed away suddenly of unknown causes at the North Carolina military installation since 2007. The Army Investigation Command and the U.S. Consumer Product Sa ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Native People: Eastern Woodlands
  Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
• Fur Trade
  Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
• Canadian Pacific Railway
  Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
• Red River Rebellion
  Red River Rebellion (also known as Red River Resistance), a movement of national self-determination by the M�TIS of the RED RIVER COLONY in what is now Manitoba, 1869-70. The settlement was after 1836 administered by
• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Five fantastic reuses for expanded Polystyrene foa ...
  Expanded polystyrene, the moulded white shapes you get as protective packaging when you buy electronics or large toys etc, is a pain to recycle – it can be recycled now but not many places collect it. Unlike its foam ‘peanuts’ counterpart which can be reused as multi-purpose packaging again and agai ...
• How can I get into the habit of taking packed lunc ...
  Today we’re putting a spin our usual “how can I reduce this…” question after an email from Martine: I hate having to buy sandwiches every day but I can’t get into the habit of making lunch in the morning. I do it for a couple of days then stop. I hate spending all that money [...]
• What can I reuse or recycle to make Advent calenda ...
  Advent started yesterday so really I should have asked this question last week but nevermind. We don’t celebrate Christmas but I know that one or two people around the world do – and some of those people have Advent calendars to open on the run up to the 25th. When I was a kid, I’m [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle pet food pouches?
  Our lovely old cat Boron has had the last of his teeth taken out this week – he’s always been prone to gum problems and while gummy, he seems happier now his mouth isn’t so inflamed. Our vet says he might still be able to have dry food – which has made up the bulk [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle flat soda water or flat ...
  We’ve had an email from Ellie: I’ve found about half a dozen opened bottles of soda water and tonic water in the back of our drinks cupboard from last Christmas (I don’t know why there is so many!) They’re flat now but I know you can use soda water for stain removal so I wondered [...]

Mondoweiss

• 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 – from planting through to distribution – by the Dutch government. The program allows a few farmers in Gaza to s ...
• Oh, Canada: Al Jazeera investigates ‘the oth ...
• The big fat national conversation could actually s ...
  IDC is the acronym for California Divestment Initiative. To fully understand the importance of this initiative please hear me out. The Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is the first citizens' effort in the country to appeal directly to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international ...
• The Middle East’s only pretend democracy
  Haaretz notes a recent survey, revealing the hollowness of Israel's claim to be a democracy:A comprehensive survey compiled by the Israel Democracy Institute and reported in yesterday's Haaretz paints a gloomy, worrisome picture... ...Only 17% of the public believes the state's self-definition as a ...
• Watching The Pianist in Gaza
  The Pianist is a movie that tells the disheartening story of a Jewish pianist,� W�adys�aw Szpilman, who struggles to survive during the holocaust along with his family in Warsaw. Although it is primarily the story of one man, the movie instilled in me the notion of the universality of human sufferin ...

Media Consortium

• The New York Times Introduces The Evolution of the ...
  As reported by the Atlantic, The New York Times has snuck in an update to its hyperlink feature. The new feature allows users to link to and highlight individual sentences and paragraphs in its web stories. While it could be a tad complicated for an average reader, it’s a great tool for writers and ...
• Fundly + Facebook = Millions in Micro-Donations fo ...
  One startup that's trying to capture the heat of micro-donations and make them more social is Fundly, which started life as BlueSwarm in 2009 before moving to Palo Alto, Calif., from Boston. The donation platform lets candidates begin taking micro-donations online quickly, and even embed those effor ...
• ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin | paidConte ...
  ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit is the most high-profile addition so far from a recent grant by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation designed to encourage its grantees to try new methods ...
• Jim VandeHei Talks Politico Pro : CJR
  An interview w/Jim VandenHei about Politico Pro, which will provide 'high-impact, high-velocity reporting on the politics of energy, technology and health care reform' for political and policy professionals. At what price? $2,495 for the first subscriber to a single vertical such as energy; and afte ...
• Discounted memberships: A short term gain with lon ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Partnering with scientists, Google unveils "Earth ...
  A year after releasing a prototype version at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Google has unveiled its much-anticipated "Earth Engine" at the climate talks in Cancun. Earth Engine is an on-line tool designed to help scientists access satellite data, analyze land-use trends and in support of efforts ...
• Partnering with scientists, Google unveils "Earth ...
  A year after releasing a prototype version at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Google has unveiled its much-anticipated "Earth Engine" at the climate talks in Cancun. The Earth Engine is an on-line tool designed to help scientists and governments access satellite data, analyze land-use trends and im ...
• Setback for US food safety legislation
  Sweeping food safety legislation passed by the US Senate on Tuesday but not yet signed into law hit an unexpected roadblock yesterday. Republicans insistent that expiring Bush-era tax cuts be extended before the Senate's lame duck session ends later this month said that they would refuse to pass ...
• A step towards gene-free iPS cells
  Researchers are a step closer to creating patient-specific stem cells without the use viruses or foreign genes that could pose a cancer risk. A new study finds that a cocktail of two chemicals and a single gene is enough to convert some human cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, poten ...
• SOFIA shows its stuff
  Yesterday, after 15 years and at a cost of US$3.75 billion, the long-delayed, and much maligned, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) published its first photos of the sky. The 2.5-metre, mid-infrared telescope is mounted in the back of an aged Boeing 747. The airplane carrie ...

new geography

• Could the Dallas Way be the Right Way?
  Dallas was George W. Bush’s first choice for a retirement destination but it gets low approval ratings elsewhere. A recent poll of readers of American Style magazine rated Dallas only 24th out of 25 large American cities as an arts destination. It came in immediately behind those well-known cultura ...
• China’s Urbanization: It Has Only Just Begun
  In May, disgruntled workers of Honda factories in Zhongshan, southern China, went on strike at the Honda Lock auto parts factory and started posting accounts of the walkout online, spreading word among themselves and to workers elsewhere in China. In June, Bloomberg reported that China, “once an a ...
• Looking Down Under for a California Turnaround
  At a time when government in California faces an existential crisis, it’s telling to observe a starkly different picture in Australia. Forty years ago, local officials in fast-growing suburban communities in Queensland, Australia looked to their colleagues in fast-growing suburban communities in Ca ...
• Korea Conflict Shows That Borderlands Are Zones of ...
  The current conflict between the Koreas illustrates a broader global trend toward chaos along borders separating rich and poor countries. Ultimately, this reflects the resentments of a poor neighbor against a richer one. Feeling it has little to lose, the poorer neighbor engages recklessly in the ho ...
• Stuck in the Station: The High-Speed Rail "Low Bal ...
  You know that something is up when a Washington Post editorial advises that the Obama Administration do a "reality check" on its plans for high speed rail. From the beginning, there was more slow-speed than high speed rail, however both components of the plan could be in trouble. The Onion joined th ...

GM Watch

• Judge orders sugar beets pulled from soil
• GM proposal could face legal challenge
• Wikileaks document pushes GM food for African coun ...
  1. Wikileaks document pushes genetically modified food for African countries 2. Wikileaks: State Dept. wants intel on African acceptance of GMOs EXCERPT: It's ... a shame to see that our spymasters are actively engaged in efforts to make the world safe for Monsanto. Aren't there better things for t ...
• Clearance for field trial of genetically modified ...
• Vatican has not endorsed GM food, official says

spiked

• Jonathan Franzen: the Great American Malthusian
  Franzen’s deep misanthropy prevents Freedom from being a good novel: his characters’ lack of nobility means they just aren’t interesting.
• Catch 2022 for Qatar
  The reaction to the Gulf state hosting the World Cup exemplifies a tendency to see all Middle Eastern countries as terror-threatened backwaters.
• Australia: are you England in disguise?
  No killer instinct, riddled with self-doubt and with the media on their backs, the Aussies are acting like Poms.
• Don’t just mention the war
  From Bratwurst to Brecht, the BBC’s German season was a welcome change from British TV’s obsession with Nazis.
• Wikileaks: this isn’t journalism – it& ...
  High-minded newspapers’ celebration of the latest Wikileaks revelations is a cynical attempt to turn voyeurism into a virtue.

Cryptogon

• Atlanta: Hundreds Line Up For Help Heating Homes
  Via: Atlanta Journal Constitution: As metro Atlanta’s temperatures grow colder, the demand for heat is, well, heating up. A day after hundreds of people queued up outside a Marietta community center to apply for assistance with heat and power bills, hopeful applicants began lining up again around mi ...
• NASA Finds New Arsenic-Fed Life Form
  300 sextillion stars in the universe and people are surprised by this development? Via: PC World: NASA’s announcement Thursday afternoon has shown that alien life might have been under scientists’ noses all along. A press conference with a team of researchers revealed that alien life forms could exi ...
• Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery ...
  Via: Bloomberg: Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said. Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next th ...
• Fed Withholds Collateral Data for $885 Billion in ...
  “Collateral.” *wink* Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve withheld details on individual securities pledged as collateral by recipients of $885 billion in central bank loans, denying taxpayers a measure of the risks they faced from its emergency aid.
• No More Unemployment Checks for Two Million Americ ...
  Via: USA Today: About 2 million Americans stand to lose their unemployment checks by the end of December after Congress failed to extend benefits Tuesday, threatening to crimp consumer spending in a fragile recovery and critical holiday shopping season. A motion by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., to pass an ...

The Economic Collapse

• Barack Obama And Ben Bernanke Continue To Defend Q ...
  Even as Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke publicly defend the Federal Reserve's new $600 billion quantitative easing program, top finance officials around the globe are expressing alarm and outrage.  But what did Obama and Bernanke expect?  "Quantitative easing" is little more than lega ...
• Trillions In Secret Fed Bailouts For Global Corpor ...
  Has the Federal Reserve become the Central Bank of the World?  That is what some members of Congress are asking after the Federal Reserve revealed the details of 21,000 transactions stretching from December 2007 to July 2010 that totaled more than $3 trillion on Wednesday.  Most ...
• Debt = Money, Money = Debt
  Where does money come from?  You would think that question should be so simple that any 10-year-old child could answer it, but that is not the case.  You see, the truth is that the vast majority of American adults cannot even answer that question.  Yet we all use money every day.  W ...
• Will You Be Able To Heat Your Home This Winter? Mi ...
  Will you have a warm house to come home to this winter?  If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. With the United States experiencing the highest levels of long-term unemployment that it has seen since the Great Depression, millions of Americans families are simply ...
• Less Money, More Problems
  How in the world is the U.S. economy going to recover if the American people have less money to spend?  Millions of American families are heading into 2011 knowing that either they won't be seeing an increase in income or that their incomes will be smaller next year.  Long-term unem ...

Desertification

• ONE WATER – ONE FOOD – ONE BETTER LIFE ...
  EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE SEEN “ONE WATER” IN THE FIRST PLACE ALL PARTICIPANTS IN CANCUN   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-FLwAUB5x8 One Water on BBC2′s Foods That Make Billions
• A new generation of agricultural innovators has em ...
  Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=5145 Ghana: Agricultural Innovation in Ghana The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization based in Washington D.C., recently toured Ghana in search of innovations as part of a two year evaluation of sustainable agriculture across sub-Saha ...
• Invasive plant species are taking over millions of ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/news/newsitem.php?a=1811 Invasive species threatening African agriculture Written by Maina Waruru Invasive plant species are taking over millions of hectares of African farmland and grazing fields, reducing Africa’s crop yields by an average of 30 percent annually an ...
• Investments that raise agricultural productivity i ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/news/newsitem.php?a=1812 New study reveals causes of global food crisis Increased demand in rising economies, such as China and India, futures market speculation and falling agricultural yields and food stocks were not the primary cause of the 2007-08 … Continue read ...
• More productive agriculture and better food to boo ...
  Read at : http://mediaglobal.org/article/2010-11-25/agricultural_productivity_and_food_security_key_to_improve_human_health_in_africa Agricultural productivity and food security key to improve human health in Africa By Sofia Tillo 25 November 2010 [MediaGlobal]: The old saying that âyou are what you ...

The Paper Trail

• Whistleblower Bill Close to Winning Senate Approva ...
  A landmark bill to protect government whistleblowers is expected to win U.S. Senate approval this month, according to two advocacy groups, extending protection to members of the intelligence community who report waste, fraud, and abuse.
• New Consumer Agency Won’t Survive If It Focu ...
  With Republicans angling to strip power from the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren said the agency won’t succeed in curbing unfair and abusive lending practices if it gets bogged down in making too many rules.
• Reform Reading: Fed Reveals Details About $3 Trill ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Congress Ponders Corn Ethanol Tax Credit As Produc ...
  A 2007 federal law envisioned a bright future for cellulosic ethanol, an environment-friendly fuel made of wood chips, switch grass, corn stalks, and other plant waste. The Energy Security and Independence Act set an ambitious goal: At least 250 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol would be produce ...
• Reform Reading:  WikiLeaks Has Trove of U.S. ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

backofthebook.ca

• Canada’s favourite torturers
  By Alison@Creekside CBC: "The Canadian Forces have for years arrested children suspected of working with the Taliban and handed them over to an Afghan security unit accused of torture. The document, obtained under an Access to Information request and marked 'secret,' shows that Defence Ministe ...
• Jack up the crazy: Courtney Love’s reality s ...
  by Rachel Krueger This is what we’re doing now, Universe?  It’s not enough that Snooki has a book deal and that the Bieber-fetus has a biopic.  We’re giving Courtney Love a reality show now? Because this show isn’t going to be whatever Courtney thinks this show is going to be ("America’s Next ...
• WikiLeaks cache slim on Canadian content, so far
  By Frank Moher Early pickings for Canadians eager to find out what U.S. diplomats think of us, thanks to WikiLeaks' latest release of documents, labelled "cablegate," have been slim to none. Make that none. So far, just 220 of 251,287 files have been released, and none feature the American am ...
• Poledancing to the Web’s Tune
  Call them WebMatrons -- a new breed of businesswomen who've reinvented themselves on the internet ~~ By Beth Hendry-Yim ~~ After spending more than half her life working hard to raise her two boys alone, Susan Peach is ready for life to get a little easier. At 46, the B.C. fitness instructor . ...
• Poledancing to the Web’s Tune – page 2
  Coninued from page 1 Good, original content is the first and most important factor in getting and growing traffic, Peach explains. It not only draws potential customers in, but also keeps them browsing around and clicking on links and ads. For Lennard, creating content has had another plus side. ...

Worldnews

• Vietnam raises rice prices, Indonesia buys mo ...
  By Unknown User Indonesia buys 230,000 T, shipment by Feb 2011, seeks more Vietnamese rice price floors surge up to 14 pct Food price rise behind inflation fears By Ho Binh Minh and Yayat Supriatna HANOI/JAKARTA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Vietnam raised its rice export floor prices by nearly 14 percent ...
• E. Coli Outbreak In Connecticut Caused By Raw ...
  Posted on: Thursday, 2 December 2010, 23:32 CST Raw milk is consumed by an estimated 1-3 percent of the United States population. Raw milk and raw cheeses are responsible for almost 70 percent of reported dairy outbreaks. On July 16, 2008, the Connecticut Department of Public Health identified ...
• WikiLeaks Dropped by Domain Name Provider
  The Associated Press STOCKHOLM December 3, 2010 (AP) WikiLeaks' American domain name system provider, EveryDNS, has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name after the secret-spilling website once again became the target of hack attacks. EveryDNS said in a statement that it...
• Fiat turning to natural gas for U.S. cars
  By Tommaso Ebhardt and Tim Higgins Bloomberg News As Sergio Marchionne brings Fiat S.p.A. back to the United States after nearly three decades, he may add another Italian specialty: the natural gas engine. Marchionne, chief executive officer of Fiat and Chrysler Group L.L.C., says natural gas e ...
• Google vows quicker, tougher copyright enforc ...
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. is promising to do a better job of weeding out copyright violations on the Internet. As part of a crackdown announced Thursday, the Internet search leader said it will respond to complaints about pirated...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Racist blog leaves childcare manager's career in r ...
  A CHILDCARE centre manager behind a racist internet blog has been found guilty of misconduct by the care workers' watchdog. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
• Senators Push NASA to Carry Out Revamping
  Concerned that the agency is dragging its feet, a Senate panel sought assurances from administration officials on Wednesday that NASA would carry out orders that include scrapping a program to send astronauts to the moon.
• New European Rules On Notifying Chemical Substance ...
  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is supporting the European Chemical Agency's (ECHA) campaign to remind companies that new rules on classification, labelling, packaging and notification of chemical substances come into force on 1 December 2010...
• World AIDS Day Opinions
  Bush To Congress: Continue Fighting AIDS Worldwide In a Washington Post opinion piece, former President George W. Bush reflects on his administration's commitment to fight HIV/AIDS around the world. "In all of these efforts, my concern was results. I was frankly skeptical of some past foreign assist ...
• SENTRY HC WORM X (Pyrantel Pamoate) Tablet, Chewab ...
  Updated Date: Dec 1, 2010 EST

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Listen to: Natural Gas - Friend or Foe to Energy S ...
  Intro text:� On November 30th, The Energy Collective presented a live webinar on natural gas with our moderator, Marc Gunther, David Hone from Shell, and Geoff Styles from GSW Strategy Group, LLC. The panel talked about how natural gas is discovered, ...
• Study: Nuclear Power Will Be Pricier Than Other Re ...
  The SMH has an article on the cost of nuclear power - Nuclear power 'failing' price test.
• Video: The Case Against Natural Gas
• China's ambitious nuclear energy program
  Capacity planning targets keep going up
• Radioactivity and Shale Gas: Some Like It Hot?
  �� �The shale deposits that have the US gas industry so excited were studied after WWII by the Atomic Energy Commission and declared to be the largest uranium resource in the US.� �Because the gas industry is now going after gas by drilling into a uranium resource their new gas is contaminated with ...

Green House - USA Today

• House Republicans ax global warming committee
  Republicans, who take control of the House of Representatives in January, plan to eliminate a global warming committee created by Democrats to focus attention on the causes and effects of climate change.
• American dream shrinks as smaller homes gain favor
  How big is the new American dream? Sixty percent of Americans say their ideal home is less than 2,000 square feet and only 12% see it as above 3,000 square feet, a new survey finds.
• Pope Benedict is keen on solar-powered popemobile
  Pope Benedict XVI -- sometimes dubbed the "green pope" -- would gladly use a solar-powered electric popemobile to show he supports sustainable energy, a Vatican official said Wednesday.
• AP: Obama to keep oil drilling ban in Florida gulf
  President Barack Obama's administration will keep the ban on new oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least the next seven years because of the BP oil spill, reports the Associated Press.
• Google creates climate change videos amid Cancun t ...
  Google has come up with its own weapon for fighting climate change as representatives of nearly 200 countries meet for a 12-day conference on the issue in Cancun, Mexico.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• "Unconstitutional" food bill driven by Big Food lo ...
  By Rady Ananda While over 200 organizations lobbied on S.510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, no one seemed to notice an unconstitutional section in the bill until after it passed on Tuesday. That day, Roll Call advised that the bill contained a provision, Sec. 107, allowing the Senate to raise ...
• No Room at the Inn - Not even a TARP
  Michael Collins What do you get when you cross Tim Geithner and Peter Peterson? Barack Obama; who would rather help the big banks and balance the budget than offer a helping hand for struggling homeowners. (Image) The president demonstrated new heights of indifference toward the people in his ...
• The United States has long supported brutal regime ...
  Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and M ...
• DEATH OF THE DOLLAR
  Allen L Roland The handwriting is on the wall and yet no one, from capitol hill to Wall Street, apparently wants to talk about it. The dollar’s demise, however, is obvious to the informed and knowledgeable ~ for its death is eventually inevitable. First some history ~ The dollar became the world ...
• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestini ...
  by Stephen Lendman On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181, the Palestine Partition Plan, granting 56% of historic Palestine to Jews (with one-third of the population), 42% to Palestinians, with Jerusalem designated an international city (a corpus separatum - separate bo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• We're in it for the long haul!
  On Friday December 10th the CCPA-Manitoba will release its 6th annual State of the Inner-City report.� This year it is subtitled:� We're in it for the long haul.� CCPA-Manitoba produces its annual State of the Inner City Report by combining the learned experiences of our community partners with dat ...
• Closing the doors on youth
  Karen De Blonde is a Social Work student at the University of Manitoba and is completing a field placement at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Today CCPA-MB published her Youth Voices:� She has researched some of the devastating affects of Stephen Harper's crime strategy and she aptly s ...
• Transforming Saskatchewan's Electrical Future: Usi ...
  The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just released the second in its series on Transforming Saskatchewan's Electrical Future.�Part Two, entitled�Using Electricity More Efficiently�contains some surprising facts about how much electricity is consumed in our provi ...
• Video - The CCPA: 30 years of making a difference
  For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been advancing alternatives to a neoliberal agenda that has resulted in growing income inequality, a middle class under siege and persistent poverty despite years of economic growth. There is a better way. Learn more about our contrib ...
• A plea to reverse the ecological destruction of th ...
  On October 15th and 16th, prairie naturalist and award-winning author Trevor Herriot spoke on behalf of the Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Trevor's presentation, "All Flesh is Grass," provides us with both an urgent plea to reverse the ecological destructio ...

World Wide Hippies

• Eddie, We Hardly Knew Ye
  Mixed reactions over state refusal to recognize Eddie | Times of India Mixed reactions have poured in from the ‘flower children’ of the seventies after the state government has decided not to recognise Eight Finger Eddie or any of their generation for bringing tourism to Goa. TOI on Sunday reported ...
• And Now A Word From Our Sponsor
  WWH T-shirts. Only $12, + $3 shipping. Kick in another $5 and we’ll throw in a Bumpersticker. Or, you can buy the Bumpersticker separately: Limited Time Offer T-Shirt $12.00 T-Shirt + Bumpersticker $17.00 Bumpersticker $5.00 Specify Size (s,m,l,xl) Now’s the time to show ...
• Corporations found guilty … Hey USA this is ...
  Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 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 followed two full days of presentations in London at the second international ses ...
• Pittsburgh in the 60’s
  I am EVERYDAY people (yeah yeah) Over the years some have asked me why I care about people and causes that don’t really affect my everyday life. I’ve been asked if I was gay or if I was part native American. No, I’m not. If there were some specific reason I should care about the Sudan [...]
• Wavy Gravy Movie Review
  ‘Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie’ | SF Gate Wavy Gravy, hippie extraordinaire, emcee of Woodstock, ruler of the Hog Farm, namesake of a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, is walking gingerly up the stairs in his comfortable compound – his “Hyannisport West” – in Berkeley. He’s had five back sur ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The New American Oligarchy
  There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington�s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It�s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, and raging lies. I'm talki ...
• The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
  Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pus ...
• Wendell Potter Appearances for 'Deadly Spin&#3 ...
  For more information, visit WendellPotter.com AUTHOR APPEARANCES WASHINGTON, DC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The National Press Club 529 14th Street, Northwest 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. WASHINGTON, DC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW 7:00 p.m ...
• Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
  Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...
• The Lies of Islamophobia
  The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne�s command, including his ...

Salon

• More Joe Lieberman-caused Internet censorship
  Following up on my post from earlier today about Joe Lieberman's Chinese-replicating Internet censorship efforts, I�wanted this to be highlighted separately: The New York Times reports that another company has now capitulated to Lieberman's demands:��"a Seattle-based software company, Tableau, wh ...
• Mystery Somali mercenary army concerns Obama admin ...
  The Obama administration is concerned about a private military force aimed at combating piracy in northern Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region because there are unanswered questions about who is behind the operation.
• "Crap"-gate: Democrats used procedural trick to ho ...
  Did you hear? The method by which House Democrats voted in favor of extending low tax rates for all households but not extending an even lower top marginal rate on particularly high-earning households was declared to be "chicken crap" by the next speaker of the House of Representatives. Not that ...
• Biden's one-sentence summary of the Afghan war
  The sarcasm drips off the page in this April 2009 WikiLeaks cable that was pre-approved by the Office of the Vice President:
• McCain embarrasses self at "don't ask, don't tell" ...
  The Senate is holding hearings on "don't ask, don't tell" today, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates continues to advocate for the repeal of the ban on LGBT troops. You may be surprised to hear that John McCain is embarrassing himself.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Suspended student: Wrong message sent
  Teachers could have allowed set an example by responding the way grown-ups do to public disagreement.
• City budget: Ford’s hasty tax freeze
  A rash new promise to freeze Toronto's property tax makes service cuts more likely — perhaps even inevitable.
• WikiLeaks fallout: Testing Canada’s Afghan relatio ...
  Ambassador William Crosbie’s criticism of Hamid Karzai complicates Ottawa's uneasy relationship with Kabul.
• Diet supplement: Patchwork on program
  The Liberal government at Queen’s Park has rightly resisted pressure to scrap a special diet supplement for welfare recipients. But it has moved to tighten access to the $250 monthly supplement in the wake of a report from the auditor general that ...
• Chief Blair: Aiming at wrong target
  What’s with Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair?

Energy Collective

• Listen to: Natural Gas - Friend or Foe to Energy S ...
  Intro text:� On November 30th, The Energy Collective presented a live webinar on natural gas with our moderator, Marc Gunther, David Hone from Shell, and Geoff Styles from GSW Strategy Group, LLC. The panel talked about how natural gas is discovered, ...
• Study: Nuclear Power Will Be Pricier Than Other Re ...
  The SMH has an article on the cost of nuclear power - Nuclear power 'failing' price test.
• Video: The Case Against Natural Gas
• China's ambitious nuclear energy program
  Capacity planning targets keep going up
• Radioactivity and Shale Gas: Some Like It Hot?
  �� �The shale deposits that have the US gas industry so excited were studied after WWII by the Atomic Energy Commission and declared to be the largest uranium resource in the US.� �Because the gas industry is now going after gas by drilling into a uranium resource their new gas is contaminated with ...

EU Times

• Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercis ...
  When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world’s only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any int ...
• Documents Leak from Notorious US-Backed Unit as Ob ...
  Secret Files Show Kopassus, Indonesia’s Special Forces, Targets Papuan Churches, Civilians. Secret documents have leaked from inside Kopassus, Indonesia’s red berets, which say that Indonesia’s US-backed security forces engage in “murder [and] abduction” and show that Kopassus targets churches in We ...
• Uganda Seen as a Front Line in the Bioterrorism Fi ...
  The laboratories of Uganda’s Ministry of Agriculture, Animals, Industry and Fisheries sit on the top of a quiet hill on a turnoff near the airport, behind an eroded fence. At the end of a hallway is a room with an unlocked refrigerator. That is where the anthrax is kept. Senator Richard G. Lugar, Re ...
• Georgians rush to plastic surgeons for Western nos ...
  Georgia is experiencing a boom of plastic surgery. Women rushed to fix their noses, breasts and remove excess fat. Rhinoplasty is popular among men as well. European integration is strongly felt here: everyone wants to keep up with Western models of beauty. Yet, there are well-founded historical rea ...
• US researchers fight to reclaim climate science me ...
  Two initiatives will provide information for journalists as elections bring strong sceptic presence to new Congress. Hundreds of scientists have signed up to two new campaigns that seek to regain control of the message about climate science. The two separate efforts come barely a week after midterm ...

Stonecipher News

• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
• Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
  According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
• Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
  This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.
• Repression and the Ruling Class
  From my Triond collection: I recently read Louis Althusser’s article on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. He discusses the production for conditions of reproduction by breaking down the Marxist theory into several fundamental aspects. Althusser discussed the differences between the proleta ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• James’ Cleveland Homecoming A Success As Heat Crus ...
  The emotion of the return of LeBron James was too much to handle for the Cavaliers on Thursday night, as the Miami Heat led by their new “King” dominated the Cavs from start to finish, winning easily 118-90. Similar to the game five home blowout that Boston put on them last season when James was a ...
• Fireball on bus kills 40 as Israel battles inferno
  AROUND 40 people died yesterday when a bus burst into flames as it raced to an Israeli prison during a massive forest fire. The victims were mainly prison guards participating in the rescue mission, officials said. It was one of the deadliest accidents in the nation’s history. Fire officials said t ...
• Video: Stunned Pelosi Reads Charlie Rangel's Censu ...
  One of the most influential, and most crooked, members of Congress was finally censured on the House floor today. Charlie Rangel was found guilty by colleagues for unethical behavior. Rangel, by the way, is the man whom Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) called her "leader." Yup. Pelosi made "culture of co ...
• Will Cancun be More Productive than Copenhagen?
  The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change... Not! (I am bringing back "Not!"--who's with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climate Talks: In Search of the Holy Grail of Climate Ch ...
• Ronni Chasen Suspect Commits Suicide
  A man who was a “person of interest” in the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen has killed himself , after police confronted him with a search warrant at his apartment complex last night. The man, who went by the name of Harold, was said to be a very strange man, who reportedly bragged to ne ...

Groklaw

• Linux and Windows iron power Q3 server revenues
  "The server market experienced its strongest growth in ten years in the third quarter of 2010," explained Matt Eastwood, group vice president of enterprise platforms at IDC. ... The big winners in the third quarter were, as you expected, Windows and Linux. Revenues for servers running Windows operat ...
• Oracle asserts open source trademark
  On Wednesday, we reported how Oracle's trademark claim has put added strain on Oracle's relationship with devs outside the company and in the open source world. Though the company does not in fact own the trademark, Oracle US recently applied for a trademark in the European Union. [PJ: Actually, it ...
• Oracle highlights Solaris Unix plans
  Also at Thursday's event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison expressed Oracle's intention to dominate the Linux space. "Solaris is clearly the number one Unix, and we're working very hard at making Oracle Enterprise Linux the number one Linux," he said. [PJ: Well. That can't happen unless you treat the upstre ...
• Ellison Says Oracle Will 'Go After' H-P
  The jibe Thursday came as Oracle announced new computers based on the Sparc chip technology developed by Sun Microsystems-which Oracle acquired in January for $7.4 billion-as well as updates to other products. Some Sun customers initially had worried that Oracle would stop investing in the chips.... ...
• LibreOffice posts "community bylaws" - open for co ...
  These bye-laws define the internal organization of The Document Foundation. They cover the Community processes for contributions made to the projects of The Document Foundation. These by-laws do not apply to the actual structure and governance of The Document Foundation as a legal entity, which are ...

WideShut

• Famous Actor Placed On Terror Watchlist?
  There is contention on whether actor Mark Ruffalo was placed on a wactch-list, but the propaganda might still have the desired effect.
• The Banker: by 33rddegreefilms
  A short film that puts the current financial collapse in to perspective.
• November 30, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  On this week's show Keelan Balderson discusses the EDL, the Christmas Tree Bomber, and the dubious Wikileaks documents.
• Another Dubious Terrorist Attack: Christmas Tree B ...
  Oregon Christmas tree bomber was groomed online and given dud bomb by agent. How much was really his own doing?
• November 23, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  On this week's show Keelan discusses the list of celebrities that have spoken out about 9/11.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• New Meadowlands overseer named
  New Meadowlands overseer named
• City Council votes to clear encroachments on Busch ...
  City Council votes to clear encroachments on Busch Drive
• Urban watersheds: Runoff to renewal
  Urban watersheds: Runoff to renewal
• Groups serve feds with notice of intent to sue ove ...
  Groups serve feds with notice of intent to sue over Arapahoe Snowfly
• An Easy Way to Reduce Plastic Pollution
  An Easy Way to Reduce Plastic Pollution

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

• GAG unit working well, tributes continue for Pike ...
  Police say the special jet engine helping suppress the fire in the Pike River coalmine is working well, but it will probably be weeks before the mine is safe enough to enter
• NZ farmers urge Agriculture Minister to declare a ...
  New Zealand farmers are urging Agriculture Minister David Carter to declare a drought, just three days into summer.
• Taipa protestors say they will leave land
  Maori protesters occupying Far North land say they will leave peacefully by Monday morning.
• Three hit by buses in same street in four days
  Wellington City council is considering employing more staff to patrol its new, two-way route through the central city following a third accident.
• Pike River confident mine will operate again
  Pike River management says it's confident of getting the mine up and running again

Just World News

• Visser's book on Iraq now available for sale!
  Reidar Visser's magisterial 300-page book A Responsible End? The United States and Iraq, 2005-2010 is now available for sale from Amazon. Actually, it's already selling really well there! Long-time JWN readers will be quite familiar with the work of this smart and dedicated European researcher, who ...
• U.S. diplomacy in tatters-- and not from Wikileaks
  Our country's ability to influence events around the world is in tatters-- and this was already the case before the latest round of Wikileaks started to dribble out to the public. Yesterday there were "elections" in Egypt and Haiti, two countries deep within the U.S. sphere of influence. Both electi ...
• Robinson and Brahimi: Wrong on Hamas and women
  Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...
• Celebrate Laila's book launch today!
  Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...
• Virginians standing up to Cantor!
  A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...

First Truths

• Time to Rescind the Social Contract
  Coverage of the pension crisis in France has made a habit of implicating the hallowed "social contract" that citizens supposedly enjoy the benefits of in that country. With the French strikes as a reference point, I argue that social contract theory, the idea of implicit consent, cannot justify the ...
• The Empire Drones On
  I commented for C4SS "on the secrecy surrounding the U.S. military's drone program and the number of innocents it kills."
• Green Rising: The Dangers of Political Environment ...
  Today, my criticism of political environmentalism�was published as a Feature Article by C4SS.
• The State Serves Poison As Food
  Corporate profit-guarding masquerading as consumer protection is the usual order of business within the United States regulatory state, a circumstance I attack in a C4SS commentary with regard to a new food safety bill.
• Shielding Global Statism
  For C4SS, I aired my thoughts on the recently announced NATO-wide missile shield.

Media Co-Op

• Occupation has no Future: A Film on Anti-Occupatio ...
  A discussion with filmmaker David Zlutnick Occupation has No Future is a unique film project that documents the interactions between a delegation of U.S. war resisters, Israelis who are fighting against militarism and refusing to serve in occu ...
• UBC student society backs aid for Gaza
  University of BC students back Gaza funds VANCOUVER  -  The UBC Alma Mater Society  (AMS)  voted tonight to support a $700 donation to the 2011 Canadian Flotilla to Gaza by the campus Social Justice Centre. The meeting came after two weeks of hardline anti-Palestine rhetoric and bullying on campus b ...
• Witnesses Testify in Graham Trial, Judge Decides ...
  Trial of John Graham: Rapid Reports (Dec. 01) Rapid Reports (Dec. 01) UPDATES: Witnesses Testify in Graham Trial,� Judge Decides Marshall Must Too RAPID CITY --� Judge Jack Delaney has ruled that Richard Marshall must testify. The ruling came ...
• Canadian Youth Delegation Podcast 4
  Questioning the UN and considering language � In today's podcast, we catch up with Joanna Dafoe, of Adopt a Negotiator, to discuss the role of the UN process in addressing the issue of climate change. We hear the perspective of Guy St.-Jacques ...
• Canadian Youth Delegation Podcast 3
  Your Daily News Bulletin from the Canadian Youth Delegation to COP16 Welcome to our third podcast, courtesy of the Canadian Youth Delegation to COP16 in Cancun. Today’s podcast features CYD’s very own resident policy expert, Adam Scott, who wi ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Getting serious for a moment
  David Seaton's News LinksFor the time being the USA is the major pillar of stability of some sort that the world has. Like it or not, that is a fact. Anything that affects that stability causes extremely unpredictable outcomes, blowback and damage everywhere. I am certainly not "pro status quo", but ...
• Why I truly miss George W. Bush
  "I prefer bad people to stupid people, because bad people sometimes give it a rest" José Ortega y Gasset The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." George W. Bush "Do you have blacks in Brazil, too?" George W. Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso "I kn ...
• Wikileaks: America's senior moment
  So this is what the eclipsing of American power looks like, with the disgorging of so much of its sensitive diplomatic correspondence in one fell swoop. Arguably not since Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945 has there been a compromise of state secrets as breathtaking as that brought about by WikiL ...
• Why isn't Julian Assange in Guantanamo? Where are ...
  Peter King, a member of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the latest release "manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
• Glenn Beck: a clown by moonlight
  "...there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight...." Lon Chaney Sr.(hat to James Kunstler)David Seaton's News LinksFirst, once again, it is important to remember that it is central to Glenn Beck's message that nothing in it make much, or sometimes any, sense at all. This is not some sort ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Important Child Nutrition Legislation Sent to Pres ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org or leeann@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A major public health victory on behalf of the neediest school children is about to be realized when President Obama signs into law... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Holidays Come Early for California Chemical Makers ...
  Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- In September 2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the signing of two bills that, he said, would propel “California to the forefront of the nation and... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – At least 5,000 Americans – most of them young children, the elderly and the sick – die every year from eating contaminated food, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• Environmental, Health, Business and Public Policy ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – Six new members have taken seats on the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, collectively bringing with them decades of experience in environmental activism,... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to ...
  November 29th, 2010 tbody { border:0; } Download the PDF The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House United States House of Representatives The... [[ This is a ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Finally, Proof that Cancer is a Man-Made Disease
  A study of ancient bodies has determined that cancer is a man-made disease, one fueled by the excesses. Tumors turn out to be extremely rare until very recent times, when pollution and poor diet became issues. Researchers analyzed potential references to the disease in classical literature, and als ...
• Monsanto’s Ongoing Corruption Incites Forbes’ Retr ...
  Monsanto has been paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides. Why? It's a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned about the problem of herbicide-resistant weed creation even before Monsanto ...
• Pitbull Loves Kitten
  A big dog ... and her little friend.
• Why do Obstetricians Still Rush to Clamp the Cord?
  For many years, the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics have advised against early umbilical cord clamping. But obstetricians have been reluctant to change their habits. Although no clamping occurs in nature, cord clamping has become such an accep ...
• New Study Shows Antibiotics Have Little Impact on ...
  Giving children antibiotics when they get ear infections doesn't do much to speed their recovery. What's more, it raises the risk of side effects. A study found that 80 out of 100 children, if given only medication to reduce pain or fever, would recover from an acute ear infection within a few days ...

JAMA

• Ensuring Safe and Effective Use of Medication and ...
  (No abstract is available for this citation)
• Evaluation of Consistency in Dosing Directions and ...
  Context� In response to reports of unintentional drug overdoses among children given over-the-counter (OTC) liquid medications, in November 2009 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new voluntary industry guidelines that recommend greater consistency and clarity in OTC medication dosi ...
• This Week in JAMA [This Week in JAMA]
  (No abstract is available for this citation)
• Efficacy and Safety of Prescription Omega-3 Fatty ...
  Context� Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common, yet there remains an unmet medical need for additional treatment options. Current pharmacological treatments have limited efficacy and significant adverse events. Limited data from small trials suggest omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may provide a sa ...
• Active Surveillance Compared With Initial Treatmen ...
  Context  In the United States, 192 000 men were diagnosed as having prostate cancer in 2009, the majority with low-risk, clinically localized disease. Treatment of these cancers is associated with substantial morbidity. Active surveillance is an alternative to initial treatment, but long-term outco ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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. ...

Montreal Gazette

• WikiLeaks too late to boost CBC ratings
  WikiLeaks has done Canadians a huge favour. For years, we've been struggling to figure out how to get the United States to pay attention to us. But now we know: Bad drama! Featuring Evil Americans! Killing our prime minister! In a canoe! Maybe!
• Open up, city hall, and talk to taxpayers
  The frustrating odyssey of a local homeowner through the murky swamp of our municipal bureaucracy in quest of some fairly simple information is perhaps just one instance of things done badly, but it undoubtedly has a familiar ring to many Montrealers who have had dealings with city hall.
• What's next? Subway searches?
  As our American friends celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, most Canadians should have been thankful not to be travelling in the U.S. Bad weather in some places, infrastructure-stimulus highway construction in others, and especially a new level of security at major airports made life difficul ...
• Malignant Hezbollah sparks another crisis
  For years now Lebanon has been riding the tiger of Hezbollah, a Shiite political party that's also a semi-covert army and that is in many ways a mere proxy for foreign powers, Syria and Iran. Now the lid seems about to blow off this sham state. Nobody should be surprised.
• Mayor had few options in next year's budget
  Mayor Gerald Tremblay got at least one thing right yesterday when he presented the city's budget for 2011: Montrealers these days don't trust the people who are spending their money.

Food World Order

• white house to serve 2,000 lbs of gulf seafood ove ...
  from food safety news: The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year's holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil sp ...
• cdc admits dc water may still be contaminated
  head of dc water says cdc report 'not new news' from washington post: The water in almost 15,000 DC homes that were repaired during a massive effort to remove lead pipes may still be contaminated by dangerous levels of the metal, according to a report released [Dec1] by the CDC. If those residenc ...
• food prices expected to rise sharply
  from cnbc: Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven't seen cotton prices this high since after the Civil War. Soybeans are up. Oil is up. Metals are up. So are coffee and cocoa. In this era of massive liquidity, everything is up, except for food prices ...
• despite massive protests, senate passes 'food safe ...
  from natural news: The new Food Tyranny Act - called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate - has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of th ...
• mcdonald's & pepsi to help write uk health policy
  exclusive: dept of health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol & diet-related disease from guardian: The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars an ...

CrusadeWatch

• Sex, lies and money in the church
  source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
• Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
  source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
• Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
  source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
• Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
  source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010  By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ris ...
• What science say about religious conversion
  source:  Helium.com,  October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Barack Obama And Ben Bernanke Continue To Defend Q ...
  Even as Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke publicly defend the Federal Reserve's new $600 billion quantitative easing program, top finance officials around the globe are expressing alarm and outrage.  But what did Obama and Bernanke expect?  "Quantitative easing" is little more than lega ...
• Trillions In Secret Fed Bailouts For Global Corpor ...
  Has the Federal Reserve become the Central Bank of the World?  That is what some members of Congress are asking after the Federal Reserve revealed the details of 21,000 transactions stretching from December 2007 to July 2010 that totaled more than $3 trillion on Wednesday.  Most ...
• Debt = Money, Money = Debt
  Where does money come from?  You would think that question should be so simple that any 10-year-old child could answer it, but that is not the case.  You see, the truth is that the vast majority of American adults cannot even answer that question.  Yet we all use money every day.  W ...
• Will You Be Able To Heat Your Home This Winter? Mi ...
  Will you have a warm house to come home to this winter?  If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. With the United States experiencing the highest levels of long-term unemployment that it has seen since the Great Depression, millions of Americans families are simply ...
• Less Money, More Problems
  How in the world is the U.S. economy going to recover if the American people have less money to spend?  Millions of American families are heading into 2011 knowing that either they won't be seeing an increase in income or that their incomes will be smaller next year.  Long-term unem ...

CASSE

• From Black Friday to a Better Way
  Rethinking consumption and consumer spending may be the key to enjoying the holidays.
• In Search of Answers about Economic Growth
  It's time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.
• Enough Is Enough
  Brian Czech's foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.
• An Economy of “Enough”
  On November 17, you'll be able to download the outstanding new report about how a steady state economy would work.
• Thermodynamic Roots of Economics
  We can no longer afford to ignore the fundamental operating rules for the economy.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: History Repeating Edition
  "I wholeheartedly support the Daily Express campaign. It is a brave campaign from a brilliantly patriotic newspaper and not the first time that the Express has stuck its neck out on an issue that is best for our nation. Back in the 1930s, nearly all the politicians and press thought that Adolf Hi ...
• Behaving like fascists: Further video proof of how ...
  If it talks like a fascist, thinks like a fascist, behaves like a fascist... ...then call it a fascist. Here is patriotic Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan attempting to draw the Evil Empire's attention to how hypocrisy is at work in its midst - that while UKIP's MEP Godfrey Bloom was chucked out ...
• "Write off the fraudulent debt" - it doesn't exist ...
  It's the bankers or us...
• Battle FOR Britain: Further proof that only UKIP's ...
  Do you ever get the feeling that the calibre of politicians gets weaker and weaker and more pathetic with every passing election? As the corporate media ridicules Ed Miliband (rightly); as small 'c' conservatives ridicule David Cameron (rightly)... and as everyone in the country hates and despise ...
• Daily Express: "99% OF YOU SAY: GET US OUT OF EURO ...
  The Daily Express puts the demand for British withdrawal from the European Empire on it's front page again today under the dramatic headline finding that 99% of respondents to their phone poll support the 'get Britain out' call. The newspaper notes: "In an indication of the strength of public fee ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The deficit commission's curious ...
  Date on which President Obama's deficit commission will meet to consider adopting a plan drawn up by its co-chairs, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff and current University of North Carolina president: 12/3/2010 Age to which the plan would rais ...
• Will offshore drilling ban spur wind development?
  Yesterday the Interior Department announced an updated strategy for offshore oil and gas leasing that bans drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years. "As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of less ...
• New push for voter ID laws despite scant evidence ...
  Weeks after winning control of the North Carolina legislature, Republicans have unveiled pieces of their 2011 legislative agenda. While they may have campaigned on jobs and taxes, an entirely different issue tops the priority list of new House Speaker Rep. Thom Tillis: passing a voter ID law. N ...
• Oil spill commission's missing document adds insig ...
  By Ryan Knutson, ProPublica A new document uncovered last week might help to clear up some confusion over comments made by the President's Oil Spill Commission earlier this month when its chief counsel, Fred Bartlit Jr., said, "To date we have not seen a single instance where a human being made a ...
• Is drywall made of coal ash tied to baby deaths at ...
  A 5-month-old baby who had been living in on-base housing at Fort Bragg died over the weekend, bringing to 11 the number of infants who have passed away suddenly of unknown causes at the North Carolina military installation since 2007. The Army Investigation Command and the U.S. Consumer Product Sa ...

CenterLine

• Reaction to the Reaction to the Ghailani Verdict
  by Joshua L. Dratel The polar reactions to the verdict in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani could not be less contrived, as they represent the ultimate in confirmation bias.  I donât believe a single opinion was changed by the result: … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Ten Arrested in Spain and Thailand for Counterfeiting Ring Linked to Terror Groups Ten people were arrested in Spain and Thailand late Tuesday and early Wednesday in connection with an alleged counterfeiting ring that made fake passports for suspected terror … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Fallout Continues from WikiLeaks Cables Interpol issued Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, a âred noticeâ Wednesday in connection with alleged sex crimes in Sweden. The New York Times reports that being placed on the red notice list is not … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Oregon Teen Accused of Bomb Plot Pleads Not Guilty Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born Oregon teen arrested last Friday in an FBI sting operation for plotting to detonate a car bomb at a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, pleaded … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Oregon Teen Arrested in FBI Sting for Plotting Attack A Somali-born teenager was arrested in an FBI sting operation on Friday night in Portland, Oregon, for attempting to detonate a car bomb at a downtown Christmas-tree lighting ceremony.  Mohamed Osman … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 26 November 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: radar guns that spot suicide bombers, why mammals grew big and what it's like to have bionic eyes
• There's oxygen on Rhea, but aliens? Don't hold you ...
  Recent findings from the Cassini mission report the presence of oxygen on one of Saturn's moons – but there's little chance that it could support life
• Colonel Wheelock: wheels down after 5 months in sp ...
  US astronaut Doug Wheelock looks pleased to be back the ground after spending 5 and a half months on the International Space Station
• The ET discovery that wasn't
  The hullabaloo over NASA's astrobiology announcement today shows how big the public appetite is for news about the search for alien life
• Milk and meat from cloned animals declared safe
  The UK's Food Standards Agency has declared milk and meat from cloned animals safe to eat – but not everyone is convinced by the announcement

Tech Drive In

• Faenza Icon Theme Undergoes Major Upgrade, Tons of ...
  Beloved Faenza icon theme undergoes a major upgrade. Lots of new icons are included and improved Firefox and Google Chrome icons are absolutely beautiful IMO. Brand New Faenza 0.8 Icon Theme In the latest Faenza 0.8, a ton of new icons are added to the Faenza icon pack which include Adobe ...
• Vendetta Online, World of Goo are Now Available fo ...
  Ubuntu Software Center is definitely coming alive. The latest entrants in the 'for purchase' section of Ubuntu Software Center include the incredibly good puzzle game called World of Goo and Vendetta Online, a 3D space combat MMORPG. World of Goo Puzzle Game World of Goo is a wonderfully c ...
• AMD Joins MeeGo Linux Open Source Project
  After Nokia's decision to�go it alone with MeeGo, more good news is coming in for MeeGo open source mobile phone OS project.�During the MeeGo Conference 2010, AMD made an important decision to join Linux Foundation's MeeGo open source Linux project and thereby provide the much needed�engineering exp ...
• Kupfer, Synapse - Two Ubercool GNOME Do Alternativ ...
  This is why I love Linux. If you don't like one application, choose from the alternatives, simple as that. GNOME Do is an incredible launcher application for Ubuntu. But since GNOME Do is basically a Mono application, many might refrain from using it. But don't worry, Synapse and Kupfer are equally ...
• 10 Incredible Icon Sets for Ubuntu/GNOME
  Yesterday, we brought to you one among the most amazing collection of themes for Ubuntu through our 7 brilliant GTK themes for Ubuntu/GNOME�post. Now it's time for some really cool icon sets for your Ubuntu/GNOME. Read on. Faenza is definitely the most favored and popular third party icon se ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Scotland Yard poised to arrest Julian Assange
   Scotland Yard poised to arrest WikiLeaks boss over rape allegations after Interpol issues warrant By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:54 PM on 2nd December 2010 Add to My Stories Police know Julian Assange’s whereabouts but await correct Interpol paperwork Amazon boot WikiLeaks off their serv ...
• Congress stops Wikileaks
   Amazon Drops Leaks Website Amazon.com Inc. stopped hosting WikiLeaks from its Web servers following pressure from members of Congress, prompting the controversial group to move its website to a European provider. WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message it had been “ousted” by the Seattle online retail ...
• It’s The Bankers Or Us
  http://www.infowars.com/its-the-bankers-or-us/ The Austerity Hammer Starts to Fall on United States as Debt Consumes Europe Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes Infowars.com December 1, 2010 Problem, Reaction, Solution: Derivatives, Crash, Too Big To Fail, Bailout, Nationalization, Budget Crisis, Privatization, ...
• Fed lent to Commerzbank, Societe General and other ...
  Data reveals Fed’s crisis lending to foreign banks Narayan Lakshman In a disclosure that is likely to lead to some uncomfortable questions the United States Federal Reserve revealed this week that it had spent vast sums of money to prop up the balance sheets of foreign banks between December 2007 an ...
• Politicians involved in Kampusch paedophile ring, ...
  A “powerful political” ring is involved in the abduction of Natascha Kampusch, Austrian politician Ewald Stadler has claimed. Stadler made his claim that high level politicians in Austria were involved in a paedophile ring as it emerged that the brother of a police inspector who was found dead in hi ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

• Media faces serious threat under Karzai
  By Hanan Habibzai,STAFF WRITER In January 2002, Tom Ford, aka Mr Fashion, at his menswear show for Gucci in Milan, comes up with a surprising idea to recognize the newly appointed Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, “the most chic man in the world”. He was in the news not for his political knowledge and fo ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  CONTRACTS: No. 1105-10 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Meridian Medical Technologies, Columbia, Md., is being awarded a maximum $116,180,667 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for nerve agent antidotes. Other location of performance is in Missouri. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine C ...
• GORDON DUFF: THE WIKI HOAX
  THE GLOBAL CONSPIRACY BEHIND THE BOYISH GRIN…   By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor True colors, we are seeing them now.  Those still trying to peddle the Wikileaks myth, the boyish grin concealing the powerful conspiracy, espionage and treason at the highest levels of American society, thes ...
• HUD No Cost or Low Cost Senior Housing Now for 55+ ...
  No income or low income Veterans or non-veterans alike, can now obtain no cost or low cost Senior Housing due to a special HUD Program lowering the age for Senior Subsidized from age 62 to 55 at certain HUD Senior Housing facilities.
• VA HOME LOANS: Refinance Loans for Veterans
  Although the housing market has plummeted in recent years, the record low interest rates have prompted many homeowners to refinance their mortgages with hopes of obtaining a lower interest rate. With an Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan, also known as a VA Streamline, borrowers are able to obta ...

electric politics

• The Criminal Indictment of George W. Bush
  It should go without saying that the President of the United States of America cannot lawfully authorize the torture of anybody. Given George W. Bush's statements in his recently published memoir that he had, indeed, authorized waterboarding, I turned to Manfred Nowak for an explanation of what thi ...
• A Once and Future Country
  How strange that we Americans refuse to take responsibility for our future. Instead of recognizing our political system for the broken shambles that it is, and trying to fix it, we're waiting, seemingly paralyzed, for some kind of savior or external intervention. Good luck with that! To talk about ...
• American Presidential Dictatorship
  When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his lates ...
• Our Unsecure Border
  There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-state ...
• A Postcard From Paris
  In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...

PR News

• Firms decline further comment on Greenpeace lawsui ...
  WASHINGTON: Ketchum, Dezenhall Resources, and Dow Chemical continued to decline to comment following the filing of a lawsuit by Greenpeace earlier this week against the companies for corporate espionage.
• Mercedes-Benz USA hires ABPR as AOR
  MONTVALE, NJ: Mercedes-Benz USA hired Alison Brod PR (ABPR) as its AOR to handle lifestyle brand PR, as well as PR initiatives surrounding its various Fashion Week sponsorship activations.
• Finer focus is a key element to CSR, study says
  WASHINGTON: Corporations are drilling down to focus on a specific issue when it comes to CSR programs, according a study from Weber Shandwick.
• Dix & Eaton launches Reputation Valuation practice ...
  CLEVELAND, OH: Dix & Eaton launched a practice for businesses aimed at exploiting the value of their reputation and other intangible assets.
• Study: more policymakers using digital comms
  WASHINGTON: Digital channels have dramatically increased in popularity as a two-way communications tool for legislative leaders, according to a trans-Atlantic study from Edelman.

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. ...

k2p blog

• Light blogging for the next two weeks: off to warm ...
  I shall be travelling for the next two weeks in temperatures significantly higher than the minus 23 degrees Celsius we had last night in middle Sweden. Blogging will be necessarily light.
• Tenacious life: Microbe swaps phosphorous for arse ...
  Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using unexpected biochemical powers.
• Some good news from Cancun: Japan refuses to exten ...
  Jun Arima, an official in the government's economics trade and industry department, in an open session at Cancun bluntly stated that "Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances."
• WWF wants every single King Crab to be exterminate ...
  King crabs are too successful as a species and therefore must be exterminated says the WWF.
• Qantas prepares for legal action against Rolls Roy ...
  Australia's Qantas Airways has taken measures that would allow litigation against Rolls-Royce Group PLC if it fails to reach a commercial settlement over the recent failure of a Trent 900 engine. A statement of claim has been filed by Qantas and an injunction by the Federal Court of Australia grant ...

Left Foot Forward

• Afghanistan: Americans faring no better in Sangin
  Former Army Captain, Patrick Bury, discusses the American involvement in Sangin, Afghanistan, and why it is such a challenge for the British troop replacements.
• Daily Mail blames “ethnically diverse figure ...
  The inclusion of too many foreigners in the FIFA World Cup 2018 bid video is what cost us the bid, says the Daily Mail in another example of its racist views.
• Danny Alexander squirms when pressed on tuition fe ...
  Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander became the latest senior Liberal Democrat cabinet minister to fail to declare his hand on Question Time last night - repeatedly refusing to say whether he would vote for or against the trebling of tuition fees his government is proposing and which he ...
• 2018 may be lost, but PM can still deliver a brigh ...
  England lost out in the bid to host the 2018 World Cup today, despite having arguably the best presentation, with Prince William, David Beckham and David Cameron making the case for football to come home. Russia won the right to host the 2018 World Cup, with rank outsiders Qatar - a country with an ...
• Student protest in the age of contempt
  A huge shift is taking place in universities across the country. This is not just a change to departmental budgets and a culling of staff. Something far more profound and deep-rooted is happening within the students themselves.

Consumerist

• Turn Two IKEA Chest Of Drawers Into A Captain's Be ...
  Crafty gal Suz went a little nuts and decided to turn two chest of drawers into a bed. Measure carefully, saw them in half, throw a mattress on top, and boom, you've got yourself a DIY captain's bed. She walks you through how she did it, so you can play the home version of the furniture remix game. ...
• Lowe's Recalls 11 Million Roman Shades & Roll-Up B ...
  Roman shades and roll-up blinds have become the drop-side cribs of the home decor world. They're a known risk and there have been industry-wide recalls, and yet they continue to be made (shoddily) and sold... only to be recalled. This time, it's Lowe's Home Centers recalling just about every Roman ...
• Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae To Take A Break From Evic ...
  There are few things as depressing as having your house taken away from you on Christmas Eve, so the people at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are issuing a brief moratorium on evicting people from foreclosed properties during the holiday season. In a statement on its site, F.Mac said it won't be evict ...
• What Is A Fatal Dose Of Four Loko?
  "How many Four Lokos would it take to kill you?" wondered Esquire. So they turned to a report in Forensic Science International that says the rare fatal caffeine overdose usually requires consuming over 5 grams. To reach that level it would take... ...Twenty-four Four Lokos. Most people would pro ...
• What You Have To Tip People Who Work For You So Th ...
  If you're a mailman, you'll probably look just a little more kindly upon those who slip you $10 gift cards during the holidays, and may be willing to work just a little bit harder to keep them happy throughout the year. So think of holiday tipping as a way to buy goodwill that lasts year round and ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Congress Set to Pass Whistleblower Protection Bill ...
  By Wikimedia user Lkmorlan Associated Press: In WikiLeaks Wake, Whistleblower Bill Set To Pass In the wake of the latest WikiLeaks release, Congress is on the verge of passing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) -- a bill that would give federal employees, including those i ...
• Report Shows Exactly Why Federal Whistleblowers Ne ...
  Today, GAP released a report on one of the most effective ways to undermine the disclosures of a whistleblower: retaliatory investigations. Whistleblower Witch Hunts follows 12 federal employees into Kafka’s The Trial, as they undergo underhanded tactics that run the gamut of indecency, including: ...
• In WikiLeaks Wake, Whistleblower Witch-Hunt Report ...
  If folks feel conflicted about WikiLeaks, the answer is to pass meaningful whistleblower reform. Otherwise, whistleblowers have no alternative, as detailed in this Whistleblower Witch Hunt report released today. I've been saying that quite often here at Kos. Now, following the latest WikiLeaks sp ...
• Judge Denies Government Request for Expert Names i ...
  Associated Press: Prosecution Request Denied In NSA Leaks Case Yesterday, a judge denied the government’s request to require lawyers for NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake to reveal the names of their expert consultants several months before the leak case goes to trial. The judge called the demand ...
• Classification Chicanery Thwarted at Drake Hearing ...
  At yesterday's hearing in the government's retaliatory prosecution of Thomas Drake, a federal judge refused to grant what he generously dubbed an "usual request" from the prosecution to require Mr. Drake's defense team to turn over the names of consulting experts prior to allowing defense expe ...

UK Progressive

• AIDS Still Thought of as a Gay Disease in Black Am ...
  by Rev. Irene Monroe To date, more than 230, 000 African Americans have died of AIDS. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1 in 22 African Americans will be diagnosed HIV-positive in their lifetime. And, it’s the leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of ...
• Did Popeye Eat Too Much Spinach in Cans?
  Beware the cans.
• Green Matters: Cancun Climate Summit Looks To Busi ...
  By Theodora Filis This year’s World Climate Summit (WCS) in Cancun, Mexico, which kicked-off officially on November 29th, is said to be the beginning of a new, open and collaborative global 10-year framework dedicated to helping governments, businesses and financiers accelerate solutions to climate ...
• The Showdown On Tax Cuts for the Rich
  by Robert Reich The President met with Republican leaders at the White House (yesterday) morning to talk about whether the Bush tax cuts should be extended to top taxpayers, as Republicans want. No decision has been reached, but this is the first test of the President’s resolve with the new Congress ...
• WikiLeaks Julian Assange: Hero or Villain? How He ...
  by Denis G. Campbell Rumoured to be hiding in the United Arab Emirates from an Interpol arrest warrant, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, is a ‘person of interest’ in dozens of countries on everything from rape to espionage. While one could recommend a good food taster and radical plastic surger ...

NewsAlert

• JPMorgan Suspected Madoff Months Prior To Arrest, ...
  The Business Insider has this amazing document.
• WaPost's Puff Piece on Soros Financed Media Matter ...
  The Washington Post
• Free Market Capitalism: Best Path to Longer Life
  Carp Diem has this BBC video.
• Senator Sanders: A Real Jaw Dropper at the Federal ...
  Senator Bernie Sanders reports on the Fed:What have we learned so far from the disclosure of more than 21,000 transactions? We have learned that the $700 billion Wall Street bailout signed into law by President George W. Bush turned out to be pocket change compared to the trillions and trillions of ...
• Here's Everything You Need To Know For Today's Big ...
  The Business Insider

JoNova

• Breaking News: Worlds third largest economy bails ...
  “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances.” Japan is the third largest economy in the world. In absolute, unequivocal terms it has just announced it will not be extending the Kyoto agreement. It’s hard to see how a carbon trading scheme ...
• Book discount for readers: Aynsley Kellow, Science ...
  Ansley Kellow’s book “Science and Public Policy” normally sells for  $110 (£59.95), but he’s arranged for a special discount for readers of climate science blogs: $40 (£25)! Use the email information below to order. It deals with the politics and philosophy of science, including the hockey stick ...
• Book discount for readers: Aynsley Kellow, Science ...
  Ansley Kellow’s book “Science and Public Policy” normally sells for  $110 (£59.95), but he’s arranged for a special discount for readers of climate science blogs: $40 (£25)! Use the email information below to order. It deals with the politics and philosophy of science, including the hockey stick ...
• Update from the Thompsons: The legal limbo drags ...
  The Thompsons have no income, but fight on with borrowed help. Matt and Janet Thompson moved to Australia, got all the approvals to set up a cattle feedlot, invested their life savings, then the rules began to change. They didn’t need a license at all when they started. Then a paddock was called a w ...
• Solar Panel subsidies: A billion dollars to provid ...
  There is no sunnier first world country than Australia. If solar was going to be a raging success anywhere, surely it would be in the land of the Sunburnt Country. Instead the Australian government has poured in more than a billion dollars to install solar panels on the roof tops of private homes.  ...

ReNew America

• Bradley Manning: Poster boy for 'don't ask, don't ...
  (Ann Coulter) - The two biggest stories this week are WikiLeaks' continued publication of classified government documents, which did untold damage to America's national security interests, and the Democrats' fanatical determination to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" and allow gays to serve openly in ...
• House may block food safety bill over Senate error
  (Roll Call) - A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate's lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House...
• Senate rejects earmark moratorium
  (Washington Times) - The Senate on Tuesday rejected a moratorium on earmark spending, in a test vote that nonetheless showed surging support for a ban and left foes of pork-barrel spending predicting that the end of the practice is near. Thirty-nine senators supported a three-year ban - 10 more than ...
• Romney's chronic health-care problem
  (Michael Tanner) - They haven't even finished counting 2010 midterm ballots (New York's 1st congressional district is still undecided), but already potential Republican candidates are testing the presidential waters for 2012. Among the early frontrunners will be former Massachusetts governor Mitt Ro ...
• Coming: government by regulation instead of law
  (Phyllis Schlafly) - Republicans are assuming that cap-and-trade (aka cap-and-tax) is dead because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lacks the votes to bring up the House-passed bill and because this issue proved a loser in the 2010 House races...