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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 3

Author: Food and Drug Administration website U...Image via Wikipedia

Natural Health News

  • Puppy Trying to Stay Awake
    This adorable puppy just can’t keep his eyes open.
  • The Kitten and the Remote Control Mouse
    This mouse just might catch the cat!
  • Higher Animal Based Omega-3 Intake Shown Protectiv ...
    Animal based omega-3 fats could help some older adults protect their eyesight longer.� Eating more foods rich in these fats appears to slow advanced macular degeneration, a common cause of age-related blindness. An observational study that included close to 2,400 participants found that people who ...
  • FDA Increases Recommendations for Fatally Flawed O ...
    An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a request by the medical company Allergan to significantly lower how obese someone must be to qualify for surgery using the company�s Lap-Band device.� The FDA has already indicated that it believes that people in the prop ...
  • Get the White Out of Baby's First Foods
    Almost every child care book offers the same advice about a baby's first solid meal -- start them first on rice cereal mixed with breast milk or formula. This has been received wisdom for 60 years.� But this is because in the 1950�s, baby food companies launched an advertising blitz trumpeting the b ...

Antemedius

  • The New War Congress: An Obama-Republican War Alli ...
    Swanson has just published War Is A Lie.  This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congr ...
  • Was The Iranian Nuclear Program Punked By A Comput ...
    What do you do if you want to stop a country from getting developing its own nuclear weapon? You could put sanctions on them, but if they have something like oil which they can still sell that is not going to be as big a deal as it might otherwise be. You could take military action, but if the count ...
  • Your Choice: Extend Unemployment And Tax Breaks Or ...
    The lesson I have learned from a lifetime around and in politics is this: Sometimes you give away something you don’t want to in order to get something you do want. Seems pretty straight forward, but it is, to my mind, the cause of more ink (or electrons) being spilled and more ulcers and heartburn ...
  • Just When You Think Bush Can Sink No Lower, He Doe ...
    Many Bush critics make the mistake of underestimating him. This is one area where he has surprised with his ability to take a presumably bottomed out status and bottom it some more. Bush’s latest return with the same brash cockiness that has been a staple item recalls the words of a professor of hi ...
  • Two Americas: The Over Privileged and The Ignored
    Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated last week that, while a national unemployment figure of roughly 10 percent nationally is alarming enough, the figure is better than double that figure for those Americans without college degrees. While America stands at a dangerous crossroad with a dispa ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Why Prosecuting Assange Won’t Be a Walk in the Par ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Baruch Weiss, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at Arnold & Porter who was involved in the AIPAC defense, explains why in an editorial today in The Washington Post.  I was particularly interested in his discussion of why he believes it would be diff ...
  • Anna Dolidze on WikiLeaks and International Law
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Anna Dolidze, a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. In 2007-08, Dolidze was
 an Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk at New York University Law
 School and a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Harriman Institute.  She has worked for ...
  • Steve Vladeck on WikiLeaks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest-post by Steve Vladeck, Professor of Law at American University.  Our thanks to him for contributing it. The Espionage Act, the Documents/Information Distinction, and the Press I’ve been following (with great interest) the exchange b ...
  • Anna Dolidze on WikiLeaks and International Law
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post by Anna Dolidze, a JSD candidate at Cornell Law School. In 2007-08, Dolidze was
 an Albert Podell Global Scholar at Risk at New York University Law
 School and a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Harriman Institute.  She has worked for ...
  • John Bolton for President (No Joke!)
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From an interview with Jennifer Rubin, a new conservative blogger on the WaPo: Bolton has begun to talk openly to conservative gatherings and media about his interest in a 2012 presidential run. “I’m seriously considering it,” he told me in an interview, in large p ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Wikileaks Cables Fallout: There is No Internationa ...
    Diplomatic cables from China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia contradict the mainstream media's narrative that there is a broad consensus in the international community on how to deal with Iran as a regional power in the Middle East.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • FEMA: Presidential Executive Control Orders For A ...
    Some people call it the 'secret government' of a non- elected body and operates within a complex network of Black Operation budgets. FEMA has been gaining power as a 'front operation' in order to seize total authority for the "Continuity of Government".Submitted by Third Eye Open to US Politics & Go ...
  • The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics
    If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, anarchic exercise in "freedom" stands as a human disaster. Assange is a criminal. That's quite a rigorous moral standard. So let's apply it elsewhere:Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Court Orders Destruction of Monsanto's Dangerous, ...
    A federal judge has ruled that genetically-modified sugar beets created by notorious Frankenfood-producer Monsanto were planted illegally, without proper environmental review. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said the plantings must now be destroyed, in Submitted by Norm C. to Business �|� �Note-i ...
  • Indigenous grassroots delegate Ofelia Rivas, O'odh ...
    We, like all of the indigenous peoples of the world, are the guardians and protectors of Mother Earth, which cannot be sold, given away, nor rented, because she belongs to everyone we demand: No to discrimation, and the disposession of our lands.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Angry Indian News

  • PressTV - Brazil recognizes State of Palestine
    PressTV - Brazil recognizes State of Palestine Brazil made the decision in response to a request made earlier this year by acting Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas to President Luiz... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Brazil recognition of Palestine irks Israel
    Israel has expressed regret over Brazil's decision to recognize the state of Palestine based on the borders before Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967. Source: PressTVOn Friday, the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Malaysia: Orang Asli View Needed In Amending Abori ...
    Malaysia: Orang Asli View Needed In Amending Aboriginal Act - Bar Council - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesThe Bar Council wants the government to consider the Orang Asli view over the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • PressTV - 88th Palestinian shot on Gaza border
    PressTV - 88th Palestinian shot on Gaza border: "The 20-year-old man was shot in the foot and evacuated to the Kamal Udwan Hospital in Jabaliya on Friday morning, medics said, adding that his... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Cuban medics a big force on Haiti cholera frontlin ...
    Cuban medics a big force on Haiti cholera frontline | World | Reuters: "By Pascal Fletcher PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - They don't send out press releases, don't have public information officers and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Mondoweiss

  • Odious NGO Monitor smears Electronic Intifada, tri ...
    NGO Monitor was captured perfectly in�The Forward�by liberal jewish thinker Leonard Fine�who�said�it was �an organization that believes that the best way to defend Israel is to condemn anyone who criticizes it.� But now, no longer satisfied with its McCarthyite efforts to not just condemn, but actua ...
  • First BDS victory in Japan: MUJI cancels plan to o ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land, property and resource theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing / SettlersClashes re-ignite in East Jerusalem neighborhood 3 Dec - Clashes broke out after a brief period of calm in the Al-Isawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Friday afternoon. ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg doesn’t work for ‘The ...
    A foreign journalist asked me what was with the Atlantic Monthly and Jeffrey Goldberg: why did a magazine which was a classic voice of the Eastern seaboard elite have a full time blogger on staff whose writing was devoted almost entirely to Israel? (including inside-baseball issues about giving mone ...
  • The American Jewish belief in the endurance of ant ...
    Often I've wondered what perversity of character I must retain into middle age to want to talk openly about Jewish numbers in the Establishment. For instance, the fact that Jews from Mike Bloomberg to David Steiner to Shael Polakow-Suransky are all over the schools chancellor decision in New York, o ...
  • Meet Moshe Soprano
    I try to give the people what they want (I've been a news guy most of my life), and a lot of people are talking about the cable on Wikileaks from Tel Aviv a year ago about all the organized crime in Israel, and the fears of that o.c. spreading to the U.S. (because after [...]

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Dark Side of The Vitamin K Shot
    Apart from the trauma inflicted on a newborn of getting the shot, the amount of Vitamin K injected into newborns is 20,000 times the needed dose. The injection also contains a preservative, Benzyl alcohol, that can be especially toxic for your babyâs delicate, young immune system. A parent has to k ...
  • VRM: UK Institutes Brand of Medical Martial Law Wi ...
    As of January 1st, 2011, all children in the UK, upon reaching the age of 1, will be subject to a one stop, 6 vaccine assault. In what is being labeled ‘Super-vaccination’ day, babies will now get a series of 3 injections in one visit, a combination of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella [...]
  • VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
    PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
    On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Senate committee hears military chiefs' 'Don't Ask ...
    [JURIST] The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) [official website] on Friday heard conflicting testimony [materials] from top military leaders on the services' readiness to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive]. Commandant of the Marine Corps General James Amo ...
  • US tobacco companies appeal $270 million settlemen ...
    [JURIST] US tobacco companies including Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds [corporate websites], along with an industry trade group, filed an appeal [cert. petition, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [official website] on Thursday to overturn a $271.5 million class action settlement. The settlement was awar ...
  • ICC prosecutor: Kenya threats will not stop electi ...
    [JURIST] Threats against witnesses will not prevent the prosecution of six individuals responsible for Kenya's 2007 post-election violence [JURIST news archive], International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday. According to the statement, the pro ...
  • Nigeria filing bribery charges against Cheney in c ...
    [JURIST] Nigerian prosecutors announced Thursday that they are instituting bribery charges against former US vice president Dick Cheney [BBC profile] in connection in with a contract that Halliburton [corporate website; JURIST news archive] subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) [corporate website ...
  • Guinea high court declares Conde winner of preside ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Guinea on Friday declared Alpha Conde the winner of November's presidential run-off election, validating the provisional results of the electoral commission and throwing out claims of electoral fraud. In light of escalating post-election violence, the Guinean government ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israel’s Carmel Fire: Racism Rears Its Ugly Head E ...
    The worst forest fires ever to have struck Israel are sweeping through the Carmel Mountains surrounding Haifa.  42 prison guard trainees died when their bus was blocked on a highway and burned, thus cutting off their escape.  It is the worst loss of life in a natural disaster in Israel’s history. ...
  • Assange’s Delusions on Bibi and Mideast Peace, Ama ...
    The problem with writing a blog is that you write one thing one day and by the next it’s overtaken by events and you have to backtrack and take back almost everything you said the day before.  Such is the case with Julian Assange, about whom I wrote that it would be enormous folly for [...] Relat ...
  • One-Third of Israeli Support Wartime Concentration ...
    One nugget I overlooked (pg. 142) in the Israel Democracy Institute annual survey which I featured here a day or so ago is this one that Ofer Neiman pointed out to me.  33% of Israelis support placing Israeli Palestinian citizens in concentration camps during wartime.  Only 50% of Israeli Jews opp ...
  • U.S. Contemplates Criminal Charges Against Wikilea ...
    I’d hoped that with the demise of the Bush administration we would leave the realm of Really Bad Ideas like the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, criminalizing free speech and being Muslim, etc.  Yes, I know that the Obama presidency has a pretty sordid record of maintaining some of the worst of these laws. ...
  • Israel’s ‘Organized Crime’: Mafia and Mossad
    I’ve written here about as assassination and attempted assassination in Teheran a few days ago, which Haaretz’ Yossi Melman attributes to the Mossad.  In these cases, the two scientists were driving in their cars to work with their wives.  They’d pulled into the university parking lot when a motor ...

Ode Magazine

  • Time to call our bluff
    By: Peter Merry bluff, to deceive or seek to deceive by concealment of weakness or show of self-confidence or threats (orig. in poker to conceal poor cards). - call someone’s bluff to expose or challenge someone’s bluff (Chambers Concise Dictionary) “Words oug ...
  • Keeping it local to rebuild shattered lives
    By: Amanda_TWW A British expatriate, Figen Cakir has lived in Turkey for nearly two decades. She experienced first hand the devastation the Golcuk earthquake had on her community in 1999. More than a decade after, the local people are still rebuilding their lives, ...
  • California dreaming becomes a reality
    How Alvarado Street Bakery went from hippie collective to commercially successful co-op. Alvarado Street Bakery makes quality products with co-operative values.Photo: MJ Wickham Alvarado Street Bakery traces its roots to the Red Clover Worker’s Brigade, a 1970s Northern Califo ...
  • A planet is a terrible thing to waste
    Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...
  • Cosmic salad
    Bring the abundance of nature to your plate. Photo: Pieter de Swart The science of economics revolves around the concept of scarcity. How do you handle something you have too little of, like money? How do you distribute something that isn’t plentiful enough, like food? And how ...

OpEd News

  • The Gulf of Mexico is Dying - Part I
    It is with deep regret that we publish this report. We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the consequences of the following observations are of such great import and have such far-reaching ramifications for the entire planet. Truly, the fate of the oceans of the world hangs in the balance, ...
  • The Masterpiece of Masterpiece Theater
    Who could have been making meaningful progress happen since January of 2008? Barack Obama! If things have to happen quickly, he should have morphed into President "No More Mister Nice Guy" a long time ago.
  • Honduras: Latin America's Murder Capital
    Murder is out of control in fascist-run Honduras
  • Thinking Outside the Holiday Gift Box: A Baker's D ...
    Whether you are celebrating 12 days of Christmas, 8 days of Chanukah or 7 days of Kwanza, here's a baker's dozen artsy ideas to solve your gift-giving dilemmas for quirky friends and relatives!
  • GOP to jobless: DROP DEAD!
    What an outrage. Republicans want tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to be permanently extended, but they don't want to pay for them. Republicans delay the passage of jobless benefits, and would only support them if they are paid for.

Switchboard

  • Decision Time Coming Soon at the Global Warming Ne ...
    At the one week point of the global warming negotiations here in Mexico, countries face a critical decision.  In one week they will have to decide: can they accept the agreements that are on the table or not?  This isn’t just a simple decision about whether or not each country has nego ...
  • The Phony "Train Wreck" - Part II
    The World Resources Institute (WRI) yesterday nicely cut the legs out from under the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) sly campaign for Congress to block EPA from finally doing its job under the Clean Air Act to curb dangerous power plant pollution.  EEI is peddling the claim that we’r ...
  • Alaskan Fishermen and Community Rally for Bristol ...
    Today The Keystone Center conducted a symposium on "Responsible Large-Scale Mining,” as my colleague just blogged.  While the intended purpose of Keystone’s Pebble Mine “dialogue” is to engage stakeholders, the stakeholders most directly at risk from the disastrous mine project -- Nati ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
    Mexico: President Calderon led the inauguration of the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancun this week, as he seeks to gain a leading role in climate policy.  Mexico is the only developing country to complete inventories of all of its greenhouse gas emissions.  “[T]he country ha ...
  • The Pebble Mine: Irresponsible Large-Scale Mining ...
    The Colorado-based Keystone Center today held a symposium on “responsible mining” as part of its dialogue process sponsored by developers of the Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska – a proposal to build one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines at the headwaters of Bristol Bay’s inc ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Deluxe Apartment in the Sky…
    I guess that’s not all. I have BELIEVED.  Since Bill Musgrave’s junior year, I have believed that this might be possible.  Through Danny O’Neill, and Tony Graziani, Akili Smith and Joey Harrington, Kellen Clemens and Dennis Dixon, Jeremiah Masoli and Darrin Thomas, I have believed that THIS MIGHT ...
  • DUCKS!!!!!
    That is all. Related posts:Go Ducks!!! Ducks! Ducks!!! Related posts:Go Ducks!!! Ducks! Ducks!!!
  • There Is No Obligation To Keep Hitting Yourself
    I was busy enough this week to have missed Jezebel’s bizarre decision to run a piece defending catcalling and public groping with a bunch of bullshit about how in France women are less uptight and totally don’t mind the catcalling and groping. As Sady Doyle points out, this is the strangest part of ...
  • A-Gone
    Well, this would make letting Teixeira go to the Yanks look a lot better. And while it’s not actually a huge upgrade over last year in terms of performance, I can understand why the Red Sox don’t trust Beltre to have the same kind of year again. Also, [...] Related posts:Rethinking Agricult ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    “OK, so how is this different than us finding out what our friends are saying about other people and then passing that information along to get them mad at each other? Don’t you adults always tell us not to do that?” Ah, yes. There is indeed something truly middle-school-esque about CableGate. No wo ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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

environment 360

  • Google Satellite Platform Allows Tracking of Envir ...
    Google has unveiled an online technology that allows scientists and researchers to track and measure changes to the environment using 25 years worth of satellite data. Google Earth Engine, introduced during climate talks in Cancun, utilizes “trillions of scientific measurements” collected by NASA’s ...
  • New Version of Google Earth Offers 3D Glimpse of T ...
    The latest version of Google Earth provides a 3D view of trees, an innovation that Google officials say will emerge as a forestry planning tool for governments, environmentalists, and indigenous peoples. While earlier versions of the software showed forest cover from a bird’s eye view worldwide, Goo ...
  • Interview: A Blunt Warning On the Risks of BPA in ...
    The synthetic chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, is found in everything from plastic bottles, to the linings of aluminum cans, to cash register receipts. But in addition to being a mainstay of the plastics industry, BPA is a potent, estrogen-mimicking compound. One of the world’s leading researchers into ...
  • A Warning by Key Researcher On Risks of BPA in Our ...
    The synthetic chemical, BPA — found in everything from plastic bottles to cash register receipts — is a potent, estrogen-mimicking compound. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, biologist Frederick vom Saal harshly criticizes U.S. corporations and government regulators for covering up — or ign ...
  • Plans to Preserve Indonesia Forest May Be Hijacked ...
    An ambitious $1 billion deal between Norway and Indonesia to reduce carbon emissions by preserving Indonesia forests could be “hijacked” by timber and palm oil companies, according to a Greenpeace report. The advocacy group warns that business interests intend to manipulate Norwegian funds earmarke ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Cloned meat gets the go-ahead: Minister rejects ba ...
    Backing for unrestricted sale of meat and milk from "Frankenfarms". Most consumers oppose the move on ethical grounds. Campaigners condemn the Coalition and warn of dangers. The spectre of a clone food free-for-all came a step closer yesterday. Ministers want to allow the unrestricted sale of meat a ...
  • Pilot of UKIP leader Nigel Farage crash plane is c ...
    The pilot of the plane which crashed and injured Nigel Farage has been charged with threatening to kill the politician. Justin Adams, who was at the controls of the light aircraft which slammed into a field on General Election day in May, seriously injuring the UK Independence Party's now leader, ha ...
  • Fed Doled Out 9 Trillion
    Under orders from Congress, the Federal Reserve finally had to tell Americans, that they gave a whopping nine trillion dollars in short term loans to eighteen different financial institutions during the peak of the financial crisis. AlterNet's Zach Carter breaks down these new findings. Source: yout ...
  • No hiding place from new U.S. Army rifles that use ...
    Weapon hailed as a game-changer that can fire up and over barriers and down into trenches. Soldiers will start using them in Afghanistan later this month. The U.S. army is to begin using a futuristic rifle that fires radio-controlled "smart" bullets in Afghanistan for the first time, it has emerged. ...
  • Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has close links t ...
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won an award from the "Economist" magazine, a financial publication controlled by the Rothschild banking family, and he has also featured on an "Economist" video clip, raising questions about conflicts of interest. Assange predicted a bank run could be triggered ...

Russia Today

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

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Unemployment Jumps to 9.8 Percent
    “Employers added fewer jobs than forecast in November and the unemployment rate unexpectedly increasedâ¦. The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent, the highest since April, while hours worked and earnings stagnated.” (Bloomberg) Hello, Washington? Is anybody there? Do you see the mess you’ve made? FEE T ...
  • Compromise in Works Over Tax Rates
    “House Democrats yesterday approved an extension to the Bush tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000, a measure almost certain to be rejected in the Senate. But negotiators worked behind the scenes on an eventual compromise that could extend the cuts to top earners as a way to win Republica ...
  • A Free Market in Banking? Not Even Close
    Between the state and national governments, there has always been substantial regulation of money and banking in the United States.
  • Inflation Doesn’t Pay Anymore
    Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and I have an opinion piece today at Forbes.com titled “Inflation Doesn’t Pay The Government Like It Used To.” Key quote: [T]he bottom line is that inflation’s effect on the national debt will no more be able to resolve the escalating U.S. budgetary problems than would an excis ...
  • Fed Rescue Was Broader than Reported
    “The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009.” (Washington ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Come celebrate at the ISS Holiday + 40th Anniversa ...
    WEATHER UPDATE, 12/4 3:20pm: We're continuing to watch the weather in the Triangle. So far the party is STILL ON despite snow in the Triangle, since temperatures are still warm enough to avoid icing. Stay tuned for further updates! Does the political scene have you in the dumps? Are you ready for a ...
  • VOICES: Watch your wallet -- Obama's federal wage ...
    By Dan La Botz, Labor Notes They're calling it Obama's PATCO -- his proposal for a two-year wage freeze for two million federal workers. When Ronald Reagan fired 13,000 striking PATCO members, the air traffic controllers, in August 1981, he sent a signal to other employers that it was open season ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The deficit commission's curious ...
    Date on which President Obama's deficit commission will meet to consider adopting a plan drawn up by its co-chairs, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff and current University of North Carolina president: 12/3/2010 Age to which the plan would rais ...
  • Will offshore drilling ban spur wind development?
    Yesterday the Interior Department announced an updated strategy for offshore oil and gas leasing that bans drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years. "As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of less ...
  • New push for voter ID laws despite scant evidence ...
    Weeks after winning control of the North Carolina legislature, Republicans have unveiled pieces of their 2011 legislative agenda. While they may have campaigned on jobs and taxes, an entirely different issue tops the priority list of new House Speaker Rep. Thom Tillis: passing a voter ID law. N ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • World War II
    Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle old musical instrument ...
    Amber sent us an email asking about reeds from musical instruments: I’ve got TONS of old alto saxophone reeds lying around, and was wondering if anybody had an idea about how to reuse/recycle them? I am incredibly unmusical but Wikipedia tells me reeds tend to be make from cane, although there are a ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a dog’s leather c ...
    Earlier in the week, I had a to-the-point email from Cubby asking: how can i recycle a leather dog collar? My first thought was keeping using it/pass it on – but then I remembered that we’ve got an old leather collar of Lily’s here after the metal work rusted and snapped off in a not-easy-to-fix [.. ...
  • How can I improve my greywater system?
    We’ve had an email from Su: I do like to tax the minds of all who read these sites, not intentionally, but in a ‘why don’t I know how to do that’ sort of way. Here goes, I collect all the water from my washing machine, and use it to flush the loo. However, hauling [...]
  • Five fantastic reuses for expanded Polystyrene foa ...
    Expanded polystyrene, the moulded white shapes you get as protective packaging when you buy electronics or large toys etc, is a pain to recycle – it can be recycled now but not many places collect it. Unlike its foam ‘peanuts’ counterpart which can be reused as multi-purpose packaging again and agai ...
  • How can I get into the habit of taking packed lunc ...
    Today we’re putting a spin our usual “how can I reduce this…” question after an email from Martine: I hate having to buy sandwiches every day but I can’t get into the habit of making lunch in the morning. I do it for a couple of days then stop. I hate spending all that money [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Odious NGO Monitor smears Electronic Intifada, tri ...
    NGO Monitor was captured perfectly in�The Forward�by liberal jewish thinker Leonard Fine�who�said�it was �an organization that believes that the best way to defend Israel is to condemn anyone who criticizes it.� But now, no longer satisfied with its McCarthyite efforts to not just condemn, but actua ...
  • First BDS victory in Japan: MUJI cancels plan to o ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land, property and resource theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing / SettlersClashes re-ignite in East Jerusalem neighborhood 3 Dec - Clashes broke out after a brief period of calm in the Al-Isawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Friday afternoon. ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg doesn’t work for ‘The ...
    A foreign journalist asked me what was with the Atlantic Monthly and Jeffrey Goldberg: why did a magazine which was a classic voice of the Eastern seaboard elite have a full time blogger on staff whose writing was devoted almost entirely to Israel? (including inside-baseball issues about giving mone ...
  • The American Jewish belief in the endurance of ant ...
    Often I've wondered what perversity of character I must retain into middle age to want to talk openly about Jewish numbers in the Establishment. For instance, the fact that Jews from Mike Bloomberg to David Steiner to Shael Polakow-Suransky are all over the schools chancellor decision in New York, o ...
  • Meet Moshe Soprano
    I try to give the people what they want (I've been a news guy most of my life), and a lot of people are talking about the cable on Wikileaks from Tel Aviv a year ago about all the organized crime in Israel, and the fears of that o.c. spreading to the U.S. (because after [...]

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • NASA delays space shuttle flight until 2011
    Last month, space shuttle Discovery was scheduled to go on a historic final flight. But technical problems scrapped the initial date and, despite repairs, NASA officials have delayed the launch until no earlier than 3 February. A hydrogen gas leak postponed the original 3 November launch. But wh ...
  • Welcome to the era of graphene electronics
    Much-hyped graphene electronics will not totally replace silicon systems, according to a researcher honoured this week for his work in the area. But Walt de Heer of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, who was yesterday awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal, says devices utilising the next-gen techno ...
  • Superheavy element hiding in gold? Probably not.
    It doesn’t have to be right to be interesting: that’s my unofficial motto for the physics ArXiv blog, which does write-ups on papers posted to the open preprint site arXiv.org. Yesterday, the blog had a post about a group claiming to find superheavy element 111 lurking inside a sample of gold. E ...
  • Partnering with scientists, Google unveils "Earth ...
    A year after releasing a prototype version at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Google has unveiled its much-anticipated "Earth Engine" at the climate talks in Cancun. Earth Engine is an on-line tool designed to help scientists access satellite data, analyze land-use trends and in support of efforts ...
  • Partnering with scientists, Google unveils "Earth ...
    A year after releasing a prototype version at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Google has unveiled its much-anticipated "Earth Engine" at the climate talks in Cancun. The Earth Engine is an on-line tool designed to help scientists and governments access satellite data, analyze land-use trends and im ...

new geography

  • Retro Rail Alert
    The New Zealand Government recently decided to follow the example of Montreal and Toronto by amalgamating the six City councils and the single Regional Council of the Auckland Region to create a united “Super City” of 1.4 million people. Like similar amalgamated bodies, the new Auckland Council, w ...
  • Florida Goes Underground
    By Richard Reep Last year’s report that Florida had lost people marked a new low in our state’s boom-and-bust history. But this autumn’s news seems to surpass even that sorry milestone with a combination of sluggish tourism, empty state coffers, and a reputation as one of the top real estate fore ...
  • Could the Dallas Way be the Right Way?
    Dallas was George W. Bush’s first choice for a retirement destination but it gets low approval ratings elsewhere. A recent poll of readers of American Style magazine rated Dallas only 24th out of 25 large American cities as an arts destination. It came in immediately behind those well-known cultura ...
  • China’s Urbanization: It Has Only Just Begun
    In May, disgruntled workers of Honda factories in Zhongshan, southern China, went on strike at the Honda Lock auto parts factory and started posting accounts of the walkout online, spreading word among themselves and to workers elsewhere in China. In June, Bloomberg reported that China, “once an a ...
  • Looking Down Under for a California Turnaround
    At a time when government in California faces an existential crisis, it’s telling to observe a starkly different picture in Australia. Forty years ago, local officials in fast-growing suburban communities in Queensland, Australia looked to their colleagues in fast-growing suburban communities in Ca ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • FBI Plants Informant in Mosque to Incite Violence; ...
    Via: Washington Post: Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys. “This is Farouk al-Aziz, code name Oracle,” he said into the keys as he sat in his parked car in this [...]
  • Welcome to Shanghai-on-Shannon: Chinese Plans to C ...
    This is just what Ireland needs! The World’s Largest Shopping Mall — Is Empty China’s Empty City Via: Irish Times: IT HAS BEEN the talk of Athlone for almost two years. What began as vague whisperings of Chinese investors scouting the midlands town for a major project soon developed into umpteen rum ...
  • Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
    Thank you. Pookie $75 RH $20 MW $20 areyoutargeted.com $12.06
  • November Earnings
    Earnings from all sources came to $1769.94. That’s another outstanding result. While only nine people out of the approximately 42,000 who read Cryptogon in November sent cash contributions, the U.S. Amazon result was astonishing at $816 in commissions. There was also a big purchase on NitroPak which ...
  • Why Farmers Are Flocking to Manure
    I’d be extremely careful with manure from industrial livestock operations in the U.S. Most or all of what those animals eat is genetically engineered and they are pumped full of antibiotics and injections containing heavy metals. Animal manures can be wonderful fertilizers that build soil structure ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Suffocated By Red Tape – 12 Ridiculous Regul ...
    Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a small business.  The ...
  • 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
    In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
  • Jobless Recovery?: 25 Unemployment Statistics That ...
    Guess what?  Unemployment is up again!  That's right - even though Wall Street is swimming in cash and the Obama administration is declaring that "the recession is over", the U.S. unemployment rate has gone even higher.  So are you enjoying the jobless recovery?  The truth is that t ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...
  • Barack Obama And Ben Bernanke Continue To Defend Q ...
    Even as Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke publicly defend the Federal Reserve's new $600 billion quantitative easing program, top finance officials around the globe are expressing alarm and outrage.  But what did Obama and Bernanke expect?  "Quantitative easing" is little more than lega ...

Desertification

  • Mini-greenhouses, first step to combat desertifica ...
    Mini-greenhouses, first step to combat desertification This is the first part of a description of âmini-greenhousesâ, made of simple and cheap materials like yogurt pots, soda or juice bottles, mushroom trays, plastic bags etc. This kind of inexpensive equipment to … Continue reading →
  • WeForest Newsletter December 2010
    Trees ordered year-to-date: 294 221 ! Our main projects volunters@weforest.com This month: Mahabana Estuary or âBleeding Madagascarâ Over the past 100 years, roughly half of the world’s forests have disappeared. The most extreme cases of deforestation have taken place within … Continue reading →
  • Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) for guerilla gardenin ...
    This is a plant species with multiple uses : food, fodder, fencing, gardening, bonsai, you name it … A PLANT FOR ALL THE DRYLANDS … GO FOR IT ! Read at : Facebook Pierre Janssens November 12 You may know … Continue reading →
  • ONE WATER – ONE FOOD – ONE BETTER LIFE ...
    EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE SEEN “ONE WATER” IN THE FIRST PLACE ALL PARTICIPANTS IN CANCUN   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-FLwAUB5x8 One Water on BBC2′s Foods That Make Billions
  • A new generation of agricultural innovators has em ...
    Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=5145 Ghana: Agricultural Innovation in Ghana The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization based in Washington D.C., recently toured Ghana in search of innovations as part of a two year evaluation of sustainable agriculture across sub-Saha ...

The Paper Trail

backofthebook.ca

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

Worldnews

  • Rahul effect to be felt in the new CWC
    New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi effect is bound to be felt in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee with the AICC giving indications on Sunday that young India would get its due place in the 25-member apex policy making body of the party. "Certainly, if India cannot ignore its demographic profil ...
  • Ferguson asks Man U players to start firing u ...
    London: Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has asked his players to start firing up to grab another Premier League title. United have stumbled to the top of the table as Chelsea and Arsenal keep slipping up. "We need to start kicking on and trying to close the door. We've given away a lot ...
  • Pietersen torments Australia
    Adelaide – Kevin Pietersen replaced Alastair Cook as Australia's tormentor with a majestic double century as England took a commanding first innings lead before rain curtailed the third day of the second Ashes Test on Sunday. The 30-year-old Pietersen looked hungry for more on 213 not out along ...
  • CSA apologise to Gibbs
    Cricket South Africa (CSA) has apologised to former international batsman Herschelle Gibbs for “releasing inacccurate information” regarding the termination of his contract. CSA said in a statement on Friday that Gibbs' contract had been cancelled by mutual agreement, but apologised to the vete ...
  • HOULLIER STILL WANTS OWEN
    Gerard Houllier has reiterated that he would love to be reunited with Michael Owen at Villa Park. The former England striker played under Houllier for six years at Liverpool, with the pair both departing Anfield in 2004. And the Aston Villa boss has made no secret of his admiration...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Annually Breast Cancer Screening Younger Women Low ...
    If women are screened for breast cancer every year, starting at the age of 40, their risk of mastectomy following breast cancer is considerably lower, researchers from The London Breast Institute, London, England, explained at the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America - RSNA 20 ...
  • Buyer Beware: Dangerous Levels Of Lead Found In Us ...
    The problem of toxic lead in used consumer products is extremely widespread and present at levels that are far beyond safe limits, researchers conclude in a new study. Research reported recently by the Associated Press found that lead and cadmium were present in cartoon character drinking glasses. N ...
  • Sunday roast salt level warning
    Relying on ready-made products rather than freshly cooked food for your Sunday roast can lead to high salt intake, research shows.
  • Risk Of Recreational Shoulder Injuries Common Arou ...
    Around the holidays, even the friendliest game of flag football can lead to injury. According to sports medicine doctors at Hospital for Special Surgery, older and newly active recreational athletes are particularly at risk for shoulder injuries. "The most common injuries are soft-tissue shoulder in ...
  • M.D. FORTE AFTERCARE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SUNS ...
    Updated Date: Dec 3, 2010 EST

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Biofuels on commercial flights in 2011
    German airlines Lufthansa announced on Monday that it will start using bio-kero
  • European Offshore Wind Supergrid Deal Signed
    A deal was struck today by European ministers keen to implement a European wide ‘supergrid‘ for new offshore wind farms. A memorandum of understanding was signed by ten ministers from countries bordering the north sea. The memorandum is an agreement to deliver an offshore electricity grid facilitat ...
  • Will Oil Prices Rescue Ethanol?
    Time is running out for the ethanol blenders credit and the matching ethanol import tariff, which at least one industry publication suggests are likely to survive, but at "sharply reduced rates." Although I'm among those who suspect that the blenders credit probably benefits consumers more than etha ...
  • Media reactions to low-carbon technology paper
    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.
  • Revisiting the science: Climate Change Exhibit at ...
    At about this time last year thousands of people were standing in the snow in long lines outside the convention centre in Copenhagen where COP 15 was underway. There was great expectation in the air, but equally concern that months of unrelenting public attack on climate science was undermining the ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • 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 times the actual rate. For 2009, anth ...
  • 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 James Dixon's June 23, 1960 two years pr ...
  • Amnesia As A Way Of Life: WikiLeaks Amid The "Care ...
    By Phil Rockstroh As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the US Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, until now, in the US, the powerless masses are subject to arbitrary pat downs and body scans, while the powerful and connect ...
  • The Gulf of Mexico is Dying
    http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-gulf-of-mexico-is-dying/A Special Report on the BP Gulf Oil Spill By Dr. Tom Termotto It is with deep regret that we publish this report. We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the consequences of the following observations are ...
  • Sanction Congress, Not One Member
    by Stephen Lendman The Constitution's Article I, Section 5, clause 2 authorizes the House of Representatives to discipline or "punish" its members for "disorderly Behavior," as well as for criminal, civil liability, or other misconduct issues. Ostensibly it's to protect the institutional integri ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • If California Is Truly a Bellwether, This Could Be ...
    California’s ailing Republicans: A dying breed? | The Washington Post Republicans are relishing the coming of a new day on Capitol Hill. But across the country in California, the party of Nixon and Reagan is drifting toward obscurity. The latest sign of imperiled health: In a year Republicans notche ...
  • THE EXPERIENCING OF LIFE THROUGH OUR HEARTS RATHER ...
    I just viewed the movie “Eat, Pray and Love.” Now most people with whom discussed the film with me were disappointed that the movie did not do justice to the book. Now, I have not read the book yet, purposely, though I have bought it. What this reactions reminds of was [...]
  • Hippie.TV
  • RIP Elaine
    Elaine Kaufman, Who Fed the Famous, Dies at 81 | The New York Times Elaine Kaufman, who became something of a symbol of New York as the salty den mother of Elaine’s, one of the city’s best-known restaurants and a second home for almost half a century to writers, actors, athletes and other celebritie ...
  • Is Deficit Commission Wrong?
    Critics say there’s no national debt crisis | CSM President Obama’s deficit commission says the national debt requires urgent action. But economists are split on that basic premise. Whatever their disagreements, members of President Obama’s fiscal reform commission rallied around a basic premise: Am ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • GOP blocks Democratic high income taxes
    Senate Republicans blocked legislation Saturday to let upper-income tax cuts expire on Jan. 1, a showdown scripted by Democrats eager to showcase GOP lawmakers as defenders of millionaires.
  • This week in crazy: John McCain
    John McCain has finally, inexorably stumbled upon the weirdest and most transparently troll-ish reason yet to oppose the repeal of the military's ban on gay and lesbian service members: The economy sucks.
  • WikiLeaks and the sham of "public diplomacy"
    As the latest WikiLeaks revelations have shown, when diplomatic cables are made public they are often far from diplomatic. In fact, they aren't even good journalism.
  • Federal investigators check wrong person's e-mail ...
    It's the online equivalent of police breaking down the wrong door.
  • The upside of the "Celtic Chimera"
    As an Irish person living in New York I can usually tell how often an American reads the world news pages of a newspaper by the questions they ask about my home country. If they earnestly want to know if "there are still bombs everywhere" then it might have been quite some time. If they’re still ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Biofuels on commercial flights in 2011
    German airlines Lufthansa announced on Monday that it will start using bio-kero
  • European Offshore Wind Supergrid Deal Signed
    A deal was struck today by European ministers keen to implement a European wide ‘supergrid‘ for new offshore wind farms. A memorandum of understanding was signed by ten ministers from countries bordering the north sea. The memorandum is an agreement to deliver an offshore electricity grid facilitat ...
  • Will Oil Prices Rescue Ethanol?
    Time is running out for the ethanol blenders credit and the matching ethanol import tariff, which at least one industry publication suggests are likely to survive, but at "sharply reduced rates." Although I'm among those who suspect that the blenders credit probably benefits consumers more than etha ...
  • Media reactions to low-carbon technology paper
    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.
  • Revisiting the science: Climate Change Exhibit at ...
    At about this time last year thousands of people were standing in the snow in long lines outside the convention centre in Copenhagen where COP 15 was underway. There was great expectation in the air, but equally concern that months of unrelenting public attack on climate science was undermining the ...

EU Times

  • Boy told to remove flag from bicycle by school adm ...
    Last week, you probably saw the report about Cody Alicea, the boy in California who was told to take the American flag off his bicycle by obtuse school administrators. Well, yesterday some members of Cody’s community in California decided they would help escort him to class: The school has since ap ...
  • First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy
    A hot, gaseous and fast-spinning planet has been found orbiting a dying star on the edge of the Milky Way, in the first such discovery of a planet from outside our galaxy, scientists said Thursday. Slightly larger than the size of Jupiter, the largest in our solar system, the newly discovered exopla ...
  • In breakthrough, scientists trap antimatter atoms
    Scientists may have been able to capture elusive atoms of antimatter, but don’t expect that to lead to interstellar rocket engines or powerful bombs anytime soon – if ever. Even as they announced the important advance in studying antimatter, they emphasized that science fiction uses of the stuff — l ...
  • UK Toy store goes PC mad with pig ban
    Barmy shop bosses axed a tiny pig from a kids’ toy farm set – in case it upset Muslim and Jewish parents. An angry mum complained to the Early Learning Centre when she found the pig missing and was told it had been removed for “religious reasons”. The mother, named only as Caroline, found there [... ...
  • Eating For Your Genes
    Most people have heard the saying, “you are what you eat.” A report from a World Health Authority says people might need to eat according to who they are. Could a person’s genetic background play a key role in which foods are good for them and which ones aren’t? The question has been researched sinc ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • FA whinging over FIFA corruption comes too late
    Monday night’s Panorama investigation into the workings of FIFA pulled no punches. It accused the organisation of doing little to combat deep-rooted corruption within it. Attacked the way FIFA imposes unique and unfair tax breaks for FIFA and their sponsors onto host countries that are subsequently ...
  • We’re Going Bowling!
    Mmm... fiber. None of this will be official until tomorrow evening, but here’s one fan’s take on the BCS lineup: BCS Championship- Oregon and Auburn Rose Bowl- Wisconsin and TCU Sugar Bowl- Ohio State and Arkansas Orange Bowl- Stanford and Virginia Tech Fiesta Bowl- Oklahoma and UConn On paper ( or ...
  • Secretary Clinton To Prosecute Thieves
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is furious that Wikileaks had the audacity to publish illegally procured documents. Clinton promised the American people that their honest and transparent government was “taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information”. Will she ...
  • Auburn's Cam Newton Deserves the Heisman Trophy
    With their blowout win in the SEC Championship Game on Saturday night, Auburn clinched a spot in the BCS National Championship Game. And Auburn's quarterback, Cam Newton, should have locked up the Heisman Trophy. But did he? Or did his father cost him the award? The story of Newton reads more like ...
  • FIFA has decided World Cup 2018 to Russia and 2022 ...
    Hight Quality LIVE Streaming Only On http://www.watchlivestream.co.cc/         Here is the Links:   LINK 1   LINK 2   The all-powerful patron of F.I.F.A. Sepp Blatter was the host, in Zurich, the awards ceremony of the World Cup editions in 2018 and 2022. Two new names have emerged from the urn: Ru ...

Groklaw

  • JPMorgan, Ratings Companies Lose Bid to End Suit O ...
    The decision affects four lawsuits filed by Federal Home Loan Bank over the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, according to the judge's ruling. The bank claims it wouldn't have bought the bonds if JPMorgan, which sold them, and the ratings companies "had provided complete and accurate informati ...
  • ZFS imported into GRUB
    Following our new strategy with regard to Oracle code, we (GRUB maintainers) have decided to grant an exception to our usual policy and import ZFS code from grub-extras into official GRUB. Our usual policy is to require copyright assignment for all new code, so that FSF can use it to defend users' ...
  • Justice Scalia at the Federalist Society Fête
    One might have expected Scalia, whose jurisprudence often involves traveling back in time to when particular constitutional provisions were enacted, to declare that he listens to all his music on a Victrola - but no. As it turns out, he does have an iPod! This response seemed to catch Crawford by s ...
  • U.S. Air Force Creates Powerful Supercomputer Out ...
    The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense Department....The project used the older, large PS3 units rather than new Slim models which, crucially, do not ...
  • The Rise of the Stealth Cloud
    The term stealth cloud refers to the unauthorized use of a company's private or public cloud, be that by current or ex-employees or third parties. "Companies are not taking the necessary steps to ensure data is being accessed by the right employees on-premise, not to mention adminis ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

First Truths

  • Getting to Gridlock
    Political gridlock, contrary to the whines of state idolators, would be enormously beneficial to society, but, also contrary to conventional wisdom, the results of yesterday's election will bring no such thing. More on this here.
  • Police Abuse is the Rule, Not the Exception
    By giving the state the exclusive right to use force and provide defense services within a designated area, we provide the inducement for the criminals in police forces to intimidate and tyrannize peaceful people. For the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that we should withdraw from the state ...
  • The State Never Sleeps
    Oliver Stone's new film,�Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, his interpretation of the collapse of the financial system, functions as a digest of the libertarian anarchist critique of state capitalism's banking element. In a piece issued by the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that the supremacy ...
  • Obamacare Feeds Insurance Oligarchs
    In a commentary piece, I argue that Obamacare, the result of Big Insurance lobbying efforts to insulate their bottom lines from competition, squeezes consumers and raises costs.
  • WikiLeaks Removes the Cloak
    My latest commentary lauds WikiLeaks for exposing the full scope of the Iraq war's horrors.

Media Co-Op

  • VMC Call for Pitches
    Contribute to the Vancouver Media Co-op! The Vancouver Media Co-op is now paying for stories! For a six month trial period, we'll be requesting pitches from contributors, and paying $100 for one story each month. See below for information on V ...
  • What Does Cablegate Reveal about Canada?
    A call-out to readers to examine latest Wikileaks documents Wikileaks is upping the ante once again. 251,287 secret US Embassy documents are being released in stages over the next few months. This is the world's largest classified information ...
  • Turn up the heat: Contribute to The Dominion's Cli ...
    If you haven't heard yet, our next special issue of The Dominion will be on Climate Justice. We're looking for for conributors for this issue, and pitches are due in 2 weeks. Read on for all the details. -tim   In March, The Dominion will turning up the heat with our next special issue, focussing on ...
  • Occupation has no Future: A Film on Anti-Occupatio ...
    A discussion with filmmaker David Zlutnick Occupation has No Future is a unique film project that documents the interactions between a delegation of U.S. war resisters, Israelis who are fighting against militarism and refusing to serve in occu ...
  • UBC student society backs aid for Gaza
    University of BC students back Gaza funds VANCOUVER  -  The UBC Alma Mater Society  (AMS)  voted tonight to support a $700 donation to the 2011 Canadian Flotilla to Gaza by the campus Social Justice Centre. The meeting came after two weeks of hardline anti-Palestine rhetoric and bullying on campus b ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Wikileaks or the lonliness of Private Manning
    For your eyes only �David Seaton's News LinksThe diplomatic corps of any sovereign country is an instrument of the state.� It does what the head of state and his/her government decide that it should do. Even if there were a total regime change in the USA, one of any political color you lik ...
  • Getting serious for a moment
    David Seaton's News LinksFor the time being the USA is the major pillar of stability of some sort that the world has. Like it or not, that is a fact. Anything that affects that stability causes extremely unpredictable outcomes, blowback and damage everywhere. I am certainly not "pro status quo", but ...
  • Why I truly miss George W. Bush
    "I prefer bad people to stupid people, because bad people sometimes give it a rest" José Ortega y Gasset The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." George W. Bush "Do you have blacks in Brazil, too?" George W. Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso "I kn ...
  • Wikileaks: America's senior moment
    So this is what the eclipsing of American power looks like, with the disgorging of so much of its sensitive diplomatic correspondence in one fell swoop. Arguably not since Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945 has there been a compromise of state secrets as breathtaking as that brought about by WikiL ...
  • Why isn't Julian Assange in Guantanamo? Where are ...
    Peter King, a member of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the latest release "manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Congress Passes Child Nutrition Bill
    Contact: Congratulations! When you said you wanted better nutrition in schools, Congress listened. Both houses of Congress have now passed legislation to give more poor children free meals at school, mandate healthier school cafeteria... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
  • Important Child Nutrition Legislation Sent to Pres ...
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org or leeann@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A major public health victory on behalf of the neediest school children is about to be realized when President Obama signs into law... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Holidays Come Early for California Chemical Makers ...
    Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- In September 2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the signing of two bills that, he said, would propel “California to the forefront of the nation and... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
  • Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – At least 5,000 Americans – most of them young children, the elderly and the sick – die every year from eating contaminated food, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Environmental, Health, Business and Public Policy ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – Six new members have taken seats on the board of directors of Environmental Working Group, collectively bringing with them decades of experience in environmental activism,... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Largest U.S. Egg Producer Caught Abusing Chickens ...
    The Humane Society of the United States has released an undercover video that shows animal abuse at a Texas farm operated by the largest egg producer in the United States.� The video shows images of dead birds, overcrowding and hens covered in feces. CNN reports: "At one point the video shows a ...
  • Eating This "Healthy" Food? It Could be Slowly and ...
    by The Weston A. Price Foundation - The Weston A. Price Foundation provides accurate information about nutrition and is dedicated to putting nutrient-dense foods back on American tables. Members receive a lively and informative quarterly journal and email updates on current issues and website ...
  • Did this Happen to You When You Went Shopping in t ...
    A food court full of unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch. There were over 100 participants in this holiday season Flash Mob.
  • Finally, Proof that Cancer is a Man-Made Disease
    A study of ancient bodies has determined that cancer is a man-made disease, one fueled by the excesses. Tumors turn out to be extremely rare until very recent times, when pollution and poor diet became issues. Researchers analyzed potential references to the disease in classical literature, and als ...
  • Monsanto’s Ongoing Corruption Incites Forbes’ Retr ...
    Monsanto has been paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides. Why? It's a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned about the problem of herbicide-resistant weed creation even before Monsanto ...

JAMA

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

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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. 

Speaking at the African Commission’s international conference e ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Demerged suburbs get speared again
    Montreal's suburban mayors have good reason to complain that they are being gouged by the spending increases imposed on them by the 2011 agglomeration budget, which was unveiled the day after the new central city budget. That one was enough of a shocker for local taxpayers. This one comes as ...
  • Guaranteed income: an idea worth rethinking
    Such handouts, the assumption runs, would create a work-resistant underclass prepared to milk the state for all it's worth. But the time has come to rethink the idea, without preconceptions.
  • Williams personified the pride of his province
    To Newfoundlanders still smarting from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's 2008 depiction of Atlantic Canada's "culture of defeat," Danny Williams provided a welcome antidote, exuding confidence in them, their province, the region, and himself.
  • WikiLeaks too late to boost CBC ratings
    WikiLeaks has done Canadians a huge favour. For years, we've been struggling to figure out how to get the United States to pay attention to us. But now we know: Bad drama! Featuring Evil Americans! Killing our prime minister! In a canoe! Maybe!
  • Open up, city hall, and talk to taxpayers
    The frustrating odyssey of a local homeowner through the murky swamp of our municipal bureaucracy in quest of some fairly simple information is perhaps just one instance of things done badly, but it undoubtedly has a familiar ring to many Montrealers who have had dealings with city hall.

Food World Order

  • 'botox apples' genetically modified to keep from b ...
    from delish: The expression "one bad apple spoils the bunch" may soon have to be retired. Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a Canadian biotechnology company, has petitioned the USDA for approval of its genetically modified "non-browning apple." The company is marketing the fruit as the "Arctic" while criti ...
  • white house to serve 2,000 lbs of gulf seafood ove ...
    from food safety news: The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year's holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil sp ...
  • cdc admits dc water may still be contaminated
    head of dc water says cdc report 'not new news' from washington post: The water in almost 15,000 DC homes that were repaired during a massive effort to remove lead pipes may still be contaminated by dangerous levels of the metal, according to a report released [Dec1] by the CDC. If those residenc ...
  • food prices expected to rise sharply
    from cnbc: Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven't seen cotton prices this high since after the Civil War. Soybeans are up. Oil is up. Metals are up. So are coffee and cocoa. In this era of massive liquidity, everything is up, except for food prices ...
  • despite massive protests, senate passes 'food safe ...
    from natural news: The new Food Tyranny Act - called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate - has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of th ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Suffocated By Red Tape – 12 Ridiculous Regul ...
    Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a small business.  The ...
  • 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
    In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
  • Jobless Recovery?: 25 Unemployment Statistics That ...
    Guess what?  Unemployment is up again!  That's right - even though Wall Street is swimming in cash and the Obama administration is declaring that "the recession is over", the U.S. unemployment rate has gone even higher.  So are you enjoying the jobless recovery?  The truth is that t ...
  • Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
    Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...
  • Barack Obama And Ben Bernanke Continue To Defend Q ...
    Even as Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke publicly defend the Federal Reserve's new $600 billion quantitative easing program, top finance officials around the globe are expressing alarm and outrage.  But what did Obama and Bernanke expect?  "Quantitative easing" is little more than lega ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Week: A "They're Planning An 'Acciden ...
    Buried away in a report you may well have skipped over - if you saw it at all - is an opinion that this blog would endorse... "Diana was doing something historically unprecedented and politically very dangerous. She was drawing attention to the mechanisms of state that don't receive much attentio ...
  • Which nutcases are running this planet anyway? Now ...
    If you've heard of: The forthcoming The Avengers film, 2009's Where the Wild Things Are, Reservation Road, Zodiac, All the King's Men, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In the Cut or XX/XY... ...then there's a good chance you've heard of actor Mark Ruffalo. Not an Islamic e ...
  • EUSSR sentence Godfrey Bloom to twenty years hard ...
    The EUSSR has today sentenced UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom to twenty years hard labour in a Gulag. His sentence will be served after he completes the sentence imposed by the complicit British Government which has sentenced Bloom to two years of walking a water wheel in Reading Gaol for the high crime of s ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 5th December 2010
    Before we get into this week's Sunday newspaper review, we've seen a very large number of people searching for 'Wikileaks' and 'Princess Diana' this week... ...even more people came here searching for that combo as came here searching for "Nick Clegg" and "hated"... and that seemed to be somethin ...
  • Farage pilot remanded in custody
    No comments or conspiracy theories on this one please, guys... no matter how much you might think them. From the BBC: Crash pilot 'threatened to kill UKIP's Nigel Farage' The pilot of the plane which crashed with UKIP leader Nigel Farage on board has been charged with threatening to kill hi ...

Facing South

  • Come celebrate at the ISS Holiday + 40th Anniversa ...
    WEATHER UPDATE, 12/4 3:20pm: We're continuing to watch the weather in the Triangle. So far the party is STILL ON despite snow in the Triangle, since temperatures are still warm enough to avoid icing. Stay tuned for further updates! Does the political scene have you in the dumps? Are you ready for a ...
  • VOICES: Watch your wallet -- Obama's federal wage ...
    By Dan La Botz, Labor Notes They're calling it Obama's PATCO -- his proposal for a two-year wage freeze for two million federal workers. When Ronald Reagan fired 13,000 striking PATCO members, the air traffic controllers, in August 1981, he sent a signal to other employers that it was open season ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The deficit commission's curious ...
    Date on which President Obama's deficit commission will meet to consider adopting a plan drawn up by its co-chairs, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff and current University of North Carolina president: 12/3/2010 Age to which the plan would rais ...
  • Will offshore drilling ban spur wind development?
    Yesterday the Interior Department announced an updated strategy for offshore oil and gas leasing that bans drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years. "As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of less ...
  • New push for voter ID laws despite scant evidence ...
    Weeks after winning control of the North Carolina legislature, Republicans have unveiled pieces of their 2011 legislative agenda. While they may have campaigned on jobs and taxes, an entirely different issue tops the priority list of new House Speaker Rep. Thom Tillis: passing a voter ID law. N ...

CenterLine

  • Who’s in Charge Here?
    by Joshua L. Dratel Amid the relief occasioning Hillary Clintonâs intervention that led to the plea agreement resolving the military commission prosecution of Omar Khadr, some curious comments were reported in the media during the period just before the deal … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    WikiLeaks Changes Domain Name to WikiLeaks.ch The U.S.-based domain company that had provided WikiLeaks with the WikiLeaks.org domain withdrew its service Thursday after it said that sustained denial of service attacks on WikiLeaks threatened the stability of the rest of … Continue reading →
  • Reaction to the Reaction to the Ghailani Verdict
    by Joshua L. Dratel The polar reactions to the verdict in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani could not be less contrived, as they represent the ultimate in confirmation bias.  I donât believe a single opinion was changed by the result: … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Ten Arrested in Spain and Thailand for Counterfeiting Ring Linked to Terror Groups Ten people were arrested in Spain and Thailand late Tuesday and early Wednesday in connection with an alleged counterfeiting ring that made fake passports for suspected terror … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Fallout Continues from WikiLeaks Cables Interpol issued Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, a âred noticeâ Wednesday in connection with alleged sex crimes in Sweden. The New York Times reports that being placed on the red notice list is not … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Nero Linux 4 - Never Knew Nero had a Linux Version ...
    This might not be a news at all for most among you, but I was totally surprised when I first came to know about Nero Linux 4, a Linux version of Nero CD burning tool. Nero Linux 4 - Simply Rip, Burn and Copy for Linux OS Nero Linux 4 costs $9.99, but there is a demo version also available ...
  • Opera 11 Beta Released With Impressive New Feature ...
    Opera does it again. Latest Opera 11 beta comes with a new impressive feature called Tab Stacking which is in many ways similar to Tab Candy in Firefox 4.0, but a lot more practical approach to the same problem. Opera 11 Beta Released for Windows, Mac and Linux The latest Opera 11 beta was ...
  • Stellarium, Celestia 3D - Two Incredible Applicati ...
    Stellarium and Celestia 3D are two incredibly good applications for aspiring star gazers. Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time while Celestia 3D is an awesome 3D astronomy program that allows users to display objects ranging in scale from artificial satellites to entire galaxies ...
  • Open Source Facebook Alternative Diaspora Starts G ...
    Diaspora is a "an open source personal web service that will put individuals in control of their data." The project was initiated by 4 New York University students around 6 months ago when Facebook privacy related fears were at its peak. And finally they have reached a stage where they will be start ...
  • 10 Incredible Wallpapers Made Using GIMP
    GIMP needs no introduction. GIMP is the Open Source answer for Adobe Photoshop, well, almost. We had already featured brilliant wallpapers made using Inkscape�and now things are taking a 'GIMP' turn. Here is a nice and simple collection of wallpapers made using GIMP. Photon Dance 6 by Zwopper ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Fintan O’Toole calls for overhaul of political sys ...
    Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole has called for a radical overhaul of the political system in an interview with the BBC. He said that the  massive failure of regulation by the EU institutions  as well as the easy money supplied by the European Central Bank played a  role in allowing Irish banks ...
  • Irish government support collapses to record low, ...
    Sinn Fein set for huge gains in Republic of Ireland election: poll Friday, 3 December 2010 Sinn Fein’s support in the Republic of Ireland has surged according to a new opinion poll – which also predicts Fianna Fail is facing a virtual wipeout in the General Election. The first poll taken since the I ...
  • Germany’s “Bild” caricatures Ire ...
    German newspaper Bild has caricatured Ireland as a country where vampires can be found at every corner – something that would be amusing if it were not for the fact that Bild is the mouthpiece of the Bilderberg German “elite” that has just set up its new Gauleiter headquarters of occupation in Dubli ...
  • Iceland Was Right Not to Bail Out Bondholders, Cen ...
    By Aaron Kirchfeld – Dec 3, 2010 1:01 AM GMT+0100, Bloomberg Iceland was right not to bail out bondholders in the countryâs banks and wasnât ever in a position to support creditors because of the size of the debt, central bank Governor Mar Gudmundsson said. âBondholders should not rely on the govern ...
  • Icelanders vote for ordinary people to draft const ...
    AFP, Nov 28, 2010, 02.33am IST REYKJAVIK: Icelanders voted Saturday for dozens of ordinary people who will draft a new constitution, amid enduring public anger towards the political elite over the collapse of the country’s major banks. The once-wealthy nation is still trying to shake off the deep ec ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Radiation scientists agree TSA naked body scanners ...
    By Mike Adams The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA’s naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked body scanners. These include Dr Russe ...
  • Tetanus – The Disease and the Vaccine
    by Ingri Cassel Frequently I am asked if there are any “necessary” vaccines, as though vaccines have somehow been proven to actually prevent a disease. The most common vaccine that most people consider an essential part of trauma care is the tetanus shot. Since the tetanus vaccine happens to be the ...
  • Israel initiated massive leak
    Further deterioration in ties: The Israeli government initiated the massive WikiLeaks disclosure this week in the aims of pushing Turkey into a corner, a senior official in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan charged Wednesday.   “We should look at the countries that are satisfied by the leak, and I ...
  • The Shrink Wrapped and Processed Formica Life
    By Les Visible It seems that the most important thing we can do these days is to let go of our apprehensions. This has been especially difficult for me because on Sunday my house and car keys disappeared while, on the same day, Susanne’s car keys disappeared. This was followed by a few more striking ...
  • S 510 Food Safety bill now dead in the water due t ...
    By Mike Adams It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively “new taxes” into the bill, and according to the U.S. Constitution, only the House of Representatives can initiate legislation req ...

Veterans Today

  • RICHARD FALK : Ahmet Davutoğlu — Turkey&#82 ...
    Given the flow of recent events I felt it might be helpful to make my appreciation of Davutoglu’s approach and achievements available to an American voice. Over a year ago I published a short profile of the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, in the Turkish daily newspaper, The New Zaman. Aft ...
  • PAUL BALLES : CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST
    Why is the American public generally unaware of Israel’s theft of U S military secrets? The Western media adamantly refuses to report anything critical of Israel. Gordon Duff, Senior Editor at Veterans Today, observed that âAmerica learned, long ago with the infamous Jonathan Pollard case, that secr ...
  • A year can change it all
    I am on a road trip back home to where I spent most of my life. This trip back home was to drive my daughter back so that she can start a new job and her new life as an adult on her own. She is not alone and will be back with what is [...]
  • ALLEN ROLAND / WIKILEAKS CONFIRMS AMERICA’S ...
    Wikileaks has confirmed to the world that the Emperor is naked but America has yet to hold up  the mirror to witness the extent of its own moral bankruptcy: Allen L Roland  There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of [...]
  • Rates of PTSD Among Veterans Still Rising
    (BrightHub.com) – The rates of PTSD in Iraq war veterans are high, and these numbers will only increase. Furthermore, they donât include the number of vets who donât admit to having trouble by reporting to any Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical and behavioral health center. By Daniel McGold ...

electric politics

  • Korea, Korea
    Remembering, forgetting, never knowing. Dr. Bruce Cumings, in his recently published book, The Korean War: A History, examines how willingly America intruded into Korea after the Second World War and how difficult it's been for us ever afterward to deny ourselves any real understanding of Korean pr ...
  • The Art of the Unexpected
    Useful intelligence is surprisingly difficult to produce, mostly, I think, because it doesn't lend itself to commoditization or assembly line methods. And, as Dr. David B. Kanin suggests, to be useful it must be directed by some rational, higher-level, national security purpose. David recently reti ...
  • Discovering Consciousness
    Carl Jung was a modern Gnostic, a visionary, but also an exceedingly imperfect, selfish individual. And some of his writing is downright strange. All this makes it difficult to assess his legacy but there's no doubt he was one of the great explorers of as yet barely charted terrain — the nature of ...
  • If Past Is Prologue
    The rules of the game determine the nature of the outcome. That's as true in governance as it is everywhere else. When the rules of governance — the Constitution — decree, in the abstract, that a wealthy minority shall control national policy, then that's what happens. Never mind that the rules wer ...
  • The Criminal Indictment of George W. Bush
    It should go without saying that the President of the United States of America cannot lawfully authorize the torture of anybody. Given George W. Bush's statements in his recently published memoir that he had, indeed, authorized waterboarding, I turned to Manfred Nowak for an explanation of what thi ...

PR News

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
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  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
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Consumerist

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    Reader Psychodad1961 noticed that his Dawn Direct Foam dishwashing soap had been zapped by Consumerist's patented, trademarked and copyrighted Grocery Shrink Ray -- to the tune of 25%. For the same price, he was now getting 100ml less of the dishwashing foam. He also noticed that the packaging was ...
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    Best Buy just announced it's going to be running its first-ever Super Bowl ad when the Denver Broncos play the Carolina Panthers for the title (it will happen; just you watch) in February. And for its premiere ad in the high-profile sporting event, the retail giant says it has a super-cool ace up i ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP's Jesselyn Radack Discusses WikiLeaks on BBC W ...
    BBC World News: Interview with Jesselyn Radack GAP Homeland Security and Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack discusses WikiLeaks, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Radack also blogged on the interview here. The New York Times: Wiki ...
  • Radack on BBC World News: Wikileaks & Drake - Why ...
    I was just on BBC World News discussing Wikileaks, Thomas Drake, and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA).  It is sheer hypocrisy for the U.S. to scream literally bloody murder about Wikileaks (calling for Wikileaks' Julian Assange's execution) without giving employees a safe alt ...
  • Congress Set to Pass Whistleblower Protection Bill ...
    By Wikimedia user Lkmorlan Associated Press: In WikiLeaks Wake, Whistleblower Bill Set To Pass In the wake of the latest WikiLeaks release, Congress is on the verge of passing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) -- a bill that would give federal employees, including those i ...
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    Today, GAP released a report on one of the most effective ways to undermine the disclosures of a whistleblower: retaliatory investigations. Whistleblower Witch Hunts follows 12 federal employees into Kafka’s The Trial, as they undergo underhanded tactics that run the gamut of indecency, including: ...
  • In WikiLeaks Wake, Whistleblower Witch-Hunt Report ...
    If folks feel conflicted about WikiLeaks, the answer is to pass meaningful whistleblower reform. Otherwise, whistleblowers have no alternative, as detailed in this Whistleblower Witch Hunt report released today. I've been saying that quite often here at Kos. Now, following the latest WikiLeaks sp ...

UK Progressive

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Wikileaks sordid details reveals climate science i ...
    It’s all a grand charade — the matinee show put on by the Theatre of Science was merely being used for the Grand Extravaganza called the Theatre of Politics. Wikileaks, not surprisingly, turned up some not-so-diplomatic and not-so-scientific goings-on in the political race to steer power and dollars ...
  • Breaking News: Worlds third largest economy bails ...
    “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances.” Japan is the third largest economy in the world. In absolute, unequivocal terms it has just announced it will not be extending the Kyoto agreement. It’s hard to see how a carbon trading scheme ...
  • Book discount for readers: Aynsley Kellow, Science ...
    Ansley Kellow’s book “Science and Public Policy” normally sells for  $110 (£59.95), but he’s arranged for a special discount for readers of climate science blogs: $40 (£25)! Use the email information below to order. It deals with the politics and philosophy of science, including the hockey stick ...
  • Book discount for readers: Aynsley Kellow, Science ...
    Ansley Kellow’s book “Science and Public Policy” normally sells for  $110 (£59.95), but he’s arranged for a special discount for readers of climate science blogs: $40 (£25)! Use the email information below to order. It deals with the politics and philosophy of science, including the hockey stick ...
  • Update from the Thompsons: The legal limbo drags ...
    The Thompsons have no income, but fight on with borrowed help. Matt and Janet Thompson moved to Australia, got all the approvals to set up a cattle feedlot, invested their life savings, then the rules began to change. They didn’t need a license at all when they started. Then a paddock was called a w ...

ReNew America

  • Turn out the lights, the party's over
    (Wesley Pruden) - Scams die hard, but eventually they die, and when they do, nobody wants to get close to the corpse. You can get all the hotel rooms you want this week in Cancun. The global-warming caravan has moved on, bound for a destination in oblivion. The United Nations is hanging the usual la ...
  • Wave goodbye to Internet freedom
    (Washington Times) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries...
  • House passes legislation to extend only some tax c ...
    (The Hill) - The House voted 234-188 Thursday to pass legislation that would extend only some of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, sending the bill to the Senate. Twenty Democrats broke with their party and voted against the bill after 33 had defected in a previous test vote...
  • DeMint wins 2012 presidential straw poll
    (Conservative HQ) - In the first ConservativeHQ.com (CHQ) 2012 presidential straw poll, a majority of conservative activists chose Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) as their favorite Republican candidate for the 2012 race. Sen. DeMint took the clear lead in CHQ's monthly straw poll winning 53% of the votes ...
  • Bradley Manning: Poster boy for 'don't ask, don't ...
    (Ann Coulter) - The two biggest stories this week are WikiLeaks' continued publication of classified government documents, which did untold damage to America's national security interests, and the Democrats' fanatical determination to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" and allow gays to serve openly in ...
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