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Sunday, December 5, 2010

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Scoop - NZ

  • Royal Commission announced into mine disaster
    New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday a royal commission into the Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 miners last week. A royal commission is the highest possible investigation, and will be carried out in addition to separate inquiries by the coroner, the Labour Department an ...
  • Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
    Sometimes, when I'm in the field, I find teens who have strategies for managing their online presence that are odd at first blush but make complete sense when you understand the context in which they operate. These teens use innovative approaches to leverage the technology to meet personal goals. Le ...
  • Growing anger over New Zealand mine deaths
    Following the second massive explosion on Wednesday at the Pike River Coal mine on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, mining experts, relatives and friends of the 29 dead miners have condemned the company's unsafe practices and its failure to carry out a rescue operation. The miners were ...
  • Pentagon: Grim Review of Afghan War
    Violence has reached record levels in Afghanistan, and the resistance to the US-led occupation is more widespread than ever, according to a report issued by the Pentagon. The semiannual report, required by Congress, provides a grim assessment of the US war, now in its tenth year, giving the lie to r ...
  • $42.5mil theft from Holocaust survivor funds
    the Claims Conference held its first executive meeting since the revelation of the $42.5 million theft from funds granted by the German government to Holocaust survivors. One would have expected that the fraud would be the focus of the meeting. But the report from the executive vice president sugge ...

Independent - London

  • Stranded Britons hoping to return
    Thousands of holidaymakers stranded abroad following wildcat strikes by air traffic controllers in Spain will today begin to arrive home in the UK.
  • Stranded Britons hoping to return home
    Thousands of holidaymakers stranded abroad following wildcat strikes by air traffic controllers in Spain will today begin to arrive home in the UK.
  • Hollywood gripped by real whodunnit
    Forensic evidence is slim to non-existent. They have few credible witnesses or obvious lines of inquiry. And, as if to add insult to injury, detectives investigating the high-profile murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen last week managed, quite by accident, to prompt their only potential suspe ...
  • Chile sends extra police to evict rioting Easter I ...
    A military plane carrying riot police reinforcements landed on Easter Island yesterday, and Chile's Interior Minister said they will continue evicting Rapa Nui islanders who have been squatting in government buildings built on their ancestral properties. The Rapa Nui are the indigenous inhabitants o ...
  • Two die, 83 injured when Russian plane breaks up o ...
    Two engines failed on a Russian passenger jet shortly after takeoff yesterday. The plane made an emergency landing as its third engine cut out, skidding off the snowy runway and breaking apart. Two people were killed and 83 injured.

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Innovation Canada

  • Getting to the root of HIV
    Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
  • The Massey Memorial is the mausoleum of New Ze...Image via WikipediaWhen good stress turns bad
    Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
  • Blowin’ in the wind
  • Studying sturgeon
    It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
  • Talking Fish
    When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...

Signs of the times

  • Australia: Drought-crippled farmers devastated by ...
    The State and Federal governments are under pressure from farming groups to continue drought funding while farmers recover from the floods. Recent flooding has devastated farmers also who, after 10 years of drought, have now seen crops lost to rain. The New South Wales Farmers Association's chairm ...
  • Lockerbie Bomber's Family 'Preparing to Sue Britai ...
    The family of released Lockerbie bomber Abdulbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi is preparing to sue Britain for false imprisonment, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi claimed last night. The Libyan leader said Megrahi remained "very ill" with prostate cancer following his controversial release by the Scottish Gove ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: SOTT.net Exclusive: Paul Craig Roberts ...
    "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and th ...
  • UK is reigniting the Cold War hysteria: MP Mike Ha ...
    An MP denied his Russian assistant was a spy, amid reports that she is facing deportation from the UK after security services arrested her on suspicion of espionage. The Sunday Times reported that Home Secretary Theresa May had approved the removal of Katia Zatuliveter after being briefed by MI5 ...
  • Russian planes drop 500 tons of water to extinguis ...
    Russian planes sent by Russia's Emergencies Ministry have dropped over 500 tons of water to extinguish deadly fires raging near Haifa in Israel, the ministry said on Sunday. Large-scale wildfires broke out near the Israeli northwestern port of Haifa, home to 250,000 people, on Thursday, killing a ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Skimming in the quagmire
    Wikileaks via Der Spiegel: "In 2009, the German government transferred €50 million ($66.14 million) to the Afghan Army National Trust Fund. The money from Germany was intended to "improve the operational capabilities and development of the ANA (Afghan National Army)," according to the publicity mate ...
  • The Therapeutic Drug Initiative sends out a final ...
    From the CBC a story warning about a blood thinner. A new blood thinner is easier to use to prevent blood clotting and strokes, but researchers in B.C. caution it may pose serious risks for some patients.The Therapeutic Drug Initiative at the University of British Columbia is world renown for ...
  • The march of progress . . .
    Love Dan Piraro.
  • No. I don't think Flanagan was "joking"
    Who hasn't uttered something untoward at some point? Something that, if the words are taken literally, contain an ominous meaning. Balbulican raises a good point. Perhaps Flanagan was speaking in outrageous exaggeration. But, I don't think so. Despite his scramble to retract his statement the foll ...
  • Inferiority complex?
    Thursday will see attention focus on the Canadians and their "inferiority complex" while corruption allegations in Afghanistan will be under the spotlight on Friday. Saturday will cover Yemen while next Sunday will see the focus shift to China. Whatever gave them that idea?

Media Matters for America

  • Historians Dismantle Beck's Roman History Lesson
    On both his radio and Fox News programs this week, Glenn Beck sought to�show how the U.S. is�" repeating the exact mistakes" that led to the fall of the Roman Republic.�But according to Roman history experts consulted by�Media Matters, Beck's history lesson distorted or fabricated key facts. Beck P ...
  • Couric Blames Dems For GOP's Expiration Date On Bu ...
    CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric blamed Democrats for the expiration date of the Bush tax cuts. In fact, Democratic leaders in Congress voiced opposition to the sunset provisions, which allowed Congress to hide the true cost of the tax cut and avoid a filibuster in the Senate.Couric Claimed Tha ...
  • Beck Just Makes Things Up About The Federal Reserv ...
    Glenn Beck baselessly claimed that the Federal Reserve would send "almost another trillion dollars, your tax dollars, over to Europe." In fact, U.S. officials have said that there are no plans under discussion to send additional money to Europe.Beck Claims The Fed Will Spend "Another Almost $1 Tril ...
  • Beck Cried Wolf About Hyperinflation
    Fox News' Glenn Beck has repeatedly stoked fears that the U.S. would see "massive inflation," stating as far back as 2008 that inflation would go "through the roof" in the "next year." In fact, inflation remained low in 2009 and 2010. Beck Continually Warns of Imminent Inflation April 2008: Buy Co ...
  • Conservative Media Rail Against Efforts To Ensure ...
    In recent weeks, Fox News' Glenn Beck has railed against the proposed food safety legislation making its way through Congress, claiming it is a way for the government to "control your food" and ultimately "control you." This is just the latest in a long line of hysterics from conservatives regardin ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Danny Ayalon Needs To Thank Palestinians Too
    Israel Deputy Foreign Minister penned a heartfelt oped in the Jerusalem Post expressing thanks to various international players for their offered and provided relief in the terrible Carmel fire disaster in Israel. To Ayalon's credit, he thanks Turkey which sent two airplanes to support -- along w ...
  • Should the US Negotiate Now With N. Korea? With Ir ...
    Looking at current standoff with North Korea / China, Shadow Government's Will Inboden calls for a truce between conservatives and progressives in the foreign policy community over the question of when the United States should or shouldn't engage in negotiations. Inboden detects hypocrisy in those w ...
  • Ignoring Obama's Call, AIPAC Backs GOP On START
    According to Nathan Guttman in the Forward and Ron Kampeas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, AIPAC is in agony. It desperately wants to support the US-Russia START treaty aimed at limiting nuclear warheads because the treaty would greatly advance Israel's security. But it is afraid of defying ri ...
  • Call the Bluff
    It is time for the Democratic Party to decide if it represents the middle class or the plutocrats. Mitch McConnell, having playacted bipartisan comity at the White House on Tuesday returned to his office and released a hostage note to the American public. Not even 24 hours after President Obama me ...
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TruthOut

  • Bid to Limit Tax Cuts to Middle Class and Poor Fai ...
    Washington - The Senate on Saturday blocked and most likely doomed efforts to extend Bush-era tax cuts only for the middle class and the poor but not the very rich. The votes effectively clear the way for the White House and Congress to iron out a compromise on how to continue the expiring breaks. ...
  • Revisiting the Politics of Social Change
    The November 2010 midterm elections have unveiled the fissures in America to reveal a society suffering a loss of self-confidence and a fragmentation of its political system. The resurgence of the Republican Party, which led to its new majority in the House of Representatives and a reduction of the ...
  • Peace with Iran: Two Petitions; Two Approaches
    After a period in which defending Iran hasn't been very high on the agenda of most US antiwar activists, there are now two petition campaigns opposing war and sanctions against Iran. One effort is led by a New York City-based organization more known for defending Cuban "dissidents" who openly take ...
  • Bienvenido Señor Ahmadinejad: Tehran’s Expanding L ...
    • Iran’s influence in Latin America, serious threat or paper tiger? • Rumors of Iran’s involvement have been greatly overstatedread more
  • Military Heads Fierce in Slamming "Don't Ask, Don' ...
    Washington - The top uniformed leaders of the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps warned Congress on Friday that repealing "don't ask, don't tell" now would hurt the military's ability to fight the war in Afghanistan. In often-dramatic terms, the service chiefs put themselves squarely opposed to their ...

Planetsave

  • Cosmic News: Lots More Stars than “Billions ...
    Counting the number of stars in the known universe would seem to be a monstrous task akin to counting the number of grains of sand on all the world’s beaches. Of course, no one literally “counts” each and every star, or grain of sand. To enumerate such vast quantities, science must rely on its best. ...
  • Peacocks (10 Friday Photos)
    Peacocks, in my humble opinion, are one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet. I was lucky enough to have a peacock family in my neighborhood for awhile while I was growing up (although, some considered them a menace due to the loud noises they would make — never bothered me). Still, they we ...
  • Future at Risk on a Hotter Planet
    Lester R. Brown We are entering a new era, one of rapid and often unpredictable climate change. In fact, the new climate norm is change. The 25 warmest years on record have come since 1980. And the 10 warmest years since global record keeping began in 1880 have come since 1998. The effects of rising ...
  • Coastal Wetlands Under Threat
    New modeling research  helps scientists, planners, and resource managers better understand threats to wetlands from sea level rise The conclusion of an international research effort is that many coastal wetlands, including several along the U.S. Atlantic coast, are more sensitive to climate change a ...
  • November Link Drop
    I know, it’s not November any more. I’m dropping links here for November stories I never got around to sharing or writing about but really wanted to. I figured it would be better to do so at the end of the week than on Tuesday. So, here are some more stories from November you might... Read More...

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Axis of Logic

  • Cuban medics a big force on Haiti cholera frontlin ...
    PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - They don't send out press releases, don't have public information officers and their contacts are not widely publicized by the huge international humanitarian operation helping cholera-hit Haiti. But when the United Nations appeals for more doctors and nurses to combat ...
  • France: Bank Day, December 7th. Take out your mone ...
    The following video is of former France international and Manchester United forward, Eric Cantona, suggesting another way to spark a revolution. Cantona suggests that people should go in mass to withdraw their money from the banks in France on December 7th so that the powers that be listen t ...
  • Canada's Harper advisor calls for assassination of ...
    Source: CBS News Network...
  • Afghan trainee kills six US troops - World News
    1 December 2010 The killing of six US soldiers by an Afghan police officer is one of the bloodiest in a series of incidents that call into question the US-NATO strategy of turning over combat operations to Afghan forces in 2014. Monday’s “fragging” of US Army trainers took place at...
  • Obama administration seeks to criminalize WikiLeak ...
    Obama administration seeks to criminalize WikiLeaks By Patrick Martin 1 December 2010 Top officials of the Obama administration have threatened criminal prosecution of WikiLeaks for its latest release of secret US diplomatic documents. Attorney General Eric Holder, at a press conference ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Looks like reconciliation has a ways to go. "Ivory Coast is in a major political crisis, after rival presidential candidates swore themselves in. The incumbent Laurent Gbagbo took the oath to serve a new term, but within hours Alassane Ouattara also laid claim to the presidency. The US, UN and Franc ...
  • Who Really Benefits From a Middle-Class Tax Cut?
    If the "snowman" chart didn't get through to your wingnut brother-in-law, here's the same information in a different style. From Kevin Drum: Speaking of tax cuts, I thought everyone should see a nice picture that compares the Obama position with the Republican position. As you can see, under the Ob ...
  • Democratic Victory Starts at Home
    Upon walkiing into my polling place on November 2, I still harbored hope that Democratic candidates could pull it out. Then I saw the ballot. And that told me Democrats were doomed. Eighteen races were on my precinct ballot. Eleven races had only one candidate. Five republican incumbents had no Demo ...
  • The Limpballs Tax Cut: $2.6 million buys a lot of ...
    Rep. Alan Grayson: Still Fighting We hear a lot of talk about the "Bush Tax Cuts." And why not? According to Newsweek, George W. Bush "earns" $4.2 million from paid speeches, public appearances and miscellaneous punditry each year. Hence the Bush Tax Cuts cut Bush's own taxes by an amazing $187,552 ...
  • The More Things Change, The More California Polit ...
    The entitlements for the rich and powerful roll on. �And mind you, the same thing goes on in various and sundry counties and no doubt cities within the state too, including the county I live in where at one time (haven't checked lately) the Board of Supervisors and upper level county bureaucrats in ...

Care 2

  • Super Bowl: 'One of Biggest Human Trafficking Even ...
    according to the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking, tens of thousands of sex trafficking victims were brought to Florida to service the increased demand for commercial sex around the games. Will this year's Super Bowl in Texas be an even biggerSubmitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� ...
  • Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Ha ...
    World-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky discusses the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks.Submitted by Caitlin M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 2 more rare red foxes confirmed in Sierra Nevada
    Federal wildlife biologists have confirmed sightings of two more Sierra Nevada red foxes that once were thought to be extinct.Scientists believe the foxes are related to another that was photographed this summer near Yosemite National Park.Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Help Restore Bison in the West ! PLEASE TAKE ACTIO ...
    Encompassing more than one million acres, the Charles M. Russell (CMR) National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Montana represents a unique and important landscape for restoring wild bison to their rightful place as an American wildlife icon. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Help End Avoidable Blindness in the Developing Wor ...
    The World Health Organization estimates that six million people worldwide are blind due to trachcoma and more than 150 million people are in need of treatment. Trachcoma infects poor people without access to clean washing facilities.Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • A Little Good News, And Just For Fun * Open Thread
    As the fallout from WikiLeaks continues, as Congress battles over our taxes for 2011, and as Hillary Clinton once again asserts she is done with public service after this current stint, I wanted to bring you a little good news today, something that is just cool, highlighting the ingenuity of the hum ...
  • Washington Post Editors Continue Smearing the Wils ...
    When will the Washington Post editorial page decide to stop smearing Joe and Valerie Wilson? The Post is up in arms over Hollywood’s “disregard for the truth” and is out in print today with an editorial trying to discredit the Wilson’s and the movie. Good on the Post. Their editorial is a tangible r ...
  • A Troubling Disconnect — the Millionaires of Congr ...
    * Bumped Up * According to a CRP study reported last week by CNBC, there are 261 millionaires currently serving in Congress. 1 in 5 had accumulated wealth of over $10 million and 8 of the 261 members were worth $100 million or more. Many members have investments in companies that were at the center ...
  • TFIG Friday * Open Thread
    Oh, I tell you, it’s a wild and wacky world. We have Bristol Palin writing a sarcastic op-ed criticizing Keith Olbermann; we have Helen Thomas, her long silence lifted, blaming rich Jews for controlling America; Julian Assange reveals that he’s painfully homesick for Australia; George Bush is beatin ...
  • Qatar? Are You Kidding Me?
    Many of you know I am a big, huge soccer fan. My partner, who played soccer, and I have been to two Women’s World Cups, and numerous matches (both professional, and the US Women’s team). It was thrilling when we took our godson to Aruba this summer and the Netherlands made it into the finals. [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Crane Flower: An Unusual Bird of Paradise
    Also known as "crane flower", the beautiful Bird of Paradise resembles a brightly colored bird in flight. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • New Ghostly Squidworm Sheds Light on Secrets of th ...
    When a 9.4 c.m.long, ghostly squidworm was found by marine biologists, it was indeed a surprise discovery. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 11 Most Exotic Tropical Fruits on Earth
    We are all encouraged to eat five portions of fruit a day. Here are eleven exotic alternative choices for adding to your fruit basket, if you can get them. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 5 Most Popular Pet Snakes
    These five fearsome serpents are kept by pet lovers around the world. See which ones are the most popular and why! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Things You Didn't Know About Koala Bears
    Cute, cuddly, little monsters that live in trees. All these things you knew already about koala bears. Here are 5 things you didn't. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Cindy Sheehan Takes on TSA
    As a very frequent flyer, I have wanted to write about the abuses of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) for years now. To tell the truth, since I am such a frequent flyer and often recognised by individual TSA employees, I was a little timid about this because I did not want flying to become [ ...
  • Defcon 4, How Do You Make An Insurgent?
    I have heard a lot of arguments lately as to the reasons why unemployment benefits should not be extended.  Some prominent Republicans are asking if anyone thinks that the US should have an endless dole of public funds, as if unemployment is a “welfare program.”  To me, this indicates that they ha ...
  • LEAKED CUBA MEMO TO RAISE EYEBROWS
    From Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes A recently retired military intelligence officer submitted this memo [see below] to his former commander (Southcom) — copies to other appropriate agencies. Obama Administration officials ignored it. âCuba is not on our agenda,â one said. One official surreptitio ...
  • Mortgage Relief Even Lower than Reported – No Room ...
    Michael Collins In the mean time, AIG got $48 billion and Investment Partnerships another $15 billion, none of which has been paid back. So the score is AIG/Bankers $94 billion – Homeowners $0.71 billion. Quite a deal! What do you get when you cross Tim Geithner and Peter Peterson? Barack Obama; who ...
  • The Education Celebrity Tour: Legend of the Fall, ...
    The U.S. is floundering at the bottom of international comparisons of education, and what makes this worse is that in the grand ol’ 1950s, the U.S. was at the topâat least that is one story offered by Michelle Rhee on a recent episode of the Colbert Report. Like the discussion of Waiting for Superma ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Habitual Violator allowed to sell eggs by FDA - Al ...
    The company at the center of the salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,820 people during the summer and led to the recall of 550 million eggs has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration to begin selling eggs for the table again. On Tuesday the FDA notified Wright County Egg LLC of ...
  • Mr. President, House and Senate, it is not too lat ...
    Well, actually, you only have 27 more days to fix that unconstitutional glitch in S. 510, get past Senator Coburn's filibuster, get past the Republican Senators vow to not do a thing until tax cuts for the wealthy are passed, get past either a Conference with the House over differences between S. 51 ...
  • "60 Day Rule" not sufficient to make raw milk chee ...
    I have been continuing to plug away at researching the mystery of the “60 day rule.” Here is another article questioning the rationale of the rule: Behavior of Escherichia coli O157:H7 during the manufacture and aging of gouda and stirred-curd cheddar cheeses manufactured from raw milk 01.dec.10 ...
  • The day the Food Safety Bill seems dead - consumer ...
    Today a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the estate of Shirley Almer, one of nine who died from Salmonella as a result of contaminated peanut butter. The family of Shirley Almer joins the family of Clifford Tousignant in suit against King Nut Peanut Butter. Now that food safety legis ...
  • Latest on S. 510 from the Republicans - Hear anyth ...
    I just got this tweet: @PhilipBrasher: Sen. Thune says #foodsafety bill is now dead. #S510 And, I got this email from a staffer - "Whole Dem Caucus in total disarray. Rank and file are mad at Reid for pushing DADT, Dream Act, etc. It's a cluster." Howver, I guess Senator Thune should know.� As St ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Think recalling 850 City EVs over braking issue in ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Electric Even though U.S. production of the Think City started off well the other day, all is not fine in Think land. The company is recalling 850 City cars throughout Europe because the brakes on the electric car can weaken under "extremely humid conditions." A Think rep ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.03.10
    First Chevy Volt charity auction has 12 days to go, but it's already up to $180,000 That's like one-and-a-half Tesla Roadsters. Report: First Nissan Leaf delivery to a U.S. customer happening very soon ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.02.10
    Report: GM studying how to double or triple Chevy Volt production At a cost of $40,000 per Volt, economies of scale can't grow fast enough. Cracker Barrel to install high-speed plug-in vehicle charging st ...
  • Report: GM studying how to double or triple Chevy ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, ElectricEarly Volts reportedly cost $40,000 to build Chevrolet Volt battery pack - Click above for high-res image gallery How's your math? If you have 240,000 "potential buyers" but only 10,000 vehicles to sell them in the fir ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.01.10
    Chevrolet Volt production officially begins today, GM auctioning first one for charity Math and science students in Detroit are the winners. Al Gore admits supporting corn ethanol subsidies was a mistake ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • Mucus in the nose changes perception of smell ...
    A new study in Japan has shown for the first time that enzymes in nasal mucus change the way we perceive smells.
  • Female Vets Especially Vulnerable To Suicide ...
    Around 32,000 people commit suicide in the U.S. each year, 20 percent of those suicides are veterans. Traditionally, when we think of suicide among vets, we think of men. But this week, for the first time, a sizable study was published that looked specifically at female veterans and suicide. Th ...
  • Fatal Crossing: DNA Forensics Identifying Liv ...
    More than 200 bodies a year turn up in the Sonoran, a number that has increased over the past decade as immigrants avoid urban areas and attempt to reach the United States by more remote routes, often through Arizona. After crossing the border, they sometimes walk 70 miles or more to reach a sa ...
  • The Ultimate Sport Aircraft [PICS]
    The ICON A5 embodies the fly life. And just as its designers intended, it’s hard not to covet this winged lissome beauty. While other futuristic models resemble rockets or have the ability to fold in half, this one's all about aesthetics, being the ultimate sport flier.
  • See The Chevrolet Volt Built In Under Two Min ...
    Ahh, the beauty of time-lapse video. The technology allows us to see the construction of the new 2011 Chevrolet Volt, from beginning to end, in less than two minutes, from when the first few pieces of metal and welded together to the point where the cars are driven off the production line.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Radiation scientists agree TSA naked body scanners ...
    By Mike Adams The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA’s naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked body scanners. These include Dr Russe ...
  • Tetanus – The Disease and the Vaccine
    by Ingri Cassel Frequently I am asked if there are any “necessary” vaccines, as though vaccines have somehow been proven to actually prevent a disease. The most common vaccine that most people consider an essential part of trauma care is the tetanus shot. Since the tetanus vaccine happens to be the ...
  • Israel initiated massive leak
    Further deterioration in ties: The Israeli government initiated the massive WikiLeaks disclosure this week in the aims of pushing Turkey into a corner, a senior official in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan charged Wednesday.   “We should look at the countries that are satisfied by the leak, and I ...
  • 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 ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Climate Change Conference, Cancun Style! (cartoon)
    Will Cancun be more productive than Copenhagen? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change… Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climat ...
  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...
  • Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
    Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
  • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
    The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...
  • Jeff Siegel wins Election Day Caption Contest!
    Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Handcrafted Gi ...
    It would be great to give each of your loved ones something homemade for the holidays, but if DIY is not in your DNA, the next best thing is to give is something crafted by the skilled hands of a true (and increasingly rare) artisan. From adorable Peruvian piggy banks to cool wall planters to [...]
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Make Your Own ...
    If you’ve got a handful of people your holiday list that seem to have everything, then maybe it’s time to get crafty and wow them with a homemade eco-gift! Sometimes the most meaningful presents are ones with a personal touch, so to help you out on your DIY endeavor we’ve selected a range of project ...
  • Five Gadgets to Help Green Your Holidays!
    Illuminating décor is a great way to pump up the holiday cheer, but these bright lights can easily give way to a damaging environmental footprint. So rather than running with the energy-hungry masses this year, we’ve rounded up five fun, green gadgets that you can deck the halls with sans the carbon ...
  • PHOTOS: Artists Transform Trash Into Eco-Art at NY ...
    America produces about 250 million tons of trash per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s enough garbage to cover the state of Texas two and a half times. For an exhibit at the NY Studio Gallery in the Lower East Side called “TRASH,” five artists created work that highlight ...
  • Spain to Build World’s Largest Wind Turbine
    Bad luck, Norway — just when they thought they had secured the title of world’s largest wind turbine with a 10MW installation, Spain swooped in to steal their thunder. Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa has announced that they are constructing an epic 15MW wind turbine that will help them addr ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Glacial Silt Encased Some of Earth’s Best-Preserve ...
    Some of the rarest and most detailed fossils on Earth owe their stunning preservation to dust blown out to sea by glacial winds. Soft-bodied creatures usually rot or get eaten before sediment can bury and fossilize their fragile tissues. Yet a zoo of squishy animals that swam 435 million years ago ...
  • Surprise: Radioactive Mercury Decays Into Uneven C ...
    More than seven decades after German chemists discovered nuclear fission — the splitting of an atom that is harnessed by nuclear energy and nuclear weapons — scientists still can’t describe the process in detail. A paper to appear in Physical Review Letters underscores that knowledge gap with th ...
  • Track Record: Man-Made Footprints on Other Worlds
    See Also: Where Will Next Mars Rover Land? Martian Dune Mystery Solved by Bouncing Sand Grains Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images The Moon Hides Ice Where the Sun Don’t Shine First-Ever Photo of Liquid on Extraterrestrial World Follow us on Twitt ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Is Wikileaks An Internet 9-11?
    Think about it. Where is this seemingly staged Wikileaks furor taking us? While we participate in digging into the juicy tidbits of information that incriminate just about anybody and everybody, where is it all going?
  • Jobless Recovery?: 25 Unemployment Statistics That ...
    The vast majority of Americans have at least one family member or close friend that is looking for work right now. Times are really, really tough and unfortunately the long-term outlook is very bleak. We should have compassion on those who are out of work right now, because soon many of us may joi ...
  • Occult Manipulation of Our Food Supply
    Genetically Engineered Foods, created through the efforts of companies like Monsanto, may very well serve the Satanic Psychopaths in more ways than one. Since ancient times, the worshippers of Satan have practiced not only human sacrifice, but also cannibalism. Until now, this practice has been stee ...
  • New World Order? Analysis of the Occult Symbols Fo ...
    Prominently displayed in the lobby of the Bank of America’s Corporate Center are “creepy” frescoes, filled with occult symbols. Even more unsettling is the fact that those images seem to predict events of a radical world change in the not-so-distant future. Are those murals predicting the coming of ...
  • SHOCKER: US State Department ‘cleared’ the release ...
    Wikileaks does not make the material it receives available directly to the public. They are first censored by New York Times and several other prominent newspapers. Only 623 documents out of alleged 250,000 have appeared in public. The public needs to ask: Where are the remaining documents? Why the ...

Andy Worthington

  • Help Release Shaker Aamer: Three Free Screenings o ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “This is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American ...
  • Wikileaks: Numerous Reasons to Dismiss US Claims t ...
    In sifting through the avalanche of US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, only the Guardian, in the Western media, has picked up on cables from Islamabad relating to the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist who disappeared with her three young children in Karachi on March 3 ...
  • Lord Carlile, Discredited Advocate of Control Orde ...
    A month ago, I wrote an article exploring how fault lines were opening up in the coalition government regarding control orders, a form of house arrest, depriving alleged “terror suspects” of most of their liberties on the basis of secret evidence, and without ever being charged or tried — or, for th ...
  • All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “ ...
    In one narrative of the “War on Terror,” President Bush scrapped the protections of the Geneva Conventions — including Common Article 3, which prohibits âcruel treatment and tortureâ and âoutrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.â — for prisoners at Guantána ...
  • Guantánamo and the Wikileaks Documents, Including ...
    Despite numerous references to Guantánamo in the 251,287 US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, which deal largely with negotiations to rehouse cleared prisoners who could not — or cannot — be repatriated because of fears of torture or other ill-treatment in their home countries, there has bee ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • rope-a-what?
    Wow, our chattering class sure loves horse races, doesn't it?Even when there's not a pony in sight.Guess what? Richard Blumenthal remains ahead of Linda McMahon! By about the same, comfortable but not Delaware-style oh-my-god-we-can't-possibly-pull-the-lever-for-the-crazy-lady-wide margin as he ha ...
  • primary colors
    Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!)The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout.According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times:1497 registered Repu ...
  • "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
    What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
  • salary salads
    Here’s some interesting news about salaries, concessions, and taxes. New Milford teachers and the Board of Ed have peacefully renegotiated teacher contracts for the 2011-2012 year. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-teachers-agree-to-no-pay-increases-676941.php http://www.ne ...
  • How Wrong Can One Person Be?
    I know it’s exciting when someone new walks in and turns everyone’s heads. They’re mysterious. That’s sexy. And, if they can put words together into complete, grammatically correct sentences, they (by today’s standards) are brilliant. So, suddenly, the known quantity of the person we’ve been wit ...

SPL Center

  • Extremist ‘Patriot’ Pastor Videotapes ...
    Radical conservative Pastor Stephen Andersonâs personal antigovernment reality-TV show has unveiled a new episode. Reprising a âroleâ he created and played last year, the firebrand leader of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., once again had a video camera rolling during a routine police t ...
  • Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War ...
    Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the “truth” about 9/11 being an inside job, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to intern dissidents in “death camps,” and the “New World Order” plot to exterminate 80% of the worl ...
  • Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
    Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same ...
  • Extra! Extra! Sharia Takeover of U.S. Averted by O ...
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced yesterday that it is suing Oklahoma over a newly adopted law banning the use of international or Islamic law in state courts. Islam-fearing websites went wild. Hereâs a sampling of headlines and excerpts from some of the more colorful postings Thu ...
  • Better Homes and Aryans: April Gaede Wants to be a ...
    April Gaede, long-time white supremacist and Jill-of-all-Aryan-trades, is working on yet another new project. Perhaps the Aryan matchmaker service she was trying to launch in January isn’t working out so well, so Gaede is moving from breeding material to reading material. Her latest venture, which s ...

change: org.

  • Organization Works Toward Taking Factory Farming O ...
    Earlier this week, Food & Water Watch released a map that charts the distribution of factory farms across the United States. A color key shows which areas of the U.S. have the highest density of factory farms, with these states highlighted in red. Food & Water Watch is a non-profit organization that ...
  • NYC Cuts Funding to Homeless Youth Shelters
    Have you ever heard of that story of the couple, looking for shelter on a cold winter night, only to be turned away at every corner, forced to seek refuge in a cold, damp, dilapidated shed? Looks like this will be the reality for too many LGBT youth in New York this year. Only their story won't end ...
  • David vs. Goliath: Union Battles Aerospace Giant t ...
    In a real-life case of David battling Goliath, the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (UE) Local 204 is going up against Aerospace giant Esterline Technologies to try and save dozens of jobs that Esterline -- which reported nearly $120 million in profits last year -- plans to eliminate in t ...
  • Spread the Pope's Condom Message To Catholic Healt ...
    [caption id="attachment_6203" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Photo courtesy of tonrulkens on flickr"][/caption] With the release of and subsequent media frenzy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's published comments on condom use has come a renewed debate about religion, sexuality and public heal ...
  • A Tale of Two Cities: Canine Profiling in Michigan
    A tale of two cities: Dearborn's city council wisely poised to reject a breed discriminatory ordinance and Sterling Heights' city council poised to enact canine profiling. Why the differing outcomes? Research vs. lip service. Ever since a couple of dogs made headlines, cities throughout southeast Mi ...

Common Dreams -News

  • University Cancels "Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversi ...
    by Kim Kozlowski and Oralandar Brand-WilliamsDETROIT - Wayne State University said Friday it will no longer offer an award named in honor of one of its most famous alumni, former White House press corps member Helen Thomas.The Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media award has been retired beca ...
  • PayPal Cuts WikiLeaks from Money Flow
    BERLIN - The online payment service provider PayPal has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations, serving another blow to the organization just as it was struggling to keep its website accessible after an American company stopped directing traffic to it.PayPal said in a blog postin ...
  • WikiLeaks Cables Reveal How US Manipulated Climate ...
    by Damian CarringtonHidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.read more
  • Did US Special Operations Forces Want to "Target" ...
    by Jeremy ScahillIn the fall of 2008, the US Special Operations Command asked top US diplomats in Pakistan and Afghanistan for detailed information on refugee camps along the Afghanistan Pakistan border and a list of humanitarian aid organizations working in those camps.read more
  • Liberals: Obama Doesn't Compromise, He Caves
    by Ari ShapiroPresident Obama's team is deep in negotiations with Congress over how to find common ground on the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts. And liberals are afraid that the White House may be too quick to cede ground to Republicans without securing concessions in return. T ...

Lifehacker

  • AVG 2011 Update Crashes 64-bit Windows 7 PCs; Here ...
    If you use the popular AVG Free as your anti-malware app of choice, an update to the 2011 version of the application has bricked 64-bit Windows 7 machines. If you're running Windows 7 64-bit and use AVG, you might want to hold off on the update; if you've already updated and are exp ...
  • How to Tip Properly During the Holidays [Tipping]
    With the many (potentially unnecessary) conveniences available in our modern lives, tipping becomes a standard practice. When the holidays roll around, you're supposed to be a little more generous. How generous? Here's a quick guide. Mo ...
  • Make Conquering Housework a Habit with the 1-Minut ...
    Few people enjoy housework, so it's hard to motivate ourselves to actually do it. Here's a neat trick to get in the habit of doing your chores by breaking them into minute-long intervals. More��
  • Personal Finance Site Mint.com Now Available in Ca ...
    Our favorite personal money management site, Mint, began its international expansion today by making its service available to those in Canada. The Canadian version is the same as the US version, apart from its ability to connect to Canadian ba ...
  • Neu Creates Documents in the OS X Finder with a Ri ...
    Mac OS X: Neu is a simple and handy menubar app and contextual menu extension for the OS X Finder that allows easy document creation just by right-clicking your way to the services menu. More��

Water Privatization

  • Malaysian police fire tear gas on opposition prote ...
    Malaysian police on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons to break up an opposition-backed protest focused on public utilities after some 5,000 defied a ban on the rally.
  • Will the Korean conflict escalate into full-blown ...
    KUALA LUMPUR, 8 NOVEMBER, 2010 : Petaling Jaya Utara MP, Tony Pua today claimed that the Federal Government has abused the tax-payers’ funds by contemplating a multi-billion ringgit bail out of the privatized water industry in Selangor.
  • Mount Olive water hearing cancelled
    MOUNT OLIVE TWP. - The Township Council's public hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 7, for the privatization of the township water system has been canceled.
  • Regulator cites need to control Angat dam
    State-owned Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) on Tuesday stressed the urgent need to control operations of the Angat Dam, including its power component, to help protect and secure water supply in Metro Manila and neighboring towns.
  • Selangor MB: Withdraw Syabas License
    SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.

Guardian

  • Tuition fees rise is 'act of vandalism' says Milib ...
    Labour leader seeks to exploit the growing crisis in Liberal Democrat ranks on higher education cutsEd Miliband today accuses the coalition government of "cultural vandalism" over university tuition fees as he seeks to reinvigorate his struggling leadership and exploit the growing crisis in Liberal ...
  • Spanish controllers return to work
    Thousands of stranded British tourists hope to start returning home as air traffic controllers go back to workThe Spanish government declared a "state of alarm" yesterday for the first time in three decades, assuming sweeping powers that allowed the military to take control of the country's airspace ...
  • The covert war against nuclear Iran
    Sophisticated cyber-worms, motorcycling assassins: but who is behind the increasingly sinister campaign against the Iranian energy programme?Tehran's streets at the height of the morning rush hour resemble a vast, sprawling car park. Bumper-to-bumper traffic, much of it stationary, the acrid steam o ...
  • Asil Nadir vows action over arrest
    Former Polly Peck tycoon issues writ for wrongful arrest after release from custody over alleged breach of curfewFormer Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir was released from custody last night and vowed to issue a writ against the police for wrongful arrest.The 69-year-old, who is on bail and faces a multi ...
  • Ex-marine senses win for gay rights
    The first soldier to be discharged under rules against gay servicemen believes a repeal is imminentAs the row over America's ban on gay people serving openly in the military reached a fever pitch last week, Justin Elzie felt he had finally neared the end of a 17-year journey.Elzie, a former marine, ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Hot and cold oil in Cancun climate
    � Campaigners have accused governments of having their heads in the sand regarding the urgent need for action Reading the runes of Cancun's first week at a distance (the BBC, unlike Britain's best-selling daily paper The Sun, is deploying its correspondent on site for only the second half of the m ...
  • A healthy argument for biodiversity
    An apple a day might not keep the doctor away... but if an article in this week's Nature is correct, a little bit of biodiversity might be the trick. The link between biodiversity and health is a topic we've been into previously on this blog - almost two years ago, in fact. That concerned a paper sh ...
  • Four degrees of hurt
    It's possible, with the right kind of lighting, to see the ongoing UN climate negotiations as some kind of sealed-in world where Alice in Wonderland logic holds sway. In this world, with the right amount of political will and political acuity, decisions are going to be made that will keep temperatu ...
  • Turning animal magic into money
    If you're planning to come to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, don't bring a hunger for bluefin tuna with you; you'll be disappointed. London's Olympic Committee is one of a number of authorities and businesses that have just pledged to play no part in the marketing of bluefin "until the fishery is ...
  • China hints at new climate future
    At a recent meeting in Tianjin, there's been intriguing discussion about where the host country, China, is going on climate change. And where it's going is, it seems, towards national legislation to restrict the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. This national law is likely to emerge as part of th ...

The Wonk Room

  • Meet The New Nullification, Just as Unconstitution ...
    One of the more disturbing developments of the last two years is the reemergence of nullificationism, the unconstitutional notion that states can invalidate laws that they don’t like, among conservative lawmakers and activists.  Governors Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and Bobby Jindal (R-LA)  each signed o ...
  • Pachauri Debunks Myth Of IPCC As Money-Hungry Bure ...
    The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. Right-wing opponents of climate action such as Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Koch Industries’ Americans For Prosperity have attempted to demonize climate scientists as part of a corrupt, conspiratorial ...
  • Pachauri: The Impacts Of Climate Change Are &#8216 ...
    The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. The impacts of climate change are here and now, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri warned yesterday at a forum on communicating climate science. Pachauri, the chair of the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on ...
  • Eight Years Later, Washington Post Still Defending ...
    I’ve not seen the new film Fair Game, the story of how CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed by the Bush administration by way of discrediting her husband Joe Wilson’s public contradiction of one of the administration’s multiple false claims on Iraqi WMD, so I can’t speak to how much it does or doesn’t ...
  • Andrew Light: What Can Emerge From Cancun
    Our guest blogger is Andrew Light, a Senior Fellow and Coordinator of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. The Wonk Room is blogging and tweeting live from the U.N. climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico. Representatives from 194 countries gather this week in Cancun, Me ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Jim Flaherty's Deficits
    Now, one thing the left has got to do is to understand economic reality and then to speak so as to demonstrate this understanding. Case in point is the blanket condemnation of Jim Flaherty's deficits, which, coming as a result of a stimulus program that was forced onto him by the opposition parties ...
  • I Guess it's Safe to Say That All Ottawa Cops are ...
    Via The Fifth Column: "'Circle wagons,' union boss tells officers. Colleagues being 'stomped on' need support: Boucher" In an interview Thursday night, union leader Steve Boucher said he sent the e-mail to remind officers to keep their heads up, serve with pride and look after each other on the j ...
  • Open Letter to Jim Judd: Do You Have Fucking Shit ...
    The lack of introspection is breathtaking: Former CSIS director Jim Judd went so far as to complain that judicial rulings and public naiveté were paralyzing his spies – specifically lamenting that Canadians were prone to “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and “paroxysms of moral outrage.” Guarded in publ ...
  • Dear Hillary Clinton: STFU
    Apparently, Ms. Clinton called WikiLeaks' revelation of US diplomatic shenanigans "an attack on the international community." Seriously. The USA spies on the UN Secretary General, launches illegal wars, and somebody exposing their crimes is the "aggressor"? Go back to lying to the 'hard-working whi ...
  • Taxing the Wealthy Part II
    Just a further thought from my earlier post today: If, in this idiotic "war on terror" we have been asked to sacrifice so many rights and freedoms, ... indeed, if so many Canadians believe that protesters willingly renounced their rights and freedoms by showing up the day after the vandalism at the ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • S.372: A Bad Deal for Whistleblowers
    After a careful review of S. 372, the National Whistleblowers Center, the Federal Ethics Center, and the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition strongly recommend that the bill not be approved in its current form.� We urge the House of Representatives to fix the bill and send it back to the Sena ...
  • Dodd-Frank has banks competing for whistleblower r ...
    The Charlotte Business Journal interviewed Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, for an article released today. The article examines how more and more banks are adopting whistleblower programs through which employees can raise compliance concerns. Why? Kohn ex ...
  • New Jersey Supreme Court answers a document dilemm ...
    Many companies that violate the law try to keep their employees from having the ability to prove those violations of the law. The impose rules that prohibit employees from taking company documents home, or disclosing them to anyone (even courts and government law enforcement agencies). Then, if an e ...
  • Pete Tucker calls on President Obama to pardon Bra ...
    Pete Tucker is a journalist for TheFightBack.org and WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C.'s Pacifica Radio station. This week, he called on President Barack Obama to pardon tax whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. "In addition to a turkey, Obama should pardon a whistleblower this holiday season," Tucker says. H ...
  • Charlotte Yee blogs on WPEA problems
    Charlotte Yee worked for the U.S. Department of Labor for twenty (20) years. During her last five years, she served as a manager and a whistleblower against waste, fraud and discrimination.  She was physically attacked by her boss and eventually left federal service for her own safety. Now she is a ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Rethinking Bullying: Kids Don't See It As Bullying
    For years we've talked about all the silly overreactions to things like the concept of "cyberbullying." In almost every case, it seems like it's just parents simply being incredibly overprotective concerning kids disagreeing with each other -- and the "solutions" they always seem to pose either see ...
  • How Denial Works: Library Of Congress Blocks Wikil ...
    So the latest in the US government sticking its head in the sand over Wikileaks is that the Library of Congress has blocked access to the Wikileaks site, claiming: The Library decided to block Wikileaks because applicable law obligates federal agencies to protect classified information. Unauthori ...
  • Viacom Plays The Insane Hyperbole Card In Claiming ...
    It should be no surprise, of course, that Viacom has now officially appealed its rather complete loss at the district court level concerning YouTube's liability for users' posting infringing works. What is a little surprising is the level of insane hyperbole Viacom chooses to use in its filing (inc ...
  • Some Sanity From Those In Power In The US Governme ...
    While we've been highlighting the absolutely ridiculous responses by the US government to both the terrorism threat to airlines and the Wikileaks situation, it should be noted (thankfully!) that not everyone in the US government is overreacting, and there are some clear signs of sanity. First u ...
  • DailyDirt: Live Performances Get Attention, Someti ...
    How do artists create a viral meme? The answer might be the same as the infamous: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" Practice! But no matter how many dress rehearsals or practice takes you do, a live performance is still a risky venture. Here are a couple examples of some live performances gone ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel ...
    Photo: Wikipedia, CC Huge Issue With Small Resources The President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology has released a report that is critical of the U.S. for not investing enough into energy R&D, recommending that spending more than triple from $5 billion to $16 billion (not that m ...
  • Solar-Powered Tacos Hit Mexico (Video)
    Street food vendors are in a prime position to make use of solar power -- they're out on corners, on roadsides, and under the glaring sun dishing out to-go meals all day. And many around the world still use charcoal or natural gas to heat their grills. Seems to me like a redundancy. It did to th ...
  • Simple Ideas for Making Transportation More Effici ...
    Photo credit: cdsessums/Creative Commons Making the transportation system more fuel efficient represents a huge opportunity to reduce national oil dependency and, according to most accounts—including a recent report from the Mobility Choice Coalition—can be accomplished with a few simple change ...
  • With 11 Days to Go, Chevy Volt #1 Charity Auction ...
    Image: volt.charitybuzz.com Recharging Detroit Public Schools GM is auctioning off the first Chevy Volt off the production line to raise money for the Detroit Public Schools Foundation. It's a great idea, and so far it seems pretty successful. There's still about 11 days left in the auction, a ...
  • Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of th ...
    From a psychological and metaphysical perspective global climate change, just a symptom of the greater problem of unsustainable resource usage by humans, isn't a problem of greenhouse gases, it's a problem of lack of empathy and the triumph of cynicism. I've written about this many times on...Re ...

Biosingularity

  • Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
    Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
  • Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...
  • New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ ...
    Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also represen ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Center-left coalition comes to power in Moldova sa ...
    Moldovan Communists and Democrats have created a center-left parliamentary majority of 57 votes to elect the parliament's governing bodies and the country's government, Moldovan Communist leader Vladimir Voronin said on Sunday.
  • Center-left coalition comes to power in Moldova sa ...
    Moldovan Communists and Democrats have created a center-left parliamentary majority of 57 votes to elect the parliament's governing bodies and the country's government, Moldovan Communist leader Vladimir Voronin said on Sunday.
  • Russia launches three satellites to complete its G ...
    A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan will deliver three Glonass-M satellites into orbit on Sunday to complete the formation of Russia's global navigation system, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.
  • Five passengers from troubled Dagestan-bound plane ...
    Five passengers from a Dagestan-bound Tupolev-154 plane that crashed on Saturday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, killing two and injuring over 80 people, are in grave condition, Russia's Health Ministry said on Sunday.
  • Russian planes drop 500 tons of water to extinguis ...
    Russian planes sent by Russia's Emergencies Ministry have dropped over 500 tons of water to extinguish deadly fires raging near Haifa in Israel, the ministry said on Sunday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • xo for the holidays volume III
    For the third year in a row, xo publicity is offering a free compilation of holiday music.  It can be had here, and since I really enjoyed the first two I’m passing this along as well.  No consideration was provided for this, unless you’re going to be a stickler and count the hookers and coke. UPDAT ...
  • Shutting down the Internet, once seizure at a time
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postLast Friday, deep in the middle of a long holiday weekend, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized dozens of web sites. The full list is here, and a common reaction m ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Also see Jim White on the strange dance of Pakistan officially insisting none of this is going on. Corrosively cynical comment omitted.Combat ...
  • Make hay while the sun shines
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’ve been blogging for just about three and a half years now, and in the last week or so I have finally seen some movement on the subject of my very first blog post: an appeal for principled conservatives to push back on the civil li ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The drone attacks may not even be legal. If they are not, they may be war crimes. With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the alternative to cal ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Genetic Engineering of Oranges Being Pushed to Com ...
    An insect-borne bacterial disease that is ravaging Florida's citrus crop means the juice squeezed from the Sunshine State's fruit may soon come from trees that have had their genetic makeup modified.Click here to read this article
  • Canadian Firm Seeks US Approval for Non-Browning G ...
    A Canadian biotechnology firm has asked the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to approve a genetically modified (GM) apple that resists browning after it is sliced or bruised.Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets Unde ...
    Robert Pear reported in today's New York Times that, "Congress gave final approval on Thursday to a child nutrition bill that expands the school lunch program and sets new standards to improve the quality of school meals, with more fruits and vegetables.Click here to read this article
  • Green Roofs are Starting To Sprout in American Cit ...
    The low scrubland of densely packed succulents is in full fall color, a carpet of green fading brilliantly to red and gold. This 2.5-acre oasis, located among a barrens of blacktop roofs that stretches east to Broadway and west to the Hudson River, would be an impressive sight even if it wasn't sitt ...
  • Radiation Scientists Agree TSA Naked Body Scanners ...
    The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA's naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked body scanners. These include Dr Russell Blaylock (s ...

fotoFrontera

  • 21 imágenes para Tagged (fotos de mujeres y hombre ...
    Esta bellísima colección de imágenes, está dedicada especialmente para los usuarios de la famosa red social Tagged. Esta serie, incluye 21 fotografías de mujeres y hombres para quien desea crear un perfil original y diferente. En esta ocasión, usted encontrará fotos de mujeres hermosas y hombres muy ...
  • Fotografías y wallpapers de los Grandes Lagos I
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4 ...
  • Del crepúsculo al amanecer IV (7 fotos mágicas)
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotog ...
  • Colección de imágenes con efecto HDR VI (5 fotos)
    Quiero creer que a usted como a mi, nos encantan las imágenes con efecto HDR (High Dinamic Range). Si estoy en lo correcto, permítame compartir con usted la sexta parte de esta serie que contiene 5 fotografías preciosas. En total, contamos con más de 70 imágenes bajo esta categoría y usted podrá ver ...
  • 17 pinturas digitales by Jacek Yerka (Surreal Pain ...
    El día de hoy, me permito presentarles una bonita colección de pinturas digitales o también conocidas en Inglés como Surreal Painting. Se trata de 17 obras fantásticas del artista gráfico Yacek Yerka. Admire sus trabajos artísticos y déjese llevar por la magia de lo imposible.Nota: Haz click aquí o ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Opening lines to a book I’ll never write
    Working title, Owned: Everything was being rewritten but not everyone seemed to understand how thoroughly or to what extent. Wall Street and the banksters were creating laws to give themselves title to all the money even as average people entered into the digital realm of unlimited cultural wealth. ...
  • Toons’n'links
    There’s a running theme here, I think. And an oldie but goodie: Not trying to make a political point, of course. Just noting the meme in progress and its roots. Links: Reason #34 why it’s good to get along with your neighbors (everyone needs some help now and then) I fail to see what insights [...]
  • Overnight search terms
    What brought people to this blog in the early morning hours: Draw your own conclusions and no, I have no clue how Robert Ryan slipped in there. Btw, here’s a translation of the Russian phrase: Someone looking for Jafabrit, no doubt. Speaking whom, here are some new art links: Bits (and the latest in ...
  • 21st century marketing
    From my in box: I like the joke about the t-shirt. I also like the fact that even if David Byrne never sold another album or song on iTunes he’d still be making money. Like it, hate it, this, for a musician, is what success is all about: t-shirt sales. You can’t digitize a t-shirt, [...]
  • How much do I hate UPS?
    Let me count the ways: They’ve raised their overnight letter prices to $25 You still have to enter your own data on their ridiculously small standard keyboards on a friggin’ PC If the recipient calls you on Thursday to say they didn’t get the envelope on Tuesday, you cannot follow up without your tr ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Rob Smith: DeFarra Gaymon and Why Black Homophobia ...
    Rob Smith: DeFarra Gaymon and Why Black Homophobia Now Has a Body Count From the "no homo" in hip-hop culture to the gay hate preached from the pulpits, African-Americans teach each other and our young people that being gay isn't only a bad thing, it's the worst thing. By doing so, Black culture sho ...
  • The conquering of the American Hemisphere and Indi ...
    The conquering of the American Hemisphere and Indian Country~Thoughts on Columbus Day 2010 � Taino Woman Comes Dancing…in the spirit of Hatuey! The conquering of the American Hemisphere and Indian Country is a topic that has come up often in personal discussions, particularly around this time of ye ...
  • Plight of the Unpeople: Okinawans try to vote US b ...
    Plight of the Unpeople: Okinawans try to vote US base out Asia Times NAHA, Japan - Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Sunday’s gubernatorial election on the subtropical Japanese islands of Okinawa was the absence of a candidate supported by Minshuto, the ruling party. Minshuto - the Democ ...
  • IKN: Evo's tumour again
    IKN: Evo's tumour again Despite Bolivia flatly denying that the operation Evo went through was to remove a tumour, another new Wikileak has emerged mentioning the case and getting pretty specific. Here's the excerpt from this cable: Despite the official government position that President Morales ...
  • Tell the Brazilian Government: Stop the Belo Monte ...
    Tell the Brazilian Government: Stop the Belo Monte Dam: "The Brazilian rainforest and the indigenous peoples who live in it are endangered by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam, which would be one of the largest, most devastating infrastructure projects ever to be built in the Amazon. It would ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Quality fruits and veges
    Colourful, tasteful and healthy! We can’t say it enough: fruits and vegetables are great! Grow your own fruits and veges or buy them at an organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html ) shop or market, from farmers that don’t use pesticides (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html). Find businesses tha ...
  • The look and smell of roses
    Roses are beautiful flowers and you can find them in many colours. Enjoy the look and the smell – decorate your living room or use rose leaves in your closet for a nice scent. Further, essential oil (lifestyle/pure-essential-oils.html) from roses can be used in different ways, from scenting your ro ...
  • Peats Ridge: Marrying music, art and sustainabilit ...
    How can you combine music, friends, having fun and being good for the environment all at the same time? Itâs easy being green…
  • Seaweed delight
    Be open-minded and try new food and drinks like seaweed, wheatgrass or herbal tea (directory/categories/Food%20 %20Drink/Beverages/Tea%20 %20Coffee). Visit the Food Drink section (directory/categories/Food%20 %20Drink/ ) of the Green Times Directory to find businesses that sell (organic (glossary ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iran accuses UN nuclear agency of sending spies
    ShareThisIran accuses UN nuclear agency of sending spies --Intelligence minister says British, US, Israeli intelligence services behind murder of nuclear scientist 05 Dec 2010 Iran accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday of sending spies from foreign intelligence services t ...
  • 'In US, 80 agencies eye coup in Iran'
    ShareThis'In US, 80 agencies eye coup in Iran' 03 Dec 2010 Iran's intelligence minister says as many as 80 organizations have been established in the United States for the sole purpose of attempting to overthrow the Islamic Republic government. "These 80 organizations are actively operating in the U ...
  • Government Workers Ordered Not to Read Cables
    ShareThisDumbf*ck City: Government Workers Ordered Not to Read Cables --Govt workers told to notify their 'Information Security Offices' if WikiLeaks cables were downloaded 05 Dec 2010 Obama administration and the Department of Defense have ordered the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and ...
  • National monument status urged for Arctic refuge
    ShareThisNational monument status urged for Arctic refuge 04 Dec 2010 President Obama is being urged to bestow national monument status on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for its 50th anniversary in what supporters say would finally put the refuge's coastal plain beyond the reach of oil companie ...
  • Powder found in Texas fed. building investigated
    ShareThisPowder found in Texas fed. building investigated 03 Dec 2010 Authorities say a suspicious white powder found in a balloon that prompted the evacuation of a federal office building in suburban San Antonio has tested inconclusive for hazardous materials. Windcrest Fire Chief Dan Reese says in ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Strawberry Fields Forever
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the âbeginning of the export seasonâ in the Gaza Strip. âThe export seasonâ entails the continuation of a short-term program, sponsored â from planting through to distribution â by the Dutch government. The progr ...
  • Correction to the disclaimer, and Happy Hanukkah
    By Jesse Bacon On Tuesday, I posted about a free documentary screening. I then edited that post when I learned that the film received Israeli government funding. I provided the disclaimer for folks who are observing the full cultural boycott of Israel, (which my sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace is not ...
  • Free documentary on Israeli women soldiers; UPDATE ...
    Check out Link Tv’s Doc Debut feature,where you can watch the entire one hour film,  To See if I am Smiling Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In the award-winning documentary To See If I Am Smiling, the frank testimonials ...
  • Midnight raids continue, father of three taken fro ...
    From the Palestine Solidarity Project Early Thursday morning, at approximately 2:00am, Israeli forces from the Gush Etzion military base came to the homes of brothers and National Committee members Yousef and Mousa Abu Maria. Both are also co-founders of the Palestine Solidarity Project. Mousa, whos ...
  • Wave of Israeli demolitions culminates in destroyi ...
    Here is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank). Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though in practise, all of the Palestinian territor ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Quebe Sisters Band “Every Which-A-Way”
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  • World’s largest solar-powered boat crosses Atlanti ...
    The TÛRANOR PlanetSolar is completely powered by solar power, can travel for three days at up to 14 knots with no sun, and just completeled a transatlantic voyage from Monaco to Miami.
  • Alfred E. Obama
    As a symbol of political weakness, it’s too soon to say whether Barack Obama getting bashed in the lip while playing hoops will become the functional equivalent of Jimmy Carter getting chased by a Killer Rabbit. What is clear that the president now looks so hapless and enfeebled that he’s on the ver ...
  • On Wikileaks, anarchism, Assange’s motives
    From The Oracle on Lockergnome, who is a member of a military family The more the governmental authorities work to squash the information, the more sites that seem to spring up with the information. It will be a losing game, and all is proceeding as the inventors of the internet envisioned – a metho ...
  • Ron Paul defends Wikileaks
    “In a free society we’re supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we’re in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.” “This whole notion that Assange, who’s an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason. I m ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Remember When…
    Scientists solve enigma of Antarctic ‘cooling’ – click for article. Research ‘kills off’ climate sceptic argument by showing average temperature across the continent has risen over the last 50 years In the remote and inaccessible West Antarctic region the new research, based on ground measurements a ...
  • Doing it Ourselves
    After ten months of reviews and rewrites we have successfully published an improved version of Steig et al. 2009.  While we cannot publish the paper here, we can discuss the detail.   Personally I’ve never seen so much work put into a single paper as Ryan did and it’s wonderful to see it come to ...
  • ??
    Sent to me by email, the Bishop of Liverpool speaks out on consumption and the environment…….? http://beta.policyreview.tv/video/458/2769
  • The Politicians of Fryentology
    Anthony Watts is already covering this but I’ve been in a mood lately.  Climate ‘scientists’ are recommending rationing as a method for reducing CO2 output. As the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change, the influential academics called for much ...
  • Wiki-liars
    R. de Haan left the video below in the comments thread of reporters asking WikiLeaks why “they” published the CRU emails.  I hate the leftist wikileak SOB’s already anyway and think they should be locked up but the equally leftist reporters and the wiki jerks stand around the microphone declaring a ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Ubisoft, Cellufun, Streetview Labs, EA, iRok2 Media, Storm8, an ...
  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Clickable provides marketers with a platform for integrating Facebook and search advertising. LifeStreet Media is a performance advertising platform focused on social ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Office Expansion, Social Searche ...
    Facebook Expanding to New York - VentureBeat reported that Facebook has leased two floors with up to 150,000 square feet at 335 Madison Avenue that may accommodate as many as 600 people. Social Searching on Bing, Google - SearchEngineLand did a great writeup on the differing ways Bing and Google inc ...
  • Facebook Developer Update: Facepile Plugin and Gra ...
    Facebook has a few more developer updates out this week. Here’s a quick look: Promotions guidelines: We covered the main changes earlier this week — the company is dropping the $10,000 minimum spending requirement for promotions on Pages, as well as the existing pre-approval process. Note that the g ...
  • Facebook for Android v1.4 Mobile App Includes Plac ...
    The latest version of the Facebook for Android mobile application reduces the functionality gap between Google’s younger OS and the iOS by adding new features Places and Groups. However, some core features such as Chat and push notifications are still missing, leading many Android users to feel negl ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • A just peace, not religion is the solution in Midd ...
    Uri Avnery argues that only Palestinian statehood and a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offer a chance to stem the tide of religious fundamentalism that is filling in the gap left by the failure of secular Arab nationalism and compounded by the utter uselessness and treachery of Ar ...
  • US technology goes to North Korea via Israel and C ...
    Paul J. Balles views the latest breed of chickens that may come home to roost in the USA: American military technology given to Israel courtesy of US tax dollars, sold by Israel to China, which supplies it to the North Koreans who in turn threaten to use it against the US and its allies.
  • Did Mahmoud Abbas know in advance about Israel's d ...
    Stuart Littlewood scents the whiff of treason in the Wikileaks disclosure that Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas had been forewarned by Israel about its planned onslaught on Gaza and had failed to sound the alarm at the UN and other forums to deter Israel’s slaughter of fellow Palestinians
  • "GOD-TV" evangelical Christian channel funds Israe ...
    Neve Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the USA and 14 million in Britain, is funding a project to ethnically cleanse Israel's Bedouin citizens from their ancestral land.
  • Obama's Israel policy: speak softly and carry a ve ...
    Maidhc O Cathail views US President Barack Obama's policy of solid support for Israel and the lynchpins of that policy, from Israel's fifth columnists in Congress to key Obama advisers such as Dennis Ross, described by one US official as "far more sensitive to Netanyahu’s coalition politics than to ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Digging Deeper in Years into Wikileaks’ Treasure C ...
    A Fairly Short List of Goodies for Wikileaks Santa   I have been waiting. I have been searching and reading. I have been waiting impatiently while searching and reading the initial pile of recently released Wikileaks’ documents, specifically those pertaining to Turkey. I have received many e-mails a ...
  • Notes on the Margin-Dec 1
    Setting the Record Straight on Satire v. Fiction, A Few Notes on my Opt-Out Support Session at DCA & A Few Words on  Ron Paul Supporters-Activists My last ‘Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz’ seems to have caused some unexpected reaction. First, it started several e-mails from the media asking whether they ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: DHS-TSA Terror Watch L ...
    Resilient Founding Fathers with Propensity for Resistance among One Million+ Terror Watch List Suspects!   In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not rem ...
  • Blows Against the Empire, the Criminalization of D ...
    By way of preface, let me give you a little of my background. I was born a prototypical Southern California working-class surfer boy. As a poor, white kid, I was educated by the California Public School system of the 1960’s and was, therefore, both the avatar of the Liberal Contract of Egalitarianis ...

Afro Spear

  • The most powerful black women in Europe–Black Wome ...
    Black Women in Europe⢠blog announced its first-ever Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List that includes 58 women in Europe in six categories. The categories are business, lifestyle, media, politics, social entrepreneurs and NGOs. This year’s Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List 2010 were chosen from ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • “Give Conservatism a Chance” by Jimmie ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 In his book “Itâs OK To Leave The Plantation”, C. Mason Weaver said the next logical step for the civil rights movement is the rise of a black conservative movement. Weaver, a black conservative, former congressional candidate and public speaker, says that hysteria, an ...
  • Quote(s) of the Day
                “Just because you cook eggs in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits.”   “The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.” Malcolm [...]
  • Rejuvenated Purpose? AfroSpear 2.0
    A few days ago a member of the AfroSpear Google Group asked this question: “It appears that the Afrosphere Google Group has died a slow and unfortunate death. Is the Afrosphere a group in name only? What should be the next steps, if anything for the Afrosphere Google Group?” First, it’s difficult to ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...
  • Wikileaks: Governments Apologising In Advance For ...
    Well, it seems that a few politicians have been saying rude things about each other, and now they are really desperate to cover it all up. I don’t know; we expect “our” representatives to be paragons of virtue and then damn Wikileaks spills the beans. Bad Wikileaks! On the other hand, given the shit ...
  • Operation Christmas Child: Christian Fundamentalis ...
    Somewhere in the minds of millions of children there exists a place where Christmas is every day, and gifts appear beneath the eternal tree and at the foot of the magical fireplace whenever their back is turned. In the hearts of millions of children the joy of giving is equally precious as the joy o ...
  • Greg Ball at Image via WikipediaMcDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...
  • BT Adastral Plan Wipes Out “Green” Pro ...
    Adastral Park is part of BT’s (formerly British Telecom) Martlesham Heath technology complex, a combination of defence research laboratory and industrial park, situated close to the busy Suffolk town of Ipswich, and adjacent to a large area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You can find Adastral Park b ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • North Korea on the Edge - North Korean Belligerenc ...
    The most frequently heard question in the wake of a North Korean attack on a South Korean island is “why?” Those who have devoted their careers to studying North Korea, one of the world’s most opaque nations, say it is difficult to get a clear answer. One theory ties the artillery attack last week t ...
  • Korean Peninsula on Edge - South Korea Gives Cool ...
    Diplomatic efforts are underway in Asia to defuse tension on the Korean peninsula. But South Korea is effectively rejecting China’s call to quickly convene multi-national talks to discuss North Korea. This comes as the United States and South Korea begin four days of naval drills seen as a show of s ...
  • Politics on Edge - Charlie Rangel is Only a Sympto ...
    It's hard to conclude that Black Caucus Democrats are being sent back to Washington by large voting margins, year after year, because they are delivering such fine lives to their constituents. New York's Charlie Rangel, convicted of eleven ethics violations -- the most ever found against any member ...
  • America on Edge - A Billion Dollar Settlement Mark ...
    The US Senate’s approval of a $1.15 billion settlement for black farmers meant to deal with decades of past discrimination capped a roller-coaster year on the issue for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.Vilsack was in the legislative trenches for much of this year pushing for the settlement’s passag ...
  • Blue Fin Endangered because of Appetities and Unsc ...
    Your article Mediterranean Feeding Frenzy on Blue Fin, November 22, 2010 proves that we need to do much more to protect these fish from the likes of predator fishing companies and appetites that do not consider the damage they are doing to this diminishing species. Only when unscrupulous fishing ent ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • New Scientist Plants False Story That Pope Approve ...
    By Rady AnandaTalk about psyops. If you cant get the people to eat your dangerous, unwanted frankenfoods, just lie and say the Pope approves it. On November 30, the magazine, New Scientist, published Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops, which the Vatican immediately denied
  • Elderly Man Evicted From His Land For Living Off T ...
    By Rady AnandaOn Nov. 30, the Madison County (Indiana) Planning Commission evicted a 72-year-old man from his 38 acres, reported Wish TV. County Prosecutor Thomas Broderick says the Alexandria resident, Richard L. Thompson, broke all kinds of laws -- no electricity, no septic system, no running wa ...
  • Treating Australia With Contempt
    By Francis EndenThe faceless men of the Israel Lobby
  • Islam Is The Solution
    By Uri Avnery To those who chant Islam is the Solution, our answer should be: A just Peace is the Solution
  • Infowar Launced On WikiLeaks
    By Stephen C. Webster WikiLeaks.org domain taken down: DNS host cites mass attacks as site vanishes from Web. Electronic Frontiers Foundation co-founder says The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Video of Helen Thomas Anti-Semitic Speech Deliver ...
    �Most Americans were horrified by Helen Thomas' latest round of anti-Semitic hatred, which ironically were made at an Islamic anti-bias forum. For example, Thomas' alma mater, gave out a Wayne State University Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media, well until she made the comment: "We are ...
  • Thank You Mark Levin
    Its not everyday that "The Great One" Mark Levin says you have a great website, so permit me for a second to brag, or better yet please listen below..And when you are done, please go to Big Journalism and read my latest Helen Thomas post, where Issue a challenge to Media Matters. You can find that p ...
  • Israel's Missile Defense: The New Strategic Factor ...
    By Barry Rubin A factor up until now neglected in the Middle East strategic picture is Israel�s development of a strong, multi-level missile defense system aimed both against short-range rockets fired by Hamas and Hizballah as well as to guard against a future Iranian nuclear long-range thre ...
  • "Newsbusted" A New Regular Feature on The Lid
    Along with being one of the first websites I read every day for the latest in media bias, Newsbusters features a hilarious twice-weekly video look at news and entertainment.� Called Newsbusted the video is written by and stars� Jodi Miller, talented stand-up comedian, television and film writer, ...
  • HUH???? Scientist Says Global Warming is Causing H ...
    Time to add another one to the list! Those Global Warming Moonbats figure out ways to blame the dumbest things on global warming. Some of may favorites include, Incredible shrinking sheep, Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean, Surge in fatal shark attack, Boy Scout tornado deaths, Severe ac ...

The Real Agenda

  • Corporate Media Bailed Out with Taxpayer Money
    The Fed's efforts to prop up the financial sector reached across a broad spectrum of the economy, benefiting stalwarts of American industry including General Electric and Caterpillar and household-name companies such as Verizon, Harley-Davidson and Toyota.
  • Goodbye to the Free Internet
    U.S. Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time… Washington Times The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries. The agency’s chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules he ...
  • Federal Reserve May Be `Central Bank of the World& ...
    Bloomberg Federal Reserve data showing UBS AG and Barclays Plc ranked among the top users of $3.3 trillion from emergency programs is stoking debate on whether U.S. regulators bear responsibility for aiding other nations’ banks. UBS was the biggest borrower under the Commercial Paper Funding Facilit ...
  • La Mafia Narco en Río: “El Estado creó a est ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Con gran revuelo hemos escuchado, leído y visto reportes en los medios de comunicación tradicionales sobre como la policía y los militares brasileños han tomado posesión del “monte del alemán” -morro do alemão- en Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Las imágenes han ...
  • Eco-Fascism: Imposed by Law or Government Mandate
    By Phyllis Schlafly Republicans are assuming that cap-and-trade (aka cap-and-tax) is dead because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lacks the votes to bring up the House-passed bill and because this issue proved a loser in the 2010 House races. Like the famous Mark Twain saying, its death may be exa ...

Wind Watch

  • A call to arms against wind: West Lincoln told to ...
    �You�ll have to devote the rest of your days to fighting these, if you allow them to get here in there first place.� That was the message retired schoolteacher and Green Party candidate Stephana Johnston had for West Lincoln residents last Wednesday, at a public information meeting on the alleged ne ...
  • Study: Energy push has cost to nature
    The push to develop cleaner energy sources such as natural gas and wind power could wreak havoc on hundreds of thousands of acres of Pennsylvania forests and disrupt critical natural habitats, according to a study released Monday by the Nature Conservancy. With the prospect of up to 60,000 more natu ...
  • Landowners who sign leases with First Wind can&#82 ...
    BRIMFIELD � The Board of Assessors is seeking to deny property tax reductions to land owners who have Chapter 61 forestry designations on their properties but have also signed leases with First Wind to allow use of their land for a proposed wind farm atop West Mountain. The board also recently denie ...
  • DEP: Vinalhaven turbines too loud
    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found that three wind turbines on Vinalhaven have exceeded nighttime noise limits and has asked Fox Islands Wind LLC to modify its operations. The small island wind farm has proven controversial since it began operating a year ago, with some neigh ...Carbon emissions from various global regions d...Image via Wikipedia
  • Waubra wind farm buys more properties
    Waubra wind farm operator Acciona has confirmed it has now bought out seven property owners. Director of generation Brett Wickham said yesterday two more properties had been recently purchased by the company. Mr Wickham said post-construction noise monitoring was completed in September. This monitor ...

Not My Tribe

  • Dancing with the scars, Gaza edition.
    Doesn’t have Bristol Spawn-of-Satan dancing, but it does have Jasper, PikesPeakOceans favorite animated avatar.dancing in his underwear for Netanyahu, Obama, and Ms. Hillary Warning, clicking on this link will cause emotional scars. Hence the title.
  • FOX convicts murdered prisoner, posthumously.
    The Military Police thug who killed him, isn’t contesting the charge that he killed the Human Being, and is instead pleading insanity. “He was off his meds” well, that’s wonderful, the MilPigs put psychotic cops in charge over helpless prisoners. FOX 21 is saying “the Ft Carson soldier ACCUSED OF ki ...
  • Will INTERPOL investigate cyber attacks on Wikilea ...
    Wikileaks has been deprived its DNS service by everydns.net, but you can still reach the site by going to their direct IP, 88.80.13.160. Pass it on. Here is a full list of Wikileaks websites and mirrors. The US War on Freedom is on, and Wikileaks reminds us, we are the troops. wikileaks.org – Offici ...
  • Remember Fred Thompson and his Little Red Pickup?
    The one that he had somebody deliver to a short driving distance from his rallies, so he could pretend to be “jes plain folks”? He’s doing Bankster Commercials. Yep. Working for an investment group, who are hawking a “reverse mortgage”. While being a Republican and therefore supporting their loud cr ...
  • Army “Revolutionary” XM25 weapon will ...
    The $35,000 rifle fires exploding ordnance, enabling US infantrymen to kill people behind walls or at distances of 2,300 ft. No indication that our soldiers can now SEE behind walls, or at such great distance. Meaning the XM25 will “revolutionize” killing, as military spokesmen say, but probably the ...

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Robertson bats for renewable energy sources
Jamaica Observer
- Dec 05, 2010
- 1 hour ago
ENERGY and Mining Minister James Robertson has given an update on Jamaica's progress towards greater use of renewable sources of energy, such as wind and ...
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China Adding 500 Gigawatts of Renewable Power by 2020!
CleanTechnica
- Dec 04, 2010
- 15 hours ago
On the same day that Senate Republicans filibustered a vote for renewable energy in the USA, by contrast – China has just published an astoundingly ...
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Free program describes renewable energy jobs
Rome Sentinel
- Dec 04, 2010
- 16 hours ago
Mohawk Valley Community College will host a free session about Renewable Energy careers from 6 pm to 9 pm Wednesday at the Utica Campus. ...
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Govt may withdraw idle renewable energy contracts—Almendras
Manila Standard Today
- Dec 04, 2010
- 7 hours ago
by Alena Mae S. Flores The Energy Department has threatened to cancel the contracts of non-performing renewable energy companies as it moves to rescind some ...
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Ecology adopts new rule for reporting greenhouse gas emissions
Access Washington
- Dec 03, 2010
- Dec 03, 2010
In 2008, the Washington Legislature directed Ecology to develop a rule requiring the state's largest sources of greenhouse gases to report their emissions. ...
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Whatcom County, Ferndale, Bellingham rejected in requests for stormwater grants
TheNewsTribune.com
- Dec 05, 2010
- 3 hours ago
The state Department of Ecology announced grants totaling $23.4 million to help pay for stormwater improvement projects. • Bellingham: $1 million for a ...
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Joint statement from Gov. Gregoire, Ecology Director Sturdevant on 40th ...
Access Washington
- Dec 03, 2010
- Dec 03, 2010
Chris Gregoire and Department of Ecology Ted Sturdevant today issued the following statements celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Environmental ...
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Organic Cotton and Hemp Clothing Manufacturer, No Enemy, Benefits Non-Profit ...
Benzinga
- Dec 04, 2010
- Dec 04, 2010
So the decision to support an amazing non-profit this holiday season, like the Berkeley Ecology Center, was a perfect fit for us.” With the current economy, ...
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Serb tandem leads Cal into NCAA water polo final
San Francisco Chronicle
- Dec 05, 2010
- 4 hours ago
Saponjic and countryman Ivan Rackov could be yelling that phrase for all their lungs' worth this afternoon at 3 pm in the NCAA men's water polo title game ...
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Plano out to change water billing system, says it's losing millions
Dallas Morning News
- Dec 04, 2010
- 8 hours ago
By THEODORE KIM / The Dallas Morning News With water bills rising and city budgets tight, Plano wants changes to the decades-old system under which many ...
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Drinking water debacle deals a blow to CDC and EPA
Washington Post
- Dec 04, 2010
- 11 hours ago
By Robert McCartney When it comes to something as basic as ensuring that our drinking water doesn't poison our children, you'd think federal scientists and ...
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Cops fire tear gas at protesters
The Sun Daily
- Dec 05, 2010
- 4 hours ago
By Karen Arukesamy and Charles Ramendran KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 5, 2010): Police fired tear gas and use water cannons to break up a protest by an estimated 4200 ...
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