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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

5 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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Debunking the Debunkers

  • Geraldo Should Be Impressed by 1300 Architects and ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asserted yesterday that Geraldo Rivera wouldn't be so impressed by the 1,300+ Architects and Engineers of ae911truth.org if he knew "about the swimming pool engineer or the HVAC engineer or the dental engineer who thinks it was done with beam weapons from ...
  • Attacks against Geraldo and Napolitano expose esta ...
    As CNN observes ... It's rare that two media watchdogs – one on the left and one on the right – ever agree when it comes to assessing coverage on the cable news outlets. But both the conservative Newsbusters and liberal Media Matters are aiming fire at Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and Judge Andrew Napo ...
  • The JFK Assassination Autopsy Cover-up; Only One P ...
    I found this photo (here) that one could consider as a brief "anatomy" of the cover-up. When these photos are juxtaposed with the damning physical evidence, indicating that Kennedy was shot from the front, we are left with the conclusion that the Dallas Doctors, who first saw the victim, correctly ...
  • Shirley they can't be serious!
    9-11 Victim Families Criticize Napolitano Comments http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011290030 No f-ing way! Shirley they can't be serious! (Sorry, couldn't resist) They are still playing the family members hate us card?! ... Even though the thing they are supposedly debunking is a campaign started b ...
  • Why focusing on WTC7 is not a waste of time...
    Now that FOX news appears to be tiptoeing onto the 9/11 truth train, some people in the truth movement are understandably suspicious. I've been reading the comments over at 9/11 blogger. Some commenters are suggesting this may be a ploy to make it seem like WTC7 is the final mystery, and then debu ...

Fooducate

  • What are the 10 Most Popular Product Scans on Food ...
    It’s been a month since we launched the Fooducate iphone app. That’s enough time to start seeing some trends. We wondered which products are the most popular. Here then is the list of top ten scans: 1. Nutella – Hazelnut Spread 2. Coca-Cola – Coke 3. Coca Cola – Diet Coke 4. Jif – Creamy Peanut But ...
  • Whole Grains and Dietary Fibers: End Your Confusio ...
    This is a guest blog post by Hope Warshaw, RD. It follows up on her previous guest post. We’re being urged via health messages and big marketing campaigns to eat more dietary fiber and simultaneously to chow down on more whole grains. Beyond the messages to achieve these goals ringing in our ea ...
  • Nutri-Grain, Fake Color, and Why Do American Kids ...
    Take a look at the two packages for Kellogg’ Nutri-Grain cereal bars. One is made here for us. The other is made in the UK for Europeans. Both use food coloring to achieve a more “strawberry-ish” color. In the UK, the coloring is achieved using beetroot. But in the US, the coloring is Red No. 40, [ ...
  • Three Reasons Your Food is Now Safer
    If you ever got food poisoning that had you out of whack for a few hours, days, or something even worse, rejoice. Yesterday, the Senate passed an overhaul of the Food Safety Bill, for the first time since World War 2! A lot has changed in the American food supply since those days. The FDA did [...]
  • Is the Vitamin D Craze Over Now?
    In the past few years, sales of vitamin D supplements have soared. More and more people have been tested for vitamin D deficiencies, and many doctors advised their patients to up their intake. But this trend may be coming to an abrupt halt. Today, the non-profit, non-affiliated, Institute of Medici ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Research shows spiritual beliefs preserve rainfore ...
    Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for a meeting at Bismark to discuss their land claims, Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival A recent study suggests that indigenous cultural beliefs such as shamanism help to preserve rainforests and their wildlife. The report is the result of ...
  • Amazon nomads demand justice
    Awá men travel down a road cut by loggers. © Uirá Garcia A group of 10 Awá Indians has made the long journey from the Amazon to Brazilâs capital to demand that the authorities protect their land. Their forest home is being destroyed at a ferocious pace by ranchers, loggers and colonists wh ...
  • Rancher defies court order – Brazilian Indians sti ...
    Nearly all Guarani, such as this woman's community, have seen their land taken for ranching or sugar cane production. © F. Watson/Survival A beleaguered Indian community in Brazil which has been cut off from the outside world by the rancher who has taken over their lands is still imprisoned, d ...
  • Peru releases footage of uncontacted tribe
    A group of Nanti people from Peru. © Survival Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, Indepa, has released footage of uncontacted members of the Nanti tribe living in the remote Peruvian Amazon. The footage was taken during an expedition led by Indepa to the Kugapakori Nahua Nanti Reserve in sou ...
  • Kalahari Bushman appeals to African Commission
    Moeti's grandmother Xoroxloo died of thirst © Survival A Bushman from a settlement deep in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has travelled to the Gambia to ask the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights for help. 

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Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Wikileaks will either be done as Assange does it o ...
    What I’m hearing constantly from the squishy left is that Assange and Wikileaks are irresponsible and blah, blah, blah. “Someone might die” because they didn’t perfectly redact the  Yes, yes, someone might. Of course, if the leaks end the war one day early……, someone might live, eh? If the islander ...
  • Wikileaks And The End of the Open Internet
    Let’s just state the obvious here: we’re seeing the end of the open internet with what is being done to Wikileaks.  It’s one thing for Amazon to toss them, it’s another thing entirely to refuse to propagate their domain information.  This has been coming for quite some time, and Wikileaks is not t ...
  • Obama isn’t about compromise
    People, Obama is not and never has been a left winger.  Nor is he a Nixonian or Eisenhower Republican, that would put him massively to the left of where he is and to the left of the majority of the Democratic party. Instead his a Reaganite, something he told people repeatedly. Until folks get it [.. ...
  • Municipal finance quick-hits
    Forcing bondholders to take a haircut is politically attractive compared to gutting the schools, police, fire and road maitenance bugets. And once a few communities make the decision to forgo the credit market by defaulting, most marginal communities will be shut-out from the credit markets by high ...
  • Leadership
    I don’t normally write about leadership.  Somehow it’s become a niche subject: either the subject of some banal business book, or discussed by the military.  It seems remote from politics or even economics because we live in an elite consensus society, where leadership is rare because the price of ...

Age of Autism

  • Fox & Friends Discusses SafeMinds' PSA Campaign fo ...
    Saturday morning, SafeMinds' Executive Director, Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, appeared on Fox and Friends with Alisyn Camerota to discuss our campaign to educate the public about mercury in flu vaccines. Lyn stressed the need to avoid mercury-containing vaccines, particularly for...
  • HPV Vaccine (Gardasil and Cervarix) VAERS Reports ...
    The injury and death related to the HPV Vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix continue to rise. How many will it take before the FDA takes action? – Dec 04, 2010 – The VAERS information is now being updated weekly for the...
  • Tell Us Why You're Thankful
    Happy American Thanksgiving. Share your gratitude in our comments, won't you? And pass the gravy! Dan, Mark, Kim and the team at AofA.
  • What is Wrong with the Gardasil Girls? Bridget's H ...
    Nov 24, 2010 – Bridget was always a healthy, happy child. She, like most 17 year old girls, had dreams. She was active in sports and loved participating, but being surrounded by children was where she was truly in her...
  • Why Was this PSA Rated X?
    Managing Editor's Note: The next time an AMC theatre hosts an "autism movie" featuring dimmed lights and lowered sound to accommodate the hundreds of autistic children and their families who will attend (not THIS family, we will no longer patronize...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • PayPal suspends WikiLeaks donations account
    Reuters – Online payment service PayPal said it has suspended the WikiLeaks’ account that the organization used to collect donations. U.S.-based PayPal said in a statement that WikiLeaks, which this week released thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, had violated its policy. A posting on WikiL ...
  • ‘No Fish Left Behind’ Approach Leaves ...
    ScienceDaily- Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systematic expansion of industrialized fisheries. In collaboration with the National Geographic Society and published in the online journal PLoS ONE ...
  • Top Chinese officials led Google hacking: WikiLeak ...
    Reuters – The hacking of Google Inc that led the Internet company to briefly pull out of China was orchestrated by two members of China’s top ruling body, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks and cited by The New York Times on Saturday. Citing the cables, the Times said China ma ...
  • Drug company scrutinised over textbook
    SMH – Two prominent authors of a 1999 book teaching family doctors how to treat psychiatric disorders provided acknowledgment in the preface of an ”unrestricted educational grant” from a pharmaceutical company. But the drug maker, then known as SmithKline Beecham, actually had much more involvement ...
  • 17 killed in Baghdad bomb attacks
    UKPA â Seventeen people have been killed in bomb attacks across Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, including Iranian pilgrims near a revered shrine and shoppers at a Shiite neighbourhood market, authorities said. The attacks – several roadside bombs and cars packed with explosives – wounded more than 100 peop ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Mono Lake: a view of life...on Earth and beyond
    Biochemist Felisa Wolfe-Simon didn't know exactly what she would find when she led an expedition to Mono Lake, a body of water near Yosemite National Park that is rich in arsenic that leaches from nearby rocks. A NASA astrobiology research...
  • Films on water, hemp at L.A.'s Egyptian theater
    If "An Inconvenient Truth" put environmental films on the map, the International Artivist Film Festival keeps that spirit alive. The seventh annual event, running through Saturday at L.A.'s Egyptian theater, features 45 films dedicated to raising awareness about the environment,...
  • An acre for an acre: Farmland preservation measure ...
    Before the real estate bust, tract houses were a booming crop in California's farm belt. Parts of the Central Valley were turning into a bedroom community for the Bay Area. So three years ago, Stanislaus County, which has a $1-billion...
  • Arctic waters open for "cautious" leasing after 20 ...
    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's announcement about a "cautious" approach to offshore oil development opens the door to leasing new waters in the Arctic after 2012 and clears the way for full review of a proposed new exploratory well in the...
  • Judge orders Monsanto to uproot genetically modifi ...
    A federal judge has ordered Monsanto to tear up 256 acres of genetically modified sugar beets in Oregon and Arizona that were to be used to produce seed for the 2012 crop. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • From the Abyss of the Iraq War (11): Embedded with ...
    FAIR, a private independent watch group, states that "embedded reporting," in which numerous journalists are allowed to accompany military units, "is just a different way to exert control over journalism."Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Palestinians turn a profit on the occupation
    Some Palestinians living in Hebron make a living providing "tours" of the occupation, elements of which are easy to see in a city divided between Palestinians and Jewish settlers. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Annual Fox News War On Atheists Has Begun!
    As America's premier Christian newsroom, Fox "News," in marching in tune with the Christian anthem "Onward Christian Soldiers," is actively fighting the war against those godless atheists who dare to "promote" their godless views on billboards or other ->Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantan ...
    The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called "pharmacologic waterboarding." Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-i ...
  • What happens next on the Deficit Commission
    So, while the deficit commission is ultimately meaningless, the fight over austerity for everyone but the rich still looms large. It�s a difficult road ahead of us, and we need to steel ourselves for the fight. :: Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Green Clean Institute Helps Schools Create Healt ...
    The Green Clean Institute offers an unlimited training of your campus staff on several levels. First of all, we provide an online training and testing program that will certify your whole cleaning crew. New hires simply go through the online trainin
  • Academia Works With UN for a Project Research t ...
    The initial research findings will be presented in a report on 12 January 2011, the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, and the full report will be available at the 2011 Harvard Humanitarian Action Summit, to be held from 4 to 6 March in C
  • SALDEF Welcomes Arrest in Hate Motivated Attack of ...
    A long time cab driver and Sacramento resident, Mr. Singh was maliciously attacked by two individuals last week. Mr Singh picked up the two passengers outside a local bar in downtown Sacramento. Mr. Singh who wears a turban and keeps uncut hair and
  • Actions in Place to End 'Culture of Impunity' in ...
    BINUCA is also helping the national authorities to implement the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme, and is providing support to efforts to restore state authority throughout the country, reform the security sector and promote t
  • Waste Management Sector is Well-Placed to Battle ...
    More focus on winning quick victories in the battle against climate change, like the one offered by taking new approaches to waste management, can help in bridging the gap between the emissions levels scientists say are essential to keep 21st centur

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Croatia: Struggle in "Mundus Varazdin"
    vz-mundus3003-pok.jpg Short info about struggle of "Mundus Varazdin" workers. After several cases of the company failing to fulfill its obligations towards the workers, more than 2 ...
  • Nationwide prisoners' struggle in Greece
    A call for solidarity by the Initiative for the Rights of Prisoners for the prisoners in Greek jails who are having a co-ordinated nationwide protest since Monday. Included are the demands of the prisoners. Since Monday 29th November the ...
  • Roaming Marches Disrupt Oxford - Personal Account
    castle.jpg Marches of hundreds (mainly school students) disrupted Oxford City Centre, briefly occupying County Hall, Barclays, Lloyds, and Castle Mound (see the photo), disrupting traffic, and roaming th ...
  • Against the reform, another revolt! Updates on stu ...
    Last night the Chamber of Deputies approved the Gelmini reform. 307 votes in favour, 252 against, 7 abstained. The reform will be passed over to the Senate on 9th December for its 3rd reading, then to the Chamber of Deputies again for the final vote. ...
  • Student protests - what next?
    students_7.jpg After another successful day of action yesterday, we look at what lies next for the growing movement against the UK government's austerity measures of cuts to services and rising fees. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
  • Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
    Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
  • Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
    Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.
  • Anne Murray, Singer and Author, "All of Me" (Oct 2 ...
    She will always be Canada's Snowbird - the girl next door who sang her way to international stardom. It all looked so easy. But as her new book reveals, it was nothing like that. This week she tells us all about it.

Scotts Contracting

  • Analysts say ignoring global warming will cost the ...
    Nov 19, 2010 Portsmouth Herald Deborah McDermott Nov. 19, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) — Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a three-part look at the conference, "Sustainable Future: How Can our Nation Turn the Corner on the Economy and the Environment, and can N.H. Lead ...
  • GLOBE Alliance Will Advocate for Sustainability
    GLOBE Alliance Will Advocate for Sustainability Worldwide The Global Leadership in Our Built Environment Alliance has issued a call for partners to help fight climate change by advancing sustainable design. By:Stephani L. Miller The U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council (W ...
  • Green by Necessity is China’s New National P ...
    China’s New National Plan: Green by Necessity Tags: Alternative EnergyBest PracticesCase Studieschinalow carbon economyPolicySustainabilityTransportationUrban EconomicsWater November 29, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig China’s new national 2011-2015 economic plan–essentially also its green blueprint–is now ...
  • Work Outs Will Soon Create Energy and Burn Fat
    Gyms Now Producing "Healthy Clean Energy" Tags: Alternative Energyclean energy fitness centersConservation & Recreationfitness centersGreen BusinessGreen RevolutionHealth & Nutritionhealthy clean energySustainability November 30, 2010 by Nathanael Baker "Healthy clean energy" may soon become a catch ...
  • World CO2 Level 2010
    2010 to have Highest CO2 Emissions Since Tracking Started Tags: chinaCoalGlobal Carbon Projectgreenhouse gas emissions November 26, 2010 by Jonathan Smith1 In 2006 coal ranked second to petroleum, accounting for 27.4 percent of world primary energy production. “World coal production totaled 6.8 bill ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • چهارمين سفر آيت الله خامنه‌ای به قم طی دو ماه اخير
    گزارش‌ها حاکی است که آيت الله علی خامنه‌ای برای ديدار با علمای قم به اين شهر سفر کرده است. اين سومين سفر غير رسمی رهبر جمهوری اسلامی به قم، پس از دیدار رسمی ۱۰ روزه وی از این شهر طی  کمتر از دوماه اخير است.
  • جانشینان احمدی نژاد مسلسل خشاب گذاری می کنند
    از هم پاشیدگی و وخامت اوضاع حاکمیت را از میان سخنان و مواضع خود کودتاچی ها آسان تر از بیانیه ها و سخنرانی های طرفداران جنبش سبز می تواند متوجه شد. موقعیت  احمدی نژاد و دولت به گونه ایست که در جناح راست و از میان کودتاچی ها، نه تنها read more
  • ICAO: Europe must refuel Iran planes
    The International Civil Aviation Organization says it has cautioned several European countries against refusing to supply Iranian passenger planes with fuel. The ICAO said on Friday that it has raised the issue with authorities in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. ICAO has ...
  • Why Can't Arabs and Iranians Just Get Along?
    Topping all these layers of religious and ethnic difference lie harsh political realities. The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are tradi tional monarchies dominated by ruling families; the Islamic Republic of Iran is a revolutionary, popu list state with republican forms resting on a theocratic base ...
  • Leaked Cable Reveals US-Israeli Strategy for Regim ...
    According to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, in August 2007 the head of Israel's intelligence agency urged US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, R. Nicholas Burns, to join with Israel in carrying out a five-part strategy to implement regime change in Iran.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

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

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Book Review: The Impending World Energy Mess
    Join the forum discussion on this post I actually had low expectations for The Impending World Energy Mess by Robert L. Hirsch, Roger H. Bezdek, and Robert M. Wendling. Not because I thought Robert Hirsch and company would put out a sub-par book, but rather I have read so many peak oil books that I ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Reality Begins to Set In
    Join the forum discussion on this post Delusional Mandates It is hard to believe that just a few short years ago, Congress mandated a massive increase in usage of cellulosic ethanol. This was remarkable, because no commercial cellulosic ethanol facilities even existed at the time. But people like ...
  • Rank the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010
    Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010 is now open and will remain open until Christmas: The top 10 survey: what were the biggest oil stories of 2010? They listed about 40 stories; I pulled out a list below that I think is worth debating ...
  • Addressing Oil Company Subsidies
    Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent essay on the elimination of the VEETC, the major ethanol subsidy in the U.S., some ethanol supporters argued for continuing the subsidies because oil companies receive subsidies. There are many versions of the oil subsidy argument – some of ...
  • Taxpayer Subsidized Ethanol Exports May Bite Indus ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Ulterior Motives Behind the Ethanol Pipeline? Ethanol producers in the Midwest have lobbied for support to build a pipeline to ship their ethanol to the East Coast. As I have argued, given that the market for ethanol is nowhere close to being saturated in the ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • PechaKucha 20x20
    Comments:20x20 Total of 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide. New style of presenting. - Dean MantzTags: presentation, presentations, design, powerpoint, pechakucha, collaboration, innovationby: Dean Mantz
  • Free Technology for Teachers: 10+ Alternatives to ...
    Tags: technology, free, web2.0, drop.io, alternativesby: Dean Mantz
  • teachwithyouripad - home
    Comments:Very nice collection of iPad apps by grade level as well as a variety of different ways to use the iPad. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, apps, education, wiki, technology, teachwithyouripad, edtech, teachby: Dean Mantz
  • PBL DO-IT-YOURSELF
    Comments:Guidance, Tools and Tips for Your Projects | Buck Institute for Education - Jennifer DormanTags: PBL, CBL, BIE, Buck Institute for Education, education, learning, inquiry, Project Based Learning, Challenge Based Learningby: Jennifer Dorman
  • 21centuryedtech - home
    Tags: scratchby: Cheryl Lykowski

Rodale News

  • How to Have a Hundred-Dollar Holiday
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The holidays are a time of year that is supposed to be happy and joyful. But this year, with the recession still lingering, job security still tenuous, and unemployment benefits running out for a lot of people, it's hard to look forward to buying piles of big presents (tha ...
  • Legumes Linked to Appetite Control
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—An important solution for staying at a healthy weight might be residing in your pantry: beans and other legumes. As described in a recent article in the medical journal Advances in Nutrition, Purdue University scientists looked at available research on legume consumption, ...
  • Don't Become the Next Medical Error Statistic
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Medical mess-ups are still the norm in most hospitals, despite all the attention being drawn to risky and preventable hospital-acquired infections and other needless medical center mistakes. Hospitals in general have not been able to effectively admit or implement proven s ...
  • Exclusive Recipes from the White House Holiday Men ...
    RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Abigail Adams was the first to use one of the state rooms in the White House for something other than its intended purpose. She will always be remembered for hanging her laundry in the East Room. Following in her footsteps yesterday, the current first lady turned the ...
  • 5 Options for Maxing Out on Omega-3s (and Maybe Pr ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In a brand-new study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Harvard researchers found that a certain form of omega-3 fatty acids called DHA can help protect you from the gum disease periodontitis. The scientists believe the anti-inflammatory action of ...

big think

  • Eruptions prompt new evacuations at Tungurahua
    I mentioned earlier today that I was hoping that nothing big happened over the weekend because of all the grading I needed to do. Well, it looks like I need to reacquaint myself with Murphy and swallow my words. Ecuadoran officials have called for evacuations of the slopes of Tungurahua after the ...
  • Standing Up for Clean Energy: Comparing Green Jobs ...
    Last week I called attention to a front page article at the Washington Post which questioned the impact of the $90 billion spent by the Obama administration on the creation of jobs in the energy efficiency and renewables sector.� As evidence of limited impact, the article compares the 225,000 jobs . ...
  • Closing the Barn Door After the Secrets Have Gone
    In the wake of Wikileaks release of leaked diplomatic cables, the White House has directed federal employees not to access the Wikileaks web site with out authorization. That includes people working at the Library of Congress, which has blocked access to the website on its networks.�In an e-mail to ...
  • Psi Skeptics: If Psychologists Find Signs of ESP, ...
    Daryl J. Bem's experiments on psi caught the world's attention, as I posted last month, because he used standard psychology-lab methods to gather and analyze his data. Imagine what astronomers might feel if NASA announced that the Hubble space telescope had found evidence for astrology: How do you ...
  • Now Wikileaks Reveals Paranoia Over 'Special Relat ...
    According to the latest Wikileaks, British Conservative party politicians lined up before the general election last May to promise that they would run a "pro-American regime" and buy more arms from the US if they came to power this year. The leaked Embassy dispatches also reveal – in what The ...R ...

Information Liberation

  • Ron Paul: 'What we need is more WikiLeaks'
    Popular Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul is no stranger to breaking with his party, but in a recent television appearance the libertarian-leaning Rep. went even further than any member of Congress in defending whistleblower website WikiLeaks. ...
  • Republicans Move to Block Ron Paul from Monetary P ...
    Ron Paul will not head up the House's monetary policy subcommittee if John Boehner has anything to say about it. "Five GOP leadership aides, speaking anonymously because a decision isn't final, say incoming House Speaker John Boehner has discussed...
  • Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
    Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. *The recen...
  • Julian Assange answers your questions
    Do you have leaks on ACTA? Julian Assange: Yes, we have leaks on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a trojan horse trade agreement designed from the very beginning to satisfy big players in the US copyright and patent industries. In fact, ...
  • Government Drops Xbox Modding Trial
    Following yesterday's berating at the hands of Judge Philip Gutierrez, the government has decided to drop the charges completely against Matthew Crippen for modding Xboxes. Last night, they had indicated they were going to push forward with a trial...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Climate Innovation Centres: A New Way to Foster Cl ...
    InfoDev | UK AID | Bloomburg / by Ambuj Sagar and Bloomberg New Energy Finance http://www.infodev.org/en/Document.1015.pdf [PEN-e posting] Accelerating innovation in emerging technologies is essential to help reduce the current and long-term impacts of climate change. However developing countries, w ...
  • Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2011 Renew ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/rfs-2011-standards-rule-preamble-regs.pdf [PEN-e posting] Under the Clean Air Act Section 211(o), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to set renewable fuel standards each November for the following year based on gasoline and diese ...
  • Report to the President on Accelerating the Pace o ...
    President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-energy-tech-report.pdf [PEN-e posting] This report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, dated November 29, calls for the development of a coord ...
  • Emerging Economies – How the Developing World is S ...
    World Wildlife Fund http://assets.panda.org/downloads/emerging_economies_report_nov_2010.pdf [PEN-e posting] This report, dated November 2010, by the World Wildlife Federation examines emissions trends and climate action plans for five of the worldâs largest developing economies – Brazil, China, Ind ...
  • Carbon capture and Storage Country Attractiveness ...
    Ernst and Young http://tinyurl.com/23u4pns [PEN-e posting] The Ernst & Young Carbon capture and storage country attractiveness index provides scores for national energy markets, energy infrastructures and their suitability for CCS technologies. The index provides scores out of 100 and is updated on ...

Scientific American - News

  • Targeting Practices: How Can Online Advertising Co ...
    The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) call for a "do not track" mechanism to be created to protect Web users' private information from being exploited by online advertising networks sounds good on paper, but implementing such a technology would be a thorny process. It is not because the technology is ...
  • Poison Nil: Mono Lake Bacterium Exhibits Exotic Ar ...
    Life as we know it is remarkably diverse and adaptive, permitting organisms to gain a toehold in some of the most outwardly inhospitable places on the planet. But it tends to rely on a tidy, predictable array of six nutrient elements, a modest alphabet of basic biology that leaves open the possibili ...
  • WikiLeaks Breach Highlights Insider Security Thre ...
    The ongoing WikiLeaks expos� not only circulated hundreds of thousands of secretive government documents , it has also swiftly prompted changes to the system designed to share access to them. On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department cut off a military computer network's access to its files, dramatic ...
  • How Will WikiLeaks Transform Mainstream Media?
    In one bold stroke, the secrets-divulging group WikiLeaks underscored just how easy technology has made it to both steal confidential information and disseminate it globally. Its release of more than 250,000 U.S. embassy cables online November 28 represents the largest set of confidential docu ...
  • For the Good of the Gut: Can Parasitic Worms Treat ...
    In 2007, parasite immunologist P'ng Loke sat down for lunch at a University of California, San Francisco, cafeteria with an inquisitive man who had called him earlier that week. Their chosen topic of conversation would deprive many people of an appetite, but the scientist and his guest shared an i ...

RAWA News

  • Afghanistan: NATO plans to fight despite oppositio ...
    Green Left Weekly: Tough talk by the warmongers at the November 20-21 NATO conference in Lisbon, Portugal, obscured the growing opposition in the US and Europe to the nine-year occupation of Afghanistan. Ten thousand people took to the streets of London on November 20 to protest the war. Angry at th ...
  • Afghan gold mine raises spectre of “resource ...
    Reuters: The hills around dusty Nor Aaba are laced with gold but villagers have blocked work on a new mine in a dispute over jobs, a warning that Afghan plans to ramp up mining may bring trouble as well as treasure. Security and corruption problems that have made fighting the insurgency and setting ...
  • Number of Afghans pursuing asylum spikes, hinting ...
    The Washington Post: The number of Afghans who are fleeing their country and seeking political asylum abroad has spiked dramatically during the past two years, a sign that people here are giving up the dream of a peaceful homeland to seek security and employment elsewhere. The increase has coincided ...
  • British aid worker in Afghanistan was killed by a ...
    The Wall Street Journal: Kidnapped British aide worker Linda Norgrove was killed by a grenade thrown by U.S. special operations forces in a botched rescue attempt, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said an investigation has confirmed. Ms. Norgrove’s death in Afghanistan in October was initiall ...
  • Video Shows Apparent Afghan Bribe
    Wall Street Journal: A fresh controversy is threatening to further mar the already messy aftermath of Afghanistan’s fraud-ridden parliamentary elections with the emergence of a videotape that appears to show an elderly Western woman soliciting an alleged bribe to fix the results. Afghan prosecutors ...

frogblog

  • Today is International Volunteer Day
    Today (December 5) is International Volunteer Day – the day we celebrate volunteering, the effort that what really makes the world go round. Imagine if no-one helped out at Kohanga or Playcentre unless they were paid? Imagine no-one bringing meals to elderly people in their homes u ...
  • General debate, December 5, 2010
  • Don’t be so self-deprecating, Idiot/Savant
    Idiot/Savant from NoRightTurn blogged today in response to his nomination for Amnesty International’s  Aotearoa NZâs Human Rights Defender Award saying: While I’m flattered, its clear from the list that I do not belong on it. The other nominees are doing real work which changes th ...
  • No time to take in the view on Waterview
    Things are not looking good for the Environmental Protection Authority. We supported the bill that will properly create the agency but with considerable reservations, and already it is clear that community groups wanting to participate in EPA processes are being hamstrung by the imp ...
  • A new Green baby
    Amidst the tragedy of the last few weeks I have been blessed by the miracle of new life. Two weeks ago, my wife Meghan gave birth at home to a gorgeous baby girl, Zoe Elizabeth. She’s my second (and last!) child and I’m stoked that she’s happy and healthy, as is mum. Like the Chines ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Controlling Healthcare Costs
    Yuval Levin thinks that the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission's failure to take on healthcare is its biggest weakness. I agree! But then he goes on to say this: Obamacare itself cannot just be reformed, because it is deeply rooted in exactly the wrong idea about how to control health-care costs.. ...
  • Incentives and the Business Cycle
    Matt Yglesias suggests that it's hard to forge agreement on fiscal stimulus because liberals are afraid that "temporary" tax cuts will be demagogued when liberals try to let them expire and conservatives are afraid that "temporary" spending hikes will be demagogued when conservatives try to let them ...
  • Terrorism and Fear
    Apparently the National Park Service is trying to think of ways to bring a higher level of security to the Washington Monument in order to protect it against terrorist attacks. But Bruce Schneier has a different idea. He thinks we should just shut it down: Let it stand, empty and inaccessible, as ...
  • Social Security and the Very Serious People
    Karl Smith ventures a guess about why elite pundits and analysts obsess so much over Social Security even though its solvency problem is fairly easy to solve. He thinks they obsess over it because its solvency problem is so easy to solve: I think Very Serious People concentrate on Social Security ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 3 December 2010
    I had the bright idea today of doing an Andrew Sullivan-esque "View From Your Window," except it would be a view of my cats through my windows. This worked fine for Inkblot, but unfortunately Domino is a little under the weather today and basically just wanted to curl up in her new favorite chair an ...

Insanity Report

  • The Dumbest Debate In The Country Right Now
    We argue and debate a lot of dumb things in this country.  Every time Sarah Palin “writes” a new Facebook note or tweets something on Twitter, the media decides to talk about how she “might could be” running for President.  They ignore things like the factual inaccuracies she’s spewing or the fact ...
  • IC 213: The Day After 4 Loko
    Topics for the show: The first show after the 4 Loko Podcast Party Rules for drinking How did we not die or get Herpes in College? Lebron goes back to Cleveland Kriss hates personal fouls and the lax punishment for fighting in the NFL Obama is caving on the Bush Tax cuts? WikiLeaks leaks the [...] ...
  • Someone Get Julian Assange a Hot Cup of STFU
    Every time WikiLeaks drops thousands of “shocking leaked government documents” on the web, people ask me to comment on it. I guess because I always talk about politics, I’m supposed to care about this stuff. Well the truth is I don’t. I guess I don’t understand why I should be shocked that these cab ...
  • Someone Get Julian Assange a Hot Cup of STFU
    Every time WikiLeaks drops thousands of “shocking leaked government documents” on the web, people ask me to comment on it. I guess because I always talk about politics, I’m supposed to care about this stuff. Well the truth is I don’t. I guess I don’t understand why I should be shocked that these cab ...
  • Movie Review: Faster
    Finallyâ¦the Rock has come BACK… to making adult films.  And itâs about time.  Itâs been a while since we saw Dwayne Johnson in a film where he was just some big, mean guy who hurts people.  Johnsonâs last few films have left some of his earlier fans wondering if they would ever see him in [...] ...

Simple Climate

  • Marshland massacre by sea rise is avoidable
    Rate of sea level rise looks more important for wetland survival than the rises themselves – although the fact the world looks set for at least its third warmest year ever in 2010 is not a good omen.
  • China-US conflict reveals central climate issue
    Current climate negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, suggest that economic growth-obsessed nations should focus more on recognising and accepting their environmental responsibility.
  • Simple Climate poll part 2: One-liners and metapho ...
    Vote for your favourite from six more scientists' attempts to help me clearly communicate climate change, and discuss how effective they are.
  • Methane release undermines CO2 emissions slowdown
    Despite a 1.3 percent CO2 drop from 2008 to 2009, atmospheric greenhouse gas levels reach a record thanks in part to natural methane release, likely from warming in the Arctic.
  • Pick the best Simple Climate change explanation
    So far this year 26 scientists have provided Simple Climate with straightforward explanations of climate change situation. Help choose the best of seven explanations of the underlying physics in the first stage of the poll that will select a reader's favourite by the end of the year.

e!Science News

  • New microscopy tracks molecules in live tissue at ...
    A novel type of biomedical imaging, made possible by new advances in microscopy from scientists at Harvard University, is so fast and sensitive it can capture "video" of blood cells squeezing through capillaries. read more
  • UIC researcher unveils new approach to blocking ma ...
    University of Illinois at Chicago researcher Dr. John Quigley will describe a promising new approach to blocking malaria transmission during the American Society of Hematology's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. read more
  • New observations of exploding stars reveal pauses, ...
    Astronomers have traced the waxing and waning light of exploding stars more closely than ever before and seen patterns that aren't yet accounted for in our current understanding of how these eruptions occur. read more
  • 'No fish left behind' approach leaves Earth with n ...
    The Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systematic expansion of industrialized fisheries. read more
  • Nicotine exposure in pregnant rats puts offspring ...
    Exposure to nicotine during pregnancy leads to a decrease in adult stem cells and a change in synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus of the offspring, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham presented at Neuroscience 2010, the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in ...

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Corporate Espionage Imparts Clear an ...
    Dow Chemical and others have been accused of spying on Greenpeace. Photo courtesy of sxc.hu. Judge orders GMO sugar beets to be ripped from the ground Citing the potential for environmental harm, a federal judge in Californ ...
  • After 18 Years of Climate Talks - Has Time Run Out ...
    (Editor's Note: Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal are blogging from the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Mexico.) "I was born in 1992. You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell me ...
  • For The Cost Of a Few Cupcakes...
    Superfund site in Idaho On Dec. 11 the federal Superfund program turns 30. Which means? Time for cupcakes! Actually, the cupcakes arrived early -- on Wednesday -- when environmental groups including Earthjustice delivered th ...
  • West's Waterways Still Soaked in Pesticides
    Let's face it, the U.S. is awash in pesticides and some are quite deadly to America's wildlife. The Environmental Protection Agency is the government group responsible for signing off on pesticides before they are allowed for use and is supposed to stop the really bad ones. In going about this tas ...
  • In Cancun On A Mission of Urgency
    (Editor's Note: Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal are blogging from the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Mexico. This is their first dispatch.) It is with some urgency that my colleague Erika Rosenthal and I have come to Canc�n to participate in the U.N. climate n ...

Brave New Climate

  • Media reactions to the Energy paper – part 1
    It’s been fascinating to watch the media reaction to our Energy paper on how carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. It has certainly stirred a lot of interest, and the timing was admittedly celestial, because two other reports on electrici ...
  • The arithmetic adds up to nuclear
    Yesterday, The Australian newspaper published an Op Ed piece by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook, entitled Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind, which discusses our recent paper in Energy. The print (dead tree) version of the article even had the graph shown here included! However, the editor h ...
  • Nuclear is the least-cost, low-carbon, baseload po ...
    This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also [.. ...
  • The effect of cutting CO2 emissions to zero by 205 ...
    Guest Post by Dr Tom M. L. Wigley. Tom is a a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and former Director of the CRU. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. For his list of papers and citations, click here (hi ...
  • SNE 2060 – a multi-source energy supply scenario
    In this post, I develop a hypothetical multi-energy-supply scenario for global low-emissions electricity in ~2060. The assumed energy mix is 75 % nuclear fission and 25 % non-nuclear sources, with fossil fuel use virtually eliminated except where it is used with carbon capture and storage. The % ann ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Raise Taxes or Cut Taxes?
    Raising taxes, and spending the money wisely, and on programs that promote economic fairness, stimulates the economy. Cutting taxes on the filthy rich stimulates hoarding, and not the economy. They should teach this in kindergarten. Every single billionaire makes sure the media that serves him teach ...
  • Economic Treason
    The Republicans plan on retaking the White House by performing endless economic treason. Regardless what the president, and the Democrats do to repair our struggling economy, the Republicans will stand in the way. The can count on a corporate controlled press to never call them out for filibustering ...
  • Republicans Are Herd Animals
    The tea bag caucus, it turns out, got over One Billion in PORK. Whoda thunkit…
  • Republicans Won’t Be Happy Until…
    Republicans won’t be happy until everyone in America is either a billionaire, or living in their car. These sadistic bastards would rather watch Americans freeze to death because their unemployment ran out than make billionaires pay more taxes. I hope Satan has an extra hot place for every single Re ...
  • Republican Election Strategy for 2012
    Here it is… “Elect Republicans and then we will then stop sabotaging our nation’s economy.” How many will buy it?

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • What are Israel’s priorities in time of natu ...
    Despite Israel’s international call for aid to help fight the raging wildfires in the north of the country, the army had plenty of extra soldiers to suppress the weekly unarmed demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, Ni’ilin and Bil’in. Instead of diverting all available resources to suppressing the fire, the ...
  • Issawiya, a Jerusalem neighborhood behind concrete ...
    Notes from East Jerusalem’s weekly protest (AKA Sheikh Jarrah), which was temporarily moved to the nearby Issawiya by Mairav Zonszein Issawiya, East Jerusalem – The weekly protest in Sheikh Jarrah moved to Issawiya this Friday, where hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians convened to call for an en ...
  • Carmel fire: the price of the treasury’s pol ...
    The firefighters’ lack of readiness not accidental, but a result of long-term economical policy. Last morning, making my Friday shopping at the local grocery, I heard a woman hissing that we should catch those Arabs who lit the fire on Thursday and burn them alive, like the 40 prison guards cadets. ...
  • The Carmel disaster: My forest is on fire
    The weird vibes actually started the day before. Something just didnât feel right. And then it began. Cellcom, Israelâs largest cell provider, crashed. Totally. For the whole day. 3.5 million users with dead phones. Cellcom also happens to be the supplier of phones to the newspaper I work in – which ...
  • Israel’s deadliest fire: Eli Yishai must go
    If Israel’s PM doesn’t show his racist and incompetent Interior Minister the way out immediately â he should face consequences, too. Israelis and international forces are still fighting the fire that started yesterday morning on the Carmel Mountain near Haifa. 41 people, most of them from Israel’s p ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Injustice anywhere (except Foreclosure court) is a ...
    I want to thank the friend who shared with me her inspiration in this fight against the injustices of foreclosure.  She reminded me that there are very real parallels between what is happening today in this country and the last great civil rights battle, only this time we are not separated by the co ...
  • The Fall Of Amerika and The Fall of Rome
    There are interesting parallels between the fall of the Roman Empire and the current collapse of America.  Our economy has been gutted.  Our treasure has been looted.  Those at the top of the pyramid are gutting the heart and soul of this once great nation with billion dollar bailouts and trillions ...
  • Excellent Analysis of Fraudclosure In Florida- Whe ...
    Legalprise on Dylan Ratigan Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • WOW- WSJ Profile of a 25 Year Long Foreclosure Bat ...
    WOW- An incredible story.  Some will scoff, some will complain, but for me the story is her case must have merit if she has prevailed in this incredible battle….. OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla.âPatsy Campbell could tell you a thing or two about fighting foreclosure. She’s been fighting hers for 25 years. ...
  • GOD BLESS OUR FREE PRESS- TOM ICE VOTED FLORIDA&#8 ...
    For all of you out there looking for hope and inspiration, for all of you yearning for some symbol of hope that there is justice and right and salvation for us all…..take note of the fact that one of the true pioneers and real leaders in the fight, Tom Ice has just been selected as [...]

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The Parallel Parliament

  • A Nation Afraid Of Its People
    Speaking to a luncheon of legislators from around the world, John Kennedy attempted to hold out what he thought was the greatness of America: We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid ...
  • Nip and Cut
    Well, Movember is over. The effort by some 80 MPs, their staffs and security guards on the Hill came out of nowhere in late-October and became the talk of the Commons for a month. Barely even mentioned a year ago, Justin Trudeau helped to bring the effort to Ottawa and it created some interesting dy ...
  • They’re Just Tea Leaves
    I walked into the House of Commons early yesterday and ran into a couple of journalists waiting to talk to any MP they could find about their thoughts on the by-elections. It was supposed to be Michael Ignatieff’s “Waterloo,” according to pundits, yet the mood of the journalists was sombre at best. ...
  • Ever Met A Prince?
    While the political and journalistic worlds will be over-examining the tea leaves left over from yesterday’s by-elections, the results themselves don’t show any defining trends. The Conservative win in Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette was predicted, but Julian Fantino’s slim margin of victory in Vaughan ...
  • Carry Protection
    There’s something about Armatec that gets to me. Its talented engineers spend their time designing systems that protect our troops as they are ferried across the rugged terrain of Afghanistan in armoured personnel carriers. They are operating in a niche that, regardless of one’s opinion of the war i ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiative S ...
    Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can probably guess, I’ ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Iâm writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isnât all itâs cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as itâs the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck it up [.. ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will be croppe ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m expect ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the piece ...

Reader Supported News

  • VIDEO | WikiLeaks Cables: The Really Explosive Stu ...
    Think the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks are just a minor embarrassment for the State Department? Think again: "CIA Engineered Spying on UN Diplomats; Britain Allowed US Cluster Bombs; US Attack Killed Yemeni Civilians." A Democracy Now! video report. George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice ...
  • GOP Blocks Compromise on Bush Tax Cuts
    The report begins: "Senate Republicans derailed legislation Saturday to extend expiring tax cuts at all but the highest income levels in a political showdown that paradoxically clears a path for a compromise with the White House on steps to boost the economy." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConne ...
  • WikiLeaks Cables Reveal How US Manipulated Climate ...
    "Hidden 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." (image: Luis Perez/AFP/Getty Images) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • Cancun Protesters Target Canada, US Over Oil Sands ...
    "North American native groups urged the United States and Canada to abandon support for carbon-heavy oil sands in one of the first visible protests at the UN climate talks in Cancun." Demonstrators took part in a global protest to demand governments agree a binding new deal on climate change, 12/ ...
  • Senate to Vote on Democratic Tax Cut Plans
    "'All those people out there in the Tea Party that are angry about the economics of Washington, they really need to look at this,' Sen. Claire McCaskill., D-Mo., said Friday as Democrats took turns pummeling Republicans. 'They need to pull back the curtain and realize that you've got a Republican Pa ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military ...
    Stop NATO December 3, 2010 North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military Alliance Against China And Russia Rick Rozoff On December 1 the U.S. and its South Korean military ally completed four days of naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea where China claims a 200-mile exclusive economic zone. The U. ...
  • U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan Wa ...
    Stop NATO December 2, 2010 U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan War Rick Rozoff Over 150,000 foreign troops from more than fifty nations will spend another Christmas in Afghanistan. The tenth since the U.S. and Britain invaded the nation on October 7, 2001 and the North Atlantic Treaty Or ...
  • U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain ...
    Stop NATO November 24, 2010 U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance Rick Rozoff This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preside ...
  • Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
    Stop NATO November 22, 2010 Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force Rick Rozoff The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the wa ...
  • NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Ope ...
    Stop NATO November 19, 2010 NATO: Afghan War Model For Future 21st Century Operations Rick Rozoff As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unveils its first 21st century strategic doctrine in Lisbon this week, its first ground war and war outside Europe is in its tenth year with no end in sight. Th ...

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Intel Hub

  • Easter Island tense as police, Rapa Nui regroup &# ...
    Associated Press By Michael Warren A military plane carrying riot police reinforcements landed on Easter Island Saturday, 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. Dozens of p ...
  • Man indicted over ‘bomb factory’ in Ca ...
    BBC Federal prosecutors in California have filed an eight-count indictment against a man accused of operating a bomb factory out of his home. George Jakubec, who allegedly had the single largest hoard of homemade explosives ever found in the US, is to be arraigned on charges involving the explosives ...
  • US Considered Arresting Noted CIA Asset Ahmed Wali ...
    The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas According to a state department cable released by Wikileaks, officials within the Kabul Embassy actively discussed arresting Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai. While the recent Wikileaks release has been called into question due to it’s mostly pr ...
  • Report: Homeland Security Compiling TSA Enemies Li ...
    New American By Alex Newman The Department of Homeland Security is gathering names and information about anti-Transportation Security Administration activists, members of the media, and other supposed troublemakers for investigation and possible tracking, according to an internal DHS memo cited by s ...
  • New, Unknown Strain of Flu Detected in Mongolia
    RSOE EDIS A new, still unknown to the medical fraternity flu virus has been found in Mongolia. The symptoms of this influenza are similar to the so-called ‘bird’ and ‘swine’ flu viruses. The virus is classified as H3N2 strain. In Ulan Bator, already 17 cases of this influenza have been registered. Y ...

FRS

  • Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘Oscar Grant is you–a ...
    OSCAR GRANT–and YOU by Mumia Abu-Jamal Like you, I’ve seen the searing phone-camera tape of the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, of Oakland, California. And although it’s truly a terrible thing to see,  it’s almost exceeded by something just as shocking. That’s been how the media has responded t ...
  • Two Poems by Marilyn Buck: “Remembering a 15 ...
    [Marilyn Buck was a staunch supporter of the Black liberation movement, a feminist and an unrepentant revolutionary for more than 40 years. She spent 29 of those years as a political prisoner.  She tutored and translated for other women prisoners, promoted solidarity with political prisoners around ...
  • Ft. Benning, Georgia: 26 arrested outside US milit ...
    WHAT IS THE SOA? The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia.Initially established in Panama in 1946, it was kicked out of that country in 1984 ...
  • Philippines: Underground youth group holds daring ...
      Information Bureau, Communist Party of the Philippines, 2 December 2010   Received from www.philippinerevolution.net In celebration of the Kabataang Makabayan (KM, Patriotic Youth) 46th anniversary, hundreds of KM members joined today’s lightning rally near Malacañang, calling for support to the ...
  • Philippines: Government and National Democratic Fr ...
    Straits Times, December 3, 2010 Philippines, Maoists to resume talks MANILA – The Philippines and Maoist rebels have agreed to resume peace talks early next year, officials said on Friday, the first breakthrough in tackling either of two long-running insurgencies since the new government came to off ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • A little more reading with Sunday's column
    Every every Thursday, Hartford's homeless outreach team goes under the bridges, into the viaducts, and�onto the streets�to try to bring in the hard-core homeless.�They leave in the dark because by daylight, most of the hard-cores have left their makeshift homes. And these are homes. Note the pumpki ...
  • Dec. 10 is Human Rights Day
    You can read more here and here. And thanks, Cynical, for the link.
  • Hello, gentle reader.
    It is a testament to how badly I am running my life that I pull up in December and still have vacation days. Ask any one. This never happens. And so I'm taking the next few Fridays off, and you should do. Enjoy your long weekend break from me, and I shall do the same.
  • Christian patriarchy suggests girls skip school
    It gets worse. You can read about the movement here. You can read more about Vision Forum here. You can order one of their books here. And thanks, Sharon, for the link. Flickr photo
  • Is it art? Or is it blasphemy? And does it matter?
    A Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibit on gender and sexual identity is minus one installation after protests moved the museum to remove a�video of an ant-covered Jesus.� The video was the particular�bane of The Catholic League, which called it "hate speech," and certain members of Congres ...

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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  • So, when is the US going to attack Iran?
    Summary: I've come across some commentators who believe the US is not imminently going to attack Iran, but is preparing to do so now. I essentially agree with that view, except that "preparing" has a stronger implication of the an attack eventually and even unconditionally happening than I thi ...
  • ‘Terror acts in Iran, a sign of enemies’ carrot an ...
    Summary: Shahriari's funeralAtomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi has said the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran show that the culprits have adopted a carrot and stick policy in the run-up to the talks between Iran and the 5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Secur ...
  • Exclusive: Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strateg ...
    Summary: According to the cable, Dagan continued the meeting by enumerating Israel's "five pillar" strategy on Iran, which he urged that the US and Israel both implement: 1. Political Approach 2. Covert Measures 3. Counterprolifiration 4. Sanctions 5. Force Regime Change source: Raw Story ...
  • Who, Precisely, Is Attacking the World?
    Summary: The “Iranian experts” treated the Saudi and Egyptian rulers’ hatred of Iran as a vindication of the U.S. and Israeli governments’ demonization of Iran. Not a single “Iranian expert” was capable of pointing out that the tyrants who rule Egypt and Saudi Arabia fear Iran because the Irania ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Milky Way's Halo of Dark Matter Interacting with t ...
    Galaxies are thought to have massive dark matter halos that extend many times farther than the galaxies themselves. Researchers from the Institute for Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) and other European groups have studied the effects of the presence of dark matter...
  • "Page One" Story of the Century? NASA May Announce ...
    NASA has called a 2 p.m. news conference for Thursday "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." The group includes Pamela Conrad, author of a paper on geology and life on Mars;...
  • The 500th Alien Planet Discovered -"Finding a Seco ...
    "It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars." David Latham -Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Last week a 21st-century miles was reached: Planet hunters discovered the 500th planet...
  • "Cosmic Seesaw": New Theory Balances Universe's Vi ...
    Physicists have proposed a unified explanation for dark matter (image above of antimatter cloud near Milky Way center) and the so-called baryon asymmetry--the apparent imbalance of matter with positive baryon charge and antimatter with negative baryon charge in the Universe....
  • "Blue Plague" from the BP Oil Spill -It's Not Wise ...
    As part of their new logo and corporate image campaign, British Petroleum (BP) wants the public to think of them as their new slogan says, “Beyond Petroleum”. BP is far more than a simple oil company. What is revealed below...

Natural News

  • Industry, government push GMO oranges as solution ...
    (NaturalNews) Problem, reaction, solution: that's the name of the game in the U.S., and it's how sweeping changes that would otherwise never happen end up coming to pass. Currently, a widespread pest problem among citrus plants known as "greening" allegedly threatens the continued existence of orang ...
  • CDC and EPA caught withholding truth about toxic d ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent story from The Washington Post reveals that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knowingly dragged their feet on releasing an important report about the dangers of contaminated drinking water supplies. And ...
  • It's amazing: Scottish doctors now warning people ...
    (NaturalNews) The Scottish government has begun distribution information urging people to get enough vitamin D in an effort to reduce rates of rickets, cancer and autoimmune diseases.The body naturally produces vitamin D upon exposure to sunlight. Moderate deficiency is believed to hamper the immune ...
  • Professor who lost weight on Twinkies only proves ...
    (NaturalNews) Over the last month or so, the mainstream media has been making a huge deal about Kansas State nutrition professor Mark Haub who lost 27 pounds eating mostly Doritos, Twinkies and other junk food while drinking Diet Mountain Dew. But as usual, they're misrepresenting the story.You can ...
  • Canadian biotech company pushes USDA to approve GM ...
    (NaturalNews) Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF), a British Columbian biotechnology company, is petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to approve a genetically-modified (GM) variety of apple that the company says does not brown after being sliced. The company licensed the technology from ...

Threat Level

  • PayPal Freezes WikiLeaks Account
    In potentially the most significant attack on WikiLeaks to date, PayPal on Friday froze the account of the German foundation accepting donations for the secret spilling website, claiming that WikiLeaks was in violation of PayPal’s terms of service. “PayPal has permanently restricted the account used ...
  • WikiLeaks Attacks Reveal Surprising, Avoidable Vul ...
    Some online service providers are in the cross hairs this week for allegedly abandoning WikiLeaks after it published secret U.S. diplomatic cables and drew retaliatory technical, political and legal attacks. But the secret-spilling site’s woes may be attributable in part to its own technical and ad ...
  • Video Barbie in FBI Crosshairs
    A Barbie doll tricked out with a video camera concealed in her necklace could be used by predators to create child pornography, warns the FBI in a recent cyber crime alert. In the alert, mistakenly released to the press, the FBI expressed concern that the toy’s camera, which can capture 30 minutes ...
  • Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destro ...
    Viacom appealed Friday its unsuccessful $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google’s YouTube in a case testing the depths of copyright-infringement protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Viacom, on behalf of its MTV, Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television, Paramount ...
  • Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
    Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. “The recent dissemination by Wikileaks of thousands of State De ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Obama and McCain on the Couch
    Watching Barack Obama and John McCain over the past week has left pundits and armchair psychologists alike scratching their heads. While the two foes from the 2008 presidential election couldn't be more different, their puzzling performances over tax cuts for the wealthy and the repeal of Don't Ask ...
  • Wikileaks Confirms McCain Dangerously Wrong on Geo ...
    Assessing the impact of the Wikileaks revelations, Fareed Zakaria concluded the confidential cables actually show "the skills of U.S. diplomats." Overall, Zakaria was reassured that "the State Department works" and by "an American diplomatic establishment that is pretty good at analysis." But in o ...
  • The "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another" President
    In January 2009, President Obama journeyed to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional Republicans on the stimulus. Unbeknownst to the President, Minority Leader John Boehner had already instructed his entire GOP caucus to vote "no" on the bill they were to discuss with Obama. Now, history is repea ...
  • The Prosecution of Wikileaks
    Just because you can leak embarrassing, classified national security information doesn't mean you should. And just because the American government may be able to prosecute someone for it doesn't mean they should, either. But in the case of the Wikileaks, prosecution - to the extent that U.S. law a ...
  • The Wikileaks of President McCain
    To be sure, Wikileaks' release this weekend of a quarter million diplomatic cables is a devastating blow to the national security interests and foreign policy of the United States. And the secret assessments they contain regarding U.S. allies and potential partners like Germany's Angela Merkel ("av ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • NYT Stokes Fears of Iran
    By hyping claims about North Korean missiles in Iran, the New York Times continues its fear mongering, writes Ray McGovern. December 2, 2010
  • The Right's Power of Media Money
    In recent decades as the Right poured money into media, the Left opted for other strategies that failed, reports Robert Parry. December 2, 2010
  • Gitmo Detainees Given Risky Drug
    Guantanamo Bay prisoners were forced to take an antimalarial drug with risky side effects, say Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye. December 3, 2010
  • Flush Republicans Play Hardball
    Backed by money and media, the Republicans flex their political muscle against weakened Democrats, notes Michael Winship. December 2, 2010
  • A Full Body Scan for the US Empire
    U.S. officials are furious about the WikiLeaks breach of secrecy, but the disclosures seem like fair turnabout to Phil Rockstroh. December 2, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Is declining energy quality a root cause of the cu ...
    In a paper published this November in the journal Environmental Research Letters by energy expert Dr. Carey King of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, a center based at the  University of Texas at Austin’s  Jackson School of Geosciences, he concluded that an overlooked ...
  • 20,000 Sacrificed In Annual Blood Offering To Corp ...
    The nation looked on in reverence Friday as 20,000 citizens were decapitated, dismembered, and burned alive in the name of Corporate America, continuing the age-old annual rite to ensure bounteous profits in the coming fiscal year. . . . The blood offering follows last week’s Feast of Increasing Mar ...
  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
  • Ho Ho Ho, it’s Austin’s 3rd Annual “Green” Holiday ...
    Join us to celebrate the holidays at our 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Party, hosted this year by 10 great organizations. Fiesta Gardens  (2100 Jesse E. Segovia St., Austin, TX 78702) Thursday, December 16th, 2010 from 5:30pm-9:30pm Registration:  Pre-Registration ONLY for this Event (No Cash Acce ...
  • Veronica Valesquez: Solar Intern from Austin Colle ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Veronica majors in Environmental Studies and Cultural Anthropology

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Spotlight Will Return on Climate Change, says Pach ...
    Source:� AFP 2010 has been an annus horribilis for climate change and his Nobel-winning scientists, but Rajendra Pachauri is confident that time will turn the tide. �
  • GOP Senators Call for End to Climate Aid for Poor ...
    Source:� BusinessWeek Four Senate Republicans called on President Barack Obama to end funding intended to help poor nations adapt to the effects of climate change because of concerns about government deficit spending.
  • Qatar to Air Condition Outdoor Summer Air for Worl ...
    Source:� Climate Progress Qatar has promised to spend $4 billion to build nine stadiums, renovate three others and equip all of them with a high-tech, outdoor air conditioning system to combat summer temperatures
  • Alaska Acknowledges Effects of Climate Change
    Source:� AP Alaska wildlife officials have released a report acknowledging that scientific and traditional evidence increasingly shows climate change at unprecedented rates throughout the Arctic
  • 2010 Sets New Temperature Records
    Source:� BBC Temperatures reached record levels in several regions during 2010, the World Meteorological Organization says, confirming the year is likely to be among the warmest three on record.

GreenBiz

  • Home Depot, Walmart Receive Energy Efficiency Expe ...
    Through the Department of Energy's Commercial Building Partnership, 24 projects will receive $21 million worth of technical assistance funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  • 4 Investment Changes that Can Help Green Wall Stre ...
    'Tis the season for low expectations on climate change and other global sustainability challenges. Yet there's no reason to think our stockings will forever be stuffed with coal.
  • How Starbucks Saves Millions per Year in Energy fr ...
    When Starbucks converted the lighting in more than 7,000 of its stores from to LEDs developed for the company by GE, the company ended up saving roughly $4 million per year in energy costs, and proving that LEDs are ready for prime-time.
  • Switching to Efficient Lighting Could Save U.S. $9 ...
    A new report looks at the impacts from banning incandescent lightbulbs in 100 countries, finding billions of dollars in potential savings in the U.S. and China, as well as significant carbon reductions.
  • A Primer for Navigating the Energy Management Land ...
    Business leaders increasingly are involved with companywide or multiple-site energy management programs and tools, yet understanding the vendor landscape can be very confusing. This high-level primer divides vendors into nine categories to help companies organize and visualize the 100+ energy manag ...

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • No Christmas for the U.S. Senate
    I think there should be no Christmas for Republicans. This morning the GOP voted against extending tax cuts to the middle class and then they voted against extending tax cuts to everyone who earns less than a million dollars a year. To be more accurate, they voted against cloture on those two amen ...
  • No Christmas for Deadbeats
    Things the Republicans don't care about: More than two million jobless Americans are entering the holiday season seized with varying levels of foreboding, worry or even panic over what lies ahead as they cope with the expected cutoff of their unemployment benefits... ...The federal extensions ...
  • Gee, Our Old LaSalle Ran Great
    Somehow we nurtured a whole generation of conservatives who are too young to have suffered the depredations of the Great Depression, have never heard Glenn Miller play, have no clue whether "LaSalle" is a university or an out-of-production poor man's Cadillac, and who think Herbert Hoover's policies ...
  • Dealing With Hard Issues
    We can add drug war in Mexico to a growing list of issues that we cannot deal with honestly because no one is allowed to think outside a narrow box or they'll have their knuckles rapped for being soft on crime, or terrorism, or on low utility prices, or deadbeats, or gangs, or whatever. If a po ...
  • US Green Energy Fail
    Here's we in the United States should be doing now to keep up with the rest of the world's investment in research and development of green energy technologies: The United States needs to more than triple its spending on energy research, development and demonstration projects, from about $5 billio ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • My Therapist Is A Human Being! What now? – An Intr ...
    By Jonathan Bartlett, MA, MFT, Relational Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jonathan and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile A good place to begin a discussion of Relational Psychology might well be with the all too familiar experience of the “awkward silence”. At some poin ...
  • Childhood Mental Health Issues Have Wide-Ranging I ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s been fairly well documented that not addressing mental health issues kids face while young sets them up for extra problems as adults. Depression, anxiety, social problems, marital problems, and health problems are already on that list, and now we can add “lower i ...
  • Who You Are in Bed is Who You Are in Life
    By Moushumi Ghose (Wilson), MFT Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Moushumi and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Do you jump in with both feet into work and your relationships? Are you always late? Are you slow, and take your time? Are you worried, fearful, a ...
  • The Freedom to Choose
    By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Being mindful means being aware of inner and outer processes as they present themselves in the moment. The main inner o ...
  • Narcissism No Longer?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) serves as guidebook for much of the mental health community. It’s the go-to book of traits and symptoms and helps counselors and therapists use symptoms to identify what exactly it is a patient is dealing ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Want to Help End Mountaintop Removal? Send Aid to ...
    Want to Help End Mountaintop Removal? Send Aid to the Frontlines AlterNet (blog) (This list is by no means extensive for this national movement; given that more than half of the mountaintop removal operations are in eastern Kentucky�not ... Citizen groups seek to intervene in WVDEP's lawsuit agains ...
  • Controversial coal baron steps aside - The Hill (b ...
    Reuters Controversial coal baron steps aside The Hill (blog) Massey and Blankenship came under fire from environmentalists over mountaintop removal mining. It's the strip mining method in which the tops of Central ... Massey CEO ends profitable career marred by blastThe Associated Press Friday roun ...
  • W.Va. submits comments on mountaintop mine permit ...
    W.Va. submits comments on mountaintop mine permit BusinessWeek West Virginia is standing by its permit for the state's largest mountaintop removal mine in Logan County. The state said Thursday it has submitted comments ... The state of West Virginia sends 10 page letter in defense of Spruce Mine No ...
  • Massey CEO ends profitable career marred by blast ...
    Reuters Massey CEO ends profitable career marred by blast The Associated Press Lorelei Scarbro, a coal miner's widow from Rock Creek, W.Va., has fought for years to stop Massey's planned mountaintop removal operation nearby, ... Friday roundup, Dec. 3, 2010Charleston Gazette (blog) Massey CEO ends ...
  • Reframing Mountaintop Removal: Minefields or Coalf ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Reframing Mountaintop Removal: Minefields or Coalfields? AlterNet (blog) In a new episode of Big Coal Gone Wild last week, coal lobbyists announced their intentions to rebrand mountaintop removal mining as �mountaintop ... 'Roadmaps to New Power': Interview with Coalfields ...

Memeorandum

  • Sarah Palin is wrong about John F. Kennedy, religi ...
    Kathleen Kennedy Townsend / Washington Post: Sarah Palin is wrong about John F. Kennedy, religion and politics  —  Sarah Palin has found a new opponent to debate: John F. Kennedy.  —  In her new book, “America by Heart,” Palin objects to my uncle's famous 1960 speech to the Greater Houston Minister ...
  • Cables Discuss Vast Hacking by a China That Fears ...
    New York Times: Cables Discuss Vast Hacking by a China That Fears the Web  —  As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Inter ...
  • Narnia fans' fury after Liam Neeson claims Aslan . ...
    Daily Mail: Narnia fans' fury after Liam Neeson claims Aslan - the symbol of Christ - could also be Mohammed  —  The much-loved children's stories have an unapologetic Christian message.  —  C. S. Lewis was clear that the character of Aslan in his Chronicles of Narnia is based on Christ.
  • Graham: GOP 'made some pretty poor choices' for Se ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Graham: GOP ‘made some pretty poor choices’ for Senate candidates this fall  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that Republicans “made some pretty poor choices” in choosing their Senate candidates this fall.  —  Graham, in a Senate floor speech on Saturday, made an asi ...
  • Hollywood myth-making on Valerie Plame controversy ...
    Washington Post: Hollywood myth-making on Valerie Plame controversy  —  WE'RE NOT in the habit of writing movie reviews.  But the recently released film “Fair Game” - which covers a poisonous Washington controversy during the war in Iraq - deserves some editorial page comment, if only because of wh ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Cancún’s climate colonels
    Success in Mexico – and global security – depends on the ability of frontline negotiators to handle the tensions, write Nick Mabey and Shane Tomlinson.The experience of managing complex peacekeeping missions has led the military to coin a valuable term: the “strategic colonels”. Strategic colonels c ...
  • Counting carbon
    Uncertainty in national emissions inventories is par for the course and not an excuse for inaction in Cancún, writes Jay Gregg. A deal on transparency looks possible – and there is every reason to push for it.Creating national emissions inventories seemed easy: I would simply take the energy consum ...
  • Country conflicted
    US negotiators headed to Cancún weakened by a year of domestic disappointments, but bright spots for American climate policy still exist. Linden Ellis asked a group of experts what to expect next. The United States has entered the climate talks in Cancún with a newly elected, sceptical and divided ...
  • The wrong revolution
    Populist politicians have railroaded America’s climate-change efforts, creating global deadlock that shows no signs of breaking soon, writes Jan McGirk.“You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows,” the singer Bob Dylan once rasped. But a little guidance wouldn’t hurt the growing po ...
  • Addressing an adaptation dilemma
    The Copenhagen conference side-stepped debate on the link between climate and development finance. A future deal will stumble unless the issue is squarely faced, writes Richard JT Klein.Preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change – a process termed “adaptation” – is now essential. ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Fed Lied About Wall Street
    The data from the Federal Reserve audit is full of frightening revelations about U.S. economic policy and those who implement it. When Wall Street went off the rails in the fall of 2008, policymakers told the public we had a certain kind of problem, knowing all along that the actual nature of the pr ...
  • Hamas and Israel Trade Hannukah Gifts
    Reposted from Huffington Post As Israeli Jews were preparing to light their first Hanukkah candle, the Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh, told a press conference: “We accept a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and the ...
  • Political Corruption: GOP Embraces the Ken Lay Way
    The GOP has adopted the Ken Lay principles – that is obfuscation, false statements and feigned innocence. Republicans are obfuscating about the real reason for their opposition to extending unemployment benefits, the way Enron CEO Ken Lay concealed the truth about billions in losses his corporation ...
  • Careful, ladies. Success isn’t sexy!
    Really, New York Times? The Gray Lady is at it again, telling women — in a dippy, unmoored “trend” piece — that you can be successful in work. Or love. Not both. See, because successful women scare the men away. That’s the price we pay, ladies, for liberation. “Is female empowerment killing romance? ...
  • WaPo FAIL: Nothing “Controversial” Abo ...
    Written by Jodi Jacobson for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. Once upon a time, newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times displayed an ability to discern fact from fiction. It seems that era is over. Today the Washington Pos ...

Threat Level

  • PayPal Freezes WikiLeaks Account
    In potentially the most significant attack on WikiLeaks to date, PayPal on Friday froze the account of the German foundation accepting donations for the secret spilling website, claiming that WikiLeaks was in violation of PayPal’s terms of service. “PayPal has permanently restricted the account used ...
  • WikiLeaks Attacks Reveal Surprising, Avoidable Vul ...
    Some online service providers are in the cross hairs this week for allegedly abandoning WikiLeaks after it published secret U.S. diplomatic cables and drew retaliatory technical, political and legal attacks. But the secret-spilling site’s woes may be attributable in part to its own technical and ad ...
  • Video Barbie in FBI Crosshairs
    A Barbie doll tricked out with a video camera concealed in her necklace could be used by predators to create child pornography, warns the FBI in a recent cyber crime alert. In the alert, mistakenly released to the press, the FBI expressed concern that the toy’s camera, which can capture 30 minutes ...
  • Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destro ...
    Viacom appealed Friday its unsuccessful $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google’s YouTube in a case testing the depths of copyright-infringement protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Viacom, on behalf of its MTV, Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television, Paramount ...
  • Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
    Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. “The recent dissemination by Wikileaks of thousands of State De ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Deadly Israeli fire rages on despite global aid
    HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel struggled to contain a huge and deadly forest fire that raged on for a third day on Saturday, despite the efforts of firefighting planes from half a dozen countries.
  • China's U.N. influence rising, West should be care ...
    SYDNEY (Reuters) - China's engagement with the United Nations is on the rise as its economic power grows, but the West should be cautious with calls for it to act as a responsible world leader, as Beijing's goals may not be the same as the West's, said a new report on Friday.
  • China Internet cafe blast kills 6, injures 38
    BEIJING (Reuters) - Six people were killed and 38 others injured in an explosion at an Internet cafe in southwest China, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday.
  • Spain reopens airspace after controllers' strike
    MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish airspace reopened on Saturday after a wildcat strike by air traffic controllers paralyzed airports for a second day and the government declared its first state of emergency in the post-Franco era.
  • 10 Numbers that Contrast Cancún with Copenhagen
    After one week, it's clear that this is a very different atmosphere than the cold, riotous and much-hyped COP15 summit last winter. Here are the top 10 numbers that sum up a week of negotiations at the Mexican holiday resort....

IntelNews

  • FBI allegedly looking for Russian spy inside NSA
    American counterintelligence investigators are allegedly trying to uncover at least one Russian-handled double agent operating inside the US National Security Agency (NSA), according to information published on Wednesday. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #457
    Belgium investigates Colombian spying allegations. Russia reshuffles foreign intelligence after spy scandal. Israel gets new spy chief amid big shuffle. Continue reading →
  • More underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    Some of the least noticed revelations include a 2009 dispatch from a US diplomat in Tel Aviv, which appears to confirm the close secret relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, despite the fact that these two countries have no official diplomatic connections. Another diplomatic cable r ...
  • Some underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    Undoubtedly the most underreported WikiLeaks disclosure concerns a 2007 meeting between US officials and Meir Dagan, the then Director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. During the meeting, Dagan apparently "presented US with five-step program to perform a coup in Iran". Continue reading →
  • Blasts target Iranian nuclear scientists, killing ...
    Teams of unknown assailants chose the first day of the WikiLeaks diplomatic revelations to attack two senior Iranian nuclear scientists in capital Tehran, managing to kill one of them. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Timeline
      Compliments of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America   Dec. 03, 2010 - Recently, a lot has been happening in Washington around the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy. Check out our interactive timeline to get the history and the latest, including what’s been said by key politicia ...
  • Mirror Wikileaks!!
    Mass-mirroring Wikileaks � 4 December 2010 - Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help. if you have a unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to give wikileaks some o ...
  • Honduras: Latin America's Murder Capital
    Honduras: Latin America's Murder Capital - by Stephen Lendman By some accounts, it's the world's murder capital. The UN Development Program (UNDP) reported 4,473 2008 murders (61.3 per 100,000) in a country with about 7.3 million people, the equivalent of over 190,000 annual US killings, over 10 tim ...
  • Friend or Foe?
    In the muddy of my mind, the Minutemen are singing “Warfare” lyrics: Falling down the road Steeper as it goes Friend or foe Nobody knows In the muddy of my mind the Minutemen ar ...
  • Nine Obama Pardons Mock Equity and Justice
    Nine Obama Pardons Mock Equity and Justice - by Stephen Lendman After the annual Thanksgiving Day turkey "pardoning" travesty, Obama granted nine executive pardons, a December 3 White House press release announcing them by name, date of sentencing, and offense committed. They date from Russell Jame ...

Grist - News

  • Cancun climate talks hit bump thanks to Japan and ...
    by Agence France-Presse. CANCUN, Mexico -- World climate talks struck a sour note on their third day Wednesday as Japan was accused of weakening the campaign for a post-2012 treaty by retreating from the landmark Kyoto Protocol. With negotiators laboring to unblock a complex, interlinked two-tr ...
  • Obama extends drilling ban in wake of BP spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to expand oil exploration off U.S. coasts and, in the wake of the BP spill, will extend a deepwater drilling ban in certain areas through 2017, the administration said on Wednesday. The move, announced by Inter ...
  • Worldchanging’s bright green contribution
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Rumors have been floating around for a while, but on Monday the unfortunate fact became public: the sustainability news and advocacy site Worldchanging is shutting down. The 501c3 non-profit will dissolve by the end of the year, though the hope is to preserve its seven-year o ...
  • Why it’s OK for big polluters to get stimulu ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. A hefty new investigation from the Center for Public Integrity takes the Energy Department to task for giving stimulus (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funding to industrial polluters while waiving requirements that they conduct environmental-impact reviews. It's an i ...
  • ‘The science of public transit is not too co ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. A Berkeley transportation scholar offers an appealingly simple rule in Adam Nagourney's dispatch on the sizeable subway and light-rail expansion in Los Angeles: Robert B. Cervero, the director of the University of California Transportation Center in Berkeley, said that if th ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • Help/Harm
    Many of us only reluctantly accept one of life’s toughest lessons. In the course of doing our very best to make a better world–decades all blood, sweat and tears in the face of hideous odds–we may discover ourselves really fouling a few things up. The road to hell, etc., etc. Never realizing our mis ...
  • Virus Dumping
    Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
  • How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
    Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
    You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...

Suzie-Q

  • Tea Party Nation Founder: ‘A Wise Idea&#8217 ...
    Tea Party Nation Founder: ‘A Wise Idea’ To Only Let Property Owners Vote TPM MUCKRAKER Jillian Rayfield | December 3, 2010, 5:35PM Judson Phillips, the founder of the group Tea Party Nation, has defended his comments that the Founding Fathers’ original plan to only allow property owners to vote “mak ...
  • Glenn Beck~Garbage In~Garbage Out
    Who really owns the media? G: Yep, you guesseder Chester, the same corporate crooks that own the US government. Although many Teabaggers whine about a left wing media, it is almost non existent. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, on MSNBC, are an exception, as we all noted when Keith was temporarily ...
  • Nigeria To Charge Dick Cheney In Pipeline Bribery ...
    Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case December 01, 2010, 5:05 PM EST Bloomberg Businessweek By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Updates with Eni comment in seventh paragraph.) Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five fo ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Amazon Servers Go Offline (LIVE U ...
    WikiLeaks’ Amazon Servers Go Offline (LIVE UPDATES) Huff Post- First Posted: 12- 1-10 04:06 PM   |   Updated: 12- 1-10 04:06 PM Amazon pulled the plug on hosting WikiLeaks today amidst increasing political pressure. The Associated Press reports: Amazon.com Inc. forced WikiLeaks to stop using t ...
  • WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Relea ...
    WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 11-28-10 01:36 PM   |   Updated: 11-28-10 03:19 PM This article is being updated. WASHINGTON — The New York Times and The Guardian have published a selection of the 250,000 classified State Department do ...

Solari

  • Madoff Trustee Charges JP Morgan With “Enabl ...
    By Tyler Durden Madoff trustee charges JP Morgan with “Enabling” massive fraud; $1 billion in profits and $5.4 billion in damages sought to be recovered. Says JP Morgan had clear doubts about Madoff operation and should have been more vigilant about firm’s cash flows. From PRNewswire: Irving H. Pic ...
  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 12.02.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, December 2, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency c ...
  • House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error
    By John Stanton A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House. By pre-empting the House’s tax-writing authority, Sena ...
  • Senate Blocks Repeal of Tax-filing Requirement
    By Stephen Ohlemacher The Senate on Monday rejected an effort to reduce tax-related paperwork for businesses when lawmakers couldn’t agree on whether they would make up the revenue the new requirement was expected to produce. The filing requirement is part of President Barack Obama’s health care ov ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lanka Gu ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

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Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The latest jobs news, watching the recovery in act ...
    Summary:   Corporate profits are strong.  Spending by the rich is skyrocketing (look at art prices).  The Republican’s top objective is extending the tax cuts for the rich and cutting social security and medicare benefits for everybody else.  So the economy must be doing fine, with excellent jo ...
  • The home-grown aspect of the jihadist menace
    Summary:  Much of our home-grown terrorism results from the government’s careful nurturing, clearly seen in the many cases since 9-11.  It’s yielded a full harvest:  a fearful and tame public.  Here are some of these stories. Domestic jihadist terrorists since 9-11 comes in several forms.  Mo ...
  • A look at America’s lost decade
    Summary:  When the new Congress takes their seats in January, the Tea Party-dominated House will have many goals.  Jobs for the unemployed is not among them (they prefer to trust in the Blue Fairy).   The numbers paint a sad story, of little interest to our ruling elites. Let’s look at America’s ...
  • Why the Turkey is not our national bird, and a rem ...
    Summary: For our Constitutional regime to survive the coming troubles we’ll need social cohesion.  That means remembering who we are as a people and nation.  Remembering our shared history.  And most of all, remembering that America belongs to us, its citizens.  No matter how powerful our eli ...
  • A Thanksgiving Day note
    Summary:  Don Vandergriff tells us about a well-deserved Medal of Honor presented to SSG Giunta by President Obama.  As a contrast, Obama awards an undeserved Medal of Freedom to money, in the person of Warren Buffett. For those of us not able to be present when this young NCO received the Medal of ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Senate bid to renew “middle-class” tax cuts fails
    Reuters – Democratic measures to extend tax cuts for most Americans failed in the Senate on Saturday as Republicans — and some Democrats — blocked them because they did not also extend low rates for the wealthy. President Barack Obama said he was disappointed with the vote, but indicated he was open ...
  • PayPal suspends WikiLeaks donations account
    Reuters – Online payment service PayPal said it has suspended the WikiLeaks’ account that the organization used to collect donations. U.S.-based PayPal said in a statement that WikiLeaks, which this week released thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, had violated its policy. A posting on WikiL ...
  • ‘No Fish Left Behind’ Approach Leaves Earth With N ...
    ScienceDaily- Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systematic expansion of industrialized fisheries. In collaboration with the National Geographic Society and published in the online journal PLoS ONE ...
  • Top Chinese officials led Google hacking: WikiLeak ...
    Reuters – The hacking of Google Inc that led the Internet company to briefly pull out of China was orchestrated by two members of China’s top ruling body, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks and cited by The New York Times on Saturday. Citing the cables, the Times said China ma ...
  • Drug company scrutinised over textbook
    SMH – Two prominent authors of a 1999 book teaching family doctors how to treat psychiatric disorders provided acknowledgment in the preface of an ”unrestricted educational grant” from a pharmaceutical company. But the drug maker, then known as SmithKline Beecham, actually had much more involvement ...

The Progressive Realist

  • New START: Still Not About Tactical Nuclear Weapon ...
    One of the more frustrating arguments made against the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is that it doesn’t limit Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons arsenal.  As I complained on Twitter earlier (@eauner), New START was never intended to address tactical nuclear weapons. Strategic nucle ...
  • WikiLeaks Show American Diplomats in Good Light
    The WikiLeaks fiasco has doubtless lowered confidence in the American government's ability to keep secrets and manage classified information.� The latest dump provided some embarrassing moments for the State Department in particular.� But they also showed that those handling America's day-to-day ...
  • Media Misinterpret Obama’s China Policy
    China not our Lapdog! Is this really an insight deserving of major real estate on the front page of the Sunday New York Times’ Week in Review? The Times proclaims that “the United States is heading into a future in which countries like China, with independent sources of power, are not reliant on o ...
  • Waiting for GOP Moderates
    In today's Washington Post, the senior Republican statesmen appeal (again) for their colleagues in the Senate to ratify New START. Republican presidents have long led the crucial fight to protect the United States against nuclear dangers. That is why Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Ge ...
  • Afghanistan Update: Department of Defense Release ...
    Part of me dreaded reading the Pentagon’s latest progress report on Afghanistan.  After all, wouldn’t the DoD just play up the some of the security gains that have been reported over the last month while ignoring the seemingly insurmountable challenges that remain?  The report, which—perhaps not coi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Live by the Movement, Die by the ...
    In light of the latest news about our Vibrant and Growing Economy, it's worth looking at the composition of all this idle labor that's been sitting around for the past few years. Via Matt Yglesias, the biggest losses were in manufacturing and construction, which isn't surprising, but the policy res ...
  • The Little Picture: Olbermann v. Palin.
    (Flickr/afagen) Keith Olbermann, who sparred publicly with Bristol Palin over his criticism of her recent abstinence PSA.
  • Friday Nerd Response.
    To Adam, I say absolutely. I'll only add that this is basically true for the original series as well; in Star Wars and its sequels, failed religious fanatics successfully deceive and coerce a gifted young man into carrying out their insane plan for revenge. It's tragic, really. -- Jamelle Bouie
  • 100 Percent Republicans.
    Over at Slate, John Dickerson gets a pretty amazing statement out of Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republicans' supposed budget expert: Obama had said he could have done more to work with Republicans. Did the GOP share any of the blame? "No, it's all the Democrats' fault," Ryan said. "We're great. We have h ...
  • Obama Nominates a Judge, for Once.
    Since I've done my fair share of criticizing Obama for his failure to nominate judges to circuit and district courts, I should probably take the time to give credit for when he offers a nomination, and a good one at that: U.S. District Judge Bernice B. Donald of Memphis has been nominated by Presid ...

Buzzflash

  • McConnell and Boehner Seen Around D.C. Defacing Ho ...
      BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN What would be the cost of extending unemployment benefits that the Republicans demand can only be implemented if they are offset by decreases in the deficit? Why, it would be - ironically - about one year's worth of the "bonus" tax cuts for the wealt ...
  • Does Obama Have a Politically Fatal Character Flaw ...
    STEVEN C. DAY FOR BUZZFLASH When thinking of Barack Obama these days, political progressives tend to find themselves haunted by a wide range of emotions, many quite negative. But one thing in particular, I think, predominates - utter and compete bewilderment. How, we keep asking ourselves, could ...
  • Republicans Will Gridlock The Government If They D ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH America has millions & multitudes But the GOP only cares About those select people who happen To be multi-millionaires. Forget the shutdown when Clinton was president; These guys drew up the maps During the Bush years which then culminated in Our national financial coll ...
  • Wikileaks and Latin America: Same Old Imperious U. ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT As more and more documents become available from Wikileaks, the public has gotten a novel and close up view of U.S. diplomats and their operations abroad.  I was particularly interested to review heretofore secret documents dealing with Latin America, a region ...
  • What do Republicans Have Against Smart People?
    Body Hey, all you people who stayed home November second insisting it didn’t matter which party occupied the White House and Congress, how’s that no-step forward-two-steps backward workin’ out for ya? Are you pleased with the kinds of people in leadership positions who promise a brigh ...

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Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • FTC Releases Promising Report Urging Improved Inte ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2010ACLUThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a promising report today on consumer privacy advocating for the implementation of strong protections for Americans' online activity and urging Internet companies and other industries that handle personal information ...
  • Food & Water Watch’s New Factory Farm Map Shows Hu ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2010Food & Water WatchThe total number of livestock raised in Iowa has increased by more than 51 percent in recent years, finds new analysis released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch. The organization’s updated Factory Farm Map ...
  • Rare Santa Ana Fish Scores New Critical Habitat Pr ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2010Center for Biological DiversityResponding to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated additional critical habitat for the federally threatened Santa Ana sucker, a fish that lives ...
  • New Congress Must Maintain Office of Congressional ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2010Common CauseCommon Cause joins nine of its organizational colleagues today in calling on House Speaker-designee John Boehner and House Majority Leader-designee Eric Cantor to pledge support for continuing the Office of Congressional Ethics and to oppose efforts ...
  • Human Rights First Seeks Answers From Amazon in Wa ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2010Human Rights FirstHuman Rights First today urged Amazon to make clear the decision making process that led to the dropping of Wikileaks from its servers and to share with the public which parts of the United States government contacted Amazon with the request to ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn’t Tellin ...
    by Robert ReichQuiz: What's responsible for the lousy economy most Americans continue to wallow in?A. Big government, bureaucrats, and the cultural and intellectual elites who back them.B. Big business, Wall Street, and the powerful and privileged who represent them.These are the two competing stori ...
  • Save Obama's Presidency by Challenging Him on the ...
    by Michael LernerPeople who used to say, "Give President Obama more time" when the president was criticized for capitulating to the right, or who argued that Obama must have a plan to turn things around, are now largely depressed and angry.read more
  • South Africa Wakes Up to Wal-Mart
    by Michelle ChenThe power struggle between labor unions and Wal-Mart has raged for years in communities across the country, though the retail behemoth's PR machine has managed to maintain its spiffy brand and unbeatable low prices. But the company may see challenges ahead as it moves ...
  • Open Letter to Our World Leaders
    by Afghan Youth Peace VolunteersDear Mr Obama, Mrs Clinton, Mr Petraeus, Mr Rasmussen, and all our world leaders, We are Afghans and we ask the world to listen. Like yourselves, we couldn't live without the love of our family and friends. We were hurt by your criticism of Mr Karzai for voicing th ...
  • The Moral Standards of WikiLeaks Critics
    by Glenn Greenwald Time's Joe Klein writes this about the WikiLeaks disclosures: I am tremendously concernced [sic] about the puerile eruptions of Julian Assange. . . . If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, ana ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

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Electronic Intifada

  • Boycott roundup: French companies to drop out of J ...
    In a significant victory for the global Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, French companies Veolia and Alstom have dropped out of the Jerusalem light rail ...
  • Why we walked out
    Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war ...
  • Without land, Gaza farmers grow crops on roofs
    BEIT HANOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - "We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now," says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. " ...
  • Palestinian property destroyed as Israeli settleme ...
    Israeli bulldozers and armed soldiers implemented a swath of demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures for more than a week in multiple areas across the West Bank including E ...
  • Corporations found guilty at Russell Tribunal seco ...
    On 22 November a jury of international experts announced their verdict that compelling evidence shows corporate complicity in Israeli violations of international law. The verdict f ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan, Afghanistan say leaked US cables unrelia ...
    Pakistan and Afghanistan have dismissed the US embassy cables leaked by WikiLeaks revealing their secrets as unreliable and the work of 'junior officers'.
  • Afghanistan, Pakistan stress joint efforts to figh ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday described terrorism as the common enemy and called for joint efforts to overcome the menace, saying the peace in the region was in the interest of both the neighbouring countries.
  • 'Afghan reconciliation talks with Taliban in ...
    The Afghan Government's reconciliation efforts with the Taliban have "reached the final stage", and serious negotiations between the two sides are likely to commence soon.
  • UN Appeals For $678 Million In Humanitarian Aid Fo ...
    The United Nations today launched a $678 million humanitarian aid appeal for Afghanistan, where more than 7 million people are living in fear of starvation. UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Cath...
  • Largesse is out, self-help is in
    MARAWARA DISTRICT, Afghanistan -- After nine years of reconstruction efforts that have cost billions of dollars, U.S. military and civilian experts are trying a different strategy in this remote corn...

Futurismic

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

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  • Whistleblowers and Taxpayers Held Hostage by Tax C ...
    After a decade-long struggle to secure credible whistleblower protections for federal employees, it appears that there's now a light at the end of the tunnel. The Senate is poised to pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2010 (S. 372),...
  • New Documents Expose Defense Contractor Legal Immu ...
    New documents made public by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) show that many of the largest defense contractors, including Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, all have or had contracts with the Pentagon containing indemnity provisions,...
  • Morning Smoke: Offshore Rig Inspectors Outgunned b ...
    Inspectors Adrift in Rig-Safety Push by Leslie Eaton, Stephen Power, and Russell Gold [The Wall Street Journal] Holdings Spiked Near Deal Time by Jenny Strasburg, Michael Rothfeld, Tom McGinty and Susan Pulliam [The Wall Street Journal] Most Contract Awards Posted...
  • Defense Authorization Bill Places Subjective Secur ...
    Congress is still considering the 2011 Defense Authorization bill (S. 3454), and one provision that is drawing criticism is a plan to potentially reduce competition in contracting based on perceived supply chain security risks. Notwithstanding competitive contracting requirements, Section 815...
  • Morning Smoke: USASpending.gov to Feature New Subc ...
    Obama administration begins publishing names of federal subcontractors on Web by Carol D. Leonnig [The Washington Post] Budget Cutters Take Aim F-35 Program [CBS News] Pentagon Won't Pay More for Lockheed's $92 Million JSF, Weapons Buyer Says by Gopal Ratnam...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • 15 Steps To A Stress-Free Holiday
    The holidays are officially upon us and that means stress levels are rising to an all time high! Here are some helpful and essential tips to lower your stress levels and allow you to have a relaxing and more importantly, fun, holiday season! 1. Emphasize an organic, whole foods diet with plenty of f ...
  • The Key Points of the WikiLeaks Embassy Cables
    December 2nd, 2010 The Guardian Day 1, Monday 29 November Guardian • The US faces a worldwide diplomatic crisis. More than 250,000 classified cables from American embassies are leaked, many sent as recently as February. • Saudi Arabia put pressure on the US to attack Iran. Other Arab allies also sec ...
  • How The US Media Is Dumping On WikiLeaks – A ...
    December 2nd, 2010 The Guardian By: Roy Gleenslade In a hard-hitting piece in defence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – now officially named as a fugitive – Alexander Cockburn contends that American newspapers have colluded with the US government to conceal some of the leaked embassy cables. He ...
  • Mylanta Recall Adds to Johnson & Johnson Woes
    December 2nd, 2010 ABC News By: Lee Ferran 12 Variations of Mylanta and Alternagel Antacids Recalled for Not Posting Alcohol Content of Flavorings Health care product giant Johnson & Johnson is adding to its growing list of recalls this year — this time a dozen types of Mylanta and one Alternagel an ...
  • Amazon Dumps WikiLeaks from Servers
    December 2nd, 2010 Daily Tech By: Jason Mick As reported earlier this week, following its leak of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, Wikileaks was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack. The site, which had been hosted primarily on Swedish hosting service Bahnho ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Katrina victims face eviction
    Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shakur h ...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...

War in Context

  • Secrecy and power
    True believers in secrecy know that its most staunch defenders are secrecy’s worst enemies. They know that the inevitable consequence of the rampant proliferation of a secrecy culture, will be to feed doubt that secrecy itself has any legitimacy. The assumption will take hold that secrecy’s one and ...
  • Why should Iran trust President Obama?
    Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett write: In the run-up to a new round of nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran on Monday, Western commentators are re-hashing old arguments that the Islamic Republic is either too politically divided or too dependent on hostility toward the United States for ...
  • Ron Paul: ‘In a free society we’re supposed to kno ...
    Politico reports: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is taking a stand as one of Julian Assange’s few defenders in Washington, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder should get the same protections as the media. Attorney General Eric Holder said this week that the Justice Department is examining whether Assange ...
  • Obama and GOPers worked together to kill Bush tort ...
    David Corn reports: In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 1 ...
  • Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a hero? Glenn Greenwa ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Surgical anesthetic gases coming under fire for gl ...
    The press release below is from the University of Copenhagen Department of Chemistry. The anesthetic gases isofluran, desflurane and sevoflurane are coming under scrutiny for global warming potential. However, what isn’t stated in the press release is this important paragraph … Continue reading →
  • More satellite images of snow-bound UK
    Snow from space: University of Leicester releases satellite images of snow-bound UK Satellite images of UK under snow available IMAGE: This is an image of snow-bound UK from space by MERIS on Nov. 29.  Click here for more information. Earth … Continue reading →
  • AGW Defender Flowchart
    Submitted by bsfootprint in WUWT Tips and Notes I’ve been following the online global warming climate change climate disruption debate of late, and I thought it might be helpful to diagram common pro-AGW responses to skeptics. So: here’s a flowchart … Continue reading →
  • Environmentalist marries Gaia in E-ceremony
    From the Huffington Post, a tale of bliss. WUWT Readers may remember Mr. Bloom from a  previous story where he did something outlandish, but it appears he was simply protecting his future bride. There’s no mention at HuffPo if Earth … Continue reading →
  • More on the Wikileaks Climate Cables
    Wikileaks first climate cables By Ecotretas Reading through the few Wikileaks cables related to climate, the tip of the iceberg becomes visible. The most interesting seems to involve the usual pressures related to top level nominations: in this case, the … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • John Pilger: Vietnam: The Last Battle (1995)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. www.johnpilger.com 1995. Nearly twenty years after the Vietnam War, Pilger returns to review those two decades. In 1975, John Pi ...
  • Vietnam: The Last Battle by John Pilger
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by John Pilger Global Research, December 4, 2010 johnpilger.com Saigon. The rain sheeted down, time washed away. I looked down from the rooftop in Saigon where, more than a generation ago, in the wake of the longest war of modern times, I had watched silent, sull ...
  • Myth of “American Exceptionalism” – The Ultimate, ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net December 3, 2010 God’s mysterious sense of humor strikes again, afflicting the lunatic fringe with this especially ludicrous zinger: the delusion of infallibility.  Beyond the ‘50’s jingoism of “America, right or wrong,” the right n ...
  • Out of the diplomatic bag By William Bowles
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 3 December, 2010 Wikileaks has committed the unforgivable sin of revealing the inner workings of Empire, what the servants of Empire really think and in so doing it has also revealed the extremely comfortable relationship between t ...
  • The Man In The Bathtub, December 1, 1940 by Philip ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 1, 2010 He was born and raised in a little town just outside of Licata, Sicily. By the time he was 18, the young man was accepted into university in Tunisia, a far more scholastically advanced place than the Sicily of the early 1900s. U ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
    Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Brazil explains recognition of Palestine
    In a move that took Washington by surprise, Brazil has recognized the state of Palestine along the 1967 borders before Israel's seizure of the West Bank... Brazil's outgoing President Luiz Inacio... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The charade of Israeli-Palestinian t ...
    Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
    Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • New WikiLeaks revelations show Ireland blocking US ...
    According to the [US] ambassador, "Segments of the Irish public ... see the [Shannon] airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrongdoing in the Gulf/Middle East." IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Are Seizures Due to Cerebral Hemorrhage Going Undi ...
    A study reported today at the 64th American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting has found that, of patients with a cerebral hemorrhage or hematoma, one in four had a diagnosis of sub-clinical seizures while in the ICU: sub-clinical seizures can only be detected with continuous electroencephalographic (E ...
  • Researcher Unveils New Approach to Blocking Malari ...
    University of Illinois at Chicago researcher Dr. John Quigley unveils a new approach to blocking malaria transmission during the American Society of Hematology's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
  • Post Traumatic Seizure Rate in Children Double the ...
    In the first study to utilize continuous EEG monitoring (cEEG) to define the incidence of early post traumatic seizures (EPTS) in children compared to published rates in adults, investigators at the University of Colorado followed pediatric patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TB ...
  • Biomarker Identified for Predicting Increased Risk ...
    Approximately 5 - 30% of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) develop post traumatic epilepsy (PTE). The onset of seizures in patients who are susceptible to PTE can range from weeks or months to more than a decade after TBI. In a presentation at the 64th American Epilepsy Society annual mee ...
  • New Year's Resolutions: Ask Why Not How
    If you create a detailed plan to achieve a goal, you may have a harder time reaching it. You're better off thinking about why you want to reach it, according to one University of Delaware professor.
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